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Thread started 04/12/04 8:20am

PurpleCharm

Best and Worst Prince Covers

Here is my list of best and worst P covers:


Best
I Feel For You - Chaka Kahn
How Come You Don't Call Me - Stephanie Mills and Alicia Keyes


Worst
Private Joy - LaToya Jackson
Beautiful Ones - Mariah Carey
When Doves Cry - Ginuwine
Kiss - Tom Jones
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Reply #1 posted 04/12/04 8:25am

Handclapsfinga
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bestest:

cyndi lauper, "when you were mine"

stephanie mills, "hcudcma"

peaches w/7 hurtz & bitch lap-lap, "sexy dancer"


worstest:

mariah (s)carey and sisqo, "the beautiful ones"

clay aiken, "when doves cry"

jordan knight, "icnttpoym"
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Reply #2 posted 04/12/04 8:38am

PurpleCharm

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

bestest:

cyndi lauper, "when you were mine"

stephanie mills, "hcudcma"

peaches w/7 hurtz & bitch lap-lap, "sexy dancer"


worstest:

mariah (s)carey and sisqo, "the beautiful ones"

clay aiken, "when doves cry"

jordan knight, "icnttpoym"



Good lawd...Clay Aiken covered WDC eek ...what is the world coming to.
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Reply #3 posted 04/12/04 9:14am

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Best
With U - Jill Jones
When U Were Mine - Cyndi Lauper

Worst
When Doves Cry - Clay Aiken
Kiss - Tom Jones
"She made me glad to be a man"
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Reply #4 posted 04/12/04 9:20am

missfee

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Best

Chaka Kahn - I Feel 4 U
Alicia Keys - How Come U Don't Call Me

Worst

Tom Jones - Kiss
Ginuwine - When Doves Cry
I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince.
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Reply #5 posted 04/12/04 9:33am

Scrapluv

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PurpleCharm said:


Beautiful Ones - Mariah Carey


when did this happen?
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Reply #6 posted 04/12/04 9:37am

EvilWhiteMale

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Best: Foo Fighters- Darling Nikki

Worst: Kiss- Tom Jones
"You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." "

Al Pacino- Scarface
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Reply #7 posted 04/12/04 9:41am

chookalana

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Best:
With U - Jill Jones
Baby, U're A Trip - Jill Jones
Darling Nikki - Foo Fighters
TLC - If I Was Your Girlfriend

Worst:
Peach - Rod Stewart
LeAnne Rimes - Purple Rain
Limp Bizkit - 1999
When Doves Cry - Clay Aiken
Kiss - Tom Jones
"So strange that no one stayed at the end of the Parade..." - Wendy & Lisa's "Song About" on their 1987 self-titled album.
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mac 'nuff said.
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Reply #8 posted 04/12/04 9:41am

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Best:
WHen U were mine - Cyndi Lauper
Erotic City - George Clinton
Make Up - Soft Pink Truth
Nothing Compares 2U - Sinead O'Connor
Jack U off - Pansy Division

Worst -
Kiss - Art of Noise
1999 - ACK! can't remember who did this song..It was very big band and smaltzy and it segued into Alphabet St. It was done in the same way as Shatner did Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds...quite funny, but quite awful.

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Reply #9 posted 04/12/04 9:47am

PurpleCharm

Scrapluv said:

PurpleCharm said:


Beautiful Ones - Mariah Carey


when did this happen?

I am not sure what album...can someone help me out... cool
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Reply #10 posted 04/12/04 9:52am

PurpleCharm

Did P record 'Nothing Compares To You?' If so, what album is it on. I know The Family recorded it, but I don't recall him actually recording it...same with Shhh...I know Tevin Campbell released it as a single and I knew P wrote it, but I don't recall it actually being recorded by P.
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Reply #11 posted 04/12/04 9:57am

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PurpleCharm said:

Did P record 'Nothing Compares To You?' If so, what album is it on. I know The Family recorded it, but I don't recall him actually recording it...same with Shhh...I know Tevin Campbell released it as a single and I knew P wrote it, but I don't recall it actually being recorded by P.

You can find P's version of 'Shhh' on The Gold Experience. wink

As for Nothing Compares 2 U...i've not heard the original studio recording of the song...only The Family's, Prince's live versions etc. shrug
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Reply #12 posted 04/12/04 9:59am

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PurpleCharm said:

Scrapluv said:



when did this happen?

I am not sure what album...can someone help me out... cool

It's on the album Butterfly, right after her marriage broke up.
"She made me glad to be a man"
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Reply #13 posted 04/12/04 9:59am

PurpleCharm

r1ghteousone said:

PurpleCharm said:

Did P record 'Nothing Compares To You?' If so, what album is it on. I know The Family recorded it, but I don't recall him actually recording it...same with Shhh...I know Tevin Campbell released it as a single and I knew P wrote it, but I don't recall it actually being recorded by P.

You can find P's version of 'Shhh' on The Gold Experience. wink

As for Nothing Compares 2 U...i've not heard the original studio recording of the song...only The Family's, Prince's live versions etc. shrug


thanks... biggrin
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Reply #14 posted 04/12/04 10:02am

PurpleCharm

jillybean said:

PurpleCharm said:


I am not sure what album...can someone help me out... cool

It's on the album Butterfly, right after her marriage broke up.

thanks... biggrin
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Reply #15 posted 04/12/04 10:36am

hilton02895

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Worst - 1. Tevin Cambell : Shhhh!
2. ? : 1999 I forget the group name but this was a dance club remake. The group consisted of two men and a woman. It was bad.
3. Prince : 1999 New Masters. No offense but he should have left it alone.


Best - 1. Stephanie Mills: How come you don't call me anymore?
2. Patti Labell: I hear your Voice
3. Joe Crocker: 5 Women
4. ? : Violet the Organ Grinder I have no idea who the band is but they made a kicking speed metal/club mix (sorta in the vain of Lords of Acid "Lover".
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The bun is in your mind. (Meatwad)
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Reply #16 posted 04/12/04 10:48am

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I wouldn't count Tevin's "Shh" or Sinead's "Nothing Compares 2 U" as covers, since they recorded them before he did. geek

In general, Prince covers make me gag. The very worst of the worst has to be Mariah Screamy and Sisqo the FemmeDragon pissing all over one of my favorite songs of all time, but I've put you through that before. On the positive side, I've always enjoyed TLC's "If I Was Your Girlfriend," although maybe that has more to do with the crush I've had on T-Boz since I was 13... :redface:
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Reply #17 posted 04/12/04 10:57am

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FunkMistress said:

I wouldn't count Tevin's "Shh" or Sinead's "Nothing Compares 2 U" as covers, since they recorded them before he did. geek

Well, I wouldn't say they recorded them before he did...Prince had to have recorded a "rough" version of each of the tracks to give to the artist (Tevin/Sinead/whoever), so technically they are still covers...sort of. lol
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Reply #18 posted 04/12/04 11:07am

Paris9748430

My favorites:
George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars: Erotic City
Chaka Khan: I Feel For You


The Worst:

Jordan Knight: ICNTTPOYM
JERKIN' EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!!!!
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Reply #19 posted 04/12/04 12:52pm

uuh

BEST:
op:l bastards:

If I Was Your Girlfriend

It's on an electronica tribute album called If I Was Prince (strange beautiful stuff)


WORST:
The Classic Metropolitan Orchestra:

Nothing Compares...
D&P
Melody Cool
Purple Rain
Pop Life
The Question of U
Little Red Corvette
Rasberry Beret
Kiss
Thieves In the Temple
1999

The album is called Nothing Compares. All of it sucks s**t! (just imagined Kiss being played on violins)
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Reply #20 posted 04/12/04 1:40pm

Scrapluv

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jillybean said:

PurpleCharm said:


I am not sure what album...can someone help me out... cool

It's on the album Butterfly, right after her marriage broke up.


