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If I Was Your Girlfriend - what a great song! This song is so sick. I love it, everything about it is so sophisticated and mature and progressive. Who would have thought a major pop star in the middle of the 80s could have come up with a song like that?
I always thought that Sign O The Times was the blueprint for modern soul/neo-soul. No SOTT, No OutKast, no D'Angelo, no MeShell.  | |
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Oh yes. Probably my favorite studio recording a great example of him using the studio as an instrument. Lead vocal speeded up, background vocals slowed down, keyboards recorded backwards.
The speech at the end is amazing, so claustrophobic, so obsessed I love it  if you've gotta pay for things that you've done wrong I've gotta big bill coming at the end of the day- Gil Scott Heron
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This was my favorite song from this album. I think I wore the vinyl out.  | |
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one of the most original eva. | |
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Love it  Rhythm floods my heart♥The melody it feeds my soul | |
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It's one of Prince's best tracks evah. |
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My favorite Prince ballad and one of my favorite Prince songs ever. Actually, one of my favorite songs ever, period.
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Great song from Prince's best album |
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It´s gems like this that make me shake my head in disbelief when I hear the lyrics to some of his newer stuff like The One U Wanna C or Guitar...how can the same person who is such a genius of a songwriter come up with stuff like that when he knows himself what he´s capable of ?
I love this song...too bad he had to rearrange it a bit for the O2 show.The horns ruin it. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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One of my favourite Prince songs along with Money Don't Matter Tonight. | |
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Like, duh.   | |
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Have you seen the SOTT movie version of the song? mercy!  | |
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Definately one of his best on that album and ever. Some people think I'm kinda cute
But that don't compute when it comes 2 Y-O-U. | |
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KoolEaze said: It´s gems like this that make me shake my head in disbelief when I hear the lyrics to some of his newer stuff like The One U Wanna C or Guitar...how can the same person who is such a genius of a songwriter come up with stuff like that when he knows himself what he´s capable of ?
I love this song...too bad he had to rearrange it a bit for the O2 show.The horns ruin it. I wish Prince would drop the horns from his live show period. “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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midnightmover said: KoolEaze said: It´s gems like this that make me shake my head in disbelief when I hear the lyrics to some of his newer stuff like The One U Wanna C or Guitar...how can the same person who is such a genius of a songwriter come up with stuff like that when he knows himself what he´s capable of ?
I love this song...too bad he had to rearrange it a bit for the O2 show.The horns ruin it. I wish Prince would drop the horns from his live show period. Horns ruin alot of classic Prince songs when he plays them live these days. Like when he puts the horns in Let's Go Crazy and Kiss.  Some people think I'm kinda cute
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OMG, this is a stone cold classic. 
Like others have said, it perfectly captures the intensity that Prince must have been trying to convey. Claustrophobic? It almost feels like you're watching him from behind a curtain or something; it is so personal. The song is just pure genius - from the production, to the lyrics, to the idea itself. Genius. With 'Sign 'O' The Times', 'When Doves Cry' and this - these are definitely in the top 3 Prince compositions ever, IMO. | |
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KoolEaze said: It´s gems like this that make me shake my head in disbelief when I hear the lyrics to some of his newer stuff like The One U Wanna C or Guitar...how can the same person who is such a genius of a songwriter come up with stuff like that when he knows himself what he´s capable of ?
I love this song...too bad he had to rearrange it a bit for the O2 show.The horns ruin it. Amen! "The little 1 will escort u 2 the places within ur mind" | |
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onenitealone said: OMG, this is a stone cold classic.
Like others have said, it perfectly captures the intensity that Prince must have been trying to convey. Claustrophobic? It almost feels like you're watching him from behind a curtain or something; it is so personal. The song is just pure genius - from the production, to the lyrics, to the idea itself. Genius. With 'Sign 'O' The Times', 'When Doves Cry' and this - these are definitely in the top 3 Prince compositions ever, IMO. What about the ballad of dorothy parker? That has to be way up there too! small circles, big wheels!
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Rinluv said: midnightmover said: I wish Prince would drop the horns from his live show period. Horns ruin alot of classic Prince songs when he plays them live these days. Like when he puts the horns in Let's Go Crazy and Kiss. I agree. One of the reasons I got into his music because he used sythesizers where most people would have used horns.Now it seems it's the other way around.He uses horns and everyone else is using synthesizers. | |
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Milty said: This song is so sick. I love it, everything about it is so sophisticated and mature and progressive. Who would have thought a major pop star in the middle of the 80s could have come up with a song like that?
I always thought that Sign O The Times was the blueprint for modern soul/neo-soul. No SOTT, No OutKast, no D'Angelo, no MeShell. I had the pleasure of hearin this song live, with the FUNKY BASE LINE, on the 14 th at O2! It brought the house down! Sam 8) Prince 2010 Good Luck for Future & Tour | |
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Lyric wise, this is one of the best EVER. And not just in the Prince universe, but in all of music. | |
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My signature... nuff' said.. he speaking the female language in this song.. which is emotionally.. deep .. | |
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Too bad Beyonce stole it  | |
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Rightly said: What about the ballad of dorothy parker?
That has to be way up there too! Hey.
Well, as I've posted many times, The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker is my favourite Prince song - ever. And I'd definitely put it up there but where do you stop??  I'd also include Automatic and The Beautiful Ones but the list is endless.   | |
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As much as everyone thinks this is great he "stole" the music from James Mtume. [Edited 8/26/07 21:41pm] | |
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Thumparello said: As much as everyone thinks this is great he "stole" the music from James Mtume.
[Edited 8/26/07 21:41pm] which song? | |
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Milty said: Thumparello said: As much as everyone thinks this is great he "stole" the music from James Mtume.
[Edited 8/26/07 21:41pm] which song? IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND. NOTE FOR NOTE... JUST LIKE WHEN RAY PARKER TOOK HUEY LEWIS'S MUSIC FOR GHOSTBUSTERS AKA I WANNA A NEW DRUG. | |
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KoolEaze said: It´s gems like this that make me shake my head in disbelief when I hear the lyrics to some of his newer stuff like The One U Wanna C or Guitar...how can the same person who is such a genius of a songwriter come up with stuff like that when he knows himself what he´s capable of ?
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ToraToraDreams said: Lyric wise, this is one of the best EVER. And not just in the Prince universe, but in all of music.
Oh...I´m not alone....
It´s mine favorite too...but HE didn´t perform it on the 18th.... 
(And don´t forget the version by TLC..... )(akime from germany...adoring HIM since the purple days....)......and....sorry for less quality in grammar...if your german is in a better shape....it´s up 2 u | |
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Thumparello said: Milty said: which song? IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND. NOTE FOR NOTE... I think he's asking you what was the James Mtume song Prince "stole" from. “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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