1. Sinead - Nothing Compares 2 You
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
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― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
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9. Vanity 6 "Nasty Girl"
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
12 dance electric - andre
― piscesboy, Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
"When U Were Mine" is on CONTROVERSY (I think?). Or PRINCE. It's on one of the early records...
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:30 (twenty years ago) link
right erm...
can't think of another.
was 'jerk out' by the time by him ?
― piscesboy, Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
Also -- Kate Bush, "Why Should I Love You?" (And why is it not called "Why Should I Love U?")
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link
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!
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link
Sly Fox, "Let's Go All the Way"Ready For the World, "Oh Sheila!"
― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
Ready For The World - "Oh Sheila"Shalamar - "Dancing in the Sheets"Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"Outkast - "Toilet Tisha"Elvis Costello - "Blue Chair"
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
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― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
Mitch Ryder also did it on his comeback LP, the one John Mellencamp produced.
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
Rori - "Wild Girls"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 22 May 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― M Specktor (M Specktor), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:25 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
i had no idea about 'manic monday'. god i really love prince.
― minna (minna), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:20 (twenty years ago) link
Another facsimile: Pig (80's WaxTrax dude) - "Never For Fun"
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link
Andre Cymone
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
Madhouse
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
94 East
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
Carmen Electra
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Mayte
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
^^^underrated
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcuVdaKWkUs
― 3×5, Thursday, 16 October 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/611/MI0001611543.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― 3×5, Sunday, 1 February 2015 07:47 (nine years ago) link
No mention of 'The Sex Of It' by Kid Creole?
― pig∞n (dog latin), Monday, 2 February 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
Or Martika?!? "Love...Thy Will Be Done" is fucking epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMX27W_1tsQ
― Indiana Jones and the Sphincter of the Sphinx (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 February 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
On the faux Prince front, I've been into A'Me Loraine's Starring In...Standing in a Monkey Sea lately.
― Indiana Jones and the Sphincter of the Sphinx (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 February 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/BO3qlgUINEE
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
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.
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 2 February 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
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
― Indiana Jones and the Sphincter of the Sphinx (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 February 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
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...
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 February 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
I looove the prince demo of g spot and have long wanted to hear how it plays in it's jj guise
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 2 February 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Here you go, Jon.
Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
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
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
leonardo whassssuuppppppp
thx t
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 2 February 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
we need a list of prince knockoffs that prince had nothing to do with, like ready for the world's "oh sheila"
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
there are a few such things mentioned on this thread, but most of it is stuff prince actually wrote and/or produced
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
would that include music by former bandmembers
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
paula abdul "promise of a new day"
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 29 April 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
world party "love street"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
― Radio Free European Son (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 April 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
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."
― Radio Free European Son (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 April 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2liD7pahHN4&feature=youtu.be
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 29 April 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
However, the song's backbeat was inspired by the Prince song "Lady Cab Driver."
if by "backbeat" they mean "everything in the song"
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Teena Marie to thread
― Radio Free European Son (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 April 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"
this seems kind of challopsy... or does it?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
The entirety 'o' the Gary Numan album Metal Rhythm.
― 2rrican (Turrican), Friday, 29 April 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 09:27 (seven years ago) link
feel like the title track off Herbie's "Future Shock" fits here
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
The entirety 'o' the Gary Numan album /Metal Rhythm/.
― The WLS National Batdance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
6.4
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
B-52's "Dry County" has a bit of a Prince vibe
― Stoner Gabbneb & the Cocoon of Cluelessness (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
Clare Fischer strings and all. Sandra St. Victor co-wrote "Soul Sanctuary" with Prince ("Emancipation")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUDr7ClxLIo
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 5 May 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
And this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8DLerhocZk
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 5 May 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 May 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link
Always thought of this one as a Prince homage:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmZexg8sxyk
― goodoldneon, Sunday, 8 May 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 May 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Does all the sub-Jam & Lewis boogie count?
Tara - Fresh Fleshhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX3S9LU-NMM
― Abandon hype all ye who enter here (Sanpaku), Monday, 9 May 2016 01:08 (seven years ago) link
Wait is that one of the Carmen Electra records?
― Old Familiar Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 May 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
Not sure.
Ryuchi Sakamoto borrows Prince protege Jill Jones, and possibly the purple LinnDrum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XygQHlXeipk
― Abandon hype all ye who enter here (Sanpaku), Monday, 9 May 2016 02:23 (seven years ago) link
Did you guys know about this? http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/classic-tracks-fine-young-cannibals-she-drives-me-crazy/375247
― Why You Wanna Treeship Borad? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 May 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
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?
― goodoldneon, Sunday, 29 May 2016 04:46 (seven years ago) link
jill jones s/t is awesome
― clouds, Sunday, 29 May 2016 06:21 (seven years ago) link
^^^
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Monday, 30 May 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link