I remember my uncle bought a bootleg vhs from that tour where prince did the one eyed bass version of mad sex and was wearing all shiny black with a shirt cut short around the arms. until youre in my arms again sounded good at the time but it was the late 90s despite that i didnt listen to the radio at the time because a lot of garbage like master p and mystical was blaring on the stations and so compared to what was going on the radio, ill understand vibe magazine reviewing the entire project and calling it "certified masterpiece" which prince stated in the interview with tavis smiley because a lot of people forget that there was a lot of garbage like master p and i never really cared for dru hill either.

it really surprised me when the war cassette was sent out to all the fans as a thank you for buying the crystal ball set that year. I remember that cuz i purchased a few items from 1-800-NEW-FUNK.

jonylawson said:

MIRvmn said:

kangafunk said: I don't understand either why it gets so much hate, in my opinion this album is better than Rave, Musicology, 3121 Planet Earth and 20ten

and with that quote you my friend KNOW nothing about music!!

c'mon seriously??

Welp, close the thread. Jonylawson knows everything about music. We had a good run, guys.

I guess Prince doesn't know anything about music either, since he released the damned thing. I guess we can say you KNOW nothing about punctuation based on one shitty post, right?

Seriously, though, this album is far from horrible. It's like most of his albums since, say, Gold; 2 or 3 great tracks, 3-4 OK ones and 2 or 3 turds, in line with Come, The Vault, Rave...even Emancipation had the same hit/miss ratio.

I've noticed over the years and during my time on this forum that a majority of the members here don't like Prince's dancier, disco type stuff (NPS, MPLSound, and especially anything with rap) as much as the rock and pop, which is fine, but I find myself in the other camp.

I love people on the internet telling other what they should like. You like anchovies and hate olives and goat cheese? You KNOW nothing about eating food!

herb4 said:

jonylawson said:

and with that quote you my friend KNOW nothing about music!!

c'mon seriously??

Welp, close the thread. Jonylawson knows everything about music. We had a good run, guys.

I love this album. There I said it

herb4 said:

jonylawson said:

and with that quote you my friend KNOW nothing about music!!

c'mon seriously??

Welp, close the thread. Jonylawson knows everything about music. We had a good run, guys.

I guess Prince doesn't know anything about music either, since he released the damned thing. I guess we can say you KNOW nothing about punctuation based on one shitty post, right?

Seriously, though, this album is far from horrible. It's like most of his albums since, say, Gold; 2 or 3 great tracks, 3-4 OK ones and 2 or 3 turds, in line with Come, The Vault, Rave...even Emancipation had the same hit/miss ratio.

I've noticed over the years and during my time on this forum that a majority of the members here don't like Prince's dancier, disco type stuff (NPS, MPLSound, and especially anything with rap) as much as the rock and pop, which is fine, but I find myself in the other camp.

I love people on the internet telling other what they should like. You like anchovies and hate olives and goat cheese? You KNOW nothing about eating food!

what turds are there in Gold?

come?

jeez i have never read in 11 years on this site somebody saying NPS is as good as gold or come

i live and learn! and i admit what i wrote was a bit wanky! sorry

well...I dont like now and pussy control....i just saw the cassette single for I hate you (edit) and I hate you (eric leeds mix) and i listened and didnt like it either.....

jonylawson said:

herb4 said:

Welp, close the thread. Jonylawson knows everything about music. We had a good run, guys.

I guess Prince doesn't know anything about music either, since he released the damned thing. I guess we can say you KNOW nothing about punctuation based on one shitty post, right?

Seriously, though, this album is far from horrible. It's like most of his albums since, say, Gold; 2 or 3 great tracks, 3-4 OK ones and 2 or 3 turds, in line with Come, The Vault, Rave...even Emancipation had the same hit/miss ratio.

I've noticed over the years and during my time on this forum that a majority of the members here don't like Prince's dancier, disco type stuff (NPS, MPLSound, and especially anything with rap) as much as the rock and pop, which is fine, but I find myself in the other camp.

I love people on the internet telling other what they should like. You like anchovies and hate olives and goat cheese? You KNOW nothing about eating food!

what turds are there in Gold?

come?

jeez i have never read in 11 years on this site somebody saying NPS is as good as gold or come

i live and learn! and i admit what i wrote was a bit wanky! sorry

not to mention the most beautiful girl in the world, i just cant listen that track now.

jonylawson said:

herb4 said:

Welp, close the thread. Jonylawson knows everything about music. We had a good run, guys.

I guess Prince doesn't know anything about music either, since he released the damned thing. I guess we can say you KNOW nothing about punctuation based on one shitty post, right?

