Favorite Moment In A Prince Song

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When Doves Cry - The screams!How can you not love this?And after the screams,the beat just stands out more and I just keep rewinding it.

The bridge in "Take Me With U"..."all I want is to spend the night together"...magic!

Or, the middle breakdown of "Computer Blue". When the Kid's Dad plays it on the piano in Purple Rain when he stumbles upon his Dad in the cellar, its such a heartbreaking piece of music....stunning!

I guess there are many moments when I go back in my mind remembering listening to Prince music.

And listening to songs over and over again.

A line that will always pleasantly haunt me is..."Here we are, in this big ole' empty room." My soul just wanders the Universe there.

"I didn't know I was playing in a cathedral"

The beginning of Let's Work when the bass kicks in. I have to turn it up at least three more notches!

oh goodness wear do I start???

i like the scream in the beginning of "Gett Off"

may u live 2 see the dawn

a yo prince im really happy for you imma let you finish but Michael Jackson had one of the best records of all time!

I have loads of favourite moments, any of the screams/gasps just make me weak at the knees At the moment though I'm loving that last bit at the end of 'Strange Relationship' where it goes 'Can't live with cha, can't live without cha' and then 'I think you and I got a...' it just sounds awesome, I love it. I don't know whether anyone else knows the bit I mean.

DaveT said:

ooh I love the scream at the beginning of Gett Off 2.There r so many,gonna have 2 listen 2 them all again.

Little Red Corvette...the breathy breakdown where you can hear him breathing almost out of breath like right before he sings the "girl you got an ass like Ive never seen"

Both solos in "Let's Go Crazy".

The call for "All the white people clap your hands on the 4 now".

The guitar playing as "Forever In My Life" fades.

The piano playing as "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" fades.

Bar stools creaking during "Sometimes It Snows In April", and the sounds of the fingers on the guitar strings.

"Confess you bitch!" "WHAT?" "You just want me for the sex" in "The Sex of It".

The screams, and the general arrangement of "Willing & Able" on the D&P Video Collection.

When Michael B's earphones fall of during "The Morning Papers", and there's a drop in the drum playing, but he immediately picks it back up on the next down beat. Prince left that "mistake" in, and it works. I think it's at the 3:29 mark, there's a pause there that normally wouldn't be for the drums. It's so natural, you'd never think it was a mistake.

The scream in "Endorphinmachine". The solo in "Gold". Those are more emotional that anything Prince has ever said in words.

"...in my dirty little cage"

ernestsewell said:

JarviusLovesexy said:

ernestsewell said:

The part in I love u in me Chourus sounding "So FREE,Yeah" near the end...That gets me happy every time....And the guitar solo of that song in live versions..makes me teary.

The part in I Hate U where he starts to fantazise about the court room proceedings. Musical brilliance!
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i gotta think about this... so many to choose from..

but right off the bat, gotta go with the guitar solo and then into the screams on When Doves Cry. That is what hooked me on Prince when I was about 12. Fuck yeah that was awesome

The end of She's always in my hair, when he starts to scream and the drum pounds more and more and the guitar plays in Indian style... That woman ! That woman's in my hair ! My hair ! My hair ! (You know what I'm mean...)

There r so many, but from the concert at PP I thought the Take me With U song jibed my heart strings the most,

~4ever~

xlr8r said:

A recent favorite:
Colonized Mind, ...u never had a voice ->

The court session, the whispered "I love U" and the guitar solo in I Hate U, for example.

I think my fave of ALL TIME.....



...is the bridge between "Forever In My Life" and "It" in the sign of the times movie.



a second close is the guitar Solo in "The Jam" on "The Love 4 One Another" TV special...a close second to that is the guitar Solo on "The Jam" in "The beautiful Experience."

"Shut up already, Damn!" always brings a smile to my face

the time's tricky : "somebody bring me a piece of chicken..." cuz i also like chicken and "...maybe not the ride" cuz i'm also a stingy fuck like that

may the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows...

purplepolitician said:

the time's tricky : "somebody bring me a piece of chicken..." cuz i also like chicken and "...maybe not the ride" cuz i'm also a stingy fuck like that

JarviusLovesexy said:

Oh my list is wayyyyy too long. But one song that jumps to mind at the moment: when he beatboxes at the end of Poom Poom. He is really feeling it!

There's a bunch, but often his voice amazes me. Like on "Gotta Broken Heart Again" from "Live From Aladdin" when the saxophone and Prince's voice "plays" together. That's incredible! Prince is one of few musicians that actually gives me moments when I totally "leaves Earth" and becomes one with the music.