The Prince Podcast – The Bottom 5 Prince Songs

For further reading, here are my full notes from my top five. Enjoy the read:

#5: This pick is the epitome of overdoing a song. This is the
bastard step-son of what was originally a good song. As far as I know,
this is “3rd generation” crap. Things were just fine and dandy with My
Summertime Thang, sung by Morris. Written by Prince, but sung by
Morris. In fact, My Summertime Thang is to the movie Graffiti Bridge
what If The Kid Can’t Make You Come was to the movie Purple Rain. My
summertime thang is a vehicle to showcase Morris’ pimp swagger and game
towards a girl, in this case, Aura. It works. But was shelved. Then
you have The Latest Fashion – sung by Morris Day and the Time. Again,
another song written by prince, with slightly different lyrics from what
the final stink pile turned from the album proper. Yet, with this one,
all unnecessary fluff is removed. Plus, the music is different. Not so
loud and wild. It has a more sinister/serious tone to it. Sung waaay
better by Morris Day and just works. I’ve always imagined this version
being played in Morris’ club in the movie instead of ‘Shake’. This
version should have been included.

Instead, we get GB’s version of a song, and my #5 on my list: The Latest Fashion. It uses My
Summertime Thang’s music, and the lyrics of The Latest Fashion (version
1) and mixes them both with added fluff that takes it over the top,
making it a mockery of what it could have been with its stupid rap, with
it’s apparent “battle” tone between Morris and The Kid and it just
fails in every way. The song is so bad the scene it was attached to was
edited out of the movie. Basically, it’s a song that in production
morphed from Pimp, to Cool, to shit.

#4: Number four is likely
overlooked by others, but the best way for me to describe this one is
basically in one word: grating. From the way it’s sung, to the music
(or severe lack thereof) to the overly used sound effects, this track
comes from The Truth album and it is Animal Kingdom. From the first
“sung” words you get some of the most horribly sung words ever. I find
no need for this song to be sung this way at all. It’s not quirky, it’s
not original, and it’s totally boring and a skipper. And all the
dolphin noises get boring really quick. Animal Kingdom should have been
avoided at all costs.

#3 I’ve gone into detail before on my #3
so let me do it again. This is a low-point track in an unfortunate
album that lacks true identity. That album is Chaos and Disorder, and
the #3 track is Right The Wrong. For me, the track borders on sounding
very offensive in its delivery. From the very beginning music, which
sounds incredibly cheesy. The music is standard Hollywood-style ‘native
american’ sounding and is just out of place with the rest of the album.
But take this track on its own merits and it still fails. The rhyming
is forced, the music is horrible. And then it goes into “church-mode”.
It’s like the song has no identity whatsoever. It sounds like
“silly-ass-prince” when it’s meant to be serious. Right The Wrong,
frankly…equals
WRONG.

#2 Jughead – What’s there to say.
Prince raps and you have horrible rapping throughout. Others can
elaborate much better than I.

#1 Everybody Loves Me – When silly
goes wrong it goes real wrong. Let me be frank here…prince
sounds…delayed. That the politically correct way to say it. It’s not
fun, it’s dumb. No more candy for you did it better and it was a fun
song. It’s a short bus song, plain and simple and it belongs nowhere
but singing lullabies to Purple and Gold when it can’t sleep. There, I
said it.

Honorable Mentions:

 I Rock, Therefore I Am

 Wedding Feast – barely a song, and embarrassing when it is.

 Orgasm – though I know that it’s not really a song.