Ryco's three favourite songs of the week 2!

You know it was coming, so here it is! More musical ramblings, just whatyou always wanted. It was either this, or Transformers. ^.^

I Feel for You by Prince
From the album Prince

Now, it was only a matter of time before I mentioned something involving Prince as let's face it, he wrote a hell of a lot of songs (Rumoured to be over 1000), a large chunk of which were either awesome, bizarre, or hits when performed by other people, I feel for you is one of the latter. Prince was known for performing and recording songs he'd written for others first and having them duplicate his performance in the studio so there are some rather interesting bootlegs out there, like his version of Martika's Kitchen and Manic Monday.

Most people know the Chaka Khan (I almost typoed that at Chakat Kahn, which is nightmare fuel, really) version with the rapping bit at the beginning by Melle Mel (who is best known for performing White Lines which is often miscredited to Grandmaster Flash despite Flash having nothing to do with the record) and there was also a version by the Pointer Sisters which was never released as a single... Still, I must say that this is my favorite version... His vocals just do it for me far more than Ms. Khan's or the Pointer Sisters, which isn't to say they're bad, he's just far more funky. Admittedly, the song is basically about people who confuse lust with love, but at least he's honest, he doesn't pretend that it's anything other that a physical thing.

Prince and Prince's people are notoriously obsessive with keeping all his work off the internet, so I have no doubt that most of before long the links here will be dead, so enjoy them while you can.

We All Stand Together by Paul McCartney
From the album Give My Regards to Broad Street

Paul McCartney has done some questionable things in his time, Heather Mills, Wings, most of the songs on McCartney II (I'm sure this album is the soundtrack to one of the many levels of hell, Bogey Music... No, just no!) and to some, this song is up there with them... Still, I don't care what people think, I love it, I think it's a decent, if slightly cheesy pop song with a rather charming video... Well, for the most part, I have a random hatred of Rupert the Bear (I'm not a fan of morphic bear characters, but I really hate Rupert.... stupid sickly sweet albino, ugh), and the cats and the owl are creepy as heck, they look like they probably devoured most of the cast after the end of the video.

For some reason, the Headmaster of my highschool decided that this should be played at random assemblies as our school's anthem... He was a stramge, strange man, but charming, so the song fits to him, really.

How will you go? by Crowded House
From the album Woodface

(Not the original version, but it's still pretty good.)

Escape is on your mind again
Escape to a faraway land...

Sometimes I wish I could run away and keep running until I get to where I need to be... This is a good song for those times.

-Ryco

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