Erotic City

This song is a nasty banger in every conceivable way, and it's one of my all time favorite songs by Prince. The cut is Erotic City, a sexual concoction that was cooked up by his purple badness back when he was really feeling himself creatively and sexually. A song inspired by Parliament Funkadelic, Erotic City was the B side of the single Let's Go Crazy back in 1984, and it quickly overshadowed Crazy.

The groove is completely infectious, the bass line and melody play around with each other as the drums drive the tempo. Then Prince comes in with his verse, but it's not the verse that's eye and ear opening, it's that juicy chorus of If we cannot make babies / Maybe we can make some time / Fuck so pretty you and me / Erotic city come alive / We can fuck until the dawn / Making love til cherries gone / Erotic city can't you see / Fuck so pretty you and me. He set the world on fire with that. Just when people thought he had the world in the palm of his hand with Purple Rain the movie and soundtrack, they then realized there was no stopping him once they heard this track.

Everybody has their favorite Prince song, and I do mean EVERYBODY. My all time favorite is Adore from his Sign O' The Times album, but for pure funk and shock value, it's damn hard not to count Erotic City as a favorite as well.