Darling Nikki
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Foo Fighters: Ultimate Mix...song pack for Rock Band. "Darling Nikki" "Foo Fighters" cover of Prince's "Darling Nikki" certainly isn't a rarity, but it's not that well known outside of Foo Fighters fandom either. The song, about a "sex fiend" who seduces the... In this article: Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, Best of You, Rock Band 2, Darling Nikki, DOA, All My Life, Everlong, The Pretender, and The One |
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Wikipedia | October 29, 2009
Tipper Gore
In 1985, she co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) with Susan Baker, wife of then United States Secretary of the Treasury James Baker, because Tipper heard her then 11-year-old daughter playing "Darling Nikki" by Prince .
In this article: Tipper Gore, Al Gore, NPR, Labor Day Weekend, World War II, and St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School
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Pitchfork | June 05, 2008
Love Is All Cover Prince, Straits, Seagulls on Tour EP Pitchfork
...(Lung Leg cover) 02 I Ran (So Far Away) (A Flock of Seagulls cover) 03 So Far Away (Dire Straits cover) 04 Golly Gosh (Jed Dmochowski cover) 05 Darling Nikki (Prince cover) Posted by Paul Thompson on Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:39am
In this article: Love Is All, Prince, So Far Away, A Flock of Seagulls, New York, and I Ran
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Pitchfork | November 02, 2009
Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits (Foo Fighters)
...tracks. Why not instead include their well-known cover of Prince's "Darling Nikki", their soundtrack hit "The One", or a new recording of a strong B-side like 1996's "How I Miss You" or Grohl's sole Nirvana composition, "Marigold"? At least...
In this article: Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, Suicide, Big Me, All My Life, Monkey Wrench, and Learn to Fly
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National Public Radio | August 07, 2009
Hordes Gather And Sing Along To 'Purple Rain'
...dancing hordes rushed to the front, mimicking Prince's every move. Among the thrust-inspiring numbers were "The Bird" (by The Time) and Prince's own "Darling Nikki." Then, at the end of the night, everyone stood up. The aisles filled.
In this article: Prince, Purple Rain, NPR, Prospect Park, The Bird, The Time, and Purple Rain
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boston.com - Latest music news | August 09, 2009
Second-stage acts and other surprises steal the show in Newport
...Dixieland-style treatments of the 1928 tune "The Boy in the Boat,'' the country song "It Makes No Difference Now,'' and Prince's "Darling Nikki'' made perfect sense lined up one after the other. As the action wound down on the small...
In this article: Hiromi Uehara, Newport, Vijay Iyer, and Roy Haynes
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Darling Nikki
..."Best of You " at Super Bowl XLI. This may have been in retaliation as Prince objected to having "Darling Nikki" covered by the Foo Fighters, and he would not allow them to release it as a single in the US. Tech N9ne's song "Freaky," on his...
In this article: Prince, Foo Fighters, Chairlift, MTV Video Music Awards, Best of You, Have It All, Freaky, Spin magazine, and Jimmy Swaggart
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USATODAY.com | September 27, 2008
Prince shows off a different side for '21 Nights'
...sexier than this. You sense it in the air." Prince feels little connection to such past lightning rods as Do Me, Baby and Darling Nikki, which triggered Tipper Gore's warning-label crusade. "I did the Dirty Mind tour and pushed that...
In this article: Prince, Smokey Robinson, YouTube, London, Sony, Bob Dylan, Planet Earth, Dirty Mind, and Indigo Nights
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
Parents Music Resource Center
...marketing considerations and product services." The formation of the PMRC began in 1984 after Tipper Gore, along with her daughter Karenna, heard Prince 's song "Darling Nikki." This track, which appears on the soundtrack to the film...
In this article: Tipper Gore, John Denver, Frank Zappa, Recording Industry Association of America, Dee Snider, Ice-T, and H.R. Giger
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Best of You
...Florida, on February 4, 2007. Drummer Taylor Hawkins expressed surprise by the performance, due to Prince's prior criticism of the band's desire to release a cover version of his song, "Darling Nikki", in 2003. Whenever the New York...
In this article: Best of You, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Dave Grohl, Mark Pellington, Prince, In Your Honor, Billboard, and Jeremy
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"Darling Nikki" is a song produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince and originally released on his Grammy Award-winning album Purple Rain (1984). Though the song was not originally released as a single, it gained wide notoriety for its sexual lyrics. Partly because of the lyrical content of "Darling Nikki", Tipper Gore founded the Parents Music Resource Center, which eventually led to the use of "Parental Advisory" stickers and imprints on album covers. Trinity Broadcasting Network and Jimmy Swaggart both attacked the song as being 'pornographic' and 'satanic'.
The song is a guitar-driven rocker, telling the story of a "sex-fiend" named Nikki who seduces Prince. The song was directed toward Apollonia Kotero in the Purple Rain film when she decided to work with Prince's rival, Morris Day. The song has the appearance of being recorded live in a single take, because of the gritty nature of the guitar and the live drum kit, though Purple Rains liner notes state the entire song was performed by Prince.
The ending of the song contains a short segment recorded backwards over a rain sound effect, to contain a hidden message. The segment, when played in reverse, is a sharp contrast to the profane song, with a chorus singing, "Hello, how are you? I'm fine, 'cause I know that the Lord is coming soon. Coming, coming soon." During the Purple Rain tour performances of "Darling Nikki", the recording at the end was played, but not in reverse.
- Name:
- Darling Nikki
- Genre:
- Rock
- Release Date:
- June 25, 1984
- Produced by:
- Prince
- Written By:
- Prince
- Recorded By:
- Prince
- Length:
- 4:13
- Record Label:
- Warner Bros. Records
- Composer:
- Prince
- From Album:
- Purple Rain
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