12"s Of FUNk!

12" OF FUNk
MiXED BY:  aLLYAL


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TRACKLIST

Lets Work (Dance Remix)

Raspberry Beret (Extended 12" Version)

Erotic City (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive)

Hello (Extended Version)

Irresistible Bitch

Little Red Corvette (Dance Mix)

♥ or $ (Extended Version)

She's Always In My Hair (12" Version)

Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix)

17 Days

Sex

La La La He He Hee (Extended Version)

*All Official 12" Extended Remix Versions Are Produced, Arranged, Composed, Performed, And Remixed By: PRiNCE

OUi CAN LUV vs. WE CAN fUNk

We Can Funk is the seventh track on Prince's 12th album Graffiti Bridge, and is credited as a duet between George Clinton and Prince. The track is also featured in the movie Graffiti Bridge.

In 2011, a short 1 minute teaser video clip (audio only with a static image) of an acoustic demo of the track recorded by Andy Allo (as Oui Can Luv, with a revised chorus to match) was streamed on her Facebook page, with the tagline "CHECK OUT WHAT EYE FOUND IN PRINCE'S VAULT (Demo recorded in Sacramento on 8/31/11 using ProTools 9 & a Sterling Audio ST69 Mic)".

Initial tracking for Prince's original solo version took place on 31 December, 1983 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA, as We Can Fuck (the day after Erotic City and She's Always In My Hair), with additional work the following day, 1 January, 1984.

Prince later toned down the title and lyrics of the song, and re-recorded the track on 17 June, 1986 at the Washington Avenue Warehouse, Chanhassen, MN, USA (in sequence after Data Bank and Can't Stop This Feeling I Got, the day before recording Girl O' My Dreams).

The 1983 recording was returned to and updated in 1989 at Paisley Park Studios and this updated version, without George Clinton on vocals, was included as the sixth track on a 1989 configuration of Graffiti Bridge. George Clinton added vocal overdubs in late 1989-1990, also at Paisley Park Studios, and the final version was included as the seventh track on a 1990 configuration of Graffiti Bridge, where it remained for release.

The track's lyrics mention the Kama Sutra , considered to be the most important work in a long line of Indian erotic literature, written by the Hindu philosopher Vātsyāyana.  

Prince recorded a new age instrumental album using the word, Kama Sutra as the album title and also as a gift to his then wife, Mayte. It is the first and only album by The NPG Orchestra - Kamasutra.


Unreleased Versions


TITLE            VERSION  ADDITIONAL INFO
We Can Fuck - Studio         1983 preliminary verison
We Can Funk - Studio          Initial raw take
We Can Funk - Studio          Overdubs added
We Can Funk - Studio          'Finished' 1986 version
We Can Funk - Studio         1989-1990 update of 1983 version with no George Clinton input
We Can Funk - Studio         Longer 1989-1990 version with slight George Clinton input
We Can Funk - Studio         1989-1990 version with significant George Clinton vocal input
We Can Funk - Studio         Longer version edited for album, with some musical variations
Oui Can Luv   - Demo          Full 2011 demo by Andy Allo

1986 version recorded with The Revolution 
(Susannah, Wendy & Lisa) 

1990 Album version from the 
soundtrack album and motion picture Graffiti Bridge

Oui Can Luv


I could tell U stories till U get tired

I could play with your mind

But U'd prob'ly say that I was a liar

So I won't waste your time

I'm scared cuz though we just met

There's this energy between us

Let's just go somewhere

Oui Can Luv (We Can Funk)

I could tell U things 2 get U excited

Things U never heard

U know the Kama Sutra?

I could rewrite it with half as many words

But I'm scared cuz if I don't kiss ya

I'm gonna go mad, baby

Take off my clothes

We Can Funk (Oui Can Luv)

WITH tHiS tEAR

 

Without taking anything away from Celine Dion and her amazing vocal delivery.  This is the only song from her back catalog that I'd listen to more than once. That being said, of course it's a song given to her as a gift and composed by the lil' BIG man himself...PRiNCE.

With This Tear

With this tear

I thee want

I long 4 u 2 talk 2 me like u did

That night in the restaurant

spoke of love so openly

And again and again u promised me

That you''d never leave

But now you're gone

With this voice

I thee call

Sometimes I catch myself

Calling your name

When you're not there at all

Please tell me what I did wrong

Why must I hear your voice inside my head

All day and all night long

It's not fair

With these arms

I held you

When you told me you were dying

I had less courage it's true

And you wrote every day

Writing 'bout the things

That we could do

When your pain went away

But all that went away was you

With this tear

I thee want

I long for you 2 talk to me like u did

That night in the restaurant

With this tear

I thee want

I thee want

I thee want

I thee want

With this tear

I thee want

I long for you to talk to me like you did

That night in the restaurant spoke of love so openly

And again and again you promised me

That you'd never leave

But now you're gone.

Composed By: PRiNCE

DEAD ON IT!

Dead On It

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Riding in my Thunderbird on the freeway

I turned on my radio to hear some music play

I got a silly rapper talking silly shit instead

And the ONLY good rapper is one that's dead on it

Uh, Dead on it?!!

Shall we go back?

Let's go

Negros from Brooklyn play the bass pretty good

But the ones from Minneapolis play it like it oughta should

A magnum fro is better when u got a poof on it

And the 2 and fro is funky when the chickengrease is dead on it

Funky dead on it!

dead (on it) on it

Shall we go back? 
Let's go

They dead on it, wow!

See the rapper's problem usually stem from being tone deaf

Pack the house then try to sing

there won't be no one left (ha ha!) (on it)

Parking lot's on fire, brothers peelin' out of town

They say in disgust, they singin' their guts

Rappin' done let us down

You got to be dead...on it!

Dead on it!

(They dead!)

My bed's a coffin

Dracula ain't got shit on me

My nickname's Hell's-a-Poppin'

I'm badder than the Wicked Witch

I got a gold tooth costs more than your house

I got a diamond ring on four fingers each one the size of a mouse

They dead.
 just dead.


But I'm dead on it, on it!

Dead On It.

WHEN EYE LAY MY EYES ON U

The message you're about to hear is not meant for transmission
Should only be accessed in the privacy of your mind
Words are intense so my dear if you dare to listen
Take off your clothes
And Meet me between the lines


Are you ready for the touch that makes you go insane
Breast to lips to cheek to mane
I'll pull your hair, you'll feel no pain
Are you ready for the only forever we'll both obtain
The only joy in this forsaken game
You'll feel ashamed and ordained
When I lay my hands on you


The touch you're about to feel is the one you've been wishin' for
It's been here like an echo inside your space and time
It's about to get freaky cause the places that I'll be kissin'
Are the places that no other man could ever find
Oh wind up ready for...


The touch that makes you go insane
Breast to lips to cheek to mane
I'll pull your hair, you'll feel no pain
Are you ready for the only forever we'll both obtain
The only joy in this forsaken game (God forbid)
You'll feel ashamed and ordained (God forbid)
When I lay my hands on you


Nobody knows
Like God knows
Where the deepest part of your river flows
Snap Snap
Undo these nylon hose
Around your thigh my finger goes slowly
Like a cat tip-toes
Until I reach the cat's nose
I will touch thee in the softest manner
Like Europa in the hands of Santana


Are you ready for the touch that makes you go insane
Breast to lips to cheek to mane
I'll pull your hair, you'll feel no pain
Are you ready for the only forever we'll both obtain
The only joy in this forsaken game
You'll feel ashamed and ordained
When I lay my hands on you
When I lay my hands on you