First: I think this is a great thread with an eclectic list of songs and artist. It speaks to the true nature of Prince's music and range!

lrn36 said:

Sistermidnight- Iggy Pop

Jump Into the Fire- Harry Nillson

the Dream- Culture Club

Think It Over- The Cars

Do You Dream in Color? Bill Nelson

Magic- Olivia Newton John

Crosseyed and Painless- Talking Heads

The Makings of You- Curtis Mayfield

The Whole of the Moon- The Waterboys

Am I the only one who had a hard time picking rnb and funk songs? Sly Stone and James Brown seemed too obvious. Funkadelic is hard to do without sounding like Funkadelic. Prince always sounded best playing his own brand of funk and soul.

I almost said 'Magic' by ONJ!!!

Plus

I think Prince could done something great with 'Not Just Knee Deep' by Funkadelic.

Great thread.

Carnival - Mark Lanegan

Blue Valentines - Tom Waits

Sweet Surrender - Tim Buckley

Lavinia - The Veils

Alone Again Or - Love

Atlanta - Stone Temple Pilots

Brother Wolf, Sister Moon - The Cult

Swanlights - Antony & the Johnsons

Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk

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Running Away- Sly And The Family Stone

Morphine- Michael Jackson

Swim- Madonna

Cosmic Slop- Funkadelic

Prototype- Outkast

Skin I'm In- Sly and The Family Stone

Monkey Business- Michael Jackson

Money- Michael Jackson

Candy Perfume Girl- Madonna

Virtual Insanity- Jamiroquai

Lookin For Another Pure Love- Stevie Wonder

Too High- Stevie Wonder

Higher Ground- Stevie

Jesus Children Of America- Stevie

One More Time- Daft Punk

Hey- Pixies

La La Love You- Pixies

Debaser- Pixies

Here Comes Your Man- Pixies

Gotta Serve Somebody- Bob Dylan

I Believe In You- Bob Dylan

Precious Angel- Bob Dylan

When He Returns- Bob Dylan

Slow Train Comin- Bob Dylan

Pressin On- Bob DYlan

I Am Made of You- Ricky Martin

To Make You Feel My Love- Bob Dylan

Revolution- Bob Marley

War- Bob Marley

So Jah Seh- Bob Marley

Hot Fun In The Summertime- Sly and The Family Stone

Somebody's Watching You-Sly and The Family Stone

Asphalt Jungle- Sly and The Family Stone

Let's Dance- David Bowie

1. "Dont Ask My Neighbors" - The Emotions

2. "Lovers In Bloom" - Harts

3. "A Change Is Gonna Come" - Sam Cooke

4. "Call Me" - Aretha Franklin

5. "Imagination" - Earth Wind & Fire

6. "Ecstacy" - Ohio Players

7. "Bennie & The Jets" - Elton John

8. "Long & Winding Road" - The Beatles

9. "All The Way Around" - Marvin Gaye

10. "What Are We Doing Here?' - Andre Cymone

11. "Royal Blue" - Tyka Nelson

12. "Barely Breathing" - Duncan Sheik

No offense, but your answers are all crap. Clearly I'm the only person with a half-way decent taste in music.

My choices would be:

La Macarena - Los del Río

Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) - The Cheeky Girls

All Star - Smashmouth

Horny '98 - Mousse T.

Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars

Oh Sheila - Ready for the World

Party All the Time - Eddie Murphy

I Would Die 4 U - Michael Jackson

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1. Jungle Love
2. The Bird
3. Love... Thy Will B Done
4. A Love Bizarre
5. Manic Monday
6. The Glamorous Life
7. The Dance Electric
8. Nothing Compares 2 U
9. Mutiny

:p

^^ Now ya'll are being silly

NorthC said:

I see a few songs here that he actually did cover; Them Changes Crosstown Traffic Make You Feel My Love The Whole of the Moon I'm In the Mood Waiting In Vain

Make You Feel My Love from Bob Dylan? he did cover it?

