Top 100 Prince moments

2. "WRECKA STO"

3. guitar solo climaxing "The Holy River"

4. mimicking Mick Jagger doing "Miss You" at a European afterparty w/Ron Wood on guitar

5. Look up in the air, it's your guitar

6. Girl you got an ass like a limousine

OH SHIT I BLEW THE QUOTE, I GOTTA GET SOME SLEEP

6. Girl you got an ass like I never seen
And the ride
I said the ride is so smooth
You must be a limousine

OMG I WAS POSTING THAT

7. We live in a world overrun by tourists
Tourists -- 89 flowers on their back...inventors of the Accu-jack
They look at life through a pocket camera... What? No flash again?
They're all a bunch of double drags who teach their kids that Love is bad
Half of the staff of their brain is on vacation
Mama, are u listening?
We need a new breed -- Leaders, Stand Up, Organize
Don't let your children watch television until they know how to read
Or else all they'll know how to do is cuss, fight and breed
No child is bad from the beginning... they only imitate their atmosphere
If they're in the company of tourists, alcohol and US history
What's to be expected is 3 minus 3... absolutely nothing

8. White Black Puerto Rican Everybody just a-freakin'

9. If U set ur mind free baby maybe ud understand / Starfish and coffee maple syrup and jam

10. UPTOWN

This might be the best song on here. Some chick asks Prince if he's gay and he's all like "Bitch, do I look gay?" But then he thinks for a second and then he's like "Wait, don't answer that question. Just watch me rock out on this guitar here for a sec, then tell me whether or not I look gay. If you're lucky, maybe I'll let you come back stage and fellate me."

-- R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, August 6, 2004 6:27 AM (Friday, August 6, 2004 6:27 AM) Bookmark Link

I'm amazed, really. I figured once Matos discovered this thread (immediately, of course) it would run its course in ten minutes or less.

11. the audience-level pan in the Sign 'O' the Times movie during "Housequake" when out of the bottom corner Prince emerges propelling himself across the stage on his back

12. his turning around and doing the splits after propelling himself across the stage on his back in No. 11

13. the entrance of the guitar in the Amsterdam 8.18.88 afterclub version of "Just My Imagination," the greatest piece of music I know that's never been officially released

14. Robert Christgau on Dirty Mind: "Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home."

15. the cough at the beginning of the video for "Raspberry Beret"

16. the front photo of Sign 'O' the Times, my favorite album cover of all time

17. Sheila E., "The Belle of St. Mark"

14 OTM

18. D-D-DOGS!!! (this actually startled the fuck out of me the first time I heard it)

(sorry for all these boilerplate Matos-on-Prince-on-ILM answers, btw)

19. accepting a Minnesota Music Award: "When are they going to give one for the best ass?"

20. from "Cindy C": "super-fine heifer!"

21. the synths on Stevie Nicks's "Stand Back"

22. His dance during the guitar solo in the "Little Red Corvette" video, a model of compact perfection. I made my dad come in from the other room to watch this dance and harangued him for ten minutes about how much better Prince was than Michael Jackson as a dancer. To his credit, he listened without screaming GOD DAMN IT YOU ARE A TEENAGE BOY GO GET LAID AND STOP TALKING ABOUT BLACK MEN DANCING ON MTV

23. well HERE we are

24. The thing he's wearing over his face here:

http://www.dtt-lyrics.com/images/prince%20singles/mnip.jpg

25. http://www.stanleylieber.com/images/prince_ass.jpg

26. "Take a bath, hippies!"

hahaha THAT'S what he's saying!

27. Driving a keyboardist out of his band because she refused to sing "Head"

28. the breakdown before the final chorus of "In This Bed Eye Scream"

29. The end of "1999" when it strips down to just the rhythm guitar you never noticed was there all along even though you've heard this damn song 800 thousand times and one and it's all like EPIPHANY!

