TrivialPursuit said:

NorthC said:

Yeah, I agree. I suppose it was alright when Bruce Springsteen played Purple Rain; I can't really imagine him doing Housequake, but overall, yeah, this song has been played to death. I also hate it when the media call him "the Purple Rain superstar".

I've said before that Bruce's version was the only one I ever want to hear. I was immediately tired of everyone covering it right after he died. SICK of it. There's hundreds of songs, and that is the one everyone is butchering? Stevie Wonder fucks it up every time he sings it. When I watched Bruce do it, it was just perfect enough that I thought "Yep, that's the only one I care about".

Nah... I count Bruce among the butchers as well. The only tribute performance I didn't mind was Chris Stapleton's Nothing Compares 2 U.

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Denniscool said:

TheLotus said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I've said before that Bruce's version was the only one I ever want to hear. I was immediately tired of everyone covering it right after he died. SICK of it. There's hundreds of songs, and that is the one everyone is butchering? Stevie Wonder fucks it up every time he sings it. When I watched Bruce do it, it was just perfect enough that I thought "Yep, that's the only one I care about".

Nah... I count Bruce among the butchers as well. The only tribute performance I didn't mind was Chris Stapleton's Nothing Compares 2 U.

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Cloreen said:

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The song played most on the radio after Prince died..."Purple Rain." Various artists doing their tributes in concert..."Purple Rain." Watched BET Awards...someone sings "Purple Rain."

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I've had enough. The song is a mid-level Prince song. My God, it is the sixth best song on the PURPLE RAIN album...and that album only has nine songs!

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"I Would Die 4 U"

"Let's Go Crazy"

"Take Me With U"

"When Doves Cry"

"Computer Blue"

"Purple Rain"

"The Beautiful Ones"

"Darling Nikki"

"Baby, I'm A Star"

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Look at that! The song Prince is most famous for is actually the sixth worst song on the album it is from!. And if we want to count all of the released Prince songs, I can name 427 songs that are better than "Purple Rain."

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Man, unfortunately "Purple Rain" is the song that will forever be most associated with Prince. "Purple Rain" is like the Britney Spears song "Hit Me Baby One More Time." She can't escape that one, and Prince even in death can't get away from "Purple Rain."

Exactly how does your worse songs for Purple Rain album works?

I Would Die 4 U" 1st worse

"Let's Go Crazy" 2nd worse

"Take Me With U" 3rd worse

"When Doves Cry" 4th worse

"Computer Blue" 5th worse

"Purple Rain" 6th worse
"The Beautiful Ones" 7th worse

"Darling Nikki" 8th worse

"Baby, I'm A Star" 9th worse

TrivialPursuit said:

NorthC said:

Yeah, I agree. I suppose it was alright when Bruce Springsteen played Purple Rain; I can't really imagine him doing Housequake, but overall, yeah, this song has been played to death. I also hate it when the media call him "the Purple Rain superstar".

I've said before that Bruce's version was the only one I ever want to hear. I was immediately tired of everyone covering it right after he died. SICK of it. There's hundreds of songs, and that is the one everyone is butchering? Stevie Wonder fucks it up every time he sings it. When I watched Bruce do it, it was just perfect enough that I thought "Yep, that's the only one I care about".

Bruce nailed Purple Rain!!!! Don't want to hear Patti Labelle sing it.

mimi1956 said:

Only when other people perform it. It's his and his alone, nobody else can do it justice. JMO

Especially from any new artist from the 90's until now

Layzie said:

It's without question his most popular song. There are so many people who only know of PR. So it's understandable that it's the song that would be in heavy rotation and the go-to song that other artists would cover.

But yeah, I wish other songs were played more to balance things out. I could listen to 17 days all day.

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17 days? OMG I could listen to that song all day too.

Re Purple Rain - indeed it is played far too many times. Come on how many songs did Prince produce??!

To be fair I like listening to the edit version, the last minute and a half just goes on way to long

Cloreen said:

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The song played most on the radio after Prince died..."Purple Rain." Various artists doing their tributes in concert..."Purple Rain." Watched BET Awards...someone sings "Purple Rain."

