BreakfastCanWait said:

All y'all that said Prince didn't have another hit in him can go funk yourselves.

preach!

Don't U Wanna Fall In Love 2Nite...

^ the best song in a looooong time.

blackbob said:

Prince wouldnt record something josh wrote...he may have helped arrange it but no way would prince record someone elses tune who was working for him.

Most likely production assistance / drum tracking / keys kinda like Kirky J used to do for a few of Prince's tracks in the 90's.

Not a bad song.

Would've been a hit in 96

blackbob said:

Prince wouldnt record something josh wrote...he may have helped arrange it but no way would prince record someone elses tune who was working for him.

Didn't Wendy and Lisa write a bunch of songs that Prince eventually took credit for? "The Stick" comes to mind offhand, as does "Mountains":

"Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman composed the music, and brought it to Prince. He composed the lyrics, but claimed sole credit for the song upon its release." (Princevault)

Kinda catchy, although the accompanying music isn't that much to my liking.

lezama said:

blackbob said:

Prince wouldnt record something josh wrote...he may have helped arrange it but no way would prince record someone elses tune who was working for him.

Most likely production assistance / drum tracking / keys kinda like Kirky J used to do for a few of Prince's tracks in the 90's.

i know, that's what i was thinking: he did the beat and general structure and prince just

filled it in with lyrics and everything else.

remember, he just reworked a tune Donna wrote and it's now the title track to his new

album.

dustoff said:

blackbob said:

Prince wouldnt record something josh wrote...he may have helped arrange it but no way would prince record someone elses tune who was working for him.

Didn't Wendy and Lisa write a bunch of songs that Prince eventually took credit for? "The Stick" comes to mind offhand, as does "Mountains":

"Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman composed the music, and brought it to Prince. He composed the lyrics, but claimed sole credit for the song upon its release." (Princevault)

Wendy and Lisa did not write "The Stick". Wendy wasn't even working with Prince at the time. Lisa came up with a lyric that inspired the concept of the song. Lisa confirmed this to me on Twitter.

Militant said:

dustoff said:

Didn't Wendy and Lisa write a bunch of songs that Prince eventually took credit for? "The Stick" comes to mind offhand, as does "Mountains":

"Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman composed the music, and brought it to Prince. He composed the lyrics, but claimed sole credit for the song upon its release." (Princevault)

Wendy and Lisa did not write "The Stick". Wendy wasn't even working with Prince at the time. Lisa came up with a lyric that inspired the concept of the song. Lisa confirmed this to me on Twitter.

My bad -- should've known better than to say Wendy had a hand in writing The Stick.

dustoff said:

blackbob said:

Prince wouldnt record something josh wrote...he may have helped arrange it but no way would prince record someone elses tune who was working for him.

Didn't Wendy and Lisa write a bunch of songs that Prince eventually took credit for? "The Stick" comes to mind offhand, as does "Mountains":

"Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman composed the music, and brought it to Prince. He composed the lyrics, but claimed sole credit for the song upon its release." (Princevault)

Huh, the way that's written in Princevault makes it seem that Prince didn't do anything else on "Mountains" than the lyrics. I can easily recall W&L stating that they admired what Prince did with the arrangements of the song. That's really what makes "Mountains" what it is in the end. I have no problem believing the melody wasn't exactly his as at least the chorus is quite different from his usual stuff.

My CD copy of Parade doesn't seem to state anything else than that the entire record was "Written, composed, arranged and produced by Prince and The Revolution". Don't know what was stated on the LP release or the single. I wouldn't say he claimed "sole credit" for the song if he credited the entire record to the band.

Funknroll >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Fall In Love 2Nite

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Militant said:

dustoff said:

Didn't Wendy and Lisa write a bunch of songs that Prince eventually took credit for? "The Stick" comes to mind offhand, as does "Mountains":

"Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman composed the music, and brought it to Prince. He composed the lyrics, but claimed sole credit for the song upon its release." (Princevault)

Wendy and Lisa did not write "The Stick". Wendy wasn't even working with Prince at the time. Lisa came up with a lyric that inspired the concept of the song. Lisa confirmed this to me on Twitter.

This is quite telling. Lisa comes up with a line that's not even part of the lyrics and based on that claims she co-wrote the song. Next thing we hear is people claiming the song was written by Wendy and Lisa.

paulludvig said:

Militant said:

Wendy and Lisa did not write "The Stick". Wendy wasn't even working with Prince at the time. Lisa came up with a lyric that inspired the concept of the song. Lisa confirmed this to me on Twitter.

