Opinions please....

The Revolution was miles better than NPG for Prince I believe...

I prefer the songs released during the Revolution period, but the NPG is so much better as a band it's not even funny.

The main strength of the Revolution was Lisa and Wendy's contributions, moreso than the strengths of the band as a whole.

Rev Scott??

The Revolution for their personality and the songs produced during that time period.

But in terms of a live setting, I gotta go with...

yes. the npg and the revolution both have their strongpoints but i'm going to have to go for the middle ground and say the lovesexy/sott band was the best band prince has ever had.

theghostoftonym said:

yeah but what color is the sky? and what is that big yellow ball up there?

I love the revolution but the early 90s NPG is easily the funkiest band Prince ever had...Sonny, Michael, Tommy, Mr Hayes...and some skinny gay guy on guitar.

No question....it has to be the Revolution/SIgn O the Times bands, if only for consistency. The majority of that cod synth funk that the NPG knocked out is lame in comparison

GangstaFam said:

I consider that the orginal NPG!

miguelbulcao said:

It's not.

NPG for me.

GangstaFam said:

It's not the revoltion...

so what is it?

Which NPG?

it's hard 2 pick 'cause both bands were crucial to Prince's artistic evolution and they both could throw down in the studio or live....

GangstaFam said:

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miguelbulcao said:

The Lovesexy Band (counter-revolution?)

jone70 said:

I like to think like

Sheila E featuring Prince's band!

Everybody knows the real star is Sheila!

GangstaFam said:

How is anyone in this picture able to keep a straight face, is what I wanna know?!?!?! Dear lawd!

luv4all7 said:

Sheila is there thinking "Bitch, please!"

miguelbulcao said:

Why r her pants hiked up to her titts?

The Revolution was the best for me, although I love the early 90's NPG (Call The Law era).

GangstaFam said:

Co-sign

I was just to post: "Neither, because I prefer the Lovesexy band."

Oh close call, but i think id maybe say The Revolution

The LoveSexy band and the various configurations of the NPG are all light years ahead of the Revolution with regard to musicianship. Wendy and Lisa are talented songwriters whose influence and collaborations created some great songs, but musically they were just not talented enough to challenge Prince and grow with him/his sound. When you look at people like Miko, Levi, Sonny T, Sheila E., John Blackwell and Michael B., the Revolution could not hold a candle to their musicianship. The Revolution were probably the weakest players he's hand. Dez Dickerson and Andre Cymone were actually more talented and better complements to Prince musically on guitar and bass than Wendy and Brown Mark.

That said, it is always good for Prince to change bands to challenge him to move in different directions. I think he and the last NPG fell into a funk/jam groove that began to repeat itself and focused more on songs that sounded like jam sessions than well-constructed songs with melodies/harmonies. Always good to have new blood.
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Eden5k said:

U must be kidding.
Revolution = crawling
NPG = Carl Lewis in 100 yard dash.

luv4all7 said:

Sheila was always good for a camel toe back in those days and, as a teenage boy at the time, I shall be eternally grateful to her.

SDNafka said:

Consulting urban dictionary ...camel toe...camel toe...

well it's not tru that revolution were not a good musicians
brown mark-maYBE THE FUNKIEST bass player prince ever had,andre close second.

matt fink-excelent virtuoso keyboard

bobby z is overlooked-his misfortune was to come in an era of drum machine dominated sound of music,
if you listen to bobby on atlanta 1980 rick james concert you are going to be suprised how good he was.

wendy was awful lead guitar player very sloopy,but she improved on rhythm guitar on parade tour.

the revolution had distinctive sound.npg is more a palete of sounds.
but im glad prince disbaned revolution,he needed to grow more.
wendy and lisa couldn't play his more adventures music like madhouse,news ,trc...

SDNafka said:

Really?????

I thought camel toe was a bad thing.