.

I've had enough. The song is a mid-level Prince song. My God, it is the sixth best song on the PURPLE RAIN album...and that album only has nine songs!

.

"I Would Die 4 U"

"Let's Go Crazy"

"Take Me With U"

"When Doves Cry"

"Computer Blue"

"Purple Rain"

"The Beautiful Ones"

"Darling Nikki"

"Baby, I'm A Star"

.

Look at that! The song Prince is most famous for is actually the sixth worst song on the album it is from!. And if we want to count all of the released Prince songs, I can name 427 songs that are better than "Purple Rain."

.

Man, unfortunately "Purple Rain" is the song that will forever be most associated with Prince. "Purple Rain" is like the Britney Spears song "Hit Me Baby One More Time." She can't escape that one, and Prince even in death can't get away from "Purple Rain."

Strange list.

kpowers said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I've said before that Bruce's version was the only one I ever want to hear. I was immediately tired of everyone covering it right after he died. SICK of it. There's hundreds of songs, and that is the one everyone is butchering? Stevie Wonder fucks it up every time he sings it. When I watched Bruce do it, it was just perfect enough that I thought "Yep, that's the only one I care about".

Bruce nailed Purple Rain!!!! Don't want to hear Patti Labelle sing it.

Patti influenced the way he sang it though. A fact that Nelson George once mentioned. I thought, "what the fuck is he talking about?" then, after hearing the way she ran words together, squeezing them all onto one note, I thought "oh, he's right". She had an influence on him as singer certainly.

PeteSilas said:

kpowers said:

Bruce nailed Purple Rain!!!! Don't want to hear Patti Labelle sing it.

Patti influenced the way he sang it though. A fact that Nelson George once mentioned. I thought, "what the fuck is he talking about?" then, after hearing the way she ran words together, squeezing them all onto one note, I thought "oh, he's right". She had an influence on him as singer certainly.

Still don't want to hear her sing it

kpowers said:

PeteSilas said:

Patti influenced the way he sang it though. A fact that Nelson George once mentioned. I thought, "what the fuck is he talking about?" then, after hearing the way she ran words together, squeezing them all onto one note, I thought "oh, he's right". She had an influence on him as singer certainly.

Still don't want to hear her sing it

I'd rather hear her than anyone else do it, but I'm with the rest of you for the most part. Still, I may start working on a cover of it myself. Not because everyone will like it, but some people will love it, they always do when i do Prince.

kpowers said:

PeteSilas said:

Patti influenced the way he sang it though. A fact that Nelson George once mentioned. I thought, "what the fuck is he talking about?" then, after hearing the way she ran words together, squeezing them all onto one note, I thought "oh, he's right". She had an influence on him as singer certainly.

Still don't want to hear her sing it

PeteSilas said:

kpowers said:

Still don't want to hear her sing it

I'd rather hear her than anyone else do it, but I'm with the rest of you for the most part. Still, I may start working on a cover of it myself. Not because everyone will like it, but some people will love it, they always do when i do Prince.

purplethunder3121 said:

Genesia said:

purplethunder3121 said:

How can you not be moved by his 1985 American Music Awards performance (loved it when he kicked the mic stand)

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and that bad ass, long jacket that made him look like a funky mozart swinging too. the other performance was great too, the one where the mic hit him in the mouth. He had too much shit on.

and i still say i liked the 30 second interlude in the movie where he plays it on the piano, sans band, that to me was better than the full blown version. so beatiful.

Cloreen is almost as good as laurarichardson at posting troll threads.

i never that of laura as a troll, never. I would be curious to see how she looks though, just to see if she looks like a regular person.

PeteSilas said:

i never that of laura as a troll, never. I would be curious to see how she looks though, just to see if she looks like a regular person.

That's the funniest thing I've read on the internet today.

well, i don't mean it as a diss, just curious, hope it's not a diss laura, i didn't mean it, i swear.