Just curious if Prince went on a tangent and decided to release a whole record of material written by another singer or band.

This topic inspired by my first viewing of a video from Bruce Springsteen's Pete Seeger Sessions, sounded pretty good.

Anyway, I think I shall cast the first vote for Prince's Jimi Hendrix sessions. A fairly obvious choice, maybe someone has a better Idea.

Not like it would ever happen or anything!

James Brown would be cool. Or The Beatles. But I'd prefer Hendrix.

u2prnce said:

Prince sings Manilow.

LittleSmedley said:

Is Prince a Fanilow?

Prince sings Joni Mitchell

It would be a lot more interesting to hear him handle a collection of Joni tunes. He did a great version of A Case Of You. Would love to hear more. Couldn't be any worse than "la la la means i love you". Yuck!

Led Zeppelin or Dave Matthews Band

runningbear said:

I really don't care for "cover" songs that much but I'd bet $$ that Prince can take damn near any material and make it his own. I'd love to hear Prince work with some cover material.

I did not care for "Betca by Golly Wow", but the work he did on "When Will We Be Paid" was fantastic.

didnt I hear that the "habibi" (machine gun) track is part of a whole Hendrix cover session he did?

origmnd said:

I was about to post this - I think that somewhere around that time NPGMC mentioned that he had recorded a full album of Hendrix songs (it was later presumed that Habibi was part of this, although this wasn't mentioned by NPGMC).

...of course:

"PRINCE IS THE KING" - The Elvis Sessions.

whoknows said:

Joni would be excellent...But hey....Aint nothing wrong with the old soul ballad...Those songs are still classic.....

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any overlap here?

I like the Beatles idea.

2freaky4church1 said:

How about Revolution, Here Comes the Sun, and You've Got To Hide Your Love Away. So difficult covering the Beatles , their well-known songs are so perfect and well-known. It would be interesting to see if P was up to the challenge of making these songs his own, or adding an interesting touch or vibe to them.