The SICKNESS!!!!!!!!!!

It oozes fonk!

P's voice is way down there, and that bass is killer!

robertlove said:

dseann said:

I'm sorry but I respectfully disagree. That's like saying D'Angelo wouldn't have recorded "Untitled/How Does It Feel?" if Prince hadn't done Adore. Or that Ready For The World wouldn't have recorded "Oh Sheila" without Prince doing ..... well anything. Or that Andre 3000 wouldn't have recorded "The Love Below" without Prince doing all his albums in the 80's.

Laid Back was also a Warner Bros. act who knows if White Horse wasn't influenced by Prince. Who knows what Prince songs were floating around the studio back then. Remember that Prince squashed an album between 1999 and Purple Rain which happens to be the same time White Horse was "released".

Prince would have sued Laid Back right away if "Erotic city" was recorded before "White horse".

Not really, if he didn't sue that group who used his riff from "I'm Yours" as the entire musical composition of their song, I don't see him suing Laid Back.

KoolEaze said:

dseann said:

I'm sorry but I respectfully disagree. That's like saying D'Angelo wouldn't have recorded "Untitled/How Does It Feel?" if Prince hadn't done Adore. Or that Ready For The World wouldn't have recorded "Oh Sheila" without Prince doing ..... well anything. Or that Andre 3000 wouldn't have recorded "The Love Below" without Prince doing all his albums in the 80's.

Laid Back was also a Warner Bros. act who knows if White Horse wasn't influenced by Prince. Who knows what Prince songs were floating around the studio back then. Remember that Prince squashed an album between 1999 and Purple Rain which happens to be the same time White Horse was "released".

A few years ago I raised the same doubts as you here on the org. I wanted to know whether it´s possible that MAYBE Erotic City was recorded first but not really released yet, and that MAYBE Laid Back got to listen to Erotic City first and not the other way around, but nobody had accurate info on that other than the fact that White Horse did indeed come out earlier than Erotic City.

I think there was also a maxi single of When Doves Cry with a Laid Back song as the b-side, and they both kind of liked each other.

I don´t know. They do have similarities, don´t you think?

Oh they definitely have similarities. I mentioned Andre 3000, D'Angelo and Ready For The World because of the similarities. Regardless, Erotic City will always kick ass. I'll love the song forever.