independent and unofficial
Prince fan community
Welcome! Sign up or enter username and password to remember me
Forum jump
Forums > Prince: Music and More > Prince songs that sound like other Prince songs!
« Previous topic  Next topic »
Page 1 of 3 123>
  New topic   Printable     (Log in to 'subscribe' to this topic)
Author

Tweet     Share

Message
Thread started 11/21/16 7:11am

Jerky

avatar

Prince songs that sound like other Prince songs!

So I'm driving around today listening to my Prince bootlegs on random. Wondering which ones will be get to see released now he's gone.

'Poor Little Bastard' comes on and I realised how much it sounds like 'Damn U' and 'Sweet Baby'.

He clearly came back to it and took the melody and came up with those released songs.

There's a scream on 'Eggplant' that's very like a part of 'It'

Hopefully we'll get to hear all the times he "borrowed from himself"

Can you think of any more examples?

Would you prefer if the similar sounding songs stayed in The Vault?
“Tuna, you better do something or else we gonna have to put you back in the can!”
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #1 posted 11/21/16 7:23am

kepurplehunter

Please stop teasing me are ready I Dont wanna closes my eyes open up this vault causes I'm ready to get down with my Prince Baby...HEAR ME!!!! It's Automatic!!!! nod omg hmm
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #2 posted 11/21/16 7:38am

Linn4days

1) Musicology - I No (Especially the horns at the end) + The Work

2) Extraloveable - became Baby I'm A Star (with a few changes in the lead-line)

3) D.M.S.R. = The Walk (Influenced by "Get on The Good Foot" in my opinion.

[***"Jamie Starr is a thief!!!"***]

4) Lovesexy - 1999

5) Dance 4 Me - Lady Cab Driver

6) Housequake - Shocadelica

7) U Got The Look - Kiss (Ramped up..Even The backing guitar riff is nearly the same at the beginning of UGTL).

8) It - Superfunkacalifragisexy (Probably worked on those around the same dates)

9) Telepathy - Positivity + Sign O' The Times... (Recorded during hi most prolific period)

10) Koo - Koo ---Sing O' The Times (elements o f the lyrics, and verse breakdowns)

[Edited 11/21/16 7:38am]

  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #3 posted 11/21/16 9:36am

Atty

avatar

I like a lot of the tracks with similar sounding drums. Some of the ones I mean:

Delirious
Something In The Water
Private Joy
Little Red Corvette

Are there any more that I may have missed, particularly unreleased ones? I've heard all of his 80s albums that were released.
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #4 posted 11/21/16 10:13am

TrivialPursuit

avatar

The lead line of "Rave" is used in "The Max".

But, "Toy Box" = "Blue Limousine" = "17 Days".

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #5 posted 11/21/16 10:38am

2freaky4church
1

avatar

Many of the new ones.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #6 posted 11/21/16 10:40am

Noodled24

My name is Prince samples "I wanna be your lover". It's also been said that "Shut it down" borrows some of the drums from MNIP.

Emancipation references a lyric from Purple Rain. The live version sampled the chorus from "We March".

Xpedition contains a short nod to Batdance.

The segues on TGE give some insight to songs Prince thought went well together. Irrisistable Bitch, Housequake, SexyMF, Now.

"2Morrow" borrows from the Mustang mix. The latter was also apparently updated in 1996.

[Edited 11/21/16 16:03pm]

  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #7 posted 11/21/16 12:05pm

RJOrion

"If You Feel Like Dancin'" - 94 East & "The Walk" - The Time, are the same groove...
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #8 posted 11/21/16 12:21pm

TrivialPursuit

avatar

Noodled24 said:

My name is Prince samples "I wanna be your lover". It's also been said that "Shut it down" borrows some of the drums from MNIP.



It actually samples 3 songs. You hear "I wanna be your lover", "Partyup", "Controversy", and then "Prince" on every other line.

Not that it makes MNIP sound like another song.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #9 posted 11/21/16 1:16pm

KoolEaze

avatar

TrivialPursuit said:

The lead line of "Rave" is used in "The Max".

