Watch this performance - his last ever on Top of the Pops, and tell me the guy wasn't just oozing utter coolness from every pour:

https://www.youtube.com/w...xI6grS5igp

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on record, yes, definitely the most underrated single post 80's.

but live, it always felt awkward and stifled. the performances he
did for it on the promo tour are hard to watch and boring. they
make me wish the song was over, when in fact, I consider it one
of the best songs on Rave, althought that isn't saying much

it's one of the few songs of his that actually got worse whenever
he performed it.

but yes yes yes, the song itself, especially the album version, is
a superb song and I never quite understood why people seem to
have it so much. and those that don't hate it just don't rate it at
all, it seems.

peedub said:

peedub said:

I would actually rate “U make my sun shine” in this category

MattyJam said:

dodger07 said:

MattyJam said:

Watch this performance - his last ever on Top of the Pops, and tell me the guy wasn't just oozing utter coolness from every pour:

https://www.youtube.com/w...xI6grS5igp

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The Jason Nevins remix got so much radio play here in Liverpool and even heard it in the clubs a bit, I thought it was going to be a hit.

It got a tonne of airplay at the time. Many people don't realise the CD single had too many tracks and went against chart rules in the UK. The chart position it did reach over here was solely based on import sales alone.

One Song.

Not THE best, but the most underrated.

MattyJam said:

"Black Sweat"

His most underrated single ever was "Pop Life".

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It reached the top 10 in lots of markets (#7 here in the US), yet despite being a decent hit, it was left off of "The Hits".

MattyJam said:

Watch this performance - his last ever on Top of the Pops, and tell me the guy wasn't just oozing utter coolness from every pour:

https://www.youtube.com/w...xI6grS5igp

[Edited 10/3/25 17:59pm]

The entire album, including this single and every other aspect involved in its promotion, was such a contrivance that it was never going to be anything other than what it was. So far off the mark, that Prince himself felt the need to try and correct it by releasing a different version of Rave shortly afterward.

Never liked it all that much.

For me, it's the slow verses, insidiously boring and with too many key changes,

sluggish, it sounds incomplete.

I find it a frustrating song although the chorus is quite well done.

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Prince looked stunning that year! uneblievably sexy and handsome. Great hairdo too.

I am definitely in the Pink Cashmere camp. I believe it is the most underrated because it is so often unmentioned, yet is an absolute gem. (Is there ANY song that sounds like it? I think it is in a class all by itself.)

Also, not a fan of The Greatest Romance Ever Sold, studio or live, though it seems to me that Prince was pretty proud of it.

I GREATLY prefer Somebody's Somebody, which to me seems like basically an alternate metaverse version of the same song.

TheBigBang said:

pdiddy2011 said:

pdiddy2011 said:

ShellyMcG said:

'Letitgo'... the song that made me a fan.

MattyJam said:

pdiddy2011 said:

I am definitely in the Pink Cashmere camp. I believe it is the most underrated because it is so often unmentioned, yet is an absolute gem. (Is there ANY song that sounds like it? I think it is in a class all by itself.)

I wouldn't have thought of it, but I must agree. Pink Cashmere is THE shit. It was one of my fave Prince songs of all times as a teenager.

It was kind of a throwaway single, though. Peach was promoted, but I never, ever saw the Pink Cashmere MV play on French TV at the time (I actually only learned there was one years later).

databank said:

peedub said:

ShellyMcG said:

peedub said:

I knew it first time I heard it in my friend's GTI. That fucking hi-hat hypnotized me from jump. The rest is headphone bliss. Just prince having a night in the studio...

Make sure you stick that on your 200 disc CD changer

peedub said:

ShellyMcG said:

Make sure you stick that on your 200 disc CD changer

You see? There's the rub. One of my favorite songs of all time, but it's only available on a hits compilation that I don't want in my changer... Maybe one day I'll splurge and buy the CD single and my 200 disc changer shuffle mode vibe can be nearer perfection.

You could add the Girl 6 soundtrack to your 2000 disc CD changer instead. I know it's still a compilation album, but at least then, you're also adding 'She Spoke 2 Me', 'Girl 6' & 'Don't Talk 2 Strangers' to the mix too.

GiggityGoo said:

His most underrated single ever was "Pop Life".

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It reached the top 10 in lots of markets (#7 here in the US), yet despite being a decent hit, it was left off of "The Hits".

It was not left off, it's the second track of the first disc of The Hits.

rlittler81 said:

'Letitgo'... the song that made me a fan.

What was sad about that one is that it was one of Prince's most personal statements at the time, but the point he was trying to make went unnoticed for lack of promotion.