No No No... Freaks on This Side is a chooooon! AND Shoo bed ooh is a tune too! No No No... Go back and listen to Graffiti Bridge again...

"The love of a boy.... The love of a girl..." Makes me wanna hurl!

From the tacky cheesy drun roll to the final ligter waving, handclapping, reverb stodge of an ending... the WORST Prince song ever.

I really must apolgise for my spelling! drum and lighter, I believe I was trying to say!

Hell, the entire last half of D&P is nothing to write home about.

don't sleep on jughead y'all...that was the first song that me and the missus
danced to upon being betrothed

BoySimon said:

Yeah...this song is purely awful. There's virtually nothing redeeming about it...though I still think Purple & Gold trumps it. If we're going by album tracks, though...GB may just be the worst.
=0P

yes and rightfully so!

Believe it or not, I know a lot of Prince songs, tunes and lyrics, and have plenty of cds, but this track..... nope don't know it. Guess it must be pretty bad in my book then.

Hero0101 said:

yeah, but even with GB, you can kind of see the point of it. it's the big feel-good sing-along finale for a musical. yeah, it's not good, but it's filling that role that apparently he felt needed to be filled in that movie and on that album.

but Jughead? yeah. it's just a stupid piece of junk that serves absolutely no purpose. Push isn't a great track, but there are musical and thematic qualities that redeem it. but having both of them pop up toward the end completely torpedoes that album. at the very best, it should have been a b-side. or not even. one of those endless variations-on-a-theme that showed up on the Gett Off and Cream maxi singles, where it can be lost to obscurity and time along with those other pointless Tony M. meanderings....

DamonDicksonFanClub said:

I really like Poom Poom as well. Can'tstopthinkinaboutit.

crokey20 said:

I love Arms Of Orion, dammit.

It´s Animal Kingdom...

Philly76 said:

That is worse than Jughead. But not as bad as Purple And Gold.

squirrelgrease said:

Where is "Animal Kingdom" from....other than hell? Just heard it.

VinnyM27 said:

The Truth. a blight on an otherwise great album. it's definitely the "Jughead" of that album, if you use the criteria I described near the beginning of this thread: "that one crap song you know is going to be on there..."
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I'm with the camp that considers stuff like Animal Kingdom, Arms of Orion and, of course, Purple and Gold, to tickle the gag reflux much more so than Jughead.

ps. I love Poom Poom.

I like Jughead.

(D')

poom poom is not that bad.

Jughead, however...

errant said:

I listened to "The Truth" the other day. I might have blocked that one out.

Rioub said:

"You're My Love" and "Dance Unto The Rythm" could compete, though
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I loathe Jughead...but even worse...it needs to be testified, is Animal Kingdom. I doesn't get the hate it deserves.

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Jughead is better than Dolphin and Emale....

plopemc said:

and Purple and Gold

I didn't mind it that much, I thought it was not meant to be taken seriously. It was infinitely improved on tour when Prince delivered his vocal from under the stage in the dressing room!

Although anything with that much Tony M can't be good

I think the worst lyrics are ones like "Pleased to meet you Mr Goldstruck" "Pleased to meet you Mr Pearlman, its just your family name" etc.
In fact that whole album is as popular as a homophobic Ku Klux Klan rally

Both Jughead and Wedding Feast are awful.
But Wedding Feast has a bigger "WTF?!?!?" moment. Jughead kinda fits in with feel of D+P. Wedding Feast fits into TRC like someone put together and manicured a PERFECT spring garden, then went back and laid a big 'ol peanuty, slimy stink brick smack dab in the middle of it.

Militant said:

I like it - I like every track on that album

I agree that Jughead, Wedding Feast, Purple and Gold and Animal Kingdom leave a lot to be desired. (I also think New Power Soul is a dreadful album from top to bottom so there's no need for me to single out Freaks On This Side).

I would however like to nominate Hypnoparadise to this esteemed list. Since most people here don't like any of the tracks from this era anyway, somehow this one escaped the wrath of the Org.

I happen to be in the minority of folks who like many of the tunes from the Chocolate Invasion/Slaughterhouse era, but Hypnoparadise is one of the rare Prince songs that actually makes me want to find that poop emoticon.

"i am the dj" is pretty poor, always liked jughead

Jughead is awful. "Get stupid in the house tonight!" HA. New Dance Commercial? Did ANYONE ever do the "Jughead"? Plus, what dance has a commercial? bah. The whole thing is worthless. Should've been shoved off to Goldnigga.