Kick Ass Song from one heck of a superb and energetic album!

Huh, OK, I read more.

I actually think this album is crap. I LOVE Come On. Wasted Kisses is good, but I hate the weird ass noises thrown into the mix. Its like he wanted to make the song annoying. The One has become a great live song, but the album version sounds nothing like what he's been doing with it on stage for the last decade. Nah, NPS is definitely way far down my list of Prince albums.

Cerebus said:

Huh, OK, I read more.

I actually think this album is crap. I LOVE Come On. Wasted Kisses is good, but I hate the weird ass noises thrown into the mix. Its like he wanted to make the song annoying. The One has become a great live song, but the album version sounds nothing like what he's been doing with it on stage for the last decade. Nah, NPS is definitely way far down my list of Prince albums.

It actually never was listed as a Prince album......

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Cerebus said:

Huh, OK, I read more.

I actually think this album is crap. I LOVE Come On. Wasted Kisses is good, but I hate the weird ass noises thrown into the mix. Its like he wanted to make the song annoying. The One has become a great live song, but the album version sounds nothing like what he's been doing with it on stage for the last decade. Nah, NPS is definitely way far down my list of Prince albums.

It actually never was listed as a Prince album......

Your point? It's a Prince album.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Cerebus said:

Huh, OK, I read more.

I actually think this album is crap. I LOVE Come On. Wasted Kisses is good, but I hate the weird ass noises thrown into the mix. Its like he wanted to make the song annoying. The One has become a great live song, but the album version sounds nothing like what he's been doing with it on stage for the last decade. Nah, NPS is definitely way far down my list of Prince albums.

It actually never was listed as a Prince album......

Cerebus said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

It actually never was listed as a Prince album......

Your point? It's a Prince album.

Its a NPS Album.....Point closed

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Cerebus said:

Your point? It's a Prince album.

Its a NPS Album.....Point closed

First of all, you don't dictate what gets discussed at the org.

Second, you're wrong. What is New Power Soul? It's Prince. It's Prince's band. It's Prince's songs. Dude, it's a Prince album.

Further, New Power Generation is Prince, Prince's band and Prince's songs.

Gold Nigga, Exodus, Newpower Soul (even with the stupid spelling) are Prince albums. Why someone like you, who appears to be such "fan", would try to argue otherwise is beyond me.

'm just tryin 2 push buttons. know its a album....

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

kenkamken said:

When he sang about New Power Soul on Lovesexy, the music I imagined in my mind was nothing like the album that eventually took that name. The album came out with no announcement, I just happened upon it at Fred Meyer's. I could never quite get into it, except for Wasted Kisses. I kind of like Shoo Be Doh, Until You're In My Arms Again, but there seems to be this depressive undertone, even to the more upbeat numbers.

Well didn't U know baby Gregory was put to death right b 4 this was released?

Uh there were about a thousand better ways you could have phrased that, you creepy fuck.

rdhull said:

Cerebus said:

And where have you been for the last ten years? Don't you know everybody hates everything here at the org?

Im shocked at the praise it is getting. Not the hate (it deserves?).

lol for real? I absolutely love that song. Except the "glug glug like a mug" line. Almost ruins it, but the undercover funk and absolutely astonishing horns more than makes up for it.

So I just dug it up and listened to it. What a piece of crap.

rdhull said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

It actually never was listed as a Prince album......

Gohi said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Well didn't U know baby Gregory was put to death right b 4 this was released?

Uh there were about a thousand better ways you could have phrased that, you creepy fuck.

Gohi said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Well didn't U know baby Gregory was put to death right b 4 this was released?

Uh there were about a thousand better ways you could have phrased that, you creepy fuck.

The song is good, hornz r funky as do do~ The Live Show was Mo Funky~ All I could do was Bob my head back and forth~ I caught the Columbus, Ohio show at the Ohio Center.

rdhull said:

Cerebus said:

And where have you been for the last ten years? Don't you know everybody hates everything here at the org?

Im shocked at the praise it is getting. Not the hate (it deserves?).

Cerebus said:

Huh, OK, I read more.

I actually think this album is crap. I LOVE Come On. Wasted Kisses is good, but I hate the weird ass noises thrown into the mix. Its like he wanted to make the song annoying. The One has become a great live song, but the album version sounds nothing like what he's been doing with it on stage for the last decade. Nah, NPS is definitely way far down my list of Prince albums.

^ oh, and that!!! Completely agree.

I actually love that whole album (and even wrote something like a lengthy appreciation post on here once). I understand why many people don't like it, but I love it. I love the silky production, the psychedelic hints, the whole craziness of this album.

I don't know why, I simply cannot explain, but... for some reason this song slipped under my defences and crashed into my 'me-likey' pile. It's a dense mass of thump. It is, as someone mentioned, a very dark song. It makes me nod my head and there's nothing I can do about it. The rest of the album is extremely weak... well, When U Love Somebody, Madsex and Shoo-be-doh are quite entertaining, as is Wasted Kisses, of course, but the rest... meh... especially I Like Funky Music... not by the sounds of it, you don't.... Furthermore, som people are confused as to the love Freaks On This Side is getting... I'm always conused at the amount of appreciation Come On gets... it ain't all that (to these ears) - one of the remixes was quite god - but I can take or leave the album version... give me Freaks anyday...

