Which one is your favorite?

• Goldnigga
  
• Exodus
  
• NewPowerSoul
  

I like the grooves on "Goldnigga" but I'd pick Exodus, if only for "The Good Life", "Count The Days" and "Hallucination Rain".

Exodus, hands down. Goldnigga was just waaaaayyyy 2 much Tony M., and NPS was lackluster at best. Exodus had such energy and funk 2 it, I love that album.

getwild007 said:

Yeah, I have to give it up for Exodus also. That whole period of Exodus/Tora Tora and The Gold Experience (especially performing TGE live, which was a brand new set of material, when those songs were not officially released yet) was such an exciting period. For sure, those were "The Days of Wild", and Exodus captures that whole period beautifully.

This is one of mt top 5 Prince albums. (I know he's not on lead vox, but damnnit, we know who's album it is.)

if i have to choose one, i'll go with 'exodus'. but even that was crap IMO. :p

New Power Soul

I know that "Newpowersoul" is an "NPG" album technically, but c'mon-it's really a Prince album. More so than Goldnigga and Exodus.

Exodus!!!!!

Exodus, was my fav. I really liked Gold Nigga a lot too. Of course, I feel the way about NPS that most people here do...

calldapplwondery83 said:

NEW POWER SOUL IS THE JOINT, DON'T GET IT TWISTED!!!!

I prefer New Power Soul over Goldnigga- but this is Exodus hands down. All of those goofy segues (well, some of em were kinda funny tho) really interrupt the flow of the music, which brings it down a couple points. But the music is so slammin' it still beats out New Power Soul. And I'm one of the few that enjoys New Power Soul, there are several songs I really like on that album. The Exodus has Begun would be enough to put this album on top- It's like Prince channeled all of his anger toward his record company woes in this song- even though it doesn't come to mind as the most stated anti- WB song, the fierceness of the music here (and albeit the repeated cursing- "What the FUCK is that about!!!!") truly makes this a powerful tune. Sorry to go off on a side rant about that song, but I feel very strongly about that particular one!

Exodus is good, NPS suck bigtime

Exodus really sounds like he worked WITH the band, rather than the other 2 which just soundlike out-take Prince albums.

I have to say big props to "Goldnigga" - I play this pretty regularly as an alternative to Prince. Difficult to compare it when the other 2 albums are so clearly Prince's work - Goldnigga has a tight feel to it and plays well as an album. It's also got one of my favourite joints of all time - Johnny which is damn fine!

Exodus is cool but would be so much better without those damn segues (I say the same for TRC). Count The Days and Get Wild are pretty classy.

New Power Soul - just not up to the usual standard, I'm afraid. It gets the odd listen every now and then but no real classics.

Overall, Goldnigga gets my vote - the least Prince influenced but definitely the funkiest.

All in all I prefer NPS (even tought I still see it as a Prince album)...
IMO "Come On", "The One" and "Wasted kisses" are superior to all the other tracks released as NPG (with the exception of "The War", but it's not on any album).
To tell the truth, rarely I listen to Goldnigga and Exodus... well, I can't remember the last time I listen to it (for me it's boring, only save "Count the days" and "The Good life").

Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus,Exodus!

This is an NPG album in name only, one that really pissed off WB in the process. Thye KNEW it was a Prince album, and an excellent 1 at that, after u cut out all of the skits and narration parts (and "cherry, cherry") which really wear out after the first few listens. Look at the graphics/packaging and you'll c the man all over it.

By the way, anyone know where I can find it? Lent mine out and it's long gone
[This message was edited Wed Apr 10 13:09:57 PDT 2002 by herbthe4]

Couldn't agree with you more, GoldTimer, 'Goldnigga' is not only the funkiest out of the three NPG albums but also the most original and tightest-sounding... never mind Tony M being all over it. It's full of clever and v funny lyrics (listen to 'Black MF in the House' and see what I mean)... The other two records had their moments too, but they were frustratingly uneven...

Goldnigga is likely the only "officially released" album I haven't heard. Ive been looking to cop one, but the prices are way out of my league. Anybody wanna help a brotha get my hands on a copy of GN?

I still consider "New Power Soul" to be a complete full fledged Prince album.

I mean, he wrote all the trax, played 90% of the instruments, sings lead on all trax and even has his pic prominently plastered all over the album.

It's a 0(+> record. Period.


So that leaves only "Gold Nigga" and "Exodus".


Gold Nigga's got some groovy trax on it. I especially like 'Johnny'.

But "Exodus" is -hands down- the best of the 2. The segues might b a bit much at times, but the tunes are all very much ok. And I still like that beginning

'u must b able 2.....GET WILD aaaaah'. Freaky.



But hey, whatever happened to the npg album that was recorded 'round the time of Rave?????

U know, the one that would have 'Peace' and 'Radical Man' on it??


I can't help but think that the majority of the trax we got in the npgmc last year are the ones that make up HIGH and this unreleased NPG album.


songs that could've been on it? don't know. but

Y Should I Do That When I Can Do This?
Peace
2045: Radical Man
Judas Smile
Jukebox With A Heartbeat
Northside
and Silicon

all seem 2 qualify 4 inclusion on an NPG album in the vein of "New Power Soul pt II".....