I took it as it was dark so when the lighting flashed it lit up the barn but the thunder (of her screams) made him forget to look!


Also: pretty well known. A case of misheard lyrics lead to a band called The Lightning Seeds.

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Yes such a great lyric, something he seemd to lose later on (hides under desk), or at least move away from in terms of his interest in socio-political and religious lyrics.

LOSTPASSWORDMAN said:

Yes such a great lyric, something he seemd to lose later on (hides under desk), or at least move away from in terms of his interest in socio-political and religious lyrics.

But, these lyrics are about boinkin'!

He wrote all about IT up till the end!

Also with clever passages:

He said “my faith keeps me from willin’
But you know that I’m able
And if there’s some room
I’d like to sit at your table”
She said “it’s tight, but I think I can fit you in”

This kind of love don’t come from a prayer
Ain’t talking rebound, born of despair
Yellow sun rising on their bodies in bed
Two people in love, with nothing but the road ahead

RJOrion said:

Raspberry Beret is one of the most perfect pop songs Prince ever made...lyrically and musically...and the musical composition is actually VERY complex, when you break it down and try to play it

The chord structure is pretty simplistic. It's those strings and the hook that really has a lot of movement and energy yet, because of the mix itself, remains more subtle and doesn't overwhelm the song.

I think about the synth part in "Human Nature" which acts the same way. Lotta 8th and 16th notes but the song is mid-tempo in nature.

I believe the bridge is the most clever part, bouncing between D and A, then the D-E-A-G#-F#-E hook. It's cute and clever.

Lisa talked last year or year before about how she had been working on a chord progression that was pretty much what Prince used to "Raspberry Beret." There was a slight variation in hers of course. She played it on her Instagram I believe. I used to play the fuck out of it on the piano along with the cassette.

Love this song.

TrivialPursuit said:

lurker316 said:

David Z would disagree. In the Soundset Sound interview with him and and Peggy MacCreary, he says he saw Prince play the song on a piano and that made him realize how intricate the chord progression is. He says it's not easy and it's a complex set of chords. https://youtu.be/IxoG3nqI...amp;t=3921 [Edited 2/4/24 6:34am]

I don't disagree there. But Lisa may have added some flavor to it or something. Because isn't that on the Piano and a Microphone thing that came out? I forget, but I know the song dates to 1982 or so. I sorta saw it like how Boys II Men had a chorus or something, and Mariah had part of a song, and it became their duet. Just a mesh of two similar ideas. But Prince probably did initially come up with a chord progression.

The chords are pretty easy. A-G-D/F#-G-D/F#-G-A. The "unusual" chord is an E on "I think I (E) looooove (A) her." Even the bridge is just D-A-D-A, then that funny little thing I described earlier.

nayroo2002 said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I took it as it was dark so when the lighting flashed it lit up the barn but the thunder (of her screams) made him forget to look!

The lightning allows them to be seen having sex in the dark barn. The sound of the thunder is louder than the noises they are making whilst having sex.

So the lightning flashes and they can be seen. But then the sound of the thunder follows shortly after and drowns out their sound.

TrivialPursuit said:

RJOrion said:

Raspberry Beret is one of the most perfect pop songs Prince ever made...lyrically and musically...and the musical composition is actually VERY complex, when you break it down and try to play it

The chord structure is pretty simplistic. It's those strings and the hook that really has a lot of movement and energy yet, because of the mix itself, remains more subtle and doesn't overwhelm the song.

I think about the synth part in "Human Nature" which acts the same way. Lotta 8th and 16th notes but the song is mid-tempo in nature.

I believe the bridge is the most clever part, bouncing between D and A, then the D-E-A-G#-F#-E hook. It's cute and clever.

Lisa talked last year or year before about how she had been working on a chord progression that was pretty much what Prince used to "Raspberry Beret." There was a slight variation in hers of course. She played it on her Instagram I believe. I used to play the fuck out of it on the piano along with the cassette.

That could be a Wendy and Lisa arrangement... It suits them...

Yeah, could be. It's probably the song that reminds people of The Beatles the most, other than the first two tracks. I don't see most of side two as a Beatles-esque influence. "Tamborine" nor "Condition of the Heart" certainly isn't.

There's an alternative band The Lightning Seeds that chose their name based on mishearing those Raspberry Beret lyrics.

One hit wonder with the song "Pure".

TrivialPursuit said:

Yeah, could be. It's probably the song that reminds people of The Beatles the most, other than the first two tracks. I don't see most of side two as a Beatles-esque influence. "Tamborine" nor "Condition of the Heart" certainly isn't.

Tamborine certainly not, it's funky as hell. But Condition Of The Heart might have an Abbey Road-kinda pass.

But probably more than the music itself it was more about the whole imagery from the era, the artwork from the album and the singles.

As my musical taste broadened with the years, ATWIAD reminds me more of Funkadelic than the Beatles.

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Strangely reminds me of bungalow bill lol

Kinda true.

Rythmically...

Vannormal said:

They were fawning over "Raspberry Beret" lyrics over on reddit the other week too but this is medium grade Prince lyricism at best.

Now "101" or "My Tender Heart", there's some lyrics.

Great pop song, however.

WhisperingDandelions said:

RJOrion said:

'My Tender Heart' has great lyricism too...the lyrics somehow hit harder when Rosie Gaines sings it...I prefer her version over Prince's version, by alot

The Claire Fisher strings are like 9,000x better, more enveloping and more lush on the Rosie version.

I get so irritated Prince fans lock-step auto-swap the Prince vocals as the "definitive" versions with all these Originals. They're literally all demos with demo-arrangements.

Prince's "finished" versions were all released decades ago, on other people's albums as he intended, with finished production as he gave final approval/mixing.

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funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

They were fawning over "Raspberry Beret" lyrics over on reddit the other week too but this is medium grade Prince lyricism at best.

Now "101" or "My Tender Heart", there's some lyrics.

Great pop song, however.

Top grade contrarianism right there lol (and i like my tender heart v much)

nah cmon bro, "Rapsberry Baret" is like Fisher Price My First Bob Dylan.

WhisperingDandelions said: