Prince: Graffiti Bridge - What is the Answer to The Question of UR Favorite Song?

jir

i mean, that's MY answer

i do love "still would stand all time" and the title track tho

I love the whole album and think it's highly underrated! But "Joy in Repetition" is in my top 15 or so Prince songs, period.

Tick, Tick, Bang is silly but I love it

also, Round and Round!

(the answer is Joy In Repetition, though)

Gotta side with "The Question of U" over "Joy in Repetition" and "Round and Round."

Thieves in the Temple

Thieves in the Temple is one of those songs that seems like it's just not going to work and then it does, flawlessly, and you're sitting there confused going "I don't get what just happened but I'm super happy about it"

Going with the Question of U and its glorious guitar solo.

Song for song, a pretty massively underrated album.

Joy in Repetition but it's tough. So many great tunes. Saw him live in Manchester the *day* the album was released and he literally did one song from it;
The Question Of U.

I thought that a lot of the material on GB was taken from his vault and that The Question of U was one of the more recent songs that he wrote for the album?

For sure "Can't Stop This Feeling I Got" had been kicking around awhile.

imo
All Time: Joy in Repetition, Thieves in the Temple (Extended Remix)
Upper Echelon: The Question of U, We Can Funk with Clinton, Round and Round
Pretty Great: Can't Stop This Feeling I Got, Elephants and Flowers, Tick Tick Bang, The Time GB EP
Pretty Good: Still Would Stand All Time, New Power Generation pt 1
Um: Graffiti Bridge, Melody Cool, New Power Generation pt 2

Kickin' Me
Kih-Kih-Kih-Kih-Me
Kih-Kih-Kickin Me in my heaaaaart

now the sound of MY VOICE is pumpin' in your chest
more or less
i am here to tell you that
i am the best
better than the rest
better than the thieves in the temple tonight
tonight
tonight
tonight tonight hurt me

The Question Of U

Most underrated Prince album by FAR

Also the only correct answer is Joy in Repetition

like everyone else, "joy in repetition" and "question of u" are my two faves

was this woman he had never noticed before he lost himself in the articulated manner in which she said them

lol at combining all the Time songs into one option

also:

lay down your funky weapon
come join us on the floor
makin' love and music's the only things worth fighting for

We can funk.

yeah we can funk, can't stop, joy in repetition were all on the 'Royal Jewels' bootleg box set that was knocking around the previous year.

"Joy in Repetition" has such a marvelously woozy ride.

*lilt

The first Prince album I bought w/my own money.

Same.

Its really just an 80s mop up album though isnt it? End of 80s prince really. After this it's the npg era.

yeah

Production also sounded much bigger after this, starting with the bloated D&P

The first Prince album I bought w/my own money.

Wendy And Lisa would never of let this happen

Batcan?! Ooooh. I wanted that. Settled for batdance 3" CD in the bat logo case instead.

it was in clearance iirc

I can't remember if I bought Around the World in a Day or Sign O' the Times first

My mom's library had all of Prince's albums from Purple Rain on so I would normally just check them out and tape them

"We Can Funk" also existed in a Dream Factory/Crystal Ball version.

"Can't Stop This Feelin' I Got" is an inferior "Play in the Sunshine" but it's fine.

I looove the guitar in "Elephants and Flowers" complementing the chorus' gospel coda ("There will be peace on earth who love...").

How on earth did the GB movie get funded though? Warners didn't pick up the SOTT movie but funded the GB film? Crazy. Maybe that's why he hated them in 92. They kept letting him do stupid stuff.

The 86 version of we can funk kills. Miko weaver has a truly exquisite solo

' Maybe that's why he hated them in 92. They kept letting him do stupid stuff.'

Is there a thread on princes slave era? It deserves to be discussed in it's own right.

I saw the movie again fairly recently and it is... not very good?
the tick tick bang sequence is really something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1dW3JAi90k

i mean it is awesome for its total weirdness but the narrative/direction/acting is a huge mess

i don't think this version has been released yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LetGdMNH6Mk

Utcm was already a disaster, yet he was allowed to try again at directing? Very peculiar.

prince's costume/hairstyle in the tick tick bang scene is really primo weirdo pervy prince
http://i.pinimg.com/originals/bf/dd/d1/bfddd1021262db5fce11a3d57d27ebd6.gif
https://ripopgodazippa.tumblr.com/post/62047201169

GB went straight to vhs here; extraordinary really considering he was playing stadiums.

Madonna was meant to be his co star apparently but told him the script was awful.

she would know

The first Prince album I bought w/my own money.

