Tinkering with the piano this afternoon and I always enjoy running through the Do Me Baby chords with the track in the background.

Little later I moved on to I Wanna Be Your Lover and slipped back in to the Do Me Baby chords ... and they totally fit!

Did Prince just slow I Wanna Be Your Lover down for Do Me Baby? Surprised I never noticed this before, but does explain why they are two of my all time faves

wow .i never noticed that...and i probably never would have... you may be onto something

Didn't Andre write "Do Me, Baby"? Or have we settled that yet?

Prince often repeated himself. "Toy Box", "Blue Limousine" and "17 Days" are fraternal triples. "Gamillah" is arguably a slower version of "The Holy River". Some have said it reminds them of "Still" by Commodores.

Looking at the chords, I can see a vague progression that could stand up but in general, I don't think it's a slowed down version of IWBYL. Anything is possible, though, as to what he was feeling or whatever. The thing is, he would later do this for EPs, like "Cream", "New Power Generation", and "Gett Off", taking elements or chords of a song and creating a whole new piece of music.

1999 and Manic Monday are the same song so...

Mary Had a Little Lamb is also the same song as London Bridge, though the rumors that either of those were penned by Prince have not yet been confirmed.

There's a lot of bleedover from many of his 80's albums to the next album.

Dave Hill's Prince: A Pop Life makes some very compelling arguments on the similarities between Purple Rain and ATWIAD.

i dont care a bout all this ...but i would like to hear those we gets up mixes>>>>

A LOT of his ballads are almost interchangable and sound exactly the same to me. Never noticed that often it was the same structure but simply slowed down so good catch, I guess. To me so many of the slow ballads are throw aways and carbon copies, and it's always bugged me. If pressed, I can make a double CD of songs that stand out to me, but stuff like Insatiable, Scandalous, DMB, International Lover, Slow Love, The Beautiful Ones, Adore, On the Couch, When 2 r in Love, Satisfied, Future Baby Mama, Condition of the Heart...

They all run together for me.

jasopig said:

Mary Had a Little Lamb is also the same song as London Bridge, though the rumors that either of those were penned by Prince have not yet been confirmed.

Hahaha! There's a reason you cannot copyright a chord progression. ALL pop songs use the same handful off chords in different order. THe same order is bound to happen from time to time. It happens quite frequesntly, in fact.

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