Mazerati said:

Damn, that fooled me too. I remember it was out back in the fall of 91 around the time of the Prince single "Cream". I was thinking he had followed it up with the song "Do Anything", which of course a couple of days later I found out was by Natural Selection.

"Speechless" Beyonce
"Untitled" D'Angelo
"I Belong to You" Lenny

U talkin 2 me? by Disco Montego

charlottegelin said:

90% of percent of Har Mar Superstar's catalog. I had a chance to see him open for the "Yeah Yeah Yeah's"...Har Mar is amazing. Awesome campy Prince rip-offs....done the way they're supposed to. The whole ?uestlove camp doesn't get the sophistication, grace, & HUMOR that is the main ingredient in Prince's music. Har Mar gets it....he's from Minnesota too.


Awesome, just awesome


Nero

Skin Trade by Duran Duran

a lot of jams by El Debarge, Georgio, and Mint Condition

but Oh Sheila RFTW is the end all be all winner. and somebody mentioned TLC'S "Baby Baby Baby" which I swear the piano part was a rip direct from "Do Me Baby"

ThreadBare said:

Jeez, thank God.

Some of the songs listed on this thread don't faintly remind me of Prince. I guess almost EVERYTHING is potentially Princely around here.





"Slave 4 U" by that Britney broad.

"Song Formerly Known As" by Regurgitator

lmas said:[quote]Skin Trade by Duran Duran

Good call Imas, I thought it was Prince first time I heard it. I think that was just before I became a proper Prince fan.

Whole of the Moon by The Waterboys. It also happens to be about Prince so imho this wins.. "I wandered out in the world for years
While u just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon"

maplesyrupnjam said:

Are ya mad !

Whole of the moon sounds nothing like Prince, and it's not about Prince, it's about C.S. Lewis :

from : http://www.thewaterboys.c...ws/faq.htm

Who inspired "The Whole Of The Moon" ?
Mike has often said that the character is a composite of many people. Some have said it was about Prince though Mike has denied this. He once mentioned that the author C.S.Lewis was "in there somewhere".

lmas said:

co-sign

Meloh9 said:

stillw8ing said:

I never thought about those 2, but you both are absolutely right!
Also, those that have already been said:
Oh Sheila-RFTW
She Lives In My Lap-Andre 3000
I Wonder If I Take You Home-LLATCJ w/ Full Force
Head to Toe-LLATCJ
Untitled-D'Angelo

And my own:
Sometimes-Bilal
Dust-Van Hunt
most everything from Sananda
a good portion of Omar's stuff

"Father Figure", George Micheal (especially the way it ends...)

"Dish It Up" by this 80's band called The Suburbs sounds a little like Prince's "Controvery" era. Interestingly enough, The Suburbs were a New Wave band from Minneapolis, so Prince was probably into them.

Oh Sheila for sure! When I first heard it, I thought it actually was a Prince song...a really, really bad Prince song.
[This message was edited Tue May 25 10:35:32 2004 by PurpleKnight]

AsylumUtopia said:

Gotta disagree. Whole of the Moon sounds exactly like a Prince tune. Listen to the keyboard lines.

PurpleKnight said:

Oh Shelia borrows heavily from 1999

I don't even want to get into the whole thing over Phil Collins' "Sussudio" sounding like Prince. I personally don't think it does, but apparently many others do.

7salles said:

WTF? Are you DEAF? That is straight Marvin Gaye/Curtis Mayfield ripping at its finest! Name a Prince song that sounds like this?
...ugh! I can't believe I'm defending Lenny Krapitz, but truth is truth.
Some of the songs listed I can agree with, but some are a BIG stretch. I guess some of you listen to Prince so much that you relate damn near everything to Prince in some way.

Byron said:

People often site I want your Sex, but I think Hard Day sounds more like Prince. He even uses the camille voive at the end.

Can You Feel my Love Around You--Terence Trent D'arby

NWF said:

That's because "Sussudio" is a clear rip-off of the song "1999." Same goes for Shalamar's "Dancing In The Sheets."

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned already,
Stay tonite-Eagle eye cherry

If you consider the beat alone, I think "Maniac" from the movie Flashdance sounds like a Prince song.

NWF said:

Trivia: Freur went on to become techno group underworld.

I don't think it's been mentioned - but She Drives Me by the Fine Young Cannibals has the same kind of spare funk groove that prince was using frequently during his Parade/SOTT period.

A song by Ebony Webb called " R U Really Ready?"

JamieeStarr said:

Yawl dont know nuffin bout dat!!

FAIRYTALES BY OLIVER WHO.
THIS GUY IS FROM THE DETROIT AREA AND THIS SONG CAME OUT IN '86

ALL NIGHT IT'S FAIRYTALES, FANTASIES OF ROMANCE, LOVE IT WHEN GLOWING,
ALL NIGHT IT'S FAIRYTALES, GOT ME GOING CRAZY, THINKIN ABOUT YOU BABY...

OF COURSE, IT'S A LOCAL ONE HIT WONDER!

flipwilson said:

Well Bobby Z. did production for FYC.


Nero

there is a song by texas called 'say what you want' which borrows heavily from marvin gaye's 'sexual healing' but sounds very prince like. strangely, it reminds me of 'peach', which is a completley different type of song

George Michael "I Want your sex" sounds somewhat like a commercialized version of "Sign 'O the Times"

if I remember correctly G.M. even stated in some interview this was intended as a Princey track... helpmeout DavidEye??

lyecry said:

You couldnt tell me this wasnt Prince at first, my man Usher is paying some SERIOUS homage with this one, and someone also mentioned "Sometimes" by Bilal, thats also a dead ringer for P!