In light of the US elections I've been listening to The United States of Division, Sign o the Times, Dear Mr Man and Osama Bin Laden Getting Ready 2 Drop da Bomb...

Listening to Osama again, I just realized how completely funky and awesome this song is! I say screw public misperception. To hear a studio version of this would make my year!

Question though: (and sorry if this has already been asked the "search the site" feature never wants to work for me). Who is that chic singing those really really really high screeching vocals? I love that!

lezama said:

That Osama thing isn't even a song ("Go Go" jam with improvised lyrics...) so a studio release of it would be quite retarded...Not to talk about 4 years too late... Would be cool if he'd released it AS IS back in 1998...
And that screeching is Marva King...

Neversin.

Neversin said:

"quite retarded"

or it would have made Prince turn definitively

jn2 said:

The guy thinks he's Jesus II, can't get any more dumb than that...

Neversin.

Thanks for answering my question. But the version I have is from 2001. And he calls the lady singing with him Mary. I just think a studio version would be better because you can't really appreciate the combination of the organ, the programmning, the saxaphone and then that screaming with a live version. Its good as is, but with proper recording I think itd be better if you could hear them all together during the buildup and then again at the end. I think he must have a studio version of it already. It just sounds too concise.

lezama said:

He doesn't say "Mary" he says "Larry" (who was playing bass on it) and it's from 1998 (December 23rd 1998 to be exact, recorded at Tivoli in Utrecht Holland, I was there...) He didn't do this in 2001...

Neversin.