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Thread started 08/04/18 9:03pm

Tilikum1983

What Prince song do u wish there had been a music video for

What Prince song any song any album or unreleased etc would you have lov)ed to see him do a video for?
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Reply #1 posted 08/04/18 9:25pm

Graciegirl719

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Maybe Something In The Water? I love that song.

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Reply #2 posted 08/04/18 9:47pm

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Love or $... oh wait, they shot one...

but seriously, When You Were Mine or Pop Life for me.

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Reply #3 posted 08/04/18 10:45pm

sovembol

Pop Life - Let’s Work
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Reply #4 posted 08/04/18 11:10pm

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Letitgo or Space or maybe Pink Cashmere
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Reply #5 posted 08/04/18 11:53pm

SkipperLove

Me too...damn good song. I wish he had a video for LOVE, Breakdown, Rockhard in a funky place (that would hysterical), Way Back Home, Pink Cashmere, the Future, and his version of Shhh. There are so many songs he should have had videos for and a few songs I wish he hadn't made videos for.

Graciegirl719 said:

Maybe Something In The Water? I love that song.

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Reply #6 posted 08/05/18 1:04am

Purplegarden

Soft and Wet, Just as long as we're together, even a performance video of each would be fine, like the I wanna be your lover one, beafroed young Prince playing the guitar, then the keyboards, bass and singing.

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Even for Just as long as were together, one where he is dressed up and running around a nice house setting up a romantic dinner for two, with him lighting candles and bringing out the wine, while some beautiful girl comes in and he removes her coat for her.

I got plenty good loving for ya baby
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Reply #7 posted 08/05/18 5:41am

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Illusion, COma, Pimp, and Circumstance wink

full lips, freckles, and upturned nose
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Reply #8 posted 08/05/18 5:47am

nelcp777

Hide the bone
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Reply #9 posted 08/05/18 6:25am

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Way Back Home, Clouds, This Could B Us, Revelation, 1000 X's & O's, Space, Letitgo...

There was a shirt at the recent exhibition that was reported to be from the original, unreleased Pink Cashmere video, so one at least exists in the vault
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Reply #10 posted 08/05/18 6:34am

SkipperLove

If he would have just filmed some more of his videos outside of Paisley, songs like ICP&C would be quite funny in video form.

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Illusion, COma, Pimp, and Circumstance wink

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Reply #11 posted 08/05/18 9:19am

eyewishuheaven

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The 1 U Wanna C.

With a goofy line dance and the whole nine yards, I feel like this one would have really caught on. Missed opportunity.

PRINCE: the only man who could wear high heels and makeup and STILL steal your woman!
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Reply #12 posted 08/05/18 10:13am

Rimshottbob

For me? None.

I have never seen a music video I liked.... I have never heard a song via a music video that wouldn't have been better heard without a video attached, detracting from it.

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Reply #13 posted 08/05/18 11:53am

bonatoc

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The Holy River.

The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #14 posted 08/05/18 12:25pm

feeluupp

eyewishuheaven said:

The 1 U Wanna C.

With a goofy line dance and the whole nine yards, I feel like this one would have really caught on. Missed opportunity.

There was one shot for this... It had a 60's hippie theme to it, never officially released but it's made rounds on the web.

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Reply #15 posted 08/05/18 12:34pm

TrivialPursuit

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feeluupp said:

eyewishuheaven said:

The 1 U Wanna C.

With a goofy line dance and the whole nine yards, I feel like this one would have really caught on. Missed opportunity.

There was one shot for this... It had a 60's hippie theme to it, never officially released but it's made rounds on the web.


Yep the full version is out there. It's so fun and is a great throwback to 60s and 70s variety shows like Sonny & Cher, The Smother's Brothers, Laugh-In, Dinah Shore, Mike Douglas, Donny & Marie, etc.

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Reply #16 posted 08/05/18 12:35pm

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bonatoc said:

The Holy River.


I'm going to assume you're being facetious since we all know there is a video to this.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #17 posted 08/05/18 12:53pm

TrivialPursuit

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It's most curious there are not videos for "Pop Life" but there is some wannabe-hippy bullshit for "Paisley Park".

