prince not prince

9. Vanity 6 "Nasty Girl"

12 dance electric - andre

"When U Were Mine" is on CONTROVERSY (I think?). Or PRINCE. It's on one of the early records...

right erm...

can't think of another.

was 'jerk out' by the time by him ?

Also -- Kate Bush, "Why Should I Love You?" (And why is it not called "Why Should I Love U?")

I was going to list a George Clinton collaboration but I just listened to "The Big Pump" from Hey Man ... Smell My Finger, and god is it shit!

Sly Fox, "Let's Go All the Way"
Ready For the World, "Oh Sheila!"

Ready For The World - "Oh Sheila"
Shalamar - "Dancing in the Sheets"
Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"
Outkast - "Toilet Tisha"
Elvis Costello - "Blue Chair"

Mitch Ryder also did it on his comeback LP, the one John Mellencamp produced.

Rori - "Wild Girls"

i had no idea about 'manic monday'. god i really love prince.

Another facsimile: Pig (80's WaxTrax dude) - "Never For Fun"

Why is it I can only stand Prince songs when they're done by other people?

Discussion and listing of others, please! I love the dude's influence.

Also, I'm off to look for the Mei Lwun thread - I realised I have one of his tracks on the Deeper Concentration comp.

The "original" is more of an epic electro-house number with a live post-punk bassline, occasionally rockish breakdowns in the drums and skronky guitar. It could actually be a house remix of "House of Jealous Lovers".

Potentially the titles for the original version and the dub are mixed up on my single, although what's labelled as the "Doria Dub" certainly *sounds* like a dub mix.

(Also, house mix of 'HOJL' sorted by Cosmos last year)

MJ's Bad LP skirts the edge here. Prince himself dubbed it "pathetic".

I picked up The Family's debut (only?) record this week for 1 quid in the Zavvi. This really is a great, sort of lightweight, carefree record. Reminds me a bit of Controversy. I wondered if anyone knew just how much this was a Prince record? He doesn't get much in the way of producing or writing credits, but it sounds like every little thing was done by him, even some of the vocals. Anyone know just how large his contribution was? Cheers

was hoping this was gonna be a thread of shit that sounded likr prince not just a list of songs written by prince

that is v v sad

fuck if we're gonna bust open the fake prince songs cherry

Ready For The World - "Oh Sheila"
Shalamar - "Dancing in the Sheets"
Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"
Outkast - "Toilet Tisha"
Elvis Costello - "Blue Chair"

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i agree with "oh sheila" and "closer" for sure

"oh sheila" is kind of a bad rip-off. "Closer" is... well, closer, but has a few more tricks up his sleeve than to come right out and say something appalling like "My whole existence is flawed."

but PRINCE has a few more etc

scout -

He wrote all the songs on that, did most of the guide vocals also. There are plenty of the demos for the album floating around the
interwebs. A sweet rehearsal with The Family is out there, too.

btw - kind of a rare record at the moment, at least in the US! Out of print for years.

yeah, i've never heard the Family or Madhouse records and i'd like to.

I hope Wounded Bird or Collector's Choice or similar reissue Andre Cymone's AC or Livin' In The New Wave

Also, not mentioned above as Prince Not Prince:

The Three O'Clock "Neon Telephone"

I think most of the albums made in the 1980s by members of Prince's "family" are mostly or fully written by Prince, and he plays most of the instruments on them too. This applies at least to The Family album, the first three albums by The Time, the first Sheila E. album, the first Jill Jones album, and the Vanity 6 and Appollonia 6 albums. The reason why Prince isn't credited on these albums, or he gets the credit only for one or two songs, is because the artists or Prince himself didn't want it to look like they were mere puppets of his.

The Family record is as good as the Vanity 6 record is fun and dumb i.e. not incredibly so, but not as bad as Mazarati (although I really really wished Mazarati were good. That album cover. Prince's attempt to cash in on superficial 80s dress fashion via Purple Mercenaries with occasionally great songs is really fucking funny and awesome in retrospect.)

btw tuomas i've been listening to those 12" mixes a lot. the kiss extended version is crazy, it almost sounds like he went back and did it while making lovesexy.

