MCA effectively killed one of the best Prince songs ever...this version stinks
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Love the 12"

didn't she say a few years back she still didn't know what the hell the song was about? i think it was at that Prince benefit and she sang it with the words in front of her

Fury said:

That was at the LA Forum for the Sheila E benefit. lol....

Never cared much for this song. Price was writing a lot of weird stuff for other artists around that time.

Prince wanted to be Quincy Jones, but his problem was he wrote those songs with HIMSELF in mind as opposed to those artists in mind.

Harlepolis said:

lol.....no chance.

her delivery was pretty wack on the studio version. silly cartoon voices and stuttering and shit. the snippet she did with rosie gaines and stephanie mills on that soul train awards show was waaaay better. even tho prince's outfit was straight out of a sprite commercial.

Prince & Sheena Easton wrote "Love '89" for Patti which appeared on the same album as "Yo Mister". I like Yo!

Fury said:

I think this was the single version. I think Prince remixed this.

daPrettyman said:

I remember hearing a different version on the radio when it came out.

Ottensen said:

They played the album version in my area.

This song never did much for me.I don't think that too many people understood the message.

Harlepolis said:

Plus,I think that,in the early 80s,he had a larger amount of great songs to give away to others.By the time "Yo Mister came out,the well was running dry.

i like the one with princey on it . i agree about patti's weird vocals. i thought she always sang like that though? "yo mister, how's your daughter?" decent track to me . wish p's demo was circulating

I didn't like it.

This was around the time Prince's music was starting to take a nose dive, when i first heard this i was shocked he was he was able to put something somewhat original and cool again.
Great song, love the dissonant chords and structure.

I must admit i liked it. I thought it was probably the wildest thing
patti did since Lady Marmalade. I guess i'm the oddball here.

phunkdaddy said:

I guess because there was too much going on. Prince understood Patti's past but couldn't quite match it, lol.

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Between the beat, the dissonance, the delayed rock guitar -- I was too enraptured by the sonic landscape of the song to care about the weird lyrics.

Holy fuck! I forgot all about this track! Loves it!

ThreadBare said:

Yeah! I also dug the cool weirdness CK's 12" "Sticky Wicked" especially the end with Miles Davis saying something like.. "ughhhh ughhhh, dont that sound like some sort of crow or something?"
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phunkdaddy said:

I remember a different version, but I think I used to like that one instead of this one. Something in this one sounds kinda off tome (maybe because I didn't hear it before)

Fury said:

I was horrified by that version!!! Im so glad they kept the original on the Greatest Hits CD. I want to hear the 12" Prince version. I hear HORNS at the end???

I like the album version quite alot. Its catchy enough and is one of the highlights off her "be yourself" album. Its pretty uncommerical though, so God knows why they thought a single would be a hit.

Bytheway, the album version is remixed by Timmy Regisford. He remixed Bobby Browns "dont be cruel" amongst others, so full credit can't be given to Prince.

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ThreadBare said:

I always thought that one track kept "C.K." from being a great album. Wish it would have been replaced with "Everybody Needs Some Love", which was the B-Side to "Baby Me". Guess they felt "Everybody" wouldn't fit in with the rest of "C.K." because it was a hard-edged Rock song.

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Never heard that 12"