I All day i have been listening to MJ and i noticed that MJ has written some awesome melodies!!

But then i thought about Prince... and i realised that he doesn't do melodies he does mainly ryhtm/funk

But what is the BEST Prince melody in a song?

C'mon yall....THINK! lol

You gotsta be crazy !
When You were Mine , Damn U , Little Red Corvette , Under The Cherry Moon , etc

Yeah but they just aren't as cathcy as MJ's...

BTW Prince is much better than MJ though!! i just want to get that cleared up!

I may sound like an idiot, but what exactly is a melody? I am musically illiterate.

erm so Purple Rain and When Doves Cry aren't memorable?
Bambi? Endorphinmachine? Musicology??!!

MashedPotatoKid said:

Musicology has no real melody... it is VERY funky but lacks melody... as does the rest.

GoldenGlove said:

why are they not melodies??!?!?

a melody is a succession of musical tones.
don't ALL of his songs have them?!

I agree with Musicology , it's just a bass riff

as for the rest you gotsta be crazy
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I think his best melodies came pretty early.

The Beautiful Ones
Little Red Corvette
When 2 R In Love
I Feel 4 U
The Morning Papers
Shockadelica (simple but good)
Let's Pretend We're Married (also short but good)
Christopher Tracy's Parade
the end of Positivity "In every man's life there will be a hang up..."
[Edited 6/14/05 12:40pm]

you want some melody?
give a listen to The Beautiful Ones,i would say Prince is a master of writing simplistic yet riveting melodies...

A good melody can stand alone without any backing instrument.

Prince has done some great melodies, but lots of his songs--Musicology, Eye No, The Work, Cream, are not so interesting without the instruments behind them

wallysafford said:

actually , i think that melody is quite complicated

Check out Prince's ballads -- some of the most beautiful melodies ever written. Every song on his first two albums have nice melodies, to say the least. Yeah, a lot of his "funk" stuff does lack a melody, but not all. "When Doves Cry" (for example) is pretty much a one-note melody throughout, as are a lot of his songs that sound interesting because of the beat and sound effects -- but even then, those songs have some kind of melodic "hook" (e.g. "Gett Off," "Erotic City," "Lovesexy," "Superfunkycalifragisexi," and on and on and on).

And besides his pure funk workouts which are more like jams than "compositions" (e.g. "Prettyman," "The Work," "Musicology"), Prince has hundreds of songs filled with long beautiful melodies. If you don't know this, then you're really missing out on a lot of great songs!
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Under The Cherry Moon!

Question of u? That has a nice melody?

I don't know this thread is weird

yeah , those kids these days

please no more Prince / MJ comparisons...

there is no comparison at all,,,,

and MJ belongs in jail.

When 2 R in Love. Hands down.

Ronny talk to Russia.... can't get more catching than that!

GoldenGlove said:

Am I mistaken, or has MJ never even written a melody? The comparison must be between Prince and Quincy Jones, right?

When 2 R In Love - the build-up towards the end, alone, is divine

Strollin'

Damn u and Rapture from scandalous sex suite

xpertluva said:

Uhm no...Quincy Jones never wrote a song for MJ

I think Prince's catchies melodies are Let's Go Crazy and 1999. Some songs grow on you but those captures you immidiatly
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I would have 2 add Diamonds and Pearls. It's a popular song but the melody is complex. If U listen really closely 2 it, U also notice how the drums play along with the melody.

By the way, as for melodies on Musicology, I'd have 2 say A Million Days is the only song that I can strongly credit. Please don't even mention Pimp...whateva.

Oliver said:

I'd say cinnamon girl too

not my favourite song and not my favourite album, but Under The Cherry Moon's melody is stunning.

definitely Strollin' gosh how I la-la-la-love that song!

as well as:
Under the Cherry Moon
Shockadelica
When you were mine

Dewrede said:

being a songwriter myself,the melody of "the beautiful ones" is
pretty simple.the way he layers the melodies underneath the main melody
is a little complex.a better example of a "quite complicated melody" would be
"and god created woman" or "glam slam".