Prince:

1. Adore

2. Around The World In A Day

3. Play In The Sunshine

4. The Max

5. Lovesexy

Janet Jackson

1. New Agenda

2. The Knowledge

3. Rope Burn

4. China Love

5. My Baby

Stevie Wonder

1. Love's In Need Of Love Today

2. Pastime Paradise

3. Outside My Window

4. All I Do

5. Saturn

Michael Jackson

1. Whatever Happens

2. Heaven Can Wait

3. Keep The Faith

4. I Can't Help It

5. Burn This Disco Out

Britney Spears

1. Unusual You

2. Toy Solider

3. Hot As Ice

4. Freakshow

5. Ooh Ooh Baby

Christina Aguilera

1. Get Mine, Get Yours

2. Blessed

3. Understand

4. Lift Me Up

5. Somebody's Somebody

Aretha Franklin

1. Dr. Feelgood

2. Ain't Nobody

3. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream

4. All The King's Horses

5. Just Right Tonight

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musicjunky318 said:

Prince:

1. Adore

2. Around The World In A Day

3. Play In The Sunshine

4. The Max

5. Lovesexy

Janet Jackson

1. New Agenda

2. The Knowledge

3. Rope Burn

4. China Love

5. My Baby

Stevie Wonder

1. Love's In Need Of Love Today

2. Pastime Paradise

3. Outside My Window

4. All I Do

5. Saturn

Michael Jackson

1. Whatever Happens

2. Heaven Can Wait

3. Keep The Faith

4. I Can't Help It

5. Burn This Disco Out

Britney Spears

1. Unusual You

2. Toy Solider

3. Hot As Ice

4. Freakshow

5. Ooh Ooh Baby

Christina Aguilera

1. Get Mine, Get Yours

2. Blessed

3. Understand

4. Lift Me Up

5. Somebody's Somebody

Aretha Franklin

1. Dr. Feelgood

2. Ain't Nobody

3. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream

4. All The King's Horses

5. Just Right Tonight

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Blur's "Tracy Jacks" from Parklife. I think this would have been a better single than "End of a Century." I really dig the Who-like chords at the beginning.

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musicjunky318 said:

Prince:

1. Adore

2. Around The World In A Day

3. Play In The Sunshine

4. The Max

5. Lovesexy

Janet Jackson

1. New Agenda

2. The Knowledge

3. Rope Burn

4. China Love

5. My Baby

Stevie Wonder

1. Love's In Need Of Love Today

2. Pastime Paradise

3. Outside My Window

4. All I Do

5. Saturn

Michael Jackson

1. Whatever Happens

2. Heaven Can Wait

3. Keep The Faith

4. I Can't Help It

5. Burn This Disco Out

Britney Spears

1. Unusual You

2. Toy Solider

3. Hot As Ice

4. Freakshow

5. Ooh Ooh Baby

Christina Aguilera

1. Get Mine, Get Yours

2. Blessed

3. Understand

4. Lift Me Up

5. Somebody's Somebody

Aretha Franklin

1. Dr. Feelgood

2. Ain't Nobody

3. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream

4. All The King's Horses

5. Just Right Tonight

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God damn do you have ESP?? I was thinking of doing this thread the other night lol!

And those Britney picks 100% on point!! How the hell was "Unusual You" not a single?? And Toy Soldier! God Damn, that would have been a monster and lets not even discuss what that video would be!

let me think of mine now...lol

lastdecember said:

musicjunky318 said:

Prince:

1. Adore

2. Around The World In A Day

3. Play In The Sunshine

4. The Max

5. Lovesexy

Janet Jackson

1. New Agenda

2. The Knowledge

3. Rope Burn

4. China Love

5. My Baby

Stevie Wonder

1. Love's In Need Of Love Today

2. Pastime Paradise

3. Outside My Window

4. All I Do

5. Saturn

Michael Jackson

1. Whatever Happens

2. Heaven Can Wait

3. Keep The Faith

4. I Can't Help It

5. Burn This Disco Out

Britney Spears

1. Unusual You

2. Toy Solider

3. Hot As Ice

4. Freakshow

5. Ooh Ooh Baby

Christina Aguilera

1. Get Mine, Get Yours

2. Blessed

3. Understand

4. Lift Me Up

5. Somebody's Somebody

Aretha Franklin

1. Dr. Feelgood

2. Ain't Nobody

3. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream

4. All The King's Horses

5. Just Right Tonight

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God damn do you have ESP?? I was thinking of doing this thread the other night lol!