But, "Toy Box" = "Blue Limousine" = "17 Days".

The lead line of Rave is Duke Ellington´s Caravan.

I read your Toy Box= Blue Limousine=17 Days comparison on that other thread but...I just don´t hear the similarities.

What exactly do you find similiar in those songs?

By the way, Alexander O´Neal´s A Broken Heart Can Mend (by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) sounds a lot like 17 Days...not the whole song but the last 30 seconds or so.

Listen to it and you´ll see what I mean.

" I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?"
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #10 posted 11/21/16 1:31pm

TrivialPursuit

avatar

KoolEaze said:

The lead line of Rave is Duke Ellington´s Caravan.

I read your Toy Box= Blue Limousine=17 Days comparison on that other thread but...I just don´t hear the similarities.

What exactly do you find similiar in those songs?

By the way, Alexander O´Neal´s A Broken Heart Can Mend (by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) sounds a lot like 17 Days...not the whole song but the last 30 seconds or so.

Listen to it and you´ll see what I mean.



I think I've heard the "Caravan" thing before, recently. It was also noted that it sounded like "Days of Wild". I've not personally done any comparison on any of those tracks.

As far as the other songs, the hooks are pretty much the same. The "ah ah ah ah ah" hook in "17 Days" leading into the chorus (or the first line of the chorus) is the same as the tinker keyboard sound on "Toy Box", albeit with one note difference. "Blue Limousine" is the same, minus one note at the beginning. It's not the melodies, it's the main hook of the song. "Blue Limousine" uses the hook as the melody in the chorus, mostly. "Toy Box" does too a bit for the melody of the chorus & verse, and the similarity is more noticeable than B.L., but only a bit.

To add to the thread, there are a few songs that stay in the same chord (relative to itself) for the majority of the song. "America". "Hello". "Sexy Dancer". "Mountains". they're all basically one-chord songs, albeit they have a variance here or there going back into the downbeat after 4 or 8 measures.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #11 posted 11/21/16 4:24pm

RJOrion

"cloreen baconskin" and "Tricky" - The Time
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #12 posted 11/21/16 5:59pm

LovePaisley

Opening beat to One of Us and 1999 Septimo, Motherless Child are the same. Also the acoustic strums that intro Peach are the same as Rock & Roll Love Affair... I think? That one's driving me nuts. I know I heard it. Gotta find it again.
And the MUSIC continues...forever...
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #13 posted 11/21/16 6:28pm

Noodled24

^ The "One of Us"/"Motherless Child" loop goes back further to Prince's version of "Love Thy Will Be Done".

The drums from "Slave" are also heard on Mayte's "Ain't No Place Like You" (or vice versa).

The guitar feedback sounds on "Orgasm" are taken from the end of "Private Joy"

  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #14 posted 11/22/16 4:26am

Yewdale

avatar

The Latest Fashion - My Summertime Thang

The Good Life - (There'll Never Be) Another Like Me

1999 - Fury *Not so much the melody as the synth horns

  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #15 posted 11/22/16 5:02am

KoolEaze

avatar

A bit off topic but years ago we had a similar thread and I remember that some orgers posted that Mtume complained that Prince´s She´s Always In My Hair sounded a lot like some Mtume song.

But despite several orgers asking the same question nobody was able to name the Mtume song in question.

Does anyone here remember that Mtume song? Because I simply can´t believe that Mtume did a song that sounds even remotely like She´s Always In My Hair.

I bet it was a different song.

.

Back to the topic...

Back when Thieves in the Temple came out many people compared it to When Doves Cry.

I don´t really hear the resemblance. Maybe the synth parts?

-

Computer Blue sounds like it was partly inspired by the Ohio Players´ What the Hell. Not that it´s a rip off , because Computer Blue is a drastically different song, but there is a part in both songs that sounds similar. Listen to What the Hell and you´ll know what I mean.

