he has enough of his own material! most of which he's never performed. and pretty much all of his covers are very lackluster, imo. maybe he's bored with his own work...

just wondering

i wonder where u got that idea from

is he trying to appeal to a new fan base?

i like the covers btw- but as he himself keeps saying, so many songs....
[Edited 5/21/08 3:42am]

I loved the covers of "Creep"
& the Superbowl...
other than that, I don't think I heard
anything else.
Maybe as prb said, as far as appealing to a fan base.

I have to agree with you for the part of why do covers when he's got enough of his own tracks that he's never performed!!!

I have to admit though that with all the Live shows I've seen (30+), I do quite enjoy it when he does the odd cover here or there!


I remember being quite surprised when Emancipation was released because after som many years of releasing his own work, it suddenly contained 4 covers - 1 of which was the lead single release! Strange

I've been wondering this too - the aftershow at the last night in London (21st night) contained LOADS of covers which seemed weird on a night when he could pretty much guarantee an audience full of hardcore fans who would have recognised and loved obscure old album tracks.

It seems weird that he is SO possessive about his own artistic 'ownership' and other people not borrowing his creations... but then he seems quite happy to borrow other people's creations. Yes I know his argument is about fair recognition of copyright and stuff and he lets other artists cover his work, I just find it counter intuitive that he would go to the trouble of getting the permission (I assume) to perform covers when he has so much of his own fantastic material in the archives. I also find it a bit of a clash with his purist/ownership views when he messes about with other people's creations eg. changing the words to Creep. I'm not criticising, I loved his version, I'm just confused that the same person can have seemingly contradictory views... wait, what am I saying, this is a man who can change his mind more often than his underwear!

I guess one other consideration is that he seems to have mixed feelings about some of his back catalogue - he 'cleans up' some of the lyrics in stuff he does perform, and obviously won't play the really dirty ones (very disappointing!). I wonder as well if he has negative associations with some of the work because of the time period in which he wrote it or the circumstances around it. I've read someone else say on here that they can understand why he doesn't want to perform too many things he wrote for his ex-wives when those feelings are gone, and there were also bad feelings around the whole of the Black album for him.

Anyway - I like to hear him do covers, but I'd like even more to hear him do some lesser known album material of his own!

I always thought how great it was that he didn't do many covers. There was a stretch between "For you" and "Chaos and disorder" that he didn't officially release one cover. That's a span of almost twenty years. It wasn't until "Emancipation" that he officially released a cover (3 of them, that I can think of, on that CD).. I have no problems with him doing covers.

Well, his covers ratio on official releases is not very high at all (or successful).

As for the stuff done at live shows, I often feel it is a way of mixing things up. Sometimes they come off sometimes they do not. However, some of Prince's great Live moments have been covers:

Just my Imagination (Small Club)
Guitar Solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Miss You (With Ron Wood)


Plus, as a friend of mine (who is not remotely into Prince) will tell you, he is still picking up his jaw from watching Prince rip through A Whole Lotta Love from the Indigo show last year.
[Edited 5/21/08 5:35am]

wildgoldenhoney said:

check this thread


http://prince.org/msg/7/67698

copied from that thread , posted by Rioub ;




List of other artists songs covered by Prince

I'm trying to do a list of every song by other artists that Prince has referenced during his career. This includes songs he has covered live and in the studio, incuding unreleased. Also songs he has sampled, or recommended in print (such as 10,000 magazine or ONA booklet) or on the net through the news section on his site. Songs included in NPG radio/ahdio shows are also included.

Here's what I have so far, but I'm sure there are songs that are missing from the list, so if anyone knows any please add them below
The songs in bold are the ones he has actually performed live.

