Neither. The back-up band before it officially had a name is the best:

Andre Cymone
Dr. Fink
Dez Dickerson
Bobby Z
Lisa Coleman

It was still great even when Andre Cymone left and Brown Mark came aboard.

Lisa is cool by herself and things were still fine the first year that Wendy came aboard. However, get Wendy and Lisa together and things start fucking up and getting artsy/fartsy
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ladygirl99 said:

Well my fave Prince albums include PR, ATWIAD and Parade so i'd have to go for the Revolution.To say that no one in the Revolution can match their counterpart in NPG seems a little off the mark to me. Look at the body of work Wendy & Lisa have put together even in just the last few years with their scores for tv.

I always thought that Prince and the Revolution sounded like a real group/band. I always hear Prince and the NPG as like Elvis with his vegas dudes..a huge star with his session men backing band spending years playing pretty much in the same style.

I found the Revolution era far more interesting, challenging musically and more diverse in styles inside 3 or 4 albums than NPG has produced in it's long drawn out entireity.

Wow, didn't know I felt that strongly about it,lol.

I suppose I like the Prince era of the 80's best personally so I prefer the Revolution.

In a matrix-style martial arts contest,
I'd say the Revolution.

In a simple, all-out, barefisted bar-room-style brawl,
I'd say the NPG's larger-memmbership would give 'em the upper-hand.

Illustrator said:

The NPG were knuckleheads too, I remember reading Rosie Gaines' comments about them, they really turned me off, seemed more like yes men and oppurtunists more than real artists.

mozfonky said:

That's because they worked with Prince post Purple Rain. By then he was a MEGA star. If they had hooked up with him before he became really sucessful and they knew him from way back when like most of the Revolution, they probably would have tried to put in more input. After disbanding the Revolution Prince made it perfectly clear he was the star and the boss and any band with him were his employees pleez believe it! Even today I know cats that have played with him at his celebration (when he used to have it) they were always clear that he was in TOTAL control but they didn't mind it because they were just honored to be playing with Prince.

adorable2 said:

i know that, i'm just saying those guys were just total sell outs, if that's what he wanted and it was, he got it. You could see it in the interviews he conducted himself with his own band, they sound scared. It's cool to have artistic control but you should also have some decent people to exercise that. It all works for him in the end though. Has little to do with the amount of records he sold, jus a personal point of contention. I didn't like the boys, it had the feel of immature locker room high school kids.

There was NOT a single person in the Revolution who could touch their counterpart in the NPG. Not one excluding the one constant which was Prince himself.

Graycap23 said: