I know, 3121 is out, its a nice conscise 'funkpoppy' effort, nothing more, nothing less..... but i am looking back to his backcatalogue for some of the most mindblowing tracks of Prince.

I mean, those kind of ecstatic tracks, that make your eyes pop, your head spin, you jaw drop open, leaving you behind in well..awe....sorta.

My top 3 (in no particular order):

Lovesexy:
The busy, but very groovy arrangement, the interweaving harmonies, the several horn / wind-up vocal climaxes in the song... the mixture of funk-, gospel, dance- and rock-elements... A total, knock off, still knowadays.

Mountains (extended version):
The first part is familiair: the song on parade, with some extra rhytmical 'stomp', that rhytmical stomp 'carries' the exciting funk-jam that forms the reminder of this track, slowly building up, putting extra instruments in the mix (aking much to the best of Sly Stones material), creating a tension and energy released in the full out final with futuristic sounding synths.. One of the most exciting 10 minutes of music released in popular music.

Mia Bocca:
Maybe my personal favorite. Not song by Prince off course, but by Jill Jones, but very obviously a Prince track in all means. The way the orchestra combines with the rude, bare, electronic beat is amazing, the way this song builts up also is: an orchestral intro, the beats coming in, giving way to what sounds like a electrofunksong, but then the orchestra comes in (strings first, woodwinds later), getting more and more prominent, Jill Jones vocals get more expressive, avantgarde almost (in a Nina Hagen kind of way), then theres comes the magic of a few repeated drummachine notes, and the orchestra which kicks in fully (horns on the top) and the beat goes almost bezerk... the song ends with a jazzy horn motif, and synthetic strings... 10 out of 10

I am curius about your Prince-deliverd 'mind-fucks'

Computer Blue (Xtended version)
Expert Lover
All My Dreams

the ladder and temptation

Isn't this just another way to deliver yet another "favourite Prince songs TOP 3" -thread?

Power Fantastic
Joy in Repetition
Question of You
Still Would Stand All Time
Life Could Be So Nice


In no particular order.

The Rainbow Children
Temptation
Anna Stetia

the beautiful ones, the ballad of dorthy paker, automatic, strollin' and the list goes on...

Beatiful ones. The only ballad I know of that orgasms with angry ultimatums.

She's Always in my Hair. It's just pretty and sweet. I like pretty and sweet.

In this Bed I Scream. His most intimate lyrics ever, I think. And it's got a groove.

Oh, and Pink Cashmere, Beautiful Strange, Cream, Last December, a bunch.

1999

Kiss

Sign of the Times

Alphabet Street

Lolita (I'm addicted now to this one)

Temptation
Question of U
Joy in Repetition
Strays of the world
God created Woman
Beautiful Ones
She Always in My hair
Pink cashmere
Solo
Live for Love
Get off (all 10 plus of them)
All The critcs love u
New World
.....many more

Fury on SNL - I watched it over and over
The Holy River - Made me cry (well, tear up a little)
Vavoom - Love the rock, and it gets better every time I hear it
Automatic - First time I was blown away by Prince. I was listening to it through headphones, and I couldn't believe all the stuff going on musically. I still remember thinking, "Damn! This guy is the black Sprinsteen!"
Let's Have a Baby - Because we all knew the tragic ending when the song came out. I can't listen to it any more; neither can my wife

joy in repetition
darling nikki
kiss (i know, i'm simple)

as far as "mind f****" go.here's mine:

1(Daisy Chain...especially that part where he says "make yo hips vibrate..my mind is zonin' on that one".goodness THAT WHOLE BEAT...if that song is EVER released as a instrumental...

2)We Can Funk (Revolution Version) on this version (which is REALLY cleaned up)you can hear his vocals splendidly.this is a headphone experience.you know you have an excellent recording when it sounds as though the person is right in the room with you.

3)G-Spot.the beat.the lyrics...need i say more?

4)Data Bank(Revolution Version)..7 minutes and 49 seconds of sheer bliss.

Adore, "maybe not the ride" I love that bit.

The Beautiful ones, slowly builds to a epic.

Cloreen Bacon Skin is totally jaw dropping

Actually...don't laugh...but I think Batman is pretty cool. I love the snipits of the movie...the beat is funky...I love how he switched it up the tempos during the song...but the best part is the guitar solo!

Krystal666 said:

The chnages in that song were spot on PERFECT.

Graycap23 said:

new world? u crazy

3 that blew me away from the start, when I first heard them

Housequake
Days of Wild
NOW

thepope2the9s said:

Lol. I love that track. It spurred me to create some nice new tracks. There are not that many songs that spur my creativity.