I was just digging through my annals of funk, and has anyone ever noticed that the Bar-Kay's "Dance, Party, etc." off of their 1984 album "Dangerous" bears a REALLY close resemblance to DMSR? Check it out...

I had never heard it before, but you're absolutely right.

If Prince is the real thing, this surely was the knockoff version you'd buy at the swap meet. There have been plenty of discussions about The Bar-Kays doing this in the next forum down, try to org search them.

Clearly they were tryin 2 hard Lol it sucks

Uhhmmm...I thought it´s an established fact that the Bar-Kays are nothing but a copycat band. A lot of their most famous songs were either heavily influenced by other songs, or they just blatanly copied the original with no shame in their game.

Don´t get me wrong, I love me some Bar-Kays but there are lots of Bar-Kays songs that sound like someone else´s song.

( Mostly inspired by either Prince, ZAPP, the Whispers, or Midnight Star).

But we all know that Prince also stole a lot from other folks, so I guess there´s balance.