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Thread started 10/27/21 11:15am

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Prince's favourite song of all time

https://faroutmagazine.co...-all-time/
Here's the article with the same title. Spoiler: it's A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell and the article does include An interesting quote by Joni where she says that men write dishonest songs about breakups, meaning that they blame the women. She wanted to be more honest. Could this be why Prince liked the song and played it live throughout the years? (I saw him do it in 1995 and it was beautiful.) On the other hand: Prince has plenty of songs about women who did him wrong that you could call dishonest.
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Reply #1 posted 10/27/21 11:33am

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SantanaMaitreya said:

https://faroutmagazine.co...-all-time/ Here's the article with the same title. Spoiler: it's A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell and the article does include An interesting quote by Joni where she says that men write dishonest songs about breakups, meaning that they blame the women. She wanted to be more honest. Could this be why Prince liked the song and played it live throughout the years? (I saw him do it in 1995 and it was beautiful.) On the other hand: Prince has plenty of songs about women who did him wrong that you could call dishonest.

I once heard, somewhere, that another song that Prince absolutely adored was DRIVE by The Cars.

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Reply #2 posted 10/27/21 11:48am

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He was always good at blaming others for his breakups

He never did introspection or self blame I dont think

I thought help me by joni was his favourite though
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Reply #3 posted 10/27/21 1:16pm

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soladeo1 said:

I once heard, somewhere, that another song that Prince absolutely adored was DRIVE by The Cars.


Somewhere, I remember something about that, too. I wonder if he ever tried to "remake" it, meaning did he write something inspired by it; tried to one-up it.

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Reply #4 posted 10/27/21 7:12pm

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Ooo, pleasantly surprised to hear about Drive.

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Reply #5 posted 10/28/21 8:32am

mtlfan

TrivialPursuit said:

soladeo1 said:

I once heard, somewhere, that another song that Prince absolutely adored was DRIVE by The Cars.


Somewhere, I remember something about that, too. I wonder if he ever tried to "remake" it, meaning did he write something inspired by it; tried to one-up it.

Susan Rogers mentioned him liking it in a podcast where she plays a setlist of songs Prince liked. She played "A Case of You" as well.

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Reply #6 posted 10/28/21 8:35am

mtlfan

The lyrics to "Strange Relationship" would like a word.

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Reply #7 posted 10/28/21 12:34pm

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mtlfan said:

The lyrics to "Strange Relationship" would like a word.

Exactly!

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Reply #8 posted 10/28/21 1:22pm

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mtlfan said:

TrivialPursuit said:


Somewhere, I remember something about that, too. I wonder if he ever tried to "remake" it, meaning did he write something inspired by it; tried to one-up it.

Susan Rogers mentioned him liking it in a podcast where she plays a setlist of songs Prince liked. She played "A Case of You" as well.


That's probably it.

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Reply #9 posted 10/30/21 4:25am

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soladeo1 said:

I once heard, somewhere, that another song that Prince absolutely adored was DRIVE by The Cars.

Which reminds me - and Cars, by Gary Numan.

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Reply #10 posted 10/30/21 6:16pm

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gsmith5678 said:

soladeo1 said:

I once heard, somewhere, that another song that Prince absolutely adored was DRIVE by The Cars.

Which reminds me - and Cars, by Gary Numan.


That album, The Pleasure Principle, was one where Numan used zero guitars. He fed his keyboards through guitar pedals. It gave a very robotic and cold sound to it; something I can't help but think Prince had to hear and tried to use his own way, especially on something like 1999.

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Reply #11 posted 10/31/21 1:06am

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The lyrics to "Strange Relationship" would like a word.



One song out of 100s? Lol.
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Reply #12 posted 11/02/21 7:32am

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TrivialPursuit said:

soladeo1 said:

I once heard, somewhere, that another song that Prince absolutely adored was DRIVE by The Cars.


Somewhere, I remember something about that, too. I wonder if he ever tried to "remake" it, meaning did he write something inspired by it; tried to one-up it.

I think Prince was smart enough to know that he would have been unable to one-up perfection. Match it, MAYBE. One-up it? No.

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Reply #13 posted 11/04/21 8:38am

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All his self respective stuff went in the vault.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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