Hey, over the last 10 years, what have been the best three Prince songs that have not been on a Prince album?

I'm going with:

FUNK (2007)

Turn Me Loose (2008)

Screwdriver (remix) (2013)

A special mention has to go to Give Em What they Love on the Janelle Monae album.

Any thoughts by anyone else?

Coburg

Funk

Glasscutter

In A Large Room With No Light

Extra Loveable 2011 is my baby. Even better played back to back with the instrumental remix which makes a good extended portion! It's fresh, happy and sexy, it's everything that made me love 's music in the first place! The 2013 version is alright too, but lost some of its synthfunk energy by being too polished IMHO.

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San Jose Jam (the extended portion of SST) was a killer, too, I listened to it to death back them.

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Screwdriver is another fave of mine, true raw energy, happy and silly, I was in love on the first listen. Should have been on Plectrumelectrum, it has the same teenage energy as Pretzelbodylogoc and Fixurlifeup save it's much better IMHO.

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Live Out Loud intrigued and inspired me a lot at the time: I was just at the end, then getting out of depression, I needed those kind of lyrics and it was a different, surprising song!

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Ain't Gonna Miss U When U're Gone reminded me of some 1987-88 extravanganzas such as Sticky Wicked, a hell of a weird funk masterpiece IMHO.

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No Light In A Large Room 2009: as with Extraloveable I actually love it more than the original outtake, it's delicate and elegant, it made my day when released! I would have loved a smooth jazz album in that mood with Renato, John and Rhonda to complement the funk of mplsound, the rock of lotusflow3r and the electric storm of Elixer!

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Fallinlove2nite: I'm not so convinced by Josh' radio-friendly elements but behind it I read a gorgeous, glamorous pop song that reminds me of Splash, with those magnificent (and cruelly edited) strings arrangement. I'd love to hear a version without Josh and with the full strings arrangements! Anyway the released version shoulda been on AOA instead of this awful remix of (the otherwise brilliant in its original form) Funknroll. I tried to replace the later by Fallinlove2nite, it fits perfectly in the tracklist!

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The Song Of The Heart: Oh boy did I love this one back then! It's cute as hell, a perfect pop song in a way!

databank said:

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San Jose Jam (the extended portion of SST) was a killer, too, I listened to it to death back them.

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San Jose Jam is based on DMSR, not SST. SST didn't even exist when the show this is from happened.

Askani said:

databank said:

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San Jose Jam (the extended portion of SST) was a killer, too, I listened to it to death back them.

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San Jose Jam is based on DMSR, not SST. SST didn't even exist when the show this is from happened.

U r correct, I confused it with Brand New Orleans, which I like a lot too BTW. Been a looooong time and I'm not getting any younger

I had to look up what official non album tracks were from this era. I was surprised at the amount. Please feel free to add or correct any of this. I added remixes too since some already mentioned remixes. Here is what I came up with:

SST

Brand New Orleans

FUNK

Extraloveable 2011

Rock N Roll love affair

Screwdriver

Fallinlove2nite

The song of the heart (does a soundtrack song count?)

Glasscutter

Boyfriend

That girl thing

Live out loud

Ain’t gonna miss u when u’re gone

Menstrual cycle

Octopus heart

Groovy potential

Da Bourgeoisie

Purple house (again, does a tribute album cut count?)

Turn me loose

The morning after (Does this count??)

In a large room with no light

Purple and gold

Cause and effect

Hot summer

Rich Friends

Same page different book

U will be (mine)

Given ‘em what they love (Does the Janelle Monae track count?)

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LIVE STUFF:

NPG in this funky house/All the critics love u in Paris

Letitgo/Vicki waiting/We march (live at Paisley Park)

Strange relationship (live)

Dear Mr. Man (live at Webster Hall)

Controversy (live in Hawaii)

Te amo corozan/Fury (recorded live at the 2006 Brit awards)

While my guitar gently weeps (from the 2004 Rock N Roll Hall of Fame)

Feel better, feel good (live)

Mountains/Shake your body (live)

Y U wanna treat me so bad (live)

Stratus

Chapter and verse

Bambi (live)

I could never take the place of your man (live)

The sweeter she is

Something in the water (does not compute)

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REMIX AND ALTERNATE MIX STUFF

Love (acoustic)

Guitar (original download single)

Guitar (acoustic with Andy Allo)

Disco jellyfish (Chocolate Box instrumental)

Dance 4 me (Jamie Lewis revamped purple mix)

Dance 4 me (David Alexander Icon mix)

Dance 4 me (Brian Matrix da big room mix)

Dance 4 me (dominatrix mix)

Dance 4 me (tribal drum mix)

Rock N Roll love affair (original extended)

Rock N Roll love affair (Jamie Lewis club)

Rock N Roll love affair (Jamie Lewis stripped down)

Rock N Roll love affair (remix 7)

Screwdriver (remix)

Laydown (xtended)

Laydown (Purple Yoda mix) (official??)

