I dunno, man. I like both of 'em

damn ..u think the mfer was perfect?

Eggplant is very far from the worst he recorded.

Much worse examples, amongst others:
Baltimore, Cinamon Girl, Jam of the year, Thunder, and at least 50 others

Good track

sulls said:

I dunno, man. I like both of 'em

Me 2. Not his greatest, but very nonetheless .

No. It is a silly and fun track with some whimsical lyrics!! Was not intended for our listening.

That kind of girl's no good 4 U
She flips her hair and thinks she's cool
Giggles at every joke U tell
Ask her religion, she'll say swell
Starving children, now that's hot
Long as she's eating, damn the lot
The Queen of England, Duke of Earl
They ain't got nothin' on this girl
She change sheets with a different key, not as bad
Guinness couldn't count all the men she's had
U won't b satisfied till U marry the hag
Give birth 2 an eggplant, oh what a drag

Yo Lucy, give me some slack, U don't even know the girl
Oh yes I do, I know her kind exactly
She's probably got a poodle named Fluffy
Yeah, I bet she got a real fluffy poodle (Oh please)

That kind of girl's no good 4 U
All she want 2 do is U
There's always 8 women 2 3 men
But if U marry an eggplant, oh what then?

IQ of a icecube, a serious wind tunnel, U know what I mean?
She's beautiful (She's retarded, slow)
But U won't b satified till U marry a hag
Give birth 2 an eggplant, oh what a double-drag

I really dig this track...as for worst, my vote is for Jughead or perhaps Temptation because those 2 are absolutely ABYSMAL (Oh, and Arrogance as well...)

Soda Shop is bad as well....I wanted that song to be so cool. Goo d to hear it though but what was he thinking that and Living Doll?

Well, it was never released so...

Purple and Gold anyone?

TheFman said:

I actually like the music in "Eggplant" quite a bit, even if it's not the best thing he's ever done. But yeah, the lyrics are cringeworthy and sound like internalized misogyny sung by Wendy. She was young though, we all say or believe dumb things when we're younger.

soladeo1 said:

A weird little curiosity from 1986 with Wendy singing lead. A very un-PC tune - it’s about a girl singing about another girl who’s so dumb and vapid she’s “retarded”. The melody is severely lacking too...and it goes on forever, over 5 minutes. Killing At The Soda Shot is terrible too...but Eggplant might be worse.

I take it you haven't heard much of Prince's unreleased catalog if you're considering "Eggplant" his worst recorded song.

All I have to say to that is...ahem... "The P."

And it wasn't "un-PC" when it was written. Watch Eddie Murphy's Delirious or Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The 80's were extremely "un-PC."

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Marrk said:

Purple and Gold anyone?

Or "Wedding Feast".

I think its quite funny, it is in the vein of his other joke songs like Work that Fat, Cloreen Baconskin and even Moviestar.

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Truly Bad songs are things like Purple and Gold, Props and Pounds, Keep Steppin, Jughead, Lemon Crush, Boytrouble, Da da da and Eye like funky music.

soladeo1 said:

A weird little curiosity from 1986 with Wendy singing lead. A very un-PC tune - it’s about a girl singing about another girl who’s so dumb and vapid she’s “retarded”. The melody is severely lacking too...and it goes on forever, over 5 minutes. Killing At The Soda Shot is terrible too...but Eggplant might be worse.

HAHAHA, I LOVE Eggplant, It could have a been a great B side for Kiss.

Man they had some interesting musical sound directions then.

Do people here really not like "Killing At The Soda Shop"? It's very different from most of the other stuff Prince wrote, but it gives me cool post-punk vibes, kinda like "Annie Christian" but with an orchestra. It sure as hell ain't one of the worst songs he put to tape

TheFman said:

Eggplant is very far from the worst he recorded.

Much worse examples, amongst others:
Baltimore, Cinamon Girl, Jam of the year, Thunder, and at least 50 others

I agree with Baltimore but I love Cinamon girl!

and other than the use of "retarded" I love Eggplant!

TheFman said:

Eggplant is very far from the worst he recorded.

Much worse examples, amongst others:
Baltimore, Cinamon Girl, Jam of the year, Thunder, and at least 50 others

Name the 50.

I love Eggplant! I listen to it a lot.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Not even close.

Brother With a Purpose.

With You

Da, Da, Da

I Wanna Melt With U

Jughead

1+1+1=3

Me Touch Myself

I Rock, Therefore I Am

Lemon Crush

Mad Sex

All far worse than Eggplant.

MIRvmn said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I agree with Baltimore but I love Cinamon girl!

and other than the use of "retarded" I love Eggplant!

yes Cinnamon Girl is a good song, one of the few I like on Musicology along with Call My Name

I like everything about CG. From the beat and the guitar and the vocals and the lyrics... that is as I interpret them.

soladeo1 said:

A weird little curiosity from 1986 with Wendy singing lead. A very un-PC tune - it’s about a girl singing about another girl who’s so dumb and vapid she’s “retarded”. The melody is severely lacking too...and it goes on forever, over 5 minutes. Killing At The Soda Shot is terrible too...but Eggplant might be worse.

Well...I love eggplants, so I was intrigued by the song title . I was pleasently surprised by the song itself actually. Unusual at first, but fun, and then it grew on me musically.

The worst song he recorded from my perspective is Jughead - don't really understand why he released it... There may be other songs I actually dislike, Work That Fat comes to mind, but we gotta put things in perspective - these songs were in his vault, sometimes for more than one reason, and there you have these silly fams criticizing the quality of each song in HIS vault

mbdtyler said:

Do people here really not like "Killing At The Soda Shop"? It's very different from most of the other stuff Prince wrote, but it gives me cool post-punk vibes, kinda like "Annie Christian" but with an orchestra. It sure as hell ain't one of the worst songs he put to tape

KATSS is so wrong, but it is so right, because I love listening to it, it is quirky rock. I think that is the first song JJ has done with a rock element. How she sang it was so against how the music came out, or how the music came out was so against her singing, but I love it lol