What are his best melodies in your opinion?

In no order:

I feel For you

I Wonder

Take Me With U

Raspberry Beret

First ones that spring to mind...

Arms Of Orion

The Question Of U

Pink Cashmere

Damn U/Poor Little Bastard

Around The World In A Day

17 Days

Sugar Walls

Manic Monday/1999/Blue Limousine

The Beautiful Ones

Pearls B4 The Swine

Venus De Milo

Standing At The Alter

Tangerine

Glamorous Life

Free

Little Red Corvette

Under The Cherry Moon

Sometime It Snows In April

The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker

Adore

When 2 R In Love

The Question Of U

Diamonds & Pearls

The Morning Papers

7

Damn U

Dolphin

Eye Hate U

Curious Child

Tangerine

She Loves Me 4 Me

Te Amo Corazon

A few that come to my mind:

Strange Relationship

Avalanche

Manic Monday

Condition of the Heart

Strange Way of Saying I love You

I love U But Don't Trust U Anymore

Darling Niki

Question of U/Under the Cherry Moon

I'm a huge fan of Prince's perfect pop tunes. These come to mind now:

- Manic Monday

- Paisley Park

- Raspberry Beret

- Pop Life

- Starfish And Coffee

- I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

- Last Call

- Money Don't Matter 2Night

- Dolphin

- Lion Of Judah

Can I add How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? OK. Just did.

Oh, and how could I have forgotten all of those Family tracks? Pure melodic bliss - some of his finest work. Hellzapoppin', Bobby Z's track even has a killer melody on that LP.

When You Were Mine

U Make My Sun Shine

Still Would Stand All Time

The Question Of U

I Wanna Be Your Lover

1999

Let's Go Crazy

Bambi

America

Around The World In a Day

Sign O The Times

Gett Off

Betcha By Golly Wow

The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

Kiss

[Edited 11/4/11 13:47pm]

I gotta go with "4ever in My Life".... Simply because the melody is everything. There really isn't even any backing music.

squirrelgrease said:

Can I add How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? OK. Just did.

Oh, and how could I have forgotten all of those Family tracks? Pure melodic bliss - some of his finest work. Hellzapoppin', Bobby Z's track even has a killer melody on that LP.

I did too! Specially Desire. In my opinion, 1985 was the best year for Prince's melodic achievements, with Around The World In A Day and The Family.

some great Prince songs don't really have melodies... to me a melody is a sequence of different notes that changes with each measure forming a dramatic progression (sort of like an abstract narrative).

Many Prince songs have a lot of repetition on a single note with the lead vocal, with nice chords to support, and then nice funky production on the beat. It's the production that implies harmony or catchy texture in those cases.

Like Little Red Corvette. Play the lead vocal line on a keyboard, your finger won't travel too much. Not too much melody going on.

Or Kiss.

or

Sign O' the Times.

That one really doesn't have much melody!

But something like Under the Cherry Moon/Question of U has a full on melody.

ufoclub said:

some great Prince songs don't really have melodies... to me a melody is a sequence of different notes that changes with each measure forming a dramatic progression (sort of like an abstract narrative).

Many Prince songs have a lot of repetition on a single note with the lead vocal, with nice chords to support, and then nice funky production on the beat. It's the production that implies harmony or catchy texture in those cases.

Like Little Red Corvette. Play the lead vocal line on a keyboard, your finger won't travel too much. Not too much melody going on.

Or Kiss.

or

Sign O' the Times.

That one really doesn't have much melody!

But something like Under the Cherry Moon/Question of U has a full on melody.

I totally agree!

My favourite melody would have to be Under The Cherry Moon - so pretty!

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I'm very fond of all the melodies on Soul Sanctuary...beautiful...

One of my favorite is I Love You in Me.