U Send The Votes - Eye Do The Compiling - PRINCE TRACKS POLL VOTING!

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Okay so as the Beatles results are going to be done soon, i'm now opening up the vote for PRINCE.

So (almost) identical set-up to the last few and so here are the rules...

No need for nominations, just pick your favourite Prince AND side project tracks AND Prince tracks written for others. That's right - I thought it would be fun to expand this to everything Prince has written, so you can vote for stuff by The Time, Vanity 6, The Bangles etc.

If you vote for a song that's been recorded by Prince AND a separate act, put their name in brackets e.g. 'Nothing Compares 2 U' (Sinéad O'Connor) otherwise I will assume it is for the Princeversion.

Discography can be found here http://www.discogs.com/artist/Prince and you can sort that list to see stuff he's just Produced / Written.

Choose your top twenty tracks and they'll score as follows:
1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12.

Please send your ballot to: runoutgroove (AT) hotmail.com (except obviously without the spaces and using the @ symbol) by midnight gmt Tuesday July 26 (that's a week from today).

In the meantime, use this thread for bigging up tracks you want people to vote for and asking any questions... Not looking forward to finding Youtube vids for all the results on this one...

Yes, I thought I'd have probs finding The Beatle ones, but whoa!

predicting/hoping for massive placing for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBJ0lxBhGDs

From discogs: Prince was once married to Mayte but their marriage was cancelled in 2000.

I've never seen a marriage referred to as "cancelled" before.

Sented my ballot.

That picture is so great.

Good call on Sometimes It Snows In April, it's always been my favourite ballad of his.

I'm hoping people vote for She's Always In My Hair. He has some seriously amazing B-sides, this one is easily my favourite.

Fuck so hard...funny going back to some of these songs they were a soundtrack to my teens...a top 10 would of been easier in some respects cos so many tracks jockeying for a place...

Ps are we allowing unreleased tracks...

jeeze, i'm trying to find that tour diary/blog by the guy who did lights for rick james when prince was opening for him... lots of HILARIOUS stories about prince if i could just find the damn link! anyone know what i'm talking about/where to find it? i can't remember lighting dude's name so google just isn't working for me...

lol @ opening pic + thread title well-done

yes unreleased is fine!

will definitely find this one much harder than beatles to cut down to 20

First ballot in already, very nice.

I'm very interested in this one -- totally unqualified to vote, looking forward to the results.

vote anyway, the singles will need help what with everyone connoisseur trying to vote random b-sides and The Black Album

there is such a vast amount of material to cover and so much of it fantastic that yep i think the results will be really interesting especially for the slightly lesser initiated fans

Hm, "Windows cannot find runoutgroove..." etc. - what's that about? Is there a hyphen or dot or something needed in there?

nope...that's it, not sure why it wouldnt be working

i voted for the hits and the b-sides, seemed to work.

Somebody recommend some songs he wrote for others. Apart from "nothing compares 2 u" which is the only significant one I can think of.

Manic Monday, for the Bangles

he wrote or at least co-wrote a lot of the Time stuff. '777-9311', 'Cool', etc.

also sheila's hits, 'glamorous life' and 'a love bizarre'.

Spotify showing up in the nick of time for this one -- handy!

never 4get

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

and just about all of the music for this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nt5t3sL-kE

might be pushing it a bit far but he "inspired" + played synth on this which also rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJ-i23OiJU

Stop what you're doing and watch this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efkS7NUFPDI

....then vote for it.

Would consider filling my entire ballot with Sheila E tracks if there were enough.

MY SUGAR WALLS

today I was visiting with an old friend who got me into Prince years and years ago, and he went "which Prince albums do you not have?" -- he's been ripping and selling/giving away a lot of his CDs, so he gave me a whole stack of Prince: For You, Around The World In A Day, Lovesexy, Grafitti Bridge, Diamonds & Pearls, Come, The Gold Experience, and Emancipation. gonna enjoy poring over these while i work on my ballot for the Prince tracks poll.

