I could have sworn this was a topic here but it may have been from way back in the 'Quake days...

Prince has done some songs that were slammin' along but were trainwrecked by questionable endings. I'm not counting live versions, extended remixes or extended jams that went on too long; I'm talking about songs that take an unfortunate turn off the cliff. My top two:

Temptation

Nice underworld funk jam until the "conversation" at the end; cool the first time you hear it, a little less cool every time after that...

Rock & Roll Is Alive...

Serious party jam, hot groove in the middle, smokin' bass breakdown, and then... well... kind of a Las Vegas show tune disaster

I thought the Super Bowl press conference started off killer with Johnny B Goode/Anotherloverholeinyohead, and then ended badly with Get On The Boat

Beginning Endlessly

Starts off like it's going to be an interesting song, and then just meanders into boring repetition and stupid lyrics.

Love 2 The 9s

White Mansion

I love it, but that whole end part ("Check out that ass!"), which may have been fun and fitting in a different song, seem really out of place.

S.E.X

i like it till the part where he sings the word "sex" 3 times or so after that, i usually turn it off

Shy

you'd think there is going to be a part that changes but it stays the same

can't think of anything else right now

Efan said:

White Mansion

I love it, but that whole end part ("Check out that ass!"), which may have been fun and fitting in a different song, seem really out of place.

Yeah, that was unfortunate.

NeonCraxx said:

Damned If I Do, Damned If I don't What's with the salsa crap? Fuck dat!

Seriously? I love that part!

The Continental - It's only listenable when you cut off that whole "sexy" telephone conversation part with Carmen Electra.

R.A.V.E. on the Rave album. Kick ass opening, then the song goes off on some weird Egyptian tangent.

I think I'll write a song that takes that opening and does something with it.

Efan said:

White Mansion

I love it, but that whole end part ("Check out that ass!"), which may have been fun and fitting in a different song, seem really out of place.

While I found that part humurous at first, it did take away from the replay value of the song.

Fortunately, if you have the song on itunes, there is a very simple way to end the song before that part.

I have mine set to end at 4:19, the original length of the track is 4:28. 4:19 is a very comfortable and natural spot to end the song, if you listen to music on loop a lot (like I do) you'll notice that the 4:19 back to 0:00 transition is seamless.

While it may be considered sacrilege to fuck with how Prince intended the music, this small edit exponentially increases the replay value of the song.

To change the start and end times of your songs in itunes, simply left click on the track and proceed to the "get info" tab.

Then under the track info proceed to the "options" tab.

From there you can select what time you want that particular track to begin or end.

Try it out! It might save the song for you, it did for me.

MarquessMarq said:

Efan said:

White Mansion

I love it, but that whole end part ("Check out that ass!"), which may have been fun and fitting in a different song, seem really out of place.

While I found that part humurous at first, it did take away from the replay value of the song.

Fortunately, if you have the song on itunes, there is a very simple way to end the song before that part.

I have mine set to end at 4:19, the original length of the track is 4:28. 4:19 is a very comfortable and natural spot to end the song, if you listen to music on loop a lot (like I do) you'll notice that the 4:19 back to 0:00 transition is seamless.

While it may be considered sacrilege to fuck with how Prince intended the music, this small edit exponentially increases the replay value of the song.

To change the start and end times of your songs in itunes, simply left click on the track and proceed to the "get info" tab.

Then under the track info proceed to the "options" tab.

From there you can select what time you want that particular track to begin or end.

Try it out! It might save the song for you, it did for me.

I never thought of doing that!

Genesia said:

MarquessMarq said:

While I found that part humurous at first, it did take away from the replay value of the song.

Fortunately, if you have the song on itunes, there is a very simple way to end the song before that part.

I have mine set to end at 4:19, the original length of the track is 4:28. 4:19 is a very comfortable and natural spot to end the song, if you listen to music on loop a lot (like I do) you'll notice that the 4:19 back to 0:00 transition is seamless.

While it may be considered sacrilege to fuck with how Prince intended the music, this small edit exponentially increases the replay value of the song.

To change the start and end times of your songs in itunes, simply left click on the track and proceed to the "get info" tab.

Then under the track info proceed to the "options" tab.

From there you can select what time you want that particular track to begin or end.

Try it out! It might save the song for you, it did for me.

I never thought of doing that!

This is a great idea; thanks for the suggestion, MarquessMarq.

Actually, I'm more eager to edit some of the poorly done album tracks that I've imported from CD (i.e., A Love Bizarre has a snippet of Dear Michaelangelo at the beginning; Anotherloverholenyohead has the last bit of Kiss; and there are other sloppy ones).

NeonCraxx said:

Damned If I Do, Damned If I don't What's with the salsa crap? Fuck dat!

LOL that's the part I like!

The beginning is like Beverly Hills 90210

NDRU said:

NDRU said:

ludwig said:

Funklov said:

ludwig said:

The Continental - It's only listenable when you cut off that whole "sexy" telephone conversation part with Carmen Electra.

Have to disagree, the second half is the better of the two. its a funky bit that i liked even more when he did it live on Act 1, mixing it with "Get on up"

i think both halves are awesome, but the carmen electra part of the 2nd half i could live without

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[Edited 3/27/12 17:38pm]

While I wouldn't go so far as to say that it ruins the song, I find the phone conversation at the end of Joint to Joint to be several seconds I'd rather spend having root canal surgery.

ludwig said:

The Continental - It's only listenable when you cut off that whole "sexy" telephone conversation part with Carmen Electra.

EYE HATE THAT TOOOO!! WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BODY!

Last december - nice intro, nice jam inside, the song ruins on the chorus

77 Beverly Park, nuff said. Starts off like it's going to be a hard funk rock groove jam, then it turns to be...well, you know...

3 Chains O Gold

Jagar said:

3 Chains O Gold

Lol, I actually think that song kinda sucks UP UNTIL the last 2 mins or so...

I agree on daddy pop .. such a great sly style song .. sounds much better without tony m at the end

another would be u make my sunshine .. could have been another hit like beautiful girl but that stupid baroque hoity toity bridge at the end really kills it for me

The Sun, Moon and Stars

Love it until he starts clucking like a chicken

Now

The screaming is unneccessary

Extralovable (first edition)

The rape discussion/reference is unneccessary IMHO