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Thread started 09/25/07 7:51pm

DreamyPopRoyal
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Most heart-wrenching Prince songs

List the songs that you can't help but feel for Prince after listening to them.

Somehow, "Live 4 Love" is kind of like that for me... just listened to it and the guitar in it is amazing, but slightly jarring. Can't quite explain how.

But

The Dance and Solo are 2 main ones for me.

Any thoughts?
had 2 run away... pride was 2 strong. It started raining, baby, the birds were gone
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Reply #1 posted 09/25/07 8:53pm

xplnyrslf

The list is long:

Sweet Baby
The Cross
Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife
Welcome to the Dawn
The One
Call My Name
Wherever You go..
Pink Cashmere
Dark
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Reply #2 posted 09/25/07 8:56pm

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xplnyrslf said:

The list is long:

Sweet Baby
The Cross
Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife
Welcome to the Dawn
The One
Call My Name
Wherever You go..

Pink Cashmere
Dark


Those are the only ones I've heard so far, so I'll comment on those.
Sweet Baby... not so much for me. Same with Call my Name (although it made me fall for him if only for a moment)
Dark, but of course...

Wherever U Go, I've heard only once and I picked that up in an instant. Mayte-break-up song if I'm not mistaken... just got to me cuz that marked the end of a very happy time in his life. I don't think I'd seen him happier than in the interviews during that time (mid 90's)... or so I thought until I heard Planet Earth.
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Reply #3 posted 09/25/07 9:06pm

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DreamyPopRoyalty said:

List the songs that you can't help but feel for Prince after listening to them.




Welcome 2 The Dawn

Sex In The Summer
Love Life,
Love God,
And Only Do Drugs You Need
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Reply #4 posted 09/25/07 9:18pm

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Purple Rain - sure, it's his signature hit but that doesn't take away from the song for me. It's still as amazing as the first time I heard it, around this time last year.

Sometimes It Snows In April - actually sounds like he's about to cry in parts.

Another Lonely Christmas - the sadness doesn't jump out as much in this but to me, if you listen closely you can hear it.
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Reply #5 posted 09/25/07 9:20pm

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"Heart-wrenching" as in "sad" right?

- Solo
- There Is Lonely
- Wasted Kisses
- There's Others Here With Us
- The Beautiful Ones
- Joy in Repetition
By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory!
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Reply #6 posted 09/25/07 9:21pm

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purplesweat said:

Purple Rain - sure, it's his signature hit but that doesn't take away from the song for me. It's still as amazing as the first time I heard it, around this time last year.

Sometimes It Snows In April - actually sounds like he's about to cry in parts.

Another Lonely Christmas - the sadness doesn't jump out as much in this but to me, if you listen closely you can hear it.


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Yeah...add those to my list as well.
By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory!
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Reply #7 posted 09/25/07 9:21pm

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"I Can't Make You Love Me"

when he says..


whistle
*I close my eyes .. then I dont see ..
the love you dont feel.. when u're holding me..*


that's deep ..
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Reply #8 posted 09/25/07 9:21pm

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PurpleJedi said:

"Heart-wrenching" as in "sad" right?


Could mean a number of things, but yeah, definitely sad songs are up for grabs here.
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Reply #9 posted 09/25/07 11:27pm

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Power Fantastic
Comeback
Computer Blue
Something In The Water
3 Chains O' Gold
The Cross
so many more...
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Reply #10 posted 09/25/07 11:37pm

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Comeback cry
Wanna hear me sing? biggrin www.ChampagneHoneybee.com
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Reply #11 posted 09/26/07 12:07am

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gotta be i love u but i don't trust u anymore. that and wasted kisses...something weird goin on there. never did figure out the story in that tune but it sounds like he believes it.
on a side topic joint 2 joint's a great tune! just re-discovered this one.
i'm blinded by the daisies in your yard....
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Reply #12 posted 09/26/07 12:30am

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purplesweat said:

Purple Rain - sure, it's his signature hit but that doesn't take away from the song for me. It's still as amazing as the first time I heard it, around this time last year.

Sometimes It Snows In April - actually sounds like he's about to cry in parts.



Purple Rain! and I do agree Sometimes It Snow In April, although I've only heard the version of Johnny Depp's g/f singing it on YouTube.
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Reply #13 posted 09/26/07 2:40am

Neophyte

The Cross, Sometimes It's Snows and The Beautiful ones - definitely, and If I was your Girlfriend...

ohh. I forgot Papa.
[Edited 9/26/07 2:41am]
"I know that living with u baby, was sometimes hard...but I'm willing 2 give it another try.
Cause nothing compares....nothing compares 2 u!"
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Reply #14 posted 09/26/07 4:54am

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Might as well, drag out all of the cd's and start typing...

