Has this been done before, has anyone ever compiled a tracklist of Prince songs that are positively Kid friendly and still funky? I'm think about the ages 4 - 13, which is young enough to still be innocent but are the prime years for learning. What does everyone think about this, can we make up at least two albums worth of music with no cursing, blatant sexuality or the over the head politics? Give it a try.

Still Waiting... my 9 year old loves it.

"Paisley Park"


And if these songs aren't particularly "funky" They are well-written and whimsical...which is important to.

all the love songs r nice
plus things like Rasberry Beret and all that stuff
lets go crazy etc..

morning papers
most of musicology
te amo

baby im a star
magnificent

lots of stuff
too much to list here

Nice choices so far, when the lists are long enough I'll add them to the original post, danke! One more thing, you are allowed to alter the lyrics just enough to make it clean without changing the meaning of the song. Carry on.
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"Kid friendly Prince music"!?!?!

i'm sorry but...

I hate that there even IS kid-friendly P music.

I miss the nasty (and I need to get over it, I already know).

"Mountains"

I have been meaning to write out the lyrics to
"where ever you go,what ever you do" and put it in a pretty
frame for my daughter...This song is special. I think
of her when I hear hear it.

Around The World In A Day & Paisley Park

Funny, this very thing has been on my mind. Over the weekend I witnessed 3 children fall in love with a 3121 song (2 had never heard him before). They all declared that they were the bigger fan (that was cute).

I wished there were a CD of his songs I could get for each of them.
Especially songs like The Word that's the one they loved most.

silverchild said:

I will check the lyrics of both these. A Prince CD is probably not the kind of gift a parent expects their child to receive so they will probably put it under scrutiny, at first.

"Good Love" is so upbeat and fun, I imagine that it would work well on a cd for kids. "Make Your Mamma Happy", "Trust", "Party Man" and "Don't Talk 2 Strangers" would probably fit too.

My little cousins always loved 7. My friend's kid always stopped what he was doing when the "holy river" video came on (he was about 2 years old at the time). Plus kids like Batman so they would get a kick out the batdance video.

Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do, Tangerine, and Don't Talk to Strangers. Those are kinda mellow but they are pretty kid friendly. And I think maybe I Would Die 4 U would be okay. But hey I was listening to Darling Nikki and Head at 4 Oh yeah and what about The Cross or Starfish and Coffee. I mean he did do a version of Starfish for the Muppets Tonight show.
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I thought that album was already made.

It is known as Musicology.

to me most of Ps music isnt really for kids.....but then again kids dont have a grasp around metaphore yets therefore dont know wat most of his songs r about haha.
My nephew is 9 and he loves Head, Dirty Mind, Delirious, and any other synth heavy P song.....i dont think his heard much synth or a lot of 80s music, but im slowly gettin him into P haha!

christopher tracy's parade
starfish and coffee
the cross
love
musicology
i would die 4 u
take me with u
pop life
around the world in a day
paisley park


there are a ton, really.

Rasberry beret

Here are the songs I raised my kids on:

Take Me With U
Starfish and Coffee
Sweet Baby
Purple Rain
Free
America
Make Your Mama Happy
Same December
Into the Light/I WIll
Race
Get Yo Groove On
La La La Means I Love You
Betcha By Golly Wow
The Holy River
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Musicology
The Everlasting Now
Young and Beautiful (for an older kid)
Baby I'm a Star
Let's Go Crazy
Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do
Play in the Sunshine
Last December
The Rest of My Life

My son also loved Endorphin Machine when he was young and I could sing "Look at this BROTHER next to me, frontin' more BOOGIE than a Moog got keys, MAN if I don't get there..."

And 9-year-old daughter thinks "Housequake" is the greatest song ever written, but I had to dub out the two "bull***"'s in the song.

Hide the Bone
Come
Pheromone
Sister
Wonderful Ass
I Love U In Me
Rockhard in a Funky Place
Do Me Baby
Lets Pretend We're Married
Head
Pussy Control


Those are just off the top of my head, you can thank me in purple tickets

CalhounSq said:

LMAO! Those are GREAT songs to raise some kids on!

CalhounSq said:

LMAO!

You just keep your kids away from my kids.

I remember having Erotic City on vinyl when I was 11... didn't fuck me up one bit

have no fear, the kids hear and say much worse on the playground.

UncleGrandpa said:

I play all of Prince's Music to my kids and always have. They have good taste in music now because of it.

Pussy Control...You know that song reminds me of a guy with the wrong tattoo. Ask me about it sometime.

Y U Wanna Treat Me So Bad
I Feel 4 U
Let's Go Crazy
Take Me With U
When Doves Cry
I Would Die 4 U
Purple Rain
Paisley Park
Kiss
Starfish and Coffee
Play N the Sunshine
I Wish U Heaven
Can't Stop This Feeling I Got
Round and Round
Thieves N the Temple
Diamonds and Pearls
Money Don't Matter 2night
Live 4 Love
7
Race
EndorphineMachine
We March
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Gold
Don't Talk to Strangers
The Greatest Romance
All of Musicology except for Illusion, Coma...
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It's all kid friendly as far as I'm concerned.

Who better to enjoy, at it's most puerile level, the naughty lyrics of something like 'Jack U Off'?

It should be required listening for all 8 year olds.