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  • Anyone hating on this has to be tone deaf. Great cover boys!! Prince would be proud!!!

  • Excellent cover, guys. 

  • Excellent cover of this CLASSIC Prince tune... Great job!!

  • wow hes good and a total cutie

  • uggg.

  • Great singer! The haters can suck it! SUCK IT!!!

  • What the fuck is the shit?.... Sounds like his nuts have yet to drop...

    Death Penalty was created for these type of crimes against humanity...

  • @Ashleysims11 I agree. I would rather watch a boy george cover band while i get my toes painted by elton john then listen to this ear bleeding so called music.

  • not to bad.tuff song to cover.I like it

  • I'm viewing this a year and 100,000 views later. Look, you guys are really good. This is a very hard song to perform. Go ahead - quit your day job!!! Good job!!!

  • Nice work on a classic! Pulled it off!

  • nice cover !!!

  • Awesome - not bad!!....;o)

  • I love this! It's about his "first time"... mine was EXCELLENT!.... was yours? lol!

  • The band is really good, but the singer's voice is nothing nore then average. His voice cracks when he tries to put some raange into it. Having said that if people like them...that's great.

  • This is an excellent performance! The sound on the video was too good to be true...Merlin, you missed your calling...stay at the sound board.

    Thanks...made my night :-)))

  • Hope he doesn't quit his day job

  • oh

    dear

    god...that's truly awful...

  • I love those bars where they hire a band, and anyone can get up do live Karoake. It's a real riot, I just left getting my friends to go up there...

  • lmfao first off who in the fucking hell would name there band Belly Button and second off this band can't play prince worth a shit they should get back to playing music thats in there league and leave the classic pop to the professionals like prince himself

  • Good Job guys...I LIKE it! :)

  • very good. i like it

  • Very, very goog cover and generally, I don't like covers but this one is really excellent !

    I like the voice of the singer, the musicians are good. Congratulations guys !

  • Don't listen to the haters man..love it! good job!

  • I' m the biggest prince fan in the world and appreciated/ liked this remake... G

    ood job guys!!!!!!

  • Very well done cover!

  • SHIT FUCK YOU FAG SHITTY ASS REMAKE

  • who the fuck is this friggin reterd?

  • @jowo13 brilliant comment...spell much?

  • @BellyButtonMusic That was the joke of it. The joke must have been alittle to somistifacated for you! lol

  • @BellyButtonMusic LMFAO!!! So much for hooked on phonics... lol!

  • @jowo13 sounds pretty good to me !

  • @jowo13 which "reterd" are you referring to, yourself perhaps? They did a damn fine job on this song, please feel free to post your version of it if you can do better, we are all waiting.

  • Love this song and I really enjoyed this performance. Nice, effortless vocals. Good job. Crowd were surprisingly quiet at the end though. :/

  • Great Song! Performed and sounds very well

  • Great Song! Performed and sounds very well

  • WOW !!!!!!! you sound great . one of my favorite songs . keep up the good work . thanks for this jam

  • You guys did a very good job at this! Loved it

  • IMPRESSIVE! WELL DONE GUYS!

  • sounds good, solid cover.

  • WTF is this shit....

  • Brilliant! xx

  • ..As long as I live, I will never forget the day I was able to meet him in person bk in the early 90's..He's such a very sweet down to earth man.. ...Not too many ppl can pull it off doing his songs...You did a great job honoring a really gifted man that "us" Generation X grew up listening to.....SAdly ,we don't see that real talent on MTV anymore.......

  • you kids are really good! bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ahhh me encanto esta version...

  • thanks man. looking for prince..guess he is against UTube..losing more respect for him as a man...but musically he is impecable...

  • who is this? I wanna know? please someone tell me!

  • that was awesome..great job

  • Awesome!

  • love this vewrsion thats awesome man, i would to know how to play drums to that

  • awesome job doing this song!!!!

  • Rassberry Berrit!

  • GREAT cover! Nice job! Thanks for sharing this one

  • GREAT cover! Nice job!

  • CLASSIC

  • Nice cover.

  • NICE JOB! Love it.

  • Insures a Victory!

  • More input!

  • Sound's good!

  • Sing along!

  • Cool

  • Takes balls to cover this song - looks like it was really fun to be there. Good for you.

  • this aint prince i hate it

  • Excelente cover

  • Fantastic!!!!

  • Aside from the lack of the Linn Drum this is an amazing cover of a Prince and The Revolution classic!

  • fckn awesome cover

  • Wow you guys did a great job.

  • Not bad. Pretty good actually.

