"not counting outside productions/writings he didn't record himself" -- plus, "Manic Monday" is almost the weakest track on the great Bangles album it's on!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 11 November 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
(xpost) Yes, he did. there's a demo with Vanity doing vocals. Prince plays all the music (of course) and is in the b-ground, vocally.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 12 November 2007 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Goo Goo Dolls "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" was faithful and entertaining, although Lance Diamond sung on it rather than Rzeznick or Takac.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
oh geeze
― chaki, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
when you were mine by cyndi lauper
― Eisbaer, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Beyonce sings a line or two of the TLC cover of If I Was Your Girlfriend in '03 Bonnie & Clyde.. A cover cover!
― Finefinemusic, Friday, 28 March 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't believe nobody mentioned this, but of Montreal do really terrific, live Prince covers, especially "I Would Die 4 U". I think I found them on Hype Machine.
― Lee Remick, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
bilal - how come u dont call me anymore
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
still would love to hear that Dump record, which appears to be out of print (hint hint?)
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
btw his lawyers must have the day off, there's a lot of pr1nce stuff on y0utub3 right now
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx3UvdYqwUk
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
d'angelo - she's always in my haircrooked fingers - when u were mine
― once more Jagger faps the hivemind (symsymsym), Sunday, 26 December 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I stumbled across this going down a youtube rabbithole...The Eels doing "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man" in their pyjamas, with strings! Kinda rockin!
http://youtu.be/FOXT-Naxyq4
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 January 2012 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know about the best, but Gary Numan probably delivered two of the worst... Prince was apparently a massive fan of Numan, too.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Saturday, 23 April 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
Nina Simone's version of "Sign 'O' The Times": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Va0_QsLAc
― goodoldneon, Saturday, 30 April 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRJ76hqsNrg alicia keys' version of adore is actually pretty great. she doesnt quite nail the ending. but she gives it some. its actually quite hard to cover i imagine, not just cos its quite tied with princes persona, but the vocal never really seems to sit in one place lol
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 19 May 2016 08:19 (seven years ago) link
https://play.spotify.com/track/5czJS24aNUAMHg2G0BoX9k?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open
this is superb
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, nice.
― Half Man Half Disco Mystic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
Wait I thought was on other thread, talking about Glasper.
― Half Man Half Disco Mystic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
actually that link doesnt work for me. and i cant find it anywhere else. but hey, if you do stumble on bilal's cover of how come u dont call me anymore, its a good one. i cant think of many other singers who could match - and maybe outdo - prince like that.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link