Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This?

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Y Should BigEyePrpl.png Do That When BigEyePrpl.png Can Do This?

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NPG Music Club download
- no official artwork created

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included on The Slaughterhouse
Song details
Performer: Prince
First Released: 11 June 2001 - NPG Music Club Edition # 5 download
Album(s): The Slaughterhouse
Writer(s): Prince (assumed)
Producer(s): Prince (assumed)
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
Performed regularly on tour:
  • none
Performed occasionally in shows:

Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This? (later known as Y Should Eye.png Do That When Eye.png Can Do This?) was initially heard as a 1:32 excerpt streaming on NPGOnlineLtd.com on 1 June 2000, along with excerpts of Splash and Cybersingle. In June 2001, it was released as part of the NPG Music Club Edition # 5 as an mp3 download (credited to Prince, despite having been recorded and initially heard while Prince used the name SymbolSmallerBlue.png). In 2004, it was included (as Y Should Eye.png Do That When Eye.png Can Do This?) as the third track on the compilation album The Slaughterhouse.

Initial recording dates are unknown, but the track was believed to have been recorded during sessions for Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, corroborated by The Hornheadz, who recorded horns for the track on 17 May 1999 (during the same session as horn overdubs for Hot Wit U, Man‘O’War, I Ain’t Gonna Run and R U Ready?). The track contains a repeated sample of Sly & The Family Stone’s Family Affair (written by Sly Stone, released on the album There’s a Riot Goin' On and as a single in 1971).


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
Spring 1999 (assumed) Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed)
Tracking
17 May 1999 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Horn overdubs
Recording Personnel

Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This? 4:30 NPG Music Club Edition # 5 download Studio
Y Should Eye.png Do That When Eye.png Can Do This? 4:30 The Slaughterhouse Studio Clean version
Broadcasts/streaming (only)
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This? 1:32 NPGOnlineLtd.com stream Edit


 
Additional Information

See also Trivia


References
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