seriously... this is THE funk right here...

The Exodus has begun!!

What do you guys think about this album and that era, arguably Prince's most creative and productive era. Gold Experience, Come, Exodus, Chaos and Disorder, all those outakes...

The good ol' days of the NPG!

My favourite era. I love the Exodus album and out-takes. Long jams like Big Fun, Exodus Has Begun, The Good Life are still fresh n cool today IMO.

Hallucination Rain, Cherry Cherry, ROTBS, Exodus Has Begun, Mashed Potato Girl.

I like this era a lot, and it gave us some very interesting outtakes.

The full unreleased versions of The Exodus Has Begun and the unreleased long version of Hallucination Rain are great.

Not sure if the realeased configuration was the best, though.

If you like Exodus then you need this. Alternate versions and unreleased tracks from earlier configurations of the Exodus album.

This includes the very nice 11min version of Hallucination Rain.

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TheDigitalGardener said:

This includes the very nice 11min version of Hallucination Rain.

*love* this.

Had he sung the lead vocals himself it could have been the Prince / album of the 90's that most successfully captured the vibe of that era. It's good with the Sonny T. vocals too, but perhaps feels just a bit too forced as most would expect Prince / voice to be doing those parts.

The segues were pretty unnecessary, but I always found "Mashpotato Girl" to be pretty funny.

I always dug the cover art as well.

NouveauDance said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

This includes the very nice 11min version of Hallucination Rain.

*love* this.

Me too, it's very Funkadelic "Maggot Brain," which is no bad thing.

novabrkr said:

Had he sung the lead vocals himself it could have been the Prince / album of the 90's that most successfully captured the vibe of that era. It's good with the Sonny T. vocals too, but perhaps feels just a bit too forced as most would expect Prince / voice to be doing those parts.

The segues were pretty unnecessary, but I always found "Mashpotato Girl" to be pretty funny.

I always dug the cover art as well.

I agree about the segues, whenever i play this i always program most of them out, i can't be bothered with all that pseudo macho gangster shit.

Other than that, top album.

I have never liked:

New Power Soul Instr.,

Hallucination Rain,

Cherry Cherry

...

Get Wild,

Big Fun,

The Return Of The Bumpsquad,

The Exodus Has Begun,

Count The Days,

The Good Life

those are great tacks.

novabrkr said:

Had he sung the lead vocals himself it could have been the Prince / album of the 90's that most successfully captured the vibe of that era. It's good with the Sonny T. vocals too, but perhaps feels just a bit too forced as most would expect Prince / voice to be doing those parts.

The segues were pretty unnecessary, but I always found "Mashpotato Girl" to be pretty funny.

I always dug the cover art as well.

THIS but i think it still does, the albums of two year period... just insane

thedance said:

New Power Soul Instr.,

Ahh, that's another of my favourites, I always forget it

^Agreed. One of my favourite Prince instrumentals.

Goldnigga is ok but this album I love. '93-'96 was a great era for Prince, hopefully more music from that time will be released.

I kind of like the segues.

damn right, the title track and Get wild are u right up there amongst his best funk. Still don't get what the hell Cherry cherry is all about though!.

funkyhead said:

damn right, the title track and Get wild are u right up there amongst his best funk. Still don't get what the hell Cherry cherry is all about though!.

I love Cherry Cherry becuase its funny, its supposed to be a spoof of those old 70's soul jams, check out the lyrics. Its pretty funny, makes you appreciate the song differantly