Sticking to the tradition of six tracks, here are the most Time sounding Prince songs of the last 15 years IMO:

1. Prettyman (pure Morris Day character)

2. Lolita

3. Guitar (could definately imagine Jesse tearing this one up!)

4. Here

5. Ol Skool Company

6. Everybody Loves Me

People really underestimate this, but Prince IS The Time and he is chock full of songs that Morris E. Day couldashouldawoulda:

_

(There'll Never Be) Another Like Me

Chocolate Box

Future Baby Mama

Mr Goodnight

Prettyman

Daddy Pop

Sexy MF

18 & Over

Hot Wit U

Sex Me, Sex Me Not

Lolita

Incense and Candles

Satisfied

$

_

and on and on we could go...

MattyJam said:

Sticking to the tradition of six tracks, here are the most Time sounding Prince songs of the last 15 years IMO:

1. Prettyman (pure Morris Day character)

2. Lolita

3. Guitar (could definately imagine Jesse tearing this one up!)

4. Here

5. Ol Skool Company

6. Everybody Loves Me

Hells naw, only P could pull off the brilliance of Here. A heavily slept on track off the widely hated MPLSound. I will add If Eye Was the Man In Ur Life (although its criminal to separate it from The Marrying Kind)

[Edited 9/17/13 20:31pm]

Acknowledge Me

Hot Summer

errant said:

He did write another time album back in the late '90s. Ask Jam or Lewis what was on it. They are apparently in possession of it.

There is an unreleased Time album from 1997 called Old Dogs,New Tricks.It is rumored that Prince was involved.

1997

T R A C K L I S T I N G

skywalker said:

People really underestimate this, but Prince IS The Time and he is chock full of songs that Morris E. Day couldashouldawoulda:

_

(There'll Never Be) Another Like Me

Chocolate Box

Future Baby Mama

Mr Goodnight

Prettyman

Daddy Pop

Sexy MF

18 & Over

Hot Wit U

Sex Me, Sex Me Not

Lolita

Incense and Candles

Satisfied

$

_

and on and on we could go...

I have to disagree with most of these tracks. There's huge difference between Prince's own ego trip, with its spiritual layers, that are basically made to make him sound sexy and deep, and the lyrics he wrote for Morris, which basically were aimed at making him sound like a superficial, soulless, macho asshole

Prince IS The Time, yes, but when he wrote songs for them he had something in mind very different than what he had when he wrote songs for himself, just like he did when he wrote songs for V6 or Carmen Electra (u can't seriously imagine him sing Vibrator or Go-Go Dancer on one of his own albums, can u?)

Lolita is a Time song with revamped JW-safe lyrics. Prettyman also was written for The Time, though I can't imagine Morris Day not wanting lyric changes on that bish! Moviestar is older than 15 years, but it was also intended for The Character/Morris Day.

SoulAlive said:

errant said:

He did write another time album back in the late '90s. Ask Jam or Lewis what was on it. They are apparently in possession of it.

There is an unreleased Time album from 1997 called Old Dogs,New Tricks.It is rumored that Prince was involved.

1997

T R A C K L I S T I N G

1.	Cowgirl	(n/a)
2.	Style	(n/a)
3.	Who says a funk band can't play rock?	(n/a)
4.	Shake it baby	(n/a)
5.	Old dogs, new tricks	(n/a)
6.	Players Quiz	(n/a)
7.	North side, South side, Suburbs	(n/a)
8.	And thats what time it is	(n/a)

is this "available"?

SoulAlive said:

errant said:

He did write another time album back in the late '90s. Ask Jam or Lewis what was on it. They are apparently in possession of it.

There is an unreleased Time album from 1997 called Old Dogs,New Tricks.It is rumored that Prince was involved.

1997

T R A C K L I S T I N G

1.	Cowgirl	(n/a)
2.	Style	(n/a)
3.	Who says a funk band can't play rock?	(n/a)
4.	Shake it baby	(n/a)
5.	Old dogs, new tricks	(n/a)
6.	Players Quiz	(n/a)
7.	North side, South side, Suburbs	(n/a)
8.	And thats what time it is	(n/a)

funksterr said:

Lolita is a Time song with revamped JW-safe lyrics. Prettyman also was written for The Time, though I can't imagine Morris Day not wanting lyric changes on that bish! Moviestar is older than 15 years, but it was also intended for The Character/Morris Day.

Where in the world did u read this? I've never heard such a thing, neither did Princevault, neither did Per Nielsen & crew.

luvsexy4all said:

SoulAlive said:

There is an unreleased Time album from 1997 called Old Dogs,New Tricks.It is rumored that Prince was involved.

