I was just listening to New Power Soul when "Until You're in my Arms Again" came on. It got me thinking how an ex girlfriend had the lyrics one day and was playing the song over and over. I asked if she dug the song and she said that she was going to sing it to me on my birthday in her birthday suit!

Anyway, the twist in this story is that she was bloody learning it to sing to he fella that she was shagging behind my back and I found this out a while afterwards.

It's totally ruined the song for me and I hate hr more for that than for cheating on me!


Has anyone ever had someone ruin a Prince song for them? (I'm waiting for the Tony M jokes peeps!)
[This message was edited Fri Feb 13 10:25:01 PST 2004 by JimmyNothing]

I just thought of another example...

Someone on a thread here at the org was joking around saying that they thought P was saying "an accurate knowledge of rice and the pasta will bring the everlasting now" and it's what I sing everytime now!

JimmyNothing said:

YES! Tony M.

I kinda ruined it for myself. Actually "ruin" isn't the right word. But instead of singing Private Joy during the chorus I used to replace it with Chips Ahoy. Now I can't hear the song without thinking of the cookies

And I hate to do this to anyone else cuz I know that it fucked with me for a long time but someone pointed out the prominence of the cowbell on the TGE version of Endorphinmachine off the Gold Experience. That was all I could hear anytime I played it for the longest time Damnit!

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[This message was edited Fri Feb 13 10:44:40 PST 2004 by SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy]

YOU POOR GUY!
[This message was edited Fri Feb 13 10:46:15 PST 2004 by Spookymuffin]

Beyonce.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Where's the cowbell?

Spookymuffin said:

If you don't notice it, don't try...

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Tell me, I like to know.

Oh my God I just found it. Yugh.
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Spookymuffin said:

In time you'll be able to ignore it. But I couldn't for the longest time and I never noticed it before someone pointed it out. Sorry to anyone I've now ruined the song for. Spank me

Yeah. But I always get over it. It's not like it's their damn music any damn way.

Prince himself has ruined some classic Prince songs with his anti-Rated R lyrics.

EvilWhiteMale said:

That is for damn sure!

The only way Prince can ruin a song is if he went back and changed the original recording, which he can't do. You guys will always have those. I've never understood the complaint about changing lyrics in the live performances.

OdysseyMiles said:

1999: The New Master anyone?

Yeah, Vanity 6!

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:



Amen to that! Beyonce massacred "If I Was Your Girlfriend" in that "Bonnie and Clyde '03" song. I wouldn't have noticed how horrible her version was if TLC hadn't done such an awesome re-make of the song on "CrazySexyCool". I'm still surprised that Prince let Beyonce butcher "Purple Rain" on the Grammys after she had already slaughtered "If I Was Your Girlfriend". Oooh the horror.

Anxiety said:

Ah, but dude, you've still got your original copy of 1999. You'll always have it. Nobody can ruin a song once it's dedicated to tape. Now they can butcher it after the fact for sure, , but that still can't take away from the original recording. You sure don't hear The New Master on the radio!!

JimmyNothing said:
It's totally ruined the song for me and I hate hr more for that than for cheating on me!



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OdysseyMiles said:

1999: The New Master was the equivalent of "New Coke" back in the '80s. We were supposed to swill that crap, but everyone just stockpiled the original stuff and complained until we got it back on the shelves.

Anxiety said:

New Coke!! Wow!!

Actually, when I hear Ripopgodazippa I always get reminded that I actually payed to see Showgirls...lol

For me it was Prince himself when he turned "The Cross" into "The Christ"... I still shudder. And don't give me that "you still have your records" b.s., that argument just don't stand. He ruined that song for me, can't hear it no mo'.



Stormbringer

thebige said:

That's true.

When i play 1999 i don't hear The New Master, but when I play the Cross i can hear prince somewhere in my puny brain singing "The Christ".

Yep, I totally ruined Endorphinmachine for myself through embaraassment of thinking it was called Strawberry Machine. I tell you that's exactly how it sounded to me when the only version I'd heard was at the end of the Interactive CD-ROM. But what ruined it was one afternoon hanging out at the Camden NPG store, where Michael Bland and Sonny T were too (they were down to earth guys!) Anyway, so he's playing about with the MAC with the interactive CD-rom running and there were a few of us fans there too, and someone mentioned that song at the end, at which point my bloody big mouth blabbed: "oh yeah..Strawberry Machine! and Michael turned and said "strawberry Machine??? What the hell is that?? Oh, you mean endorphinmachine!!" Imagine the embarrassment!
Didn't talk much after that, but at least I learnt to keep my big mouth shut most of the time!

TheFrog said:

ME TOO!!!

I have two, but it didn't ruin the songs for me I just go into laughing fits when I hear them and people always look at me crazy. The first my sister worked at this bar that sold food and one day I went in there to give her something. I heard some music playing and I didn't recognize it at first then I realized it was Let's Go Crazy, I couldn't believe a country singer singing that song and the accent was strong. The is my cousin singing adore, he couldn't sing to save his life and those ugly faces he was making didn't help and this is how he said he got girls.

Well, I ruined "We Gets Up" for a friend of mine. I pointed out that annoying voice screaching "NPG, NEW POWER SOUL, KICKIT" and all that crap. He had never noticed it before, and thereafter said it bugged the hell out of him!

Just for your info, the person that said Beyonce redid If I was your girlfriend, she didn't! Her and Jay-Z's 03 Bonnie and Clyde is a remake of Tupac's song Me and my girlfriend: his version was about a gun. Theirs is about their relationship. she hasn't covered any Prince songs. The ones I don't like is Ginuwines "When Doves Cry" and please leave this alone: Tom Jones singing
"Kiss"

being one of God's own Welshmen, it saddens me to say that the Tom Jones "version", if that's the right word for this travesty, of Kiss is the worst cover, not only of a Prince song, but the worst cover EVER.