As the Summer 12" post onslaught continues...2 more underrated ones that should be blasted are 17 Days and Lalalaheeheehee. I know I'll hear cries of foul on the 17 Days one,but I can play it anytime I want to so,that makes it real.

Both great B-Sides but there is no extended version of 17 Days available it's the same version on both the 7" and 12".

soulyacolia said:

I have argued about this before.I do believe it was fan-made,but it is funky,nevertheless.The 17 Days "remix",we'll call it. Quite long and I dig it.

I don't like the 17 Days remix (it just goes on too long with nothing new added), but I'll definitely agree with you about La, La, La, He, He, Hee--that is a quintessential Prince experience. The part where he says, "Yo, relative, you just gonna play the line over--gimme this!" and starts to jam is in my top 10 Prince-on-record moments.

"LaLaLaHeeHeeHee" is the BOMB!

Prince's Bass solo is sick... not 2 mention his rhythm guitar.

Highly Explosive!!

It seemed like after that one long "oooooh" at the end of 17 Days R & B changed. (just after "why dont chu answer your phone baby - yeah, yeah,oooooh " Producers started looking for singers who sang everything like that. Charlie Wilson was doing it but Aaron Hall came along, and a bunch of other people gave it a shot. Al B Sure, Keith Sweat, Johnny Kemp etc.; it was crazy hot intense P and MJ had things. That reminds me, one of the things that P always does is have a basic song structure, then at some point did something super funky ONCE and kept rolling w/ the song. Youd never hear him do it that way again and it would seem inadvertent yet the inadvertent thing became how the song went. Little riffs/flourishes that other people would play every time they did the song, he didnt. I dunno, I just remember clearly, that underground B side changed things.

rockwilder said:

fan mix