when i say imperfections i mean little things like the distortion on Little Red Corvette or giving John Blackwell cues on TRC.
i just noticed him laughing on 'Welcome 2 The Dawn' near the end when Prince is repeating K-A-R-M-A while over it he sings 'everything is karma, so be careful what you do'. He finishes it then you can hear a brief laugh.
i think on Starfish and Coffee you can almost hear him smiling (if you can do such a thing)while singing the chorus.
anyone know of any other things like that in other Prince songs?

Yeah i can hear him eating pussy in the background on Girl, he forgot to turn the mike off when he had Susanah in the recording booth.

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magnificentsynthesizer667 said:

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

you so...dirty.

You CAN hear him smile during starfish and coffee!
He sounds like he is really crying in I can't love you anymore.

I heard a lot of imperfections on "Jughead" and "Coutrin' Time"

Don't forget the fart sounds on Animal Kingdom. All those greens probably...

i think on Starfish and Coffee you can almost hear him smiling (if you can do such a thing)while singing the chorus.


The loudest smile of any Prince song is the end of "Trust" when he sings "wantcha...with me".

Where are the drum cues on TRC...?

At the beginning of the instrumental coda of The Rainbow Cildren. No imperfection for me, though.

The best imperfection has to be on If I Was Your Girlfriend...pure distora=tion on the lead vocal. But, would it be the same if it was "clean"? I don't think so!

Horntooter said:

8 mins and 04 secs.

he says 'give me a beat' at 8.04 and then at 9.16 he says something else followed again at 9.20 by 'solo'.

clearly i have too much time on my hands.

I love this thread, the "small details" are the most reasons why I love the brotha.

-The chuckle at the end of "Wedding Feast" now he knows that he was on some silly shit when he sang that

-"Yeeah s'alright" during the Piano solo in UTCM.

-The scream in the backround at the end of Lady Cab Driver.

-The screams at the end of Computer blue(altho that some scary shit).

On "Posivity" when he's fuckin' chewing gum and it gets on my nerves. Particularly the part:

"Don't kiss the beast..."

You can HEAR him chewing gum and it's SOOO annoying!

loveroflife71 said:

i think it's quite cool knowing that you can be chewing gum like damn heffa on your record and then go out that night and 30,000 fools come to see you play.

how cool is that?

Well actually I found an imperfection in the song "Raspberry Beret" included on the Hits CD, not on ATWIAD, right after he sings "she wasn't too bright, but I could tell when she kissed me" (distortion HERE).

hey i was going to start a thread like this a while back.

cool.

anyway, he doesn't quite hit the note he wants (in a good way, though) on "the Ladder"...towards the end. Listen and I'm sure you'll know what I mean.

Yelsiap said:

yep. lotta imperfections on the hits CD's. especially as Rosie starts to sing on Nothing Compares 2 U. sounds like when they recorded it live her mike was turned down as she started 2 sing.

also does any1 reckon the stop start beginning of Irresistable Bitch was an error that they kept in coz it felt right? If u listen u hear Prince say 2 a fellow band member somethin' like "Turn it down low!"

imperfections? Mayb thats how it's meant 2 b. Some of the shit he would get rid off in the final cut in the studio if he wanted 2.

wow what a response from a lot of ppl. well what i mean by imperfections, i don't mean a bad thing. i guess they could be little quirks or whatever. it's all good. it shows that Prince is not always perfect and is sometimes flawed which shows artistry. obviously they are perfect; that's how we have heard them and that's how he left them.