― startrekman, Friday, 9 September 2005 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scott Warner (thream), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria b (maria b), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria b (maria b), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Of course, "Sexy M.F." still blows 99% of today's R&B or hip hop out of the water.
― maria b (maria b), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
DUD, when compared to everything else Prince has done.
CLASSIC, when compared to just about everything else.
― maria b (maria b), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't remember hearing it on the radio, but there was that "Sexy Mother..." edit. I think maybe they did it that way on the Arsenio Hall show.
― brianiac (briania), Friday, 9 September 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria b (maria b), Friday, 9 September 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 9 September 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link
hahaha
― minna (minna), Friday, 9 September 2005 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 9 September 2005 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 September 2005 06:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― okok, Friday, 9 September 2005 10:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Come here baby, yeahU sexy motherfucker
We’re all alone in a villa on the riveraThat’s in france on the south sideIn case u caredOut of all yo friends I wanna be the closestThat’s why I tell u thingsSo u’ll be the mostestWhen it comes 2 life, 2 be this man’s wifeU got 2 be well educated on the subject of fightsI mean prevention ofIn other words - it’s r.e.a.l meaning of this thing called loveAre u up on this? If so, then u can get up off hug and a kiss
We need 2 talk about thingsTell me what cha do, tell me what cha eatI might cook 4 uSee it really don’t matter cuz it’s all about me and uAin’t no one else aroundI’m even with the blindfold, gagged and boundI don’t mindSee this ain’t about sexIt’s all about love being in charge of this lifeAnd the next...Why all the cosmic talk? I just want u smarter than I’ll ever beWhen we take that walk
Come here baby, yeahU sexy motherfuckerCome here baby, yeahU sexy motherfucker
Horns stand please...
I like it, I like it
U seem perplexed I haven’t taken u yetCan’t u see I’m harder than a man can getI got wet dreams comin’ out of my earsI get hard if the wind blows your cologne near meBut I can take it, cuz I want the whole nineThis ain’t about the body, it’s about the mind
Tommy barbarella in the houseScrub the dishes
Come here tommy, yeah
Sexy, sexy, sexy, sexy
Levi, levi, fly
[ooh man, let’s give ’em some more good shit]
Sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that assSexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass
Guard your folks and get your daughter(sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass)The sexy motherfucker’s so fine I could drink her bathwaterA long, leggy 5’8(sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass)Packing an ass as tight as a grapeI want to spit some game but I said to myselfHmmm...just conversate (yeah!)(sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass)Cuz I’m usually quite the calm one (come on!)You never found me out prowling boyI’m just havin’ fun(sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass)But I’m happy 2 change my state of mind for this behindI bet that if you threw that ass into the air it would turn into sunshine
Sexy motherfuckerThat would make shakin’ that ass4 one sexy motherfucker shakin’ this place shakin’ that assShakin’ that assSexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that assSexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that assSexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass
U sexy motherfuckerSexy motherfuckerSexy motherfuckerSexy motherfuckerSexy motherfuckerSexy motherfuckerSexy motherfuckerSexy motherfuckerSexy motherfucker
U sexy motherfuckerSexy motherfuckerSexy motherfuckerSexy motherfucker
― The Ghost of UNHINGED NASTINESS, OH NOES (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 September 2005 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link
filth!
― N_RQ, Friday, 9 September 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria b (maria b), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
this entire album is entirely unlistenable by all objective aesthetic criteria i can imagine, but theres something great about it. "3 chains o'gold?" how could i love that? i mean, i do.
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
the symbol album is a complete mess. the rapping alone all over it makes it a bit embarassing
― okoko, Friday, 9 September 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
-- The Ghost of Black Elegance (djperr...), September 9th, 2005.
Dan is deliciously OTM. It's still his best album of the '90s.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
the gold exp is a totally important album in my life.
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― okokok, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― okokok, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
this is a good argument until one actually thinks about it, at which point it falls apart like well-cooked flesh. james brown upended the american notion of popular song and made rhythm more important than melody! who did anything more radical than that?
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― kokoko, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
sly and george built on the JB paradigm but they took it somewhere else entirely, where JB himself did NOT want to go. JB wasnt into sounding spacey, drugged out, or freaky on record, much less looking that way, he was of the previous generation.
― okokok, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― ookokok, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― okok, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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)
― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually, I think I'll add to "Pussy Control" and "Endorphinmachine" to my list of 90's Prince songs I prefer to "Sexy MF."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
The best of all of Prince's JB rips, of course, is "Housequake."
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:20 (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 (seven years ago) link
This tune bangs in the club.
― Tim F, Thursday, 28 April 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
this is played in clubs?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 April 2016 01:44 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
most striking element no question
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 April 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
this is maybe my favourite Prince song.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 28 April 2016 08:48 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
Tony Barbarella in the house.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
Who's that
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
That's the Trent Reznor "before" yearbook picture.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
I never set eyes on Prince but the closest I came was seeing Michael Bland working the fuck out of a drum kit in a music store in Minneapolis before he started working with Prince.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
bland's work on "love 2 the 9's" is exquisite
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Food for thought: both Bland and Bowie's longstanding drummer Sterling Campbell served time in Soul Asylum.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
The times I saw Michael Bland play for Soul Asylum, they were so great - throw Tommy up there on bass and it was like a whole new band.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
Michael Bland apparently a big XTC fan, too — he lobbied to play on "Apple Venus."
― goodoldneon, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Really? I didn't know that!
― Turrican, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
Uh I was asking tuomas actually
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Bland joining Prince is possibly the exact moment his output started to suffer imo. surprised at the love here.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
Not blands fault in any way
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
yeah, probably not to any significant degree. but as noted on some other Prince thread, 1990 feels like the first time Prince is backed up by, like, a normal, modern R&B band and some of his production idiosyncrasies/techniques start to suffer, and Bland's heavy-footedness is part of that sort of conventional sound creeping in.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
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.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
best NPG member.
is faint praise
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
he'd have been a good drummer in any band.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 04:09 (seven years ago) link