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)

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

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

Many of the new ones.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

^ 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"

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

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.

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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?

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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.

The Max from the 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".

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Good topic!

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

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Purple Rain (1984)

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Faithfully (1983)

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

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cloveringold85 said:

RJOrion said:

cloveringold85 said:

Good topic!

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

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Purple Rain (1984)

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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...

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Awesome!!

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

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

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

Noodled24 said:

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

No

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

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

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

lynx said:

I always thought Gangster Glam sounded like Violet The Organ Grinder