214 said:

NorthC said:

214 said:

Make You Feel My Love from Bob Dylan? he did cover it?

Yes he did on a few shows around 2011. Never witnessed it myself, but I heard some live recordings. But I guess it was mostly because he knew it from Adele... But yes, the song was played a few times.

I love Adele, but not way anyone could make it justice to that song as Dylan,

SanMartin said:

No offense, but your answers are all crap. Clearly I'm the only person with a half-way decent taste in music.

My choices would be:

La Macarena - Los del Río

Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) - The Cheeky Girls

All Star - Smashmouth

Horny '98 - Mousse T.

Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars

Oh Sheila - Ready for the World

Party All the Time - Eddie Murphy

I Would Die 4 U - Michael Jackson

[Edited 3/4/17 10:09am]

You forgot 'I feel For You' by Chaka Khan and 'Sexyback' by Justin Timberlake

SoulAlive said:

"I Can't Tell You Why" by the Eagles----imagine Prince singing this in falsetto and then playing some incredible guitar during the last section

I have often thought that myself. Great choice.

What I wouldn't have paid to hear Prince release this album.....

Old School style two sided album

Side One

1. Beauty & The Beast - David Bowie

2. Always On The Run - Lenny Kravitz

3. Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello

4. So In love - Curtis Mayfield

5. Last Child - Aerosmith

6. I want You (She's So Heavy) - The Beatles

Side Two

7. Icky Thump - The White Stripes

8. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Donny Hathaway

9. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye

10. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby

11. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

12. The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy

C.D Bonus Tracks

13. Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers

14. Funk Factory - Rose Royce

15. (At Your Best) You Are Love - The Isley Brothers

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Yewdale said:

1) Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan

2) Karma Police - Radiohead (slow version, chorus in falsetto)

3) Meeting Across The River - Bruce Springsteen

4) Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash

5) Sound & Vision - David Bowie (in his low register)

6) Holding You, Loving You - Don Blackman

7) Awaiting on You All - George Harrison

8) Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (Yes it's been covered to death, but I'd like to see him do it)

9) Working Day & Night - MJ (imagine..)

10) In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

11) Jesus Children of America - Stevie Wonder

12) Paradise - Sade

Aboslutely sure he could've done it all.

Joni Mitchell's entire Blue album and another album of just P-Funk/George Clinton

1) Thank You - Led Zeppelin

2) Sunny - Bobby Hebb

3) (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding

4) Nadine - Chuck Berry

5) Bad Influence - The Robert Cray Band

6) Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel

7) In France They Kiss On Main Street - Joni Mitchell

8) Trans-Island Skyway - Donald Fagen

9) Stand - Sly & The Family Stone

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BT11 said:

1) Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan

2) Karma Police - Radiohead (slow version, chorus in falsetto)

3) Meeting Across The River - Bruce Springsteen

4) Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash

5) Sound & Vision - David Bowie (in his low register)

6) Holding You, Loving You - Don Blackman

7) Awaiting on You All - George Harrison

8) Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (Yes it's been covered to death, but I'd like to see him do it)

9) Working Day & Night - MJ (imagine..)

10) In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

11) Jesus Children of America - Stevie Wonder

12) Paradise - Sade

Aboslutely sure he could've done it all.

How it would sound that?

214 said:

BT11 said:

1) Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan

2) Karma Police - Radiohead (slow version, chorus in falsetto)

3) Meeting Across The River - Bruce Springsteen

4) Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash

5) Sound & Vision - David Bowie (in his low register)

6) Holding You, Loving You - Don Blackman

7) Awaiting on You All - George Harrison

8) Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (Yes it's been covered to death, but I'd like to see him do it)

9) Working Day & Night - MJ (imagine..)

10) In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

11) Jesus Children of America - Stevie Wonder

12) Paradise - Sade

Aboslutely sure he could've done it all.

How it would sound that?

I could imagine him doing an acoustic version, similar to I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man during that MTV Musiciology special in '04, storytelling.

