Original first edition from 1984. With original price tag and rare poster intact..  

On Apr-24-16 at 08:46:56 PDT, seller added the following information:

Like new condition, with original price sticker, poster , like a time machine to 1984

Purple Rain was the first Prince album recorded with and officially credited to his backing group The Revolution. The resulting album was musically denser than Prince's previous one-man albums, emphasizing full band performances, and multiple layers of guitars, keyboards, icy electronic  effects, , and other instruments. Musically, Purple Rain remained grounded in the  and  elements of Prince's previous work while demonstrating a more pronounced rock feel in its grooves and emphasis on .

As a soundtrack record, much of the music had a grandiose, synthesized, and even—by some evaluations—a vaguely  sheen to the production and performances. The music on Purple Rain is generally regarded as the most -oriented of Prince's career, though a number of elements point towards the more experimental pop/psychedelic records Prince would record after Purple Rain. As with many massive crossover albums, Purple Rain's consolidation of a myriad of styles, from  to  to , is generally acknowledged to account in part for its enormous popularity.

In addition to the record's breakthrough sales, music critics noted the innovative and experimental aspects of the soundtrack's music, most famously on the spare, bass-less "".[] Other aspects of the music, especially its synthesis of electronic elements with organic instrumentation and full-band performances (some, as noted above, recorded live) along with its landmark consolidation of rock and R&B, were identified by critics as distinguishing, even experimental factors. Stephen Erlewine of  writes that Purple Rain finds Prince "consolidating his funk and R&B roots while moving boldly into pop, rock, and heavy metal," as well as "push[ing] heavily into " under the influence of the Revolution. Erlewine identifies the record's nine songs as "uncompromising...forays into pop" and "stylistic experiments", echoing general sentiment that Purple Rain's music represented Prince at his most popular without forsaking his experimental bent.

"" was written for the  , but later enlisted for Purple Rain. The inclusion of that song necessitated cuts to the -like "Computer Blue", the full version of which did not earn an official release, although a portion of the second section can be heard in the film , in a sequence where Prince walks in on the men of  rehearsing. The risqué lyrics of "" contributed to the use of  stickers and imprints on album covers that were the record label's answer to complaints from  and the .

"There's every emotion from the ballad to the rocker," observed . "All the influences were evident, from to ."