Prince "Sexy MF" C/D

DUD, when compared to everything else Prince has done.

CLASSIC, when compared to just about everything else.

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.

hahaha

Come here baby, yeah
U sexy motherfucker

We’re all alone in a villa on the rivera
That’s in france on the south side
In case u cared
Out of all yo friends I wanna be the closest
That’s why I tell u things
So u’ll be the mostest
When it comes 2 life, 2 be this man’s wife
U got 2 be well educated on the subject of fights
I mean prevention of
In other words - it’s r.e.a.l meaning of this thing called love
Are u up on this?
If so, then u can get up off hug and a kiss

Come here baby, yeah
U sexy motherfucker

Come here baby, yeah
U sexy motherfucker

We need 2 talk about things
Tell me what cha do, tell me what cha eat
I might cook 4 u
See it really don’t matter cuz it’s all about me and u
Ain’t no one else around
I’m even with the blindfold, gagged and bound
I don’t mind
See this ain’t about sex
It’s all about love being in charge of this life
And the next...
Why all the cosmic talk?
I just want u smarter than I’ll ever be
When we take that walk

Come here baby, yeah
U sexy motherfucker
Come here baby, yeah
U sexy motherfucker

Horns stand please...

I like it, I like it

U seem perplexed I haven’t taken u yet
Can’t u see I’m harder than a man can get
I got wet dreams comin’ out of my ears
I get hard if the wind blows your cologne near me
But I can take it, cuz I want the whole nine
This ain’t about the body, it’s about the mind

Come here baby, yeah
U sexy motherfucker
Come here baby, yeah
U sexy motherfucker

Tommy barbarella in the house
Scrub the dishes

Come here tommy, yeah

Sexy, sexy, sexy, sexy

Levi, levi, fly

[ooh man, let’s give ’em some more good shit]

I like it, I like it

Sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass
Sexy 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 bathwater
A long, leggy 5’8
(sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass)
Packing an ass as tight as a grape
I want to spit some game but I said to myself
Hmmm...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 boy
I’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 behind
I bet that if you threw that ass into the air it would turn into sunshine

Sexy motherfucker
That would make shakin’ that ass
4 one sexy motherfucker shakin’ this place shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ that ass
Sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass
Sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass
Sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass, shakin’ that ass

U sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker

U sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker
Sexy motherfucker

filth!

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.

the symbol album is a complete mess. the rapping alone all over it makes it a bit embarassing

-- The Ghost of Black Elegance (djperr...), September 9th, 2005.

Dan is deliciously OTM. It's still his best album of the '90s.

the gold exp is a totally important album in my life.

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?

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.

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)

Actually, I think I'll add to "Pussy Control" and "Endorphinmachine" to my list of 90's Prince songs I prefer to "Sexy MF."

The best of all of Prince's JB rips, of course, is "Housequake."

I can put it up in yousendit or something, if it's not around in Soulseek et al

xpost - HAHA, i forgot the piggyback entrance!

I love "The Morning Papers" on that Symbol album.

i see your point.

xxpost - prince's bodyguard isnt the jazz musician chick corea, its chick er, huntsbury?

Classic! Granted, it's not the most accomplished thing Prince ever did, but total fun.

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.

ayo turrican not that I'm mad but are you going to answer every prince thread on ilm

SCRUB THE DISHES!

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.

This tune bangs in the club.

this is played in clubs?

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.

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"

most striking element no question

this is maybe my favourite Prince song.

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.

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...

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.

FWIW I played this out on Friday night and it did indeed bang.

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.)

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

Tony Barbarella in the house.

Who's that

That's the Trent Reznor "before" yearbook picture.

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.

bland's work on "love 2 the 9's" is exquisite

Food for thought: both Bland and Bowie's longstanding drummer Sterling Campbell served time in Soul Asylum.

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.

Michael Bland apparently a big XTC fan, too — he lobbied to play on "Apple Venus."

Really? I didn't know that!

Uh I was asking tuomas actually

Bland joining Prince is possibly the exact moment his output started to suffer imo. surprised at the love here.

Not blands fault in any way

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.

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.

best NPG member.

is faint praise

he'd have been a good drummer in any band.

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.