I love this song, so much passion...OT: Just this morning I also played 'Last December' and with all talk about the end of the world I wish I could blast it from the top of the Empire State building. He has a great message for all the worry warts.

iaminparties said:

"Remember the time we swam naked in your father's pool"

I wonder if this was true

He repeated that line during that 1984 rehearsal for his birthday gig at First Ave. that year.

It´s in that ad-libbed version of Purple Rain ("Gotta Shake This Feeling").

That´s something I really liked about the Purple Rain era....despite being different, all those songs seemed to have some sort of connection, a theme, reoccuring words and motifs or repeated lines, for instance keywords like rain, 17 day, the dance electric, swimming in her father´s pool, the color purple, the dawn etc. etc. I liked that cohesiveness.

KoolEaze said:

iaminparties said:

"Remember the time we swam naked in your father's pool"

I wonder if this was true

He repeated that line during that 1984 rehearsal for his birthday gig at First Ave. that year.

It´s in that ad-libbed version of Purple Rain ("Gotta Shake This Feeling").

That´s something I really liked about the Purple Rain era....despite being different, all those songs seemed to have some sort of connection, a theme, reoccuring words and motifs or repeated lines, for instance keywords like rain, 17 day, the dance electric, swimming in her father´s pool, the color purple, the dawn etc. etc. I liked that cohesiveness.

I totally agree, there was focus and direction

I mean Erotic City (Come Alive) felt like a state/place where all those ^ meant something

you get some of it from 1999 and it extended into ATWIAD -

the Concerts direction had focus beyond imitating the move

remember Wendy walking out at the beginning passing out flowers

BrownMark & ____ watching a light screen then he lays on top of her and you hear humping sounds etc

Wear something purple & lace

OldFriends4Sale said:

1 of those threads u wish u could post the song to be heard, it's that good

Totally agree. This is one of those occasional threads that just absolutely forces me to pull out the CD and put it on the stereo. Such emotion in this song.

controversy99 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

1 of those threads u wish u could post the song to be heard, it's that good

Totally agree. This is one of those occasional threads that just absolutely forces me to pull out the CD and put it on the stereo. Such emotion in this song.

It's pathetic not being able to post his tunes.

I did the same thing yesterday. Hadn't heard it for years, saw this thread and spent half the morning listening to all the versions.

Thanks for this thread, RDHull ... it caused me to dig this song out of my hard drive and I've been listening to it pretty consistently. I wasn't a huge fan when I first heard it but now I definitely recognize its genius... especially on the extended version (which should have been included on the Hits B-sides, but that's another discussion).

The vocals on this are mesmerizing ... and I agree with what has been said: I can visualize Prince, with his banana daquiris, all alone and miserable in the studio recording it. Perfect.

theblueangel said:

Thanks for this thread, RDHull ... it caused me to dig this song out of my hard drive and I've been listening to it pretty consistently. I wasn't a huge fan when I first heard it but now I definitely recognize its genius... especially on the extended version (which should have been included on the Hits B-sides, but that's another discussion).

The vocals on this are mesmerizing ... and I agree with what has been said: I can visualize Prince, with his banana daquiris, all alone and miserable in the studio recording it. Perfect.

I love them because they seem so full of passion. And that is the weird thing becasue he is singing as if this really happeend but it's a work of fiction. But there's no mistaking the pain in the vocals so maybe it its fiction (that nobody died on the 25th of Decemeber) but he was singing with the thought of someone he knew who did die or whatever. aka I think it isnt so easy to fake the funk so well...so to speak.

Last and probably least of 1984’s crop of B-sides was ANOTHER LONELY CHRISTMAS – an effective holiday blues that hit the street Thanksgiving week, just as the Purple Rain tour was all but taking over Washington D.C.

-Alan Leeds

this aint a xmas song

more like a anti-xmas song

JoeTyler said:

this aint a xmas song

more like a anti-xmas song

^^^ Doesn't believe in Festivus.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Last and probably least of 1984’s crop of B-sides was ANOTHER LONELY CHRISTMAS – an effective holiday blues that hit the street Thanksgiving week, just as the Purple Rain tour was all but taking over Washington D.C.

-Alan Leeds

I remember buying the 45 the Saturday after Thanksgiving just like it was yesterday and the 12 inch a few weeks later. I love the song but I remember being disappointed because a friend of mine had told me prior to that, that he had read in a magazine that the title of Prince's new B side was going to be called "Electric Intercourse" and from that title alone, I was aching to hear what that was going to sound like.

who's up for the same argument we had last year, about whether or not this song is only apropos on December 26?

JoeTyler said:this aint a xmas song more like a anti-xmas song

OF4S: There are all kinds of christmas songs like this, county music christmas songs pop rock & rnb about loosing or missing someone on or around christmas

JoeTyler said:this aint a xmas song more like a anti-xmas song

OldFriends4Sale said:

There are all kinds of christmas songs like this, county music christmas songs pop rock & rnb about loosing or missing someone on or around christmas

That's true. Grandma got run over by a damned reindeer is a perfect example.

vainandy said:

JoeTyler said:this aint a xmas song more like a anti-xmas song

OldFriends4Sale said:

There are all kinds of christmas songs like this, county music christmas songs pop rock & rnb about loosing or missing someone on or around christmas

That's true. Grandma got run over by a damned reindeer is a perfect example.

yep that's one lol

I Ain't Gettin Nothin For Christmas is another...

I think it's a (country)Christmas song: If Mommy Meets Jesus Tonight about dying mother or something

All I Want For Christmas Is You, Christmas Blues, Blue Christmas,

OldFriends4Sale said:

vainandy said:

That's true. Grandma got run over by a damned reindeer is a perfect example.

yep that's one lol

I Ain't Gettin Nothin For Christmas is another...

I think it's a (country)Christmas song: If Mommy Meets Jesus Tonight about dying mother or something

All I Want For Christmas Is You, Christmas Blues, Blue Christmas,

And then there's the absolute ultimate Christmas staple every year by The Emotions "What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas". Chistmas just ain't Chrismas without that one.

vainandy said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

yep that's one lol

I Ain't Gettin Nothin For Christmas is another...

I think it's a (country)Christmas song: If Mommy Meets Jesus Tonight about dying mother or something

All I Want For Christmas Is You, Christmas Blues, Blue Christmas,

And then there's the absolute ultimate Christmas staple every year by The Emotions "What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas". Chistmas just ain't Chrismas without that one.

lol yes that's a sad one

George Michael/or WHAM Last Christmas?

40 yrs on this earth and I can't relate to these songs 'yet'