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Last December

JesusFreak said:

I don't think you know what harmony means.

TwiliteKid said:

I don't thnk you know what good books are.

Man, I racked my brain and I just can't pick anything. They are ALL so great.

Wendy or Lisa screwed me up forever when whichever of them said that Prince's harmonies are "to die for". Now, all I listen for are the harmonies!

Two that always get me that I don't think have been mentioned yet:

Love, Thy Will Be Done
Open Book

7
Adore

As far as "7", at the end when the harmonies sound like a choir, are all the vocals Prince? It sounds like a female is singing along. I always thought it was the Steeles.

I also like the harmonies of "Large Room with No Light".

Still Would Stand All Time

How 'bout Pink Cashmere?Simply joyous.A much under-appreciated song in my book.How he pieces the various vocals together is incredible.In fact,I'm off to play it now!

i am not sure if any1 mentioned this one, but

Ur Gonna C Me

has a beautiful harmony in it...it supplements the falsetto well

How could I forget Pink Cashmere! Very underrated, I also think Claire Fischer did his best work on that song...

illriddles said:

I think it's just Prince's vocals stacked on top of each other. I know I thought I heard a female voice in "Crucial" but I believe that's just him too.

7...without a doubt.

I wish U heaven
Adonis & Bathsheba
International Lover
Soft & Wet
The Question of U
TMBGITW

For You
Adore

They are both at the top of my list, and it's so appropriate that he starts with For You on his first album to show his vocal ability. I still say to people who question his vocal talent to listen to his first album.

"An Honest Man". Particularly the harmony parts on the line "and if I die, we'll be together side by side."

Always gave me goosebumps. I love when he creates his own choir.

I have to say that I think the most INVENTIVE harmonies are on the song "Tick, Tick Bang".

Wow. Everytime I listen to that song I hear a new harmony I've never heard before.

Cloreen Baconskin

dplatt said:

dplatt - spot on, trawled through the responses to see if anyone had typed "Love, Thy Will Be Done".

Of course the aforementioned "Adore" is in their too -
has anyone mentioned "Comeback" yet? - wish that song was looped.

And Berniejobs, i agree mate on the original of "Tick Tick Bang"

ADORE

I wish u heaven is quite good too.

For You

strollin and pink cashmere

Open Book
Moonbeam Levels
Private Joy
Teacher, Teacher
2morrow
So Dark
Condition Of The Heart
Make Believe
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World(And its remix)

,,,too many to mention. The man has his vocal arrangements on lock.

I forgot to mention "Courtin Time" and "Condition Of The Heart" and the girls did a great job backing him up "The Ladder".

I don't know about best, but I thought these were great:


The last part of "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold"

Various sections in "God Created Woman"

And Colonized Mind has all sort of brilliant, slightly muted, and understated moments in it that impress me in the 'Marvin Gaye' kind of way.

One of the few redeeming features on Rave were the b/vox on Man 'O' War.

How did I forget When Doves Cry?!

Adore (hands down)
7
Still Would Stand All Time (pretty moments toward the end of the song) And it is the Steeles doing the backing vocals.
Honest Man

From the top of my head and from what i have read here:

Still Waiting:
Those background vocals are so very smooth sounding.

Tambourine:
Very impressive harmonies for such an (otherwise) stripped down song. They do not sound smooth or 'perfect' as on some of his other songs, they sort of 'wringe' and that makes them so brilliant.

Adore (of course)

And God created women (as others have mentioned here)

Thieves in the Temple (extended version):
These harmonies / background vocals are almost 'opera'-like.

Tick, Tick, Bang, Bang:
See 'Tambourine'

Do U Lie?:
My favourite Wendy and Lisa background vocals.

If I was your girlfriend:
Distorted, hypnotic, psychedelic. Very typical of his use of background vocals in the eighties.