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Thread started 01/19/12 6:44pm

Emancipation89

God (vocal) is pure MAGIC..

I get goosebumps every time I listen to this song. His vocal in this song is just...indescribable.

I think what makes this song so special is the unstable vocal. Like when he hit his highest note (0:40 to 0:44)...He could've easily went back to the studio and re-record that part but I think he intentionally let it be like that. He just let it all out. That spontaneous expression from going through spiritual ecstasy...I think it actually shows the vulnerability of human..

I don't have a religion but it's songs like this that make me think about the invisible force, something bigger than human...He just sounds so inspired and frail at the same time..

Along with The Love We Make, this song gets my vote for his best spiritual song.

"who screamed...was it you?"

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Reply #1 posted 01/19/12 7:02pm

OldFriends4Sal
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Emancipation89 said:

I get goosebumps every time I listen to this song. His vocal in this song is just...indescribable.

I think what makes this song so special is the unstable vocal. Like when he hit his highest note (0:40 to 0:44)...He could've easily went back to the studio and re-record that part but I think he intentionally let it be like that. He just let it all out. That spontaneous expression from going through spiritual ecstasy...I think it actually shows the vulnerability of human..

I don't have a religion but it's songs like this that make me think about the invisible force, something bigger than human...He just sounds so inspired and frail at the same time..

Along with The Love We Make, this song gets my vote for his best spiritual song.

"who screamed...was it you?"

I've always LOVED this song, that haunting PR era feel 2 it

I still remember when I bought the single with Purple Rain, it was winter time and night time when I came home with it and my brothers and a neighbor were in my parents living room with the 'record player' and we put it on, gave us chills

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Reply #2 posted 01/19/12 7:06pm

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It sounds like a cat is being tortured. This is what he titles GOD?

"Climb in my fur."
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Reply #3 posted 01/19/12 7:18pm

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rdhull said:

It sounds like a cat is being tortured. This is what he titles GOD?

goof lol, that's only the ending the rest of the song is melodic and beautiful

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Reply #4 posted 01/19/12 8:55pm

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yeah, heart

and when I discovered the long UK 12 inch instrumental version...

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that is pure magic - too. worship

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Reply #5 posted 01/19/12 9:08pm

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http://www.princevault.co...urple_Rain

(UK: W9174T)
A. Purple Rain (Long Version) (7:05)
B1. God (Love Theme From Purple Rain) (7:54)
B2. God (3:59)

cool

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Reply #6 posted 01/19/12 9:18pm

GetBleu

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Yeah I love it too, his vocals are so intense in that number...beautfiul. Only Prince can truly pull off the shrills of frustration in a song like that.

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Reply #7 posted 01/19/12 10:48pm

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Love the instrumental; hate the vocal version. "God (Vocal)" gets my vote for worst 80s Prince song. I think the lyrics are stupid and the vocals are gross. "God (Instrumental)", on the other hand, is a great song.

[Edited 1/19/12 22:49pm]

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Reply #8 posted 01/19/12 10:49pm

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If by "Magic" you mean "hilarious"....I agree. That may be one of Prince's most silliest songs ever. Anytime I want a nice laugh, I put that song on. neutral

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Reply #9 posted 01/19/12 11:19pm

Dren5

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*sings*

Gawddddd made youuuu/Gawd made meeeee tooooooo/He made us allllll equallyyyyyyyy

*shrieks wildly like my nonexistent nuts are on fire*

All joking aside, I've always liked it too. Not as much as Power Fantastic, but it's okay.

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Reply #10 posted 01/20/12 1:59am

iloveannie

Dren5 said:

*sings*

Gawddddd made youuuu/Gawd made meeeee tooooooo/He made us allllll equallyyyyyyyy

*shrieks wildly like my nonexistent nuts are on fire*

All joking aside, I've always liked it too. Not as much as Power Fantastic, but it's okay.

You've got a point. At least the Rainbow Children had some mature structure behind it. Even though it's still feckin' barkin'.

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Reply #11 posted 01/20/12 5:18am

OldFriends4Sal
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Dren5 said:

*sings*

Gawddddd made youuuu/Gawd made meeeee tooooooo/He made us allllll equallyyyyyyyy

*shrieks wildly like my nonexistent nuts are on fire*

All joking aside, I've always liked it too. Not as much as Power Fantastic, but it's okay.

That's something that I find in a lot of his 1999-ATWIAD sound, Prince did shriek a lot especially on stage, but I love that wildness God the Dance Electric Temptation Computer Blue(14min) Darlin Nikki(uncut) When Doves Cry

over all back then he did a lot of wild screams and yells unrestraint love

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Reply #12 posted 01/20/12 5:47am

CallMeCarrie

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It's one of the songs that I would love to hear live one day. Beautiful.

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Reply #13 posted 01/20/12 6:29am

imago

Oh god, I need to add this to my unintentionally hilarious Prince moments.

God cracks my ass up endlessly. lol

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Reply #14 posted 01/20/12 9:47am

BlackandRising

iloveannie said:

Dren5 said:

*sings*

Gawddddd made youuuu/Gawd made meeeee tooooooo/He made us allllll equallyyyyyyyy

*shrieks wildly like my nonexistent nuts are on fire*

All joking aside, I've always liked it too. Not as much as Power Fantastic, but it's okay.

You've got a point. At least the Rainbow Children had some mature structure behind it. Even though it's still feckin' barkin'.

well, given the age difference between the man that wrote both, wouldn't you expect come level of maturity to have taken place? The meaning he's trying to convey hasn't changed, just the message. It's crazy that people compare what he did in his 20's to what he's done in his 40's and 50's.

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Reply #15 posted 01/20/12 11:07am

blacknote

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHRAAAAAA!

RAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Such an enchanting piece of music.

LOL

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Reply #16 posted 01/20/12 1:09pm

madhouseman

Possibly my least favorite song from that era. GOD awful.

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Reply #17 posted 01/20/12 2:31pm

iloveannie

BlackandRising said:



iloveannie said:




Dren5 said:


*sings*



Gawddddd made youuuu/Gawd made meeeee tooooo/He made us alllll equallyyyyy




*shrieks wildly like my nonexistent nuts are on fire*



All joking aside, I've always liked it too. Not as much as Power Fantastic, but it's okay.




You've got a point. At least the Rainbow Children had some mature structure behind it. Even though it's still feckin' barkin'.



well, given the age difference between the man that wrote both, wouldn't you expect come level of maturity to have taken place? The meaning he's trying to convey hasn't changed, just the message. It's crazy that people compare what he did in his 20's to what he's done in his 40's and 50's.


No it isn't. It's perfectly natural to compare an individual's early work to his later. Once again though the Org leaps to some argumentative opinion. It's tiresome and boring and only serves to hinder progressive conversation and stifle humour.
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Reply #18 posted 01/20/12 2:55pm

Emancipation89

Yeah I absolutely LOVE the instrumental version as well cloud9

I love Power Fantastic too but I don't know if its just me, but I hear "Minor G is a chord of pleasures, It will be, played in eleven measures," as some kind of reference to G spot boxed Plus, I've never heard anyone using the word "pleasure" to describe their spiritual joyfulness...but it is nice to hear different interpretations.. smile

CrabalockerFishwife said:

Love the instrumental; hate the vocal version. "God (Vocal)" gets my vote for worst 80s Prince song. I think the lyrics are stupid and the vocals are gross. "God (Instrumental)", on the other hand, is a great song.

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Tittypants said:

If by "Magic" you mean "hilarious"....I agree. That may be one of Prince's most silliest songs ever. Anytime I want a nice laugh, I put that song on. neutral

I've noticed that many people laugh at this song...I don't take his vocals in this song as his "singing vocals", especially towards the end. Like I said, to me at least, he sounds as if he's so overwhelmed by the emotions that he just had to scream, or made whatever the weird noise that humans make when they feel overjoyed, or perhaps frightened...sounds as if he's almost losing his mind. For some reason, I get it, completely, why he screamed.. instead of decided to sing melodically....you know? It's not calculated..he's improvising, only staying true to his feelings...I think it's brilliant biggrin you guys should try to listen to this song in complete darkness haha

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Reply #19 posted 01/20/12 5:26pm

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imago said:

Oh god, I need to add this to my unintentionally hilarious Prince moments.




