SuperFurryAnimal said:

rips Prince/The Time/Ingrid Chavez

never knew there was a video for that, should have dispelled all the talk that Prince released this under a pseudonym.

NeonCraxx said:

the writer is a dick - case closed

absolutely, some writers don't know how to get a reaction without going negative. Namecalling and even calling him "lanky" which is not exactly an adjective I'd ever ascribe to Prince doesn't make his case with me anyway.

herb4 said:

First thing I though of besides Ready for the World was "Lst's Go All the Way" by Sly Fox.

"Hellagood" by No Doubt sounds like PRince.

that's very interesting because I always thought Spiderwebs was Prince of the I could never take the Place of your man/ When you were mine vintage.

Wildboy said:

He's even rocking the under the cherry moon outfit:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...oGhZ13_XT4

Is it wrong I secretly love this song?

no, great ripoff and all due respect to the earlier responder, this is a pure Prince ripoff and a good one, I'd forgotten this tune. Like I said, black musicians respected and damn near worshipped Prince in the mid 80's. This song has the synth stabs, the simple melody and even the vocals imitate Prince's distinct lower register and it's grainy sound especially when he's "calls" the girl up.

to add on to what I said about the author not even giving us good/great songs, a lot of reviewers thought George Michael's "I want Your Sex" was imitation Prince, I never did but the Faith album had plenty of Prince like funk on it and the vocal manipulations which Prince often used. Even Roger who came before Prince tried to imitate the look and sound with "I Wanna Be Your Man". This is great music which should be mentioned on this subject but the author probably doesn't really know or care. Janet Jackson's first album, Jesse Johnsons first album are both good albums of pure Minneapolis sound funk.

You could probably post Justin Timberlake's last album in its entirety, too.

Paris9748430 said:

You could probably post Justin Timberlake

's last album in its entirety, too.

I was gonna mention the tune from Coming to America, it was a pretty good one, Sussudio slipped my mind as did Van Halen's "Jump" which stole the riff from Dirty Mind and made it better in my opinion. Sussudio was a blatant rip which if Prince cared about suing people would be a good choice. Funny, Prince has never ever spoken out about the ripoffs even though he himself does not like his music stolen, a bit ironic. You'd think he'd be pissed at all these people but no, never said a word.

petes2 said:

I was gonna mention the tune from Coming to America, it was a pretty good one, Sussudio slipped my mind as did Van Halen's "Jump" which stole the riff from Dirty Mind and made it better in my opinion. Sussudio was a blatant rip which if Prince cared about suing people would be a good choice. Funny, Prince has never ever spoken out about the ripoffs even though he himself does not like his music stolen, a bit ironic. You'd think he'd be pissed at all these people but no, never said a word.

Some of Prince's music sounds very similar to others' music, too.

Like the main guitar riff in Kiss sounds like the guitar in Papa's Got a Brand New Bag.

Now, James Brown would probably have beef if the hornline in Cold Sweat wasn't just a sped up version of Miles Davis' So What.

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Paris9748430 said:

petes2 said:

I was gonna mention the tune from Coming to America, it was a pretty good one, Sussudio slipped my mind as did Van Halen's "Jump" which stole the riff from Dirty Mind and made it better in my opinion. Sussudio was a blatant rip which if Prince cared about suing people would be a good choice. Funny, Prince has never ever spoken out about the ripoffs even though he himself does not like his music stolen, a bit ironic. You'd think he'd be pissed at all these people but no, never said a word.

Some of Prince's music sounds very similar to others' music, too.

Like the main guitar riff in Kiss sounds like the guitar in Papa's Got a Brand New Bag.

Now, James Brown would probably have beef if the hornline in Cold Sweat wasn't just a sped up version of Miles Davis' So What.

[Edited 8/20/12 0:22am]

everybody steals, there's no way around that and nothing wrong with it really. Maybe that is why Prince never had issue, I don't know. But what a lot of these people did was damned close to not only plagiarism itself but obviously imitation of production and vocals. It only proves how influential he was.

callimnate said:

callimnate said:

'Lanky'?

Darshy said:

'Lanky'?

I know. Makes you wonder how tall the writer was...?

petes2 said:

Wildboy said:

He's even rocking the under the cherry moon outfit:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...oGhZ13_XT4

Is it wrong I secretly love this song?

no, great ripoff and all due respect to the earlier responder, this is a pure Prince ripoff and a good one, I'd forgotten this tune. Like I said, black musicians respected and damn near worshipped Prince in the mid 80's. This song has the synth stabs, the simple melody and even the vocals imitate Prince's distinct lower register and it's grainy sound especially when he's "calls" the girl up.

