ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

The Breakdown.

Every.single.time.

I had just downloaded The Breakdown a few days before the last time I saw Prince play live (May 17th 2014 at M.E.N Arena, Manchester), and as my wife and I drove in to Manchester that afternoon we played the song probably five or six times. I loved it right from the off, and that hadn't been my initital reaction to too many Prince songs in recent years (though many became growers on me). It was a great day, and also my 45th Birthday (the concert was my birthday gift from my wife).

Whenever I hear the song now there is a double edge, and both sides can make me well up with tears. It is such a beautiful song of itself and that would be enough to tap in to my emotions.... but there is the added memory of going to see Prince live for what would be the last time, and remembering how happy a day and night it was. The show was amazing, and well, I won't get to see him play live again..... and that ability for him to still surprise me with a beautiful song, as good as any in his back catalogue IMHO, after 35 years of being a fan is now also taken away. Great, great song.

The last time I cried unexpectedly was when I saw his 2014 touring clothes at the prince exhibition in my mind i could still see him in front of me wearing the jacket - for me his music hasnt made me cry (since the immediate months) it was being in close proximity to his 'looks' the things that are so heavily etched into my mind, the visual experience of a concert, being at the front and him being so alive and joyful. i would never have expected that.

Wasnt this one of the best shows you have EVER seen him do?

He was extra happy that night

Oooooooooh man-CHESTAH!

got me every time!

Yewdale said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

The Breakdown.

Every.single.time.

I had just downloaded The Breakdown a few days before the last time I saw Prince play live (May 17th 2014 at M.E.N Arena, Manchester), and as my wife and I drove in to Manchester that afternoon we played the song probably five or six times. I loved it right from the off, and that hadn't been my initital reaction to too many Prince songs in recent years (though many became growers on me). It was a great day, and also my 45th Birthday (the concert was my birthday gift from my wife).

Whenever I hear the song now there is a double edge, and both sides can make me well up with tears. It is such a beautiful song of itself and that would be enough to tap in to my emotions.... but there is the added memory of going to see Prince live for what would be the last time, and remembering how happy a day and night it was. The show was amazing, and well, I won't get to see him play live again..... and that ability for him to still surprise me with a beautiful song, as good as any in his back catalogue IMHO, after 35 years of being a fan is now also taken away. Great, great song.

Wasnt this one of the best shows you have EVER seen him do?

He was extra happy that night, it wa sa truly magical show

Oooooooooh man-CHESTAH!

got me every time!

Yewdale said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

The Breakdown.

Every.single.time.

I had just downloaded The Breakdown a few days before the last time I saw Prince play live (May 17th 2014 at M.E.N Arena, Manchester), and as my wife and I drove in to Manchester that afternoon we played the song probably five or six times. I loved it right from the off, and that hadn't been my initital reaction to too many Prince songs in recent years (though many became growers on me). It was a great day, and also my 45th Birthday (the concert was my birthday gift from my wife).

Whenever I hear the song now there is a double edge, and both sides can make me well up with tears. It is such a beautiful song of itself and that would be enough to tap in to my emotions.... but there is the added memory of going to see Prince live for what would be the last time, and remembering how happy a day and night it was. The show was amazing, and well, I won't get to see him play live again..... and that ability for him to still surprise me with a beautiful song, as good as any in his back catalogue IMHO, after 35 years of being a fan is now also taken away. Great, great song.

It was two extremely different tracks at different times....a few days after he passed, I was listening to Extralovable (like usual, as it was the song that kicked my passion for his unreleased music into gear in the early 90's) but yet it sounded so different, certain notes he hit suddenly stuck me in a way as incredibly moving and sad...divorced from the lyrics, the melody is actually quite touching. The other track that floored me (sometime last year) was the rehearsal from 82/83 of the gospel song Mary Don't U Weep....that was somewhat less unexpected, but it is a track that totally made me weep like CRAZY...

