Which songs do you hear and regardless of what's going on in your head, it grabs you and you can only think about the song, nothing else?

A lot's been going on with me (well, my family) and I was a little down last night.
I listened to the Purple Rain album and my mind could only think of the bad and trying to find my way back out... Darling Nikki kinda started me out of the "blues" I was in...

Then "When Doves Cry" came on... and he got me... the song's brilliance was all I could think about... it's definitely one of the most awesome things he's done.

It's kinda sad, though, Purple Rain's slowly starting to, gasp, "get old" and I don't get totally sucked in the way I used to. It took me until the end of TB1's and the start of Computer Blue last time... it took me so long to get into this time that I'm kinda worried... either its getting old for me or I've been out of Prince's world too long...

"It" from Sign O the Times always hypnotizes me. I think it is the drums in the song. If I am listening to that cd, I always stop and listen to that song. Another one is Joy in Repetion.

I Could never take the place of your man On the SOTT video Sheila's Drumming at the beginning gets me spell bound

insatiable

the beautiful ones

adore

under the cherry moon

sometimes it snows in april

damn u

oldpurple said:

Yeah, me too.

Positivity
It's Gonna Be Lonely
Condition of the Heart
Anna Stesia
5 Women
Extraordinary

Empty Room

I've seen him perform that live and almost had to be picked up off the floor.

All of Prince's music is spellbinding!I'm like this when I listen

sexxydancer said:

yeah, I've really gotta bounce back. I haven't felt quite like that in a while. Ugh, that's what I get for taking even a 2 day break from his music.

But a good sign is that I was watching VH1 Classic today and he totally had me in the palm of his hand when the video for "Kiss" came on.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

Taking a break from the music makes me want it even more when I return!

Sorry kiss just didnt do it for me for me its

And God created woman

The Future

Power fantastic

17 days i was blaring this in my car yesterday, over and over again

"spell binding" probably conjures up different thoughts for different ppl, for me it connotes "bypnotic", "moody," or ones that just "take you somewhere" different than the pop/rock/funk fests tend to and for me those tend to be more contemplative, mid-tempo or slower jams (not the one word "foreplay-ish" love ballads like Adore, Scandalous, Insatiable, etc.). a few that come to mind are

The Question of U
Joy In Repetition
Space
Forever in My Life
Wherever U Go
Paisley Park
Anna Stesia
Crystal Ball
Sometimes It Snows in April

The One. Not that I think of P, but it gets me into a thinking mode.

I Love U In Me. From the first time I heard it, it did strange things to me. The vocals are thick and haunting. It is simple yet intense. It is subtle and deliberate. I'm still in awe of it even now.

Live 4 Looooove,

New World

(I'm tryna pick songs that haven't been said already)

America

Mountains

Crystal Ball (original)

7 (DEFINATLY 7)

Digital Garden

Space

Baby...

SirPsycho said:

Purple Rain
A Case of U
Joy In Repetition
Anna Stesia

open book

is spell-binding
1 hghly under-rated song

Condition of the heart

love4oneanother said:

wha!?! I LOVE that song....

lemme guess...you're not 2 fond of rainbow children at all R U?

i can't be the only one captivated by digital garden...come on somebody back me up....

Most of the lovesexy album does this to me... it was my first prince album at the tender age of 11 and it has a special place in my heart. The first few seconds of Glam Slam (the guitar on its own) always make my heart skip a beat, and I can't think about anything else when I listen to it. Its hard to describe but it sort of 'lifts' me away from anything that is bothering me at the time.

Pink Cashmere is also a song that has my undevided atention whenever I hear it because I think is a masterpiece! Its awesome.

All of Prince's music seems to have some special something to it...even the bad ones. However, my tops would be:

If I Was Your Girlfriend
Joy n repetition
Anna Stesia
Something In The Water (The Work version)
Strange Relationship
She's Always In My Hair
Dorothy Parker
When Doves Cry
Purple Rain
Question of U
Let's Have A Baby
Allegiance
Get Blue
Me Touch Myself
When eye Lay My Hands on u
Open Book
There Is Lonely
Old Friends For Sale
Yup...all his music! LOL

sexxydancer said:

Me too!

sexxydancer said:

Yep..it's like an addiction

love4oneanother said:

Purple Rain is a great one that can put U in a spell-binding moment

Anytime he opens his mouth!

nurse said:

Really..singing ..talking...whatever..his voice is so intoxicating to me and it makes me

babooshleeky said:

sexxydancer said:

same here. i kno wat u mean. hard to name just a few songs.

adorable2 said:

B4 I really got to know him (by coming here, buying his albums, etc.), I found his stage presence spell-binding

and I've used words like
intoxicating to describe what I felt.

It's kinda hard to define what kind of songs I'm talking about... spell-binding was the best I could come up with.

But I'm looking for songs that take u somewhere else, an alternate reality or just inside our own head away from whatever chaos is going on in ur life.

"When Doves Cry" tends to do that for me a lot. That's why I can't stand the way they cut it in half on "The Very Best of..." good thing my dad already owned PR and I "adopted" it when I started my collection.
It's pure Prince, so that's why I love it as much as I do.