The Time

We might have expected ersatz Abbas, but Minneapolis has produced a sort of R&B vanguard
of young blacks who are trying to ally funk with the white rock and pop they grew up
listening to in that Scandinavian stronghold. The feisty singer Sue Ann Carwell, Lipps Inc.'s
Cynthia Johnson and smooth Rockie Robbins have all broken out of the local scene, but
the reigning act is surely Prince, and new performers continue to spin out of his... More >

"Wild and Loose" pops wilder and looser than anything they've cut, and their dogging-around jive is wilder and looser still--on "The Walk," Morris Day does an outrageous burlesque of Prince as pussy-stalking youngblood, an inside version of one of the cutesy-pie jokes the little boss plays on himself to prove he's human. The slow "Gigolos Get Lonely Too" is Princelike, too--Morris doesn't approach that patented love-man croon, but he does induce you to take a ridiculous conceit literally. And then there are three great grooves. (Grade: A-)