When Doves Cry

The ultimate Prince song?… probably. This song was #1 for 5 weeks in the U.S. and helped keep the “Purple Rain” album at #1 for 24 weeks! This is also an extremely experimental hit. It is a dance track with no bass line! Just a minimalist linn drum beat with a choppy keyboard rhythm and layered vocals. The lyrics are autobiographical and fit Prince’s character perfectly especially in the film “Purple Rain” this song is mentioned in most critics “Best songs ever” lists. it was voted better than Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” in Rollingstone.com’s 500 greatest songs ever list. This song is definatley a classic, one of the greatest songs ever written.

Adore

A stunning set ender to Sign of the Times, Adore finds Prince plodding familiar territory with a supreme falsetto. Here he pleads his devotion to his object of desire, through a series of cascading falsettos and declarations of loyalty. But the supreme track is not without its wry humour in the line "I ain't fuckin (funkin?) just 4 kicks. Maybe the fans would respond, they truly adored him.

Soft and wet

A superb piece of barely teenage erotica. Prince's first soul hit, established the agenda of this refreshing new talent at large. The song has a catchy 4/4 beat and a bouncy rythmn. Its cute pop with a twist, the singer guides us through his already preeminent lack for writing explicit lyrics. The song is full of all sorts of graphic detail with lines such "Theres so many things that u do to me" and "U R soft and wet, your love girl.." The sexy dreamy like falsetto only creates the image of rampant subadult lust further. This multitalented African American wunderkid is someone 2 watch y'all.

I will do some more later if I get favrable replies

Moonbeam did some kick-ass stuff a few months back, check it out:

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/153894

Cool!

Jughead

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Nice work tane1976!
Are you a critic or do you do womething in that line?

Eline said:

No I am just a Prince fanatic from New Zealand, I know what I like, and have always wanted to express my love of Princes work to an appreciative audience.

Thank u 4 the compliment.

Take me with you

This song I consider to be the only so so / weak track on an otherwise perfect album. I think it could've fit in much better and been much better if Prince had picked someone who could actually sing to sing on this track with him.

1999 The first Prince track to be a real classic. Introduced with synthesised and relay like vocals and prince saying "I don't want 2 hurt, I only want 2 have some fun". Princes enters on the third line with a familiar Prince like metaphor, "The sky was all purple,". Other than the sound track and rhttmn section the lyric is around doomsday or the nuclear sunset. Princes solution to this problem by partying as a form of salvation. The song has a catchy bass line and teem s with hooks. Its a funk and dance breeze, exhausted by the energies at the end, they ask "Mummy, why does everybody have a bomb" The first single of his most powerful set yet, the impact deserves to be stratospheric.

The Cross This is god rock pure and simple, but Creed didn't have shit on this. After the variety of styles formerly pursued by Prince, its all slowed down with a sung intro to a steadily increasing drum beat, and then halfway through the song the electric guitar comes out to refrains of "Don't cry, he is coming, don't die without knowing". You can imagine this force coming to life in a crowded stadium and the vocals getting more impassioned as the song ends. I have never been a fan of Christian rock, but 4 The Cross, I have been converted if only temporarily. Godlove!