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Count the days I recently atarted a thread on Exodus, but I'd rather be more specific, and ask what you thinbk about thew song COunt the Days. lyrically. I thought it seemed frightening, and I wa wondering if other people got this impression. or do you think it is just prince/NPG letting off some steam, you know...like in Bob George. usually Prince writes songs about peace and what not so this came as a schock to me. do ya'll think it is just hinm venting a little or what? BY THE POWER INVESTED IN ME BY GOD ALL NEGATIVITY BOWS | |
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He does sound VERY angry!
Awww, cute bird by the way!! | |
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thebumpsquad said: He does sound VERY angry!
Awww, cute bird by the way!! Isn't she precious! I think the song was just such a departure from the party astmosphere it seemd like they were trying to create. I guess he was just grouchy. BY THE POWER INVESTED IN ME BY GOD ALL NEGATIVITY BOWS | |
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To me, Count the Days, was an attempt to put harsh content into a soothing song.
I know, the first time I heard it was on the Girl 6 soundtrack, and I hear "Here's a church, here's a steeple", and I'm thinking, this is kinda nice, and then "here's a motherfucker, that I gotta blow away", and all of a sudden I went, oh, so that's what it is about. Same with Cherry Cherry, where you sort of think that it sounds like a love song, untill you realize it's about suicide. I do like Count the Days, but I never thought he sounded angry. Sad, distraught, maybe, but not angry. "Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring faith. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal" - Carl Sagan | |
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I thought that Sonny T was singing the song, and Cherry Cherry was sonny T as well? could be wrong, In the Video, its about sonny T. Prince doesn't even appear in it. Just the NPG> How you gonna get my back when you fronting. | |
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The song is just brilliant, not frightening. | |
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Count the Days might be Sonny as lead vox, but Cherry Cherry I'm pretty sure is Prince. "Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring faith. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal" - Carl Sagan | |
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Most of the tracks on Exodus have Sonny & Prince
(Tora Tora) singing the lead together, usually with sonny's vocals just that bit higher in the mix. | |
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What is Exodus? | |
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loosekiss said: What is Exodus?
Exodus is the second album by The NPG. It included the songs; Get Wild New Power Soul Count The Days The Good Life Cherry, Cherry Return Of The Bump Squad Big Fun Hallucination Rain The Exodus Has Begun plus numerous comic interludes. It was released in 1995, while Prince was going through his '  , Slave' period. | |
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savoirfaire said: Count the Days might be Sonny as lead vox, but Cherry Cherry I'm pretty sure is Prince.
Lead vox is Sonny on CTD and you're right about Cherry Cherry. | |
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? [This message was edited Thu Feb 27 0:14:15 PST 2003 by IstenSzek] and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: joeycoco said: savoirfaire said: Count the Days might be Sonny as lead vox, but Cherry Cherry I'm pretty sure is Prince.
Lead vox is Sonny on CTD and you're right about Cherry Cherry. I used to think that too, but I'm pretty sure that Prince does NOT sing "Cherry Cherry". He's in that vocal mix but his voice isn't the one up front. That's Sonny. If you listen to it with headphones you can hear it. Especially at the end of a certain line or exclamation. Like "another victim of a suicide...", that's 100% Sonny T. right there. The thing that throws you off when listening to Exodus is the fact that Prince is featured on every track but just on backing vox. Yet, at various moments in the songs his voice is turned up and pushed to the front for just a few bars and that's what keeps throwing you off, going "no, wait, that IS...". I'm not even sure wether "The Exodus Has Begun" is Prince and not Sonny T. I'd say that Cherry Cherry is DEFINATELY Prince!! Sonny does an OK job on most of the songs-but thats def P on Cherry. | |
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It's Sonny T on 'Cherry, Cherry' Prince has a superior falsetto.
However, Prince is on backing vox all over 'Exodus'. Sometimes even co-lead. | |
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BorisFishpaw said: loosekiss said: What is Exodus?
Exodus is the second album by The NPG. It included the songs; Get Wild New Power Soul Count The Days The Good Life Cherry, Cherry Return Of The Bump Squad Big Fun Hallucination Rain The Exodus Has Begun plus numerous comic interludes. It was released in 1995, while Prince was going through his ' , Slave' period.Is it any good? | |
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Mr7 said: It's Sonny T on 'Cherry, Cherry' Prince has a superior falsetto.
However, Prince is on backing vox all over 'Exodus'. Sometimes even co-lead. Hmmm-there must B some way to validate this.I aint at home right now, so can't look at the booklet or case to Exodus,doesn't it say on there? My vote is 4 Prince singing Cherry Cherry. | |
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i've always thought that song was brilliant because musically it is very "pretty", yet lyrically, it is very angry and it's discussion of racism and violence so starkly contrasts the musical vibe. it reminds me of tupac's to live and die in la. ------------------------------------------------
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In Count The Days... seems as if he's going through a 'break up' or something. IT's cool to listen to ifyour in a similar position...
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it's one of my fav'rites...woulda preferred prince on all the vocals...but sonny does handle himself to great effect thru most of this album... | |
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smile... lol... | |
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Mr7 said: However, Prince is on backing vox all over 'Exodus'. Sometimes even co-lead.
YEP that's right! e.g. co-lead on Count The Days...  | |
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smile... lol... what y'all OBVIOUSLY don't know, can't hurt u. don't worry about Prince countin' the daze it's a much bigger ball game than the tiddly winks played here... sheesh, the growing ignorance IS apalling. only 4-n-ers r xcused. u don't have 2 no our history. ------------------------------------------ "Sometimes, the ONLY way over, is thru." | |
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july said: ... ... ...
smile... lol... Blacksburg, Va? unless u r sheltered from ur local history, some iota of knowledge should have dropped on u somehow... y'all love listening 2 a black man's sharp music, but u keep missing all his points ------------------------------------------ "Sometimes, the ONLY way over, is thru." | |
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Definitely Sonny T on CherryCherry!Sometimes they've really got the same way of singing a song. Maybe Prince -ToraTora;)- asked him to sing it that way. And on most of the songs P mixes his voice to Sonny's voice. That's how he dealt with the 'mysterious' character of ToraTora the ghost of a voice sometimes.
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Sonny is lead on Cherry Cherry. You can hear backing vox from Prince. cracknbush | |
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Count the Days is Sonny and Prince on CO-LEAD vox.
Prince sings falsetto through the whole song. (Except the Frankie Beverly without Maze bit... It's a cool video, gotta love Prince as Tora Tora in the red mask. cracknbush | |
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cracknbush said: Sonny is lead on Cherry Cherry. You can hear backing vox from Prince.
Done this in an aftershow as well. I don't remember which. cracknbush | |
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