This is a choice cut in any Prince compilation, the squeeling guitar and addictive beat make this one of my favs of all time, anyone feelin it?x

I love having this one real loud when I'm stuck in traffic. I love this one all the songs are funky and have a fun feeling to them. Sometimes before my dance class we warm up to this. Everyone I play this for loves it. I love the talking parts as well very funny and light.

I really like this track! Its one of my "guilty pleasures" when it comes to Prince songs.

yeah, I love this track too:

Come - Exodus - The Gold Experience,

Excellent era.

thedance said:

Totally agree

thedance said:

The holy trinity of the 90's.

"Bump Squad" is one of the best Prince songs EVER produced. EVAR.

ernestsewell said:

It is one of my favs!! I got this in June of 95 from the NPG store. Drove around MPLS bumpin' this song!! Bow down!! Bow down!!

"What's that funky smell?!"

This song rocks the house. As a side note, instead of "Bow Down," I used to think he was saying "Butt Out, MFer..." I don't know why, it makes no sense.
But I loved it anyway and sang along at the top of my lungs.

Have you heard the remix of Sexy MF that samples the groove from Bump Squad? It's da bomb.

It's tasty.

You're all living in the past and your perceptions have changed. It's nowhere near as good as driving round with 77 Beverley Park playing at full blast...




top tune, with a bit of editing, it would probably have been a hit in the UK if released after the Good Life single.

Erik

greatness. always wished that after he was completely 'free',
he would release some of those exodus tracks with his own vox
as lead. but i guess he would probably consider that a diss
to sonny, whom does a good job of it anyway. but still, there
is always that feeling that it might perhaps be even greater
still if it had prince on full out lead.

Hatman said:

is that the one with the "everybody dance now" sample?

Yep, I love it. Definitely one of the best from the 90's.

So good in fact that i named my band after it. We're an 8 piece funk band in Brighton UK.

www.myspace.com/returnofthebumpsquad

(No, we aren't a Prince tribute! If anything it's more like Parliament-Funkadelic)

But yeah ace tune!
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clbrooks said:

but white and from brighton??!!

Love it.

Although I think I prefer The Exodus Has Begun.

MattyJam said:

Definitely one of the strongest and funkiest title tracks he's ever produced. It's a whole other monster to me. He should have started the album with "Bump Squad" and let the title track be the last track (which it was). It would have been a WHAM BAM starting and ending.

Nah i think Get Wild is a perfect opener, apart from the segue's it's a pretty stand up album, would've liked Sonny's version of Love Thy Will Be Done on it though.

One of his best "modern funk" tracks.

I'm going to put Exodus on now!

ernestsewell said:[quote]

MattyJam said:

Me too. That was like Prince and the NPG had thumbed a lift on the P Funk mothership. Dead funky.

jonylawson said:

Yep. Pure (funk) as the driven snow.. We don't play like we're white though

you know I like it

Oh my, Bump Squad is a lot of fun. The title says it all, it really is bumping the whole 7 minutes or so and the result is incredible.

Now when you listen to the part where they talk about Nona Gaye might wanting to sell her tape, it's really a reminder of how things used to be. Not only is this thing funky, it's also telling us a story. Oh, talk about funky: The part which only lasts a few seconds where Sonny tells to "turn that loop off, damn!", it gets me every time.

The whole album is an appreciation for George Clinton and P-funk.