http://rollingstoneextras.com/playlists/view/questlove

The Roots drummer converted to the Purple side at age 11 listening to "Lady Cab Driver." "He pulls off a snare battle with himself — you can hear the wood chips hit the floor," ?uestlove says. "It was there that I first felt the passion in his musicianship."

[Edited 11/24/10 7:59am]

That's a helluva good list.

Cloreen Baconskin is the worst song he ever did, sorry.

I thought ?uestlove was a huge "Computer Blue" fan. Odd that he'd leave it off this list.

I don't think i've ever heard "Tricky". Anyone know offhand what boot/collection it's on?

i think Tricky was the b-side to 777-9311. not 100% sure though, but its more of a tongue and cheek vamp with Morris Day goin' on about nothing to a psuedo-interviewer named "Grace". its the funky track over which it all takes place. the twin cousin to Irresistible & CBS which is why ?Love mentions it. its all about the funky drums on these three.

i like Quest's list. couple of surprises. great list tho

^^ Tricky was a b-side for Ice Cream Castles and some versions of Jungle Love.

Read more at Princevault.com.

datdude said:

i think Tricky was the b-side to 777-9311. not 100% sure though, but its more of a tongue and cheek vamp with Morris Day goin' on about nothing to a psuedo-interviewer named "Grace". its the funky track over which it all takes place. the twin cousin to Irresistible & CBS which is why ?Love mentions it. its all about the funky drums on these three.

That b-side is just called "Grace". The female interviewer introduces herself with her real name though Morris keeps calling her "Grace".

At first she objects, but when Morris asks her phone number, she finally gives in and falls for Mr. Cool's charms.

1. "Erotic City" 1984

   This is one of his most popular B sides. It's his ode to P-Funk, and it makes for the perfect counterbalance to its A side, "Let's Go Crazy." It also marks the beginning of him singing as a helium-voiced female character named Camille.

He called Camille Prince's heluim-voiced "female" character..Well Erotic city wasnt a Camille song and Camille is not a "female"

Rinluv said:

He called Camille Prince's heluim-voiced "female" character..Well Erotic city wasnt a Camille song and Camille is not a "female"

To be fair, the Camille character took on a lot of female properties and himself dabbled in gender ambiguity in his journey to be a better lover to his woman. So I can get where ?uest was going with that small mistake.

An additionally, it has been hotly debated for decades whether or not "Erotic City" counts as a Camille song or not. It was not explicitly mentioned to be Camille as the Camille idea, to a finer extent, didn't exist at the time as far as anyone knows. However, the -production values- of Camille certainly existed if at a merely conceptual level.

2freaky4church1 said:

Cloreen Baconskin is the worst song he ever did, sorry.

I loved that track on first listen, and loved the humor in just releasing it in that length on an album. It is so funky and funny.

Nice list.

Did we expect anything else? I woulda been shocked to see 'Cream, MBGITW, Gett Off'

Now that's a real fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Now that's a real fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amen.

I talked to Quest on Twitter about it. He said he had picked 50 songs originally but it was trimmed to 10.

the songs are all from the 80s...

2freaky4church1 said:

Cloreen Baconskin is the worst song he ever did, sorry.

its not a song..its a jam.

lotusboy said:

2freaky4church1 said:

Cloreen Baconskin is the worst song he ever did, sorry.

its not a song..its a jam.

I have to agree there.

I wish there were no words to it.

greyhoodiegirl said:

the songs are all from the 80s...

Because thats when Prince was a trendsetter, not a follower.

StonedImmaculate said:

greyhoodiegirl said:

the songs are all from the 80s...

Because thats when Prince was a trendsetter, not a follower.

you surely cannot expect one man to set trends forever, its virtually impossible. He still did some fantastic work in the 90's.

I'm kewl with this list.

Rhyging said:

^^ Tricky was a b-side for Ice Cream Castles and some versions of Jungle Love.

Read more at Princevault.com.

Releases with Tricky :

hhhhdmt said:

StonedImmaculate said:

Because thats when Prince was a trendsetter, not a follower.

you surely cannot expect one man to set trends forever, its virtually impossible. He still did some fantastic work in the 90's.

if you were a fan in the 80s, you'd understand why his 90s work just...doesn't matter, really

I wouldn't say he's ever been surpassed. It's just that he taught the world to think like he does. It's been a drag ever since

abigail05 said:

hhhhdmt said:

you surely cannot expect one man to set trends forever, its virtually impossible. He still did some fantastic work in the 90's.

if you were a fan in the 80s, you'd understand why his 90s work just...doesn't matter, really

I wouldn't say he's ever been surpassed. It's just that he taught the world to think like he does. It's been a drag ever since

No i wasnt a fan in the 80s, heck i wasnt even alive in the 80's. But i think he has many 80's fans who still enjoy alot of his 90's work. The expectations that many of his fans have for him are simply unrealistic. every artist has a musical peak.

hhhhdmt said:

abigail05 said:

if you were a fan in the 80s, you'd understand why his 90s work just...doesn't matter, really

I wouldn't say he's ever been surpassed. It's just that he taught the world to think like he does. It's been a drag ever since

No i wasnt a fan in the 80s, heck i wasnt even alive in the 80's. But i think he has many 80's fans who still enjoy alot of his 90's work. The expectations that many of his fans have for him are simply unrealistic. every artist has a musical peak.

Many of us are still holding out for what we used to get every year. It used to be that we would check for his latest 45rpm single (yes, vinyl!) and quite often one would appear - with an unheard b-side (Erotic City, God, Another Lonely Christmas, etc etc) and more often than not they were FANTASTIC. It did create an expectation of excellence. I gave up on it in the early 90s, but it was fun while it lasted. You kids born in the 90s, you have no idea how spectacular the dude really was, compared to everything else that was coming out

I dug some of his 90s stuff...but after 88 he went downhill pretty fast.

The rap thing was atrocious.

We've been thru this a million times.

In the 80s, if a Prince album had 10 songs, 8 were the BOMB and 2 were okay/good.

After 88, a 10 song album would have maybe 2 really good songs, 2 or 3 okay songs, and the rest garbage.

And thats being nice!

it's nice to know that ?uestlove can actually string a sentence together, when pressed, as opposed to that inarticulate crap he posts on his own website (or used to -- whatever, haven't been there in years).

Rinluv said:

He called Camille Prince's heluim-voiced "female" character..Well Erotic city wasnt a Camille song and Camille is not a "female"

whatever Prince might have had you believe in 1986-1988, Camille is a a studio trick that was applied to a batch of songs, including ones before and after that era. he just gave it a name during that period because it was a project and just one more pseudonym in an every-growing list at the time.

Rinluv said: ..Well Erotic city wasnt a Camille song

He didn't write that it was a Camille-song. Just that he started to use that voice : "... It also marks the beginning of him singing as ..."