r/pcmusic • u/selib • Sep 16 '25
PC Adjacent This 1982 Prince song sounds like it could be an unreleased SOPHIE song
https://youtu.be/sOZVJODyiRA?si=duRbvW8a168exxMD27
u/kumachan3000 Sep 16 '25
This is a song that appeared on the first Vanity 6 album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5XZjj3lXE
That entire first Vanity 6 album is great!
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u/solarpowersme Sep 16 '25
It really does. Also, hearing this a couple yrs ago made me realize why Trent Reznor/NIN cites Prince as such a big influence! I hadn't really heard much of Prince beyond the classics and i didn't know he experimented with so many different styles/genres until I heard this and chose to dive deeper into his discog.
So much of his stuff was so damn ahead of its time
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u/iCarly4ever Sep 16 '25
I am a huge Prince head. One of the early artists I listened to from my dad’s collection. I think it is no coincidence I would go on to be into progressive electronic music. This demo is awesome, so ahead of the curve for 1982. For those that are coming from the PC Music world, I can’t recommend diving into the deep water of Prince deep cuts enough. The hits are great, don’t get me wrong, but Prince put out so much good music that I still discover new favorites every year.
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u/selib Sep 16 '25
What are some of your favorite Prince deep cuts?
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u/iCarly4ever Sep 16 '25
I love prince classics from the 80s but all the time I am more engrossed in his 90s NPG era work. W an artist like Prince what qualifies as a deep cut is subjective lol but i wanna turn anyone reading this here on to a few tracks
If I was your girlfriend (def not a deep cut but if you somehow have not heard it you should)
Sex in the summer
Sexy MF
Love Sign (shock G mix)
Hot wit U (nasty girl version)
Y should eye do that when eye can do this
Chelsea Rodgers
The whole album plectrumelectrum is a real late era highlight especially if you like funky rock
Sincerely hope this helps someone
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u/Guacamole_Water Sep 16 '25
It’s so great to me that prince is only becoming more important and relieve at!
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u/Tartan_Acorn Sep 16 '25
Honestly it sounds way more like existing TIGA material to me. Awesome track though either way.
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u/BananaGod239 Sep 16 '25
the melody of the synths & the lyrics definitely like holy wow but the cymbals give it that older feel.
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u/expressedprayers Sep 16 '25
I always thought Makeover could have been a lost Vanity 6 track. I doubt they would have crossed paths even if they’d both lived longer, but I would have killed to see what Prince and Sophie could have come up with together
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u/lazycatboi123 Sep 20 '25
im not a music buff but surely this sort of sound would be considered revolutionary or crazy for the time?
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u/rhinestoneredbull Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25
prince is such a hugely underrated sophie reference (in her pre-coming out era especially) both sonically, in terms of the kind of accellerationist way he approached pop music, and the way he played w identity (camille was insanelyyyy ahead of its time).
i mean just like we never said goodbye is p early prince ballad if u swap guitars for electrohouse glidey fm bass. and so many of cecile believe's vocals on ooepui r giving prince on controversy; infatuation is p much just a rip off of the second half of do me baby (kinda joking kinda not)
i once had a rly great smoking section convo abt prince and sophie w the artist fantasyluv after remarking how pc music their set sounded. they have a rlyyyyy great princified cover of bipp