"High Fashion", "Screams Of Passion", "Nothing Compares 2 U" are the highlights on that Family record.

"Yes" was better than most of Lovesexy, but I'm a Lovesexy hatah, so keep in mind.

Whatever happened to St. Paul the dude?

I remember seeing a video for a song "If I were a Rich Man" in the late 80s thinking, man this really sucks compared to the Family, and then that was it.

I think the Family album is okay, but the male vocalist on it isn't very good. The best Prince side projects I've heard are the titular album by Jill Jones and Exodus by the New Power Generation. The Jill Jones record has good song material ("Mia Bocca"!) and she's simply a better singer than Vanity or Sheila E. or Morris Day or whoever it is who sings on that Family album. And Exodus simply has some great funk grooves, plus a few pretty ballads and a weird but cool psychedelic rock number.

Too bad most of this stuff has been out print for years, and since even Prince's own albums from the 80s have never been reissued and remastered, it seems unlikely the side projects will be reissued soon either.

btw tuomas i've been listening to those 12" mixes a lot. the kiss extended version is crazy, it almost sounds like he went back and did it while making lovesexy.

Oh shit, I uploaded all the B-sides for you too, but I've forgotten to send you the link. Will do that now.

i saw st. paul with a band of ex-prince dudes (incl. erik leeds) last year. it was an decent show, but they stayed away from prince tunes and st. paul seemed a little bitter that the club wasn't packed and that he's not more famous.

# Prince changed the lyrics "You don't have to watch Dynasty/To have an attitude" to "You don't have to watch Sex and the City/To have an attitude" and later to "You don't have to watch Desperate Housewives" and "You don't have to watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy/To have an attitude" during his 2004 Musicology Tour.
# In his performances at the O2 Arena in London, UK, Prince changed the lyrics to 'You don't have to watch Big Brother/To have an attitude."

All true enough, I guess.

Stevie Nicks - "Stand Back"

How the hell did he fit "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" in the place of "Dynasty" in the song? Did he add a few extra bars to it?

His tongue is very talented. That news has been out for a while.

Keep in mind that if there are any reissues, they will be done via Prince, and Prince will likely do a lot of overdubbing over lyrics he now consideres improper, for starters.

In other words, start thinking about raiding the cache of the original WB releases while you can -- even if they're quieter and aren't remastered to oughties standards.

Then again, I don't know if Prince has control over his old catalog, or when he will be given his old catalog back.

Rhino/WB would be the folks to talk too -- although, surely, they have tried to get on the Prince reissue wagon years ago, and well we all know how Prince feels about Rhino/WB, so they probably got denied and will always be denied. Who knows? but I'm not holding my breath.

Because of this thread, I put on Sheila E. Romance 1600. This whole record really blurs the line between prince-not-prince and just plain old prince.

"Toy Box" is great. You know? I'll go ahead and say it. Forgotten, underappreciated.

okay, I am listening to Ice Cream Castle for the first time and absolutely dying at "Chili Sauce" OMGWTFLOL

I was going to start a thread on the 'Twin City Sound' but I thought this would be a better place to start a master list.

Directly Prince-related:

The New Power Generation, Prince

In the Prince-a-verse:

Appalonia 6
Vanity 6
The Family
The Time

Other bands that have that Twin City funk sound:

The Jets

Other non-twin city bands with the sound:

Cherelle
Ready for the World

Mazerati was Prince-a-verse

Andre Cymone

Madhouse

94 East

Carmen Electra

Mayte

Andre Cymone

^^^underrated

This

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcuVdaKWkUs

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/611/MI0001611543.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

No mention of 'The Sex Of It' by Kid Creole?

Or Martika?!? "Love...Thy Will Be Done" is fucking epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMX27W_1tsQ

On the faux Prince front, I've been into A'Me Loraine's Starring In...Standing in a Monkey Sea lately.

