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Wouldn't you love Prince to do a covers album? I love a lot of his live covers and I would give my left nut for studio versions of his covers for Creep, Best Of You or Honky Tonk Woman.
His versions of A Case Of U and Crimson & Clover are amongst his best post-90's work. There is so much potential and it'd be something a bit different for him also. [Edited 9/8/12 4:03am] |
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I knew somebody was going to come up with this! I suppose can go and compile track lists now... Slave to the Rhythm Lost in Music Dance to the Music Those songs sum him up perfectly! | |
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Prince is anti-covers. | |
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He already gave us a taste with 20Ten. That shit was essentially him doing covers of old Prince, and not terribly well. | |
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Cannot imagine that he would ever do it though and it would have to be in his own special way, but in case he is looking for ideas:- Throw you arms around me - Hunters and Collectors Unlovable - Darren Hayes kissing a fool - George Michael In the wee small hours of the morning And definitely something by Queen You know you are in love, when you cannot fall asleep because your reality is finally better than your dreams - Dr Seuss | |
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This topic has come up here before, of course. In a previous thread, someone listed The Cure's "Just Like Heaven." Now when I listen to that song, I keep imagining the Prince cover of it.
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I wanna hear him do AC/DC "U Shook Me All Night Long" And a David Bowie track like "Fame" or "Fashion" | |
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Riiiight....
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And the internet IS dead | |
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all of this is just an illusion 
If he does that, People would say "Oh, he's over, He cant write his own stuff anymore so He's covering other People's songs..." And I would hate that!!
But I would Looove to listen to him doing some Led zeppelin Covers, James Brown Covers, Queen Covers And "Revolution" By the beatles Would Sound AWESOME With his vocals! | |
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If he does that, People would say "Oh, he's over, He cant write his own stuff anymore so He's covering other People's songs..." And I would hate that!!
But I would Looove to listen to him doing some Led zeppelin Covers, James Brown Covers, Queen Covers And "Revolution" By the beatles Would Sound AWESOME With his vocals! | |
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no Hamburger, Hot Dog, Root Beer, Pussy | |
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Sly Stone of course would be included, probably Santana & Hendrix. I've like to hear him do... Standing on the Verge of Getting It On -Funkadelic Everybody is a Star -Sly Strawberry Letter 23 -Shuggie Happier than the Morning Sun -Stevie Everybody Needs Love -Marvin Stand Back -Stevie he's pretty good at left field choices, it would be interesting to see his playlist  "So fierce U look 2night, the brightest star pales 2 Ur sex..." | |
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It would be gool as long as he didn't do the obvious covers - James Brown, Hendrix or any funk-soul jam.
I'd like to hear him cover more obscure stuff and then he could make it his own. Maybe some more Joni Mitchell and some indie covers Green virgin teenager, or filthy rich yuppy. Pussy cat pussy cat, where for out thou puppy | |
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Would I love it? probably not initially. at least in the announcement phase. after I heard it, I might love it, but I'm not sure I could ever get excited about it beforehand without hearing anything, even though I do love SOME of his covers, live and studio. | |
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I wouldn't be a fan. It's bad enough that he has so many covers in his live set without them infecting his albums too.
I find it telling that whilst under contract with WB he didn't release a single cover, then when he became 'free', he instantly released a cover version as first single off his album (which contained another 3 covers).
In fact, if you want a covers album, he's probably released enough now to compile one yourself
What have we had?
I Can't Make you love Me (average) One Of Us (ok) Betcha By Golly Wow (shudder) Lalala mean's I love you (puke) Every Day is a Winding Road (WTF?) A Case of U (nice) When Will We B Paid (I like it) Got 2 Give it up (with Madhouse) Crimson & clover/Wild Thing (not bad) Purple House (ok) You're still the one (shitty quality, don't personally like the song).
Any more?
It's not a compilation I'd want to listen to very often, bo be honest.
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Noooooooooo | |
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Nope. He has a tendency to not make the songs come alive. Thus, the anti-cover complaints about his live concerts. I love his version of Creep, he did an ok Satisfaction, but the Sly and the Family Stone covers seem lifeless compared to the originals. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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'Everday Is A Winding Road' = Fuck no! |
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HELL NO. | |
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This will probably be the concensus, but you must have expected that starting a thread like this.
I like Dazza's suggestion to explore not so well known material that he himself might have a connection with. He could cover those who have covered him lol That could be interesting repaying respect to those who paid their respects... Sinèad O'Connor "I Want Your ( Hands On Me )", Foo Fighter "Best of Me", Tom Jones "What's New Pussycat?", Meli'sa Morgan "Do U Still Love Me", Ani DiFranco "32 Flavors", etc.
Or he could pay tribute to songwriters... someone like Adem would be a cool choice
Jeff Buckley "So fierce U look 2night, the brightest star pales 2 Ur sex..." | |
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Fuck no. I'd rather purify myself in a lake of sticky dolphin poop. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
-Eugene Tackleberry | |
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Nah, wouldn't excite me at all.
On the other hand, if he ever does the newspaper route again, this is something that I could see him doing, except of course I wouldn't know how he'd pay royalties for the songwriters. | |
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Marrk said: 'Everday Is A Winding Road' = Fuck no! Funnily, when this came out, NME favourably commented that Prince had turned "Dogshit into Diamonds". Personally, I've always thought it's quite funky towards the end. P.S. Does Honky-Tonk Woman from The Undertaker count? "Had to get off the boat so I could walk on water..." |
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