“Anotherloverholenyohead” is a 1986 song that became the third single from Prince & The Revolution’s soundtrack-studio album Parade – Music From the Motion Picture ‘Under the Cherry Moon’. The title is a portmanteau of a phrase from the chorus, an update from the idiom “You need this like you need a hole in your head”, which signifies that the subject is unnecessary or damaging. This was popularized by a classic Jazz song by Pearl Bailey. The music video, released on the Under the Cherry Moon DVD in 2004 was the last recorded Prince video including Jerome Benton or any of the members of the Revolution (Brownmark, Bobby Z., Susannah and Wendy Melvoin, and Lisa Coleman.) It was taken from a live performance on June 7, 1986 (Prince’s 29th Birthday) in Detroit, Michigan. He donned that same yellow suit for the European single cover.

Released on July 2, 1986 in the U.S. and October 20 in the U.K. and elsewhere, the single only found moderate radio and chart success due to the surplus of Prince material available on the market – including Parade’s two previous singles, “Kiss” and “Mountains”. It charted at 63 on the Billboard’s Hot 100, and #18 on the Black Singles chart. “Anotherloverholenyohead”’s B-Side was “Girls & Boys”, and “I Wanna Be Your Lover” in foreign releases. It doubled alongside “Mountains” in the 1988 Hits Reissue and on a 1993 “Controversy” single release. After the Parade Tour, Prince did not perform the song for 20 years until 2007, at a Super Bowl XLI Press Conference and regularly on the Per4ming Live 3121 Tour.

While the whole song was orchestrated under the direction of Clare Fischer, the single edit covers most of their instrumentation.

See the music video on Jukebox.