Seriously, though, this album is far from horrible. It's like most of his albums since, say, Gold; 2 or 3 great tracks, 3-4 OK ones and 2 or 3 turds, in line with Come, The Vault, Rave...even Emancipation had the same hit/miss ratio.

I've noticed over the years and during my time on this forum that a majority of the members here don't like Prince's dancier, disco type stuff (NPS, MPLSound, and especially anything with rap) as much as the rock and pop, which is fine, but I find myself in the other camp.

I love people on the internet telling other what they should like. You like anchovies and hate olives and goat cheese? You KNOW nothing about eating food!

what turds are there in Gold?

come?

jeez i have never read in 11 years on this site somebody saying NPS is as good as gold or come

i live and learn! and i admit what i wrote was a bit wanky! sorry

FunkyStrange said:

this is an npg album, not prince

It's labeled as such, but besides the horns and Marva's magnificent backup vocals, it mostly all Prince... and I've always liked this album.

'Freaks On This Side', 'Push It Up', 'Come On' and 'Mad Sex' are killer.

The horn arrangements and vocal arrangements are big and complex, and I like his drumming/drum programming as well.

~G

.

[Edited 7/2/13 14:32pm]

outsideofthebox said:

well...I dont like now and pussy control....i just saw the cassette single for I hate you (edit) and I hate you (eric leeds mix) and i listened and didnt like it either.....

jonylawson said:

what turds are there in Gold?

come?

Good thing I said SINCE Gold and used it as my benchmark. A lot of people hate several songs on that record (Now, We March, Dolphin) but that's beside the point since I didn't include it in my cut off.

Come?

Seriously? "Papa", "Solo", "Orgasm". Those are bad.

outsideofthebox said:

well...I dont like now and pussy control....i just saw the cassette single for I hate you (edit) and I hate you (eric leeds mix) and i listened and didnt like it either.....

jonylawson said:

jeez i have never read in 11 years on this site somebody saying NPS is as good as gold...

You still haven't. Nobody said that. The guy was answering your questions about whether there were turds on Gold. A question to a topic nobody posited. You got called out for claiming that someone who said they liked this record "knew nothing about music" and you never defended it. You're writing sucks too, by the way. Oh...I mean OMG! BTW!!!!

Can I listen to some of your music? Do you have any YouTube links I could check out? I want to see if they're better than NPS.

I thought for the time, it was very nice. I got drunk to it a lot back in the day

with my headphones and have nothing bad to say about the album. Much

better than Diamonds and Pearls.

herb4 said:

outsideofthebox said:

well...I dont like now and pussy control....i just saw the cassette single for I hate you (edit) and I hate you (eric leeds mix) and i listened and didnt like it either.....

You still haven't. Nobody said that. The guy was answering your questions about whether there were turds on Gold. A question to a topic nobody posited. You got called out for claiming that someone who said they liked this record "knew nothing about music" and you never defended it. You're writing sucks too, by the way. Oh...I mean OMG! BTW!!!!

Can I listen to some of your music? Do you have any YouTube links I could check out? I want to see if they're better than NPS.

gotta love these newbies.

nice retort!

jonylawson said:

Efan said:

FunkyStrange said:

this is an npg album, not prince

It's a Prince album.

There are no such things as NPG albums (or Madhouse albums, or Vanity 6 albums, etc.). Gold Nigga and Exodus are Prince albums as well as Newpower Soul and The War, but officially they are all NPG albums nonetheless.

jonylawson said:

silverchild said:

Among fans, it is very controversial. Either you love it or utterly hate it.

thats completely untrue

most fans FUCKIN HATE IT whereas a small minority think "its okay"

NOBODY loves it.

people LOVE purple rain..sign o the times..parade

however most people do love wasted kisses and come on but as an album it is utter utter utter

U r wrong: I LOVE Newpower Soul, madly, just as much and possibly even more than Purple Rain or SOTT.

^ Really....????

I mean really, really...????

thedance said:

^ Really....????

I mean really, really...????

really really really

databank said:

Efan said:

It's a Prince album.

There are no such things as NPG albums (or Madhouse albums, or Vanity 6 albums, etc.). Gold Nigga and Exodus are Prince albums as well as Newpower Soul and The War, but officially they are all NPG albums nonetheless.

It's a bit like when Trekkers argue over how many episodes of Star Trek there really were...no one really cares about the debate except the people doing the debating. So while Exodus and Gold Nigga are filed under NPG in my collection, NPS is under Prince, and it's his follow-up album to Emancipation.

Not that it matters at all.

Efan said:

databank said:

There are no such things as NPG albums (or Madhouse albums, or Vanity 6 albums, etc.). Gold Nigga and Exodus are Prince albums as well as Newpower Soul and The War, but officially they are all NPG albums nonetheless.

