Wow - it was 22 years ago this week that Natural Selection had a Top-Ten hit with "Do Anything." Do you remember how much it sounded like Prince, especially since it sounded similar to Camille material like "Good Love" - a song for the 1988 "Bright Lights, Big City" movie?

Well Entertainment Weekly details the top 10 songs this week from 1991, as well as gives them a letter grade:

#1 Color Me Badd: "I Adore Mi Amor" (B+)

#2 Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch: "Good Vibrations" (A+)

#3 Boyz II Men: "Motownphilly" (A)

#4 Mariah Carey: "Emotions" (A-)

#5 Firehouse: "Love of a Lifetime" (C-)

#6 C+C Music Factory: "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm..." (B+)

#7 Michael Bolton: "Time, Love and Tenderness" (B-)

#8 Natural Selection: "Do Anything"

EW: A magical little funk-pop unicorn that eventually made it all the way to No. 2 before plunging into total obscurity. Go YouTube it right now, because it is pretty much the best Prince song Prince never wrote. (A+)

#9 Bonnie Raitt: "Something to Talk About" (A-)

#10 R.E.M.: "Shiny Happy People" (C+)

The female voice in Do Anything actually sounds a lot like the Carmen Electra bit in The Continental (and later Tell Me How U Wanna B Done) . . . both of which were released after the Natural Selection song. I'm sure they were recorded much earlier.

Great song.

Se7en said:

The female voice in Do Anything actually sounds a lot like the Carmen Electra bit in The Continental (and later Tell Me How U Wanna B Done) . . . both of which were released after the Natural Selection song. I'm sure they were recorded much earlier.

Great song.

The female voice is Niki Haris who's best known for being one of Madonna's back-up singers. Definitely a good song with a Prince-ly touch to it.

listenable enough. Sounds like "Good Love" if "Good Love" were a vinyl single, slowed from 45 to 331/3.

I'll bet the day will come when Prince finally cops to writting it. That one and Still A Thrill. There is no way in hell he dod not write these two songs, deny as people might.

FormerlyKnownAs said:

#1 Color Me Badd: "I Adore Mi Amor" (B+)

#2 Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch: "Good Vibrations" (A+)

#3 Boyz II Men: "Motownphilly" (A)

#4 Mariah Carey: "Emotions" (A-)

#5 Firehouse: "Love of a Lifetime" (C-)

#6 C+C Music Factory: "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm..." (B+)

#7 Michael Bolton: "Time, Love and Tenderness" (B-)

#8 Natural Selection: "Do Anything"

EW: A magical little funk-pop unicorn that eventually made it all the way to No. 2 before plunging into total obscurity. Go YouTube it right now, because it is pretty much the best Prince song Prince never wrote. (A+)

#9 Bonnie Raitt: "Something to Talk About" (A-)

#10 R.E.M.: "Shiny Happy People" (C+)

Wow I miss that era!!!! I do have a compilation with half of the same songs

UnderMySun said:

Se7en said:

The female voice in Do Anything actually sounds a lot like the Carmen Electra bit in The Continental (and later Tell Me How U Wanna B Done) . . . both of which were released after the Natural Selection song. I'm sure they were recorded much earlier.

Great song.

The female voice is Niki Haris who's best known for being one of Madonna's back-up singers. Definitely a good song with a Prince-ly touch to it.

Nikki Harris was also a vocalist for Snap!. She's on lead in Rhythm Is A Dance.

I remember my sister heard this song on the radio and then later told me "I heard Prince's new song" Alot of people thought this was Prince

V10LETBLUES said:

I'll bet the day will come when Prince finally cops to writting it. That one and Still A Thrill. There is no way in hell he dod not write these two songs, deny as people might.

You mean the Jody Watley song? Wasn't that written by Andre Cymone?

V10LETBLUES said:

I'll bet the day will come when Prince finally cops to writting it. That one and Still A Thrill. There is no way in hell he dod not write these two songs, deny as people might.

there are some people who insist that Prince also wrote TLC's "Waterfalls"

HMD82 said:

SoulAlive said:

V10LETBLUES said:

I'll bet the day will come when Prince finally cops to writting it. That one and Still A Thrill. There is no way in hell he dod not write these two songs, deny as people might.

there are some people who insist that Prince also wrote TLC's "Waterfalls"

I could see that actually.

AlexdeParis said:

SoulAlive said:

there are some people who insist that Prince also wrote TLC's "Waterfalls"

I could see that actually.

Me too.

SoulAlive said:

V10LETBLUES said:

I'll bet the day will come when Prince finally cops to writting it. That one and Still A Thrill. There is no way in hell he dod not write these two songs, deny as people might.

there are some people who insist that Prince also wrote TLC's "Waterfalls"

I was in junior high when that song hit, and that was the rumor. But I thought.. they are just influenced by Prince, as evidenced by their "Get It Up" and "If I Was Your Girlfriend" covers.

THEN I heard someone's DAD say something about "Waterfall" by Wendy and Lisa and how they were in The Revolution, bla bla.

I think it is just a trend that continues whenever a title seems recycled.

SoulAlive said:

V10LETBLUES said:

I'll bet the day will come when Prince finally cops to writting it. That one and Still A Thrill. There is no way in hell he dod not write these two songs, deny as people might.

there are some people who insist that Prince also wrote TLC's "Waterfalls"

There's a Paul McCartney song "Waterfalls" from the 70s that TLC heavily borrowed from.

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Here's a sample of Paul's lyrics:

DON'T GO JUMPING WATERFALLS,
PLEASE, KEEP TO THE LAKE.
PEOPLE WHO JUMP WATERFALLS,
SOMETIMES CAN MAKE MISTAKES.

Se7en said:

SoulAlive said:

there are some people who insist that Prince also wrote TLC's "Waterfalls"

There's a Paul McCartney song "Waterfalls" from the 70s that TLC heavily borrowed from.

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Here's a sample of Paul's lyrics:

DON'T GO JUMPING WATERFALLS,
PLEASE, KEEP TO THE LAKE.
PEOPLE WHO JUMP WATERFALLS,
SOMETIMES CAN MAKE MISTAKES.

It is definitely closer to that lyric. Even "wa-ter-falls" is sung with a descending melody.