Favorite Prince cover

[RedSimba]

It's time for another random poll. 

My favorite has to be Chaka Khan's version of "I Feel For You." An amazing, addicting reinvention of the original song, and of course having Stevie on harmonica was a great touch.

[DarkStormSC]

A part of me wanted to pick "Nothing Compares 2 U," but I settled on "I Feel For You" because I can listen to that song no matter what mood I'm in.

[vibeology]

I didnt realise I Feel For You was a Prince song

Anyway, i chose The Beautiful Ones.

[janetDAYZ]

TLC - If I Was Your Girlfriend murderssssss!!

[Utopia]

Not my fav but i really like Mariah's version of The Beautiful Ones. Most people bash that cover but i kinda love it.

[jarrylf]

Chaka's Feel For You is the best kind of cover there could be, it's sooo fucking eclecticly perfect/ It makes the original sound bland to me and the original isn't bland lol. The irony is I feel the same way about Whit's cover of I'm Every Woman.

Yea MC & Sis's version of The Beautiful Ones 'm not much of a fan of unless I'm under the influence of something. It's both not enough & too much. Prince's version is PERFECTION in my eyes.

I don't entirely count Nothin Compares To You as a cover because he created that song for Sinead and covered it himself years later. he did the same thing with Manic Monday for The Bangles (and other songs for other artists.

Edited March 9, 2016 by jarrylf

[The Sacred Prostitute]

When You Were Mine-Cyndi Lauper (The lyrics are just incredible and Cyndi made it her own) 

[RedSimba]

Chaka's Feel For You is the best kind of cover there could be, it's sooo fucking eclecticly perfect/ It makes the original sound bland to me and the original isn't bland lol. The irony is I feel the same way about Whit's cover of I'm Every Woman.

Yea MC & Sis's version of The Beautiful Ones 'm not much of a fan of unless I'm under the influence of something. It's both not enough & too much. Prince's version is PERFECTION in my eyes.

I don't entirely count Nothin Compares To You as a cover because he created that song for Sinead and covered it himself years later. he did the same thing with Manic Monday for The Bangles (and other songs for other artists.

Agreed. I prefer Whit's version of IEW as well. 

Yeah, I was debating whether or not to include NC2U. Since it was originally performed by his project The Family, I thought "close enough" lol. If anything, it's a Prince-project cover.

[LawdToday]

All of Bey's covers slay

[TwistedElegance™]

The Beautiful Ones is stunning. I'm not afraid to say I prefer it to the original.

If I Was Your Girlfriend is a close second.

[jarrylf]

I left out of my post that along with Chaka's & Sinead's being better than Prince's versions, Meli'sa Morgan's Do Me Baby........there's something so special about that song that I really don't know if she did it as good as him or better, it depends on my mood honestly, but what she did was so fucking perfect with them vocals.

[TwistedElegance™]

Ginuwine and Timbaland made a mess of When Doves Cry. 

[Kishi]

I really like Jordan Knight's I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man.

I love TLC, Melisa Morgan, and Sinead's covers.

Special mention goes out to Fantasia and Leeann Rimes' covers of Purple Rain. I saw Fantasia do it live a few years ago and cried.

[Bailey]

The Beautiful Ones is stunning. I'm not afraid to say I prefer it to the original.

If I Was Your Girlfriend is a close second.

and YES!!!! thats what I voted for love Mariah's version to all hell