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Prince blues compilation - ideas? i started thinking about the idea of a Prince blues compilation (there's an interesting disk "Jimi Plays Blues" probably gave me the idea). What would you put in it? Doesn't have to be strict blues but should be blues-influenced or have a basic blues structure.
The obvious ones: The Ride Zannalee If I Had a Harem Purple House (yep, covers are okay
I'd also add: How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore, which seems like a basic blues structure to me (I'm not a muso)
and maybe the early versions of Kiss and Black Sweat (if we stretch it to unreleased trax...)
What else?
N.B. I'm talking about the musical genre not the lyrical content. (This note may seem superfluous but a similar thread on prince's gospel songs got derailed by people posting every song which had some spiritual content...) "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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)What about "The Question Of U," live versions of this in particular sound very bluesy.
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Temptation is blues-based. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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Yep! How did I forget that one???! "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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poor goo the truth small circles, big wheels!
I've got a pretty firm grip on the obvious! |
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5 Women
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Does it have to be written by Prince? Throw Purple House (Prince's version of Jimi's Red House) on there. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Did you read the original post?
Yeah, I considered Truth and Poor Goo - good additions.
Haven't heard "5 Women" - guess I'll have to... "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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Sorry - missed that.
Okay...what about Beggin' Woman? We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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the rehearsal version of If I Had A Harem | |
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Peach, also. one of the more obviously blues-based rockers he's got. | |
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Dark and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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I wish there was a more extensive blues catalogue. I'm hoping for a blues-based album release sometime; something like N.E.W.S, except blues. | |
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Good thread.
Would love to hear your final playlist when you have it compiled! | |
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would Calhoun Square and Beatiful Strange qualify? | |
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I guess you're right - it's just so T-Rex to me, that I don't think of it as blues... "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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Don't think so, but I'm happy to be argued into including them (2 of my faves
Dark is also one of my all-time faves so I'll include it for sure, even though it's kinda borderline. I guess if we're including Dark, we should also include Satisfied, no?
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Use the Satisfied/Beggin' Woman track from the Indigo and you can kill two birds with one stone. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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It's a great track Some people think I'm kinda cute
But that don't compute when it comes 2 Y-O-U. |
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https://www.youtube.com/@PurpleKnightsPodcast | |
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The slowed down acoustic guitar version of "Alphabet St". That has "Delta blues" all over it.
The "Witness" blues rock version could qualify also. | |
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Just listened to Musicology album and thought On the Couch sounded blue-sy.
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Check out songs on The Vault: Old Friends For Sale and The Truth LPs... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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the slow bluesy one that's on the Work. not sure what else it's on. | |
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OK - it would be good to stick to more or less accessible songs (I don't have the Work yet
Listened to Calhoun Square again - it does seem to have a 12-bar structure, I'm on the fence there...
Thinking of including the song SOTT too as a throw-in. It's not blues but seems to reference the genre. What d'you think?
Any more? Are we dried up? "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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I made a blues cd....called it "Blues in Shades of Purple".....I included:
Joy in Repetition.. Live The Ride 5 Women The Other Side of the Pillow The One, Question of U, Fallin (from Indigo Nights) Sastisfied On the Couch Mellow Man O' War (remix) Purple House Zannalee Madrid 2 Chicago Colonized Mind
Some of them were a stretch when it comes to blues, but it all flowed pretty well together.
Wish I had If I Had a Harem.....
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Love the Ride just have never been able to find it and this is a good thread | |
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nursev said: Love the Ride just have never been able to find it and this is a good thread There's a version of it on Crystal Ball How about Old Friends 4 Sale? "So fierce U look 2night, the brightest star pales 2 Ur sex..." | |
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Nice - not sure of all the choices (and I'm not a Man O War fan so I'd leave that out for sure), but interesting... "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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