God cracks my ass up endlessly. lol



This was on my response to your thread. I love the main part of the song, it's just the bookends of ecstatic spiritual orgasming that makes for awkward listening. I've never listened to it in mixed company, a little too intimate of a song.
"So fierce U look 2night, the brightest star pales 2 Ur sex..."
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Reply #20 posted 01/20/12 6:34pm

breese

I loved it in high school and didn't think too much of it. Sometime later, maybe in my 30s, I put it on and laughed my ass off.

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Reply #21 posted 01/20/12 7:09pm

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iloveannie said:

Dren5 said:

*sings*

Gawddddd made youuuu/Gawd made meeeee tooooooo/He made us allllll equallyyyyyyyy

*shrieks wildly like my nonexistent nuts are on fire*

All joking aside, I've always liked it too. Not as much as Power Fantastic, but it's okay.

You've got a point. At least the Rainbow Children had some mature structure behind it. Even though it's still feckin' barkin'.

No, I didn't mean it like that. I actually like "God".

In fact I prefer it over most of "The Rainbow Children", actually.

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Reply #22 posted 01/20/12 8:02pm

imago

kenkamken said:

imago said:

Oh god, I need to add this to my unintentionally hilarious Prince moments.

God cracks my ass up endlessly. lol

This was on my response to your thread. I love the main part of the song, it's just the bookends of ecstatic spiritual orgasming that makes for awkward listening. I've never listened to it in mixed company, a little too intimate of a song.

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Reply #23 posted 01/20/12 11:00pm

BlackandRising

iloveannie said:

BlackandRising said:

well, given the age difference between the man that wrote both, wouldn't you expect come level of maturity to have taken place? The meaning he's trying to convey hasn't changed, just the message. It's crazy that people compare what he did in his 20's to what he's done in his 40's and 50's.

No it isn't. It's perfectly natural to compare an individual's early work to his later. Once again though the Org leaps to some argumentative opinion. It's tiresome and boring and only serves to hinder progressive conversation and stifle humour.

assuming you're at least in your twenties, for the sake of arguement, it's fair to say that your frame of mind has changed dramatically from the time you were ten yrs old to when you were 20. It wouldn't be fair to say that your beliefs or how you expressed your beliefs at 10 is comparable to how you express them at 20. The same applies to someone at 20 vs how they are when they're 50. In fact, it's without a doubt even more pronounced. So, yeah, it is fair to compare someone's older works to newer, but perspective is important, don't you think?

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Reply #24 posted 01/21/12 6:57am

iloveannie

Forty and a half wink And, yes, I agree with you. It wasn't a comment to take seriously though. As for God, I'd rather have that than recent stuff. He was so original back then.
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Reply #25 posted 01/21/12 5:30pm

BlackandRising

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Forty and a half wink And, yes, I agree with you. It wasn't a comment to take seriously though. As for God, I'd rather have that than recent stuff. He was so original back then.

I was way off on the age! anyway, yeah, I love this song, and when I hear it the one thing it makes me think of is how the expression of his beliefs have changed dramatically, but the basic belief has not. It illustrates pretty vividly how his religious leanings have progressed from a kind of simplistic "god made me, god made you" mindset to The Rainbow Children, which, like it or not, is pretty complicated comparitively.

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Reply #26 posted 01/21/12 5:36pm

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BlackandRising said:

his religious leanings have progressed from a kind of simplistic "god made me, god made you" mindset to The Rainbow Children, which, like it or not, is pretty complicated comparitively.

This is exactely why I prefer his religious music from the 90s and 2000s to his 80s religious songs. "God", "4 The Tears In Your Eyes", "The Cross", "Eye No", etc.. are all way too lyrically simplistic for me to like them. The lyrics on TRC are clearly more well thought out.

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Reply #27 posted 01/21/12 9:54pm

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Have and ALWAYS will love this track. Utterly BRILLIANT IMO.

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Reply #28 posted 01/22/12 12:39am

iloveannie

Prince is one of those who needs something else. Despite having so much it just isn't enough. So we've watched his journey. Some have thought him a prophet, others are bit looney and many, like myself, a man searching for enlightenment. I would elaborate but this phone is tricksy. Either way I prefer it when he sings about shagging.
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Reply #29 posted 01/22/12 1:13am

breese

Even though the vocals get pretty crazy, this is still my favorite era of his (Purple Rain) and with that 'God' gets my support. He was so insanely great in 83-84 that a little overindulgence gets a pass.

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