Listen to 'Joy Inside My Tears' from 'Songs in The Key Of Life' and tell me you don't hear elements of Purple Rain.The Pacing, the instrumentation etc. Even the length of the two songs are similar.

I'll admit i was smoking a hefty at the time, but i still hear it.

Agree or disagree?

Any other songs you feel Prince might have borrowed heavily from?

You didn't know that?

He was riding along on the Ventura Highway two busses behind Bob Seger listening to "Woman" by Lennon on the radio.
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Marrk said:

Probably you don't know that ALL MUSIC is linked. I'm sure that there's lots and lots of songs which are similar.

JavierAlcalde said:

Sure i knew that, being an old fart! But this is different, listen to the beat, the use of strings, the only thing missing is a stonking guitar solo.

nope.

Marrk said:

I haven't heard the song. But, for e.g. Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore or Europa by Santana have the same chords sequence and the same atmosphere than Miles Davis' Autum leaves.
I mean, probably Stevie Wonder used another song we don't know, and so on.
I think you can find in almost all songs by Prince an influence.
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Marrk said:

Stevie also has an old song called "Purple Raindrops"

Maybe Stevie didn't see him coming ...

Haven't i seen this thread on here before?

Personally, I can see how he might have been influenced by it, but I don't think Prince jacked it outright. I can imagine a really good DJ like Steve "Silk" Hurley" mixing both together seamlessly--he's good like that! (I still don't see Prince's influence on house music, though. )

Marrk said:

Disagree.

TTD's NEON MESSIAH has been used by Robbie Williams on the track KIDS, somebody please tell me that they agree!

Also, more obviously ADORE can be heard in MANY tracks like SUPERWOMAN by Karyn White & Rock Witcha by Bobby Brown!

cranshaw62 said:

I don't know about this, but a Bob Seger song had somthing to do with it. I read somewhere that Dr. Funk was talking to Prince one day about
writing an anthem like song like the one Bob Seger had out at the time. A song that would make white people even rock out to!

***In 1972,the band America released a single called "Ventura Highway",which features these lyrics...

"Wishin' on a falling star,watchin' for the early train
Sorry boy,but I've been hit by *purple rain*"


***In 1978,the band Funkadelic included the song "Maggot Brain" on their 'One Nation Under A Groove' album.As "Pfunkjazz" once pointed out,that song HAD to have inspired Prince's "Purple Rain".


So,"Ventura Highway" + "Maggot Brain"= "Purple Rain"?

Who gives a s**t!!!

disagree

DavidEye said:

Bob Seger's anthem song was "Night Moves", and that song wsa influenced by Bruce Springsteen's "Jungleland". Seger said he liked the way Springsteen ended "Jungleland" so dramatically, and he wanted a song that did the same thing.

And Seger wrote anthems like that on the advice of Don Henley of the Eagles, who told him the only way he'd ever get on top was to mix in some ballads with the rockers.

FYI, I know the song "Like a Rock" has been played to death for about ten years now on Chevy commercials, but if you ever get to listen to the whole song, it's a great ballad. It's one of those songs that starts off spare and ends up a total rocker.

Plus, when you get old like me, the words become so damn true!

I love the stevie track but I don't hear a rip there.

Purple Rain to me is all Prince, except for the title which is pretty close to "Purple Haze."

I remember in high school my music teacher didn't think much of Prince, until I played him "Purple Rain." He became an instant fan. My teacher thought it was very original in that Prince combined a Hendrix solo with a country song.

I'm still surprised when "Purple Rain" comes on my random mixes on my computer or my Ipod and I am still very much feeling it as I was 20 yrs ago.

The best live version I've heard is definitley from the Purple Rain tour video where he has a 10 minute intro. The other versions I've heard don't come close to that one.

DMSR said:

Country song?

Marrk said:

Blues, Country...it's part of the same fabric.

Supernova said:

Don't remind me.

Country

if you wanna hear something odd, listen to the second half of "faithfully" by journey, which came out summer '83 ... and tell me where prince got the end of purple rain from. do it, now.