maleeboo said:

"Crucial" is the best.

"Red Riding Hood" is actually "Can I Play With U?"

and

"The H Man" is actually "Amandla" by Miles Davis.

omnithanos said:

The version of JIR that was intended for Crystal Ball is the same as on GB. Even the outro/into from The Ball is left intact, IIRC.

Can anybody find the picture thread that someone did for this song a few years back?

It was easily one of the most thoughtful and inspired threads of this forum.

newpowergeneration said:

Because it's good and complicated and obviously for the "fans" that favor the wild wierd stuff. Most of his massive hits are quite simple songs...and certianly are the more uplifting ones.

superspaceboy said:

Well I have to beg to differ, but I guess it's all academic anyway.

SUPAsexy said:

Washington reaction based upon revenge
Babies blown 2 kingdom come #

Excellent...


I always thought it was
'dick in her hair' as in a dickie bow.
[Edited 4/5/06 14:03pm]

superspaceboy said:

I agree about Moonbeam Levels, but this is track is among his best in my opinion. So loose and jazzy and uplifting (and still kinda dark). Really puts me in another placee everytime I hear it.

I must say, I like the lyric a lot more than I like the way the song sounds.

jillybean said:

That's how I feel.

GangstaFam said:

ABSOLUTELY TRUE

GangstaFam said:

blackwell1 said:

Unfortunately u r not alone, i've never heard it either - but great lyrics

at the people who haven't heard it.

This is also titled "Welcome To The Rat Race" and I always thought it was one of the WHOLE Revolution's better songs as well. Wish I had a cleaner copy. Hell..I wish Prince would have released this.

SteamForest said:

Incorrectly, though. Interestingly, I remember Prince himself clearing this up, when he had a message posted on npgonlineltd.com that said how bootleggers got the title wrong.

2freaky4church1 said:

Bitch!! u!

ive always loved this song, gonna have to give it another listen 2 nite.

OMG... I LOVE this track! Without a doubt, one of Prince's finest pieces of work. I am wondering just WHY this was never released. The "Dream Factory" sessions should've been commercially released. By far a definitive classic.

I thought the song was actually titled, Welcome 2 the Ratrace.?

jtfolden said:

The original intro goes on for ages, the slow pulsating build up of the drum beat. That's not on Graffiti Bridge fo sho.

omnithanos said:

That wasn't the version on Crystal Ball, either, though. I know the one you are talking about, a stand alone version from before it was matched up with The Ball. I rather prefer the slow build-up of that version, as well.

poeticrockstar said:

Understandably, though, Prince didn't want to release tracks with a heavy Revolution/W&L influence.

An excellent song - im sure he does say "A picture of a woman with a dick in her hand".
I think its Prince's use of shock value, just as he shocked people on Darlin Nikki with 'masturbating with a magazine'.
Remember this was when he wasn't shy about saying rude things.
[Edited 4/6/06 14:03pm]

I read somewhere that Eric Leeds sais that this song was Prine and the Revolution doing the 5th Dimension!

bunnyman said:

Puts stuff like the Iraq war in a clear and sobering context

jillybean said:

I think they both compliment each other so well Any Jazz impressario would be jealous of the wonderfully contructed composition of this song and how it is carried off. Lyrically it is Prince in genius mode

Superb.

Wasn't this one of the tracks wrote for some broadway play he was thinking of doing? Along with Girl O My Dreams ?

Does the Dream Fatory cd have the best quality? Or is it better somewhere ?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I agree!!