thanks
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Reply #21 posted 04/12/04 1:58pm

artist319

Best :
Raspberry Beret : Hindu love Gods
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Reply #22 posted 04/12/04 1:59pm

Rzeplica

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best prince covers;
Ho'onua - Blue Light
Bent - Dirty Mind
Randy - Computer Blue
George Clinton - Erotic City
Pansy Division - Jack U Off



worst prince covers;
Nick Saunders - I Wonder
Nick Saunders - Pink Cashmere
Nick Saunders - Raspberry Beret
ANYTHING by Nick Saunders..!!
Bartleby - 17 Days
La Toya Jackson - Private Joy
The Entrapment - If I Was Your Girlfriend
HeeBeeGeeBees - Purple Pants (Prince parody)
Pimp Daddy Welfare - Thieves In The Temple
Filippino Cover Band - The Morning Papers
Vicki Vomit - Nothing Compares 2 U
Funky Temple - And God Created Boni
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Reply #23 posted 04/12/04 2:08pm

namepeace

Actually, the best one I've heard is Tina Turner's "Let's Pretend We're Married."
Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

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Reply #24 posted 04/12/04 2:44pm

PurpleCharm

adding to the best list:
Do Me Baby - Me'lissa Morgan
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Reply #25 posted 04/12/04 6:14pm

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Best
Sign O' The Times - Arcwelder
Erotic City - Semisonic
Little Red Corvette - Gear Daddies
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man - Goo Goo Dolls
Blind Boys Of Alabama - The Cross
Living Color - 17 Days
TLC - If I Was Your Girlfriend
George Clinton - Erotic City
Dump - The Beautiful Ones
Mavis Staples - Positivity

Worst
Irresistable Bitch(Chick) - Eve
When Doves Cry - Acid Factor
Duff McKagan - Bambi
School Of Fish - Let's Pretend We're Married
Age Of Chance - Kiss
Tom Jones - Kiss
Foo Fighters - Darling Nikki
Black Album Rubes - LeGrind
TC Ellis - Bambi
9 Inch Jugs - Kiss
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Reply #26 posted 04/12/04 8:44pm

13inchshoe

Duff McKagan - Bambi


Damn,I didn't know Duff covered this.I knew he was a big fan of the man though.
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Reply #27 posted 04/12/04 9:36pm

eugnj420

There's a great Prince cover album called "sexykinkyjazzysmooth". Basically, 3 different jazz/funk bands cover 12 songs, half instrumental, and the results are amazing, and believe me , I know most tribute/cover albums suck.
There are great mid-tempo rocking versions of "purple Rain" "anothloverholeinyohead" & "letitgo". Beautiful sad versions of "Adore" and "Pop Life", a swinging "delirious" and more.
There is tremendous musicianship on this album, and the lead vocals are great, by Solomon Burke Jr.
It's on the Vitamin Record label, and worth seeking out if it's still in print.

Eugnj420
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Reply #28 posted 04/13/04 5:46pm

squirrelgrease

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13inchshoe said:

Duff McKagan - Bambi


Damn,I didn't know Duff covered this.I knew he was a big fan of the man though.


The guitar is good, but he fucks up the lyrics showing that he's oblivious to the songs "story".
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Reply #29 posted 04/13/04 5:47pm

squirrelgrease

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eugnj420 said:

There's a great Prince cover album called "sexykinkyjazzysmooth". Basically, 3 different jazz/funk bands cover 12 songs, half instrumental, and the results are amazing, and believe me , I know most tribute/cover albums suck.
There are great mid-tempo rocking versions of "purple Rain" "anothloverholeinyohead" & "letitgo". Beautiful sad versions of "Adore" and "Pop Life", a swinging "delirious" and more.
There is tremendous musicianship on this album, and the lead vocals are great, by Solomon Burke Jr.
It's on the Vitamin Record label, and worth seeking out if it's still in print.

Eugnj420


That is a pretty good cover album.
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