Top 3 Prince Songs

[Roger1]

1. Raspberry beret

2.Doves cry

3. 1999

[FuzzyDunlop]

He did too many to have a top 3

Edited April 22, 2016 by FuzzyDunlop

[Spindles]

Fo sho.

I was listening to the Batman album the other week, considering it's thought of as one of his weakest it still has bangers through and through in my mind.  I remember reading at the time that he'd come over to Britain in the height of the acid house movement and had written and recorded the whole thing in a fortnight (except for Arms of Orion, which was an older track finally seeing the light of day) basically working without sleep for the whole time and then presenting an album rather than a single track as expected.  There are references in the songs to his negative take on acid house and it's drug connotations.

Someone mentioned 7 as well, classic song with brilliant use of fingerbells, was a firm favourite in my household for many years.  Again from another under-appreciated album.

[**claire**]

This is tough!  I'm going to go for:

1.  Kiss

2.  Gett Off

3.  I Would Die For You

Can we not do a top 20 please?  

Edited April 22, 2016 by **claire**

[Peroni]

He proclaimed he had too many hits... he was right!

 

1. When Doves Cry

2. If I was your girlfriend

3. I wanna be your lover, pop life, I would die 4U, purple rain.... too many too many 

 

Loved him.

Edited April 22, 2016 by Peroni

[**claire**]

1 hour ago, Spindles said:

Fo sho.

I was listening to the Batman album the other week, considering it's thought of as one of his weakest it still has bangers through and through in my mind.  I remember reading at the time that he'd come over to Britain in the height of the acid house movement and had written and recorded the whole thing in a fortnight (except for Arms of Orion, which was an older track finally seeing the light of day) basically working without sleep for the whole time and then presenting an album rather than a single track as expected.  There are references in the songs to his negative take on acid house and it's drug connotations.

Someone mentioned 7 as well, classic song with brilliant use of fingerbells, was a firm favourite in my household for many years.  Again from another under-appreciated album.

7 yes!  That album was on rotation in my house for about three years.

[Wooderson]

4 hours ago, Spindles said:

 

Joy in repetition

 

Nice one.

[Henrik]

1. Sign 'O' The Times

2. Get Off

3. Raspberry Beret

Damn, we really lost a good one this time. Gutted I never got to see him perform; he was an exceptional talent.  

[The Nal]

An 8 minute belter.

 

Thats only 1 but fuck it.

Edited April 22, 2016 by The Nal

[Winslow Leach]

Ah fuck it, I'm going in:

Controversy

If I Was Your Girlfriend

Purple Rain.

 

3 is ridiculous though so expect me to have changed my mind by lunchtime.

[DMCJ2]

1.) Lets Go Crazy

2.) When Doves Cry

3.) Raspberry Beret

Edited April 22, 2016 by DMCJ2

[LeeGalvin]

Impossible to just pick 3, but it'd probably be out of the following...

The Beautiful Ones

I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

Thieves in the Temple

Purple Rain

U Got the Look

Controversy

... I could go on. So sad. 2016, you bastard!

[Rumblestripe]

Purple Rain

Sometimes it Snows in April

Holy River (must be album version though)

Ask me again in ten minutes and it'll be different.

#RestInPurple

[HattersBoy]

Anybody ever noticed in the film Purple Rain a guy in the crowd when he's playing Purple Rain (I think) who looks a bit like Jimi Hendrix, wish I could get a pic of it.

 

  

[rostro]

Controversy 

The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

Dirty Mind

...and as a bonus, the guitar solo on this (which won't stay on YouTube very long)... 

 

[Wooderson]

I always pictured him starting his prospective Glasto set with Controversy. Other than that, "When You Were Mine" and probably "Alphabet St".

[russycarps]

gett off

little red corvette

purple rain

hits all the way baby!

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

If Neil Lonsdale hadn't scared him away last year then it's a reasonable bet that he'd have opened with Let's Go Crazy.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Setlist when I saw him 2 years back.

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/2014/the-sse-hydro-glasgow-scotland-33c0906d.html

And you can take that to the bank.

[Wooderson]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

Setlist when I saw him 2 years back.

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/2014/the-sse-hydro-glasgow-scotland-33c0906d.html

And you can take that to the bank.

Good grief what a show.

[Jakkkkobz]

Mountains

Its gonna be a beautiful night

I wanna be your lover

 

This 30 min version of I would die 4 u is exceptional https://www.mixcloud.com/ginovannelli94/i-would-die-4-u-extended-version-30-mins-version/

Edited April 22, 2016 by Jakkkkobz

[gherring8]

I was lucky enough to see Prince on a whim in 2007 when I was just 16 as my best friend's parents won tickets & couldn't attend. He announced across our Sixth Form common room that he had a spare ticket & most people just shrugged or simply turned their nose up having no real knowledge of who he was.
I said yes & we went later that night. He blew my mind & it was a night I will never forget. We were even treated to the special guest appearance of Elton John to duet with him on a cover of The Long & Winding Road. The set list from that night http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/2007/the-o2-arena-london-england-6bd32eae.html.

[Winslow Leach]

52 minutes ago, LeeGalvin said:

Impossible to just pick 3, but it'd probably be out of the following...

The Beautiful Ones

I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

Thieves in the Temple

Purple Rain

U Got the Look

Controversy

... I could go on. So sad. 2016, you bastard!

I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man is great. There's so many underrated Prince jams on Sign O' the Times.

[Winslow Leach]

19 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

If Neil Lonsdale hadn't scared him away last year then it's a reasonable bet that he'd have opened with Let's Go Crazy.

He closed his Hop Farm set with Baby I'm a Star. Not a standout of that album but an absolute beast live. A purple spangled beast in my platform boots.

[CaledonianGonzo]

5 minutes ago, Winslow Leach said:

I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man is great.

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