Favorite Prince Cover or Prince song written for another artist

[ol'skinflint]

I once played "D.M.S.R." at a party and that party jumped OFF. I'm quite tired of most of Prince's biggest hits (the one exception being the spare, bone-chillin' "Kiss"). My favorite songs of his are obscure album tracks and b-sides: "Irresistable Bitch", "She's Always in my Hair" (by Something for the People), "Housequake", "Forever in my Life", "Head", "Dirty Mind", Mariah Carey's cover of "The Beautiful Ones", "We Can Funk" (with George Clinton) and "Damn U", to name just a few.

[speculator]

Originally Posted by A2Mark57

My favorite Prince cover is "When You Were Mine" by Cyndi Lauper.

i am obsessed with this lately..

thanks for the spy vid.

[A2Mark57]

Originally Posted by speculator

i am obsessed with this lately..

thanks for the spy vid.

As you probably already know, the studio version appears on Cyndi's 1983 album, "She's So Unusual."

I think it's very cool that Cher released a "same sex" version of her 2000's hit, "Strong Enough." I think it's even cooler that Cyndi included her no-pronouns-changed version of "When You Were Mine" on her debut album 20 years prior to "Strong Enough".

Oops. Oh, yeah. Cher had done her quietly subversive "wrong pronouns" version of "The Way of Love" 20 years before THAT.

Sorry. The whole "same sex" lyric thing is probably worthy of another thread. I don't mean to derail this one. On with the discussion of His Purpleness!

[kim58]

Check out 'Why Should I Love You' on the CD 'The Red Shoes' by Kate Bush from 1993. Prince is all over this stormin' track and although there are no writing credits, with it's purple references He must surely have had some input. I seem to remember reading somewhere at the time that it was scheduled for single release but was blocked by The Purple One. Also features vocals by 'comedian' Lenny Henry.

[SandraDee]

Originally Posted by kim58

Also features vocals by 'comedian' Lenny Henry.

I like the quotation marks!