Does anyone have juicy bits about Prince songs maybe the rest of us don't know. Like what a sample is really from, what he's really talking about, who's really playing what, etc.

I'm sure I'll think of more, but did for now I can offer:

The beginning of Tick Tick Bang is a direct sample of the Jimi Hendrix's song "Little Miss Lover"

The harmonica solo in Thieves in the Temple is lifted from a 70's tune. I heard this once but can't remember who or what. Anyone know?

I'm sure everyone knows about the message in Prince's cane in the Alphabet St. video.

How about the message in Le Grind?

Some questions looking for answers:

Is that really a song called Boy sung by Wendy backwards in Girl?

What the hell is that guy saying at the very beginning of If I was Your Girlfriend?

And what is that woman/girl laughing in a lot of Madhouse and Lovesexy recordings (other than a girl laughing?)?

I believe the woman voice laughing noise on lovesexy and black album and madhouse (and All My Dreams) is saying "bizarre"

the drums on "release it" are a sample from Tower of Power (although I have not heard the original)

The female vocal noise loop on Peach is Kim Bassinger.

Prince didn't write the lyrics to "Solo"

paisley4me said:

I think it's "Look at the bargains over here ladies!"

Compare:

"With their tasseled teams
They came to McGee's General Store"
(Joni)

"I was working part time at a five & dime
My boss was Mr McGee"
(Prince)

paisley4me said:

I had no idea it was stolen (or, yes, "borrowed" - "referred" even if we're getting all post-modernist over it). Tommy Barbarella used to play it live on his keyboard during the live performances, and I was never convinced the sound even was a real "harmonica". Sounds like a synth patch to me...

I do know one thing. If you play the 12" of Paisley Park, you know, the part in the beginning where a woman says Paisley Park and starts laughing, it says "Love Is Here". Try it, please. I've asked over and over for people to try it so that I can confirm that I'm not insane.

I have to try that whole "Girl" thing.

Miguel


"....she had the cutest ass he'd ever seen, he did too, they were meant to be."

paisley4me said:[quote]Does anyone have juicy bits about Prince songs maybe the rest of us don't know. Like what a sample is really from, what he's really talking about, who's really playing what, etc.


The Rap that Cat did in Cindy C is taken from a Chicago House song call Music is the Key by JM Silk. Steve silk Hurly from JM Silk later did a re-mix of Gett off. Not to juicy but hey what the hell.....

David.

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paisley4me said:

Not to "get off" the subject but "finally" a lover of real house music from Chicago. Thanks.

Miguel

MIGUELGOMEZ said:[quote]

SOMEBODYSSOMEBODY said:

Me too. Born and raised here. Going to see Frankie Knuckles Thanksgiving night.

paisley4me said:

Yes.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I'll have to play that when I go home tonight...never heard that. Is it after the laugh?

FunkMistress said:

Has anyone ever recorded that onto CD , I'd like to hear it

moonshine said:

Just play it backwards on your PC - easiest way is rip the track to .wav then reverse it in a .wav editor like Sound Forge.

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

whats up Miguel...maybe you know the answer to this? I heard a house song at Red Dog that sampled the "black white puerto rican evrybody just a freeking" line from Uptown. Do you have any idea what this track is?

david

There's a vaginal place from which all his songs are born.

paisley4me said:

As UFOCLUB confirmed, she is saying: 'Bizarre!' - this is nothing more than a generic sample that is available on many a sample CD - ive even got one lying around somewhere.

The drum track from Release It is from Tower of Power's Squib Cakes, which is one of my favorite songs of theirs.

FunkMistress said:

"Love is Here" is actually Paisley Park backwards. I don't know how the heck he did that but it is. So you'll hear "Paisley Park....laughing" reverse it and you'll hear it. let me know if you hear the same thing. I actually have a program where I can record it then play it backwards without having to use my turntable.

Miguel

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

It is..? I thought it was 'kraP yelsaiP'?

Private Joy was supposedly written about susan from vanity 6 ...they had a relationship back then and prince wanted her to be all his i read that he was very possesive of her....

prettymansson said:

Yeppers

And I remember reading When Doves Cry was about their break-up. (Surely Susan is up there with some of the coolest girlfriend-songs?

NouveauDance said:

I thought that Private Joy was about his weenie. Especially after he mentions strangling Valentino and all that(masturbation).

Miguel

bananacologne said:

Hahahahahah!!!.....your right. You know what I mean. It sounds like Love is Here. Do I have to splain everything Lucy. Really you should try listening to it backwards. I need to know. My sanity relies on it.

Miguel


"can't stand no reefer, can't stand cocaine, purple music does the same to my brain I'm high...."

NouveauDance said:

I heard When Doves Cry was an "after thought" song written just for the movie??

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

"...IM HOOOME!"
[Edited 10/26/04 15:01pm]

paisley4me said:

Yes. Same lyrics, but sung to a male. I'm not sure if it's Wendy singing, though.

bananacologne said:

hey
nanner perfume, (no wonder you're all alone, it's written all over your face)
are you trying the backwards thing. Are ya, huh!!!! Let me know that I'm not hearing things.

Miguel

If you play "In All My Dreams" at double speed, the very low, growling voice in the background of the song makes sense. It's Prince reciting a seductive little poem, part of which later became lyrics at the end of "Acknowledge Me."
[Edited 10/26/04 15:11pm]

Lammastide said:

Or you could say Acknowledge Me samples All My Dreams at the fade out, which would be more accurate

thekidsgirl said:

It was a late edition to the soundtrack and movie (last song added) - different thing you see