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Thread started 02/13/13 6:28pm

thebanishedone

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non hits songs that made your friends into fans

Did you ever convert a friend of yours into a fan of Prince with some obscure track that just clicked the right way ?i have a friend who respected Prince but never considered Prince to be amazing musician.as a kids we were arguingwho plays better Slash or Prince.one day we were driving in my car andthe heard the last 3 songs from The Rainbow Children.And my friend was totally blown away,he started raving:Omg OmG,i never heard anything this good.Prince is amazing a stuff like that.Now days he is a big fan and whenever i play him some good guitarist,he says:This is shit Do you know what Prince would do if this was his song.
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Reply #1 posted 02/13/13 6:33pm

riocoolnes

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Come(song) was one that got alot of my friends into Prince. Shhh. Dreamer. Purple Rain.

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Reply #2 posted 02/13/13 7:02pm

xpertluva

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Extraodinary

Objects in the Mirror

Come On

Ripopgodazippa

Future Soul Song

Old Friends 4 Sale

Don't Play Me

A friend called me the other night going crazy over "Delirious," asking me what album it's from. I thought everyone knew that song, but she had heard for the first time in the grocery store of all places. biggrin

The same friend became a fan after hearing the 3121 album. She loved just about the whole thing.

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Reply #3 posted 02/13/13 8:00pm

NikkiAndTheRev
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I played Breakfast Can Wait for one of my friends and she loved it! I was like "Wow.... U didn't like Sign O The Times, or Elephants And Flowers, but U like this? Okay, different strokes for different folks"

I got my other friend hooked on Screwdriver. Its gotten to the point where I yell "I'M YO DRIVER," and she goes "YOUR MY SCREEEW!!". Then we start yelling the rest of the words. It sounds pretty awful, but hey! Funk Soldiers in training! music

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Reply #4 posted 02/13/13 8:03pm

jeffreymiller

YES! "Dance On" Did it for one of my friends, that was back around '91, and he's been a die hard ever since!

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Reply #5 posted 02/13/13 8:20pm

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endorphine machine

dolphin

chaos and disorder

i like it there

peach

zannalee

dead on it

bob george

these work for me everytime

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Reply #6 posted 02/13/13 8:26pm

TheEmperorofFu
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Temptation

Endorphinmachine

The Ride

Purple House

Bambi

Guitar

It

Starfish and Coffee

17 Days

Erotic City

Anna Stesia

Dreamer

Colonized Mind

Right Back Here In My Arms

Electric Intercourse

And I'm positive the next song to convert people will be the Screwdriver Remix wink

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Reply #7 posted 02/13/13 8:28pm

TheEmperorofFu
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trax said:

endorphine machine

dolphin

chaos and disorder

i like it there

peach

zannalee

dead on it

bob george

these work for me everytime

wow you made someone a fan with 'Dolphin' haha when I heard that song I almost stopped being a fan lol jk jk

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Reply #8 posted 02/13/13 9:09pm

riocoolnes

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TheEmperorofFunk said:

trax said:

endorphine machine

dolphin

chaos and disorder

i like it there

peach

zannalee

dead on it

bob george

these work for me everytime

wow you made someone a fan with 'Dolphin' haha when I heard that song I almost stopped being a fan lol jk jk

Woah wats wrong with dolphin?

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Reply #9 posted 02/13/13 10:03pm

StonedImmacula
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"She's Always in My Hair" has converted quite a few of the naysayers i've known over the years. nod

blunt music She has robes and she has monkeys, lazy diamond studded flunkies.... music blunt
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Reply #10 posted 02/14/13 1:41am

iloveannie

I have no other Prince fan friends other than you guys. I can guarantee that each and every one of my mates will put on SooT or PR if I ask for something by him. And then they'll say how he had a hip removed to blow himself, terrible things about his child (The Sun newspaper article), how he's gay and so on. Most of it to see if I'll bite. Which I don't because I really couldn't give a shit since I left my teens/early twenties. I have a life. My mate Sue thinks he's one of the ugliest men she's ever seen, whereas my wife (long suffering) partly agrees but says that when she saw him live she would have jumped into bed with him in an instant. My wife likes Prince. She has no fucking choice really smile

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Reply #11 posted 02/14/13 1:47am

iloveannie

Yeah, seriously, Dolphin? If Prince hadn't of had the 80s I'm not sure what would have gotten me into his music. Batman perhaps?

