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Weekend Rock List: Prince Songs

5/2/08, 4:55 pm EST

This week’s Rock List is dedicated to the MVP of this year’s Coachella festival: Prince. After re-watching Prince’s explosive version of Radiohead’s “Creep” for the hundredth time, we’re asking our Rock Daily readers to tell us their favorite songs by the Purple One. On Monday, we’ll count up the picks and reveal your Rock List. Before you pop Purple Rain into the VCR or peruse Rolling Stone’s list of his diamonds (and pearls) in the rough, here are our jams:

  • “The Beautiful Ones”
  • “Gett Off”
  • “Raspberry Beret”
  • “D.M.S.R.”
  • “Paisley Park”

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tony montana | 5/2/2008, 5:01 pm EST

When Doves Cry

wastedpoetry | 5/2/2008, 5:25 pm EST

p control
controversy
MY NAME IS PRINCE
Raspberry Beret
7
Gett Off

Brad | 5/2/2008, 6:03 pm EST

17 Days
Bob George

Joey Coco | 5/2/2008, 6:33 pm EST

When Doves Cry
Raspberry Beret
Elephants & Flowers
Loose
The One U Wanna C
Anotherloverholeinyourhead
K iss
Forever In My Life
Starfish & Coffee
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man
Chaos & Disorder
Gett Off
Cream
Pope
Shockadelica
Sh e’s Always In My Hair
Erotic City

Swingline | 5/2/2008, 6:34 pm EST

Controversy
Musicology
Let’s Go Crazy
U Got the Look
Darling Nikki

Jason | 5/2/2008, 6:50 pm EST

1999
Kiss
Little Red Corvette
Sexy M.F.
Sign O’ The Times

Kevin the Robot | 5/2/2008, 8:11 pm EST

The Ballad of Dorothy Paker

D.M.S.R. | 5/2/2008, 8:30 pm EST

She’s Always In My Hair
Paisley Park
Under The Cherry Moon
7
When Doves Cry
Around The World In A Day
Computer Blue
The Ladder
Purple Rain
Musicology
Strange Relationship
Little Red Corvette

Alex | 5/2/2008, 8:55 pm EST

When Doves Cry
Purple Rain
Little Red Corvette
Sign O’ the Times
1999
Kiss
Gett Off
Guitar

Katie R | 5/2/2008, 9:01 pm EST

Erotic City
Take Me With U
Little Red Corvette
U Got the Look
Purple Rain
Cream
I’ll Never Take the Place of Your Man
Pussy Control

Rachel | 5/2/2008, 9:40 pm EST

Kiss
Pussy Control
Purple Rain

roknrol188 | 5/2/2008, 9:46 pm EST

Purple Rain
I Could Never Take the Place Of Your Man
Anotherloverholeinyohead
K iss
Starfish and Coffee
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Slow Love
International Lover
Baby I’m a Star
Little Red Corvette
Delirious
Guitar
A Million Days

Dee | 5/2/2008, 9:54 pm EST

Sexy M.F.
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Gett Off
I Would Die 4 U/ Baby I’m a Star
Kiss
Computer Blue
Take Me With U

thezero | 5/2/2008, 10:52 pm EST

how come you don’t call me anymore

the beautiful ones

black sweat

if i was your girlfriend

the most beautiful girl in the world

when doves cry

Kevin | 5/2/2008, 11:05 pm EST

Purple Rain

Little Red Corvette

I Wanna Be Your Lover

If I Was Your Girlfriend

Sintro | 5/2/2008, 11:35 pm EST

The Look
Kiss
When Doves Cry

pete | 5/2/2008, 11:37 pm EST

when doves cry
kiss
i could never take the palce of your man
nothing compares 2 u
get off
1999
darling nikki
let’s go crazy
purple rain
little red corvette
black sweat

Aaron | 5/3/2008, 12:18 am EST

Hard list!

1-Purple Rain-One of rock’s best anthems, the 80’s “Stairway to heaven”

2-When Doves Cry-The most off beat pop song ever recorded. A masterpiece.

3-Kiss-The song that defined Techno Funk.

4-Adore-If you have to explained sex with one song, Adore is that song.

5-1999-After listen to this song, every time you party hard, you will know you are close to the end of times.

6-Darling Nicky- His pic with The Revolution. Nasty funk!

7-Raspberry Beret-The sweetest pop song ever, every time i hear this i say: “They don’t make ‘em like they used to”

8-Erotic City- A dance epic!

9-Party Up-Prince’s “fuck you” to the sytem, form his early Punkfunk days.

10-Uptown-Before taken the world by storm Prince warned people of his bizarre world. Some lyrics:

“She said, “Are you gay?”
Kinda took me by surprise
I didn’t know what to do
I just looked her in her eyes
And I said, “No, are u?”
Said to myself, said
“She’s just a crazy, crazy, crazy
Little mixed up dame.
She’s just a victim of society
And all it’s games. Now where I come from
We don’t let society
Tell us how it’s supposed to be
Our clothes, our hair
We don’t care
It’s all about being there
Everybody’s going Uptown”

11-Sign O’The Times-The greatest political song in pop history.

thatguy | 5/3/2008, 1:06 am EST

This is hard. Prince is pretty much the greatest. I’ll try to cut it off at…say, 15 or so. I’ll cap it at say two per album. And I’ll be fair and not just throw on the entirety of Purple Rain.

