all of prince's songs are good, but this one is definitely special to me. Your thoughts?

its pretty damn near perfection for me , I love love love it .
You quite often see people saying that they hate some of Prince's biggest
hits from the 1980s cos theyve heard them so often , from what I recall I can't think that LRC gets mentioned too much in the overplayed-to-the-point-of-hating category , maybe cos its just too damn good to grow tired of ...ever !

pretty good, but kind of an easy commercial hit. He's got way better.
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LRC was the first Prince song I ever heard. It was on the radio and I was like, wow... this is a great song! who sings this? then after the DJ said it was by Prince, so ever since then I was on the look out for more Prince songs. Then I saw the 1999 video, then When Doves Cry a little later and the rest is history

I've been listening 2 this song this past weekend after not hearing it 4 awhile, and it sounds so fresh when u haven't heard it in awhile, 2 change it up, once in awhile I like 2 listen the the extended mix.

i love the 12" version to pieces.

It's a classic

Don't care how many times it's been spun, LRC is an absolute classic and, yes, perhaps his best song ever. Great question, but AGHHHH! I can't say for sure it's his absolute best. He's got so many great ones that I'd have to spend a day listening to them all and then decide which is the best.
I'll get back to you one day. lol

The 12" version is a definate fav. Whenever I hear the album version on the radio, I wait for him to start going into that velvet sweat speech and shouting MAYDAY.

HobbesLeCute said:

dont 4get the "giiiiirrrrrls got an ass like ive nev-ah seeee-heeen" line in the middle!!

Anxiety said:

Agreed - I hate to say it but I think it's better than the album version.

LOVE IT! but it's not quite in my top ten Prince songs...

The acoustic per4mance from The Musicology Tour re-ignited my love affair with this song. Classic.
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npgmaverick said:

Indeed. The acoustic version, particularly, shows what a beautiful melody this song has.

I love Little Red Corvett... but its not my fav...

Everyone had their own special fav's...

Mine is when u were mine and The beautiful ones.....

It's a great song, but far from him best IMHO.

moonshine said:

I agree.The lyrics from start to finish are flawless.Combine that with the groove and the song structure,it's brilliant!

Anxiety said:

YES...YES...YES!

The long/Dance version rocks!

I love the Bass line on the last 1/3 of the song and those rhythm guitars at the end....Mayday...MAYDAY!

npgmaverick said:

Did he change the lyrics since he doesn't sing about sexual stuff anymore?

For me just radio mainstream and pretty boring like "summer of 69".

nice song, but no.

TheSchrank said:

Little Red Corvette, is the best song by Prince or anyone else I've heard of ever. If you listen closely enough, you can hear everything thing from Baroque classical, jazz, Elvis, the British Invasion and the sound of the time he wrote it. It was a microcosm of musical history. And it has that great ability of all great music to put one in touch with the eternal, I know that sounds corny but that's how I put it. I perform the full version of this song, not the radio one, the full one with all the fantastic detours, when people hear this song, it totally wins them over to me, if not Prince.

doctamario said:

I don't think he did, but it was also part of a medley so he didn't do the entire song.

doctamario said:

that song is far from an easy commercial hit. just because it is great and was hugely popular doesn't mean it is some cookie cutter song.

I like how people judge songs backwards. song becomes a hit so people then judge it differently because so.

dumbass said:

Sorry, I also think it´s far from his best. Musically quite simple stuff. Very overrated IMO

sorry but simple stuff is usually the best, hum beethovens fifth to yourself for proof.

mozfonky said:

Kiss is one of his simplest songs, and it's better than LRC