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Thread started 04/10/08 7:48pm

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Appreciation Thread: LOVE SONG (w/ MADONNA)

Like the song? Love the song?
Share your thoughts and memories on this classic.

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Reply #1 posted 04/10/08 8:03pm

Dayclear

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What?

If God one day struck me blind, your beauty I'd still see
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Reply #2 posted 04/10/08 8:45pm

joshmos

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Great thread! Maybe the most underrated song he officially released. People were so hyped for this pairing of Prince & Madonna as both were still in their 80's heyday. Prince had slipped a little in popularity post Under the Cherry Moon and with the Lovesexy cover, but he was still talked about and Alphabet St was pumpin out of peoples cars that summer of '88.

Then Madonna returns to her natural coloured hair, grows it long, and sings "Like a Prayer" with a burning cross! Awesome! Then the album drops with a duet with Prince on it! Amazing they didn't make a video and release a single, but the song IS kinda odd.

But the more you listen the more it grows and I find it to be a gem. I turn people on to it all the time, who have NO idea they ever recorded together. As was usual back then, all production by Prince, but this was no instant Pop classic, this is a darkly funny, slow-burn number. One of my all time favorites and I'm SURE not what Warner Bros was expecting/hoping for AT ALL!!! LOL!

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Reply #3 posted 04/11/08 1:16am

dreamshaman32

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ditto, its a discovery song, i was on it when it dropped and your right people did not know then. i rediscover it every 2 years. now it's on my ipod and it still gets lost LOL, but when i hear it i think this shit is hot. had it come as a purple rain B side with synths instead of horns it would have been judged as a classic.

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Reply #4 posted 04/11/08 2:09am

mentalist

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OMG ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!!

Always have since the day of the release of Madonnas album.

Prince had so much more to do with the Like a prayer album than just this duet as well!

One of my favourite Prince duet/collabarations there is!

biggrin biggrin

Life's a Parade! LoveLife, LoveSexy!
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Reply #5 posted 04/11/08 3:04am

SoulAlive

my favorite part is the last line,when Madonna sounds pissed off as she sings..

Don't try to tell me what your enemies taught you
I'm gone! But I just want you to know...

lol

"I just woke up from a fuzzy dream....you never would believe the things that I have seen".
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Reply #6 posted 04/11/08 3:07am

mentalist

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SoulAlive said:

my favorite part is the last line,when Madonna sounds pissed off as she sings..

Don't try to tell me what your enemies taught you
I'm gone! But I just want you to know...

lol


Me too!

I also like the bit that sounds like "don't fu@k my mind!" when the lyric is actually "don't fog my mind!"

Life's a Parade! LoveLife, LoveSexy!
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Reply #7 posted 04/11/08 3:55am

SoulAlive

mentalist said:

SoulAlive said:

my favorite part is the last line,when Madonna sounds pissed off as she sings..

Don't try to tell me what your enemies taught you
I'm gone! But I just want you to know...

lol


Me too!

I also like the bit that sounds like "don't fu@k my mind!" when the lyric is actually "don't fog my mind!"


lol

"I just woke up from a fuzzy dream....you never would believe the things that I have seen".
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Reply #8 posted 04/11/08 4:07am

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Immense track. Apparently neither of them were in the studio together to record this. They just sent tapes back and forth between Paisley and wherever Madonna was...
I seem to remember Madonna saying the reason it sounds so weird and disjointed is because she's playing keys on it.

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Reply #9 posted 04/11/08 4:11am

IstenSzek

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i've always loved it. don't understand why so many people dislike it
since it's pure prince.

sometimes i wish i had a pill to make people disappear
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Reply #10 posted 04/11/08 4:28am

garganta

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IstenSzek said:

i've always loved it. don't understand why so many people dislike it
since it's pure prince.


it is pure prince indeed but kinda bland and it lacks
a really memorable melody or chorus, imo.

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Reply #11 posted 04/11/08 5:23am

djdaffy1227

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Love it!!! I like when Madonna says something in a different language and Prince says "What?" LOL. I listen to it a lot!!

