Pure late-80s Prince funk dropping straight into Gotham. This is the Batman 1989 movie soundtrack, and it is wall-to-wall Prince being Prince over Tim Burton's gothic Gotham City. Partyman is the unhinged centerpiece, this frantic funk explosion that plays while the Joker trashes an art museum.
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Trust has that slick, sinister groove. And Batdance at the end is this completely wild collage of samples and beats that shouldn't work but absolutely does. Scandalous goes full slow jam in the middle of a superhero record.
The Arms Of Orion features Sheena Easton and it's surprisingly tender. If you need proof that a comic book movie once had Prince writing its entire pop soundtrack, just press play.