many people on here seem to thinK guitar is prince's most horrid song ever! I say to you people have you heard Hot Summer? about as interesting as sitting on your porch and watching the grass grow! what do you feel is Prince's most Horrid song and why?

Guitar is a bed of roses compared to the bucket of vomit that calls itself Hot Summer.

Purple & Gold.

the demo of Guitar is pretty good.

AhPook said:

Purple & Gold.

the demo of Guitar is pretty good.

agreed, i have the demo and i listen to it frequently. honestly guitar isnt bad at all, i think hot summer and purple n gold are waayy wayy worse. cause and effect wasnt too bad. but guitar was a good tune, most of planet earth is for me.

smartguy said:

many people on here seem to thinK guitar is prince's most horrid song ever! I say to you people have you heard Hot Summer? about as interesting as sitting on your porch and watching the grass grow! what do you feel is Prince's most Horrid song and why?

Horrid?

What a pretentious and prickish description..for ANY song of Prince's.

"Guitar" is a fine track, especially the earlier demo version.

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Didn't he put out the demo version to make fun of his fans? I thought he said something about this demo version, but I can't remember.

Hot summer is a problem when he let his audience sing it. It's awkward when you have to chorusing "hot summer" at his commend

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hestilllovesme said:

Didn't he put out the demo version to make fun of his fans? I thought he said something about this demo version, but can't remember.

Hot summer is disgraceful and funny the same time specially when he let his audience sing

I'm not gonna lie. I like Hot Summer.

Eye love GUITAR when prince didnt do it at the o2 eye was well pissed off!!Then when he did o the joy!!! Uve got prince!uve got prince playing guitar!uve got prince singing about his bloody guitar!! what more do ya want?.

Certainly not the most horrid, but maybe one of the more bland

He "borrowed" the guitar riff from U2's "I will follow" and the melody from the Beatles song "Back in the USSR".

On the same album he used a melody from Barry Manilow and stole the complete groove from a 20 year old disco funk track.

Creativity was low when prince recorded that album.

AhPook said:

hestilllovesme said:

Didn't he put out the demo version to make fun of his fans? I thought he said something about this demo version, but can't remember.

Hot summer is disgraceful and funny the same time specially when he let his audience sing

I'm not gonna lie. I like Hot Summer.

I changed my opinion - you see Didn't wanted to say the song itself is disgraceful but when he let the people sing the words "hot summer"

smartguy said:

many people on here seem to thinK guitar is prince's most horrid song ever! I say to you people have you heard Hot Summer? about as interesting as sitting on your porch and watching the grass grow! what do you feel is Prince's most Horrid song and why?

Really? Can you point me to a single instance of someone saying that?

My vote would be Purple & Gold, but there are plenty of others, especially from the last 10 years or so.

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torahwarrior said:

smartguy said:

many people on here seem to thinK guitar is prince's most horrid song ever! I say to you people have you heard Hot Summer? about as interesting as sitting on your porch and watching the grass grow! what do you feel is Prince's most Horrid song and why?

Horrid?

What a pretentious and prickish description..for ANY song of Prince's.

"Guitar" is a fine track, especially the earlier demo version.

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How is it pretentious exactly?

ludwig said:

He "borrowed" the guitar riff from U2's "I will follow" and the melody from the Beatles song "Back in the USSR".

On the same album he used a melody from Barry Manilow and stole the complete groove from a 20 year old disco funk track.

Creativity was low when prince recorded that album.

wow! But these songs are not on the album

Which song is a mix of Barry Manilow and a 20 year old funk track?

Horrid is a great word to describe a lot of his musical output over the last 15 years or so. Every once in a while he gives us a decent song.

Kinda sad now that he has to rely on tours where he plays mostly stuff that is older. Remember that song "Don't Play Me" where he said his only competition was him in the past?

Well looks like his past self is winning by a mile these days.

Too bad he can't manage his money better. If he could, we would probably get to see him do small tours where he plays mostly new stuff - kinda like the ONA tour.

hestilllovesme said:

ludwig said:

He "borrowed" the guitar riff from U2's "I will follow" and the melody from the Beatles song "Back in the USSR".

On the same album he used a melody from Barry Manilow and stole the complete groove from a 20 year old disco funk track.

Creativity was low when prince recorded that album.

wow! But these songs are not on the album

Which song is a mix of Barry Manilow and a 20 year old funk track?

Those songs were princes "inspiration" for the song guitar. And he didn't change much.

Not a mix. On the title track he used the chorus of Barry Manilows "Could it be magic". And please compare the whole groove of Chelsea Rodgers with the disco funk track "Any time or place" from the band Azoto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z3xD7tKbRY

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^^ Yeah, there is just no getting around that Azoto comparison. Just when you've thought you've heard enough similarities, another one pops out.

Did anything ever come of that (lawsuit, etc)? That is light years more apparent than the Coldplay/Satriani lawsuit a few years ago.

I certainly don't like it, but I wouldn't call it "horrid"

Not THE worst, but it's certainly among the worst.

I would say that "3 X 2 = 6" from the Vanity 6 album is much worse.

Morons! It's Perfect!

you can say you dont like some of his stuff, you can say some of the stuff in the last decade has been bland and boring, but NOTHING he has ever released deserves to be called horrid

There's way worse songs than Guitar to choose from.

LayDownMisty said:

Horrid is a great word to describe a lot of his musical output over the last 15 years or so. Every once in a while he gives us a decent song.

Kinda sad now that he has to rely on tours where he plays mostly stuff that is older. Remember that song "Don't Play Me" where he said his only competition was him in the past?

Well looks like his past self is winning by a mile these days.

Too bad he can't manage his money better. If he could, we would probably get to see him do small tours where he plays mostly new stuff - kinda like the ONA tour.

If you think his new music is so bad then why do you want him touring it?

Another shining example of a Prince song that BLOWS on the album, but actually rocks live...

I always imagined that Prince was just improvising & jamming this in rehearsal one day & had fun with it.... Then spent about 2 hours in the studio laying it down... The album version sucks... I'm sorry...

BUT it is still fun LIVE....

Did something happen to Animal Kingdom????

^^^U don't like funky, funky blue cheese????

DaveG said:

^^^U don't like funky, funky blue cheese????

I fuckin DESPISE that song. Worst he ever has and ever will record.

ludwig said:

hestilllovesme said:

wow! But these songs are not on the album

Which song is a mix of Barry Manilow and a 20 year old funk track?

Those songs were princes "inspiration" for the song guitar. And he didn't change much.

Not a mix. On the title track he used the chorus of Barry Manilows "Could it be magic". And please compare the whole groove of Chelsea Rodgers with the disco funk track "Any time or place" from the band Azoto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z3xD7tKbRY

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I listened to Azoto "Any Time or Place" Of course the beat sounds a little bit alike but there are so many funk songs which groove is like that

But "Could it be magic" where is the similarity? You gotta help me out!

hestilllovesme said:

ludwig said:

Those songs were princes "inspiration" for the song guitar. And he didn't change much.

Not a mix. On the title track he used the chorus of Barry Manilows "Could it be magic". And please compare the whole groove of Chelsea Rodgers with the disco funk track "Any time or place" from the band Azoto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z3xD7tKbRY

[Edited 6/2/11 18:32pm]

I listened to Azoto "Any Time or Place" Of course the beat sounds a little bit alike but there are so many funk songs which groove is like that

But "Could it be magic" where is the similarity? You gotta help me out!

i've wondered the same thing since it started