Groovy Potential has a nod to "The Beautiful Ones" right at the start.

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Still Waiting <=> Girl (The Time B-Side) <=> Do Me, Baby <=> International Lover [<=> When We're Dancing Close and Slow (Honorary Mention)]

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Scandalous <=> Insatiable

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Automatic <=> Computer Blue

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Crucial <=> Adore <=> I Guess I'm Crazy (1987 demo) [<=> Adonis & Bathsheba (Honorary Mention)]

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Oliver's House <=> Boys Club

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Under the Cherry Moon <=> The Question of U

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Pop Life <=> Anotherloverholenyohead

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Forever In My Live <=> Big Tall Wall <=> I Wonder U

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Gett Off <=> Work That Fat

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Head <=> Let's Work

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Girls and Boys <=> Sexual Suicide

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Can't Stop This Feeling I Got <=> Play in the Sunshine

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9-to-5 People <=> Rebirth of the Flesh

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Good Love <=> One Day, I'm Gonna Make You Mine

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Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic <=> Cookie Jar

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All The Critics Love U in NY <=> Purple Music

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Dance with the Devil <=> Allegiance (Prince demo, which I believe dates from the same period, but PV alleges to be 1991)

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Batdance <=> 200 Balloons (obviously)

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The Ball <=> Eye No (obviously)

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Condition of the Heart <=> Bedtime Story

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Blue Limousine <=> So Strong

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Sometimes It Snows in April <=> I Love U, But I Don't Trust U Anymore

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Heaven <=> Wet Dream Cousin

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Moonbeam Levels <=> [Free <=> Purple Rain]

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SOTT <=> The Future <=> Crystal Ball

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It's a Wonderful Day <=> By Alien Means (final segment of the song)

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Probably weaker in terms of linkages/similarities:

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Let's Pretend We're Married <=> Baby Go Go <=> It

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Take Me With U <=> Raspberry Beret <=> Grafitti Bridge

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Snow Man <=> Me Touch Myself <=> The One

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Joy in Repetition <=> 77 Bleeker St

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[Edited 12/13/16 16:45pm]

imprimis said:

Under the Cherry Moon <=> The Question of U

Wow, but yeah now you say it.

Some singing parts of The Holy River and I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man hold some similarities.

In fact when I am thinking of one of these songs, the other automatically starts in my head.

At 0:40, 'Like A Mack' has the same funky guitar riff as in 'Beginning Endlessly' (at 3:43 & throughout).

The synth line at the end of My Computer is very similar to the one is Musicology.

RJOrion said:

"Jughead" is the Tony M / Diamonds and Pearls formula remake of "Housequake". I bet you could go back and forth on those in a mix. Same song completely re-voiced in the 1992 band style, with the MC Hammer influenced rap verses.

KoolEaze said:

SoulAlive said:

FragileUndertow said:

I always thought Gangster Glam sounded like Violet The Organ Grinder

Shut This Down / My Name Is Prince

lynx said:

The very obvious Take Me With U / Rock N Roll Love Affair

Dadgum it, y'all stop trolling me!

Those two songs are NOTHING alike. I can play both of them note-for-note on guitar and piano and I am here to assure everyone in the world that these two songs share NOTHING. Just because RNRLA has some staccato notes in one particular part does not equate to sameness. The staccato notes of RNRLA aren't anywhere musically near the chord progression that makes up "Take Me With U"'s verse melody.

With all due respect, no musician would ever hear those two songs and say, "Hey - they're the same song!" They just aren't.

lynx said:

Delirious & Horny Toad?

Drums don't count IMO... I think it's amazing Prince wrote thousands of songs and none of them ever needed to borrow ideas from others for the purpose of finishing the song. He sampled previous songs, but he never ran out of creativity.

GoldStandard said:

Drums don't count IMO... I think it's amazing Prince wrote thousands of songs and none of them ever needed to borrow ideas from others for the purpose of finishing the song. He sampled previous songs, but he never ran out of creativity.

You are 100% correct, IMO. I've perused everyone's lists of songs they think sound like other songs and as a guy that can hack his way through almost all of them, I just have to say that musically none of these comparisons hold up.

There might be a note, or a burst, or a color from one song that makes someone think of another song, but put it this way:

If Prince was two different people, there's no possible way Prince #1 could sue Prince #2 for copyright infringement - ever.

RodeoSchro said:

lynx said:

The very obvious Take Me With U / Rock N Roll Love Affair

Dadgum it, y'all stop trolling me!

Those two songs are NOTHING alike. I can play both of them note-for-note on guitar and piano and I am here to assure everyone in the world that these two songs share NOTHING. Just because RNRLA has some staccato notes in one particular part does not equate to sameness. The staccato notes of RNRLA aren't anywhere musically near the chord progression that makes up "Take Me With U"'s verse melody.