I started with Purple Rain, bought Parade and Sign O' the Times and Lovesexy (and a bootleg of the Black Album). All on cassette. GB was the first one I bought on CD, and the last one I bought, period.

RELEASE IT

I saw Graffiti Bridge in the theater, ama

Which theater?

I’m trying to remember… I wanna say Signal Hills

This is one of the very first CDs I bought (while still relatively new, from a Kmart clearance bin, alongside The Head on the Door) but gave it away as I think I felt it "inessential" or something. Though I didn't particularly dislike it and subsequently ended up with most of the surrounding Prince material in the house anyway.

My first thought was "Joy in Repetition" or "Tick Tick Bang". (Now that I've written all that, this post feels freakishly similar to a bunch of others in the thread, lol.)

Is Jerome Benton the only person to have dialogue in all three of the fictional Prince films?

Well, there's Prince...

Voted for "Melody Cool" just because Ulysess made fun of it. It's a dope tune, IMO: Mavis Staples is the best singer on the album, the melody is catchy, the synth riff is heavy as fuck, the lyrical concept is fun... What's not to like?

round n round is underrated

enjoy your melody cool

round n round is underrated

― candyman,

One of his best songs he wrote and produced for someone else.

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"Thieves in the Temple" almost seemed like a path not taken in retrospect. Like if that had been a full 90s Prince template but it wasn't.

"The Question Of U".

Joy in Repetition Joy in Repetition" Joy in Repetition" ,etc

Even if this was only a pure prince album, it's still a minor one. A stop gap set. All the te recorded versions of vault songs are generally not as good as the unreleased versions, though ok, we can funk is excellent. Strange that he used so few new songs when supposedly he had two albums that didnt come out after lovesexy. Also as Nelson George wrote back then, strange to hear him writing about being the new power generation, and generational battles, when he wasnt a young upstart anymore.

Then again, I think the fact it has all the other artists songs obscures the genuinely good stuff, I.e question of u (though this seems underwritten, theres only one verse!), joy, we can funk, thieves.

Most of the songs by other artists here are quite good! Except for the George Clinton one.

Haha. The Clinton one has an incredible groove! The time ones are decent but should have been on pandemonium, not here, round and round is the best proper song on here weirdly, melody cool is just ho hum (was he ever good at writing for his heroes?).

Do you like any versions of we can funk ?

I mostly like the songs by other acts just fine, although the Time ones are a bit underwhelming.

1. "Can't Stop This Feeling I Got"
2. "New Power Generation, Part 1"
4. "The Question of U"
5. "Elephants & Flowers"
7. "We Can Funk" Prince feat. George Clinton
8. "Joy in Repetition"
10. "Tick, Tick, Bang"
12. "Thieves in the Temple"
15. "Still Would Stand All Time"
16. "Graffiti Bridge"

a prince album made from this soundtrack wouldnt be a bad album.

for anyone who hasnt heard them, the 1986 versions of cant stop and we can funk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzYztOrsRZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_K55L_4biU

Underrated album. Understandably it gets knocked for being one more step in a decline, and to be fair very little of it can be considered career highlights for anyone. But it's still a pretty good album, and I find the whole thing enjoyable from end to end including the guest spots - pretty impressive for a double LP.

"Thieves in the Temple" deserves to win but I'll probably vote for Tevin Campbell's track, "Round and Round." It was actually a big hit (made it to #12 on the pop charts, #3 R&B).

"Can't Stop This Feeling I Got" and the Crystal Ball outtake "Joy In Repetition" are close behind. "Still Would Stand All Time" is pretty good too, but it was much better when Prince did it live. (It was a highlight during the after hours shows on the 1988 tour.)

Collectively, I think the Time tracks are more consistently enjoyable than anyone else's, but there isn't one track that I'd put on par with the best stuff from their first three LP's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnavsiRhaT0

There's no way to assume Prince was on a decline. Batman had several great tracks.

Otoh he never got "We Can Funk" right.

damn, we brought back geir

Except for the execrable "The Arms of Orion" (which I replaced with "200 Balloons") I don't think it's a bad album. It's very thin compared to any of his previous LP's, no surprise given what it is, but it still gets knocked a lot for being a mediocre album.

(or rather "gets knocked as a mediocre album")

Batman is an under written quickie album.
Enjoyable for sure, but not really worth much deep focus. Most prince is enjoyable though, even the creepier songs, so perhaps that's not that notable.

*crappier

'He never got "We Can Funk" right.'

We can fuck from 84 is the best one, on the remaster of PR

I own it. Still too sludgy, as is the one on SOTT.

Weird. The sludginess is what makes the groove so deep and intense.

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