I posted recently about "Elephants & Flowers" being one of my personal favorite P tracks and I would also include this. What baffles me is that when DIRTY MIND came out, why didn't P or Warner Bros. put that track out as a single? I mean mind you "Dirty Mind" and "Uptown" (especially that one) I both dig. I do.

But sometimes you hear a song and think "well of course that was the single." It's radio friendly, Surely at that time with New Wave and all that, this would've had some success? Surely white kids would've eaten this up like ice cream? "Uptown" for me is a great dance track, but does it scream single or radio friendly? I....wouldn't honestly, at least for sure on the former.

Oh well. Regardless, this kicks ass. My favorite DM track. (although to be fair it alternates with "Sister" at times.)

I love this song, with it's "rockabilly" sound. Extremely radio friendly! Prince has worked this tune well through the years in live performances. Everything about the Dirty Mind lp is brilliant, imo.

I still love that song...

I really love that song.

In 1984, I really liked the songs from the Purple Album, which made me become interested in Prince. After buying the PR album, I wanted to hear some more Prince music, went to the record store and bought the Dirty Mind LP...after hearing When You Where Mine, I really became a fan! (which I still am until today!) Amazing song, maybe Prince's most perfect pop-song.

I think When You Were Mine was a promotional single given to radio stations before the album was released... I might be wrong there though. It might be my favorite song from When You Were Mine. It's just such a catchy song, and that synth solo in it awesome!

an all time favorite for me

wasitgood4u said:

Love it too. But, embarrassed to admit, I heard the Cyndi Lauper cover first! (She does it well, tho IMO). Am I the only one? (I was 13 at the time - only 10 when DMV came out, and I did get DM that same year - do I sound like I'm making excuses???)

Was that the cover which she didn't change the lyrics? A woman singing about a girl cheating on her for a man is.....interesting.

With DM and PRINCE, I really do believe WB undersold Prince. (Why wasn't "Bambi" considered for a single?) Sure I understand DM with the curse words and not really a seabed for singles was a problem to market, but again WYWM you would think they (or Prince?) would've pushed that sucker instead of "Uptown," which I guess was pushed because it was considered more Urban appealing as a follow-up to "I Wanna Be Your Lover."

I don't get it.

Elle85n09 said:

I love this song, with it's "rockabilly" sound. Extremely radio friendly! Prince has worked this tune well through the years in live performances. Everything about the Dirty Mind lp is brilliant, imo.

I'm glad he still occasionally plays it live. Great song.

Great song but a bit tinny.

SuperSoulFighter said:

A hard rock song about lesbians for the teenage black market in the days of disco ? THAT's why Bambi was never a single.

Apparently it was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Waiting_%28Prince_song%29

In Belgium.

sheer FLAWLESSNESS. a major faux pas that it wasn't a single. I think warner's will concede that.

It's the best song on the album.

wasitgood4u said:

Love it too. But, embarrassed to admit, I heard the Cyndi Lauper cover first! (She does it well, tho IMO). Am I the only one? (I was 13 at the time - only 10 when DMV came out, and I did get DM that same year - do I sound like I'm making excuses???)

You're not the only one.

Sometime after Purple Rain but before ATWIAD, I was at my babysitters house (yes, I was 10 and still had a babysitter). She had the "She's So Unusual" album and I was listening, reading the liner notes...and saw "When You Were Mine" (which was my favorite song on the album) was written by Prince. I lost my mind! I was already into Prince but was unaware of anything prior to "Controversy" (again, I was only 10). A few months later, I got the "Dirty Mind" LP and was STUNNED to hear Prince's version. I knew he wrote it, but he sang it?? (Again, I was only 10). My little mind was blown.

Everyone I have ever introduced that song to, I play them Prince's version and Cyndi's version. No one has preferred Prince's version. And while I think Prince's version is absolutely amazing, I have to admit that I still dig Cyndi's version more. Probably because I heard hers first...

StonedImmaculate said:

My favorite Prince song of all.

"I Wanna Be Your Lover" had made a splash on pop radio during the disco era but disco also "died" that same year while the album was still popular. Once the backlash began, the other tracks such as "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad", "Sexy Dancer", and "Still Waiting" never made it to pop radio but were played very heavily on R&B radio.

During disco's backlash, damn near all black artists were shunned from pop radio except for some of the tamer black artists. "Uptown" came out and was played heavily on R&B radio only and when the album came out, the DJs on the R&B stations immediately started playing "Head", then they started playing "Dirty Mind" and "Partyup". "When You Were Mine" was never even played on the radio on any of the stations I've ever heard so if it didn't catch on, I can see why it wasn't released as a single. Actually, it did make it onto the B Side of the "Controversy" 45 and album tracks that make it onto B Sides are usually the ones they consider the weakest on the album. Although, many a B Side has been surprising.

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Pure pop perfection.

(that's alliteration, ya unnerstand .)

CocoRock said:

BobGeorge909 said:

CocoRock said:

Pure pop perfection.

(that's alliteration, ya unnerstand .)

Thnx for the English 101 lesson..... Another great version of this song was recently discovered in my world, and hasn't been mentioned in this thread....one by Mitch Ryder....its really great. Stirs in the melancholy that Cindy's has but keeps the rock base. That's an allusion to a recipie, ya unnerstand .) [Edited 1/2/13 10:01am]

You're welcome. Seems you need it as you can't spell recipe.

AFTER an edit.

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Blinding tune. I've heard the covers.... Nah.

Live in First Ave. Some mean clappin.

Fonkyman said:

Blinding tune. I've heard the covers.... Nah.

Live in First Ave. Some mean clappin.

August 3, 1983? That there is the shit!

CocoRock said:

StonedImmaculate said:

Fonkyman said:

Blinding tune. I've heard the covers.... Nah.

Live in First Ave. Some mean clappin.

August 3, 1983? That there is the shit!

8th March '82.

Starts the gig with Bambi on steroids. Sue Anne Carwell on a great version of Still Waiting til she loses the plot at the end. Blinding gig. Think that's the one he plays a blinding 'Critics' on and says it prolly wont be out for another year, or six... Yeah, I'll have to dig it out later.

Sie können tanzen, wenn Sie wollen.

that track is very personal and you can relate to this song if you ever had a woman use you and abuse you and flat out do you wrong and didnt twice about it especially being a victim but a woman can only do to you what you let her and I can relate to when you were mind because it was a real learning experience for me in terms of learning how to speak up for myself and putting your foot down.

When You Were Mine

especially live and when he sings it like he means it,

if you know what i mean