  • fantastic version of my favourite prince song..great work guys:D

  • THE best cover of this song I've ever heard...great job!!!

  • just simply superb my congrats to u.

  • this sucks raspberry balls

  • Very good especialy consider you don't look old enough to remember the song lol.

  • Wow! What a cover !!! This song is very interesting in terms of music; the essence of the song was captured with plenty of details. Vocals? Excellent performance. I hope I can see you performing live in my next trip to NY. Regards from Puerto Rico. You guys rock !!!

  • not to shabby guys... cool

  • kool cover...too bad Prince dont want have his over here...

  • Great cover!

  • prince man you are mean i've got all your music but it is nice to see all your clips let it be on just leave it on youtube

  • Nice! Good to have excellent cover of this song since Prince is to greedy to have his songs on Youtube....guess his millions arent enough for him.

  • this guys are good thanks for the upload!!

  • This is excellent !!!!

  • Best god damn cover I ever heard. Vocals are really something on what is a hard song to sing and keyboards good too. To better the music of a genius (& asshole) is exceptional. other uploads sound good too.

  • Sweet, nice job

  • Oh man, this brings back memories!!

    Good job, sweet!

  • Well done! Great song.

  • very nice cover of an epic artist. 2 thumbs up =)

  • Great video, I love this kinda music!

  • WOW! Just hit 20,000 views. It's amazing to have gotten such a great response. Very unexpected.

    Belly Button will be performing in New York at Mulcahys on Friday Feb 19 2010. Tickets will be on sale soon! Thanks again and Stay Tuned!

  • eah sorry...its cos we cant get the original

  • @BellyButtonMusic You gotta check more often...this vid passed 20,000 a long time ago! LOL Nearly at 50,000 now. Great cover!

  • @BellyButtonMusic I can't fault your cover of Raspberry Beret. AWESOME !!!!

  • I wish Prince would let his videos be posted on YouTube, despite that it's free it does increase listeners.

  • I love it!! Totally Cool!!!!

  • Actually the music really is spot on!. I really liked this version!

  • you did really great at this i love this song the beat is awesome too. Great singing

  • Play Back!!!!!!

    but it´s nice.

  • awsome

  • very good :)

  • Very good cover!!!

  • great music guys, i grew up listening to prince, and you guys bring back memorys.

  • He's doing it really great!!

  • Best cover of this one I've ever heard. The music is especially spot on. Great band!

  • Amazing job. I LOVE your vocals. Great band.

  • This is so cool, we put this video up about 2 months ago and we've just reached 10,000 views!

    Thanks everyone! But most of all we have to thank Prince for writing the greatest music around. ROCK ON!

  • Excellent job guys!!!

  • Hats off to you guys! Very Nice!

  • well its not prince singing but i do have to admit you sing very very good congradulations

  • Belly Button are legends in New York! Best band to come out of that whole scene. I'm glad the boys will be back for a show on Feb 19th!!!! I'll be there for sure, anybody else going?

  • this is not nearly as good as prince....but its not bad....

  • If I may ask, what city are you out of?

  • We are based out of New York specifically on Long Island.

  • i gonna use your version in the dancing captain video coming up!

  • Wow - I can see why Prince removes all of his songs and videos from YouTube - yours is better!!!

  • :) Thanks for the post!

    We have been overwhelmed by the amazing comments from people.

    Stay tuned for plenty more videos of other songs!

  • @trinketbox1 cute comment! these kids did a fun and entertaining cover on this song. i bet prince is rockin out to it right now! +D

  • anyone who can do a prince song like this one, is damn good! congrats !! Sounds Good

  • wow- Love these guys. Cutie singer! awesome cover.......tough to do Prince....ballsy!

  • Awesome cover, I have never posted a comment before but this deserved one, Brilliant, better than the original!

  • didn't think i could like a cover, but this is damn good! Thanks.

  • is better than original prince

  • WOW! Thanks for all the great comments everyone. I know it's not Prince but I hope we do it justice. We have covered some great hits by Prince. Check out our versions of Kiss and 1999. I'll post Darling Nikki soon!

    Don't forget BellyButton is doing a reunion Feb 19 2010...stay tuned for more info.

    Thanks again everyone.

  • omg brill was looking for prince but this is is fab

  • i wish i could find the original :(

    please someone get the CD to upload

  • brillaint stuff, come to england some time!

  • your a hack of a talent pat mullday, go on boy !!!!!!!. Thanks jakob

  • i've never forgotten this song

  • Your voice is right on, brother. Hope you'll gig in Philly sometime soon!

  • brilliant cover version.,...

  • seeing as its impossible to view the original, this is a fantastic cover. love it. great

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