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Erotic City How many here love this joint? I'm sure (almost) everybody does! Prince and Sheila oozing sheer sex thru the speakers...who would not love that? I've read the story that Prince was inspired to write this after a George Clinton concert in Minneapolis and that's no surprise, because there's a straight line from Parliament's Flashlight to this... But this is one of those rare cases where the student outperforms the master. I remember a George Clinton interview where he said that Smokey Robinson told him, "you gotta have a lot of good hooks!" Erotic City is full of good hooks... We could fu(c/n)k until the dawn.. Come on and dance while you still have your chance... Brilliant. Isn't it? Show your love, y'all, because Prince in 2015 won't! | |
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A true classic, but "Flashlight" wasn't the only inspiration. The other one was this. Put the two songs together, add some purple funk, and voila. You get an all-time Prince classic! |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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A funk CLASSIC | |
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This one never gets old
So true and a B-side! Looking back, I wish EC would have been the title track of PR's follow up (just for financial reasons and not dissing the magnificent AtWiaD). | |
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Nothing better. Never get tired of hearing it. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Having heard this when it first came out, I can still grasp the feeling back then of hearing a new Prince song on the radio. Prince music especially in that 1981-1988 period had such a unique sound that I could never place them in specific genre catagories. .
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Tied with She's Always In My Hair as the most epic Prince b-side ever, in my book! Check out The Mountains and the Sea, a Prince podcast by yours truly and my wife. More info at https://www.facebook.com/TMATSPodcast/ |
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Erotic City extended... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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she makes it clear that she is singing "we can funk until the dawn".....lol...but people,to this day,think she's saying something else,lol
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What amazes me most, its the simplicity, yet even after 7 minuets of it (or, hell, even the 9 min version) you don't get sick of it. Always cry 4 love, never cry 4 pain. |
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still the jam to this very day  | |
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Love , love love this track. | |
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Yep, it's because Prince at the same time is saying F^%k | |
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I've never thought Erotic City sounded anything like Flashlight. Not even a little. I have, however, ALWAYS thought it was a complete rip of White Horse. I love them both and Erotic City is the better song in my opinion, but that doesn't make it groundbreaking when it sounds so much like something that came before it. [Edited 8/6/15 8:55am] | |
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steakfinger said: I've never thought Erotic City sounded anything like Flashlight. Not even a little. I have, however, ALWAYS thought it was a complete rip of White Horse. I love them both and Erotic City is the better song in my opinion, but that doesn't make it groundbreaking when it sounds so much like something that came before it. [Edited 8/6/15 8:55am] I didn't say they sound the same. What I meant was that that the use of synthesizers and synth bass started with people like Bernie Worrell in Parliament. (And others of course.) | |
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Great song very funky should be in Purple Rain, but i love Irresistible Bitch the most, i mean the B-sides album version. | |
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Love the song and would love to live in a place called Erotic City.  "Just like the sun, the Rainbow Children rise."
"We had fun, didn't we?" -Prince (1958-2016) 4ever in my life | |
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Irresistible Bitch should be included in Purple Rain | |
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steakfinger said: I've never thought Erotic City sounded anything like Flashlight. Not even a little. I have, however, ALWAYS thought it was a complete rip of White Horse. I love them both and Erotic City is the better song in my opinion, but that doesn't make it groundbreaking when it sounds so much like something that came before it. [Edited 8/6/15 8:55am] I hear a little bit of Sexy dancer in Erotic city and that was years before white horse. | |
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The end of an era..."Atomic Dog" and "Erotic City"...the last two great funk songs Make it so, Number One... | |
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UncleJam said: The end of an era..."Atomic Dog" and "Erotic City"...the last two great funk songs Agree. I might add Word Up by Cameo to make it a trio! | |
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Put a bit of "Genius Of Love" from the Tom Tom Club in that cocktail and you are well underway creating Erotic City."Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan | |
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I love the funky lyrics. He created his own little sexual revolution that was non-traditional, anti-marriage, anti-"family values" that countered the Reagan revolution. There was nothing like Erotic City on American radio, especially Black radio. | |
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Just grab somebody and get on the dance floor! What? | |
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