Listening to this song today and I think LCD is one of the best Prince songs ever. Crazy beat, amazing synth solos, funy rhythm guitar and dirty lyrics. This song never gets old to me.

You know what goes great with LCD? LSD!

Lady Cab Driver definately takes you somewhere: In a big city in the early morning(daytime) sunny day, Prince after a late show in Jordache jeans and a white ruffled shirt n shades, cab driver in cab hat and black Controversy trench with lace underneath

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Prince has a large portion of songs from that period that are "Princey"

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Let's Work, Uptown, Let's Pretend We're Married, Erotic City, Computer Blue, I Would Die 4 U, Pop Life etc

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add I Don't Want 2 Leave U (What Time Is It)

Dear Michaelangelo (Romance 1600)

Screams of Passion (the Family)

"Hot Thing" or "Eroctic City" fit the bill more for me as "most Princey", but I love me some LDC.

herb4 said:

"Hot Thing" or "Eroctic City" fit the bill more for me as "most Princey", but I love me some LDC.

Maybe. But Lady Cab Driver is still up there.

man, that would have been one explicit video.....lol.....like I told you before, this song hooked me as a die hard fan especially after hearing jill jones making all that noise at 3 years old.....

OldFriends4Sale said:

Lady Cab Driver definately takes you somewhere: In a big city in the early morning(daytime) sunny day, Prince after a late show in Jordache jeans and a white ruffled shirt n shades, cab driver in cab hat and black Controversy trench with lace underneath

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Prince has a large portion of songs from that period that are "Princey"

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Let's Work, Uptown, Let's Pretend We're Married, Erotic City, Computer Blue, I Would Die 4 U, Pop Life etc

*

add I Don't Want 2 Leave U (What Time Is It)

Dear Michaelangelo (Romance 1600)

Screams of Passion (the Family)

I would say the entire 1999 album is Prince at his most "Princely". To me, it's as though every album prior had a sense of leading up to 1999, and every album after was about experimenting away from that sound. At least that's how my ears hear things.

Lady Cab Driver is up there as one of my all-time favourites. It's really hard to compare those long funk jams on 1999 as they're all so damn good!

This song is one I've grown to appreciate much over the past few years. It's probably top 20 for me. Is it the most "Princey"?

I personally don't feel comfortable relegating an artists culmination in creativity within that small of a timeframe/work, but I feel that an essential element of Prince is his unconventiality and his creativity (lack of bass line in WDC, The Camille Character, the sped up guitar parts in Erotic City). This song while... I guess represents key elements of prince, but doesn't have that.... "it" or twist factor for me.

DMSR said:

Listening to this song today and I think LCD is one of the best Prince songs ever. Crazy beat, amazing synth solos, funy rhythm guitar and dirty lyrics. This song never gets old to me.

I remember some friends and I all pitched in and bought the record when it came out, went to the crib to listen to it...we are all just like "damn this album is funky", but when we got to Lady Cab Driver, we said, damn near in unison, "holy fuck!!" after it ended. One of my friends even shook his head and and said "Prince is mad" as in "who the hell could even come up with something like this unless there was something off about him" in a good way. Whenever I listen to it I instantly go back that that moment.

BlackandRising said:

DMSR said:

Listening to this song today and I think LCD is one of the best Prince songs ever. Crazy beat, amazing synth solos, funy rhythm guitar and dirty lyrics. This song never gets old to me.

I remember some friends and I all pitched in and bought the record when it came out, went to the crib to listen to it...we are all just like "damn this album is funky", but when we got to Lady Cab Driver, we said, damn near in unison, "holy fuck!!" after it ended. One of my friends even shook his head and and said "Prince is mad" as in "who the hell could even come up with something like this unless there was something off about him" in a good way. Whenever I listen to it I instantly go back that that moment.

I just love these lil fact-based stories in one's past...

Ok, this is off topic, but it goes along with the previous post:

When I bought SOTT on vinyl when it first came out, I came home (I was renting a room outta someone's house), it was late at night, so I put on the album and put on my headphones and played it from beginning to end without skipping around songs and when I heard "If I was Your Girlfriend", my jaw dropped.

I was like in my room in the middle of the night and couldn't believe these lyrics that I was hearing.

So I got the sleeve with the words on it and put it back to the beginning again and read the lyrics along with the song (in disbelief that a guy was actually thinking like that and expressing himself with words), cuz I actually wanted a boyfriend to pick out my clothes b4 we went out! and go to a movie and cry together; and comb my hair and be my best friend that hurt me......

I'm sitting there and actually talking to myself, (grinning from ear to ear while tears welled up in my eyes), saying something like "OMG, I can't believe he's actually saying this, this is sooooo cool", and on and on....etc.

well you know the rest of the story, (as far as the song goes)

but I'll never forget that most inspirational moment of the first time I heard that song in the middle of the night all alone in my room with my headphones on!

Yeah, great memories like that are just awesome!

chriss said:

Ok, this is off topic, but it goes along with the previous post:

When I bought SOTT on vinyl when it first came out, I came home (I was renting a room outta someone's house), it was late at night, so I put on the album and put on my headphones and played it from beginning to end without skipping around songs and when I heard "If I was Your Girlfriend", my jaw dropped.

I was like in my room in the middle of the night and couldn't believe these lyrics that I was hearing.

So I got the sleeve with the words on it and put it back to the beginning again and read the lyrics along with the song (in disbelief that a guy was actually thinking like that and expressing himself with words), cuz I actually wanted a boyfriend to pick out my clothes b4 we went out! and go to a movie and cry together; and comb my hair and be my best friend that hurt me......

I'm sitting there and actually talking to myself, (grinning from ear to ear while tears welled up in my eyes), saying something like "OMG, I can't believe he's actually saying this, this is sooooo cool", and on and on....etc.

well you know the rest of the story, (as far as the song goes)

but I'll never forget that most inspirational moment of the first time I heard that song in the middle of the night all alone in my room with my headphones on!

Yeah, great memories like that are just awesome!

I have always thought that IIWYG was a great example of genius, creative songwriting. I can't imagine anyone else singing the song, can you? It's just so Princey!!

I LOVE the purple funk that came from Lady Cab Driver. It goes hard! Still blast it to this day. 1999 had numerous jams!

toejam said:

I would say the entire 1999 album.

I would say the entire 1999 album.

i remember this period so well my mom wouldnt let me buy prince records cuz of his lyrics and all honey i would save up my allowance sneak and buy this album and lock myself in my room and just fall deep in2 the purple world.lady cab driver was so freaky wit th moans and all i just loved when my mom was gone i had it on full blast.

I forgot to mention the guitar solo at about 5:47 that surprised the heck out of me. Just when you thought the song would fade out, he blasts that solo through your headphones. So good!

I think it makes a great argument actually.

It has the odd and weird prince of his early days mixed with a killer bassline, killer synth, guitar solo etc.

Also the song is sexual but also spirtual and even somewhat political with the sex speech. It i a great definition of what Prince is... or was