― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― okokok, Friday, 9 September 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― deaf leopard (haitch), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
"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.
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
and also, when will there be deluxe remastered lavishly packaged double (or hell triple!!) cd reissues of the "worthwhile" or "listenable" prince?
― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― okok, Friday, 9 September 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― okoko, Friday, 9 September 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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!
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
i love the first part of 3 chains, that melody is really lovely
― okoko, Friday, 9 September 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
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..
― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― okok, Friday, 9 September 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― okok, Friday, 9 September 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 9 September 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 September 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 9 September 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 September 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 9 September 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
I can put it up in yousendit or something, if it's not around in Soulseek et al
― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Friday, 9 September 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 10 September 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 10 September 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost - HAHA, i forgot the piggyback entrance!
― okok, Saturday, 10 September 2005 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drowning Man (Barima), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I love "The Morning Papers" on that Symbol album.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 11 September 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
i see your point.
xxpost - prince's bodyguard isnt the jazz musician chick corea, its chick er, huntsbury?
― okok, Sunday, 11 September 2005 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Classic! Granted, it's not the most accomplished thing Prince ever did, but total fun.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Saturday, 23 April 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
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.
― StillAdvance, Sunday, 24 April 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
ayo turrican not that I'm mad but are you going to answer every prince thread on ilm
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 April 2016 19:36 (eight years ago) link
SCRUB THE DISHES!
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Sunday, 24 April 2016 19:46 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 2rrican (Turrican), Thursday, 28 April 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
This tune bangs in the club.
― Tim F, Thursday, 28 April 2016 01:29 (eight years ago) link
this is played in clubs?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 April 2016 01:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Thursday, 28 April 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
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"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 April 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link
most striking element no question
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 April 2016 02:20 (eight years ago) link
this is maybe my favourite Prince song.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 28 April 2016 08:48 (eight years ago) link
I have this on single with the "clean" radio edit, and Prince's "you sexy motherwowwaa!" does indeed sound pretty funny. IIRC this was also the version MTV played? I remember laughing to it with my friends back in 1992...
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:00 (eight years ago) link
It's kind of an 'ew!' thing. It's the first version I heard because that's what they played on UK radio when it came out.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:09 (eight years ago) link
FWIW I played this out on Friday night and it did indeed bang.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
Also, you can add my voice to praises for Michael Bland, NPG's drummer. Those two albums have the funkiest drums of any Prince albums, if we're talking about traditional drumming skills. I still prefer the 80s drum machines, though. (And Sheila E. is obviously good too, but in a more idiosyncratic way than Bland.)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:17 (eight years ago) link
And I love the fact that the also-supremely-funky organ on this tune is plaid by a guy who, at the time, looked like this:
http://members.toast.net/talien/gallery/reign/tommyb.gif
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:21 (eight years ago) link