― 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
Tony Barbarella in the house.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:25 (eight years ago) link
Who's that
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
That's the Trent Reznor "before" yearbook picture.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:36 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Really? I didn't know that!
― Turrican, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
Uh I was asking tuomas actually
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:52 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Not blands fault in any way
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:56 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
best NPG member.
is faint praise
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 18:08 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link