Prince must done more than Love Song! Today I listened to my like a prayer cd and I noticed some Prince zest on the bass of Keep it together...


Any more info on this fellow Prince fans?

miguelbulcao said:

If there is more, he did too much!

i think he MAY have been on "act of contrition" too, but he probably wasn't on anything else except love song

mrdespues said:

Did you read the link Langbleu posted? It's been confirmed for a very long time now.

NouveauDance said:

confirmed how?

it is only davideye's word as far as i could see on that thread. what is the actual source for saying that prince played on:

like a prayer
act of contrition
keep it together

??

there is no proof that he was on anything else but "love song"!

Read DavidEye's comments in this thread:

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/40919

the article I mentioned is in Song Talk magazine,Vol.2,issue #11 (summer 1989):

SONG TALK: "Act of Contrition",the closing track on 'Like A Prayer',has backwards masking and other mysterious elements.Did Prince have anything to do with that one? The credits only say "Produced by the powers that be".

Madonna: "Yeah,he did.He played guitar on it.He also played guitar on "Keep It Together".

yeah but Madonna also claims she writes her own songs!!!

I bought the re-issue of her first CD (my favorite of hers) and noticed it saysin bold type "ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY MADONNA" when a trip to the US Copyright database shows that all the singles from the alubm were written by other poeple!


Moreover, all her later alubms she claims to "write" or really "co-written" by here and whomever her current producer is (i.e. she writes the lyrics)

GaryMF said:

No, she writes MOST of her own songs (not all). She's never claimed to write
songs she hasn't written, and has always been upfront about everything like that.
So don't get it twisted.


Her first album doesn't just say "All songs Written by Madonna"
It says "All songs Written by Madonna, except 'Borderline' and 'Physical
Attraction' written by Reggie Lucas, and 'Holiday' written by Curtis Hudson
and Lisa Stevens". So there's only 3 tracks she didn't write.

And yes, she prefers to co-write songs rather than just do it all herself.
Nothing wrong in that, sometimes she's pretty much written the track solo,
but because she feels that someone else has had a significant input into the
song beyond just 'production', she will credit them. And often it is a
genuine collaboration. But yes, she writes her own lyrics, but usually
only co-writes the music. But that's because she's always after a 'new sound'
and enjoys the process of how her idea for a song can be transformed with
the right person from just a half decent track to a interesting and focused
potential hit single.
[Edited 7/17/06 23:43pm]

My new CD of her debu album, the re-issue (I actually re-bought it) doesn't say that others wrote those three. it just says madonna.

Moreover, I once went to the copyright database and looked up all her songs, and 99% if not 100% of her songs were "co-written".....

Given she couldn't play an isntrument til ray of light, i'd bet money the most she does is write lyrics and maybe once in a while hum a melody line.

i was always a fan (until recently) but I never deluded myself into thinking she was a musician.

GaryMF said:

Then you need to read it again, cuz I can assure you it does.

I never said she was a 'musician', but that doesn't mean she has no musical
input into her songs. Plus she didn't just pick up a guitar for Ray of Light,
She played guitar in the band she was in when she first started. There's lots
of 'non-musicians' who still 'write' great music. They just need others to
translate into reality the ideas and sounds they have in their heads.

GaryMF said:

Then you need to read it again, cuz I can assure you it does.

I never said she was a 'musician', but that doesn't mean she has no musical
input into her songs. Plus she didn't just pick up a guitar for Ray of Light,
She played guitar in the band she was in when she first started. There's lots
of 'non-musicians' who still 'write' great music. They just need others to
translate into reality the ideas and sounds they have in their heads.

I really doubt Madonna could create a song without patrick leanord, stephen bray, William orbit etc. to provide the music

I have the LP and remastered CD versions of the album (gave the regular CD to my sister when I bought the remaster) and the credits are the same for everything. Reggie Lucas got credit for Borderline and Physical Attraction, and Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens are credited for Holiday.

Axchi696 said:

I read some interesting comments by Reggie Lucas about the recording of her first album.He says that they clashed repeatedly because Madonna had her own ideas and didn't want to "take orders" from him Even at that early stage of her career,she still had her own vision and ideas.

Is the short guitar intro to Like A Prayer (video?) a brief glimpse of the guitar work?

the article I mentioned is in Song Talk magazine,Vol.2,issue #11 (summer 1989):

SONG TALK: "Act of Contrition",the closing track on 'Like A Prayer',has backwards masking and other mysterious elements.Did Prince have anything to do with that one? The credits only say "Produced by the powers that be".

Madonna: "Yeah,he did.He played guitar on it.He also played guitar on "Keep It Together".

DavidEye said:

Yeah, "Act of Contrition" is some evil sounding shit! Anyone who can't tell P is ALL OVER that track on guitar and the production truly doesn't know what Prince sounds like.