I agree. Funk for days.

soladeo1 said:

Sounds like it could have come out a decade later during the House Music craze of the early 90s. This is a tune recorded in 1983, for heavens sake!! The same time other dance music was stuff like Let's Hear It For The Boys and She Works Hard For The Money. So quintessentially Prince too. Who else in the world could have possibly written it???!!

I love, love , love that song.

However, I was a bit disappointed when I found out that it might have been influenced a little bit by Laid Back´s White Horse, which was also a club hit in the very early 80s.

To this day, I am still not sure whether Prince was influenced by them or vice versa, because they both liked each other and if I recall correctly there was a Prince maxisingle with a Laid Back song as the b-side, I think it was some sort of promosingle.

It could be that they wrote their song after hearing an early version of Prince´s song but I doubt it and it would be pure speculation (and denial ) on my behalf.

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This being said, regardless of the minor similarities, Erotic City sounds unlike any other song, and it is sheer brilliance. The bass, Prince´s deep voice right at the start of the song, the nursery rhyme-like singing, Sheila´s vocals, the lyrics, and the keyboards...just pure bliss !

So funky, so sexy, so unique!

One of my all time favorite Prince songs.

One of my faves also. Didn't realize it was a take from White Horse. I loved that song as well but now that you mention it, I can see the similarity.

I play that song every day along with Irresistable Bitch, Purple Music and Feel U Up and G-spot demos funky indeed

What blows my mind though is I just found out recently that Prince based Erotic City on this song, which he heard at a dance club in NYC: https://www.youtube.com/w...a9tzTlwyKk

Prince definitely took it to the next level though, one of my favorite tracks.

EDIT: Doh, just saw KoolEaze said the same thing, lol.

[Edited 5/7/16 18:30pm]

soladeo1 said:

I love this song. I remember hearing it on the radio as a kid and didn't know what they were saying (thank god)much less I didn't know that it was a Prince song. One of my favorites for sure

KoolEaze said:

soladeo1 said:

Sounds like it could have come out a decade later during the House Music craze of the early 90s. This is a tune recorded in 1983, for heavens sake!! The same time other dance music was stuff like Let's Hear It For The Boys and She Works Hard For The Money. So quintessentially Prince too. Who else in the world could have possibly written it???!!

I love, love , love that song.

However, I was a bit disappointed when I found out that it might have been influenced a little bit by Laid Back´s White Horse, which was also a club hit in the very early 80s.

To this day, I am still not sure whether Prince was influenced by them or vice versa, because they both liked each other and if I recall correctly there was a Prince maxisingle with a Laid Back song as the b-side, I think it was some sort of promosingle.

It could be that they wrote their song after hearing an early version of Prince´s song but I doubt it and it would be pure speculation (and denial ) on my behalf.

-

This being said, regardless of the minor similarities, Erotic City sounds unlike any other song, and it is sheer brilliance. The bass, Prince´s deep voice right at the start of the song, the nursery rhyme-like singing, Sheila´s vocals, the lyrics, and the keyboards...just pure bliss !

So funky, so sexy, so unique!

One of my all time favorite Prince songs.

"White Horse" got a lot of radio airplay in New York so I heard that one first in 1983 and immediately noted the similarity when "Erotic City" was released the following year. So as great as the latter is, I will always consider the former to be the "original" song.

Didn't Prince say Erotic City was influenced by Parliament-Funkadelic when he was inducting them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

lrn36 said:

Didn't Prince say Erotic City was influenced by Parliament-Funkadelic when he was inducting them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Yep, there's definitely some P Funk in there as well. Prince's sound in the 80s was largely mixing these disparate influences and putting his own spin on them. Then P Funk released their own version to complete the mind funk.

One of my faourites. Yes, he was influenced by P-Funk, and of all the covers, even George Clinton's doesn't compare to the original. The difference in production between "Erotic City" and "White Horse" shows why Prince was the Hendrix of drum programming - left everything that came before far behind with his experimentation.

Such a damn funky song.

listened to it at work today and was grooving in my chair.

I had my ear buds on of course.