1997

T R A C K L I S T I N G

1.	Cowgirl	(n/a)
2.	Style	(n/a)
3.	Who says a funk band can't play rock?	(n/a)
4.	Shake it baby	(n/a)
5.	Old dogs, new tricks	(n/a)
6.	Players Quiz	(n/a)
7.	North side, South side, Suburbs	(n/a)
8.	And thats what time it is	(n/a)

is this "available"?

It's not. I'm not even sure if that tracklist was ever confirmed, it surfaced on a fansite once and it's been pasted as such ever since but I've never seen it anywhere else, including Princevault.

databank said:

funksterr said:

Lolita is a Time song with revamped JW-safe lyrics. Prettyman also was written for The Time, though I can't imagine Morris Day not wanting lyric changes on that bish! Moviestar is older than 15 years, but it was also intended for The Character/Morris Day.

Where in the world did u read this? I've never heard such a thing, neither did Princevault, neither did Per Nielsen & crew.

Lolita always sounded like a Time song to me, what with the call and response vocals and all. Doesn't mean he ever intended to give it to them though.

databank said:

funksterr said:

Lolita is a Time song with revamped JW-safe lyrics. Prettyman also was written for The Time, though I can't imagine Morris Day not wanting lyric changes on that bish! Moviestar is older than 15 years, but it was also intended for The Character/Morris Day.

Where in the world did u read this? I've never heard such a thing, neither did Princevault, neither did Per Nielsen & crew.

I think I remember hearing the same thing when Prine was on TRL in 1999 promoting Rave.

databank said:

skywalker said:

People really underestimate this, but Prince IS The Time and he is chock full of songs that Morris E. Day couldashouldawoulda:

_

(There'll Never Be) Another Like Me

Chocolate Box

Future Baby Mama

Mr Goodnight

Prettyman

Daddy Pop

Sexy MF

18 & Over

Hot Wit U

Sex Me, Sex Me Not

Lolita

Incense and Candles

Satisfied

$

_

and on and on we could go...

I have to disagree with most of these tracks. There's huge difference between Prince's own ego trip, with its spiritual layers, that are basically made to make him sound sexy and deep, and the lyrics he wrote for Morris, which basically were aimed at making him sound like a superficial, soulless, macho asshole

Prince IS The Time, yes, but when he wrote songs for them he had something in mind very different than what he had when he wrote songs for himself, just like he did when he wrote songs for V6 or Carmen Electra (u can't seriously imagine him sing Vibrator or Go-Go Dancer on one of his own albums, can u?)

"superficial, soulless, macho asshole" Wow you really do not get the joke!!!! So many clueless people on this board.

purple1968 said:

databank said:

I have to disagree with most of these tracks. There's huge difference between Prince's own ego trip, with its spiritual layers, that are basically made to make him sound sexy and deep, and the lyrics he wrote for Morris, which basically were aimed at making him sound like a superficial, soulless, macho asshole

Prince IS The Time, yes, but when he wrote songs for them he had something in mind very different than what he had when he wrote songs for himself, just like he did when he wrote songs for V6 or Carmen Electra (u can't seriously imagine him sing Vibrator or Go-Go Dancer on one of his own albums, can u?)

"superficial, soulless, macho asshole" Wow you really do not get the joke!!!! So many clueless people on this board.

No, that IS the joke.

Nivivrus said:

databank said:

Where in the world did u read this? I've never heard such a thing, neither did Princevault, neither did Per Nielsen & crew.

I think I remember hearing the same thing when Prine was on TRL in 1999 promoting Rave.

Yup, he said it more than once back then.

TwiliteKid said:

Nivivrus said:

I think I remember hearing the same thing when Prine was on TRL in 1999 promoting Rave.

Yup, he said it more than once back then.

Oh OK, I stand corrected (and so should Princevault). Now that doesn't tell us about Lolita ^^

TwiliteKid said:

purple1968 said:

"superficial, soulless, macho asshole" Wow you really do not get the joke!!!! So many clueless people on this board.

No, that IS the joke.

Hmmm... Here are a few I can hear the Time doin' right:

- 319

- Sticky Like Glue

Pheromone????!

Gimme a fucking break

JuJu4U said:

databank said:

Pheromone????!

Gimme a fucking break

Hahaha! now that you bring it up, Morris singing "the way you envelope my soul" =

I'm going for something dirty, funky, and dark - like the album "Come" in general - but without lyrics like "I can see the castle/ I can see the throne..."

errant said:

JuJu4U said:

Hmmm... Here are a few I can hear the Time doin' right:

- 319

- Sticky Like Glue

- $

- Pheromone

- Dance 4 Me

- Life O' The Party

- Mr. Happy

- If Eye Was the Man in Your Life

I'm assuming you've never heard of the Time or listened to any of their music. Am I right?