I agree with you completely. Prince was on fire that night. He sang and played like a man possessed and seemed so happy to be there. He was so playful and had the swagger of a man who knew he was on top form and had an audience eating out of his hand.

coldcoffeeandcocacola said:

Wasnt this one of the best shows you have EVER seen him do?

He was extra happy that night, it wa sa truly magical show

Oooooooooh man-CHESTAH!

got me every time!

Yewdale said:

I had just downloaded The Breakdown a few days before the last time I saw Prince play live (May 17th 2014 at M.E.N Arena, Manchester), and as my wife and I drove in to Manchester that afternoon we played the song probably five or six times. I loved it right from the off, and that hadn't been my initital reaction to too many Prince songs in recent years (though many became growers on me). It was a great day, and also my 45th Birthday (the concert was my birthday gift from my wife).

Whenever I hear the song now there is a double edge, and both sides can make me well up with tears. It is such a beautiful song of itself and that would be enough to tap in to my emotions.... but there is the added memory of going to see Prince live for what would be the last time, and remembering how happy a day and night it was. The show was amazing, and well, I won't get to see him play live again..... and that ability for him to still surprise me with a beautiful song, as good as any in his back catalogue IMHO, after 35 years of being a fan is now also taken away. Great, great song.

The unreleased MaStErPiEcE!! "Love(Never Has 2 Say Goodbye)". Prince was SO unmatched with his ballads & vocal layering the melody reduced me to COMPLETE tears.

^ That 1 got me a lil while after he passed. The talking bit w/ "life is a glorious journey" or whatev .

NorthC said:

I'm surprised no one mentioned Jughead yet...

Jughead takes such a beating for reasons I don't get. Lyrics and rapping I guess, but It's not even close to his worst song ever and if it was an instrumental I think it would really work and more fans would like it. The funk groove itself is fine.

herb4 said:

206Michelle said:

I’m not sure that a Prince song has ever reduced me to tears; it takes A LOT to make me sad enough to cry. But I think I have shed a tear or two when listening to Until U’re in My Arms Again and Comeback. I can’t remember exactly, but I may have shed a tear when I saw The Revolution last April, during Wendy and Lisa’s performance of Sometimes It Snows in April.

Anyone who says that's not heartfelt has a heart of stone.

I woke up this morning, started youtube my reg routine and Sometimes it Snows In April from Montreux came on, it's not even in my rotation and I lost my crap and I'm still crying as I type. I swore I would never listen to tha song again.

Gold

Holy River from Emancipation. Last night.

Xpectation with headphones

Sometimes it Snows in April. Nearly every single time.

All of them

Any of them

I never know until it hits me, it can be anything

Mumio said:

All of them

Any of them

I never know until it hits me, it can be anything

^^^^^ THIS

"Sometimes it snows in April" makes me cry every time so that isn't unexpected. The one that made me cry unexpectedly is when I heard the full length version of "17 days". After 30+ years of loving the song and years of hearing rumors about the long version, I was just so overwhelmed with emotion hearing it in its full length glory I just couldn't hold it back. I know that sounds incredibly crazy.

Prince's vocal version of Love Thy Will Be Done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXEogbEIz4c

This! Goddamn he was good at guitar.

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I went to the Amsterdam exhibit and did the VIP tour and at the end they showed a performnce of Purple Rain from the O2 that didn't brought me to tears but damn close though.
The exhibit was a bit small. And some dubious claims about a Purple Telecaster that Prince supposedly used on the Purple Rain tour and that a gold bass that was displayed there used to be the One Eyed Bass. I also suspect that not everything there is an original Prince item, like the acoustic guitar displayed there at the Sign O The Times display with the peach suit.

If I had human emotions it would be The Love We Make

Not a Prince song, but when he performed David Bowie's "Heroes" in Atlanta, on April 14, 2016. I just cried. It was beautiful.

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"his voice was perfection" -- said a photographer

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http://www.latimes.com/en...story.html

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"London what does Big Ben say?"