Best Prince covers/songs written for other artist

A Love Bizarre

Eye'd love 2 vote 4 'Martika's Kitchen', or the perfect pop 'o' 'Manic Monday', or even 4 Sinead's definitive reading 'o' 'Nothing Compares 2 U', but 4 me this has 2 be...

"CHAKA KHAN?"

A Love Bizarre

very close between I Feel for You and Glamorous Life for me. The Chaka Khan is one of the few where she actually did more with it than Prince -- wish I could have heard Prince versions of most of these

the free-jazz sax skronk at the beginning of Glamorous Life is always a bit jarring, kinda one of the most "out" things he ever put on record

A Love Bizarre is the better song though.

"Stand Back" was not written for Stevie Nicks. She wrote it and he contributed a synth lick which may or may not have been used. Her extending him a songwriting credit (which doesn't always appear) was generosity on her part.

I was gonna point that out too, figured someone would

saying Prince wrote "Stand Back" is not quite accurate imo (xps!)

Ah.. that would explain why that song sounds rather un-Prince like.

Finally checking out these Time singles (I only knew the Purple Rain tracks) and I'm pleasantly surprised.

with the Time, I think Prince even played most of the parts on the first couple of records. I always hear about a rivalry between them, but hard to believe it could have been big if he was running so much of the show

Yep, the guitar solo at the end of 777-9311 has got to be Prince.

Prince played and recorded the entirety of the first two Time records by himself, Morris was brought in to do vocals. By the third one (Ice Cream Castles, the best one imo) they were actually allowed to contribute and play on the recording

xp

"love thy will be done"

I always hear about a rivalry between them

it wasn't a rivalry so much as they were chafing at being under his thumb. the filmic rivalry is total fiction.

"love thy will be done"

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^^ my boy

"The Walk"

no "the dance electric"?

Jungle love

oh wee oh wee oh

Oh wee oh wee oh

Missing "Telepathy" by Deborah Allen.

Forever Love Thy Will Be Done

anybody not voting Sinead is lying to themselves and God

Love thy will be done 4ever.

Didn't realise he'd written a song for kid creole, always thought there was a bit of August Darnell in prince's thing

This is the answer 'The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.'

'Manic Monday' feels like an early version of Raspberry Beret.

777-9311

With apologies to "Love Song," "Nasty Girl," "Nothing Compares 2 U" and "The Glamorous Life," I can't not vote for "Manic Monday."

everyone who's voting for "love thy will be done" is my best friend

Me & my friend were planning on forming a one-off covers band called Vanity Sick (we were gonna do 'Nasty Girl' and Janet Jackson's 'Nasty', because that's not obvious at all), so I can't vote for anything other than Vanity.

Wouldn't call it the greatest, but 3x2=6 has been what I've most wanted to listen to in the last week. Would love to hear Dylan's take on it.

This is the answer 'The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.'

So many fantastic tracks. Actually I wonder if there's another band/artist with that great a catalogue of songs given away. Can't think of any right now !

There are not even many bands/artists with as many great songs in their OWN catalogue !

https://youtu.be/6aI-9QGjcA4

I'm so happy to see so many people plugging 'Love, Thy Will Be Done'! I figured my vote would be lonely. I mean, I really, deeply love a lot of these songs, but that one in particular is just mega-transcendent.

P.S. I was going to make this poll happen but I got overwhelmed by the sheer number of songs that might've fit and gave up.

tough choice between The Belle Of St Mark and The Glamorous Life.

I've never heard this Martika song and youtube's blocked it :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQ6Z4NnukY

(That has to be at least the third or fourth time I've posted this song.)

You completely forgot Chaka Khan's 1998 album, Prince produced it and co-wrote most of the tunes. I particularly like this single from it, which was originally recorded by the New Power Generation (with Prince on vocals) for the soundtrack of Spike Lee's Girl 6. It's a beautiful song, so I can understand why Prince and Chaka wanted to redo it as a single instead of letting it stay buried on the soundtrack of a flopped movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lhSukAQ-B0

The whole Girl 6 soundtrack is well worth acquiring btw, it includes a few exclusive tracks, and a couple of Prince protege tunes ("Nasty Girl", "Screams of Passion") that are otherwise hard to find on CD.

the TLC remake of the time's get it up is the sexiest, dirtiest thing they ever recorded. they totally get the sleaziness of the song (if not quite the weird unexpected melancholy)

dangelos shes always in my hair i think is vocally brilliant, but i just hate that snare sound, and its way too restrained for me to really work like it should. it sounds canned and held ransom by questlove.

also, wheres the love for peaches' sexy dancer meta cover?

love thy will be done

had no idea it was a prince number

i was listening to the Vanity 6 album yesterday and it feels very proto-Peaches

Write-in vote for The Age of Chance's version of "Kiss"
/indie

It's crazy to me that Prince and Springsteen were both so prolific that at the peak of their powers and popularity they were writing and recording entire albums for friends and idols.

Reminds me of my favorite quote about Shakespeare's genius: if it wasn't easy for him, it would have been impossible.

Who did Springsteen do that with? I am ignorant of Bruce related matters

Springsteen did a couple albums for Gary "US" Bonds in the early '80s.

He also did a couple of albums for Southside Johnny (good ones!). And obviously he wrote hit songs given to Patti Smith, Pointer Sisters, Donna Summer, etc.

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Love Thy Will Be Done

on a Bridge Over Troubled Water level of beauty for me

I'm choosing among the Time songs: Jerk Out, Ice Cream Castles, and 777 - 9311 are all extraordinary. The hi-hat programming on 777 is jaw-dropping. And the guitar solo, jesus!

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incredible top ten

Seriously. And that top three is unassailable.

It's naturally nowhere to be found online because Prince and because SNL but if you're able to track down Sheila E.'s performance of 'A Love Bizarre' from Saturday Night Live, you're in for a real treat. Maybe one of my favorite SNL performances ever.