30. 2 NIGS UNITED 4 WEST COMPTON

8. White Black Puerto Rican Everybody just a-freakin'

^^^^^ #1

31. "I'll be 117/And you'll be still saying, 'Baby, not tonight'"

32. "He told me in his bedroom voice/'Come on, honey, let's go make some noise'"

33. There was a woman from the ghetto who made funny faces just like Clara Bow; how was I to know that she would wear the same cologne as U?

34. When he MADE IT RAIN at the Superbowl DURING PURPLE RAIN

all part of the same arc:

35a. Getting trash-talked by George Clinton on Urban Dancefloor Guerrilas's "Copycat"
35b. Eventually buying a ton of GC's debt and then signing him to Paisley Park when no one else would touch him
35c. Backing GC on "Paradigm" (from last year's criminally underappreciated P.Funk All-Stars album) with pinpoint minimal guitar and falsetto backing and tossed-off lines like "She wears gorgeous like she had it tailor-made, fine like she's goin' out of style"

36. In "Alphabet Street" when he calls the Thunderbird a 66 and the background vocals contradict him and call it a 67

37. the trembling falsetto of "I Wish U Heaven"

38. The 1985 (I think) interview in "Rolling Stone" where the interviewer asked him why he did something weird on some song and he said "Oh I just put that in to be sick."

39. the 12-inch version of "U Got the Look." (Dave Marsh: "Pink Floyd jammin' on the one")

38 refers to 15, Matt

39. "La, La, La Means Eye Love U"--even that ridiculous muttered coda about his contract

hahahahahahaha Matos nice catch! I think he said that phrase a couple of times in that interview, I tried to make that a meme at college the next fall but it was DENIED

Hey Matos, could you send me the "Just My Imagination" cover you always speak of so fondly? And that bassline house mix I couldn't dl, for that matter?

40. Today when I was going to buy a merino wool sweater and I remembered the anti-wool essay Prince wrote on Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic so instead I bought some cotton dress shirts.

okay that one might not count

41. "this is your conscience, motherfucker!"

ahem
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6pqd6t

beautiful piano version of the Computer Blue guitar solo in Purple Rain

"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"

124. His parts in Vanity 6's "If A Girl Answers"

125. 23 positions in a one night stand

125b. only call ya after if you say i can

126. When the drums kick in on "The Cross"

127. "a love bizarre"

128. hearing the 12 inch of "america" at a notorious underground location on a freezing cold night in chicago and watching the place go completely crazy.

btw that link i posted is for just my imagination

Jordan thanks for the link

129.Those water drums on "Crazy You"

"Hello, Mr. George? This is your conscience, motherfucker."

130.Like every album track,b side and bootleg between 1978-1989

*HCKKH* Yes, we're certain of it. *HCKKH* He's definitely masturbatin.

-ing

132. There's joy in repetition... joy in repetition... joy in repetition... joy in repetition...

84. that solo during the while my guitar gently weeps beatles tribute when tom petty and those guys looked upset while prince killed it.

133. Subsequently claiming he'd never heard "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" before.

The glorious Beatlesque chorus of "Paisley Park Is In Your" proving he could do psychedelic pop as great as any white Englishman did almost 20 years earlier.

(134 that is)

Replacement 134: The way "Play In the Sunshine" just keeps on stubbornly morphing into something else

135. Charlie Murphy and the Prince basketball/pancakes story:

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OK, that didn't work. Linked version:

135. Charlie Murphy and the Prince basketball/pancakes story

It's not it in the clip, but, if I recall correctly, Prince proceeded to cook pancakes for everybody after the game.

136. That's when I saw her/ ooooooooOOH, I saw her/ She walked in through the 'out' door

137. The way "Joy in Repetition" moves from irresolution, stasis, to RESOLUTION (care of that guitar solo).

138. Pre-"Under The Cherry Moon" promo interview on MTV. Dressed in gold, sitting in an armchair surrounded by silent teens. Choice quote (from memory): "I'm just like everyone. I need water. (PAUSE) And love." I miss the weird, mysterious Prince.

the muttered "and u think u got it bad" reality check before the final chorus of "Money Don't Matter 2Night."