This

http://youtu.be/BO3qlgUINEE

can anybody hook a fucker up with the s/t Jill Jones album? I've been looking out for it for years with no luck.

I think I have it somewhere? Maybe? I'll take a look when I'm home.

I seriously need to double down on evangelizing that A'Me Lorain album. One of the most underrated pop albums of the '80s (with only a handful of mentions on ILM).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKHDIvC2Uvo

I have that Jill Jones album, it's actually pretty easy to find on vinyl, but the CDs are very hard to come by, as it only had one CD pressing in 1988, and it must've been pretty small considering the market for compact discs back then. Anyway, after years of searching I noticed some Minneapolis record store was selling a couple of new(!) copies online for a reasonable price, so I quickly snatched one.

Anyway, it's a great album, possibly the best non-Prince one he produced, I'll see what I can do about sharing the joy...

I looove the prince demo of g spot and have long wanted to hear how it plays in it's jj guise

The only complaint I have about the album is that it doesn't include the club mix of "Mia Bocca", the best tune Jill Jones ever made. The album version (which segues straight from the intro) of it is really good too, but the club mix is even better.

Here you go, Jon.

Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!

Anyway, for stuff that had nothing to do with Prince but sounds like Vanity 6, this is my favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34QVPwRLRKU

leonardo whassssuuppppppp

thx t

we need a list of prince knockoffs that prince had nothing to do with, like ready for the world's "oh sheila"

there are a few such things mentioned on this thread, but most of it is stuff prince actually wrote and/or produced

would that include music by former bandmembers

paula abdul "promise of a new day"

world party "love street"

we need a list of prince knockoffs that prince had nothing to do with, like ready for the world's "oh sheila"

Lol, Wikipedia:

The song is commonly misattributed to Prince, due to similarity to his vocal and musical style, as well as the belief that the song's lyrics allude to frequent Prince collaborator Sheila E.[2][3] Ready for the World's Melvin Riley denied any connection with the two artists, stating that the subject of the song was a fictional character. However, the song's backbeat was inspired by the Prince song "Lady Cab Driver."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2liD7pahHN4&feature=youtu.be

However, the song's backbeat was inspired by the Prince song "Lady Cab Driver."

if by "backbeat" they mean "everything in the song"

Teena Marie to thread

Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"

this seems kind of challopsy... or does it?

The entirety 'o' the Gary Numan album Metal Rhythm.

I think I mentioned them upthread, but Klymaxx's two mid-80s albums (Meeting in the Ladies' Room and Klymaxx) certainly remind me of Prince/Minneapolis style synth funk.

feel like the title track off Herbie's "Future Shock" fits here

The entirety 'o' the Gary Numan album /Metal Rhythm/.

6.4

B-52's "Dry County" has a bit of a Prince vibe

Clare Fischer strings and all. Sandra St. Victor co-wrote "Soul Sanctuary" with Prince ("Emancipation")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUDr7ClxLIo

And this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8DLerhocZk

I was just wondering today if there was a thread like this and now I see that I've already stumped for A'me Lorain & The Family Affair upthread but I'm going to do it again because I love that album so much.

Always thought of this one as a Prince homage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmZexg8sxyk

OK, I'll add mine here, since I don't think I saw them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXEbSpmpDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjLC9HBoEYU

Does all the sub-Jam & Lewis boogie count?

Tara - Fresh Flesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX3S9LU-NMM

Wait is that one of the Carmen Electra records?

Not sure.

Ryuchi Sakamoto borrows Prince protege Jill Jones, and possibly the purple LinnDrum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XygQHlXeipk

Did you guys know about this? http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/classic-tracks-fine-young-cannibals-she-drives-me-crazy/375247

Was listening to Talking Heads' "Making Flippy Floppy," from 1983, the other day and thinking that the chorus (and the synth hook in particular) is kind of Prince-like. But maybe that's just because it's Bernie Worrell, and he influenced Prince's keyboard style?

jill jones s/t is awesome

^^^

vocal doesn't sound at all like Prince, but everything else about this song gives me a real 80s-synth-Prince vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-rfX1W38q0