Hard to beat Ready For The World's OH SHIELA, am I right????

Georgio - Sex Appeal

The-Dream - "Fast Car"

Andre 3000 - "Spread"

Justin Timberfake - "Sexy Ladies"

Beck - "Debra", "This Is My Crew"

Those two songs from A Goofy Movie sung by Tevin Campbell as Powerline: "Stand Out" and "Eye 2 Eye"

The Ready for the World one is probably the best tho, it gets extra points for including a Prince-associate name like "Sheila". I also like their "Love You Down" as a top shelf Prince xerox.

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Yahzarah recorded a song called "Last To Leave," from her 3rd album The Ballad of Purple St. James that is - as I have always called it - the ballad Prince should have written (and should be mad he didn't).

I interviewed Yahzarah back in 2011. We did a lightening round of Q&A. I asked her, "Purple Rain, or Sign O the Times?" She picked SOTT. She's a huge Prince fan.

Also - controversial on here - Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Ladies" from his most Princesque album to date, FutureSex/LoveSounds. From the same album, "[Another Song] All Over Again" sounds like Prince in his 3121 or Planet Earth era.

FragileUndertow said:

Natural Selection - Do Anything

That's my vote too. it took me quite a while to be convinced that Prince didn't have anything to do with this one.

OH!

i thought this was about Prince recording somebody else's shit.

For me, the best was "When Will We B Paid".

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Timberlakes until the end of time

Everyone lists that because of one drum sound in it that they think he sampled from "Raspberry Beret;" as if no one else could ever have a similar sound on a record without a sample. The drums aside, it's very much not a Prince sounding song. The other one on there (that I listed) is 100% more Princesque.

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Muse's supermassive black hole

Even more Princey is "Madness" by Muse.

Their live rendition of "Sign O The Times" is merely epic.

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very nice

Pokemon Infinite Fusion

dodger07 said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

dodger07 said:

November Rain and You Could Be Mine

Really ?

November Rain a no-brainer to me. For a start the title with the Purple/Nov Rain theme. I can imagine P writing and singing those lyrics, can see him doing the Axl piano intro, the Slash guitar solo, Michael B smashing the drums...

.

You Could Be Mine, less so. Not his kind of lyrics

FragileUndertow said:

Natural Selection - Do Anything

This one, for sure! I thought it was Prince when it came out.

Do Time songs count?

Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars

Still A Thrill
Jody Watley

WhisperingDandelions said:

TrivialPursuit said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Sinead O' Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U

ShellyMcG said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

The-Dream - "Fast Car"

Andre 3000 - "Spread"

Justin Timberfake - "Sexy Ladies"

Beck - "Debra", "This Is My Crew"

Those two songs from A Goofy Movie sung by Tevin Campbell as Powerline: "Stand Out" and "Eye 2 Eye"

The Ready for the World one is probably the best tho, it gets extra points for including a Prince-associate name like "Sheila". I also like their "Love You Down" as a top shelf Prince xerox.

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I'll let you off the hook for misspelling Eye 2 Eye from a Goofy Movie. As any self respecting member of The Goof Troop knows, it's actually written as "I 2 I". But that and Stand Out are definitely two of the best Prince-sounding songs of all time.

Intentional misspelling on my part. I wanted to emphasize how even the title is bootleg Prince.