To prove what a badass Prince is (was), here’s another 20 kickass songs from Prince’s golden pre-symbol era:

-Controversy
-Delirious
-Take Me With U
-Darling Nikki
-Erotic City
-Pop Life
-Around The World In A Day
-Christopher Tracy’s Parade
-Anotherloverholeinyohead
-Sometimes It Snows In April
-Play In The Sunshine
-Starfish And Coffee
-The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
-I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
-Eye Know
-When 2 R In Love
-I Wish U Heaven
-Joy In Repitition
-The Question Of U
-Love 2 The 9’s

Oh shit! I really really hated leaving off “Delerious” and “Play in the Sunshine” too. Ditto “Pop Life.” The guy was just an amazing songwriter- and that’s not even counting the hits he wrote for other people (“Manic Monday,” “Nothing Compares 2 U”)

Oh, and another classic off Sign O’ the Times: “The Cross.”

Brad, I hope the exciting Article 8 Alliance update involves further tales of their people being threatend by dusty furniture. I live for stories like that.

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The fact that Prince was/is so insanely talented that he could write a hit pop number without a bass line singlehandedly proves the existance of God (though my personal favorite is “Little Red Corvette”)

My list would include “Peach,” “Money Doesn’t Matter 2 Night,” and “Let’s Pretend We’re Married,” but I’d be quite happy with your list (or Anonymous’s).

“LRC” has that bad-ass guitar solo and the “HEE-hee-hee!” at the end, but I personally think “Kiss” is his overall catchiest song.

Oh yeah, “Peach” was killer too…

Condition of the Heart
Paisley Park
Bob George (which is petty much just a bassline, a counterpoint to When DOves Cry)

The list goes on and on…

Mommy… Why does everybody have a bomb?

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What, no mention of “Housequake”?

Shut up, already, damn!

Oh, I love La Petit Prince, and I totally agree with you: “Adore” is an awesome song. J’adore “Adore”!

I’d add one more to that: “I Hate U” is just genius in highlighting the extremes in emotions you feel toward the one you lovehate.

I don’t know what album it’s on – you’d have to download (you know, “file share”) it.

Did you know…if you slap them really hard, you can actually hear what it sounds like, when doves cry.

Did you know…if you slap them really hard, you can actually hear what it sounds like, when doves cry.

Evil bastard.

Sometimes I’m just like your mother. She’s never satisfied, either.

When You Were Mine (his best early song, IMO- it sounds like the Cars with sex appeal)
Cyndi Lauper did a pretty good version (IMHO) of WYWM way back when. Very cool of her not to change the pronouns to feminine.

“Did you know…if you slap them really hard, you can actually hear what it sounds like, when doves cry.”

Geez! Why don’tcha just pull their wings off while you’re at it.

tsk. tsk. tsk.

Let’s Work

Cindy Lauper also did a cover of the Brains’ “Money Changes Everything” – for a pop singer, she was pretty adventurous.

Oh, if I was even remotely capable of switching teams, Cyndi would be somewhere at the top of my list.

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I’m hardly a fan of The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, but still, I’m a bit chafed that you’d rank ‘Cream’ so low. I mean, I hate the guy, I really do, yet still recognise that song as a masterwork.

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I swear to Gawd, I was only down on my knees to get a better look at that guy’s super-ornate belt buckle. No, really!

“I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man” is bad ass. As are “Delirious” (one of the weirder songs ever to hit top 10?) and “Pop Life”.

Best lyrics ever, in the history of lyrics:

You’ve got the look, you’ve got the hook
U sho’nuf do be cookin’ in my book
Your face is jammin’
Your body’s heck-a-slammin’
If love is good, let’s get 2 rammin’
U got the look, u got the look

I still remember Prince being the opening act on a Stones/J. Geils/George Thoroughgood bill at the LA Coliseum in 1981. He hadn’t had any pop hits yet and he came out in a silver jockstrap, platform boots and a purple coat. The amount of racist and homophobic abuse by all the drunken Stones fans was frightening–Prince almost got whacked by a Jack Daniels bottle and Bill Graham came out and berated the audience for it. “Any more of that shit and I’m cancelling the show”. People knew he was serious.

Prince got the last laugh 3 years later when Purple Rain blew up.

Whuh? JAGGER has fans who are homophobic and racist? That’s just sad for so many reasons. Do they even “get” him? No wonder they didn’t get Prince.
“U Got the Look” was also the raciest song Sheena Easton ever sang, except for “Sugar Walls”-which was also written by Prince.
Anybody ever hear “The Screams of Passion” by The Family? (They also recorded the original version of “Nothing Compares 2 U”, though I think Sinead’s is better.)

I like Prince in Rare mode like “Temptation” or “Tamborine”

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