It's a bit like some of the stuff on Exodus; Good Life is meh, but Good Fun is fucking astonishing!

My appreciation of Prince's oises gets quite, quite bizarre sometimes.

and, I can't spell.

BoySimon said:

I don't know why, I simply cannot explain, but... for some reason this song slipped under my defences and crashed into my 'me-likey' pile. It's a dense mass of thump. It is, as someone mentioned, a very dark song. It makes me nod my head and there's nothing I can do about it. The rest of the album is extremely weak... well, When U Love Somebody, Madsex and Shoo-be-doh are quite entertaining, as is Wasted Kisses, of course, but the rest... meh... especially I Like Funky Music... not by the sounds of it, you don't.... Furthermore, some people are confused as to the love Freaks On This Side is getting... I'm always conused at the amount of appreciation Come On gets... it ain't all that (to these ears) - one of the remixes was quite god - but I can take or leave the album version... give me Freaks anyday...

It's a bit like some of the stuff on Exodus; Good Life is meh, but Good Fun is fucking astonishing!

My appreciation of Prince's noises[?] gets quite, quite bizarre sometimes.

I appreciate people whose tastes are bizarre.. it's nice to not hear the usual "Newpower Soul sucks, but "Come On", "The One" and "Wasted Kisses" are great" ... I think "Mad Sex" and "When U Love Somebody" are both a hell of a lot better than "Wasted Kisses".

As for "Freaks", I haven't heard it lately, so I can't really recall exactely what it sounds like, but I hate the crowd singing the chourses of those 3 songs (Freaks On This Side, Push It Up, Funky Music). The song has always sounded dark, and somewhat creepy to me.. maybe I'm crazy, but something about the lyrics and singing on the verses weirds me out a bit... I do like it, though.

Personally, I'd rank the songs on NPS like this:

1. Come On

2. Mad Sex

3. When U Love Somebody

4. Shoo-Bed-Ooh

5. The One

6. Freaks On This Side

7. Wasted Kisses

8. Push It Up!

9. Newpower Soul

10. Until U're In My Arms Again

11. Funky Music

But as I was making that list I realised - say what you will - I absolutely love the whole album (except "Funky Music", which I don't like). Yes, the production/drum programming is bad, and the lyrics can be hideous at times, but it's a really fun album, and as someone else said, the album sounds somewhat depressing to me - odd, considering it's mostly supposed to be a party album.

Here it is, if you're interested: http://prince.org/msg/7/3...?&pg=1

One of the few occasions where Prince went a little bit more experimental again. Which I appreciate very much. Problem: he doesn't really succeed. There's something missing. Quite similar to a song like "Strange but true".

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Dave1992 said:

Here it is, if you're interested: http://prince.org/msg/7/3...?&pg=1

I was actually gonna ask if you could find the post you wrote about it. I love this album, so I'll definitely read it. But, it's really long and I'm tired now... so I'll check it out later. I'm surprised to see how many other people commented about liking the album.

Like 'Strange But True' and 'Solo' - though I LOVE 'Solo' too! Good Fun? 'Big Fun' Is that right? I'm losing it, I tell you.

BoySimon said:

Most certainly, most magnificently BEING. It's a glorious dump of a bass line and a crunching, yearning, love-fueled crusty, punch of a song. It stinks of so many others but has enough essence of P to make it chokeful and enjoyable. It's one of the few songs on that god-awful album to merit listening to twice... if you don't believe me, well, you don't.

The truth is in there.

erik319, I don't know what the emoticon for applauding is... I don't know how to work my computer well enough to find it, but that is a masterful piece of replying. A tip of the hat to you, my god sir.

You are wrong, of course - - Freaks On This Side is a chunk of funk and a shadow-full chune of shadows and dark corners full of head swaying noise...

And I Like it.

BoySimon said:

erik319, I don't know what the emoticon for applauding is... I don't know how to work my computer well enough to find it, but that is a masterful piece of replying. A tip of the hat to you, my god sir.

You are wrong, of course - - Freaks On This Side is a chunk of funk and a shadow-full chune of shadows and dark corners full of head swaying noise...

And I Like it.

Shh, don't tell anyone, but I don't mind it myself. It's not the best, but it's by far not the worst thing on NPsoul

one of his better post wb efforts

come on and the one are prince classics

plenty of other good stuff on this cd ..

i like this one better than the gold experience thats for sure

You see... and call me naive if you wish... it appears as though George Clinton gave his blessing for two sets of musicians to pick up his legacy: The Red Hot Chili Peppers got the treble and Prince and his NPG got the bass. I can only imagine/envision/picture George Clinton bobbing his head to this tune. That's all.

Prince has inherited an awaful lot from some otherworldly musicians ... from George, he received the gift of weird, dark, bass-laden, plate shifting funk.

Freaks On This Side epitomises the "..."ness of GC and his funkadelic voyage.

See... I bet, if you were to play this song to a Big Boi or a Andre 3000 they would go... hey....yeah! or some such... I reckon they could hear the noise of Freaks On This Side like I can... that said, I have been known to have been wrong in the past. But, I'm relatively certain on this one!