Philly76 said:

The song is overrated. It isnt in my personal Top100.

[Edited 5/31/16 4:37am]

Guitarhero said:

Philly76 said:

The song is overrated. It isnt in my personal Top100.

Please cut this boy's head now.

I mean the one above his shoulders, not the o... never mind.

Philly76 said:

The song is overrated. It isnt in my personal Top100.

gurl u trippin

214 said:

I mean the one above his shoulders, not the o... never mind.

Guitarhero said:

its actually kinda hot

Philly76 said:

The song is overrated. It isnt in my personal Top100.

U know...I can respect it...cuz I damn sure hate Chelsea Rodgers

leslievette said:

214 said:

I mean the one above his shoulders, not the o... never mind.

Guitarhero said:

tmo1965 said:

bookwomen said:

The 1981 Roxy version has the best jam of head. I wanted to be his guitar.

The Detroit 86 Show is also a lot of fun.

I think it was on a BET interview and the interviewer asked P if he would play Head or Erotic City live again. P said no because young kids were in the audience and he hoped he was more responsible now. But I always found it funny that he still played Cream and Little Red Corvette.

For another fun clip there is a Leno clip online. At the end they are filming the promos with Leno, Prince, Kathy Lee Gifford and a couple of children. In the audience someone yells "shut up and give me head" The look on Kathy's face is priceless as she covers the girls ears.

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I saw that BET interview and the interviewer said that he saw Prince perform that song on the LoveSexy tour and Prince denied that he did the song then, but I found a video of him doing it on the LS tour. I guess his memory was getting selective.

Btw, Cream is not about sex. Prince said during his MTV Unplugged performance that he wrote that song while looking in mirror. In other words, it's about him thinking that he is all that. When I listen to it in that contexxt, the song actually makes more sense.

Would you all nutcases stop with this absurd theory that Cream is all egocentric?
The mirror thing was a joke, for Pete's sake. A recurring joke through all the Musicology Tour.
He himself said so.

BobGeorge909 said:

CherryMoon57 said:

There is also a brilliant video of a 1982 live version (at the Capital theatre). And another, recently uploaded, from 1981 live in New York. The last one has just been uploaded and it's really hot!

I had seen the Lovesexy one ages ago and was not impressed. I also saw the capital theater performance that's been on YouTube for ages despite web sherriff because of some strange ownership issue think and that wasn't all that either. But YES my friend...YES!...the one in New York Uve just hipped me to was FIRE. Three alarm, slap the fire cheif AND YO MAMM,A FIRE. Totally entertaining and completely figuring. I sucked in that whole 13 mins...lol...no pun intended.... Anywhichway, I completely enjoyed it. For much different reasons than I enjoy the album version. He entirely took advantage of having a band and an audience and masterfully worked them both to death and it was awesome. But still...the album version is just to punchy and so obscenely tight and in sync(some of the live versions r tight...just not as tight as th album). Also, all the little variances going on are things I ended up completely memorizing over the years and the live versions never hit those, and I always feel muself iss them. Seriously tho....thanx for shipping me to that new York version again. It's on my 'will obtain' list as I intend to enjoy that repeatedly. Brilliant? U completely sold it short my friend. Brilliant my ass... [Edited 5/30/16 5:32am]

1. Because there's silence and almost no reverb. Hard to reproduce live.

2. Also, it's a common trick to use a compressor set to ducking mode on the bass and the kick drum. It gives you that tight feel right away, even with bad musicians.

FragileUndertow said:

Can you imagine the rehearsals Now get down on you knees and sing . OK now look up at me Take 20! Try again ! Prince is flipping cool Guitarhero said:

nursev said:

Guitarhero said:

its actually kinda hot

My thoughts too...

bonatoc said:

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nursev said:

Let the discussion begin I mean nobody and I mean nobody could get away with this but Prince and the damn song is a straight up JAM!!!! I wonder how Lisa felt singing it?

purplethunder3121 said:

nursev said:

Let the discussion begin I mean nobody and I mean nobody could get away with this but Prince and the damn song is a straight up JAM!!!! I wonder how Lisa felt singing it?

Umm Hmm

BobGeorge909 said:

This is one of his studio version only songs... I've heard it many times live but none ever seem to have the punch and bit of the album version. This is boot only though...I think I might feel differently if I had personally heard it live at a venue.

You have to watch it performed!

QueenofCardboard said:

daingermouz2020 said:

I've only heard the album version. Where I lived "Head","Uptown", we're the tracks that got the most airplay at the time. Looking back I laugh at myself because I didn't know what Head meant. But it was funky.

Well...Prince has many songs that couldve taught you

nursev said:

daingermouz2020 said:

I've only heard the album version. Where I lived "Head","Uptown", we're the tracks that got the most airplay at the time. Looking back I laugh at myself because I didn't know what Head meant. But it was funky.

Well...Prince has many songs that couldve taught you

I gotta say, when I first heard "Head" I was old enough to know exactly what he was talkin' about.

purplethunder3121 said:

nursev said:

Well...Prince has many songs that couldve taught you

I gotta say, when I first heard "Head" I was old enough to know exactly what he was talkin' about.

Ahh Nah...Nursey was just a baby

purplethunder3121 said:

nursev said:

purplethunder3121 said:

I gotta say, when I first heard "Head" I was old enough to know exactly what he was talkin' about.

Ahh Nah...Nursey was just a baby

You knew what it meant soon enough!

nursev said:

BobGeorge909 said:

nursev said: I don't think he was ashamed of it. U just...grow up a bit. I'm not ashamed of the day I sat in the bed of a p/u truck, barreling down the freeway, when I was 22 sipping out of a bottle of tangueray... But I don't see myself doing this again in any conditions. I'm just not there anymore, but not am I ashamed that it happened...inwas 22 w/ no kids or wife to worry of.

tangueray I just love it. I think he was...didnt he tell them at his induction not to make the mistakes he did?

I don't know about at the induction, but he said it when BET honored him in 2010.

nursev said: