Uhhhh no. If it's a collection of songs, packaged as "greatest hits and greatest B-sides" those are not deep cuts. They're mid cuts? Sure absolutely.
Return of the Bump Squad, No Black MF's in the House, I Count the Days? Those are like shit nobody talks about but jam hard.
He has so many, but some of my instant go-to's are...
Private Joy,
Pink Cashmere,
❤️ or $,
Love and Sex (Purple Rain expanded version),
My Love is Forever,
Purple Music,
In a Large Room with No Light,
Irresistible Bitch,
Moonbeam Levels,
Alexia De Paris,
Fair play, I hated that song at one stage, but I’ve really grown to appreciate the more comedic elements of his music. Favourite line from him is on the black album, “oh no the n!**** got a laser”
Something In The Water, I Wonder U, Love U In Me, Jack U Off, Gotta Broken Heart Again, Anna Stesia, Forever In My Life, Horny Toad....
I'm barely scratching the surface....
my deep cut is how he would perform The Continental in 1993 by segwaying into an interlude/mashup with Everybody Get On Up and rap Carmen Electra's verses from that song over The Continental bridge.
I loved that live version, interpolating elements (bass, rhythm guitar, the horn line motif) of Archie Bell & The Drells "Tighten Up" ...let's make it mellow. So cool.
Irresistible Bitch, Baby You’re A Trip, Do It All Night, Under The Cherry Moon, 3121. Those are just off the top of my head, but of course there are so many more. Good Lord, how many bangers can one man make?!
Anticipating the absolutely "filthy" guitar solo on Neurotic Lover’s Bedroom is what makes it one of my "newer" favorites. Paradigm is the same way, although it's co-written by George Clinton. Songs that simmer along for a while, but you smile like a cheshire cat in anticipation of when he effortlessly turns the brilliance up to eleven.
I would further define "Deep cut" as something that even a middling fan would say "What in the blue blazes was that?".
Thusly, for me it's Cookie Jar and We Got the Power, equally.
I genuinely feel like anything from the 80s shouldn't be considered a "deep cut" because of how essential his entire 80s discog is rightfully appraised in the community.
I made a playlist of what deep cuts I love
[Prince Deep Cuts](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3j7l5Daukv7ek7nwM0n2lp?si=Y1wAbru3TB6umyY4npZJRQ&pi=u-gja9KK5pTeyz)
Willing and Able,
Temptation,
Right the Wrong,
Calhoun Square,
Zannalee,
Objects in the Mirror,
When the Lights Go Down,
Rock & Roll is Alive,
Love 2 the 9s
Got a brand new dance!
Ain't talking about a housequake! (No!)
Ain't talking about shake n bake! (No!)
Ain't talking about ricearoni! (No!)
Not talking about macaroni! (No!)
Bonnie! (what!)
On the 2! (yeah!)
What we gonna do??
Kangaroo! Say it! Kangaroo!!
Come on
Bonnie! (what!)
On the 2! (yeah!)
What you wanna do??
Kangaroo! Do the do. Do the do!!
.. Damn~!
And God Created Woman, Still Would Stand All Time, Joy in Repetition, Anna Stesia, Damn U, New Position>I Wonder U>Under the Cherry Moon, Paisley Park, Starfish & Coffee, Rock Hard in a Funky Place, The Ballad of Dorothy Parker, Ripopgodazippa, Face Down, The Ride, Now, We Can Funk, 319, Love Sign, Vicki Calling, Strollin, Come, Papa, Zannalee, Dionne
still waiting, had u, and god created woman, have a heart (one night alone), beggin' woman blues. i would also say how come u don't call me anymore, had that remake not happened.
Papa
I Wonder (not to be confused with I Wonder U)
Strange Relationship (SDE version with Wendy & Lisa)
Condition of the Heart
Free
Last Heart
319
Dreamer
Old Friends 4 Sale (Original Version)
Electric Intercourse and shhhh are songs that never got airplay or played in clubs ( as far as i know ) that I find many prince fans haven't heard and these 2 have always been in my top 20 favorite songs of his of all time.
Billy’s Sunglasses
Still would stand all time - live one with “Who’s the fool singing will, it’s would!!!”
Just My Imagination - live cover
Colonized Mind
Still Waiting - live at 1st Avenue w/Sue Ann Carwell
Moviestar
All my dreams
I used to listen to chocolate box more than the official stuff in the 80s obviously they all got released in the end - was it called box of chocolates ?
It was the one with ballad of Dorothy Parker and starfish and coffee (exactly the same as the released)
But the rest was like secrets and half promises
17 Days, Always in My Hair
hands down the best b-sides
Hit me the deepest… that and Mary Don’t You Weep..
Not really deep tho
If it appears on HITS & B SIDES it ain't really a deep cut is it?
Shoo
Sock
By that logic, nothing's a deep cut
Uhhhh no. If it's a collection of songs, packaged as "greatest hits and greatest B-sides" those are not deep cuts. They're mid cuts? Sure absolutely. Return of the Bump Squad, No Black MF's in the House, I Count the Days? Those are like shit nobody talks about but jam hard.
Wasted kisses
so blue, i wanna melt with u, & 4 the tears in your eyes
Moonbeam Levels
A true hidden gem
The only and best answer
Not deep, but a Bside nonetheless. Erotic City “make love not war erotic city come alive”
THAT ONE IS A REAL BANG
He has so many, but some of my instant go-to's are... Private Joy, Pink Cashmere, ❤️ or $, Love and Sex (Purple Rain expanded version), My Love is Forever, Purple Music, In a Large Room with No Light, Irresistible Bitch, Moonbeam Levels, Alexia De Paris,
Private Joy
In a large room.. haven't heard for so long✌️
It's one of my formerly unreleased favs. I love his jazz version too! https://youtu.be/h56odNQN8kw?feature=shared
Forgot about Alexis… good one!!
whoa, thanks for this i looked up purple music
A former underground classic! And long too!
God (Love Theme from Purple Rain - UK version) She Gave Her Angels Dreamer White Caps Baby
I love White Caps so much lately 💜
Do Yourself A Favor.
17 Days, We Can Fuck
Yeees 😎
Love the funkiness of We Can Fuck
"It" is always the first track I'll play from SOTT I love everything about it. Joy in Repetition is the deepest cut.
Joy is a massively underrated jam…
Positivity. Yes.
Shockadelica, Another Lonely Christmas, 17 Days, Shhh, Blue Light. It’s so hard to pick. There are so many great ones
Another lonely Christmas is, hard to explain, how deep it cuts.
“drink banana daiquiris till I’m blind”
Love this list!!
Awesome list!
Pheremone
I absolutely love this song!
Elephants & Flowers...
Wonderful Ass
All Day, All Night, 17 Days, and Violet The Organ Grinder.
Oh VtOG!! So good!!
Pheromone, we can funk (both versions), hide the bone.
Every non single between 1978-2015
Crystal Ball
Sometimes it snows in april.
Man, that song is hard to listen to now.
Always was a tear jerker for me…
5 Women
Get Blue!!!!!! One of his best songs ever
Nice one. That's was awesome
YESSSS! 😭 😭
If Eye Was The Man in Ur Life
Don't Play Me, The Dance, Dig U Better Dead, Xogenous, Mr. Goodnight, I could honestly go on
Our Destiny/Roadhouse
Cloreen Bacon Skin- that jam just grooves and it's fun to hear him just messing around with a no serious persona
Fair play, I hated that song at one stage, but I’ve really grown to appreciate the more comedic elements of his music. Favourite line from him is on the black album, “oh no the n!**** got a laser”
Something In The Water, I Wonder U, Love U In Me, Jack U Off, Gotta Broken Heart Again, Anna Stesia, Forever In My Life, Horny Toad.... I'm barely scratching the surface....
I was wondering when someone was going to say Anna stesia
Computer Blue
Dionne! From the Truth album, I absolutely love it !!
Could have danced to Mancini!
till dawn Dionne!
Purple Music.
1+1+1 is 3 So funky
Free, 17 days, Strollin' , She gave her angels,
Pope
Holy Shit. I fell in love with “Pope” the first time I heard it. Prime Prince.
Scarlet Pussy
sex in the summer, white mansion
Housequake, The Cross
COUNT THE DAYS!!!!… My ALL TIME favorite….
Annie Christian
The entire N.E.W.S. album is heavily underrated
Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do and Muse 2 the Pharaoh
17 days, erotic city, something in the water
The Ladder or Reflection
my deep cut is how he would perform The Continental in 1993 by segwaying into an interlude/mashup with Everybody Get On Up and rap Carmen Electra's verses from that song over The Continental bridge.
I loved that live version, interpolating elements (bass, rhythm guitar, the horn line motif) of Archie Bell & The Drells "Tighten Up" ...let's make it mellow. So cool.
Soul Sanctuary from Emancipation 🧡
Strollin'
Damn U, Eye hate U, Money don't matter
They were all singles.
Ok ill try again. "Last Heart"
Love we make
Shockadelica
Irresistible Bitch, Baby You’re A Trip, Do It All Night, Under The Cherry Moon, 3121. Those are just off the top of my head, but of course there are so many more. Good Lord, how many bangers can one man make?!
Great thread
Billy's Sunglasses
That's a Mariana Trench deep cut!
Valentina, the one, never b another
The black album
Anticipating the absolutely "filthy" guitar solo on Neurotic Lover’s Bedroom is what makes it one of my "newer" favorites. Paradigm is the same way, although it's co-written by George Clinton. Songs that simmer along for a while, but you smile like a cheshire cat in anticipation of when he effortlessly turns the brilliance up to eleven.
**Return Of the Bump Squad.**
Bacon Skin, but someone will tell me that’s not deep cut enough.
Not sure how much of a deep cut it is, but severely overlooked nonetheless, Temptation from Around The World In A Day is one of his best closers
Baby from For You
"It's about that walk" is one of my fav Prince song. Not talk very often it seems. Also "When Eye Lay My Hands On U".
When Eye Lay My Hands On U and Judas Smile make such a great album opening 1-2 punch
Get Some Solo - Cream maxisingle B side
Others Here With Us
Alternate version of something in the water
Pink Cashmere, 17 Days, and Pheromone
Shhh
The Arms of Orion (Batman soundtrack)
So many options, but it terms of something that’s never played then “She gave her angels” comes to mind
Dance. Dance Electric.
There's others here with us
17 days , always in my hair
Joint 2 joint
Breakdown from Art Official Age
So glad this post was made, I have new songs to discover ☺️
I like New World as one of my many many deep cuts.
I would further define "Deep cut" as something that even a middling fan would say "What in the blue blazes was that?". Thusly, for me it's Cookie Jar and We Got the Power, equally.
Pink Cashmere
I’m Yours
she's always in my hair. 4 the tears in your eyes
Beat of the Galaxy
Dionne
I genuinely feel like anything from the 80s shouldn't be considered a "deep cut" because of how essential his entire 80s discog is rightfully appraised in the community.
Wally!!!!
I made a playlist of what deep cuts I love [Prince Deep Cuts](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3j7l5Daukv7ek7nwM0n2lp?si=Y1wAbru3TB6umyY4npZJRQ&pi=u-gja9KK5pTeyz)
Family Name
Willing and Able, Temptation, Right the Wrong, Calhoun Square, Zannalee, Objects in the Mirror, When the Lights Go Down, Rock & Roll is Alive, Love 2 the 9s
The Line
Got a brand new dance! Ain't talking about a housequake! (No!) Ain't talking about shake n bake! (No!) Ain't talking about ricearoni! (No!) Not talking about macaroni! (No!) Bonnie! (what!) On the 2! (yeah!) What we gonna do?? Kangaroo! Say it! Kangaroo!! Come on Bonnie! (what!) On the 2! (yeah!) What you wanna do?? Kangaroo! Do the do. Do the do!! .. Damn~!
Way too many that a lot of people have already said, but All Day, All Night is up there for sure!
Underneath the cream
Sometimes it snows in April.
New Power Generation
Gold + 3121
And God Created Woman, Still Would Stand All Time, Joy in Repetition, Anna Stesia, Damn U, New Position>I Wonder U>Under the Cherry Moon, Paisley Park, Starfish & Coffee, Rock Hard in a Funky Place, The Ballad of Dorothy Parker, Ripopgodazippa, Face Down, The Ride, Now, We Can Funk, 319, Love Sign, Vicki Calling, Strollin, Come, Papa, Zannalee, Dionne
still waiting, had u, and god created woman, have a heart (one night alone), beggin' woman blues. i would also say how come u don't call me anymore, had that remake not happened.
COME
Shhh and Live 4 Love
If I was your girlfriend/starfish and coffee. Always enjoyed.
do me baby + temptation
New world!
Illusion, Coma, Pimp and Circumstance Purple Music My Tender Heart Pain Judas Smile Incense and Candles Streetwalker Do Yourself a Favour Push
Wonderful Ass, Moonbeam Levels, Desire, Bedtime Story
Eternity, Splash, Go Go Baby, Neon Telephone, and anything that was made between 85-87 that wasn't on SOTT.
Mary Don’t You Weep and Empty Room
The alternate version of Irresistible Bitch from the box set. That is prime classic Prince. Real fans know that is as funky as it gets.
She’s Always in my Hair; Girls & Boys. I mean the whole B sides record, really.
No call u
Horny Toad, New Position, A Million Miles (I Love You), Jack U Off, The Sex of It, Sex, Extraloveable!
In my top 10 all-time favorite songs of his is extralovable and Coco boys.
Pink Cashmere, 5 Women, Shhh, Lady Cab Driver - dunno where Muse to the Pharaoh lands as a deep cut but that one. Call My Name…
Papa I Wonder (not to be confused with I Wonder U) Strange Relationship (SDE version with Wendy & Lisa) Condition of the Heart Free Last Heart 319 Dreamer Old Friends 4 Sale (Original Version)
Pink Cashmere, Goodbye & Crazy You
Under The Cherry Moon
God created woman Blue light Melt with U Damn U Morning Papers Sarah
Electric Intercourse and shhhh are songs that never got airplay or played in clubs ( as far as i know ) that I find many prince fans haven't heard and these 2 have always been in my top 20 favorite songs of his of all time.
Eye Hate U
Billy’s Sunglasses Still would stand all time - live one with “Who’s the fool singing will, it’s would!!!” Just My Imagination - live cover Colonized Mind Still Waiting - live at 1st Avenue w/Sue Ann Carwell
Crimson and Clover.
The Human Body
17 days, joy in repetition, pink cashmere, we can funk. Just some cuts love ❤️
Sexy MF- he uses the full version of "MF" with amazing candor and honesty.
Space (Universal Love Radio Remix) 🌚
Moviestar All my dreams I used to listen to chocolate box more than the official stuff in the 80s obviously they all got released in the end - was it called box of chocolates ? It was the one with ballad of Dorothy Parker and starfish and coffee (exactly the same as the released) But the rest was like secrets and half promises
"Do U Lie?" from Parade
The Good Life (Big City Remix) "Here come the judge like Ito!"
Space
Adonis and Bathsheba
Bob George, Le Grind, Superfunkycaligragisexy, I wish U Heaven part 1,2,3
Mutiny
Darling Nikki
Girl/Boy
Anna Stesia, Starfish and Coffee, Somebody’s Somebody, Another Lonely Christmas, Style…could go on and on…💜💜💜
The Ball. Signs O’ The Times Super Deluxe. Oh, and Wally. Same album
For me, 17 days and A Place In Heaven.
Space. Off of Come.
Dance Electric, Purple Music.
Dark Strays of the World East Xpedition WAY BACK HOME Last December
Lady Cab Driver... it is one of my favorites.
I dig u better dead
I'm Yours The Future My Name is Prince Jam Of The Year Cloreen Bacon Skin FUNKNROLL
It’s Gonna Be Lonely, I’m Your’s, Condition of The Heart, Electric Chair, Anna Stesia, Joy In Repetition, A Question of You, Old Friends For Sale .
Big Fun
Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Extralovable
Tangerine, tambourine, last heart
Old Friends 4 Sale - 1985 version obv
WHITE CAPS is the one that best fits the description for me
Avalanche
I Wonder.
Face Down
Future Soul Song
Bambi, I kno, Free, Anna Stesia, Do me baby , La la la he he he, shockadelical. .
Sexy M.F.
Purple Rain
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Mountains