Come on, people, let´s talk about REAL musicians.

GustavoRibas said:

Come on, people, let´s talk about REAL musicians.

Well I did in my post, don't know about anyone else.

Earth Wind and Fire - Superhero (actually they recorded the song first)

Michael Hedges - a love bizarre

Etta James - Purple Rain

Maralyn Manson did a cover of 1999, the video is on youtube

Timmy84 said:

GustavoRibas said:

Come on, people, let´s talk about REAL musicians.

Well I did in my post, don't know about anyone else.

I did in my first post, too.....then somehow it got turned into actors covering Prince songs instead of musicians.

Timmy84 said:

GeminiBrown said:

She's always in my hair

D'angelo & Somethin' for the People

I remember hearing their versions years ago. I loved D'Angelo's take of it.

Oh yes I loved it as well and I generally dont like Prince covers. Stangely enough Something for the People's cover wasn't that bad either.

GustavoRibas said:

Earth Wind and Fire - Superhero (actually they recorded the song first)

Michael Hedges - a love bizarre

Etta James - Purple Rain

I mentioned it.

Alicia Keys covered "How come you dont call me anymore?" Didnt Kurt Cobain cover Purple rain, i read it somewhere but maybe its just a rumour?

Timmy84 said:

Duff McKagan of Guns 'n' Roses covered "Bambi" I think but I'm not sure... I know he said that was his favorite Prince song.

yes he did, B side to Believe In Me, it was not good!

Timmy84 said:

• When You Were Mine (Hi-Fi, Cyndi Lauper, Mitch Ryder)
• Private Joy (La Toya Jackson, Evan Rogers, Cheyne)
• Do Me Baby (Me'lisa Morgan)
• Soft & Wet (MC Hammer in a hip-hop version)
• I Wanna Be Your Lover (Corrinne Bailey Rae)
• Sexy Dancer (Peaches)
• I Feel For You (The Pointer Sisters, Chaka Khan, Mary Wells, Rebbie Jackson)
• Crazy You (Zo and Sy Smith)
• Get It Up (TLC)
• How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore (Stephanie Mills, Joshua Redman, Alicia Keys)
• Gigolos Get Lonely Too (Big Moe in a hip-hop version with different lyrics and different title)
• 1999 (Gary Numan, Adeva, Bif Naked, Matthew Good, Phish, Limp Bizkit)
• Little Red Corvette (Sandra Bernhard, The Nylons, Paul Kelly)
• Let's Pretend We're Married (Tina Turner)
• Let's Go Crazy (Incubus, Green Day, Janelle Monae)
• When Doves Cry (Ginuwine, Quindon Tarver, Damien Rice, Patti Smith, Guy Sebastian)
• Purple Rain (LeAnn Rimes, Etta James, Patti LaBelle, Randy Crawford, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Tori Amos, Foo Fighters, The Hollies, Peter Murphy)
• I Would Die 4 U (Raheem DeVaughn, Space Cowboy, Of Montreal)
• Take Me With U (Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings)
• The Beautiful Ones (Mariah Carey, Dru Hill, Beyonce)
• Darling Nikki (Foo Fighters, Rebecca Romijin)
• Baby I'm a Star (Tina Turner)
• Computer Blue (Of Montreal)
• Raspberry Beret (Hindu Love Gods, D'Angelo, Warren Zevon)
• Pop Life (Dead or Alive)
• Kiss (Tom Jones and Art of Noise, Age of Chance, Westlife)
• Sign O' The Times (Chaka Khan, Nina Simone)
• If I Was Your Girlfriend (TLC, Esperanza Spaulding,
• U Got the Look (Gary Numan, Ween)
• I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Jordan Knight, The Goo Goo Dolls)
• Alphabet St. (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
• I Wish U Heaven (Darren Hayes)
• Thieves in the Temple (Herbie Hancock)
• Nothing Compares 2 U (Sinead O'Connor, of course)
• The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Alex Bugnon)
• Don't Talk 2 Strangers (Chaka Khan)

[Edited 5/17/11 11:45am]

I Freakin love that version

Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake -I Feel For You-Micky Mouse Club

Argh....REAL MUSICIANS, please

Elvis Costello once planned to do a cover version of Pop Life, with altered lyrics, but Prince refused. Costello later recorded the song "The Bridge I Burned", which borrows the chord sequence from "Pop Life"

[Edited 5/20/11 15:05pm]

Oz Noy - Sometimes it snows in April

A few years ago, there was a video on Youtube of Metallica performing Sister. Color Me Badd sampled Crazy You on their song How Deep.

DoffieParker said:

sinead o connor took nothing compares 2 u & made it huge hit,

Technically, didn't she really cover The Family?

GustavoRibas said:

Elvis Costello once planned to do a cover version of Pop Life, with altered lyrics, but Prince refused. Costello later recorded the song "The Bridge I Burned", which borrows the chord sequence from "Pop Life"

[Edited 5/20/11 15:05pm]

I saw Elvis Costello perform Sign o the Times in Upstate NY in 1990. Great show.

Also I remember hearing Phish covered 1999 or Purple Rain, Can't remember which one it was.

^Phish has performed a cover of Purple Rain

Elvis Costello did perform a coverversion of Pop Life (in LA in 1986)

A winner of polish version of X Factor - Michał Szpak - did his cover of Purple Rain. He has already released his debut album, so is he a profesionally musician? I guess so. You can find it, if you search in Google "michal szpak purple rain x factor'. : )

Did anybody mention him?

Skip all the noise until 3:46.

Esperanza Spalding performed ´If I was your girlfriend´ in a Prince tribute. Janelle Monae did ´Let´s go crazy´.