With all due respect, no musician would ever hear those two songs and say, "Hey - they're the same song!" They just aren't.

Those staccato notes are not something hidden in the background, they are very much front and center and sound VERY MUCH LIKE like Take Me With U, which was also front and center. So Take Me With U doubles up on the notes? Big deal, they are essentially in the same vein...even my 10-year-old daughter made the connection. Anyone who can't admit that has clouded purple goggles on.

lynx said:

RodeoSchro said:

Dadgum it, y'all stop trolling me!

Those two songs are NOTHING alike. I can play both of them note-for-note on guitar and piano and I am here to assure everyone in the world that these two songs share NOTHING. Just because RNRLA has some staccato notes in one particular part does not equate to sameness. The staccato notes of RNRLA aren't anywhere musically near the chord progression that makes up "Take Me With U"'s verse melody.

With all due respect, no musician would ever hear those two songs and say, "Hey - they're the same song!" They just aren't.

Those staccato notes are not something hidden in the background, they are very much front and center and sound VERY MUCH LIKE like Take Me With U, which was also front and center. So Take Me With U doubles up on the notes? Big deal, they are essentially in the same vein...even my 10-year-old daughter made the connection. Anyone who can't admit that has clouded purple goggles on.

If you say so. I guess I just can't figure out how, when I play both songs on either piano or guitar, I'm playing completely different melodies in different keys. Oh well.

I get how one part of a song might trigger in your mind a part of another song. But musically, these songs are not the same. Not even close.

RodeoSchro said:

lynx said:

Those staccato notes are not something hidden in the background, they are very much front and center and sound VERY MUCH LIKE like Take Me With U, which was also front and center. So Take Me With U doubles up on the notes? Big deal, they are essentially in the same vein...even my 10-year-old daughter made the connection. Anyone who can't admit that has clouded purple goggles on.

If you say so. I guess I just can't figure out how, when I play both songs on either piano or guitar, I'm playing completely different melodies in different keys. Oh well.

I get how one part of a song might trigger in your mind a part of another song. But musically, these songs are not the same. Not even close.

Different keys would mean nothing. If I wrote Stairway to Heaven again in a semi-tone down I'm pretty sure someone would say "That sounds like Stairway to Heaven!"

Don't get me wrong I like both songs actually.

lynx said:

RodeoSchro said:

If you say so. I guess I just can't figure out how, when I play both songs on either piano or guitar, I'm playing completely different melodies in different keys. Oh well.

I get how one part of a song might trigger in your mind a part of another song. But musically, these songs are not the same. Not even close.

Different keys would mean nothing. If I wrote Stairway to Heaven again in a semi-tone down I'm pretty sure someone would say "That sounds like Stairway to Heaven!"

Don't get me wrong I like both songs actually.

No sweat. But can you play either/both the songs above? If you can, you would have to know that they aren't the same musically at all. Nowhere close. Again, I get that a certain sound invokes in some people's minds a part of a different song.

And maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment to mean you think the two songs sound like each other in their entirety. Are you saying that, or are you simply saying the staccato parts of each song seem similar to you?

And not to beat a dead horse LOL, but a few minutes ago "Take Me With U" came on. Just for grins, I picked up my guitar and tried to play/sing "Rock and Roll Love Affair" in time with "Take Me With U".

Couldn't do it. No possible way, LOL. If RNRLA comes on, I'll try to play "Take Me With U" alongside it but I already know how it will turn out.

So far so pleased / Free Urself / The one U wanna C /

"Manic Monday" sounds > "Raspberrt Beret" and "Take me wtih U". Same cadence and similar progressions.

To invert that list, 1999 was arranged around the Sussudio song ( Phil Collins).

Menes said:

"Manic Monday" sounds > "Raspberrt Beret" and "Take me wtih U". Same cadence and similar progressions.

To invert that list, 1999 was arranged around the Sussudio song ( Phil Collins).

1999 and Manic Monday are the same song. Lisa confirmed this.

And I don't know how you figure 1999 was "arranged around Sussudio" when 1999 came out in 1982 and Sussudio came out in 1985.

Genesia said:

Menes said:

"Manic Monday" sounds > "Raspberrt Beret" and "Take me wtih U". Same cadence and similar progressions.

To invert that list, 1999 was arranged around the Sussudio song ( Phil Collins).

1999 and Manic Monday are the same song. Lisa confirmed this.

And I don't know how you figure 1999 was "arranged around Sussudio" when 1999 came out in 1982 and Sussudio came out in 1985.

Yes, you are correct. I thought that song was released earlier than 1999.