That song is under appreciated. I kinda hear an early form of "The beautiful ones" in it's arrangement .

Very cool song. All his shrieks toward the end do their magic quite proper.

I wonder why Prince let Kanye sample this for "Big Brother?" He's always a bit tight with that kind of thing.

I love how this song builds with each refrain toward the end.

This is one of my favs. I remember when I first got this it was on cassette. I played it over and over again in my car. Classic peace yall

Love the falsetto, and vocal layering

I dig it.

Cool song, but my ballad of choice from that album is When we're dancing close and slow.

It's a great song...probably my favorite slow jam from that album

Somewhere Here On Earth

It's Gonna Be Lonely

Sometimes It Snows in April

damn!

I was in love with a girl named Jessica Smith, she reminded me of a caucasian Mayte I was and wanted 2 be her Prince even though I wore make up 2 be like him and heels (secretively speaking), I moved from her neighborhood and had "Prince" on vinyl along with my grandmothers old turntable and I played that song from sun up 2 sun down and this was in '96-'98! I stopped playing it cuz I didn't wanna wear it out 2 much but that song is my dearest personal poem!

I've always thought this album as a whole is massively overlooked by fans. To me, it's really the first 'Prince' album due to the 'Prince' persona. It has all the formulas for a prince album, the screams, the falsettos, the ballads, the personality. What amazes me is that he's pretty much had the whole 'Prince' formula in terms of his musical style as early as this era and has kept a lot of it through his career.

Although with its merits, For You doesn't really sound like the 'Prince' persona we all know now to me.

Agreed It's Gonna Be Lonely and Dancing Close and Slow are way underrated and great.

I also think Bambi is a killer track and I'm glad he's gone back to playing it live!!

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This song is adorable.

I love this song! I would love him to play it live.

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When we're dancing close and slow:

Love that one too!!!

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TheFreakerFantastic said:

I've always thought this album as a whole is massively overlooked by fans. To me, it's really the first 'Prince' album due to the 'Prince' persona. It has all the formulas for a prince album, the screams, the falsettos, the ballads, the personality. What amazes me is that he's pretty much had the whole 'Prince' formula in terms of his musical style as early as this era and has kept a lot of it through his career.

Although with its merits, For You doesn't really sound like the 'Prince' persona we all know now to me.

Agreed It's Gonna Be Lonely and Dancing Close and Slow are way underrated and great.

I also think Bambi is a killer track and I'm glad he's gone back to playing it live!!

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And how do you think Prince´s actual first album, For You, stands in this scheme?

musicman said:

When we're dancing close and slow:

Love that one too!!!

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Man i love the whole atmosphere of When We're Dancing. The piano, the singing, the keyboard effects and especially the acoustic guitar part at the end.

Also out of all of Prince's albums, the album Prince is the one i cherish the most. It was my pre-teen and teen go to album for years. Also to this day i still think it's his best produced album.

One thing i never understood is why doesn't Prince play more piano and acoustic guitar on his songs? I understand his love of james brown style funk but personally he impresses me the most when he plays the piano and acoustic guitar and when hes singing introspective(?) lyrics and not just his typical sex and party lyrics....

Like on the song The Dance. I thought The Dance was one of his best ever.

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BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

TheFreakerFantastic said:

I've always thought this album as a whole is massively overlooked by fans. To me, it's really the first 'Prince' album due to the 'Prince' persona. It has all the formulas for a prince album, the screams, the falsettos, the ballads, the personality. What amazes me is that he's pretty much had the whole 'Prince' formula in terms of his musical style as early as this era and has kept a lot of it through his career.

Although with its merits, For You doesn't really sound like the 'Prince' persona we all know now to me.

Agreed It's Gonna Be Lonely and Dancing Close and Slow are way underrated and great.

I also think Bambi is a killer track and I'm glad he's gone back to playing it live!!

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And how do you think Prince´s actual first album, For You, stands in this scheme?

If you read it through you'll know, I say it in the second paragraph!

I love this song and every time I listen to it, it only gets better.

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

purplepolitician said:

TheFreakerFantastic said:

I've always thought this album as a whole is massively overlooked by fans. To me, it's really the first 'Prince' album due to the 'Prince' persona. It has all the formulas for a prince album, the screams, the falsettos, the ballads, the personality. What amazes me is that he's pretty much had the whole 'Prince' formula in terms of his musical style as early as this era and has kept a lot of it through his career.

Although with its merits, For You doesn't really sound like the 'Prince' persona we all know now to me.

Agreed It's Gonna Be Lonely and Dancing Close and Slow are way underrated and great.

I also think Bambi is a killer track and I'm glad he's gone back to playing it live!!

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who remembers the 1985 remake by a group called Princess and Starbreeze?