Prince "Sexy MF" C/D

If you could edit out Tony M that would be his best post 80s album, a lot of bangers on there.. Morning Papers, God Created Woman, 7, Love to the 9s (minus woeful rap interlude)

Actually, I think I'll add to "Pussy Control" and "Endorphinmachine" to my list of 90's Prince songs I prefer to "Sexy MF."

The best of all of Prince's JB rips, of course, is "Housequake."

"7" definitely follows the "this should by all rights be an unholy mess of garbled shite but somehow IT IS FUCKING AWESOME" rule that runs rampant throughout the symbol album. The Gold Experience is a much better effort all around and I really don't trust people who dislike "P Control" as that's usually a sign that you eat babies.

and also, when will there be deluxe remastered lavishly packaged double (or hell triple!!) cd reissues of the "worthwhile" or "listenable" prince?

prince didnt really start homaging JB til the purple rain tour in baby im a star (all that 'hit me 345 times' stuff)

this is 345 kinds of poppycock

okok - "red red wine" pwns "blue light!" prince is my favorite musician of all time, but theres no way i can deny that fact. also, "p control" is classicclassicclassic, end of argument.

ill admit that my love for "3 chains o' gold" is roughly analogous to my love of "trapped in the closet", ie a leftfield-whatthefuck-retarded-genius-but-not-really-ironic-kind-of-love, but thats real love!

i love the first part of 3 chains, that melody is really lovely

Altho when i finally saw the footage, I didn't think Prince looked all that bad.. it's been hyped up as his most embarrassing moment..

I can put it up in yousendit or something, if it's not around in Soulseek et al

xpost - HAHA, i forgot the piggyback entrance!

I love "The Morning Papers" on that Symbol album.

i see your point.

xxpost - prince's bodyguard isnt the jazz musician chick corea, its chick er, huntsbury?

Classic! Granted, it's not the most accomplished thing Prince ever did, but total fun.

fun but a dud really.
also i hate that prince is so famous for this song.
its prince reduced to a silly punchline.
also the beginning of his increasingly worse JB pastiches.

ayo turrican not that I'm mad but are you going to answer every prince thread on ilm

SCRUB THE DISHES!

Eye seem 2 remember there was a censored version 'o' this which replaced the expletives in the song with a sample 'o' Prince doing a high-pitched "aaaaawwwaa!" or something. Eye remember it sounding quite comical.

This tune bangs in the club.

this is played in clubs?

I've heard it several times. The drum line (which feels like it's constantly running slightly ahead of itself) always sounds amazing in that context.

yeah i think someone was dissing the npg drummer in one of the other threads and I immediately thought "but the drums in sexy mf are tight as hell"

most striking element no question

Bland is an excellent drummer and the best NPG member. Shakey's right about Prince's gradual decline, but Bland anchored the best of it.

best NPG member.

is faint praise

he'd have been a good drummer in any band.

I find the whole NPG era (or what I think of as the NPG era...those first few records in the 90s) to be kind of fascinating in that while they def. lose some (even a lot) of the edge that made Prince unique, they so clearly are what he imagined would appeal to a black audience at the time – featuring Bland and Seacer's heavily syncopated grooves, Gaines' Aretha-esque wailing vocals, Barbarella's super funky organ parts, and, of course, Tony M rapping (and the dancers). It was like he was trying to put together his own Muscle Shoals All Stars in some 90s context. As a whole, it doesn't really work but in the instances when it does—mostly singles like "Get Off," "D&P," "7," this song—the results tended to be as weird and outrageous as anything in the guy's catalogue.

On another note, I played this song for my 8 year old the other day. I'm probably a horrible parent for doing it but I really wanted her to understand why her mom and I loved this Prince guy so much (it also provided a nice opportunity to let her know that some people use words to get a rise out of folks). Interestingly, her semi-embarrassed giggle was pretty much identical to the reaction everyone I knew had when it came out during college. I'm probably going to Hell.