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Reply #12 posted 02/14/13 8:25am

djThunderfunk

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The Undertaker, not the song, the whole set...

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Reply #13 posted 02/14/13 11:40am

pureTsexy

P Control
18 and Over
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Reply #14 posted 02/14/13 11:51am

Caroke

When The Lights Go Down once did it cool

I'm afraid most of my friends who aren't fans yet, aren't compatible with me music-wise. Bu I'm not really trying, so who knows... lol

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Reply #15 posted 02/14/13 11:51am

dm3857

The Cross

New Position

I Wonder U

Around The World in a Day

Billy Jack Bitch

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Reply #16 posted 02/14/13 12:02pm

Cinny

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I think it was me listening to Vanity 6 on cassette in my first car in college that made them realize what a wicked producer/instrumentalist/writer he could be.

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Reply #17 posted 02/14/13 9:17pm

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pureTsexy said:

P Control 18 and Over

P Control is another that works for me too. Great song!!

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Reply #18 posted 02/14/13 11:03pm

UltraLash

I've surprised people with 17 Days, Let's Pretend We're Married, The Beautiful Ones, Dorothy Parker, Shhh, Endorphinmachine, In this Bed Eye Scream, Love, Colonized Mind, and, yes, P Control.

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Reply #19 posted 02/15/13 9:19am

scorp84

"I Love U In Me" - i introduced my then-friend to this song. She instantly fell in love with this song, and eventually with me. Shes now my girlfriend♡
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Reply #20 posted 02/15/13 11:04am

Cinny

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"Pink Cashmere" got another person I know into Prince.

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Reply #21 posted 02/15/13 6:53pm

purplepolitici
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I CAN'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE made a close friend tolerate him cool

For all time I am with you, you are with me.
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Reply #22 posted 02/15/13 6:58pm

purplepolitici
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tryna get anyone on CRYSTAL BALL thumbs up!. COME is gonna get it. til "i love you" if she's ready hmmm. ALL MY DREAMS makes no kinda sense to my peoples biggrin. more blasphemy pout.

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Reply #23 posted 02/15/13 7:59pm

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songs that worked by accident in the past:

The Cross -- this was more than 10 years ago, and my friend who got into this song still tells me he feels weird about it because he's Jewish. but the song is just that good

Extraloveable, the outtake version -- a classmate of mine heard me playing it, and he was like "wow, that must've almost been a hit." he was floored when i told it had never been released.

you know what's interesting -- when prince finally released Xtraloveable, it couldn't be purchased. that's kind of ironic. there's no way to legally get the official release, at least not yet.

"Love & honesty, peace & harmony"
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Reply #24 posted 02/15/13 11:46pm

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controversy99 said:

you know what's interesting -- when prince finally released Xtraloveable, it couldn't be purchased. that's kind of ironic. there's no way to legally get the official release, at least not yet.

Wasn't it on iTunes AND Amazon?!? Yeah, pretty sure it was...

searching...

still is, it's $1.29 on iTunes and $0.99 on Amazon. It's spelled Extraloveable if you do a search, won't come up if you use the Xtra spelling.

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Reply #25 posted 02/16/13 8:16am

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djThunderfunk said:



controversy99 said:


you know what's interesting -- when prince finally released Xtraloveable, it couldn't be purchased. that's kind of ironic. there's no way to legally get the official release, at least not yet.





Wasn't it on iTunes AND Amazon?!? Yeah, pretty sure it was...



searching...



still is, it's $1.29 on iTunes and $0.99 on Amazon. It's spelled Extraloveable if you do a search, won't come up if you use the Xtra spelling.




cool




Thanks!! Can't believe I forgot about that. lol
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Reply #26 posted 02/16/13 8:28am

Thewreckastow

I got one of my friends hooked on "Sister"

I played "Get It Up" (which counts) for another and he loved it

"Computer Blue" also turned one of my friends into a fan...we still say "Wendy? Yes Lisa" whenever we see eachother

The folks from Brooklyn play da bass pretty good but the ones from Minneappolis play it like they OUGHTA SHOULD!
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Reply #27 posted 02/16/13 8:30am

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controversy99 said:

djThunderfunk said:

Wasn't it on iTunes AND Amazon?!? Yeah, pretty sure it was...

searching...

still is, it's $1.29 on iTunes and $0.99 on Amazon. It's spelled Extraloveable if you do a search, won't come up if you use the Xtra spelling.

cool

Thanks!! Can't believe I forgot about that. lol

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