But, the glaring omissions are:

Pop Life

Adore (which also begged to be a single)

Do Me, Baby

Something In The Water

Take Me With U (as a real duet)

Forever In My Life (could have been a very cool in-studio live recording; much like he sort of did with "Willing And Able" or George Michael" did with "Round Here").
Pope

Strange Relationship (which was also a single-in-the-waiting)

Pink Cashmere

Power Fantastic

The Future (he should have been in an outdoor concert setting on the Batman set and made it a side story the way Pixar does with their Shorts on movie DVDs which sometimes coincide with the actual movie, like Wall-E's "Burn-E" short).

Electric Chair (continuation of the above)


Honorable Mention to "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad" for simply not having more airplay with that cloud bass.

The thing is, the vast majority of Prince videos are just performance videos. Pretty boring, really. He wasn't breaking ground with anything. Think about it, the biggest "ooohhss" some fans have offered is that he is wearing jeans in "Little Red Corvette" (arguably the last time we really saw him in denim besides some SOTT stuff), and the blue screen suit for "Raspberry Beret". Stuff like "Take Me With U", "I Would Die 4 U/Baby I'm A Star", "America", "I Could Never Take The Place Of You Man", "Anotherloverholenyohead", were all lifted from various concerts or films. Anything from SOTT or Graffiti Bridge and most of Purple Rain existed solely to promote the movie.

"Betcha By Golly Wow" was the closest he'd had to a real storyline in a video to that point; but that doesn't dismiss stuff like "Diamonds and Pearls" with its beautiful imagery, "Gett Off"'s onslaught of remix videos, the fuckfest that were videos for prince album. "Batdance" was visually fun and interesting, yet "I Wish U Heaven" was another blue screen orgy. "Glam Slam" felt like it was shot on the leftover "Control" set for Janet's video, but it's still 100x more interesting than the duo boredom of "Dirty Mind" and "Uptown". Hell, even Michael Jackson shot "Don't Stop" and "She's Out Of My Life" on the same day in the same studio but had the good sense to change clothes.

Prince really took a miser's approach to video making. It's like he wanted to spend as little money as possible on any production. It was only when WB was doing a bigger push for a reboot to this sales that more money seemed to be involved (eg: Lovesexy, Diamonds & Pearls, Batman).

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #18 posted 08/05/18 12:55pm

jdcxc

Erotic City
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Reply #19 posted 08/05/18 12:56pm

TheFman

All My Dreams


(didnt Letitgo have a vid?? I could swear i saw one)

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Reply #20 posted 08/05/18 1:41pm

gold31

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Good Love

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Reply #21 posted 08/05/18 1:47pm

benni

bonatoc said:

The Holy River.


There is a video for The Holy River.

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Reply #22 posted 08/05/18 1:50pm

benni

Way Back Home, Reflection, Pop Life, AnnaStesia, When Will We Be Paid, Colonized Mind, Cause and Effect ... just to name a few of them.

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Reply #23 posted 08/05/18 2:05pm

dodger

I always wanted to see the full P Control video, if he did make a full vid, after that short clip where 'he pulls up right beside her'
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Reply #24 posted 08/05/18 3:06pm

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benni said:

bonatoc said:

The Holy River.


There is a video for The Holy River.


That's what I said. biggrin


[Edited 8/5/18 15:07pm]

The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #25 posted 08/05/18 3:12pm

benni

bonatoc said:

benni said:


There is a video for The Holy River.


That's what I said. biggrin


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lol - where did you say that???? I must have missed it because the question was what song do you wish there had been a video made for and you responded with just The Holy River???? I'm so confused. eek lol

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Reply #26 posted 08/05/18 3:16pm

bonatoc

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benni said:

bonatoc said:


That's what I said. biggrin


[Edited 8/5/18 15:07pm]


lol - where did you say that???? I must have missed it because the question was what song do you wish there had been a video made for and you responded with just The Holy River???? I'm so confused. eek lol



The joke was: the existing video sucks so bad it's actually the song I wish there was a(nother) video for.

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The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #27 posted 08/05/18 3:57pm

benni

bonatoc said:

benni said:


lol - where did you say that???? I must have missed it because the question was what song do you wish there had been a video made for and you responded with just The Holy River???? I'm so confused. eek lol



The joke was: the existing video sucks so bad it's actually the song I wish there was a(nother) video for.

[Edited 8/5/18 15:16pm]


lol Well, then, nothing like having to have the joke explained! (But I always loved the video. *sniff sniff*)

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Reply #28 posted 08/05/18 5:58pm

nelcp777

Crystal ball
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Reply #29 posted 08/05/18 6:04pm

benni

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Crystal ball


That would be a good one!

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