ANYONE ELSE AGREE. Personally i love it

I love it

Beautiful...I Love this song...Masterpiece..

My appreciation for this song has only grown over the years

I want P to perform a full verion of this song live already (not some abbreviated version that only serves to tease me!)

by far his worst slow song IMO (after God), but it's still
better than most of the songs they play on the local r&b radio station

One of my favorites

"I'm blinded by the daisies in your yard"

NightGod said:

Its my favourite from a bad album, you'll see its 5 star Prince with, lush baroque orchestration, piano soloing and impassioned falsetto and screechy vocal do it 4 me.

She left him 4 a real PRINCE from arabia.

Love it.

I wouldn't mind if the intro was 3 times as long

I like that song

thekidsgirl said:

This track is one of the best ballads, maybe only bettered by Adore. I love it.

if you want slow and bad look no further than the Arms of Orion.

This along with ADORE is his best ballad but I truly just love this song!

Yoda

pjcath said:

co-sign.
Top ballad

I'tz n my top 5 of all time Later on 0)+>

pjcath said:

I'd rank this song maybe a point higher than Arms of Orion
but as stated, this is just my opinion

I love the lyrics.....but I can't stand to listen to the song.....UGH, one of my LEAST favs.....!

I agree. An absolute classic and one of my personal favorites.

I love this song. I almost peed my pants when he performed it at the ONA Vegas show. This song takes me on a trip and I get caught up in the music. It's pure bliss I tell you.

Hmmm.....Strange. I appreciate everyones appreciativness of this song, but I don't get it. Maybe I need to listen to it today, to see what I'm missing. I just find it WAY to whiney. But a lot of people seem to love it.

For those who don't get into this track, I hope to shed some light on what really does makes it a classic for me.

I didn't like it the first time I heard it, which often means it's way ahead of me and I have to catch up to it. Condition of the Heart is like a fine wine, improving over the years.

I love the piano intro, and how dramatic and yet quiet the track is.

The melody is just pretty, but the mood is melancholy. The lyrics are quirky and clever. I even like the thought behind the title. Instead of "heart condition" Prince turns the phrase around and makes it more dramatic.

Prince vocal acrobatics on this song are exactly what makes him my favorite vocalist. He's daring. The chances he takes pay off.

The song structure is unusual, as the intro and ending don't sound like the same song, and yet it all works, it all fits.

As I quoted before, "I'm blinded by the daisies in your yard"...that's just an amazing phrase, and probably one of my all time favorite lines written by Prince.

NightGod said:

NightGod said:

I do love the lyrics in the song.....like you said maybe it's ahead of me. I totally know what you mean when you say that.

BTW my baby girls name is Daisy, and I do love to sing that line to her.

I do love this song. It was the first that caught me on ATWIAD. It also says a lot about my love life.

NightGod said:

I couldn't have said better myself

BEAUGARDE said:

Yea guys i see what you say, i am frankly in love with this song right now, i guess i am goin through one of those phases, u know the ones. Anyway, thanks for sharfing your views, and once again thanx prince for such a "masteriece"

scandalousalan said:

love the begining of it

.i dont hes ever done a proper live version tho(yeah,ive heard the piano medelys he works into)>

I can't C any1 else pulling this 1 off!

Hey, didn't we one of these not too long ago?
Anyways

this song rocks
as a slow jam that is.

It is perfect in every way.

I can't believe it that people knock this song!

I like Prince because he is so unpredictable - I don't know what the next song will sound like (well - used to be back in the day). I remember when I used to buy the albums and read through the lyrics before playing the vinyl. I used to think on what it would sound like and used to g blon away by his arrangments and choice of insturments. Nowadays he is mor like the MJ or the other R&B artists out there. That's why for me Rainbow Children was so good.

All I need now is a re-mastered version!!!

I will never get tired of COTH ,only 1 word describes it perfectly .....

Beautiful

ATWIAD is still one of mt favourite albums of all time .