This has been a serious year and for some a hard time of year given the anniversary date. Billboard just put out an article on 15 recommended deep cuts by Prince.

Here is a fun but meaningless challenge

Before hitting the link, think of 5 possible deep cuts that may have been recommended. Then, check the link to see what they listed. I doubt if anyone here will get more than one. If you did guess any right, please post below what the correct guess was and why you thought it would be there. Feel free to post other reactions to the list as well.

If you want to try, please don't scroll to other posts until you have made your guesses.

https://www.billboard.com...deep-cuts/

Nada on my 5 picks, but do like their list, challenging as so many songs, so many well regarded

Deep cuts for Prince can be so varied. But that list really isn't bad. Some b-sides, some album cuts. Some politics, some sex, some fiction.

Off the top of my head, here's 10 deep cuts I'd throw at the general public:

1. Jack U Off
2. Something In The Water
3. Just As Long As We're Together
4. Vagina
5. Life Can Be So Nice (even though it's one of my least favorite 80s tracks. fite me)
6. Dance On
7. La La La, He, He, Hee
8. Escape
9. Return Of The Bump Squad
10. Big City

"That's it."

jfenster said:

Is another lonely Christmas about Jesus and Satan?

You know damn well it ain't. Stop it.

TrivialPursuit said:

i think SAIMH will be there, as well as Joy In Repetition, The Question of U and Anna Stesia, maybe Anne Christian, And God Created Woman, Fury, Bambi, Wasted Kisses, Pheremone. Let me go see, i can't take the suspense.

wow, so glad they fooled me and went MUCH deeper. i only got one of the 15. i should've went with my first mind on the track I picked from the Gold Exp album

Yes, in my opinion they went really deep, especially for a publication like Billboard. I imagine most of the readers wouldn not have been familiar with songs heralded on the org but not known by the masses such as Joy In Repetition and a few dozen others. So, it was quite surprise that they went so deep including some songs that would be in my bottom half of his songs from the studio albums.

jfenster said:

jfenster said:

Dig U Better Dead??? That is seriously one of the weakest things he ever recorded. A "deep cut"? Hardly.

toejam said:

Dig U Better Dead??? That is seriously one of the weakest things he ever recorded. A "deep cut"? Hardly.

I mean... ain't no one normally going to it.

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Wow, I had four.

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EnDoRpHn said:

I wholly approve of that list. Nice to see them really digging in.

My quick guesses:

1. Tambourine
2. Dance On

3. Family Name

4. Shockadelica

5. Bob George

I should have guessed some of favorites! They are on there.

TrevorAyer said:

I got Pheromone. People love pointing at Pheromone.

I also guessed Future Soul Song, Just as Long as We're Together, Endorphinmachine, and Girl.

Mintchip said:

I got Pheromone. People love pointing at Pheromone.

I also guessed Future Soul Song, Just as Long as We're Together, Endorphinmachine, and Girl.

COME is such a great, dark record. "Phermone" displays a real struggle with the narrator.