I think we've had many enough polls regarding "Prince's greatest song" etc.

The thing, to me, about Prince is not allways listening to the complete song from start to end. The thing i love the most about his ways is the way he continously differentiate his output.

Most say he plays funk. But that's just the same picture you get when you look for a fish, and in the reflection you see yohead instead

I would say he's leaping from a funk background and lands on "whatever" he dreams.

That allso seems to be the case when it comes to bluesy gospel tracks. I don't know how many times i've thought of "Electric Chair" as a dark-visioned gospel tune. You should try to picture yourself it sung by a large choire, while listening to the track's chorus part. And that's typical Prince - modernising the things he put together.

Making the same choire-gospel-like assumptions, looking at "Around the world in a day" we can again prove him happily guilty in loving the gospel feel. You allmost want to start clapping hands when you listen to the number - and thats a hefty and mighty nice trick if you're godlike like Prince. Many poptunes made today lack the brains to get feel where there are only a void of hard hitting drums.

His memorable "Mountains" from the mighty Parade album made me drop jaw because of the fusion between gospel, rock, dirty funk (the guitar could have been more front cuz it's so good), horns just filling the gaps perfectly - still making it a not too loud but more of a controlled sphere of sound, not too noisy. He just seems to meet the construct as easy as pie in his everchanging development. Again the chorus is choire-like where you get the gospel and unstoppable feel of this tune - like it could go on forever, just washing at the shores of our ears.

I actually saw a morning tv programme, starring a girl-choire who made a longer gospel-like "Kiss" preformance - failing terrible I'm sorry to say - but pointing out the obvious gospel sense people get when he's tools our willingly ears.

The part on where these 3 tracks are alike, is only by the fact that they have the construct of rolling on and on in our ears. In practise i've heard "mountains" made as an edit version, just rambling on in somthing like 8 minuts without ever getting boring.

Or take "Anotherloverholenyohead" - Man you can hear the clapping in between and allmost see the moving choire. Its weird. But thats how it goes for me.

Same goes for "electric chair" that actually is faded out because he coulden't stop the funk - which is fine with me - but it shows the nature of the feel, where it would seem odd to suddently hit 3 chords and stop the flow. I think it says alot about what moves/moved him now or a that time.

"Housquake" is another geniously camoflaged gospel-like composition, where as "The Ladder" is it in plain sight.

So if I should put something out - it should be about what i also experince when listening - trying to figure out the musicians movements through his many albums and what he could be influenced from. Not that it matters much when we're dancing, but then again - prince is also for quiet nights with a book.

My favorite prince guitar was the Hohner - nasty sound.

[Edited 8/23/10 18:24pm]