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which P tunes do you prefer live and which ones are better left for the cd hey.... look me over, tell me do u like what u see | |
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I prefer the live versions of:
Girls and Boys A love Bizarre 3121 Peach Superfunkycalifragisexy Starfish & Coffee If I was your Girlfriend Adore 
Guitar Raspeberry Beret Little Red Corvette Joy In Repetition I Feel for You/Controversy Take me with You Eye no Purple Rain I prefer the studio versions of: Head 7 Sign O' the Times Black Sweat Darling Nikki When Doves Cry Let's Go Crazy Cream "Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip,
and come on up to the Mothership!" | |
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Generally, I find that the more electronic, slick productions sound better on CD (Black Sweat, Kiss) whereas the more organic sounding songs (especially the rockier ones) sound better live (Purple Rain, Joy In Repetition). Some of the more traditionally funky stuff is better live too. | |
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definitely prefer kiss on the cd.
Purple Rain always get's me live, i never want it to end. | |
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and you're right about black sweat as well, just sounds like he is shouting over a backing track.
morning papers was fantastic live. | |
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Purple Rain - I love it live but always find myself skipping through it on the CD. | |
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CONTROVERSY
GIRLS AND BOYS U GOT THE LOOK live - blew me away sometimes it snows in april....
sometimes i feel so bad..... | |
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days of wild live
days of wild cd... fuck it ..days of wild all the time  man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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Better Live: Guitar - It worked great at the Dome, a right crowd rouser. However, let's face facts here - as a piece of song writing it's pretty dire by Prince's standards. The chorus, as has been pointed out in over 90% of the album reviews, is a U2 lift, and the verse is a direct lift from Girls & Boys, just sung at a higher pitch.
Better on CD: 3121 - This is more of a track than a song. A piece of studio mastery (with more than a passing nod to Kid A-era Radiohead) which sounds amazing on record but less so in a band setting. Just doesn't work for me live at all. | |
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McD said: Better Live: Guitar - It worked great at the Dome, a right crowd rouser. However, let's face facts here - as a piece of song writing it's pretty dire by Prince's standards. The chorus, as has been pointed out in over 90% of the album reviews, is a U2 lift, and the verse is a direct lift from Girls & Boys, just sung at a higher pitch.
Better on CD: 3121 - This is more of a track than a song. A piece of studio mastery (with more than a passing nod to Kid A-era Radiohead) which sounds amazing on record but less so in a band setting. Just doesn't work for me live at all. CONTROVERSY, GUITAR and PEACH sounded much better live. BTW LOVE BIZARRE - Is there a studio version or just the Shiela E version. | |
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The One - just excellent live
Nothing compares - so much passion Controversy Musicology so, what is the answer 2 the question of U | |
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McD said: Better on CD: 3121 - This is more of a track than a song. A piece of studio mastery (with more than a passing nod to Kid A-era Radiohead) which sounds amazing on record but less so in a band setting. Just doesn't work for me live at all.
3121 live is Killer!!! especially the way he sings the last verse ..LOCK THE DOOR UNTIL U C THE SUN WE'RE GONNA PARTY LIKE THERE AIN'T GONNA B ANOTHER ONE there is so much passion in his vocals than on the cd track. not saying i don't love the cd version either.. man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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LIVE Black Sweat over CD everytime! "U have just given birth 2 a 7 pound Bambi..." SBE 9Feb14 | |
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vivid said: Generally, I find that the more electronic, slick productions sound better on CD (Black Sweat, Kiss) whereas the more organic sounding songs (especially the rockier ones) sound better live (Purple Rain, Joy In Repetition). Some of the more traditionally funky stuff is better live too.
I totally agree with u. The funky/rockier numbers are great live, and sound better live. I did notice though that Prine tried to make Kiss sound abit rocky in this tour just gone. `U need 2 find a love that's gonna last' | |
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3QuartersInAGlass said: LIVE Black Sweat over CD everytime!
Definitely! A Love Bizarre was also fantastic live. Shopping is not a sport! | |
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The only one I don't think worked well overall live was "anotherloverholenyohead".
I mean, the guitar breaks were incredible - and the strobe lighting made the whole experience pretty trippy.....but the chord sequence in the verses just doesn't lend itself to a heavy live reading - at least, not the way P & the NPG were doing it at the aftershows. I'm sure it could work given the right arrangement though..... The chorus rocked though - I pretty much lost my voice singing along 
The studio version is still ahead of its time over 20 years after its original release - it doesn't get any better than this. | |
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Whatitis said: The only one I don't think worked well overall live was "anotherloverholenyohead".
I agree - I was gutted to miss him doing it and a bit taken aback when I watched the video. I've really loved the live arrangements of every other song but this one lost it a bit for me- didn't seem to have that amazing rolling momentum of the studio version. I'm sure it was great to be there though - I'm probably just jealous!  It's only mountains... | |
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I remember Kiss live on the Lovesexy tour and it was banging, there was more bass and it was really funky, but Kiss played by his current band sounds weak in comparison, not that it aint good just ok.