“Let’s Go Crazy”
“Purple Rain”
“When You Were Mine”
“Private Joy”
“1999″
“Little Red Corvette”
“Raspberry Beret”
“Anotherloverholenyohead ”
“Ki ss”
“Batdance”
“Thieves in the Temple”
“If I Was Your Girlfriend”
“Sign O’ The Times”
“My Name Is Prince”
“P Control”

In summation, I’ve never heard a Prince album I didn’t like, and I’ve heard 18 of them.

Orgo | 5/3/2008, 2:18 am EST

Uptown
Sexuality

Sherry | 5/3/2008, 7:16 am EST

I always have to get up and dance when I hear “Little Red Corvette”. And I always shed a tear when I hear “Nothing Compares 2U” (Sinead O’Connor’s cover of course). And “When Doves Cry” is in a class by itself. A classic.

Mr. Dog | 5/3/2008, 9:26 am EST

Joy In Repetition
A Love Bizarre
Forever in my Life
The Beautiful Ones
AnotherLoverHoleInYoHead
Raspberry Beret
Something in The Water
7
Cream

Mr. Dog | 5/3/2008, 9:27 am EST

Joy In Repetition
A Love Bizarre
Forever in my Life
The Beautiful Ones
AnotherLoverHoleInYo Head
Raspberry Beret
Something in The Water
7
Cream

Walter | 5/3/2008, 11:48 am EST

1. I could never take the place of your man
2. Sometimes it snows in april
3. Do me baby
4. Endorphinemachine
5. Slow Love
6. Play in the sunshine
7. Housequake
8. Life can be so nice
9. The most beautiful girl in the world
10. Uptown

Kinda Ready | 5/3/2008, 1:26 pm EST

When doves cry
little red corvette
purple rain

witness | 5/3/2008, 1:57 pm EST

When Doves Cry
Little Red Corvette
Purple Rain
1999
Sign ‘O’ the Times
Kiss

Marcel | 5/3/2008, 2:55 pm EST

When Doves Cry
U Got The Look
Little Red Corvette
Erotic City
Gett Off
Sign O’ The Times
Batdance
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

Anonymous | 5/3/2008, 3:12 pm EST

little red corvette
when doves cry
fury
let’s go crazy

dark | 5/3/2008, 7:41 pm EST

Computer Blue tops my list. I’ve always wanted to hear the famous “uncut” version, with the hallway speech. Other than that:
.Kiss
.Guitar
.Raspberry Beret

rtickle | 5/3/2008, 10:05 pm EST

let’s go crazy
starfish & coffee
sexy mutha ——

rtickle | 5/3/2008, 10:09 pm EST

oh yea,
.let’s pretend we’re married

Jon G. | 5/4/2008, 12:47 pm EST

Good call on “Housequake!” I submit Dance MusicSexRomance and Lady Cab Driver.

Ghostoftomwaits | 5/4/2008, 3:48 pm EST

Erotic City
Le Grind
Sign o’ the times

Anonymous | 5/4/2008, 4:13 pm EST

17 Days
1999
Darling Nikki
I Could Never Take the Place o.y. Man
Sign O’ The Times

Anonymous | 5/4/2008, 4:19 pm EST

2nd Team: (I’m Anon from the last post)

Kiss
Raspberry Beret
The Beautiful Ones
Delirious
Head

JSuzart | 5/4/2008, 7:57 pm EST

Trying to keel sane, here are the best:
When Doves Cry
I Would Die 4 U
Delirious
1999
Raspberry Beret
Purple Rain

machineart | 5/4/2008, 11:51 pm EST

The Cross
BobGeorge
Shy
How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
A Place in Heaven
Sign of the Times
DMSR
Soul Sanctuary

Charles Crossley, Jr. | 5/5/2008, 12:02 am EST

When Doves Cry
Purple Rain
Let’s Go Crazy
I Would Die 4 U
Little Red Corvette
1999

joancocker | 5/5/2008, 3:14 am EST

diamonds and pearls

Roland Hosein | 5/5/2008, 8:22 am EST

Mountains, Erotic City, If I was your girlfriend, Raspberry Beret, Batdance, Lets pretend we’re married, Anotherloverlikeyoneedaholein yohead, Darling Nikki, Take me with u, Money don’t matter tonight

Anonymous | 5/5/2008, 10:52 am EST

7
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
I Would Die 4 U
Gett Off
Little Red Corvette
Shhh
She’s Always in My Hair

RWHITE1 | 5/5/2008, 12:53 pm EST

Housequake
P% Control
Endorphin Machine

rfmitch67 | 5/5/2008, 2:20 pm EST

Sign O’ The Times
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
The Cross

rfmitch67 | 5/5/2008, 2:20 pm EST

Sign O’ The Times
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
The Cross

Anonymous | 5/5/2008, 2:23 pm EST

erotic city

JxSxPx | 5/5/2008, 3:33 pm EST

Kiss
When Doves Cry
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Erotic City
Dirty Mind
When You Were Mine
Controversy
I Would Die 4 U
Purple Rain
Delirious

that’s just 10 off the top of my head

Thom | 5/5/2008, 4:24 pm EST

7

Buster Cherry | 5/5/2008, 4:31 pm EST

Adore!
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker!!
Little Red Corvette
Raspberry Beret
When Doves Cry

WOW | 5/5/2008, 5:14 pm EST

Sign O’ The Times
Purple rain
Raspberry Beret

Anonymous | 5/15/2008, 5:13 pm EST

KISS
EROTIC CITY

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