What is the Prince track you have just not played for any reason but its been around for years.

I have never listened to the Graffiti Bridge song, I duno why but I havnt given it a chance!

Its funny I know, but whats your song?

I always skip TMBGITW on Gold. The song is a bit too sweet for me.

I actually really like the song Graffiti Bridge. You should give it another chance.

There is only one song I have played on N>E>W>S and I didn't like that one so never tried the rest.

I always skip Arms of Orion....yuk.

Jughead

Let's Go Crazy. Although I will sometimes listen to the 12-inch version.

Well it's only been around for a couple of years, but I avoid 'The 1 U Wanna C' like the plague. It makes me feel physically sick just thinking about it now!

SexyMotha said:

Are you saying you've never listened to it ever, or that you did once and now always skip it?

TyphoonTip said:

I love that one. What were we just saying in another thread about how taste in music among P fans is so diverse?

Little Red Corvette. Don't like it. Never did.

When 2 R in Love. Avoided it once. Then it shows up on ANOTHER album!

When Doves Cry

nothing really. I almost always listen to albums in their entirty. In some weird way, tracks I don't like or I just find really strange often make the tracks I do like that follow them that much better.

I've always felt albums were to be treated as artistic statements that need to be understood as a single piece of work. Even though I understand that many albums (especially modern-day albums) are little more than a collection of tracks.

Having said that, I often DO skip past the non-Prince tracks on Grafitti Bridge. But I'm not sure that counts for the topic of this thread.

wow this 'hate thread' is funny,

LRC,
WDC,
When 2 R In Love

you must be joking - that's some of his best/ classics

thedance said:

In the case of the first two, at least, maybe it's just a case of those tracks being so over-played and imbedded in their memory/psyche that there is really no need to ever actually HEAR them again?

Dayclear said:

Can't listen to the entire CD. Ponderous and over confident elevator music.
Or am I wrong?

Haha no this isnt a hate thread I was just wondering.

Im talking about songs that u have never listened to but have been around for years.

keywhiz said:

In MY case... I JUST DON'T LIKE "LITTLE RED CORVETTE".
I get really annoyed when people start with the "It's a Classic" crap like it's gonna change my mind.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I never did. I remember when it was on the radio backinthday- didn't like it then.

"When 2 R in Love" sounds whiny...

Prince has 1000s of songs. We are not all going to like the same things....

keywhiz said:

chocolate1 said:

that's cool. You don't have to like it. to each his own. I was just bringing up to the other poster the idea that some people skip tracks simply because they have been overplayed. Heck, I played Purple Rain so much in 1984 that I didn't play that album ONCE for more than 20 years. And even THEN I didn't feel like I needed to hear it. It long since stopped having any new revelations for me. I played it purely for nostaglic purposes.

There are a lot of albums that when I listen to them I'll skip past the 'big hit' because I heard it so much 'back in the day' that listening to it now is kind of a waste of time.

Even though I have listened to the whole song...The only two songs that I have ever skipped are, "Erotic City," and "Joint 2 Joint."

keywhiz said:

It wasn't directed toward U. I just don't like when people act like it's the end of the world because I don't like a "favorite" song.

chocolate1 said:

NP. I didn't take it personally. I was just explaining myself.

With Prince there's so much music and so many different sides to him that it is perfectly possible to totally dig the guy and have no connection to even a seminal piece of work like "Little Red Corvette". That really isn't even possible with most artists. Is it possible to love Elton John and hate "Rocket Man"? Love the Eagles and hate "Desperado"? Love Earth, Wind & Fire and hate "Shining Star"? Hard for me to believe that is so because if you don't like those songs you don't understand those artists, IMO. Everything they've done since relates back to what those songs represent.

But with Prince I suppose it actually IS possible to love him and not like something like "Little Red Corvette" or "When Doves Cry" at all. Because there's still an entire world of Prince that exists outside what those songs represent to his musical output. But it probably is a bit hard for those who love those songs to understand that, I suppose. Which is why, to them, it seems like the end of the world if someone says they are a Prince fan but doesn't like those songs.

keywhiz said:

kind of like his live shows now

thedance said:

I would be on this level with those songs

But "Let's go Crazy"... I really think I've grown to detest it on nearly every occasion... it must be really bad if I once said in a dream "For the love of God, don't play 'Let's Go Crazy', every live version sounds exactly the same"
The extended version, though, I don't mind quite as much

The one I always skip... Animal Kingdom was so bad that I didn't let it onto my purple iPOD
Wedding Feast follows in 2nd place, only cuz I heard it more than once, but no purple iPOD access either

how could you dislike animal kingdom? A great song...box of chocolates i don't like but animal kingdom is important...

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

omg Animal Kingdom is in the top 3 worst songs i've ever heard by anyone. EVER.

Nothing whatsoever 2 do with this thread, because there aren't any officially released Prince songs I haven't heard at least once, but I always skip 1999 now because it's the only song of his they ever seem 2 play on the radio here in the UK and it's just got 2 a point where i'm absolutely sick of hearing the song. I find myself shouting at the radio "For f*cks sake, he did have other hits too ya know".

When We're Dancing Close and Slow
I Would Die for U
Thunder, Live 4 Love (which are conveniently the first and last song on album)
Colonized Mind (for reasons mentioned in another thread)


There are many others, but they are generally on albums that have a number of songs that I skip, such as Controversy, Emancipation, and Chaos and Disorder.

InsatiableCream said:

I nearly agree with this but find I can't skip it because it cracks me up when he sings, "no funky funky blue cheese."

I avoid 'Solo' like the plague