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Thread started 03/09/15 3:44pm

Angelsoncrack

Prince's spookiest/atmospheric songs

What are Prince's most spookiest/atmospheric songs in you peoples opinions?

I'm looking to compile a few songs. I'm looking for mostly musically atmospheric songs (stuff like in the vein of Papa or Others here with us) but bonus points if the lyrics are spookay too.

Heres what I got so far:

-Dance with the devil (Dude literally sounds like the sisters of mercy or some shit here, got his goth game on STRONG)

-There's others here with us (fucking love this one so much)

-Anna Stesia (you might not agree about it being 'spooky' but it still gives me shivers)

-Don't play me

-Had U

-Papa

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Reply #1 posted 03/09/15 4:40pm

CharismaDove

Nice choices. I love when Prince goes spooky/goth

Some others I can think of are

Solo

God

Crystal Ball

Annie Christian (sort of)

Purple Music (sort of)

Maybe eye do, just not like eye did before pimp2
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Reply #2 posted 03/09/15 4:44pm

Averett

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Comeback

A robin sings a masterpiece that lives and dies unheard...
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Reply #3 posted 03/09/15 5:03pm

SoftSkarlettLo
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Papa

Solo

Spooky Soup

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Reply #4 posted 03/09/15 5:06pm

thisisreece

Good choices. I love all of those songs. Dance With the Devil should have been on Batman. I like to think that Prince has all sorts of weird, freaky atmospheric shit in the vault that he didn't see as commercially viable or made for fun or didn't fit in with his image or whatever that he just decided to sit on or stockpile. Like, imagine the backwards 'she's crying' thing from Purple Rain incorporated into a song. Someone posted not so long ago (I think it's from the Alan Light book I still need to read) that Prince really liked Eraserhead... just imagine the music he would create using the film as inspiration. Or if Prince listened to Kid A and experimented with the sounds on that album (Beautiful Strange is probably the closest Princely equivalent). Anyway, enough of my fantastical rambling... here's a few more:


When I Lay My Hands on U

Beautiful Strange

Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)... sort of.

Hundalasiliah!
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Reply #5 posted 03/09/15 5:09pm

Averett

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Oh and Wasted Kisses kiss

A robin sings a masterpiece that lives and dies unheard...
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Reply #6 posted 03/09/15 5:31pm

HardcoreJollie
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Bob George

If you've got funk, you've got style.
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Reply #7 posted 03/09/15 7:03pm

imprimis

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Mind Bells

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Extended Broadcast Portion of 'Thunder' (and maybe 'Thieves in the Temple')

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Allegiance (with or without the awful wailing 'intro')

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Love Thy Will Be Done (from an atmospheric perspective)

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God (Lyrical and Instrumental Versions)

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'Space'

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'2020'

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'Something in the Water' (Album and Birthday Show '84 Live/Rehearsal versions)

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'The Future' (Album and Orbitz Remix) and 'Dance with the Devil'

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'Crystal Ball'

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'Bob George' and 'Anna Stesia'

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'Me Touch Myself'

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'Beautiful Strange' and 'Wasted Kisses'

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'Snow Man'

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'Others Here With Us' and 'Heaven', piano/train sequence part of 'All My Dreams'

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'Empty Room' (Any P-sung version)

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Extended Instrumental Portion of 10:24+ min GB 'We Can Funk', and 1986 WCF with the vocal effects and that hard-hitting CMI drum sequence

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'Annie Christian'

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'Adonis and Bathsheba'

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'Everywhere'.

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'Traffic Jam' (Overdubbed 'completed' version has some sinister chord changes)

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Alterate mix of 'DMSR' (Unintentionally spooky)

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Latter half of 'Automatic' (with the swirling synths and screaming)

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Computer Blue and The Dance Electric, especially in their extended lengths

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'Question of U' and 'Under the Cherry Moon'

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Perhaps 'It', 'Telepathy', and 'Baby Go-Go' (1986 outtake), and 'If I Was Your Girlfrend' and 'Rebirth of the Flesh' and parts of 'Superfunkycalifragisexy' as well.

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[Edited 3/9/15 20:03pm]

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Reply #8 posted 03/09/15 8:41pm

KingSausage

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Purple and Gold scares the shit out of me. Every time.
"Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
-Eugene Tackleberry
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Reply #9 posted 03/09/15 9:38pm

SoftSkarlettLo
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Yeah, not to forget Love Thy Will Be Done and The Question Of U.

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Reply #10 posted 03/11/15 2:42am

danzakairos

Definitely the song Space, as atomospheric. cool

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Reply #11 posted 03/11/15 2:49am

fabriziovenera
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the war

strange but true

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Reply #12 posted 03/11/15 4:57am

Angelsoncrack

Thanks for all the suggestions guys smile I'll be sure to check out some of the ones I haven't heard yet, a lot of Prince's outtakes are really cool ~

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Reply #13 posted 03/16/15 6:04am

thisisreece

Just heard the short 3rdeyegirl instrumental 'Moon Drop', add that to the list. Also, why on earth don't they record an album like this?

Hundalasiliah!
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Reply #14 posted 03/16/15 2:08pm

SPYZFAN1

"Dreaming About U". Lovely but atmospheric at the same time. You can hear the Joni influence on that one.

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