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Hopefully you heard Part 1 of the “Purple Rain” Prince podcast. If you have, you know what a Prince mark I was for a good 5 years. In honor of that I’ve compiled his Top 50 Prince favorite Prince songs (until I stopped caring). Here’s #26-50 for you to dive in, pick apart and enjoy.
From 1986’s “Raising Hell” the lead-off track “Peter Piper” was rap at it’s finest. Produced by the legendary Rick Rubin, this song has it all for fans of Run DMC.
Motown and Stax don’t have a monopoly on great soul songs. Here’s a bakers dozen of our favorite non-Motown-Stax soul songs!
Shedding his child prodigy label with The Box Tops, Alex Chilton has had a long-lasting impact with Big Star although it was years after the band went their separate ways. “Stroke It Noel” is a short and sweet lost nugget.
What do you get when a top pop producer gets his mitts on a top Goth band at their peak? An eleven-minute masterpiece that should’ve been a bigger deal than it was. The Sisters of Mercy really hit a homer with “This Corrosion”.
The Killers are often given short shrift by music fans, but Bling (Confessions of a King) shows they’ve got the goods.
Before Prince. Before R. Kelly. There was the great Marvin Gaye and his live performances gave women all over the world the butterflies (and maybe more). “Distant Lover” was a good song on the “Let’s Get It On” Album, but it took on a better life in concert. Here’s the proof.
If you want to know the best epic Britpop song for my money, “The Asphalt World” by The London Suede is it!
Because you’ll get to hear Randy W. Hall’s Top 10 favorite Motown songs in Part 2 of our Great Soul Debate: Motown vs. Stax, here’s the runners-up…
Randy W. Hall’s 15 favorite songs by the band in their entire catalog.
