I love when Prince sings with his super bass voice.

But while he does all these hyper-soprano Camille pieces, he only gives me "Peach" and "Erotic City."


That's sinful. Why has he scrimped on these?

I want a whole album of songs as deep-throated as Peach, which is awesome!


P.S. Am I missing any other songs sung in his deep voice??? can't think of more right now... and Erotic City is only partial... by the end he's using his regular voice.

There Is Lonely, for example.

i once saw a video of Peach that was anime. totally different from the real video, but veeerrrrry pornographic for a toon.

All U have 2 do is ask him 2 sing 2 U about Mani : )

SynthiaRose, you did forget onetracks where Prince did use his deep, low voice in a very nice way: Positivity, near the end of the song (dont kiss the beast, be superior at least) theres a effect being used on his voice, that makes your bassspeakers crackle

How about Question of U and Letitgo ??

They sound pretty deep to me

Question of U and Letitgo don't sound deep at all to me. No bass voice there, not like Peach at any rate.


And Positivity... yeah toward the end, but that hardly counts

See how hard it is? He really doesn't use his deep voice that much.

Yeah, I really think he should singer lower now he's an older guy...I mean obviously he should do what the fuck he wants, but I think he'd probably have a wider appeal if he dropped the falsetto, at least a bit...he has a GREAT sounding low register, when he really wants to....he's got ALBUMS-WORTH of falsetto, so I think he should sing in his normal voice now....that stuff about "it hurts to sing in my normal voice"....i don't buy it. i don't think he should BANISH the falsetto altogether....just reserve it as a special treat.

Hun Synthia, i dont want to nag, but Prince uses his deep voice during Positivity from start to end, I mean, i always thought, wow this is some new, cool type of voice he's using..... it could be, we have a definition of low and deep here, i dont know

Riverpoet31 said:

"Is that a good man, why do you dog him..."

I concede, he does use his gravely voice here and throughout. I was trying to recall the voice from memory, but I just listened to it and you're right.


"Is that all your gold? Where did it come from? What did you have to do? Can you sleep at night? Do you dream straight up . Or do you dream in double you's."

Great song with great lyrics! BTW...
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SynthiaRose said:

Um, not to nitpick or anything, but the "Camille" voice is far from soprano. It's sped-up so it sounds higher than "normal," but it's not as high as his falsetto.

There's also:

Slow Love
Forever In My Life
Under The Cherry Moon
Do U Lie?
The Love We Make

Not all necessarily super-deep, but they're some examples of non-falsetto singing. He gets pretty deep on UTCM and Do U Lie?

Diamonds and Pearls (the album) also has some pretty cool deep singing:

Title Track
Thunder ("Love first came to me with the radio on...")
Cream
Gett Off
Daddy Pop (not one of my favorites, but he is using a deep voice: "See my brother talkin' plenty head...")

FunkMistress said:

But funkmistress if you listen to Peach ... he sounds way deeper and harder on that than on thunder and cream. to me...

Gett Off and Daddy Pop ... Yes! good ones. Sorry, I don't hear it in the others.

Someone said There is Lonely ... that's a good one.

My ear is not musically trained though so perhaps I'm a bit tone deaf ... but I do know what i like and thats: "She was dark, she was tan. She made me , proud to be a man."

That's my standard for measurement. I can't get enough of that song. When I first heard it, it didn't even sound like Prince to me .. Billy idol maybe.... I was totally thrown when I heard Peach. I can't recover from it.



but I think I will put all these songs on a playlist so I can appease my thirst ... thanks evrybodee...!

Don't think it's in his "deep register" , just normal
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SynthiaRose said:

I couldn't agree more, i simply could not agree more.

Don't forget "The Future"

Annie Christian
D.M.S.R.
Delirious
Purple Rain
Yellow (with Sheila E)
Bob George
Dead On It
Positivity
I Love U In Me
The Future
The Arms Of Orion
Gett Off
Horny Pony
Money Don't Matter 2 Night
Sexy MF
7
Blue Light
Pope
Race
Zannalee
The Same December
Had U
Right Back Here In My Arms
Joint 2 Joint
Acknowledge Me
Strays Of The World
The Ride
Mad Sex
My Little Pill
5 Woman
Sarah
Strange But True
Muse 2 The Pharaoh
All songs in his deep voice.

these days, his deep voice will take him further with a younger crowd... I think.

ufoclub said:

Love this thread....that's one of the problems I had with Emancipation...TOO MUCH FALSETTO

thanks2joniandu said:

There's Never too much falsetto

A bit off topic, but when i first saw Prince interviewed life on TV (around 1985 - 1986, i think, a promotional MTV-talk for the release of Under the Cherry Moon), i was really surprised his talking voice was so LOW compared to the falsetto (and even his 'normal' singing voice).

...definitely more testoseron inside this fellow then Michael Jackson with his kiddie-voice