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Odes To Prince Besides "Down With Prince"by Hot Chip and Felix Da Housecat's "We All Wanna Be Prince", are there any other songs that pay homage to our beloved? If it breaks when it bends, U better not put it in! | |
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Untitled(How Does It Feel...) by D'Angelo When  go 2 a Prince concert or related event it's all  up in the house but when log onto this site and the miasma of bitchiness is completely overwhelming! | |
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We want Prince-Sexual Harassment from about 1985. Making love and music are the only things worth fighting for. | |
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djdaffy1227 said: We want Prince-Sexual Harassment from about 1985.
The same group that did "I Need A Freak"? If it breaks when it bends, U better not put it in! | |
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Dire Straits' Money For Nothing. Allegedly If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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squirrelgrease said: Dire Straits' Money For Nothing. Allegedly
That was not about Prince at all. The story posted on Wikipedia is the story I've heard since it came out. I'll cut and paste it here. The observations of the character included references to a musician "banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee" and a description of a singer as "that little faggot with the earring and the makeup", and lamenting that the artists got "money for nothing and chicks for free". These lyrics were widely criticized as sexist, racist and homophobic statements, and in some later releases of the song the lyrics were edited for airplay; "faggot" for example is often replaced with "mother": "little mother, he's a millionaire".
When the song is included in rotation as part of a music feed played in stores, or restaurants "faggot" is usually turned backwards. The entire second verse was edited out for content and length for radio and video airplay, and on the 7" single. This edited version is included in the compilation album Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits. In a late 1985 interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Knopfler expressed mixed feelings on the controversy: I got an objection from the editor of a gay newspaper in London - he actually said it was below the belt. Apart from the fact that there are stupid gay people as well as stupid other people, it suggests that maybe you can't let it have so many meanings - you have to be direct. In fact, I'm still in two minds as to whether it's a good idea to write songs that aren't in the first person, to take on other characters.
Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, in an interview with Blender Magazine, claimed that the song is actually about his band's excessive lifestyle, and that he heard the clerks in the store were commenting on Mötley Crüe videos shown on the in-store television sets. | |
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ernestsewell said: squirrelgrease said: Dire Straits' Money For Nothing. Allegedly
That was not about Prince at all. The story posted on Wikipedia is the story I've heard since it came out. I'll cut and paste it here. Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, in an interview with Blender Magazine, claimed that the song is actually about his band's excessive lifestyle, and that he heard the clerks in the store were commenting on Mötley Crüe videos shown on the in-store television sets. The Crüe wishes it was about them.  If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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Dutch rapper Brainpower surely respects Prince.
In one song "Met Jou" (With You) he refers in one line "...Was ik prince begin eighties dan schreef ik when doves cry met jou" (If I was Prince in the early eighties,then I wrote When Doves Cry with you). http://www.youtube.com/wa...Qo5skBdLiE Another song refers to Prince and Apolonia and in his last double CD booklet it shows a miniature of a Symbol guitar in his studio:  [Edited 8/17/09 1:02am] | |
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HonestMan13 said: Untitled(How Does It Feel...) by D'Angelo
In what way? "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion" -- Martha Graham | |
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XNY said: HonestMan13 said: Untitled(How Does It Feel...) by D'Angelo
In what way? D'Angelo stated that the track was an homage to Prince and his vocal style. When go 2 a Prince concert or related event it's all up in the house but when log onto this site and the miasma of bitchiness is completely overwhelming! | |
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HonestMan13 said: XNY said: In what way? D'Angelo stated that the track was an homage to Prince and his vocal style. "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion" -- Martha Graham | |
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