I personally have a few like Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love", Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World", Kiss's "Lick It Up" and "I Was made For Loving You", Rolling Stone's "Brown Sugar", and AC/DC's "Back In Black".

LoDog said:

I'd rather hear him take a non rock song and make it into one...the way Jimi did with Watchtower.

He does not need to remake anyone else's rock songs, he can do his own...jmo

Although I LOVED the Foo Fighters song (Best of You) he did at the S.B. That was great

Ever since I saw his acoustic set on the Musicology tour I've had a strange desire to hear him do "More Than Words" by Extreme.

babooshleeky said:

Agreed!

The Fly by U2

He did a really good job on "the best of you" by the foo fighters, also "while my guitar gently weeps"

Pour Some Sugar on Me

COME ON! Ya'll ladies would EAT THAT SHIT UP if Prince sang that song and did a concert performance.

Imagine Prince singing "I'm hot, sticky sweet, from my head, to my feet."

That's got Prince's cockiness and ego written all over it!

That's PERFECT song for him to cover!

'Save Me' by Queen. It sounds like a Prince song anyway.

sexxydancer said:

MantuaPharoah said:

that song...not for Princey....he has his own stuff

Rock on;
just about any stones tune;
shook me all night long by ac dc;
i would like to hear sittin on the dock of the bay;
any marvin gaye cover would be nice;
he could also cover any blues guitarist and i'd be happy;
CCR cover?
The Weight would be a good song for him;
Do right woman/man would be a good cover tune to do

just a few suggestions

sexxydancer said:

i wish i could get that as an audio!

BinaryJustin said:

How about "I'm going slightly mad" ?

Maxx said:

That would be freakin awesome!!!!!

babooshleeky said:

Yeah, I prefer that he do his own material. It sounds so much better because you know he put his heart & soul into it. It's kinda hard to describe, but the performance is just so much better when he does his own material.

babooshleeky said:

InsatiableCream said:

me too

I think I have to go now...and put on my recording of the Superbowl halftime show

How about "Paradise City" he could wail on that one just as good as Axl did.

anything by JEFF BUCKLEY!!!!!

I'd love to hear him play "Treat Her Like a Lady" by The Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose. The lyrics are probably too chauvanistic for Prince nowadays, but the tune is FON-KAY and he could tear it up, no doubt!

prince already did instrumental cover of sunshine of your love in japan 2002.
but it was more like jimi hendrix take on that song i dount prince ever listened cream.
jumping jack flash
crosstown traffic
dazed and confused
purple haze

i'd love to hear His Royal Badness take on some Red Hot Chili Peppers. Imagine a purple version of Under the Bridge!

shaedove99 said:

cute

but I don't think so

I noticed a couple of Queen songs mentioned. That started me off on an interesting train of thought (which I won't bore you with), ending with the conclusion that I would personally rather hear him do one of Queens earlier more "creative" works - probably off of one of their first two albums. If nothing else but for the simple fact that they were so much more vocally demanding. But also because, given the instrumentation and intricate production quality, I think that it would be alot of fun for him. All said, I've always thought that those albums were so very underrated, and he's one of the very few who could really do justice to a song like "The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke" or "The March Of The Black Queen".

Good thread!

Not rock but... I'd love to hear Prince seriously tackle something from Joni Mitchell's peak (something off of Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Hejira or Don Juan's Reckless Daughter).

babooshleeky said:

Why not? All that screaming... the bass line...he'd do a guitar solo on it...I'd listen to it.

Purple Haze