― bro, die (some dude), Sunday, July 10, 2011 8:14 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

posted this on another prince thread last week -- kinda bummed that there's no way i'm going to work my way through all these records before the voting deadline, but it's cool to put together my ballot at a moment when i'm feeling really excited about Prince music

i'd love to vote in this but i haven't heard a single song post-Diamond and Pearls and that's too much to stomach in one shot

Except Come, which I have for some reason, and like alot

surely you don't need to hear everything to vote, and surely lots of people will be voting for nothing later than Diamonds & Pearls

alright, some dude, you convinced me! thks

excellent, i figure the more participation the more interesting this will be

eye voted

am genuinely curious what your ballot looks like!

check yr inbox

i was thinking of abstaining, as i'm only familiar with controversy-lovesexy really, and i don't want to turn this into "princes biggest singles" which is what my ballot looked like when i started to put it together.

ps. so i guess no one else has read those rick james tour diaries, ie. "rick james vs. prince"?

eh there might be enough fanatics around here voting for deep cuts and b-sides that a few ballots full of hits could balance things out

i've mostly just been familiar with the hits and the bigger albums, and am really enjoying the chance to listen to all the unreleased stuff. i just downloaded The Work cds, they are amazing

want to rep for this as it's clearly the highlight of the first few albums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20FQYU6lrII

and this because it was so amazing live a few weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4C9qR9wJVw

I won't be voting as I only have the 3-CD hits comp, Purple Rain and some crappy recent thing he's done. But will be looking to the countdown.

Ach, I'm going to vote anyway. Even giving the great singles a legup over the not-so-great will be useful.

Here's a comprehensive list of Prince compositions for other artists:
http://www.neosoul.com/music/purplejams.html

Dilemma - love Te Amo Corazon, love Fury, but most of all I love the Te Amo Corazon/Fury medley he did at the Brits (released as the b-side of Fury). Do I give these one vote, two or three?

Bit the bullet and sent my ballot in. Heartbreaking omissions (so many good 12'' mixes!) - was tempted to put our very own Sven & Friends' "When Humps Cry", ha. Paging stevem?

Unadventurous ballot submitted - hoping the conoisseurs step up to neutralise it now.

Narrowed down to 20. Now arranging the order. (Wanted to toss a bone to at least a couple more recent tracks, but the latest I got was 1995.)

the most recent one i had on mine was 'black sweat'

Ballot submitted! I'll rep for a good amount of 90's Prince, but I ended up with only one track post-87. I think it's pretty clear that his peak era, both artistically and commercially, was 80-87 (if you're being generous you might add a year or two on either end), though he made loads of great music in the decade that followed even amid obvious missteps and uncharacteristically ham-handed attempts to stay current. I could certainly find room for a handful of 90s tracks if we were submitting a top 30 or top 40.

praying there wasn't an outburst of LOL voting, cuz if Batdance hits #1....

"Sometimes It Snows In April" is the only song that can reliably make me cry.

When I first heard Parade I thought it was a fine song but it took on extra poignancy after my brother's death; he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while jogging shortly after a series of major setbacks in his Air Force career and there is still to this day lingering doubt as to whether he just didn't hear the truck because of his headphones or if he jumped in front of it intentionally.

i think after the main poll i might try and cull together a list of Prince's 50 funniest/most wtf songs for a quickie poll thread

unfortunate xpost after a poignant story, sorry

haha no apologies necessary, that was likely needed after I went all Debbie Downer on the thread

you can talk about "Dolphin" now if it helps

massive lol

I don't even hate that song as much as I used to (although "If I came back as a dolphin/Would you listen to me then?" is still one of the most unfortunate things ever committed to tape)

Of course I'd listen to him: blackened dolphin is tasty as hell.

the lyric sheet renders it even more dippy as "If [eye symbol] came back as a dolphin/Would U listen to me then?"

i have this scary image of Prince shapeshifting into a Dolphin in front of horrified kids at Sea World

ok, finally sent in my ballot, already feeling guilty about some of the songs i cut

have we had a thread on the prince feature films? are they universally horrible?

was kinda shocked that all are on dvd and in print. who's watching these movies now?

ILM.

