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Thread started 03/19/09 5:42am

jstarr99

March Madness: The Elite 8

First, the Sweet 16 results:

Mountains 5-4 over Purple Rain
7 5-4 over Computer Blue
Little Red Corvette 7-2 over Anotherloverholenyohead
Forever In My Life 6-3 over If I Was Your Girlfriend
She's Always In My Hair 7-2 over Head (maybe it's just me, but those titles just go together somehow razz )
Automatic 5-4 over Girls and Boys
The Beautiful Ones 8-1 over Let's Work
When Doves Cry 5-4 over Anna Stesia

Four 5-4 games, very nice round.

Album-by-album:
For You 0-2
Prince 1-2
Dirty Mind 5-4
Controversy 4-4
1999 7-1
Purple Rain 10-2
Around the World in a Day 2-3
Parade 7-2
Sign o' the Times 6-2
The Black Album 0-3
Lovesexy 3-2
Batman 0-2
Graffiti Bridge 1-3
Diamonds and Pearls 0-3
O-+-> 4-1
The Hits/The B-Sides 3-1
Come 1-3
The Gold Experience 0-1
Chaos and Disorder 0-1
Emancipation DNQ
Crystal Ball DNQ
The Truth DNQ
New Power Soul 0-3
The Vault 0-1
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic 0-1
The Rainbow Children 0-2
Musicology 1-1
3121 2-4
Planet Earth 0-3

Purple Rain and Parade finally absorbed their first losses, but both are still strongly represented.

Now, the Elite 8 pairings:

Mountains
v.
7

Little Red Corvette
v.
Forever In My Life

She's Always In My Hair
v.
Automatic

The Beautiful Ones
v.
When Doves Cry

Two left from Purple Rain, two from 1999. We're guaranteed one gone for the Final Four, but will the early '80s continue their dominance? Only you lot know for sure. VOTE!!

Help choose the 64 most influential Prince jams ever...then determine which is the baddest!

Down to the Final: Little Red Corvette v. She's Always In My Hair!

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Reply #1 posted 03/19/09 5:52am

MetalMonkey

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i think i'm voting for the ones i would like to keep (keep)


Mountains
v.
7

Little Red Corvette
v.
Forever In My Life

She's Always In My Hair
v.
Automatic

The Beautiful Ones
v.
When Doves Cry

Give what U can, all U can stand, and all of your life will be made!

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Reply #2 posted 03/19/09 5:52am

starkitty

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THIS IS HARD!


Mountains
v.

Mountains

7

Little Red Corvette
v.
Little Red Corvette*

Forever In My Life

She's Always In My Hair
v.
She's Always in My Hair

Automatic

The Beautiful Ones
v.
The Beautiful Ones (always, everytime)

When Doves Cry


*This one was exceptionally hard, because I liked each for different times in my life. But, for sheer classic sake and ground-breakingness, I have to go with LRC.

I told you I was trouble
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Reply #3 posted 03/19/09 7:05am

Dave1992

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You decided half of the last round yourself by braking all those ties, which made us lose Purple Rain and Girls And Boys mad

lol


Anyway:

Mountains


Forever In My Life


She's Always In My Hair


The Beautiful Ones
[Edited 3/19/09 7:06am]
[Edited 3/19/09 7:06am]

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Reply #4 posted 03/19/09 8:12am

bluefish

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Mountains
Little Red Corvette
She's Always In My Hair
When Doves Cry

I pity da foo' who don't read my blog!
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Reply #5 posted 03/19/09 8:22am

december

Mountains

Little Red Corvette

She's Always In My Hair

The Beautiful Ones

(Little Richard enters the stage)
Homer: Purple Rain!!
Little Richard: Shut up!
Homer (to Marge): Oh my God, Michael Jackson just told me to shut up!
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Reply #6 posted 03/19/09 9:49am

LOAP

bluefish said:

Mountains
Little Red Corvette
She's Always In My Hair
When Doves Cry


Co-sign.

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Reply #7 posted 03/19/09 9:52am

jstarr99

Dave1992 said:

You decided half of the last round yourself by braking all those ties, which made us lose Purple Rain and Girls And Boys mad

lol


Anyway:

Mountains


Forever In My Life


She's Always In My Hair


The Beautiful Ones
[Edited 3/19/09 7:06am]
[Edited 3/19/09 7:06am]

Purple Rain's match wasn't tied, though. 7 and Automatic were the ones I put through. razz

Help choose the 64 most influential Prince jams ever...then determine which is the baddest!

Down to the Final: Little Red Corvette v. She's Always In My Hair!

http://prince.org/msg/7/302119
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Reply #8 posted 03/19/09 10:00am

jody3

seven, little red corvette, shes always in my hair. purple rain
[Edited 3/19/09 10:01am]

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Reply #9 posted 03/19/09 2:01pm

Moonbeam

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Final 4, here we come!

Mountains
Forever in My Life
Automatic
The Beautiful Ones

"I'm a lover, not a haitcher"- Pandurito

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Reply #10 posted 03/19/09 2:56pm

floralelephant
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Mountains
Forever In My Life
She's Always In My Hair
When Doves Cry

--back from the quake--
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Reply #11 posted 03/19/09 5:09pm

Huggiebear

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Mountains
Little Red Corvette
Automatic
The Beautiful Ones

All my life, Marge I have been a obese man trapped in a fat mans body, Famous Homerism
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Reply #12 posted 03/19/09 5:10pm

imrickjamesbit
ch

Mountains

Forever In My Life

She's Always In My Hair

The Beautiful Ones

I got bacon skin, bacon skin on my plate
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Reply #13 posted 03/19/09 10:40pm

SUPRMAN

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Now, the Elite 8 pairings:


Mountains
v.
7

Little Red Corvette
v.
Forever In My Life

She's Always In My Hair
v.
Automatic

The Beautiful Ones
v.
When Doves Cry

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Reply #14 posted 03/20/09 3:42am

Stubris

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Mountains

Forever in my life

A-u-t-omatic!

The Beautiful ones

Hellolita 2007
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Reply #15 posted 03/20/09 7:29am

IfIaintFunky

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Mountains
v.
7

Little Red Corvette
v.
Forever In My Life

She's Always In My Hair
v.
Automatic

The Beautiful Ones
v.
When Doves Cry

Quiet as it's kept
There's several things 2 fear in this habitat
Let me guess, let me guess
U like it like that, U like it like that
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Reply #16 posted 03/20/09 8:34am

asideorderofha
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7
Little Red Corvette
She's Always In My Hair
The Beautiful Ones

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Reply #17 posted 03/20/09 8:39am

Alexandernvrmi
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Mountains

Little Red Corv

She's Always In My Hair

When Doves Cry

any one of those other songs could have made it... c'mon Beautiful Ones and Automatic!

Dance... Let me see you dance
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Reply #18 posted 03/22/09 4:50am

jstarr99

jody3 said:

seven, little red corvette, shes always in my hair. purple rain
[Edited 3/19/09 10:01am]

Just to let you know, jody, your vote got tossed out because Purple Rain isn't still in this. Final 4 is set, results coming shortly.

Help choose the 64 most influential Prince jams ever...then determine which is the baddest!

Down to the Final: Little Red Corvette v. She's Always In My Hair!

http://prince.org/msg/7/302119
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