Wait,why does that sound like "What Have You done for Me Lately?"

Yeah, Talk To Me is definately more of a Jam & Lewis ripoff (Prince by proxy). Same goes for Circumstantial Evidence re: Jesse Johnson (which is a pretty good LP btw, the Bernadette Cooper track 'Female' is really great).

Rockwell's The Genie LP is quite Paisley in places too

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ufoclub said:

petes2 said:

no, great ripoff and all due respect to the earlier responder, this is a pure Prince ripoff and a good one, I'd forgotten this tune. Like I said, black musicians respected and damn near worshipped Prince in the mid 80's. This song has the synth stabs, the simple melody and even the vocals imitate Prince's distinct lower register and it's grainy sound especially when he's "calls" the girl up.

Wait,why does that sound like "What Have You done for Me Lately?"

ya, that's what I thought, maybe Jimmy Jam and Terry ripped him off. Chico wasn't the one with Janet was he?

Owawa said:

callimnate said:

Here in Australia we had the best white Prince going around in the late 80's.

And although it was hilarious to watch, their music wasn't too bad "for a white guy".

Introducing Wa Wa Nee

Wa Wa Nee's Blush album is a must have .. do yourself a favor !

Serious? anymore on youtube?

erik319 said:

Darshy said:

'Lanky'?

I know. Makes you wonder how tall the writer was...?

that's just a plain innaccurate attempt at a dig.

Owawa said:

callimnate said:

Here in Australia we had the best white Prince going around in the late 80's.

And although it was hilarious to watch, their music wasn't too bad "for a white guy".

Introducing Wa Wa Nee

WA WA NÉE was the only Revolution we had in Australia .. The first album was good for the singles but Blush is a complete album and dare I say it, Paul Gray perfected a new Prince album as anyone has ever tried .. do yourself a favor !

Oh my god, it's like Nicholas Cage's character in Peggy Sue Got Married did get back in a band after the movie plot ends.

petes2 said:

ufoclub said:

petes2 said:

no, great ripoff and all due respect to the earlier responder, this is a pure Prince ripoff and a good one, I'd forgotten this tune. Like I said, black musicians respected and damn near worshipped Prince in the mid 80's. This song has the synth stabs, the simple melody and even the vocals imitate Prince's distinct lower register and it's grainy sound especially when he's "calls" the girl up.

Wait,why does that sound like "What Have You done for Me Lately?"

To be fair, Prince stole this hair syle about 6 years later. So it came full circle.

erik319 said:

petes2 said:

that's just a plain innaccurate attempt at a dig.

Err no, it's an accurate understanding of what the word 'lanky' means.

lanky in the common vernacular means skinny and lengthy limbed. Whether Webster defines it as such I don't know. If he means thin then maybe he could have chosen a better word. It's a dig by any measure along with the hair comment. It's easy for guys like him and us to talk shit about people in the public eye, no one is going to go the lengths to poke at our fat guts or bald spate or demeanor. It's a cheap shot I say and just takes away from whatever point he's attempting to make. And as we see there are much better, more prince soundalikes that he was not knowledgable of, just shows he don't know his subject.

just lookedd up the definition, (how fucking bored am I?) and it was "tall,thin and ungainly", plain innaccurate.

this thread won't really be complete without Jody Watleys "Looking For a new Love" posted.

Pointe said:

I've never seen who this is.

Dreamboy was a blatent ripoff.

Here's another from that album

petes2 said:

this thread won't really be complete without Jody Watleys "Looking For a new Love" posted.

I don't think that's fair, Andre Cymone produced that!

so what, i am just mentioning Prince styled stuff that I think are really good. Andre deserves a mention and rather than "ripoff" I'd call it homage. I've written many songs in Prince style and never thought of myself as ripping off anyone, only imitating my idol. the old saying that "imitation is the sincerest flattery" are true in these cases.

G3000 said:

petes2 said:

this thread won't really be complete without Jody Watleys "Looking For a new Love" posted.

I don't think that's fair, Andre Cymone produced that!

And didn't he stated that the "Minneapolis Sound" wasn't invented by Prince, he was just the first to make it popular?

Think Pepe Willie stated the same thing

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HuMpThAnG said:

G3000 said:

I don't think that's fair, Andre Cymone produced that!

And didn't he stated that the "Minneapolis Sound" wasn't invented by Prince, he just the first to make it popular?

Think Pepe Willie stated that the same thing

Yes! Glad you understood my comment. We're talking about others who "ripped off" the MPLS sound not the ones who created it!