Extralovable reloaded

Breakfast can wait (grits ‘n’ gravy)

Breakfast can wait (espresso)

Breakfast can wait (honey)

Breakfast can wait (buttermilk)

From this list my favorites are:

F.U.N.K. (I still refer to it as PFUnk)

Rock N Roll love affair

Fallinlove2nite

Groovy potential
The morning after
While my guitar gently weeps
Love (acoustic)
Disco jellyfish

and a couple of the Breakfast can wait remixes.

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Romeoblu said:

Funk Groovy Potential Da Bourgesie

Add turn me loose to this list and that's mine.

i already added JL Stripped, DA Icon and Aint Gon Miss u (jungle mix /fan made) 2 my AOA ... deleted most of the bland rnb and now its a great futuristic emd sounding beast .. makes me almost like prince again .. also kinda like That Girl Thang and Extraloveable with the horns ..

you're forgetting the JW hymn reworking called something like At Last The Everlasting or something? or is that pre-2004?

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There's also the cool live only funk rock song Check the Record, performed at the Dakota early last year.

Would love to hear a good studio version of that one.

TrevorAyer said:

i already added JL Stripped, DA Icon and Aint Gon Miss u (jungle mix /fan made) 2 my AOA ... deleted most of the bland rnb and now its a great futuristic emd sounding beast .. makes me almost like prince again .. also kinda like That Girl Thang and Extraloveable with the horns ..

Which one is that?

paulludvig said:

TrevorAyer said:

i already added JL Stripped, DA Icon and Aint Gon Miss u (jungle mix /fan made) 2 my AOA ... deleted most of the bland rnb and now its a great futuristic emd sounding beast .. makes me almost like prince again .. also kinda like That Girl Thang and Extraloveable with the horns ..

Which one is that?

generic club mixes of RnR Love Affair and Dance 4 Me. no wonder this guy doesn't like Prince. his taste sucks.

S.S.T., Brand New Orleans

Pfunk

Discojellyfish

Stratus (Live from Herning)

Cause & Effect

Hot Summer

Extraloveable

Rock And Roll Love Affair

Screwdriver (3rdEyeGirl)

Live Out Loud (3rdEyeGirl)

Groovy Potential

Fallinlove2nite

Dandroppedadime said:

you're forgetting the JW hymn reworking called something like At Last The Everlasting or something? or is that pre-2004?

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Are you talking "The everlasting now"? If so, that was on the Rainbow Children CD and on the One Night Alone....live box set.

F.U.N.K (aka Pfunk) has to be the best non-album track in the last decade. Someone REALLY needs to piss Prince off BAD again!

I almost forgot about Cause & Effect. Great song!

djdaffy1227 said:

I had to look up what official non album tracks were from this era. I was surprised at the amount. Please feel free to add or correct any of this. I added remixes too since some already mentioned remixes. Here is what I came up with:

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You forgot "Magnificent" "United state of division" and "Silver tongue".

Anyway, my favorite:

Screwdriver

That Girl Thing

Octopus Heart

Groovy Potential

S.S.T./Funky New Orleans (2005)

Hot Summer(2009?)

Screwdriver (2013)

Fall in Love 2nite (2013)

Groovy Potential (2013)

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Worst - Purple and Gold (2009 or 2010) honest wtf?

Never really liked F.U.N.K either

Adorecream said:

S.S.T./Funky New Orleans (2005)

Hot Summer(2009?)

Screwdriver (2013)

Fall in Love 2nite (2013)

Groovy Potential (2013)

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Worst - Purple and Gold (2009 or 2010) honest wtf?

Never really liked F.U.N.K either

I am still wading my way through a bootleg called the Lotusbox (Mostly 2008/10 outtakes and demos) though as well.

It has great versions of All along the watchtower, Disco jellyfish an In a large room with no light. These are quite funky.

fabriziovenerandi said:

djdaffy1227 said:

I had to look up what official non album tracks were from this era. I was surprised at the amount. Please feel free to add or correct any of this. I added remixes too since some already mentioned remixes. Here is what I came up with:

[Edited 10/7/14 8:50am]

You forgot "Magnificent" "United state of division" and "Silver tongue".

Anyway, my favorite:

Screwdriver

That Girl Thing

Octopus Heart

Groovy Potential

Thank you! How could I have forgotten those ones! DUH! Silver tongue is one of my favorites too!!

Hot Summer (at Mennards)

Purple and Gold

S3V3N said:

Askani said:

paulludvig said:

Which one is that?

generic club mixes of RnR Love Affair and Dance 4 Me. no wonder this guy doesn't like Prince. his taste sucks.

who said i didn't like prince? that dipshit mindflux who makes up garbage .. i just like good prince .. i find the generic club mixes far more interesting than the generic prince originals .. in fact i enjoy the simplicity much more than prince over padding his songs with excess noises they don't need .. the above mentioned remixes are far far better than the originals and make a pretty good art official album since most of the good songs on that record use generic club mix tricks anyway .. and u are gonna tell me the guitar on the stripped down mix is generic .. its pretty great .. i wish prince would play like that more often on his own albums .. but he doesn't .. he is much more safe and boring on guitar on record these days ..