A case of u (Joni Mitchell) - covered on One Nite Alone
A day in the life (Beatles) - ONA live booklet
A night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie)
A quiet observer (Andreas Vollenweider) - 3 Chain O' Gold video
A quiet place (Take 6) - 1989 radio show
A song for you (Leon Russell)
Addicted to love (Robert Palmer)
Africa talks to you "The asphalt jungle" (Sly & the Family Stone)
Again (Lenny Kravitz)
Ain't no sunshine (Bill Withers)
Ain't no way (Aretha Franklin)
Ain't that a groove (James Brown)
Ain't too proud to beg (Temptations) - unreleased studio cover
Alabama (John Coltrane)
All blues (Miles Davis) - featured in Beautiful Experience TV show
Also sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)
American woman (Guess Who / Lenny Kravitz) - Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Angie (Rolling Stones)
Another star (Stevie Wonder)
Are you gonna go my way? (Lenny Kravitz)
Atomic dog (George Clinton) - sampled in 'Style'
Babies makin' babies (Sly & the Family Stone)
Baby I love you (Aretha Franklin) - Beautiful Strange video
Baby baby baby (Aretha Franklin)
Betcha by golly wow (Stylistics) - covered on Emancipation
Beverley Hillbillies theme
Billy Jean (Michael Jackson)
Billie's bounce (Charlie Parker)
Birdland (Weather Report) - ONA live booklet
Black cat (Janet Jackson) - 1989 radio show
Black dog (Led Zeppelin) - ONA live booklet
Blue motel room (Joni Mitchell)
Body heat (James Brown)
Boogie oogie oogie (A Taste Of Honey)
Bootzilla (Bootsy Collins)
Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen) - sampled in unreleased Carmen Electra track
Break you off (Roots) - NPGMC news
Breathe and stop (Q-Tip)
Brick house (Commodores) - covered on Mayte's album
Brown sugar (D'Angelo)
Burning down the house (Talking Heads) - 1989 radio show
Bustin' loose (Chuck Brown)
Calling to say goodbye (Rhonda Smith) - NPGMC Ahdio
Can you say love? (Derrick Hughes) - NPGMC Ahdio
Car wash (Rose Royce) - live NPG Online Real Audio file
Chain of fools (Aretha Franklin)
Chameleon (Herbie Hancock)
Cico buff (Cocteau Twins) - 1989 radio show
Cissy strut (Meters)
Cleva (Erykah Badu) - NPGMC Ahdio (live version)
Cold sweat (James Brown)
Cookie jar (Fuzzy Haskins) - unreleased studio cover
Crazay (Jesse Johnson) - sampled in 'Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake)'
Crazy fingers (Jacob Armen) - NPGMC Ahdio
Crossroads (Tracy Chapman) - 1989 radio show
Dance to the music (Sly & the Family Stone)
Day tripper (Beatles) - unreleased studio version w/ Margie Cox
Deep (N'Dambi) - NPMGC Ahdio
Didn't cha know (Erykah Badu)
Do right woman - do right man (Aretha Franklin) - ONA live booklet
Do that stuff (Parliament) - ONA live booklet
Do yourself a favor (Jesse Johnson) - unreleased studio version
Doin' it to death (JB's)
Don't be cruel (Bobby Brown) - 1989 radio show
Don't call me nigger, whitey (Sly & the Family Stone)
Down home blues (ZZ Hill)
Down to the moon (Andreas Vollenweider) - 1989 radio show
Dr Feelgood (Aretha Franklin) - on Diamonds And Pearls video collection
Dr Funkenstein (Parliament)
Earthquake (Graham Central Station) - covered as 'I'magettin'' on GCS2000
Everyday is a winding road (Sheryl Crow) - covered on Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Everyday people (Sly & the Family Stone) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Fallin' (Alicia Keys)
Family affair (Sly & the Family Stone) - sampled on 'The Voice' by Mavis Staples
Fancy dancer (Commodores)
Fencewalk (Mandrill) - ONA live booklet
Fight the power (Public Enemy)
Fire (Jimi Hendrix) - unreleased studio version w/ Margie Cox
Flamenco sketches (Miles Davis) - 1989 radio show
Flash light (Parliament) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Flirt (Cameo) - ONA live booklet
Fly away (Lenny Kravitz) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Fonky like a (Fonky Bald Heads) - NPGMC Ahdio
For Lilly (Joe Zawinul & Nat Adderley) - ONA live booklet
Freak like me (Adina Howard)
Freddie freeloader (Miles Davis)
Free world (Jesse Johnson) - part of 'A Love Bizarre' live version on NPGMC Ahdio
Funky (Chambers Brothers) - snippet also in 1989 radio show
Funky drummer (James Brown) - sampled on Carmen Electra track
Georgia on my mind (Hoagy Carmichael / Ray Charles)
Get off your ass and jam (Funkadelic)
