In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. As an idea, a ...

So, let’s just get this out of the way: My favorite Prince album is the “Batman” soundtrack. It’s criminally underrated. It’s dark, it’s frantic and it’s headlined by “Batdance,” a wild track that ...

Before superhero films became mopey and self-conscious, they were of full of glee and embraced the inherent silliness of men running around in tights. This childlike exuberance was, perhaps, reflected ...

Something that people can expect after a well-known musician dies is the release of unreleased material (see Born Again, Better Dayz, etc). When Prince passed away it was reported that the man who was ...

In 1989, Warner Bros. had asked Big Daddy Kane to flip Prince’s “Batdance,” which appeared on the 1989 Batman soundtrack. Apparently having immediately come up with his verses right on the spot at the ...

Batman and Prince are an odd combination. They’re both American icons, however, there’s not a lot of similarities between Prince’s prime funk and Batman’s Gothic heroism. Regardless, the world got ...

(AllHipHop News) Back in 1989, Prince headed the soundtrack for the Warner Bros blockbuster superhero film Batman. The collection of tunes was also released as a Prince album. Batman the LP led the ...

Holy Batman! The Dark Knight Rises opened today, and while it’s a convoluted and, at times, inconceivable mess, it is also visually stunning and a fitting end to Nolan’s trilogy. (Read our full review ...

Prince's 'Batdance': Possibly NSFW, on account of sexy Batwomen and the word "funk" sounding like a different f-word entirely. In this week's installment of the A.V. Club's "We're No. 1" series, which ...

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The nine-track LP starts with “The Future” and ends with “Batdance,” and as you may have guessed, not every song says “Batman.” Hell, not even “Batdance” fits the Batman mold, but the few songs that ...

For the 1995 Batman Forever soundtrack, U2 borrowed from their Zooropa outtakes for the most exciting Batman song since Prince’s “Batdance.” The Irish band had reinvented themselves in the 1990s and ...