This thought popped into my brain over on the non-prince forum where Bey and Jay are being discussed on a rumoured collab album. I'm sure this concept of Prince and Sheila E. working on and releasing a collaborative album has been discussed before, but what if this was in the works right now....would you find it to be exciting (as I surely would) or do you think it wouldn't work? Prince and Sheila seem to work great together and have a strong musical chemistry. What do you think? If they were to announce that they were releasing an album together, would go out and buy it or download it at 12am?

Discuss.

Only if they are songs from the vault and she learns to sing.

But luckily their frienship is in the freezer right now.

In the 80s,this would have been a cool idea.Today,I don't know.

A few years ago,they collaborated on a song "Leader Of The Band" (which appears on her latest album) and the results aren't too interesting

No. I find her incredibly boring.

Also, she appears to be sensationalising her time with Prince (and appealing for 'pity') to sell her autobiography at the moment so I'd say a future collaboration was unlikely.

I never thought Sheila E made good songs. Of course whatever stuff she did via Purple Music was good. Sheila and band composed instrumentals: 2 Sexy & Merci4theSpeedofaMadClownInSummer, Sheila also said she wrote Sister Fate. those were good songs that had the sound.

But right now Prince & Sheila collab album I don't know.

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I would love a Prince + Lisa Coleman album though

OldFriends4Sale said:

I never thought Sheila E made good songs. Of course whatever stuff she did via Purple Music was good. Sheila and band composed instrumentals: 2 Sexy & Merci4theSpeedofaMadClownInSummer, Sheila also said she wrote Sister Fate. those were good songs that had the sound.

But right now Prince & Sheila collab album I don't know.

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I would love a Prince + Lisa Coleman album though

She wrote Wednesday Like a River though didn't she? I think that's my favourite song on that album

They already recorded 3 albums. It would be great for another one, but Prince is looking for some 20 something female to record one album with and then drop her forever. He might even pull a Tamar and record an entire album, tour with her as her guitarist and then never release the album. That would be progress in Prince's mind. But go backwards with Sheila? No. He won't.

Damn!! Y'all are pretty hard on Sheila...almost as if she has as much talent as Vanity did.

Prince ain't never gonna work with her again...not after her book came out!

It would be great to see them work together again. I would really enjoy seeing them perform together. They have such chemistry.

M'eh.

purplethunder3121 said:

Prince ain't never gonna work with her again...not after her book came out!

^^THIS even though she doesn't really say anything that negative about Prince,I don't think he approves of her doing that book

back in the 80s,though,I always thought that Prince should have kept the song "Screams Of Passion" and recorded it as a duet with Sheila.That would have been a #1 smash hit.

SoulAlive said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Prince ain't never gonna work with her again...not after her book came out!

^^THIS even though she doesn't really say anything that negative about Prince,I don't think he approves of her doing that book

Well, hell Prince can't control everything and everybody. And although she only says one negative thing he did in her book (and besides that her WHOLE book is NOT about Prince) why should she (and everybody else he's worked with, lived with, married, etc.) be censored to say absolutely nothing about him when obviously he was and still is a big part of why she's successful? I love P but if he is indeed mad with her for talking about him in her book then that's total BS.

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Beautiful01 said:

It would be great to see them work together again. I would really enjoy seeing them perform together. They have such chemistry.

That's how I feel too. Guess we are in the minority on this thread in this opinion.

missfee said:

Beautiful01 said:

It would be great to see them work together again. I would really enjoy seeing them perform together. They have such chemistry.

That's how I feel too. Guess we are in the minority on this thread in this opinion.

I would love to see them perform together again too

jaawwnn said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I never thought Sheila E made good songs. Of course whatever stuff she did via Purple Music was good. Sheila and band composed instrumentals: 2 Sexy & Merci4theSpeedofaMadClownInSummer, Sheila also said she wrote Sister Fate. those were good songs that had the sound.

But right now Prince & Sheila collab album I don't know.

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I would love a Prince + Lisa Coleman album though

She wrote Wednesday Like a River though didn't she? I think that's my favourite song on that album

She did write a few on that album

1. Wednesday Like A River
2. Hold Me
3. Faded Photographs
4. Hon E Man

SoulAlive said:

back in the 80s,though,I always thought that Prince should have kept the song "Screams Of Passion" and recorded it as a duet with Sheila.That would have been a #1 smash hit.

It would have been a nice duet with Susannah, especially since she is the muse

SoulAlive said:

In the 80s,this would have been a cool idea.Today,I don't know.

A few years ago,they collaborated on a song "Leader Of The Band" (which appears on her latest album) and the results aren't too interesting

i was just going to say Leader of the Band was aiight

No. she's in the past. I'd rather have him work with someone new and/or challenging. Other than that, Van Hunt, Jamie Lidell, Kate Bush, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, Robert Plant, D'angelo, Rahsaan Patterson, Aphex Twin....oh we'd be here all day.

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OldFriends4Sale said:

SoulAlive said:

back in the 80s,though,I always thought that Prince should have kept the song "Screams Of Passion" and recorded it as a duet with Sheila.That would have been a #1 smash hit.

It would have been a nice duet with Susannah, especially since she is the muse

I would have liked a Prince/Sheila duet from "Erotic City" to "Love Bizarre" to "Scream Of Passion".....it would have been a trilogy of great duets by these two.

SoulAlive said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

It would have been a nice duet with Susannah, especially since she is the muse

I would have liked a Prince/Sheila duet from "Erotic City" to "Love Bizarre" to "Scream Of Passion".....it would have been a trilogy of great duets by these two.

maybe one from the Sheila E album Love on A Blue Train or Hon E Man instead

First, I'd like to get this out of the way...

...to all you Sheila haters: x1,000

Thank you.

Now, as for the O.P. - right now taking into consideration the musical output of these two artists, I'm not too excited about seeing them get back together for a collaboration.
As was mentioned above, if they brought stuff out of the vault AND agreed not to change it too much, then I'd be weak in the knees.
But the mellow stuff that seems to be their current normal doesn't make me want to run out and buy anything. Heck...as BIG of a Sheila E. fan that I am, I haven't yet made it a priority to get her last album!!! (I'm waiting to get it on vinyl.)
And to be honest, I'm not running out to get Plectum Electrum nor the other album whose name currently escapes me.
If I can get them on vinyl, I will.

I can't remember a Prince album name. That speaks volumes!