Awesome Prince

We’ve always enjoyed listening to Luna Lee’s interpretations of popular songs played on the gayageum. Her nuanced performance of Prince’s 1984 hit Purple Rain gave us chills like the original, milking the vibrato and adding a modern edge to the ancient Korean string instrument with a heaping helping of distortion.

The cult classic The Room is best known for its stilted dialogue and scenery-chewing performance of actor/writer/director Tommy Wiseau. It turns out that if you chop up some of his choice words and sing them in the style of Prince, it gets much better. Nick Lutsko put this hilarious clip together a while back for Super Deluxe.

Guitarist Kfir Ochaion shows off his talents with a phenomenal cover version of Prince’s 1984 classic Purple Rain. The performance is as engrossing to watch as it is to listen to, thanks to The Endorphinmachine guitar by Jens Ritter. The custom version of his Jupiter guitar is covered with more than 11,000 purple Swarovski crystals that sparkle in the light.

Let’s go crazy… down in this Hell. Bill McClintock imagines a world where Prince and Slayer could perform on the same stage, combining bits of Let’s Go Crazy, Black Magic, Angel of Death, Seasons in the Abyss, and War Ensemble, with a dash of Van Halen’s I’m the One and Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love for added flavor.

How can you leave your brew standing alone in a world that’s so cold? You need a proper ceramic coffee mug, like this one, inspired by the lyrics of the 1984 Prince hit When Doves Cry, and embellished with a painterly image of the late musician. An exclusive from Ten Ton Titmouse.

While Prince had more than his share of his own hits, he also gave many other artists their big breaks, from Shiela E to The Time, to Sinead O’Connor. He also wrote The Bangles’ hit track Manic Monday, and now we can hear his performance of the track thanks to this rare, just released recording. It’s available on the album Originals.

While playing in Prince’s hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Rob Trujillo and Kirk Hammett from Metallica paid tribute with a rough-edged rendition When Doves Cry. The whole thing is pretty cringey, but it’s worth watching for its sheer novelty.

More than three decades ago, Prince & The Revolution recorded Nothing Compares 2 U – a song that would later top of the charts for Sinead O’Connor. Now, the Prince estate has released the original, accompanied by never-before-seen footage of 1984 rehearsal sessions.

Musician Dammien Alexander turns in a cover version of Prince’s When Doves Cry unlike any we’ve heard. First, he lays down all of the rhythms and backing vocals using a Boss V-5 looper, then overlays them with the lead vocals.

You don’t have to be beautiful… to turn me on. But it would help if you made some noises. The music video for Prince’s 1986 hit Kiss just got really, really strange and uncomfortable, with Mario Wienerroither’s musicless interpretation.

In the wake of musician Chris Cornell’s tragic suicide, this 2015 acoustic cover has been making the rounds. You’ll be hard-pressed to hold back tears as Cornell lends his soulful voice to a track written by another great musician we lost far too soon. Rest in peace.

While putting the finishing touches on his album Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… last year, Dwight Yoakam learned the news of Prince’s death. He decided then and there to add another track in tribute to the artist, a twangy, bluegrass version of one of his most beloved tracks.

During NAMM 2017, musician Marco Parisi turned in a nuanced instrumental performance of the Prince classic Purple Rain with the help of the amazing ROLI Seaboard RISE, a keyboard which offers touch and pressure sensitivity along the length of each of its keys.

An amazing gem of a cover of Prince’s classic Purple Rain, performed back in 1992 by Tom Jones and Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. Nothing will ever be as perfect as the original, but this is as close as you can get.

Shiwar Awaz Berai Boo Ray. YouTuber Jim Jarmo put together another one of his pun-filled music videos, this time paying tribute to the late, great artist Prince, and as usual, using nothing more than actual social media profile names to provide the lyrical subtitles.

Jimmy Fallon and Questlove share their bizarre encounter with Prince that rivals Charlie Murphy’s basketball tale. In 2013, Prince summoned Jimmy to play ping pong even though a) they weren’t acquaintances and b) Jimmy’s first child was just born. Game. Blouses.