Wondrous Machine - Purcell

Every time I hear "Wondrous Machine" I immagine Prince singing it with guitar & vocalizzo, and a more funky vibe, like A question of u. I wrote about this many years ago in prince.org

Love.

soladeo1 said:

Man, I would have loved to see Prince release a covers album. What songs would you have liked him to cover? YOU pick! 12 songs max!

Here's mine:

1. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

2. The Hounds of Love - Kate Bush

3. Ask - The Smiths

4. Whenever You're On My Mind - Marshall Crenshaw

5. I Know I'm Losing You - The Temptations

6. Them Changes - Buddy Miles

7. Just Like Heaven - The Cure

8. The A Team - Ed Sheeran

9. I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreignor

10. Spaceman - The Killers

11. Rain - Patty Griffen

12. A Day In The Life - The Beatles

Michael Jackson asked Prince to be in the video for Bad.... Its also been reported that after he heard the track he rerecorded it the way he thought it should be. I'd like to hear Prince's recording of Bad.

1. “Psychonaut” - Fields of the Nephilim

2. "Accidently Kelly Street" - Frente!

3. "My Way (Or the Highway)" - Limp Bizkit

4. "Suicide Ocean" - Lydia Lunch

5. "Working Man"- Rita McNeil

6. "I'm a Janitor" - Suburban Lawns

7. "Divide" - The Birthday Massacre

8. The theme song from M.A.S.K

9. "Palm Desert" - Van Dyke Parks

10. “Beneath the Rubble” - Front Line Assembly

11. "マリオネット" - 中森明菜

12. "Sweet Lullaby" - Deep Forest

13. "Guys Do It All the Time" - Mindy McCready

BT11 said:

214 said:

How it would sound that?

I could imagine him doing an acoustic version, similar to I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man during that MTV Musiciology special in '04, storytelling.

So it wouldn't be that different, STOF is an accoustic song.

214 said:

If You Want Me To Stay nad Family Affair by Sly And The Family Stone.

There was a Prince cover of this song on the Tube sometime this last year I remember ripping it. Not sure what year it was from but it's a pretty faithful cover.

EDIT: Just found it was from the the One Night Alone Tour (featuring Questlove and Musiq Souldchild)

http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=If_You_Want_Me_To_Stay

LOVE this idea.

In no particular order:

"Maggot Brain" - Funkadelic

"Europa" - Santana

"Next Girl" - Black Keys (w/ 3EG, ideally)

"Dirty Diana" - MJ

"Hotel California" - Eagles

"My Body is a Cage" - Arcade Fire (A piano solo version)

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - George Harrison

"Lazarus" - David Bowie

"Get Hurt" - The Gaslight Anthem (w/ 3EG)

"Cosmic Girl" - Jamiroquai

"Many Rivers to Cross" - Jimmy Cliff

"Lie to Me" - Jonny Lang (w/ 3EG)

"Believe" - Lenny Kravitz

"Lemon" - U2

Your Body Is A Wonderland - John Mayer

Earth's Creation - Stevie Wonder (w/ 84 Revolution)

What Is Hip - Tower of Power (w/ 86 Revolution, Sheila E & NPG Horns)

Why Can't I Be You - The Cure (w/ 86 Revolution, Sheila E & NPG Horns)

Modern Love - David Bowie

Blood Sugar Sex Magick - Red Hot Chili Peppers (w/ 3RDEYEGIRL)

Redbone - Childish Gambino

Rather Be With You - Bootsy Collins

Blade Runner Blues - Vangelis

Is It A Crime - Sade

God is in the House - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Alone at the piano, Prince would kill this)

Into My Arms - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (ditto)

Where is My Mind? - Pixies

Shades of Scarlett Conquering - Joni Mitchell

Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan (or Tangled Up in Blue from the same album)

Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix (Seems tailor-made for Prince to cover)

Joan of Arc - Leonard Cohen

Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones (Prince could have done a whole Stones cover album)

The Calvary Cross - Richard and Linda Thompson

Wild is the Wind - Nina Simone

Sound & Vision - David Bowie