And those Britney picks 100% on point!! How the hell was "Unusual You" not a single?? And Toy Soldier! God Damn, that would have been a monster and lets not even discuss what that video would be!

let me think of mine now...lol

LOL I was gonna make it yesterday but I fell asleep.

I'm not a big fan of Britney but this would have been a great single:

It probably doesn't need to be said but half of the Beatles' album tracks would have been a-sides for most groups.

I could pick a ton of Jam songs but this may be my favourite album track:

Hard to believe that something this poppy was never a single:

I always really enjoyed this version:

Are You Living

Nothing Comes To Sleepers

Someday

I Can't Get Over You (It got some radio play as an album track, but was never a single)

Howard Jones

Automaton

Is There A Difference

Wham!

Blue

Ray Of Sunshine

The Beatles

Honey Pie

It's All Too Much

Al Green

Always

I Just Can't Make It By Myself

Jerry Butler

So In Love With You

The Cure - "Return"

Depeche Mode - "Halo"

Tori Amos - "Fast Horse"

Radiohead - "Where I End and You Begin"

Pet Shop Boys with Kylie ...In Denial"

U2 - "Kite"

just a few off the top of my head

The Beatles - Yesterday

U2 - No Line on the Horizon, Kite, God Part 2

Prince - Strange Relationship, Electric Chair, Walk Don't Walk

Depeche Mode - Rush

Stevie Wonder - Loves in need of love tofay, Maybe Baby

Tears for Fears - The Hurting

Jessie Johnson - I'm just wanting you

Muse - Thoughts of a dying athiest

Michael Jackson - If you don't love me (future number 1!), whatever happens

Bruce Springsteen - Because the night

Radiohead - Exit for a film

Pet Shop Boys - two divided by zero

Actually,"Outside My Window" was a single,but surprisingly it bombed on the charts:

#52 US pop

#56 R&B charts

#52 UK charts

#43 US adult contemporary

My list.....

Prince

Private Joy

Lovesexy

Automatic

Housequake

And God Created Woman

Madonna

She's Not Me

White Heat

Words

Forbidden Love (1994 song with Babyface)

Sky Fits Heaven

Jamiroquai

Planet Home

Starchild

Stevie Wonder

Rocket Love

As If You Read My Mind

Knocks Me Off My Feet

Golden Lady

All Is Fair In Love

Donna Summer

(If It) Hurts Just A Little

Love Shock

Fascination

Take Me

Earth Wind & Fire

Could It Be Right

Wouldn't Change A Thing About You

Love Across The Wire

You And I (last song on the 'I Am' album)

Love's Holiday

Sailaway

Let Your Feelings Show

It always surprises me when I think of popular songs that weren't singles:

"Reason" by Earth Wind and Fire

"Fire And Desire" by Rick James and Teena Marie

"Love's Train" by Con Funk Shun

"Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder---Motown wanted to release this as a single,but it had to be edited down and Stevie didn't want them to mess with this song in any way,so it never became a single.

SoulAlive said:

It always surprises me when I think of popular songs that weren't singles:

"Reason" by Earth Wind and Fire

"Fire And Desire" by Rick James and Teena Marie

"Love's Train" by Con Funk Shun

"Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder---Motown wanted to release this as a single,but it had to be edited down and Stevie didn't want them to mess with this song in any way,so it never became a single.

WOWWWWWW

The Rolling Stones

Gimme Shelter

Stevie Wonder

I Believe (When I Fall In Love)

David Bowie

I've Not Been to Oxford Town

musicjunky318 said:

SoulAlive said:

It always surprises me when I think of popular songs that weren't singles:

"Reason" by Earth Wind and Fire

"Fire And Desire" by Rick James and Teena Marie

"Love's Train" by Con Funk Shun

"Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder---Motown wanted to release this as a single,but it had to be edited down and Stevie didn't want them to mess with this song in any way,so it never became a single.

WOWWWWWW

Those songs are played on the radio so much that many people probably think these songs were singles,lol.

SoulAlive said:

musicjunky318 said:

WOWWWWWW

Those songs are played on the radio so much that many people probably think these songs were singles,lol.

Yea I thought they were.

SoulAlive said:

Prince

Housequake

Housequake was the B-side of U Got The Look, so it was on a single. It also got radio play.

"Lady Cab Driver" by Prince. The "1999" single was getting major airplay before the album was released and once it was released, the radio started playing the album version of "1999" as well as many other songs from the album but they were really playing the hell out of "Lady Cab Driver".

