Publication: Chicago Tribune [US]
Date: April 11, 1986
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Title: "Prince Back In Groove, For the Most Part"
Reviewed By: Daniel Brogan

PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION, Parade (Paisley Park): Relax. "Around the World in a Day" was a fluke. Not that "Parade" is on a par with "1999" or "Controversy." "Parade" opens with three bombs and closes with the unbelievably lame "Sometimes It Snows in April." But beginning with "Under the Cherry Moon," Prince kicks into a lean, cool groove. "Kiss" will surely be every bit as big a monster as "When Doves Cry," and tracks like "Girls and Boys" and "Anotherloverholenyohead" will be party tape staples for years to come. And judging from the unprecedented amount of credit he gives to collaborators (especially band members Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin), Prince's ego may slowly be coming back to Earth. As on 1980's "Dirty Mind," though, the incessant falsetto gets real old real fast.