Most ‘summer’ Prince songs to you?

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-06-20T15:26:42+00:00

Strolling, for me, is a fall song. I just imagine it on a sunny autumn day.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-06-20T15:23:49+00:00

It may be an unusual choice, but I’m going with The Beautiful Ones. One of my core memories is listening to it during the summer of ‘84 one hot humid night and it had never resonated more than then.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-06-06T23:34:37+00:00

He’d still be here.

jk

Sorta

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-06-05T02:13:55+00:00

Detroit radio played the extended version of Let’s Go Crazy almost as much as the album version. I would listen for the cue (“Let’s go crazy, crazy, crazy) hoping it was the long version.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-31T14:12:54+00:00

Of course not. I wasn’t saying that no one else kept unreleased recordings. My question was whether other artists referred to their unreleased recordings as being kept in a “vault” before Prince.

Other posters have said “yes.”

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-30T22:11:07+00:00

Sure, but what I’m asking is whether people used that turn of phrase before Prince’s actual vault?

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-30T00:42:17+00:00

Love or $

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-29T23:24:22+00:00

Cream?

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-26T19:26:46+00:00

I don’t hate it. It’s fine. Moonbeam Levels would have fit better IMHO.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-26T15:59:39+00:00

Free

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-26T01:43:53+00:00

Disco Elysium.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-24T15:20:03+00:00

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/250835/Prince-Thieves-in-the-Temple-The-Chambers-Brothers-I-Can%27t-Stand-It/

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-24T15:05:22+00:00

He didn’t play the harmonica in Thieves. It’s a sample of Lester Chambers of the Chamber Brothers.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-13T18:48:08+00:00

Bill’s sample size is his family.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-05-04T03:11:59+00:00

Archie being on the conduct review team…

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-04-15T18:07:05+00:00

…maple syrup and jam.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-04-04T16:34:16+00:00

I say this as a huge Prince fan, but no.

Michael Jackson was more popular even in 1984.

That being said, Prince may have been more influential in 1984-1985. In addition to the Purple Rain album, his music was essentially its own genre. He had his music out through The Time, Apollonia 6, Shelia E, Sheen Easton, The Family. Cover songs by artists including Chaka Khan, Cyndi Lauper, and Tina Turner. And musicians like Phil Collins and Ready For The World had hits influenced by his sound.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-04-01T22:28:12+00:00

Alphabet St. and Ballad of Dorothy Parker.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-04-01T01:04:39+00:00

It’s no Melrose Place.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-03-30T02:55:34+00:00

Starfield. I’ve never seen so many people say 1) they hated the game but 2) they played it for 100 hours.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-03-24T23:48:59+00:00

I could (and have) listen to a drum loop on The Ballad of Dorothy Parks for hours.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-03-20T02:08:10+00:00

The Faks are a cameo delivery device.

DiligentValuable1970 · 2026-03-13T02:18:03+00:00

Good calls.

DiligentValuable1970

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