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Nate Walker

Musician, songwriter and producer behind the music project The Ultraplain, and a recurring guest on The 100 Albums Podcast.

Sep 1, 2026

PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:58
To the end when they're doing the outro with the strings and Purple Rain.
2:23
I really fail to find things that I – that don't work for me.
2:29
And this is coming from like an objective view and coming from someone who really likes Prince a ton.
2:39
I just think it's so – it's just so – well put together.
2:46
And the guy is just so damn good at what he does.
2:50
And I just, I, you know, I wrote bullet points for every freaking song I could go.
2:56
I, you know, I could go through the highlights of like all the things I like about each song.

1 HR 4 MINS LATER

BertHOST
66:36
Nate, you got something? I just got a quick – Final thoughts?
RyanHOST
5:35
Dave Grohl knows how to say the right things.
5:37
Yeah.
5:38
Um, so here's, here's my thing.
5:40
Uh, Purple Rain, it's both an album and a soundtrack, uh, of a movie that's starring Prince, and if any small part of the, the big equation that they put together came up short, the whole thing would've collapsed, right? Purple Rain, however, was a slice of absolute magic, a high-wire act that was At its time, and became its own cultural generational career inflection point, Prince managed to create and release something so complete and laser-focused in vision, but universally appealing and broad in reach.
6:14
How mind-bending that such a self-referential loop of a project could do exactly what it set out to do, make Prince the mega star he remained until he passed, solidify his effortless cool and mystique, and confirm without a doubt the genius in his ability to create art, intellectual and sexual at once, without compromise.
6:34
And one more quote from somebody, a dude from Billboard, Andrew Unterberger, said, "Purple Rain is certainly in contention for the most perfect album in rock and pop history.
6:44
Expertly flowing from track to track while delighting, surprising, and astounding in each bend.

43 MINS LATER

BertHOST
49:27
Yep.
30:05
... on the day he was killed.What, is there a story behind this shirt?
30:09
Yeah.
30:09
So we, uh, we usually bring a couple shirts, um, to the, to the campus stops and, uh, I asked Charlie in the car, I go, "Charlie, what, what shirt do you want to wear?" He goes, "I want to wear the freedom shirt.
30:19
That, uh, that's not controversial."

6 MINS LATER

36:33
Have you been surprised at-... like, the worldwide tributes to him, the massive impact that his loss has had.
36:42
Yeah, for sure.
36:43
Um, y- you, when you're with Charlie every day, he's not Charlie Kirk, he's just Charlie.
36:48
Um, and then, you know, something like this happens and it just ...
33:02
What ... is there a story behind this shirt?
33:03
Yeah.
33:04
So we, uh, we usually bring a couple shirts, um, to the, to the campus stops and, uh, I asked Charlie in the car, I go, "Charlie, what, what shirt do you wanna wear?" He goes, "I wanna wear the freedom shirt.
33:14
That, uh, that's not controversial."
34:06
What would interest him?
34:08
He would be interested in the most specific stuff sometimes, and then sometimes he wouldn't care.
34:14
Um, Mikey probably knows about this too.
34:17
But yeah, he would want very specific details on very specific things that really no one else would think about.

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