Making love and music are the only things worth fighting for.
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Reply #12 posted 04/11/08 5:58am

Marrk

1DirXtion said:


classic.


lol

'music combining elements of jazz, blues, and soul and characterized by syncopated rhythm and a heavy, repetitive bass line' = Funk!
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Reply #13 posted 04/11/08 7:14am

peppeken

they are both credited as songwriters on it....and some was used in 'hung up', unaccredited to P sad

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Reply #14 posted 04/12/08 9:19am

SoulAlive

peppeken said:

they are both credited as songwriters on it....and some was used in 'hung up', unaccredited to P sad


maybe Madonna wrote the lyrics and Prince wrote the music? hmmm

"I just woke up from a fuzzy dream....you never would believe the things that I have seen".
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Reply #15 posted 04/12/08 9:24am

mplsmike

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i got this on CD biggrin

Love Life,
Love God,
And Only Do Drugs You Need

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Reply #16 posted 04/12/08 9:58am

sexxydancer

The only reason I bought that Madonna album.Love it! wink

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Reply #17 posted 04/12/08 10:03am

psychodelicide

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I don't like this song, and never have.

"I guess Soul Psychodelicide means death of the soul from psychodelic drug use" - mimiviz

I am my own unique individual, and not a stereotype. You betta recognize!!!!

I'd rather be unattached and happy, then to be stuck with an idiot and miserable.
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Reply #18 posted 04/12/08 11:31am

BorisFishpaw

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peppeken said:

they are both credited as songwriters on it....and some was used in 'hung up', unaccredited to P sad


Why would Madonna credit Prince with something she wrote?
(she writes most of her own lyrics, and usually co-writes the music)

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Reply #19 posted 04/12/08 2:08pm

CJanssen

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1DirXtion said:

Like the song? Love the song?
Share your thoughts and memories on this classic.



Highschool, madly in awe with Prince, friend had bought that particular Madonna album, I taped the song, listened to it and was like









And it never changed.
Can it be called a song?

There's never a minute that I find
that u don't ever cross my mind
if u could just hold me tight u'd c...
there's nothing harder 4 u than me

And god created woman
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Reply #20 posted 04/12/08 2:12pm

psychodelicide

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CJanssen said:



lol I love how Prince looks in this clip. Where is it from?

"I guess Soul Psychodelicide means death of the soul from psychodelic drug use" - mimiviz

I am my own unique individual, and not a stereotype. You betta recognize!!!!

I'd rather be unattached and happy, then to be stuck with an idiot and miserable.
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Reply #21 posted 04/12/08 2:23pm

aubergine

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djdaffy1227 said:

Love it!!! I like when Madonna says something in a different language and Prince says "What?" LOL. I listen to it a lot!!


I love this song too. the part you mention:

"embrasse moi. what? pour la derniere fois."
means, kiss me. (what?) for the last time

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Reply #22 posted 04/12/08 2:26pm

aubergine

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psychodelicide said:

CJanssen said:



lol I love how Prince looks in this clip. Where is it from?


I think it's from an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show, circa 2004 - 2005

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Reply #23 posted 04/12/08 2:41pm

psychodelicide

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aubergine said:

psychodelicide said:



lol I love how Prince looks in this clip. Where is it from?


I think it's from an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show, circa 2004 - 2005


thumbs up! Thanks! biggrin

"I guess Soul Psychodelicide means death of the soul from psychodelic drug use" - mimiviz

I am my own unique individual, and not a stereotype. You betta recognize!!!!

I'd rather be unattached and happy, then to be stuck with an idiot and miserable.
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Reply #24 posted 04/19/08 3:27am

LiveToTell86

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IstenSzek said:

i've always loved it. don't understand why so many people dislike it
since it's pure prince.


it is pure prince indeed but kinda bland and it lacks
a really memorable melody or chorus, imo.


That's exactly how I'd describe it.

And unfortunately it's the weakest song on an otherwise perfect album! sad

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