Get on the good foot (James Brown) - sampled on unreleased George Clinton track
Get on up (Esquires) - used in Carmen Electra's 'Everybody Get On Up'
Get satisfied (George Clinton) - referenced in 'The Exodus Has Begun'
Get up (I feel like being a ) Sex machine (James Brown)
Get up, stand up (Wailers) - referenced in 'Goldnigga' by the NPG
Ghetto heaven (Family Stand)
Gimme some more (JB's)
Give up the funk (Tear the roof off the sucker) (Parliament) - snippet in Prince: A Musical Portrait video
God made me funky (Headhunters) - sampled in 'The Sacrifice Of Victor' & '2 Whom It May Concern'
Got to give it up (Marvin Gaye) - unreleased studio version by Madhouse
Gothic metal (Jacob Armen) - NPGMC Ahdio
Hair (Graham Central Station) - covered on Chaka Khan's Come 2 My House
Hair (Stanley Clarke) - featured in Reflection room
Happy Birthday
Hard work (????) - Oberhausen soundcheck 2002
Hear my train a coming (Jimi Hendrix)
Heart in my hand (Steeles) - on The Sacrifice Of Victor video
Heaven must be like this (Ohio Players)
Help me (Joni Mitchell) - referenced in 'The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker'
Hero takes a fall (Bangles)
Hey Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley)
Higher ground (Stevie Wonder)
Higher than high (Tony LeMans) - NPGMC Ahdio
Hold on (En Vogue) - sampled in 'Gett Off'
Honky tonk women (Rolling Stones) - on The Undertaker video
Hot pants (James Brown)
How much is that doggie in the window?
I believe in you (Graham Central Station)
I can't get next to you (Temptations)
I can't make you love me (Bonnie Raitt) - covered on Emancipation
I can't stand myself (When you touch me) (James Brown) - 1989 radio show
I don't want nobody to give me nothing (James Brown)
I feel alright (James Brown)
I got my mind made up (Instant Funk)
I got the feelin' (James Brown)
I know you got soul (Bobby Byrd / Eric B & Rakim)
I love you baby (????) - Oberhausen 2002 soundcheck
I try (Macy Gray)
I want to take you higher (Sly & the Family Stone)
I want you (Marvin Gaye) - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music
I want your sex (George Michael)
I wish (Stevie Wonder)
I'll take you there (Staple Singers)
I'm in the mood (John Lee Hooker)
ITP (Rhonda Smith) - NPGMC Ahdio
If anybody gets funked up (It's gonna be you) (George Clinton)
If only you knew (Patti LaBelle)
If you let me stay (Terence Trent D'Arby)
If you want me to stay (Sly & the Family Stone) - one One Nite Alone Live box set
Imagine that (Ani DiFranco) - NPGMC Ahdio
In the mood (Glenn Miller) - on The Sacrifice Of Victor video
In time (Sly & the Family Stone)
Intermission (Hornheads) - on The Sacrifice Of Victor video
It ain't no fun to me (Al Green / Graham Central Station)
It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) (Duke Ellington)
It takes more (Ms Dynamite) - NPGMC news
It takes two (Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock)
It's alright (Graham Central Station) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
It's getting funky (The DOC) - 1989 radio show
(It's no secret) What God can do
Jailhouse rock (Elvis Presley) - on The Sacrifice Of Victor video
James Bond theme
Jazz it up (Jazz mix) (CFM Band) - sampled in 'Arrogance'
Jean Pierre (Miles Davis)
Jimi was a rock star (Common) - NPGMC news
Jin-go-lo-ba (Santana)
Joy and pain (Maze)
Jungle boogie (Kool & the Gang)
Jungle jazz (Jacob Armen) - NPGMC Ahdio
Jungle strut (Santana)
Just be my lady (Larry Graham) - covered on GCS2000
Just friends (Sunny) (Musiq Soulchild) - on One Nite Alone Live box set
Just my imagination (Temptations)
KC Lovin' (Little Willie Littlefield)
Kain't turn back (Mavis Staples) - sampled on Mayte track
Keep on movin' (Soul II Soul) - 1989 radio show
Killer Joe (Quincy Jones) - ONA live booklet
Knock on wood (Eddie Floyd) - ONA live booklet
La di da di (Doug E Fresh) - on Beautiful Strange video
La la means I love you (Delfonics) - covered on Emancipation
Ladies night (Kool & the Gang)
Land of 1000 dances (Wilson Pickett) - sampled on a Carmen Electra track
Let her down easy (Terence Trent D'Arby) - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music
(Let me be your) Teddy bear (Elvis Presley)
Let's get it on (Marvin Gaye)
Let's stay together (Al Green)
Let's take it to the stage (Funkadelic)
