| 词条 | Alphabet St. | ||||||||||
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| name = Alphabet St. | cover = Prince_AlphabetSt.jpg | alt = | caption = UK 7" single | type = single | artist = Prince | album = Lovesexy | B-side = Alphabet St. (This is not music, this is a trip) | released = April 23, 1988 | format = 7" single 12" single CD single | recorded = Paisley Park Studios December 30, 1987[1] | studio = | venue = | genre = Funk[2] | length = 7"/Video edit: 2:25 Album/12": 5:39 | label = Paisley Park | writer = Prince | producer = Prince | prev_title = I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man | prev_year = 1987 | next_title = Glam Slam | next_year = 1988 }} "Alphabet St." is a song from American musician Prince's 1988 album, Lovesexy. It was the first single from that album and the album's only top 10 single, reaching the top 10 in both the UK and US. Initially written as an acoustic blues song, the song's final version includes a rap by Cat Glover and is full of samples. "Alphabet St." generally echoes themes from the rest of Lovesexy. The B-side is a remix of "Alphabet St." called "Alphabet St. ("This is not music, this is a trip")". The title and other phrases are repeated at the beginning of the song, but essentially it is an instrumental with a few minor changes. "Alphabet St." was the first Prince single released as a CD, albeit only in the UK and Japan. A promo CD was issued in the US. Track listings7" single
Music videoDirected by P.R. "Spot" Epstein, the video shows Prince walking and driving through an environment made out of letters. The video contains hidden messages. The first appears after the end of the first verse ("She'll want me from my head to my feet"), where there is a split second image with the hidden message "Don't buy The Black Album, I'm sorry." The second image says B "heaven is so beautiful"; the third image is D "4 the light dance"; the fourth image is G "funk guitar"; the fifth image is H (heroin) "is 4 punks"; the sixth image, when Prince is in the Thunderbird, says "if U don't mind". Chart performance
Cover versions
Sampling
References1. ^ http://www.discog.info/prince-discog.html 2. ^Purple Products. Entertainment Weekly 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://aprilsnow030.ueuo.com/tracklists/prince/lovesexy/3543.htm |title=Track Listing |publisher=Aprilsnow030.ueuo.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-14}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bprqfLNZ70o/UbztPjvW7dI/AAAAAAAACYE/h95XBiJsyHg/s1600/June+19,+1988.jpg |title=Australian (ARIA) Top 50 Singles Chart Week Ending 19th June, 1988|publisher=ARIA|accessdate=October 24, 2017}} N.B. "Alphabet St." peaked on the Kent Music Report chart in the week before ARIA commenced producing the chart in-house. However, it is listed as peaking at No. 17 in David Kent's book (after the ARIA chart became Australia's official chart), and as No. 26 on the australian-charts.com reference, which only contains data from when ARIA produced the chart in-house. 5. ^{{cite magazine|url=http://timarit.is/files/20000952.pdf#navpanes=1&view=FitH|title=Íslenski Listinn Topp 10 (3. júní 1988)|publisher=Dagblaðið Vísir|accessdate=July 26, 2018|language=is}} 6. ^{{cite web|author=Tweet |url=http://www.songfacts.com/int/2008/03/speech-arrested-development.html |title=Speech of Arrested Development: Songwriter Interviews |publisher=Songfacts.com |date=2008-02-27 |accessdate=2012-01-14}} External links
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