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Thread started 06/25/23 10:41am

lurker316

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Prince’s best melodies

We had a recent thread discussing 777-9311 and Prince’s best drum patterns and beats. While his rhythm gets a lot of deserved attention, what about his melodies? I’d sometime asked you to list your favorites, or list melodies that illustrate Prince’s genius, what ones would you name?
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Reply #1 posted 06/25/23 11:45am

nayroo2002

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Are you trying to figure out what "melody" means?

You haven't listed your own list of favorites lol

"Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends"
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Reply #2 posted 06/25/23 2:51pm

Am3121

"scandalous"
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Reply #3 posted 06/25/23 4:53pm

GustavoRibas

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Diamonds and Pearls, Nothing Compares 2 U, Question of U are some songs that came to my mind.

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Reply #4 posted 06/25/23 10:10pm

jazzz

Condition of the Heart
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Reply #5 posted 06/26/23 1:00am

lurker316

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So far people have only listed slow songs…
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Reply #6 posted 06/26/23 3:20am

RJOrion

Love 2 The 9s
My Love Is Forever
1999
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Reply #7 posted 06/26/23 4:42am

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you know what's interesting is that p is my favorite artist ever ever and if you asked me what i looked for in music first and foremost i would say melody but i've never really thought to myself that melody is the reason i listen to his music so much.

he has a very unique feel for melodies, though, and i love it and it's wonderfully off kilter and really has flair to it in nearly every track, i think.

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Reply #8 posted 06/26/23 6:17am

BIGJAYRAFFAS

Raspberry Beret

D.M.S.R

Manic Monday

When You Were Mine

When Doves Cry

Purple Rain

All have great melodies that are not just chorus based

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Reply #9 posted 06/26/23 6:18am

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lustmealways said:

you know what's interesting is that p is my favorite artist ever ever and if you asked me what i looked for in music first and foremost i would say melody but i've never really thought to myself that melody is the reason i listen to his music so much.

he has a very unique feel for melodies, though, and i love it and it's wonderfully off kilter and really has flair to it in nearly every track, i think.

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.- Interesting that you mentioned it, because I never felt like Prince was the ´melody guy´ like Stevie Wonder or Elton John, and lots of his songs are almost raps, but at the same time, he made such unforgettable songs that werent grooves only. Most people cant create songs like 1999, When Doves Cry, etc

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Reply #10 posted 06/26/23 6:18am

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jazzz said:

Condition of the Heart

How could I forget this one? One of his best

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Reply #11 posted 06/26/23 7:57am

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Prince was a very interesting song-writer.

Rhymically he was a ground-breaking highly innovating phenom. The Linn Drum/Minneanapolis Sound is a HUGE controbution to pop music.

Melodically, he was also super talented, obviously.

He really had a great ear for a hook.

Some of his best melodies, IMO, are songs like:

Raspberry Beret

Little Red Corvette

Anotherloverholenyohead

Cirlce of Armour

I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

Way Back Home

The Breakdown

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Reply #12 posted 06/26/23 8:47am

BIGJAYRAFFAS

ExTAFKASoladeo1 said:

Prince was a very interesting song-writer.

Rhymically he was a ground-breaking highly innovating phenom. The Linn Drum/Minneanapolis Sound is a HUGE controbution to pop music.

Melodically, he was also super talented, obviously.

He really had a great ear for a hook.

Some of his best melodies, IMO, are songs like:

Raspberry Beret

Little Red Corvette

Anotherloverholenyohead

Cirlce of Armour

I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

Way Back Home

The Breakdown

CANNOT believe I missed ICNTTPOYM off my list amazing and amazing melody, possibly my favorite Prince song (top 3 for sure)

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Reply #13 posted 06/26/23 9:50am

LILpoundCAKE

it might not be the most obvious one but to me the most beautiful one is "Joy In Repetition",
culminating in THAT guitar solo, which is a melodic wonder in and of itself.


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Reply #14 posted 06/28/23 2:24am

lurker316

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There are some great suggestions here. If I had to pick a favorite, it might be Manic Monday.
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Reply #15 posted 06/28/23 5:16am

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"My Tender Heart". I'm bad with lyrics but I love this vocal melody so I looked it up and ehhhhh, seems like a notch above in the 'ole Prince cannon if I try to hum it or try to put some of these words to melody, No? The style of the melody has this masterful mix of elegant yet despondent, too.

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Reply #16 posted 06/28/23 11:27am

jazzz

This is an interesting question, one that I have thought of before. Especially in his uptempo songs, Prince's melodies are pretty simple. Lot of motives of just a few or even single notes that repeat/modulate (but hey, didn't do Beethoven do the same in the 5th). Prince made such melodies interesting by his vocal delivery and production features, thus resulting in great and catchy pop songs.
His ballads, on the other hand, feature more complex melodies that develop. Some good examples are mentioned already in this thread.
Do you agree with this? Or other visions?
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Reply #17 posted 06/30/23 1:58am

Vannormal

Anotherloverholenyohead

Arms Of Orion

Raspberry Beret

Animal Kingdom

The Glamorous Life

Erotic City

When Doves Cry

I Would Die 4 U

International Lover

When You Were Mine

If The Kid Can't Make U Come

Sometimes It Snowes In April

This Could B Us

Dorothy Parker

I Wish U Heaven

Adore

Under The Cherry Moon

In A Larger Room With No Light

I Love U But I Don't Trust U Anymore

17 Days

It's Gonna B A Beautiful Night

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)
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Reply #18 posted 06/30/23 5:54am

jazzz

Nothing compares 2 U
Beautiful Ones
Scandalous
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Reply #19 posted 06/30/23 6:25am

MarcelS67

Question of U, absolutely.

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Reply #20 posted 06/30/23 8:31am

RobotFix

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"The Grand Progression"

"The Beautiful Ones"

"Joy in Repetition"

"Just as Long as We're Together"

"Stll Waiting"

"Father's Song"

"Goodbye"

"Had U"

"Eye Hate U"

"When Eye Lay My Hands On U"

"How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore"

"Little Red Corvette"

Givin' up food for funk.
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Reply #21 posted 06/30/23 9:26am

lurker316

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Vannormal said:

The Glamorous Life


Glamorous Life is a good one that had slipped my mind. That's one hell of a hook.



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