It's a bit like when Trekkers argue over how many episodes of Star Trek there really were...no one really cares about the debate except the people doing the debating. So while Exodus and Gold Nigga are filed under NPG in my collection, NPS is under Prince, and it's his follow-up album to Emancipation.

Not that it matters at all.

Indeed. I file my albums by the name under which they were released so for me a NPG album is a NPG album and if tomorrow Prince releases a solo album under the name "The Big Alcoholic Bicycle Of Mr. Potato" then for the life of me it'll be filed under that name But on the other hand I know who did what on these albums anyway and I consider Prince's discography as a whole more than 2 co-existing Prince and Side-Projects discographies, because there is an artistic progression that can be analized on a more subtle level if you see it as a whole (with the side-projects filling many gaps). But who gives a shit anyway?

jonylawson said:

herb4 said:

You still haven't. Nobody said that. The guy was answering your questions about whether there were turds on Gold. A question to a topic nobody posited. You got called out for claiming that someone who said they liked this record "knew nothing about music" and you never defended it. You're writing sucks too, by the way. Oh...I mean OMG! BTW!!!!

Can I listen to some of your music? Do you have any YouTube links I could check out? I want to see if they're better than NPS.

gotta love these newbies.

nice retort!

Yeah, look at this newbie:

http://prince.org/profile/herb4

Now look at this:

http://prince.org/profile/jonylawson

I've got 8 years on you, sport, and was listening to Dirty Mind while you were reading "Hop on Pop".

Do you want to shit up the thread while posting from your phone as you fly your plane, debate the merits of NewPowerSoul, address a single thing I said or just lecture everyone about why their taste in music sucks? At least my retort had, what do they call it? Content.

BTW, your poetry sucks. As well as your diction, punctuation and grammar. NPS has it all over you.

Maybe Reddit or Yahoo! comments are more your speed. Or texting your bro's while driving on the highway. Post something worth reading or get out. We get it. You know everything about music and don't enjoy NewPowerSoul.

FunkyStrange said:

this is an npg album, not prince

herb4 said:

jonylawson said:

gotta love these newbies.

nice retort!

Yeah, look at this newbie:

http://prince.org/profile/herb4

Now look at this:

http://prince.org/profile/jonylawson

I've got 8 years on you, sport, and was listening to Dirty Mind while you were reading "Hop on Pop".

Do you want to shit up the thread while posting from your phone as you fly your plane, debate the merits of NewPowerSoul, address a single thing I said or just lecture everyone about why their taste in music sucks? At least my retort had, what do they call it? Content.

BTW, your poetry sucks. As well as your diction, punctuation and grammar. NPS has it all over you.

Maybe Reddit or Yahoo! comments are more your speed. Or texting your bro's while driving on the highway. Post something worth reading or get out. We get it. You know everything about music and don't enjoy NewPowerSoul.

my friend

relax..get a girlfriend..have a coffee..run a bath

why the anger?

jonylawson said:

herb4 said:

Yeah, look at this newbie:

http://prince.org/profile/herb4

Now look at this:

http://prince.org/profile/jonylawson

I've got 8 years on you, sport, and was listening to Dirty Mind while you were reading "Hop on Pop".

Do you want to shit up the thread while posting from your phone as you fly your plane, debate the merits of NewPowerSoul, address a single thing I said or just lecture everyone about why their taste in music sucks? At least my retort had, what do they call it? Content.

BTW, your poetry sucks. As well as your diction, punctuation and grammar. NPS has it all over you.

Maybe Reddit or Yahoo! comments are more your speed. Or texting your bro's while driving on the highway. Post something worth reading or get out. We get it. You know everything about music and don't enjoy NewPowerSoul.

my friend

relax..get a girlfriend..have a coffee..run a bath

why the anger?

Late, but:

You're not my friend. I'm relaxed. I'm married, caffeinated and clean.

Because you post like a 17 year old kid who's texting while driving.

Post content, address questions, stop threadshitting or get out.

When this album came out, I didn't think I would like it. And then the first track played and I was bobbing my head. Each subsequent track was either funky, strange, or beautiful. Right through to the end. No, it wasn't Purple Rain, but it's DEFINITELY one of Prince's lightest, funkiest "side" albums ever. Come On, The One, Until Ur In My Arms...seriously people, these are strong P tracks.

nps is way better than that shitty gold record .. prince (c)rapped all over gold .. belonged in the chaos toilet .. nps is the last gasp of the great prince .. production is ok .. some of the grooves are superb to anything that has come since .. come on .. the one and wasted kisses are classics .. nothing since has touched those songs .. better than emancipation rave rainbow musicology 3121 .. all that shit ..