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lyrically, it's one of my favorites.
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One of my favorite Prince songs...
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" and the girls sing"... what a good song!!! BOB4theFUNK | |
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Wonderful song and it fits perfectly at the end of UTCM | |
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thedance said: 
Credits: made by Kazuo Takeda  The last little hand spray is really the funniest. The dance in itself probably won't be as popular as the "Electric Slide," but I like to watch the cartoons do it. Last Night, I spent another lonely Christmas...Darlin' Darlin' U shoulda been there.~Prince. | |
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I do indeed love "Mountains" and I believe it is one of his best songs.I love the extended version playing over the film credits (same as the video for the individual song I believe)...is this version the same as the 12"? I love the tamboura sound-probably a sample of some sort by Lisa.It is used really tastefully and atmospherically.I have always loved when the horns quote the riff from the Blood,Sweat and Tears classic "Spinning Wheel" in the middle of the tune. He seemed to enjoy doing little quotes like this around the Parade/Under The Cherry Moon period. He hilariously quotes Brenda Lee's "Sweet Nothings" in "Kiss"-super cool and you have to really KNOW music to get things like this:)
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Riverpoet31 said: The album version of the song is good, but the 10 minute version on the 12-inch is simply great.
Not thoroughly original (he must have listened to Sly Stones I want to take you higher a lot), but nonetheless colourfull, funky and building up to a great climax. Agree, like most of the album edits(teases) the extended version explodes. The ending rhythm of the edit just got me upset, until I got the single/extended. This is one of the songs when I got the lp that I hoped was released as a Bside:extended. This song just feels so good, and hearing the accustic live version recently made me meloncholy. Once upon a time in a land called Fantasy 17 mountains stood so high The sea surrounded them and 2gether they would be The only thing that ever made U cry U said the devil told U that another mountain would appear Every time somebody broke your heart He said the sea would one day overflow with all your tears And love will always leave U lonely CHORUS: But I say it's only mountains and the sea Love will conquer if U just believe (Oh yeah!) It's only mountains and the sea There's nothing greater (oh), U and me Once upon a time in a haystack of despair Happiness is sometime hard 2 find there Africa divided, hijack in the air It's enough 2 make U wanna lose your mind CHORUS Guitars and drums on the 1, huh (Bobby on the drum-ah) Yeah! It's only mountains (oh yeah) and the sea (And the girls say) There's nothing greater (oh), U and me (Starvation) Ow! Mountains , uh © 1986 Controversy Music - ASCAP track :Mountains rel 5.7.1986 Wendy & Lisa developed an instrumental piece that would become Mountains Mountains" written by Prince, Wendy, Lisa Miko Weaver - rhythm guitar on "Mountains" The B-side was the instrumental "Alexa de Paris", May U Live 2 See the Dawn 0+> [Edited 11/4/09 9:24am] Now where I come from
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Another Mountains appreciation thread and I'm game. Love the outfit for this song. No wonder he's been playing it recently, it seems to be a crowd favourite. I wonder where Mountains features in the movie Parade, which I never saw. Cute cartoon too. Is that Prince doing the moonwalk? "You're just another part of me" MJ | |
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OldFriends4Sale said: Riverpoet31 said: The album version of the song is good, but the 10 minute version on the 12-inch is simply great.
Not thoroughly original (he must have listened to Sly Stones I want to take you higher a lot), but nonetheless colourfull, funky and building up to a great climax. Agree, like most of the album edits(teases) the extended version explodes. The ending rhythm of the edit just got me upset, until I got the single/extended. This is one of the songs when I got the lp that I hoped was released as a Bside:extended. This song just feels so good, and hearing the accustic live version recently made me meloncholy. Once upon a time in a land called Fantasy 17 mountains stood so high The sea surrounded them and 2gether they would be The only thing that ever made U cry U said the devil told U that another mountain would appear Every time somebody broke your heart He said the sea would one day overflow with all your tears And love will always leave U lonely CHORUS: But I say it's only mountains and the sea Love will conquer if U just believe (Oh yeah!) It's only mountains and the sea There's nothing greater (oh), U and me Once upon a time in a haystack of despair Happiness is sometime hard 2 find there Africa divided, hijack in the air It's enough 2 make U wanna lose your mind CHORUS Guitars and drums on the 1, huh (Bobby on the drum-ah) Yeah! It's only mountains (oh yeah) and the sea (And the girls say) There's nothing greater (oh), U and me (Starvation) Ow! Mountains , uh © 1986 Controversy Music - ASCAP track :Mountains rel 5.7.1986 Wendy & Lisa developed an instrumental piece that would become Mountains Mountains" written by Prince, Wendy, Lisa Miko Weaver - rhythm guitar on "Mountains" The B-side was the instrumental "Alexa de Paris", May U Live 2 See the Dawn 0+> [Edited 11/4/09 9:24am] waitaminute...this song has a video? The Plan is still in effect
http://prince.org/msg/100/289698 How Prince’s letter, in which Prince blames himself for the beating he received, will affect the case is a matter of speculation, as is why Prince assigned blame to himself. | |
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^ of course Mountains has a video in colours,
Hello... I'm Come funkateer 'Danceelectric'
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thedance said: ^ of course Mountains has a video in colours,
the end of the Under the Cherry Moon film has this video also, but in black & white, during the end credits... Time to hit up Google! Cuz I KNOW that shit ain't on youtube The Plan is still in effect
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Who wrote it again? You could be a part-time model, but you'd probably have to keep your normal job | |
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OldFriends4Sale said: Riverpoet31 said: The album version of the song is good, but the 10 minute version on the 12-inch is simply great.
Not thoroughly original (he must have listened to Sly Stones I want to take you higher a lot), but nonetheless colourfull, funky and building up to a great climax. Agree, like most of the album edits(teases) the extended version explodes. The ending rhythm of the edit just got me upset, until I got the single/extended. This is one of the songs when I got the lp that I hoped was released as a Bside:extended. This song just feels so good, and hearing the accustic live version recently made me meloncholy. Once upon a time in a land called Fantasy 17 mountains stood so high The sea surrounded them and 2gether they would be The only thing that ever made U cry U said the devil told U that another mountain would appear Every time somebody broke your heart He said the sea would one day overflow with all your tears And love will always leave U lonely CHORUS: But I say it's only mountains and the sea Love will conquer if U just believe (Oh yeah!) It's only mountains and the sea There's nothing greater (oh), U and me Once upon a time in a haystack of despair Happiness is sometime hard 2 find there Africa divided, hijack in the air It's enough 2 make U wanna lose your mind CHORUS Guitars and drums on the 1, huh (Bobby on the drum-ah) Yeah! It's only mountains (oh yeah) and the sea (And the girls say) There's nothing greater (oh), U and me (Starvation) Ow! Mountains , uh © 1986 Controversy Music - ASCAP track :Mountains rel 5.7.1986 Wendy & Lisa developed an instrumental piece that would become Mountains Mountains" written by Prince, Wendy, Lisa Miko Weaver - rhythm guitar on "Mountains" The B-side was the instrumental "Alexa de Paris", May U Live 2 See the Dawn 0+> I was caught off guard when  Prince started playing Mountains. I've never heard him play it live, the only version of Mountains I'd heard was on Parade.
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I love the album version best!
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