Licking stick (James Brown)
Like a prayer (Madonna) - unreleased studio version
Like a rolling stone (Bob Dylan / Jimi Hendrix) - ONA live booklet
Lines (Eric Leeds)
Little groove maker me (James Brown)
Little miss lover (Jimi Hendrix) - sampled on 'Tick Tick Bang'
Little wing (Jimi Hendrix)
Lively up yourself (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
Living for the city (Stevie Wonder)
Lonely teardrops (Jackie Wilson)
Love and anger (Kate Bush) - 1989 radio show
Love and happiness (Al Green)
Love is here to stay (George Gershwin)
Love on top of love (Grace Jones) - 1989 radio show
Love rollercoaster (Ohio Players) - on Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas video
Love supreme (John Coltrane)
Loving you (Minnie Riperton)[/b]
Lullaby (George Gershwin) - ONA live booklet
Lyin' ass bitch (Fishbone) - sampled in 'Billy Jack Bitch'
M'lady (Sly & the Family Stone)
Machine gun (Jimi Hendrix) - used as basis for 'Habibi'
Make it funky (James Brown) - sampled on Carmen Electra track
Make sure you're sure (Stevie Wonder) - ONA live booklet
Martial law (George Clinton)
Mary don't you weep
Material girl (Madonna)
Maybe your baby (Stevie Wonder)
Maybellene (Chuck Berry)
Mighty mighty (Earth, Wind & Fire) - ONA live booklet
Miss you (Rolling Stones)
Mix-master suite (George Clinton)
Moon dance (Andreas Vollenweider) - 1989 radio show
Mother Earth (Rhonda Smith) - NPGMC Ahdio
Mother popcorn (James Brown) - referenced in 'Gett Off'
Mothership connection (Star child) (Parliament)
Movin' (Brass Construction)
Music is the key (JM Silk) - referenced in 'Cindy C'
Music lover (Sly & the Family Stone)
My favorite things (Richard Rogers
New dell inn (Hornheads) - 'referenced in 'Billy Jack Bitch'
New sensation (INXS) - 1989 radio show
Niggaz 4 life (NWA) - sampled in 'Arrogance'
No dia em que eu vim me embora (Caetano Veloso) - ONA live booklet
No diggity (Blackstreet)
No hook (Shaquille O'Neal) - sampled in 'The Good Life (Big City Mix)'
No more rain (In this cloud) (Angie Stone)
No woman, no cry (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
None of your business (Salt N Pepa)
(Not just) Knee deep (Funkadelic)
Now's the time (Charlie Parker) - on Sign 'O' The Times video
OK (Ani DiFranco) - NPGMC Ahdio
Ole smokey (Graham Central Station)
On broadway (Drifters / George Benson)
Once in a lifetime (Talking Heads)
One in a million you (Graham Central Station)
One nation under a groove (Funkadelic)
One of us (Joan Osbourne) - covered on Emancipation
Ooh (Mary J Blige)
Ooh baby baby (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
Oops upside your head (Gap Band) - ONA live booklet
Our house (Madness)
Outa space (Billy Preston)
Outside help (BB King)
Oye como va (Tito Puente)
Paint the White House black (George clinton)
Pass the peas (JB's) - on Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas video
Passin' your name (Fonky Bald Heads)
Penitentary Philosophy (Erykah Badu)
People get ready (Impressions)
Peter Gunn theme (Henry Mancini)
Pick up the pieces (Average White Band)
Pink Panther theme (Henry Mancini)
Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Psychoticbumpschool (Bootsy Collins)
Push & pull (Nikka Costa) on Live At THe Aladdin Las Vegas video
Que sera sera (Doris Day / Sly & the Family Stone)
Real thing (Tony LeMans) - NPGMC Ahdio
Red baron (Billy Cobham) - ONA live booklet
Red clay (Freddie Hubbard) - ONA live booklet
Red hot mama (Parliament)
Red house (Jimi Hendrix) on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Redemption song (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
Release yourself (Graham Central Station) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Rescue me (Fontella Bass)
Respect (Otis Redding / Aretha Franklin)
River Kwai march
Rock me baby (BB King)
Rock steady (Aretha Franklin) - sampled on 'Daddy Pop'
Rock the boat (Aaliyah) - NPGMC news
Rock wit'cha (Bobby Brown) - 1989 radio show
Round midnight (Miles Davis) - ONA live booklet
Safe in the arms of love (Martika) - lyrics used in 'Open Book'
Salsa & peppers (Jacob Armen) - NPGMC Ahdio
Say it loud - I'm black and I'm proud (James Brown) - sampled on Carmen Electra track
Se eu quiser falar com Deus (Gilberto Gil) - ONA live booklet
Send one your love (Stevie Wonder) - ONA live booklet
