First, how can we not include Kevin Smith's half-hour story of trying to work for Prince?  Classic.



And also, Prince on Muppets Tonight (thanks Digg!)





Okay, confession time: I've never heard a Prince album.  I never even had the Batman soundtrack.  Another huge gaping hole in my past, I wasn't around when he was big, and when I was, it was in his "Artist Formerly Known As Prince" phase, where he seemed to be actively avoiding being promoted to cheese off his label.  And I'd never come across a friend or anyone who had a Prince CD that I could borrow, and I never really saw them out in the world in the shops, either.  At least not where I was looking.  By the time I got big into music, he was gone.

The closest thing I had was... I had a cassette tape of songs that were marginally connected to Halloween, songs like Monster Mash, Witchy Woman, etc, but there are so few of those that they also included stuff like Wooly Bully and then at the end, the very last track was Batdance.  A COVER of Batdance.  And they couldn't use the audio clips from the movie, either, so the dude singing is also doing the voices for Batman and the Joker.  It's really strange.