I personally think this is a great catchy little gem in princes catalouge, very interesting soundwise and lyrically...much other looked IMO..what yall think?

Great track off a great cd...

Absolutely. I'm not crazy about the record in general, but I very much like that track.

I don't necessarily think that it fits in with the "rock" sound of most of the rest of Chaos And Disorder but I have grown to like the song a fair bit over the years.

chaos has some guilty pleasures like i rock therefore but dig u better is a gem somebody said in life theres always peaks and valleys and when ur lost they wont show u the way ... people fuck with yer head and they are fucked in the head .. they dig u better dead ... and the final kiss off had u w b oche
and how bout 1999 vinyl smashed with his foot print .. and am i remembering right wasnt there like a heart in a toilet on the art work ... i think dig u better and had u are like the purple rain of that albums theme .. the grand climax of his disgust with his situation with wb ...

can i ask a question? just one?

if prince had released dig u better with had u as the bside as the first single and pushed those anti record label anger to the fore of the promotion would he have sold more and earned more respect for the record?

not that the rest of the record was all that good but shit dig u better has a sort of sign o the times kinda cool edge to it and delores would make a good second track .. zannalee is pretty good and i kinda like i will and into the light the way i like thieves and maybe holy river .. just kinda good songs .. fill it out with shit like slave and face down and he might of had a huge hit on that record ... and gotten more understanding and respect for his perspective ... stylistically it was just so out of character almost country and definately rock n rolly not much space funk on that record .. and some of the themes were a little too characaturesque and bug me ...

yes cool track

TrevorAyer said:

Yes I think he would of sold more with Dig U Better Dead...shit even I Rock, Therefore I Am..wouldve made a well better performance than Delores...no offense to that song it is ok...just a piss poor choice for a single IMO...but ive said that with most of his single choices 2 be fair...thanks intresting reply

Definitely one of my faves over the years. Chaos & Disorder never got the credit it deserved as a good rock album and for having catchy material.

optimus said:

wow. when did this happen? this total paradigm shift in what constitutes great Prince songs? Dig U Better Dead is nice. but what's with all the love for I Rock Therefore I Am? and the idea that it would have made a good single? is this an isolated event or is this a movement?

one800newfunk said:

totally agree...

errant said:

its a movement...that im in alone..but delores was a shit single choice...and I Rock...woulda been better its more catchy and accesible as is Dig U Better Dead and The Same December

optimus said:

Delores is the catchiest song on the entire thing.

truth is, there was no good single choice for that album. some of the songs are fine, even good, but none of them were single material. and that's why they were on there....

errant said:

One mans filler is another mans classic.

love it

it def is catchy...stands out from the rest of the tracks; perhaps it is the harmonising on the chorus

Not my favorite track on the album, but it's listenable.

it's a cool little song but it doesn't fit on that album at all.

if it had been just as lame and bad as "i rock" it would have
made more sense but since it's actually quite a decent track,
it sticks out even more amongst the solid rock tracks and the
absolutel horrific funk/americana tracks.