Thieves in the temple. To this day I cannot listen to that song.It drives me nuts.

Te amo corozon- horrid, sleep inducing
If I was your girlfriend- as others stated, totally killed the momentum of SOTT
The greatest romance-boring song, killed an already bad "Rave" cd

Got to agree with the consensus here:

Betcha Buh-Bye Golly Eww
Greatest Romance
Te Amo Corazon
Thieves in the Temple (not that it's so horrible, just not good single material)
Was Dolphin a single?

Betcha By Golly Wow or Te Amo Corazon....talk about album killers!


Musicology rocked....too bad the rest of the album didn't.

Cloudbuster said:

Pussy Control

masbas said:

Betcha By Golly Wow was such a major let down. With all the slave publicity and name change crap at the time, he was always gonna get a lot of radio play. Betcha By Golly Wow got radio play, but surprise surprise, no one liked it. The song is pure shit. Nothing good about it at all, there were so many better options on emancipation. it ruined the whole experience for me too. In my eyes it was the start of a LARGE decline in his creativity, and has had to work hard ever since to get back to respectability..

Black Sweat (should have been Fury) and Guitar (should be FBM).

TMBGITW should have been Shhh.

You guys are trippin'. Betcha By Golly Wow is the jam.
No, I take it back, that was the FIRE.
That's not an easy song to execute cause The Stylistics (?) had their stamp on it, but Prince still put his foot in it.
It was perfect for 1996 because it was an old-school jam, but it still had a modern feel to it.

As for Shhhh. I like that song, but I always thought it has a generic proto-soul feel to it. TMBGITW always sounded more original to me.

His worst?

That has to be 'Space', one of the most flat, unspiring melodies he has ever written. And the bland music offer no redemption for that.

but a tie with 'Space' has to be 'The greatest romance ever told'.

I gringed when i saw him lipsynch that song on dutch television. It is so generic and bad it wouldnt even qualify for an R. Kelly B-side.

Lovesexy82 said:

sosgemini said:

Example A of people trippin'. If I'm smokin' crack, I got that hit off of you, 'cause everybody knows you smoke that good shit.

Cybersingle

Lovesexy82 said:

umm, no. example A would have been your trying to justify the universally panned Betcha By Golly Wow.

Lovesexy82 said:

Betcha By...is okay, but it was by far the most anticlimactic single he's ever done.

I mean, the first single from his "ultimate album," the grand statement on freedom, is an iffy cover ballad?!

I was expecting something huge, crazy, funky, free, new...

sosgemini said:

I'm not trying to justify anything. Instead of trying to compare it to all of Prince's other work, why don't people just look at the merits of the single itself. There are some you know.

SquirrelMeat said:

Definitely agree. "Housequake" would have burned up the clubs.

Lovesexy82 said:

who is trying to compare? the song, on its own merits, is atrocious.

sosgemini said:

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why do we knock the guys very few not so good songs when we can appreciate all of his MANY great songs instead?

I forgot to mention "New Power Generation".....such a boring,silly song At the beginning of the 'Purple Rain' film,we see Prince kicking ass during the vibrant "Let's Go Crazy".In the sequel,he opens the film with the lifeless "New Power Generation"?!

masbas said:

betcha by golly wow isnt even princes song

DINNER WITH DELORES...Never liked that song. "like a brontosaurus, she was packing it in" (?)

It's gotta be "Betcha By Golly Wow"! Prince at last 2emancipates himself, talks about a new 36 track triple CD album and says his best music is yet to come..... He then launches with "BBGW" WTF!!!! I know it is not his strongest album but surely there was better than this???

His worst singles always seem to be the ones he chooses himself to release!!!

i disagree, i Love Musicology