"Funky Funky Blue Cheese"

I personally like the track its very fun and love the effects and by far it is not the worst song for instance Mr Goodnight has the most terrible rap ive heard infact it makes me be ashamed 2 be a prince fan its cringe-worthy!

IamtheDJ said:

Really.. I love Man in a Uniform and Animal Kingdom.

Vendetta1 said:

Actually, yes, you are. If you love a bloody steak you are a horrible person.

daibhi said:

The status of humans should not have been elevated in the first place. Humans are no better or worse than any other animal. If you believe that they are then you are quite self-centered.
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therat said:

Nah, walk don't walk is cool. You can tell he just sat down and said "I'm going to write a song today." He saw the WALK/DON'T WALK sign and ran with it. It's just a good little song that stands on it's own for what it is. No great work of genius, but just kinda cool. And he uses car horns for instruments and human voice instead of bass guitar.

berniejobs said:

If you believe that, you are a horrible person.

berniejobs said:

"should not have"? according to who? some self-loathing defeatist with misplaced guilt?

anyway, Animal Kingdom isn't very good. but it's not his worst. it's annoying, but there are lots of worse Prince songs.

no it's not. i dig the line:

"i don't eat no red or white fish, don't give (no) funky blue cheese)

also, like the effects on his voice

Love it! This song inspired me 2 b a vegetarian.

I think the problem with the song has more to do with peoples conscious then anything. Some meat eaters feel a little guilty because prince is actually making people consider the question whether eating meat is morally wrong.

people don't want to even question that beacuse they love their meat so much and believe themselves to be "good" people. I love that prince challenges people with the song. And I'll eat a steak in a minute. People rather not face all the death they are a party too.

The song is fantastic. I think Tricky has a good point above... That it may be the lyrical condemnation of all animal products, that some folks have a tough time with.

Great song.

Every time I hear that song, I want a steak and a milkshake.

And it has nothing to do with guilt.

berniejobs said:

nah, it just means you have horrible arteries.

Giovanni777 said:

I very rarely will judge a song harshly by the subject of its lyrics. It's the quality of them that I take issue with and that annoys me.

Anxiety said:

I'll put my arteries up against a vegetarian's any day.

tricky99 said:

maybe that's why i don't react strongly to the song one way or another. i'm a vegetarian, so he's already preaching to the choir as far as i'm concerned. of course, he's going off on a vegan rant, which at the time i thought was cool - i've never gone that far, but i admire people who do - but i think even prince has given up the vegan lifestyle since making that song, so for me it just goes to show that prince can make a passionate "issue" song one day and then not have those convictions the next day. i guess that's the risk you take when you're prolific and mercurial.

musically, in my opinion the song isn't great nor is it offensive. it's just kinda "meh". "the truth" was a weird little grab-bag of song sketches, and i don't think any one song was a shining masterpiece - taken all together, though, i think it's a really interesting little album.

daibhi said:

So, when women were given the vote the status of men was reduced?

Odd logic, nice pun.

vivid said:

Geez...talk about your odd logic!

Men and women are all people.

Anxiety said:

This is true. Prince probably doesn't hold these same exact view these days but that can be true about any song that espouses values in. values and points of view change over time. We all make statements that become untrue as time passes.

tafnap said:

Not worst .....

Anxiety said:

Animal Kingdom kicks Jughead's sorry ass in the Worst Song Ever Written By Anybody contest.

"funky funky blue cheese" + dolphin noises. C'mon.

IamtheDJ said:

I loves man in a youneeform

Genesia said:

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Seems obvious now, doesn't it?. Then why was it not the case for thousands of years?

My point was that elevating the status of something doesn't automatically reduce that of the other.

tricky99 said:

I can only speak for me but it is not a crisis of conscience for me. Yes, I eat meat and yes, I am a good person. Nothing anyone says to me is going to change that.

It's just a terrible song to me.

tackam said:

i just broke out in a rash.

The Wedding Feast is worse than Jughead. It's worse than anything ever that's been bad.

Anxiety said:

tricky99 said:

Ummmmm, not quite.

My disdain for this song is the asinine lyrics and music, although I think the whole thing is meant to be a joke. Listen to the solo - the man is making noises with his lips for crying out loud! And dolphin noises??

The line:
"The breast I suck would have a line around the hood"

What does that even mean? That would be one enormous bosom!

"No member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me, so I don't eat red meat or whitefish"

I'm prayin' a cow bites me!

Anyways - "some meat eaters" don't feel guilty, we just know a sh*t song when we hear one.

This song is in a perpetual battle with Jughead and Graffiti Bridge to be crowned "Worst Song Ever"

bleutuna said:

This is the most misunderstood track in Prince history. It's not meant to be a stand-alone song. It's a narrative segue with an intentionally comedic tone. Prince himself laughs at it near the end. I think it's pretty damn funny too.