I'd like to give honorable mention to, "Crucial."
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight...
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Reply #15 posted 09/26/07 6:55am

GiGi319

It makes me sad to listen to the Emancipation album. That album was to mark the happiest time of his life. It was supposed to celebrate freedom from WB, life, love, marriage, and fatherhood.
And when he is getting ready to promote the album, tragedy strikes. His son is born gravely ill and then dies within a week. Especially the song Sex in the summer with his son's heartbeat gets me to this day very emotional.
Being a mother myself, I don't know, where he and Mayte found the strength to make it through this. It must have been incredibly painful for him to go through with the promotion of that album and be in the public eye throughout the whole ordeal.
love the one who is Love!
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Reply #16 posted 09/26/07 7:21am

Jochem

Another lonely christmas.
As it is about losing your girlfriend and then drinking banana daiquiri's until you are blind...
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Reply #17 posted 09/26/07 7:31am

jontp

Another lonley christmas & sometimes it snows in april very nearly make me cry everytime i hear them.
I need Prince tunes on the Rock Band game! PLEEEEEEASE, im prepared to beg.
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Reply #18 posted 09/26/07 7:33am

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paintedlady said:

Power Fantastic
Comeback
Computer Blue
Something In The Water

3 Chains O' Gold
The Cross
so many more...


Definitely those 2 for me.

But Computer Blue more or less (extended version) makes me question his sanity at the time. Like who writes this kind of stuff?

Something in the Water... definitely the last thing he speaks gets to me.
"I do love, I do, or else I wouldn't go thru all the things I do."
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Reply #19 posted 09/26/07 7:46am

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Condition Of The Heart
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Reply #20 posted 09/26/07 7:46am

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Let's Have A Baby
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Reply #21 posted 09/26/07 7:55am

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Ok mine upto now are Purple Rain-honestly it makes me wanna cry in parts lol!!

Nothing Compares to You-I just love him singing this its quite emotional, and it has Rosie Gaines giving it some too!!
Oh Princey if your free for a couple of hours...If you aint busy for the next 7 years...Lets Pretend were married, and go all night..
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Reply #22 posted 09/26/07 7:56am

RodeoSchro

Let's Have a Baby. I can't play that song anymore; haven't, in fact, for probably 10 years.

It even made my wife cry and she's not much of a Prince fan. But she knew the story.
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Reply #23 posted 09/26/07 1:23pm

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cool
    I Hate U
    Emancipation Disc 2(all songs)
    5 Women
    The One
    Goodbye
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Reply #24 posted 09/26/07 2:05pm

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I LOVE U BUT CAN'T TRUST U ANYMORE sad sniff, sniff...
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Reply #25 posted 09/26/07 3:00pm

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dannyd5050 said:

I LOVE U BUT CAN'T TRUST U ANYMORE sad sniff, sniff...



Totally with you on that song, along with..

Sometimes it Snows in April
Beautiful Ones
With You
Condition of the Heart
So Blue


so many to name
" A mind changed against its will, is of the same opinion still"
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Reply #26 posted 09/26/07 3:32pm

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My list:

Still Would Stand All Time
Purple Rain
The Beautiful Ones
Joy In Repetition
Scandalous
The Grand Progression (Not even really sure what it's about, but it hits me.)

And oddly enough:
1999 (That chokes me up in a way I really cannot explain!)
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Reply #27 posted 09/26/07 3:37pm

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Call My Name
Betcha By Golly Wow
Lets Have A Baby
The Beautiful Ones
Purple Rain

sad
"And When The Groove Is Dead And Gone, You Know That Love Survives, So We Can Rock Forever" RIP MJ heart

"Baby, that was much too fast"...Goodnight dear sweet Prince. I'll love you always heart
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Reply #28 posted 09/26/07 3:49pm

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Shh kinda does it to me sometimes.

I mean I love the song to death and few bring me "closer" to him.
It's been a very long time since I've heard it and felt that close bond I have with him when I listen to his music.
Just one of those things I used to come to his music for. To feel for a moment that I wasn't alone.

But back on topic, it's a little heart-wrenching towards the end with his guitar solo. Beautiful as it is, I hate for the song to end, especially when it feels so right. cloud9
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Reply #29 posted 09/26/07 5:45pm

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For some unknown reason WHITE MANSION seems so sad to me. When he says "gonna be happy don't you know", I know he's got the mansion but is he really happy? sad
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