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Thread started 05/08/17 5:33am

soladeo1

I love "Can Eye Play With U?"!!!!!!

I know several of y'all have heard this before but it was fresh for me when I
heard it this weekend. It RAWKS!!! So jaunty, playful, and uniquely Prince-ish!!!!
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Reply #1 posted 05/08/17 7:46am

paulludvig

It's a fantastic track. Only Prince could write and record something like this.
The wooh is on the one!
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Reply #2 posted 05/08/17 8:24am

klick2me

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Me dig it

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Reply #3 posted 05/08/17 8:39am

paisleypark4

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Apparently Prince was unhappy with the results and never released it. However just as a standalone track on its own it is fun and playful and in his nature very sexual.

The song was about to be released on a Miled Davis box set but was pulled.

During a Love4oneanother.com "? of the week" in 1999, a fan (using the name Ă˜ster) asked whether Prince had recorded in the studio with Miles Davis, to which Prince replied:

"EyeBlue.png have recorded with Miles... it sounds as u would xpect: chaotic and beautiful! Its release depends on the length of The War [referring to feuds with record companies rather than the track The War]."

The longer version of the track was planned for release (credited to "Miles Davis with Prince") as the twelfth track on a 2001 box-set of Miles Davis's Warner Bros. work, entitled The Last Word, but the track was not included on the eventual 2-disc 2010 release, titled Perfect Way.

Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Reply #4 posted 05/08/17 9:29am

TheFman

soladeo1 said:

I know several of y'all have heard this before but it was fresh for me when I heard it this weekend. It RAWKS!!! So jaunty, playful, and uniquely Prince-ish!!!!


It's like 30 years old track and well known, good you found it.
There's a boot called 'Crucial' with more in that vein; and for me it's one of P's very very best albums ever; in the top 5. Make that top 3 even.

[Edited 5/8/17 9:31am]

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Reply #5 posted 05/09/17 12:28pm

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Thanks - recently discussed here: http://prince.org/msg/7/442016

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