Ballot sent. This is one of my fave "Parade" outtakes:"In All My Dreams"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MoLqeoN5ow

am i too late? I'll mail something totally off the top of my head if not.
will still listen to everything but got winehouse sidetracked

i think by the stated deadline you're a couple hours late but you should throw something together and send it in, i bet it'll be accepted

going for it. totally off the top of the dome. this should be interesting

This stuff was on the outside looking in:

Batdance
How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
It
Anna Stesia
The Morning Papers
If I Was Ur Girlfriend
I Would Die 4 U
Computer Blue
And God Created Woman

oh god i forgot sex in the summer! with his unborn (tragically, never born) child's heartbeat doing the backbeat
so wrong in so many ways

also regretting that i missed adding violet the organ grinder

oh and pink cashmere! this is a losing game.

hmm okay eye'll accept those 6 late ballots. will start revealing countdown 2night

thank u 2... may u live 2 see Dawn...nice girl

Thought about all the obvious great songs I missed after I sent in my ballot. 20 just isn't enough. Should be more like "your Top 50"...

yeah, i could def do 50

^^^^
i realized this morning that i forgot Another Lonely Christmas and All My Dreams and no Vanity 6, not even If a Girl Answers or Vibrator or...sigh.

another lonely christmas was like my number 5

Drinking banana daquiris until I'm blind

^^^lol embarassed to say I quote this all the time tbh

have we had a thread on the prince feature films? are they universally horrible?

purple rain is a legit (cult) classic imo, still hugely watchable. under a cherry moon is odd and bad but with some great lolsy moments, and i couldn't make it through graffiti bridge.

I saw "Graffiti Bridge" in the theater

I was willing to engage with it as a story until I realized that all of the musical sequences had been excerpted as music videos, meaning the entirely lolsy and nonsensical "Thieves in the Temple" was going to appear verbatim at some point in the film. After that, I basically started treating it as an avant-garde MTV artist block with really odd sketch comedy interludes and it became much more enjoyable.

purple rain is a legit (cult) classic imo, still hugely watchable. under a cherry moon is odd and bad but with some great lolsy moments, and i couldn't make it through graffiti bridge.

I'll agree with this altho even Purple Rain is lolzy in its sloppy construction. Of course, it's redeemed by the amazing live/musical numbers. Graffiti Bridge is like watching outtakes from the Tim Burton Batman movie except with shittier music and lots of unfortunate cameos from otherwise classic musicians

RECKA STOW is all-time of course

"I basically started treating it as an avant-garde MTV artist block with really odd sketch comedy interludes and it became much more enjoyable."

this works well for 8 mile too btw

c'mon, guys: Purple Rain the movie is indefensible crap.

the plot to "8 Mile" is waaaaaaaay more coherent/plausible than "Graffiti Bridge", come on

also lol at Al trolling for bans

c'mon, guys: Purple Rain the movie is indefensible crap.

it's crap as a film - the plot/characters/construction make no sense. but it gets by on mood and the musical sequences

ha. it came on tv at a bar i was at recently, and even without sound there was a lot of power in just seeing prince doing prince-y things at the height of his charisma.

xp

that's what the videos are for!

8 Mile is a better movie all around, but Eminem is as shut-in and recalcitrant a camera object as Prince offstage.

I do give Prince propls for having the humility to include the scene in which Wendy and Lisa bitch like Geore Harrison about his reluctance to use their material.

I've always wondered about that

like, it's a very uncharacteristic moment for him and it also reflected reality probably rather closely afaict

I forgot whether the movie is competent enough to show that Prince actually did use their material: Wendy's opening guitar strum in "Purple Rain."

It absolutely does. In the big concert at the end he tells Wendy to start playing her song and she does an awesome "wait, really?" double-take before nodding to Lisa and starting the song; it's also a great narrative trick to explain why the rest of the band doesn't harmonize with him until the second repeat of the chorus, and why the song has a slow instrumental build that ends with that epic guitar jam while the rest of the band vamps on the main riff.

I'll agree with this altho even Purple Rain is lolzy in its sloppy construction. Of course, it's redeemed by the amazing live/musical numbers. Graffiti Bridge is like watching outtakes from the Tim Burton Batman movie except with shittier music and lots of unfortunate cameos from otherwise classic musicians

― No Broehner (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

not so sure Graffiti Bridge sdtk is worse music than the Batman sdtk

I love "Under The Cherry Moon". Greatest vanity project ever. Or at least one of the greatest.

(too bad Vanity wasn't in it)

okay i'm going to say now that i really like the Batman soundtrack. and that i own the batcan.