just listened to if i was your girlfriend again there after a long time and it took me back to 1987 again....i had forgot just how good this song is...everything about it is just brilliance....prince at his very peak of creativity .....amazing to think this was released as a single before u got the look from sign o the times.....it did quite well in the uk ....top 20 hit but it was soo weird sounding for a single...i remember people saying it was a strange song but it was soo brilliant ....

[Edited 8/4/10 4:20am]

Great song, love it.

One of the first (if not the first) Prince singles available as a cd single in the UK.

MikeyB71 said:

Great song, love it.

One of the first (if not the first) Prince singles available as a cd single in the UK.

didn't know that, thought the cd-singles started with Lovesexy.

Anyway, this is the song that got me hooked on Prince.

Still remember i heard it for the first time on the radio and couldn't believe what i heard.

It's one of the best songs ever written.

robertlove said:

MikeyB71 said:

Great song, love it.

One of the first (if not the first) Prince singles available as a cd single in the UK.

didn't know that, thought the cd-singles started with Lovesexy.

Anyway, this is the song that got me hooked on Prince.

Still remember i heard it for the first time on the radio and couldn't believe what i heard.

It's one of the best songs ever written.

You are correct, just done some more digging. If I Was Your Girlfriend was a promo only cd.

The first commercially available cd singles were from Lovesexy.

classic prince love it

When Doves Cry & If I Was Your Girlfriend:

2 of the best of the best....

Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant discusses IIWYG in NME

{{{In an article entitled 'Burn It' in the UK's New Musical Express, Pet Shop Boy's Neil Tennant discusses tracks he would pick to listen to over the festive season.

1st on the list is Prince's If I Was Your Girlfriend.

Tennant comments:

'I think it's very brave for such a heterosexual man as Prince to imagine he's a woman. Musically it's very murky and mysterious. Where Prince went wrong was when he stopped using drum machines. Before that, he was amazing. I like the way he's not scared to approach a completely unusual subject, like this one or the brilliant imagery of 'When Doves Cry'. I like his obsession with psychadelia, but he's got a real pop sensibility at the same time'. }}}

credits - lifted somewhere from the org..... I can't get a link to work right...(I don't know why ?)

PS.... I really like the PSB's pop music too, Neil Tennant is cool,

his comment on Prince is right.....