This is quite telling. Lisa comes up with a line that's not even part of the lyrics and based on that claims she co-wrote the song. Next thing we hear is people claiming the song was written by Wendy and Lisa.

Not sure how "telling" that is. I didn't claim the song was written by Wendy and Lisa because of that tweet (which I'd never read, of course) but rather from this line at Princevault:

"The song ['The Stick'] was written by Lisa Coleman, although the Library Of Congress lists the song as being written by Prince, so both are given credit here, although the album does not contain any writing credits."

Like I said, I stand corrected about the Wendy thing, which was just a slip.

dustoff said:

paulludvig said:

This is quite telling. Lisa comes up with a line that's not even part of the lyrics and based on that claims she co-wrote the song. Next thing we hear is people claiming the song was written by Wendy and Lisa.

Not sure how "telling" that is. I didn't claim the song was written by Wendy and Lisa because of that tweet (which I'd never read, of course) but rather from this line at Princevault:

"The song ['The Stick'] was written by Lisa Coleman, although the Library Of Congress lists the song as being written by Prince, so both are given credit here, although the album does not contain any writing credits."

Like I said, I stand corrected about the Wendy thing, which was just a slip.

Unless Lisa did more than she says in the tweet, though, it's an iffy claim. If someone provides inspiration (but none of the actual song), then I'd say it's up to the person who actually did the writing to decide if the "spark" deserves credit. I've had lots of "ideas" for songs that went this far, but if this is the sort of thing that the "Prince didn't write _____" contingent is talking about, well, it doesn't work. I know there are cases where people did more, but if that's all Lisa did on the Stick, well, then--that's a Prince-written track, as far as I'm concerned.

It's possible that Lisa did more, and that it's not made clear by the tweet. I know there are more substantial claims involving other songs, and I think people should get credit where credit's due. But I hope that she doesn't consider that line/idea by itself enough to deserve a co-write credit. If it were, then you'd have to add a whole mess of writers to a whole mess of songs.

WOW, LOVE THIS!. Assuming it gets air play [yeah right!] it would easily chart. Great job as it balances Purple with House with chart fodder i.e. a perfect mix for the masses.

Little help? I can usually locate this stuff, but really struggling to find the studio version

EddieC said:

dustoff said:

Not sure how "telling" that is. I didn't claim the song was written by Wendy and Lisa because of that tweet (which I'd never read, of course) but rather from this line at Princevault:

"The song ['The Stick'] was written by Lisa Coleman, although the Library Of Congress lists the song as being written by Prince, so both are given credit here, although the album does not contain any writing credits."

Like I said, I stand corrected about the Wendy thing, which was just a slip.

Unless Lisa did more than she says in the tweet, though, it's an iffy claim. If someone provides inspiration (but none of the actual song), then I'd say it's up to the person who actually did the writing to decide if the "spark" deserves credit. I've had lots of "ideas" for songs that went this far, but if this is the sort of thing that the "Prince didn't write _____" contingent is talking about, well, it doesn't work. I know there are cases where people did more, but if that's all Lisa did on the Stick, well, then--that's a Prince-written track, as far as I'm concerned.

It's possible that Lisa did more, and that it's not made clear by the tweet. I know there are more substantial claims involving other songs, and I think people should get credit where credit's due. But I hope that she doesn't consider that line/idea by itself enough to deserve a co-write credit. If it were, then you'd have to add a whole mess of writers to a whole mess of songs.

Lisa's voice is on the background vocals of "The Stick". Like it was on a lot of Prince's 80's songs......

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i merged the beginning of new girl version with the radio one and i got it to 3:09.

i think this could do well with the right promotion (doubt that'll happen though).

It's a poorly thought-out Disco mess. Merely a recycled version of his unappreciated "Chelsea Rodgers" song.

I like it...and I didn't think I would. Makes me wanna dance.

I started a petition at change . org for this song. (Half tongue-in-cheek, half serious.) I love this song. Here's the thread: http://prince.org/msg/7/405052

average....intersting hes got the rock/funk song and this simultaneously...maybe to see where everyones heads r at

Identity said:

this better be a hit

princeiscool said:

"New Girl" should make this its new theme song! If it gets picked up for a third season and offer Prince a co executive producer spot, after he wins the Emmy next year for best guest starring role in a sitcom...