" I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?"
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #16 posted 11/28/16 3:07pm

Noodled24

The Max from the prince album has a piano break that sounds a lot like the live piano on Face Down. The Max also has the lead line from RaveITJF played on the spacey sounding synths.

"I Want to melt with you" has a sample from "Scarlet Pussy" & "7". - also has a short guitar solo that sounds like it could be from (or a reference to) "The Undertaker".

[Edited 11/28/16 15:25pm]

  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #17 posted 11/29/16 2:39pm

cloveringold85

avatar

Good topic!

.

You know, I always thought that "Purple Rain" sounded a little like Journey's "Faithfully" eek

.

Purple Rain (1984)

.

Faithfully (1983)

"With love, honor, and respect for every living thing in the universe, separation ceases, and we all become one being, singing one song." - Prince Roger Nelson (1958-2016)
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #18 posted 11/29/16 2:50pm

CherryMoon57

avatar

The intro beat of Compassion sounds similar to Let's Pretend We're Married.

[Edited 11/30/16 5:56am]

Life Matters
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #19 posted 11/30/16 5:53am

RJOrion

cloveringold85 said:

Good topic!


.


You know, I always thought that "Purple Rain" sounded a little like Journey's "Faithfully" eek


.


Purple Rain (1984)


.


Faithfully (1983)





so did Prince...he actually called Journey before releasing Purple Rain, and showed them the song, because he was concerned about the legal ramifications, due to the chord changes in PR being so similiar to Faithfully...the cats from Journey were flattered by the call, and gave P their blessings...
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #20 posted 11/30/16 11:08am

cloveringold85

avatar

RJOrion said:

cloveringold85 said:

Good topic!

.

You know, I always thought that "Purple Rain" sounded a little like Journey's "Faithfully" eek

.

Purple Rain (1984)

.

Faithfully (1983)

so did Prince...he actually called Journey before releasing Purple Rain, and showed them the song, because he was concerned about the legal ramifications, due to the chord changes in PR being so similiar to Faithfully...the cats from Journey were flattered by the call, and gave P their blessings...

.

Awesome!! lol

"With love, honor, and respect for every living thing in the universe, separation ceases, and we all become one being, singing one song." - Prince Roger Nelson (1958-2016)
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #21 posted 11/30/16 12:07pm

lynx

The very obvious Take Me With U / Rock N Roll Love Affair

  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #22 posted 11/30/16 6:36pm

motherfunka

avatar

Drums on Around the World In A Day and Glam Slam.

TRUE BLUE
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #23 posted 12/01/16 2:30pm

Noodled24

Does anyone hear anything between "Computer Blue" & "Loose!"?

  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #24 posted 12/01/16 2:37pm

CherryMoon57

avatar

Noodled24 said:

Does anyone hear anything between "Computer Blue" & "Loose!"?

No lol

Life Matters
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #25 posted 12/01/16 2:46pm

CherryMoon57

avatar

Solo and God in the free vocal style (and theme).

Life Matters
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #26 posted 12/01/16 2:52pm

Noodled24

^ no you're absolutely right... was trying to mix them in my head and got carried away.

  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #27 posted 12/01/16 3:00pm

CherryMoon57

avatar

Noodled24 said:

^ no you're absolutely right... was trying to mix them in my head and got carried away.

Easily done! Your creative side was probably taking over music guitar

Life Matters
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #28 posted 12/01/16 3:39pm

RJOrion

lynx said:

The very obvious Take Me With U / Rock N Roll Love Affair




yep...the synth lines are pretty much the same...
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #29 posted 12/01/16 3:42pm

FragileUnderto
w

avatar

I always thought Gangster Glam sounded like Violet The Organ Grinder stoned

Cant believe my purple psychedelic pimp slap pimp2

And I descend from grace, In arms of undertow
I will take my place, In the great below
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Page 1 of 3 123>
  New topic   Printable     (Log in to 'subscribe' to this topic)
« Previous topic  Next topic »
Forums > Prince: Music and More > Prince songs that sound like other Prince songs!