Sex in my bones (Fonky Bald Heads) - NPGMC track
Sex machine (Sly & the Family Stone)
Shake everything you've got (Maceo Parker)
Shoop (Salt N Pepa)
Shout (Isley Brothers)
Sing a simple song (Sly & the Family Stone)
Singers (Eddie Murphy) - sampled on Carmen Electra track
Skin tight (Ohio Players) - covered as 'ST' on the Carmen Electra CD
Smoke on the water (Deep Purple)
Soldier in the army of the Lord
Someday we'll all be free (Donny Hathaway)
Something (Beatles) - ONA live booklet
(Sometimes I feel like a) Motherless child
Somewhere over the rainbow
Soul man (Sam & Dave) - part of the 'Days Of Wild' CD single
Soul sacrifice (Santana)
Soul salsa (Sheila E)
Spanish colored romance (Cindy Blackman) - NPGMC Ahdio
Squib cakes (Tower Of Power) - sampled on 'Release It' and 'Sleep Around'
Stand! (Sly & the Family Stone)
Star Spangled Banner
Start me up (Rolling Stones)
State of the world (Janet Jackson) - 1989 radio show
Stroke (Mazarati)
Stronger than pride (Sade) - 1989 radio show
Summertime (George Gershwin) - intro the the live NPGMC video of 'I could never take the place of your man'
Sunshine of your love (Cream)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
Sweet thing (Rufus) - on Beautiful Strange video
Take five (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
Take the 'A' train (Duke Ellington) - snippet on the Sign 'O' The TImes video
Talkin' loud and sayin' nothing (James Brown) - on the Beautiful Strange video
Tell me something good (Rufus)
Tell me what it is (Graham Central Station)
Tender surrender (Steve Vai)????
Thank you (Falletinme be mice elf agin) (Sly & the Family Stone)
Thank you for talkin' to me Africa (Sly & the Family Stone)
That's the way of the world (Earth, Wind & Fire) - ONA live booklet
The calling (Santana)
The gambler (Kenny Rogers)
The ghetto (Donny Hathaway)
The girl can't help it (Little Richard)
The Humpty dance (Digital Underground)
The jam (Graham Central Station) - on THe Beautiful Experience TV show
The light (Common)
The oak tree (Morris Day) - mentioned during 'A Love Bizarre' on the Live Romance 1600 video
The payback (James Brown)
The thrill is gone (Roy Hawkins)
The truth (India Arie) - NPGMC video
The way you do the things you do (Temptations)
The way you make me feel (Michael Jackson)
Them changes (Buddy Miles)
There was a time (James Brown)
Things ain't what they used to be (Duke Ellington) - part of 'Blues in c (If I had a harem)' on Lovesexy Live video
Think (About it) (Lyn Collins) - sampled on a Caremen Electra track
Tighten up (Archie Bell & the Drells)
To the teeth (Ani DiFranco) - NPGMC Ahdio
Tom's diner (Suzanne Vega)
Tramp (Lowell Fulsom) - sampled in '7'
Turn the beat around (Gloria Estefan)
Twisted (Annie Ross)
Tyrone (Erykah Badu)
Underneath your clothes (Shakira)
Up for the down stroke (Parliament)
Uptown up (Maceo Parker)
Use me (Bill Withers????)
Villanova junction (Jimi Hendrix)
Voodoo chile (Slight return) (Jimi Hendrix) - snippet inluded in 1989 radio show
Wade in the water
Waiting in vain (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
Walking the dog (Rufus Thomas)
Water (Graham Central Station)
We've been waiting (Graham Central Station) - covered on GCS2000
What can I do? (Ice Cube) - sampled in 'The Good Life (Big City Mix)' and 'Mr Happy'
What have you done for me lately? (Janet Jackson)
What is hip? (Tower Of Power)
What'd I say? (Ray Charles)
What's going on (Marvin Gaye) - ONA live booklet
When the saints go marching in
When will we be paid (For the work we did)? (Staple Singers) - covered as 'When will we b paid' in 2000
Who knows? (Jimi Hendrix)
Whole lotta love (Led Zeppelin) - on Live At THe Aladdin Las Vegas video
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on (Roy Hall) - part of 'Courtin' Time' rehearsal on NPGMC Ahdio
Wishing well (Terence Trent D'Arby)
Woman's gotta have it (Bobby Womack) - covered by Nona Gaye
Yankie Doodle - on the 1985 Live video
You and I (Rick James)
You can make it if you try (Sly & the Family Stone)
You dropped a bomb on me (Gap Band)
You got me (Roots)
You got the love (Rufus)
You're still the one (Shania Twain) - NPG Online Real Audio file in 2000
You're welcome, stop on by (Bobby Womack)
You've got a friend (Carole KIng / James Taylor)
Young, gifted and black (Aretha Franklin) - ONA live booklet

