The released version kicks a lot of ass, I think it could have been a hit had he released it in the early/mid 80's. It is very repetitive, but so are a lot of his other songs that fans seem to love (like "The Dance Electric"). This one is just the right length and has enough changes to keep it fun and interesting

The Wendy & Lisa version is one of my top ten favorite Prince songs:

1. 1999

2. Let's Go Crazy

3. Power Fantastic

4. Dirty Mind

5. In A Large Room With No Light

6. Mountains

7. Adore

8. I Wanna Be Your Lover

9. Splash

10 Wonderful Ass

PacManPlus said:

The song an 8.

Prince's actual Wonderful Ass...

1,000,000,000,000

Easily a 10, I love that bouncy beat and its a joyous upbeat song, its criminal Prince kept it in the vault. For some reason I always listen to it with "G Spot" - in that case, Prince sitting on that song - "F is for Frustration"

10/10 by a long shot.

Wonderful Ass? That's a Prince song?! I've never heard of it. When I'm done listening to the Purple Rain Deluxe set for the 900th time, I'll have to look for that song.

Love this track but in particular the first version 82/83. The version on Purple Rain Deluxe is great and very cool but the earlier solo version is so so good, the drum programming is incredible. The extended version of this in pristine quality is in my Top 5 wishlist of un released Prince.

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Always thought it was overated by the fan base. Its good, but not great. I never gave too much credit to Prince's abilty to quality control his own output, but in his heyday, he got it much more right than he got wrong. This one is b-side at best.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

The song an 8.

Prince's actual Wonderful Ass...

1,000,000,000,000

"She had the cutest ass he'd ever seen, he did too, they were meant to be" ....

*

Yep, this man knew how to flaunt one of his best assets....pun intended!!!

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violetcrush said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

The song an 8.

Prince's actual Wonderful Ass...

1,000,000,000,000

"She had the cutest ass he'd ever seen, he did too, they were meant to be" ....

*

Yep, this man knew how to flaunt one of his best assets....pun intended!!!

*

Another beautiful shot

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Not one of his best, but I do dig it. I don't understand the hate this song gets sometimes. To me this is the epitome of that classic 80's Prince sound. From the chicken-scratch guitar, to the 82-84 Linn drum sound. Plus it has Lisa on backing vocals. To me it sounds like something that could have come off the album in between 1999 and Purple Rain (if there was one).

TrivialPursuit said:

SoulAlive said:

TrivialPursuit said: Me too! I always felt that this song should be on SOTT instead of the mediocre “Hot Thing”.It is a better,stronger track.

For me, "IT" is the replaceable or ejection-worthy track.

OMG, I LOVE "IT"!!!! The sparse arrangement and the beat is fantastic. Love the unreleased version the most, and all of Prince's live versions.

SoulAlive said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I could almost hear it on SOTT next to "Forever In My Life"

Me too! I always felt that this song should be on SOTT instead of the mediocre “Hot Thing”.It is a better,stronger track.

Not a fan of Hot Thing either. Prince was definitely going for the bigger band thing on this record. I don't think the sound of Wonderful Ass would fit on SOTT. It sounds to me like it fits more on the Dream Factory or original Crystal Ball track lists.

RJOrion said:

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I had the '84 vers on a muddy tape back in the day, didn't get the second vers until some years later, so I'll always prefer the '84 vers. I love the track, would've loved it to of been at least a B Side. I dig the music & lyrics.

In my top 10 as well. Together with:

Power Fantastic

Large Room

AUTomatic

Annie Christian

ATWIAD

Paisley Park

SOTT

We Can Fu(n-c)k

Heaven

Erotic City

As usual, I'm stunned to see the Dylan/Springsteen/McCartney fans favoring the inferior original edit to the superior, much funkier and more sophisticated later version

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For those who may have missed that, it was recently revealed that circa 1990, the track was offered to the folk-punk band Violent Femmes, after they requested a song via Susan Rogers, who was producing them at the time. Afraid that the profanity would prevent them from getting radio airplay, they chose not to record it. Had they kept it, we would have had a strange, Violent Femmes sounding version of it officially released 27 years ago. Why Prince thought of that particular song for a band such as Violent Femmes, whose music was everything but funk, and how the song would have sounded once rerecorded, is very intriguing to me.

I love it! I'd rate it a 9/10, another excellent outtake from his golden era.

Genesia said:

I have never understood the love for this song. I think it's just okay.

Likewise. I find it a boring song to be honest.

MacDaddy said:

Genesia said:

I have never understood the love for this song. I think it's just okay.

Likewise. I find it a boring song to be honest.

Like Prince once asked HM Buff: "how's your sex life?"

databank said:

MacDaddy said:

Likewise. I find it a boring song to be honest.

Like Prince once asked HM Buff: "how's your sex life?"

databank said:

MacDaddy said:

Likewise. I find it a boring song to be honest.

Like Prince once asked HM Buff: "how's your sex life?"

That was referencing his syrupy ballad/love songs (ie: The Sun, Moon, and Stars), not a song like this one, where he's essentially saying he's putting up with her crap, because of her wonderful ass

violetcrush said:

databank said:

Like Prince once asked HM Buff: "how's your sex life?"

That was referencing his syrupy ballad/love songs (ie: The Sun, Moon, and Stars), not a song like this one, where he's essentially saying he's putting up with her crap, because of her wonderful ass

Yeah but the groove is the sexiest ever