Ice Cream Castle
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Ice Cream Castle is a 1984 album by The Time. Much like the two previous albums, the album consists of six tracks in the funk-pop or ballad genre. Morris Day and Jesse Johnson contributed to the songwriting, and "The Bird" is a live recording from the band. Once again, Prince produced the album under the pseudonym Jamie Starr. The album's two biggest hits, "Jungle Love" and "The Bird" were featured in the film Purple Rain and this, along with Day's performance in the movie catapulted the album up the charts and to a crossover audience. Unfortunately, the band didn't have time to enjoy the success, as they had disbanded by the time the movie was released.
"Jungle Love" and "The Bird" were the biggest hits from the album, and are the songs the band is most remembered by; they are dancable pop-funk and both features comical animalistic catch phrases as well as distinctive dances. "Ice Cream Castles" is a toned down funk offering pleading for racial equality. "My Drawers" is a hard rock number with swaggaring machismo. The two ballads are throwaways, though "Chili Sauce" is a humorous conversation with similar dialogue from the Purple Rain film; Prince himself plays the waiter.
Ice Cream Castle produced three singles: "Ice Cream Castles", "Jungle Love" and "The Bird".
Tracklist
- "Ice Cream Castles" (7:31)
- "My Drawers" (4:08)
- "Chili Sauce" (5:47)
- "Jungle Love" (5:33)
- "If The Kid Can't Make You Come" (7:33)
- "The Bird" (7:44)
Trivia
- Two outtakes from this album, "Chocolate" and "My Summertime Thang", were later updated and used on The Time's next album, Pandemonium, six years later.
- The Time received another boost in fame in 2001 in Kevin Smith's film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; the band is mentioned several times by Jay as "The Motherfucking Time", and the band performs "Jungle Love" during the closing credits.
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