Probably my fave Prince song EVER along with others such as...

-Alphabet St.
-Bambi
-My Name Is Prince
-Controversy

etc...

Do you guys actually like this song?

I think it is TOO funky!

andykeen said:

Above.

PurpleKnight said:

WOW!! seriously?? do you not think it has the James Brown funk?

What are your fave P songs?

OMG! you for real!! this song is one of the funkiest songs EVER IMO... and i love the video

GoldenGlove said:

It's JB derivative, but it's totally boring. That ain't true James Brown AT ALL.

The song is safe, repetitive, without a hook, and completely unimaginative.

Some of my fav P songs are Purple Rain, The Beautiful Ones, When Doves Cry, Adore, The Love We Make-all are inspired and powerful.

Even when it comes to purely fun P songs (since comparing Musicology to power ballads probably isn't fair), songs like Kiss, Cream, and Face Down murder this song!

Musicology is a bore.
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I think its a pretty groovy song
& while I wouldn't call it one of my favorites
I feel it is one of the best songs off Musicology.

PurpleKnight said:

Yeah, I wasn't crazy about this when it came out. But since then have only been listening to the live version from Jay Leno and it is seriously funky. Sure you can feel James Brown in there but who here is old enough to remember even following James Brown? To me the song sounds like a happy and mature Prince at his best.

Hey Purpleknight! Kiss and Cream are not propper funk! Cream is Rock/funk and Kiss is Pop/Funk...

However Musicology is FUNK/FUNK/FUNK

GoldenGlove said:

I didn't say they were funk songs, just purely fun songs.

PurpleKnight said:

ohhh right sorry.

BTW Will you admit Musicology is funky

Oh my word, Musicology has got to be somewhere near the absolute BOTTOM as far as funky Prince songs go. It's more than a bore, in my opinion. But then again, tastes in music are subjective by their very nature, so what's cool to some might not be to others. That's to be expected. I hate the song, though.

OMG! are we talking abou the same song here?? Musicology is TOO FONKY!! i suggest you go give it another listen... it is like James Brown funkyness!

HEY! Don't 4get that Musicology (the song) was a GRAMMY AWARD WINNER!

the whole thing sounds like a bunch of loops to me, but that may be because he gave us (NPGMC) each part a year before the song was released. just sounds like the same thing over and over. yeah, it's funky... but boring. not that i don't like it live or at a party, but it's not the type of song i enjoy listening to at home. takes a lil' mo' than that 2 stimulate the brain

Come on, now....just how much stock are we to put in the Grammy awards these days?

Not my favorite but a cool groove and, as a first song on the album a great promise for a good album. But the song is a fair swindle - the album is pretty mainstream and boring with one or two exceptions (Dear Mr. Man).

It'a great song, very accessible and easy (for non-prince fans), but great!

pkidwell said:

I have to agree with that live version comment.

H O W E V E R

Although the song is simplistic and fun, it doesn't really go anywhere.
I was genuinely awaiting a 12" single from this in which he would go off on some odd, purple tangent for another 4 or 5 minutes.

After that disappointment, I can't really seriously take his "true funk soldier" lyric.


Schöne Grüße!

ok, i want everyone just go and listen to this song from begining to the end... and listen out for FUNK! you will see what i mean.

Musicology is like JOTY to me. I didn't think much of it at first, but it really grew on me. It's one of those perfectly made songs.

It's probably my favorite from the album.

Snap said:

RIGHT ON, Snap!

I think the whole ordeal was an experiment on how far brainwashing can go.

Prince put that 'Musicology' room up and you know all those NPGMC members went in there, cuz at the time, that was the only new form of music from the site.

A year later, the song comes out.


I just wanted to quickly add i am still devistated, that, after all that time the track was laying around, he didn't find the time to spank that song's narrow ass on a 12" version.

"Come On" didn't do shit for a shit album, but IT got a badass remix.

Wha...?

not my fav o the album...just startin to get into it, and my preferences....cinamon girl, a million days, if i was the man in your life. i like the old stuff way too much.

PurpleKnight said:

I like both those songs, but the comparison isn't necessarily a compliment.