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PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED Prince's original recording of "Nothing Compares 2 U"

Apr 19, 2018 15:17

For those who don't know the story, Prince wrote the song "Nothing Compares 2 U" and gave the song to a band he had assembled called The Family. The song was not released as a single by them, so the song was barely heard of by the general public. It wasn't until 1990, when Sinead O'Connor released a cover, that the song became huge. Until today, ( Read more... )

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joe_pwnz_pete April 19 2018, 22:25:19 UTC

so i saw something the other day that listed this as one of the songs white people should not cover... i'm now unsure if they were referring to the sinead o'connor version or not since no one has heard the prince version til now?

loglady April 19 2018, 22:33:47 UTC

He performed it live a few times, I know that much. I remember after he died, seeing a tweet with video footage of him performing it but Idk when/where.

joe_pwnz_pete April 19 2018, 22:59:27 UTC

Now that I'm thinking of it, I have a weird distant memory of them playing his version on one of the local radio stations when he died. Who was phone tbh

loglady April 19 2018, 23:22:53 UTC

Yeah I also remember hearing a duet version he performed live a while back.

lloyd_llewellyn April 19 2018, 23:07:12 UTC

sinead's version is absolute perfection from start to finish and infinitely better than the original. i'm sure even prince would agree.

joe_pwnz_pete April 19 2018, 23:12:51 UTC

yeah i'm still confused by it being mentioned in that context tbh lmao

lloyd_llewellyn April 19 2018, 23:15:27 UTC

lack of good taste.

stormer1_1 April 20 2018, 01:42:59 UTC

lol he didn't for a very long time because Prince, but I think eventually he came around

joe_pwnz_pete April 19 2018, 23:17:24 UTC

sorry to reply to my own comment but i just found this ?

Sinead O'Connor: "I did meet him a couple of times. We didn't get on at all. In fact, we had a punch-up." She continued: "He summoned me to his house after 'Nothing Compares 2 U.' I made it without him. I'd never met him. He summoned me to his house-and it's foolish to do this to an Irish woman-he said he didn't like me saying bad words in interviews. So I told him to fuck off." O'Connor said: "He got quite violent. I had to escape out of his house at five in the morning. He packed a bigger punch than mine.

i have never heard this story wtf

loglady April 19 2018, 23:33:50 UTC

Whoa I never heard this either 'til now. Some months back I found out about what Charlene Friend had said about him, though - sorry for linking to Daily Fail but this was the article I'd found: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-181815/Prince-Messiah.html

joe_pwnz_pete April 20 2018, 01:56:29 UTC

Why were men from the 80's so fucking crazy is all I really wanna know

loglady April 20 2018, 02:21:55 UTC

MTE, bb!

stormer1_1 April 20 2018, 01:44:16 UTC

smh why'd he have to be such a mess sometimes, honestly

joe_pwnz_pete April 20 2018, 01:51:18 UTC

hate the sin, love the sinner('s art) i guess? it's another michael jackson type of dilemma.

stormer1_1 April 20 2018, 15:02:45 UTC

I suppose, though I do feel like the two situations are messy in entirely different ways. Then again, duh, they're two different people. idk

deja_vu822 April 20 2018, 00:39:57 UTC

Prince has a live version that was released on his Hits/B-Sides album in 1993. This version is probably the demo he recorded and wasn't ever meant to be public.

oh nvm maybe the family did release it, just not as a single? idk

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