I'm thinking about which would be the best songs for the Time to turn into old school, Minneapolis funk jams - not newer Prince songs that sound like The Time.

Yeah, Morris Day singing "Dance 4 Me" as is = ridiculous, but if the song was rearranged for a Time album, or "Sticky Like Glue" - they'd lose the ProTools sound Prince gave 'em, and I think they'd sound good in that old school Minneapolis style. "319" done in the Time's style = f yeah!

[Edited 9/22/13 7:28am]

There'll never be another like me, Lolita, Daisy Chain, Chocolate Box, U make my sun shine, , Pretty Man.

JuJu4U said:

errant said:

JuJu4U said: I'm assuming you've never heard of the Time or listened to any of their music. Am I right?

I'm thinking about which would be the best songs for the Time to turn into old school, Minneapolis funk jams - not newer Prince songs that sound like The Time.

Yeah, Morris Day singing "Dance 4 Me" as is = ridiculous, but if the song was rearranged for a Time album, or "Sticky Like Glue" - they'd lose the ProTools sound Prince gave 'em, and I think they'd sound good in that old school Minneapolis style. "319" done in the Time's style = f yeah!

[Edited 9/22/13 7:28am]

Thing is all these songs, not only yours but al the Prince songs mentioned above, but let's take 319 4 instance, are SEXY. The way P approaches sex is sensual, always. Now look at the way he appraoches sex in the songs he wrote 4 The Time: it's not sensual, it's always GROSS. As 4 Lolita 4 exemple Prince's Morris Day would never say "U'll never make a cheater outta me" or "U're much 2 young 2 peep my stash", he'd say that the younger the better and that he'll turn in2 a cheate the minute his mature woman is around, and he'd probably add that the bitch is starting to b too old 4 him anyway

Same goes 4 Sexy MF, mentioned above, despite its gross chorus it's a song about wedding and spirituality, it's almost feminist in a way. Prince's Morris would never sing such lyrics! Honestly the only song sung by Prince that could fit 4 The Time imho is Work That Fat

I'll add that even when Prince was becoming a bit gross and vulgar in the early years, with songs such as let's Pretend We're Married, Irresistible Bitch, Darling Nikki or Lady Cab Driver, there always was either a dramatic tension, a notion of depression and despair that took the song 2 a higher level than any song he ever gave The Time, OR it had a political subtext and sexual agressivity suddenly became some kind of a metaphor 4 reacting 2 the violences of the world, something that once again was waaaay outta The Time's repertoire. Even on The Black Album, the sex songs are so aggressive and desperate in comparison to a "Get It Up" or a "Chocolate", there's a poetic dimention to their lyrics that's not there in The Time's lyrics.

In the same manner u can't really imagine Prince singing Cool or Jerk Out on one of his own albums, the superficiality of the narrator doesn't fit anywhere. There's always a subtext in Prince's lyrics, while he allowed himself to write stupid (but funny) songs like so many R&B acts when he wrote with The Time in mind. The only exception I can think of is Movie Star, which almost ended-up on Dream Factory, and that would have been kind of odd actually, because these lyrics, Princey as they b, don't really fit on a "Prince" album.

Horny Toad is another exception: it would have been perfect 4 The Time.

databank said:

Thing is all these songs, not only yours but al the Prince songs mentioned above, but let's take 319 4 instance, are SEXY. The way P approaches sex is sensual, always. Now look at the way he appraoches sex in the songs he wrote 4 The Time: it's not sensual, it's always GROSS. As 4 Lolita 4 exemple Prince's Morris Day would never say "U'll never make a cheater outta me" or "U're much 2 young 2 peep my stash", he'd say that the younger the better and that he'll turn in2 a cheate the minute his mature woman is around, and he'd probably add that the bitch is starting to b too old 4 him anyway

Same goes 4 Sexy MF, mentioned above, despite its gross chorus it's a song about wedding and spirituality, it's almost feminist in a way. Prince's Morris would never sing such lyrics! Honestly the only song sung by Prince that could fit 4 The Time imho is Work That Fat

U know, I hadn't thought of it like that - after reading ur perspective and thinking about it - yeah, ur right.

I'd tried it out by listening to "Dance 4 Me," and lol'd @ the thought of Morris singing "ur flamenco eyes r all like jazz."

if Prince really wanted to F with the Time he WOULD rerelease their albums with HIS vocals