I really like that album. Hate the Larry one. That Prince would let her record a quality song like Center Of Your Heart is stunning. Pop My Clutch is nice. Queen Latifa was a good guest. Pretty nice little disk.

Slight yea.

2freaky4church1 said:

I really like that album. Hate the Larry one. That Prince would let her record a quality song like Center Of Your Heart is stunning. Pop My Clutch is nice. Queen Latifa was a good guest. Pretty nice little disk.

Slight yea

I loved it! I like "This Crazy Life Of Mine", "Spoon" "Betcha I" and most of it all! So Yea from me!

I like it and played it heavily at the time.

Now, no offense, but this does remind me of when Chaka opened for prince in London/ UK during the night I attended the Jam Of The Year tour.

I was bitterly disappointed with chaka's performance - lots of screeching and hollering and - I swear - I couldn't make out a damn word she was singing. Lots of people were inimpressed - hell most remained seated. To the point Prince made an impromptu appearance to hype her up exclaiming - "on your feet, don'y y'all know who this is?!" However, in comparison, Larry's bass playing was off the chain (and don't ordinarily much like him).

So, yeah - Come 2 My House is a good album (I'd even rate it above NPS) . Larry's album at that time - crap. (Can't even remember what it's called). But live - appreciated Larry far more

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One of my favorite songs is "The Drama"

chocolate1 said:

One of my favorite songs is "The Drama"

Yes I love that one too! Especially the beginning..."hello? Heeyyy...click"

I played the disc 2 or 3 times when it came out, but since then not anymore. The same goes for the Larry cd. But what I remember is that both albums sounded better produced than NPS.

Fantastic.

Come 2 My House(the track) is so seductive!

The only songs I skip are Hair and Don't Talk 2 Strangers.

I havent heard it in years, but I like it, Has some really nice tracks. I love the title track The Drama, hair?, Spoon, Center of your heart

BYT the album was released in 1998 part of the new power trio

chocolate1 said:

One of my favorite songs is "The Drama"

Yes, indeed! I really liked the whole album but 'The Drama' was my favorite from that one!

HonestMan13 said:

Fantastic.

Come 2 My House(the track) is so seductive!

The only songs I skip are Hair and Don't Talk 2 Strangers.

"Hair" is my favorite GCS song, so I can't get into her version.

nay

as much as I love Chaka (and I think she's fan-tas-tic), this was one of her weakest albums imo.

Yay! I love all three albums in the New Power Pack. But it came out in '98, not 2000.

I liked some of the songs but it's not one of my faves. When I listen to Chaka I reach for the old stuff. But I will say it's WAY better than "GCS2000".

I like it. It may not be the best album of her career and contains one or two fillers but all in all, it is a strong and cohesive album. VIBE magazine and rapper DMX called it a masterpiece when it came out in 1998. Some of my friends who recorded it on tape from my CD still ask me to burn that album on CD for them because they remember how much they liked it.

Kinda sad that such a great album is so underrated and was very much under the radar when it came out, yet Chaka just doing guest vocals on songs that came out before and after this album became instant hits and people literally ignored this gem of an album.

The late 90s and early 2000s were a dark phase in Prince´s career.

On a side note....Norah Jones played a concert at Paisley Park in 2002 before she became world famous, yet that show never got and still never gets a mention in any media outlet, as if that concert never happened. Just like this Chaka album that barely gets a mention, like it doesn´t even exist.

Took me a while to get into it. It's quirky. Different than her other albums, but over the years Ive come to appreciate it quite a bit. Yea.

KoolEaze said:

I like it. It may not be the best album of her career and contains one or two fillers but all in all, it is a strong and cohesive album. VIBE magazine and rapper DMX called it a masterpiece when it came out in 1998. Some of my friends who recorded it on tape from my CD still ask me to burn that album on CD for them because they remember how much they liked it.

Kinda sad that such a great album is so underrated and was very much under the radar when it came out, yet Chaka just doing guest vocals on songs that came out before and after this album became instant hits and people literally ignored this gem of an album.

The late 90s and early 2000s were a dark phase in Prince´s career.

On a side note....Norah Jones played a concert at Paisley Park in 2002 before she became world famous, yet that show never got and still never gets a mention in any media outlet, as if that concert never happened. Just like this Chaka album that barely gets a mention, like it doesn´t even exist.

I think because this was her "free" CD that it gets buried by media and industry. Nobody wanted to acknowledge Prince's way of marketing and doing business at this point. The industry wanted to get him under control so to speak. Instead he got 2 artists to see things his way for a little while.

I love this album,especially the songs "Spoon","This Crazy Life Of Mine","The Drama" and the title track.

It was the best of the 3, and has enough good tracks to make it a solid album. Imagine if it had been from 2000/1 though, rather than that plastic NPS production that mars everything from the late 90s, it might've had that richer TRC sound.

I think P. sold Chaka short in the end, the album and artist both deserved better (in terms of promotion and production, respectively).

NouveauDance said:

Instantly forgettable. As is the atrocity that is the GCS album.

I must admit I have never been a fan of Larry, Chaka or all that lot, even before they were in cahoots with Prince, so I had more or less made up my mind that these albums were going to be shit.

more lazy r&b shit served up on a spoon.

I can't be bothered with these atrocities of Prince's anymore.

I have heard way more inventive,clever,better produced tracks from unknown artists.

Prince's money and status have ruined what could have been an illustrious career.

He will be looked back on instead as the guy who did Purple Rain and A BUNCH of sub par stuff.

Kind of like Peter Frampton.

mask said:

more lazy r&b shit served up on a spoon.

I can't be bothered with these atrocities of Prince's anymore.

I have heard way more inventive,clever,better produced tracks from unknown artists.

Prince's money and status have ruined what could have been an illustrious career.

He will be looked back on instead as the guy who did Purple Rain and A BUNCH of sub par stuff.

Kind of like Peter Frampton.

So why don't you go elsewhere then.

purplethunder3121 said:

Don't dig Spoon at all. The other songs are quite good. Let's not forget Clare Fischer's wonderful strings.

thebanishedone said:

NouveauDance said:

It was the best of the 3, and has enough good tracks to make it a solid album. Imagine if it had been from 2000/1 though, rather than that plastic NPS production that mars everything from the late 90s, it might've had that richer TRC sound.

I think P. sold Chaka short in the end, the album and artist both deserved better (in terms of promotion and production, respectively).

yup

best of three

that larry graham one was just awful

I was loving all of the appearances they did for these 3 CDs. The Today Show was a special treat because they stayed afterwards and continued to play for the crowd. Then I loved the concert at MSG. I took my mom and little brother!

You can't force me to listen to the Larry one.

I never even heard the Larry Graham album I'm a fan of his older stuff,but I had no interest in hearing his new work.