What song(s) do you guys considder his most funky ?

And I mean 'funk'.

Knowing that '1999' to me is pop, and less funk,

likewise for 'When Doves Cry' and 'Little Red Corvette' or 'Take Me With U'.

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I'll go for these (hard to choose) :

- Housequake (all versions)

- Alphabet St. (album version)

- Let's Work (long version)

- Dance Music Sex Romance

- Can I Play With U (all versions)

- All The Critics Love U In New York

- Lady Cab Driver

and for some reason also

- Mountains (extended version)

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3121

STARE

Days of Wild + much of Gold era NPG.

Let's work [obviously!]

Too many to choose from!

Ol' School Company is Funky af

Head

Controversy

Let's Work

Girls and Boys

Gett off

The Gold Standard

To me, one thing that sets Prince's funk apart from other musicians is that it's often driven by a nasty little guitar riff rather than a bass. For instance, the guitar intro on the extended version of U Got the Look. There's also the second half of the extended version of Kiss where the funk is driven more by the guitar than the syth. It's a sound he went back to time-and-time again, but I'll never

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lurker316 said:

Head

Controversy

Let's Work

Girls and Boys

Gett off

The Gold Standard

To me, one thing that sets Prince's funk apart from other musicians is that it's often driven by a nasty little guitar riff rather than a bass. For instance, the guitar intro on the extended version of U Got the Look. There's also the second half of the extended version of Kiss where the funk is driven more by the guitar than the syth. It's a sound he went back to time-and-time again, but I'll never

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Head, sure ! great funk.

Controversy, I considder that dance-pop rather than good funk.

Same goos for Girls And Boys, too pop for my funk. But great song though thanks to the 'funky' barriton saxophone by Eric Leeds.

God I miss Eric Leeds' wonderful sax arrangements in most of the later Prince material.

Gett Off, absolutely !

The Gold Standard..... nah, too.... i don't know. It lacks the great funk we already all know.

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And you're right. The guitar driven nasty bits in songs make it super funky, like the one in Shockadelica !

My favourite funky bass is the inexplicable funky bass in the extended version of Alphabet St.

Pure! Genius!

And it's true, although I find Kiss not a funky song at all (for me it'smore of a bluesy dance pop song, whatever...), but indeed the extended part has a tremendous funky guitar licks in there.

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DarkKnight1 said:

Ol' School Company is Funky af

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Indeed great (but slow and nasty) funk !

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RJOrion said:

2 Nigs United 4 West Compton LeGrind Sexy Dancer Its Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Cloreen Baconskin Girls & Boys Stare Freaks On This Side Letitgo Prettyman Housequake Dream Factory Arrogance The Flow Gett Off Melody Cool Coco Boys We Can Fuck LalalaHehehe Glamorous Life Lovesexy Party Up

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I absolutely agree on the ones I put in bold up here.

But most of the others are more pop to me.

Sexy Dancer is disco. But good disco.

It's gonna be a beautiful night is a party dance song, and doesn't have that 'funk' for me.

Although the end part, where they all go crazy is wonderful !

Prettyman, is pretty funky too.

And Party Up is more of a new-wave pop-ish rock song to me. Great song though.

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DarkKnight1 said:

Ol' School Company is Funky af

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Rhythmic is Superfunky indeed.

But this song lack a bit of... well old school Prince funk to me.

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The Exodus Has Begun

Acknowledge Me

Pheromone

We Can Fuck

Prettyman

3121

DMSR

Return of the Bump Squad

The Max

Superfunkycalifragisexy

Rockhard in a Funky Place

Dance On

Head

Let's Work

Lady Cab Driver

...to name a few more prominent ones.

DMSR rules them all...

No one has mentioned Face Down???? It's almost like a James Brown but Prince is rapping instead of instead of going into preacher mode like Mr. Brown

Cloreen Bacon Skin is fun-kay!!!

I think A Love Bizarre should be part of this discussion, too

Sexual Suicide.

"What's My Name?" and "Billy Jack Bitch".

The Black Album = The Funk Bible

Did I miss Erotic City?

Black Sweat

Vannormal said:

Controversy, I considder that dance-pop rather than good funk.

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Depends on which version you listen to...

nelcp777 said:

Days of wild

Co-sign. That shit is RAW.

Madhouse6 said:

We Can Funk

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Which version?

herb4 said:

nelcp777 said:

Days of wild

Co-sign. That shit is RAW.

I can play that track all day long.