Jack U Off

Delirious

Let's Pretend We're Married

Horny Toad

No Call U

Your All I want

Can't Stop This Feelin' I got (82? 86? 90?)

Lets Go Crazy

Play in the Sunshine

Courtin' Time?

Compassion

What else?

coldasice said:

Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got. OG version

I don't even think that would count as rockabilly so much as straight up punk. Definitely sounds inspired by Devo or The Clash.

Can't Stop has those Elvis Costello/Cars keyboards, same kind of thing Rick James was adding to Super Freak. That combined with the brief rockabilly revival that centered around the Stray Cats that kind of coincided with the second British Invasion circa 1981 is where the sound comes from. I think Prince's ability to mix it all together was the most inspired though, not sure i've ever come across anyone else who did that so successfully.

I was thinking (after the 1999 release) to create a rock and roll (rockabilly) playlist myself. I would include turn it up, girl o my dreams (however not released),

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lion88 said:

I was thinking (after the 1999 release) to create a rock and roll (rockabilly) playlist myself. I would include turn it up, girl o my dreams (however not released),

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Interesting. I'd put Turn it Up in the "new wave" camp. Girl of my Dream is swing to me but its all related. You can draw straight lines between all these songs and styles. Prince really was a master of mashing it all up.

Yes the 1999 package really made me hear these songs that previously I never would have thought were realted but now with 30+ year distance I hear the connections.

coldasice said:

Not sure you know what Rockabilly is.

THIS!

LoveGalore said:

coldasice said:

lion88 said:

The Rest of My Life!

coldasice said:

LoveGalore said:

I don't even think that would count as rockabilly so much as straight up punk. Definitely sounds inspired by Devo or The Clash.

Sounds nothing like punk on any way. It’s rockabilly (think Elvis)

Not sure what your interpretation of punk is, but it could easily be a Clash song. Elvis never had those keys in the background like that. Rockabilly has a very distinctive swing to it which is not present in Can't Stop This Feeling I Got (it is very distinctive to songs like Horny Toad, Broken, You're All I Want). In fact, it sounds A LOT like "Strychnine" by the Fuzztones.

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LoveGalore said:

LoveGalore said:

LPWM, Let's Go Crazy, PitS, and Compassion are not rockabilly by any stretch! lol But you could add Broken. [Edited 12/9/19 8:20am]

Maybe they are mixing up how it was down on the Purple Rain tour sometimes, which was rockabilly?

I'm trying to remember off the top of my head, but would GUITAR count?

OldFriends4Sale said:

LoveGalore said:

LPWM, Let's Go Crazy, PitS, and Compassion are not rockabilly by any stretch! lol But you could add Broken. [Edited 12/9/19 8:20am]

Maybe they are mixing up how it was down on the Purple Rain tour sometimes, which was rockabilly?

Possibly - and I get that the ending to LGC with that very Vegas-y chord progression might tip people off that it's a reference to something, but it's not rockabilly that is for sure. it's actually Play in the Sunshine and Compassion that made me the most confused.

lion88 said:

I was thinking (after the 1999 release) to create a rock and roll (rockabilly) playlist myself. I would include turn it up, girl o my dreams (however not released),

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"Girl O My Dreams" was released...

No rockabilly in Guitar.

Courtin' Time certainly has a swing to it but I wouldn't call it rockabilly, same with The Rest of My Life (jazzy honky tonk maybe?). The live version of Lets Pretend We're Married goes into a rockabilly kinda solo alright, although you could just call it rock and roll, these things bleed into one another at times...I don't think he had any rockabilly rhythms after the mid 80's, aside from the occasional cover.

coldasice said:

LoveGalore said:

Not sure what your interpretation of punk is, but it could easily be a Clash song. Elvis never had those keys in the background like that. Rockabilly has a very distinctive swing to it which is not present in Can't Stop This Feeling I Got (it is very distinctive to songs like Horny Toad, Broken, You're All I Want). In fact, it sounds A LOT like "Strychnine" by the Fuzztones.

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You name the Clash, but you may be thinking of their last album Sandinista or the two Radio Songs from Combat Rock, the Clash is Punk/Ska.

London Calling was a pretty diverse album coming from many perspectives of rock. "Punk" ethics maybe. but I just get confused when punk fans try to argue a moral philosophy as a musical genre.

WhisperingDandelions said:

coldasice said:

LoveGalore said: You name the Clash, but you may be thinking of their last album Sandinista or the two Radio Songs from Combat Rock, the Clash is Punk/Ska.

London Calling was a pretty diverse album coming from many perspectives of rock. "Punk" ethics maybe. but I just get confused when punk fans try to argue a moral philosophy as a musical genre.

It can get murky - London Calling and the aforementioned Sandinista! are diverse albums for sure, but Clash absolutely started as a punk band. But I digress.

Schindlers List

LoveGalore said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

London Calling was a pretty diverse album coming from many perspectives of rock. "Punk" ethics maybe. but I just get confused when punk fans try to argue a moral philosophy as a musical genre.

It can get murky - London Calling and the aforementioned Sandinista! are diverse albums for sure, but Clash absolutely started as a punk band. But I digress.

This is what everyone tells me, but already you've begrudingly confessed that almost half of their oeuvre isn't punk and have now re-qualified your initial "The Clash is punk/ska" comment to now they "started as a punk band."

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WhisperingDandelions said:

Sexuality

Velvet Kitty Cat

You're missing the best one. 'No More Candy 4 U'.

WhisperingDandelions said:

lion88 said:

I was thinking (after the 1999 release) to create a rock and roll (rockabilly) playlist myself. I would include turn it up, girl o my dreams (however not released),

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"Girl O My Dreams" was released...

In a sense. The TC Ellis version was replayed musically by Levi.