Entire albums
Andreas Vollenweider - everything except the album with Lion in the title - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music (1994)
Cocteau Twins - Four Calendar Cafe - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music
Donny - The Colored Section - NPGMC news
Erykah Badu - Worldwide Underground - NPGMC news
Kim Burrell - Everlasting Life - NPG Online news
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music
Raphael Saddiq - All Hits At The House Of Blues - Ad on NPGMC
Sade - everything - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music (1994)
Stanley Clarke - 1, 2, To The Bass - U Tell Us forum
[Edited 5/21/08 7:11am]

LondonSusan said:

two words: Jehova's Witness

Thank you, Larry.....

A cfew more for Dewrede:

Nine Million Bicycles - Katie Melua
Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
The Way You Move - Outkast



Tender Surrender - Steve Vai - I know there is a boot going around with a track labelled as that and that Vai himself acknowledges in some interview. I personally think Prince was doing Villanova Junction but...
[Edited 5/21/08 7:11am]

cheers

Because he's Prince mofo's he can cover whoever's stuff he wants But don't think about covering his unless you are Alicia
[Edited 5/21/08 8:05am]

nurseV said:

Spoilt Brat Syndrome!!!

mentalist said:

you know you'd let him do your song if you had one

nurseV said:

Yeah!!!! And I'd stick around, so he could show me how it's done!!!!



Trying to cover his songs though is impossible! It's bad enough trying them on Karaoke!


Our pub near work that has Karaoke on Fridays, has got a new company doing it and their Prince selection is like 10 times better than the last lot, they even have album tracks.


I put my name down for Pussy control and Sexy MF a couple of weeks ago, but had to leave before my name got called. Soooo have to go back to do these!!!

mentalist said:

Pussy control and Sexy MF so not Karaoke songs

nurseV said:

In East London - Anything goes!!!!



They've got 'The beautiful ones' too! I would love to get up there and just scream the place down!!!


Although, if it's anything like my rendition of Tambourine - My housework/hoovering song to sing - I'll probably end up being sectioned!!!!

Either that, or end up with a huge bill for all the shattered glasses and windows!!!!

He even did (well Shelby J sang) 'Can't get you out of my head' by Kylie on 6th September aftershow!! It was just a bit of fun

Personally, for someone with a career of 30 years, i think Prince hasn't really done THAT much covers.

Okay, live (especially during aftershows) he plays quite a lot of covers, but dont forget he performs live far more often then the 'general big names'.

On record he certainly is no Rod Stewart or Paul Anka.

Personally, for someone with a career of 30 years, i think Prince hasn't really done THAT much covers.

Okay, live (especially during aftershows) he plays quite a lot of covers, but dont forget he performs live far more often then the 'general big names'.

On record he certainly is no Rod Stewart or Paul Anka.

Jeffiner said:

Oh yes that should be added and also Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song)

Dewrede,

Some other ones that arent on your list (all live covers):

Rock Lobster (B'52's)
Rollercoaster of love (?)
Come Together (Beatles)
The Long and winding road (The Beatles)

Dewrede said:

That was brilliant!

Riverpoet31 said:

cheers , yes i know

that list isn't mine though

and yes it's outdated (5 years old)

Jeffiner said:

wouldn't call it brilliant personally but it was quite ok indeed

Why not? covers are probably like a quarter (or less) of what he actually writes and plus people cover him all the time

Jeffiner said:

I hate that song with a passion, even when he performed it at the 3121 Cuisine in Vegas!

why can't he do at least one ACDC cover?

superfreak said:

no way- leave acca dacca alone!!!!!

but if he did, which song would u suggest

long way to the top maybe