What Prince songs would you have gave him as replacements for the other Artist/Bands song he covered?

Here is his Full Set List:

Now that opening with "We Will Rock You" was pretty cool! So it can stay unless still want it to be one of his songs. And I think it should be some Hits or at least songs quite of few people had heard of.

That would be something else if these replacements songs would be only Hardcore Prince fans would know.

Let me see your Replacements...

[Edited 10/2/25 19:17pm]

Astasheiks said:

What Prince songs would you have gave him as replacements for the other Artist/Bands song he covered?

Here is his Full Set List:

1. "We Will Rock You" (Queen cover)
2. "Let's Go Crazy"
3. "Baby I'm a Star"

4. "Proud Mary" (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)

5. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan cover)

6. "Best of You" (Foo Fighters cover)

7. "Purple Rain"

Now that opening with "We Will Rock You" was pretty cool! So it can stay unless still want it to be one of his songs. And I think it should be some Hits or at least songs quite of few people had heard of.

That would be something else if these replacements songs would be only Hardcore Prince fans would know.

Let me see your Replacements...

[Edited 10/2/25 19:17pm]

Okay, so first things first. Technically you are right that Prince was covering Dylan and Creedence. Yet, I suspect (in his mind) he was covering Jimi and Tina/Ike as those groups have (arguably?) the more famous versions of those songs. So, that's kind of the energy he seemed to be going for.
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Secondly, I love that Prince (with the massive amount of hits/bangers he has) chose to do covers for the Superbowl setlist. It is such a Prince move. That said....

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1. Pussy Control Intrumental Intro (I'd have mixed some Prince samples in there. Like the Nude tour DAT intro).
2. Let's go Crazy

3. Baby I'm A Star

4. U Got the Look (again hard guitar version)

5. Little Red Corvette ( the newer/bluesier verion he did later in the career)
6. Kiss (the hardest funkiest version possible maybe with a bit of DMSR thrown in)
7. Purple Rain

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[Edited 10/2/25 22:14pm]

18 minute rendition of Face Down.

laytonian said:

I think his setlist was perfect. He was singing music for everyone. Civrtung Tina/CCR and Dylan/Jimi was a masterstroke. He was promoting his abundant, showing how he could blend secession genres perfectly. He picked the perfect Watchtower verse-- All along the watchtower Princes kept the view While all the women came and went Barefoot servants, too Well, uh, outside in the cold distance A wildcat did growl Two riders were approaching And the wind began to howl, hey

Mostly for rednecks, IMHO, but they were the target audience after all, so I agree: it was perfect and it did the job perfectly

Astasheiks said:

What Prince songs would you have gave him as replacements for the other Artist/Bands song he covered?

Here is his Full Set List:

1. "We Will Rock You" (Queen cover)
2. "Let's Go Crazy"
3. "Baby I'm a Star"

4. "Proud Mary" (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)

5. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan cover)

6. "Best of You" (Foo Fighters cover)

7. "Purple Rain"

Now that opening with "We Will Rock You" was pretty cool! So it can stay unless still want it to be one of his songs. And I think it should be some Hits or at least songs quite of few people had heard of.

That would be something else if these replacements songs would be only Hardcore Prince fans would know.

Let me see your Replacements...

[Edited 10/2/25 19:17pm]

1999 intro - don't worry I won't hurt you.

Let's Go Crazy

1999

ShellyMcG said:

1. Let's Go Crazy 2. DMSR 3. Jungle Love & The Bird (with The Time) 4. Medley of Kiss, When Doves Cry, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm A Star, Little Red Corvette & 1999 5. Purple Rain (with The Revolution) You get a banger opener, keep the party going with DMSR and you bring out Morris Day & The Original Time to tear shit up before bringing the lights down low for an extended version of his sampler set he was doing in concerts around that time. When the lights come back up after the sampler set we see that he's been joined on stage by the Purple Rain lineup of The Revolution and they close out the show with the song that made him world famous

Yes, sounds perfect. I don't know why he performed a Queen cover. He has enough material to do 20 SuperBowls, even if people don't know the songs, all that matters is the vibe.

paisleyparkgirl said:

ShellyMcG said:

1. Let's Go Crazy 2. DMSR 3. Jungle Love & The Bird (with The Time) 4. Medley of Kiss, When Doves Cry, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm A Star, Little Red Corvette & 1999 5. Purple Rain (with The Revolution) You get a banger opener, keep the party going with DMSR and you bring out Morris Day & The Original Time to tear shit up before bringing the lights down low for an extended version of his sampler set he was doing in concerts around that time. When the lights come back up after the sampler set we see that he's been joined on stage by the Purple Rain lineup of The Revolution and they close out the show with the song that made him world famous

Yes, sounds perfect. I don't know why he performed a Queen cover. He has enough material to do 20 SuperBowls, even if people don't know the songs, all that matters is the vibe.

Seems absolutely obvious to me: Queen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, Foo Fighters -> all white rock acts (+, of course, material from Purple Rain, the one Prince album rock audiences like, for good measure). This was part of the exact same strategy as When My Guitar Gently Weeps: target masculinist white rock audiences, send the message that "I'm not just a queer black dude with a high voice, I'm not just an R&B act, I'm also a true rocker, I'm also a real man, I play the guitar as well as any rock legend, I'm as much part of America's rock heritage as I'm part of its R&B heritage, there's no shame in buying my records if you're a redneck, thank you."

Obviously it worked, and TBH this was genius: I think anyone who was in high school thru the 80s and early 90s remember those legions of masculinist dudes dissing Prince as being a weird fa**ot, and lecturing you about PR being his only decent album. Prince took real good care of deconstructing this image in the 2000s, which was key in making sure his legacy would be sort of universal in the US (and, to a lesser extent, as this was mostly an American PR operation, in the whole Western world), not just confined to Black, hip and metropolitan audiences.

I thought he should have done a one-man "unplugged" show like the Musicology tour acoustic set.

I would absolutely open with America. Perfect climate/stage to do that

America would have been Great, totally agree...

MattyJam said:

18 minute rendition of Face Down.