139. MARCH 20--Claiming that his $70,000-a-month tenant Prince undertook an extremely tacky makeover of his Los Angeles mansion, an NBA star recently sued the mercurial singer over the purple-hued alterations. In a January complaint, Carlos Boozer, a forward with the Utah Jazz, sued Prince/MPG Music over unauthorized work done on the 10-bedroom, 11-bath West Hollywood property, which is owned by the C Booz Multifamily I LLC. According to the lawsuit, Prince/MPG Music violated its eight-month lease by "painting the exterior of the [house] with purple striping, 'prince' symbol, and numbers 3121." Prince's new album, "3121," is scheduled for release tomorrow. Inside the home, among other renovations, a purple monogrammed carpet was installed in the master bedroom and plumbing and piping was added in the downstairs bedroom "for water transfer for beauty salon chairs." As part of a promotion, Prince is expected to hold a private concert at the Hollywood property--which recently was listed for sale at $11.9 million--for album purchasers who find a Wonkaesque "purple ticket" inside their CD cases. The Boozer corporation filed its lawsuit two months after hand-delivering a "three-day notice to cure or quit" to the Sierra Alta Way property (which can be seen in the aerial photo above). Responding to the lawsuit, Prince's counsel denied the owner's allegations, adding that rent was accepted for December and January "without objection." In mid-February, a month after the complaint was filed, an attorney for the Boozer company sought the suit's dismissal, a request the court approved. Since the dismissal was granted "without prejudice," the landlord has the ability to file another suit on the same claims. The Prince/MPG Music lease, which ends May 31, stipulates that all parties involved in the rental agree to sign a confidentiality agreement about the deal. It also states that the tenant may cancel the lease with 45 days notice "should the weather conditions of the Los Angeles rainy season...prohibit enjoyment of the property." (6 pages)

140. "we'll imagine what silence..........looks like"

141.
Silly, no? When a rocketship explodes
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain't happy, truly
Until a man truly dies
Oh why, oh why?
Sign of the times.

142. The Lord-praising message sung in reverse at the end of Darling Nikki

143. Keyboard riff on "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"

144. '...then left him for a REAL prince, from Arabia'

155. playing "1999" at midnite on newyears eve 98, 99 0r any fucking year ever

84. that solo during the while my guitar gently weeps beatles tribute when tom petty and those guys looked upset while prince killed it.

133. Subsequently claiming he'd never heard "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" before.

haha, that's great.

156. Spending the first three minutes of that performance all low-key doing nothing, like that white-suited yakuza in the fight with the mob in the simpsons episode, then, after spending the next three killing it, he takes his guitar off, throws up it in the air and walks off, and the guitar doesn't appear to come down.

158. "Yo, while me and Q-tip were performing 'Vivrant Thing' in Vegas last night...this n--a Prince walked out on the stage, took the guitar from our guitar player and just started rocking! None of us knew he was there until he popped up on the stage...then the n--a vanished like Batman, LOL!" - DJ Scratch to MissInfo last November.

Complex arithmetic fail, that's 157.

158. Getting his online fans all riled up due to ridiculous copyright claims, then releasing a free download single ("PFUnk") as a response to their complaints.

1. I'm not saying this just 2 B nasty, but I sincerely want 2 fuck the taste out of your mouth. Can U relate?

― The Reverend, Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:01 PM Bookmark

whatever happened to subroc? he was a good poster

159. The clothes he's wearing in the "Mountains" video; only Prince can look cool in that outfit.

160. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHaFj7gOWh4

i'd say right about 4:10 is the peak

161. "The reason that you're cool is that you're from the old school, and they know it."

162. that Prince is his actual birth name (Prince Rogers Nelson)

163. never seen a pretty girl look so tough

164. "When you were mine" keyboard solo

Surely there must be more than 164? :P

165. 'Gustav Mahler #3 jammin on the box'

164. "When you were mine" keyboard solo

166. Tamboura drones on 'strange relationship'