I had always loved the way the "Controversy" single was cut and edited in two places and I remember making my own version of "Lady Cab Driver" cut and edited in about two or three places in the same way that "Controversy" was. We just knew that "Lady Cab Driver" was going to be the next single and I wanted to see if my edited version was going to match the way Prince edited his.

SoulAlive said:

musicjunky318 said:

WOWWWWWW

Those songs are played on the radio so much that many people probably think these songs were singles,lol.

The same goes for "Adore" by Prince. In 2011, this is the only Prince song that still gets regular airplay in the US.

It's my favorite song of all time.

Adisa said:

SoulAlive said:

Those songs are played on the radio so much that many people probably think these songs were singles,lol.

The same goes for "Adore" by Prince. In 2011, this is the only Prince song that still gets regular airplay in the US.

It's my favorite song of all time.

It's possibly my favorite Prince song ever. If it isn't it's up there.

vainandy said:

"Lady Cab Driver" by Prince. The "1999" single was getting major airplay before the album was released and once it was released, the radio started playing the album version of "1999" as well as many other songs from the album but they were really playing the hell out of "Lady Cab Driver".

I had always loved the way the "Controversy" single was cut and edited in two places and I remember making my own version of "Lady Cab Driver" cut and edited in about two or three places in the same way that "Controversy" was. We just knew that "Lady Cab Driver" was going to be the next single and I wanted to see if my edited version was going to match the way Prince edited his.

It's obvious that Warner Bros. were trying to make Prince crossover onto the pop charts with this album.Look at the singles they chose: "1999","Little Red Corvette","Delirious" and "Let's Pretend We're Married".These are great tunes,but there's not alot of funk in these songs.Those are pop songs.Jams like "DMSR" and "Lady Cab Driver" are funky R&B songs which is why I think they weren't released as singles (despite the massive radio airplay).

"Joy and Pain" Maze f/ Frankie Beverly

SoulAlive said:

My list.....

Prince

Private Joy

Private Joy was on the B Side of the "Do Me, Baby" 45.

SoulAlive said:

vainandy said:

"Lady Cab Driver" by Prince. The "1999" single was getting major airplay before the album was released and once it was released, the radio started playing the album version of "1999" as well as many other songs from the album but they were really playing the hell out of "Lady Cab Driver".

I had always loved the way the "Controversy" single was cut and edited in two places and I remember making my own version of "Lady Cab Driver" cut and edited in about two or three places in the same way that "Controversy" was. We just knew that "Lady Cab Driver" was going to be the next single and I wanted to see if my edited version was going to match the way Prince edited his.

It's obvious that Warner Bros. were trying to make Prince crossover onto the pop charts with this album.Look at the singles they chose: "1999","Little Red Corvette","Delirious" and "Let's Pretend We're Married".These are great tunes,but there's not alot of funk in these songs.Those are pop songs.Jams like "DMSR" and "Lady Cab Driver" are funky R&B songs which is why I think they weren't released as singles (despite the massive radio airplay).

Oh, it's obvious what they were trying to do. I still think "Lady Cab Driver" would have been a better choice though because a jam that funky would never have gotten him a crossover audience. I guarantee you, he wouldn't have dared trying that style change in 1985 if he only still had that previous R&B audience that he had for years. He could have done it if he wanted to but he would have starved to death.

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SoulAlive said:

Stevie Wonder

1. Love's In Need Of Love Today

2. Pastime Paradise

3. Outside My Window

4. All I Do

5. Saturn

Actually,"Outside My Window" was a single,but surprisingly it bombed on the charts:

#52 US pop

#56 R&B charts

#52 UK charts

#43 US adult contemporary

Ohhhh damn.

Dumbass public.

^^ yep

vainandy said:

SoulAlive said:

It's obvious that Warner Bros. were trying to make Prince crossover onto the pop charts with this album.Look at the singles they chose: "1999","Little Red Corvette","Delirious" and "Let's Pretend We're Married".These are great tunes,but there's not alot of funk in these songs.Those are pop songs.Jams like "DMSR" and "Lady Cab Driver" are funky R&B songs which is why I think they weren't released as singles (despite the massive radio airplay).

Oh, it's obvious what they were trying to do. I still think "Lady Cab Driver" would have been a better choice though because a jam that funky would never have gotten him a crossover audience. I guarantee you, he wouldn't have dared trying that style change in 1985 if he only still had that previous R&B audience that he had for years. He could have done it if he wanted to but he would have starved to death.

I agree with the single choices for the most part,except I think "Automatic" should have been the fourth single instead of "Let's Pretend We're Married".