Anotherloverholeinyohead is amazing live, love this song and gets better every time I hear it. Shame we didn't hear the likes of Gett Off, My Name is Prince, Endorphin Machine, Sexy MF...  Always cry 4 love never cry 4 pain | |
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3QuartersInAGlass said: LIVE Black Sweat over CD everytime!
Here here! Without douubt. |
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Kiss on the final night had a heavy groove to it. Best version I'd heard.
Chelsea Rogers live?! In a word? Shit. Perhaps it's the acoustics not working well in such a large venue. Oh and Purple Rain live? Hmm. It's too bloody short and he hits too many duff notes. I'm more of a funky rocker so I like it when the songs get a heavy groove under them. Sometimes though I can hear the implied rhythm or riff behind a song and that's also cool. It's an odd thing that. Kiss on that final night had it You just now it's boiling underneath but it just keeps itself locked in and real tight. Now Controversy on the other hand... well that baby just rocks the fucking house down! Don't think there will ever be a better song to dance to live | |
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L4OATheOriginal said: days of wild live
days of wild cd... fuck it ..days of wild all the time I'm SO with you on that!! | |
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well I would take witness prince play live over listening to a CD, but if I had to choose specific tracks...
The song that has most impressed me this summer live is probably U Got The Look. I was never too crazy about the studio version, not one of my faves by any means.. but the live version this summer? HELL YEAH! I remember at the end of Cream on the 20th I was already bouncing up and down in anticpipation of that riff. Other standouts for this summer me have been that guitar in the The Question Of U, and the full-on guitar reworking of Anotherholenyolobster. In general live terms, I still remember being blown way at Earls Court in 1992 when he played Gett Off, with the guitar to the forefont of the sound. Incredible. Eye like pretty things, and u're just as pretty as u can b... | |
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Oh my god, u got the look live.
So amazing. Something changes in it live. It just rocks so much. |
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carax said: Oh my god, u got the look live.
So amazing. Something changes in it live. It just rocks so much. Yup. It so does. Eye like pretty things, and u're just as pretty as u can b... | |
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carax said: Oh my god, u got the look live.
So amazing. Something changes in it live. It just rocks so much. Yeah, like I said, it's got that funky rock rhythm that keeps it driving Excellent live | |
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iloveannie said: Kiss on the final night had a heavy groove to it. Best version I'd heard.
Chelsea Rogers live?! In a word? Shit. Perhaps it's the acoustics not working well in such a large venue. Oh and Purple Rain live? Hmm. It's too bloody short and he hits too many duff notes. I'm more of a funky rocker so I like it when the songs get a heavy groove under them. Sometimes though I can hear the implied rhythm or riff behind a song and that's also cool. It's an odd thing that. Kiss on that final night had it You just now it's boiling underneath but it just keeps itself locked in and real tight. Now Controversy on the other hand... well that baby just rocks the fucking house down! Don't think there will ever be a better song to dance to live it's 2 long in the 1st place ..should b reduced 2 one note ..and thats it ..enough of this song! days of wild!!! man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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ZARIA7ETAN said: L4OATheOriginal said: days of wild live
days of wild cd... fuck it ..days of wild all the time I'm SO with you on that!!   man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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iloveannie said: Kiss on the final night had a heavy groove to it. Best version I'd heard.
Chelsea Rogers live?! In a word? Shit. Perhaps it's the acoustics not working well in such a large venue. Oh and Purple Rain live? Hmm. It's too bloody short and he hits too many duff notes. I'm more of a funky rocker so I like it when the songs get a heavy groove under them. Sometimes though I can hear the implied rhythm or riff behind a song and that's also cool. It's an odd thing that. Kiss on that final night had it You just now it's boiling underneath but it just keeps itself locked in and real tight. Now Controversy on the other hand... well that baby just rocks the fucking house down! Don't think there will ever be a better song to dance to live "Chelsea Rodgers" was really tight and funky in the Indigo2 on the 9th Sept but I think the song loses some energy when it is played in the big arena. And as for Purple Rain, I'm kinda impartial to it because I've heard it so many times, but I have to admit that I was nearly in tears on the 21st  it does make a really good anthem."Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip,
and come on up to the Mothership!" | |
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"U got the Look" was never one of my favourites, but it was sooooo much better live! Same goes for "Musicology" | |
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Whatitis said: The only one I don't think worked well overall live was "anotherloverholenyohead".
I mean, the guitar breaks were incredible - and the strobe lighting made the whole experience pretty trippy.....but the chord sequence in the verses just doesn't lend itself to a heavy live reading - at least, not the way P & the NPG were doing it at the aftershows. I'm sure it could work given the right arrangement though..... The chorus rocked though - I pretty much lost my voice singing along
The studio version is still ahead of its time over 20 years after its original release - it doesn't get any better than this. Actually Anotherlover was one of my favourite live songs! It's so heavy live! Also I like it when they go into "Rock Lobster" or what ever the part at the end is called! Also I prefered the live version of "Take me with u" over the studio version! "U got the luck" and "Shh" live was also awesome! I do prefer the studio versions of "Kiss" and "Black sweat" though! The live version of the latter wasn't working at all! | |
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