1 of Prince's BEST imho.

he should really dust off "get wild" again for his live shows.

I too am in love with this CD! There's an excellent set out there called Exodus V2 or something like that which is the Exodus album plus all the outtakes from it. I'm surprised there are a lot of outtakes for this album since a lot of material from this era must've been split up between Come, The Gold Experience, Exodus, and Chaos and Disorder.

Some outtakes I can think of are

Slave 2 The System

Acknowledge Me

Super Hero

Mad

Love... Thy Will Be Done

Funky

Proud Mary

The Funky Design

I hope I was helpful!

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Probably one of is best works of the 90's. I just wanted Prince to sing lead vocals too.

Exodus is the SHIT!

I even like most of the segue work too, which is unusual.

Hit him so hard, change fell out his pockets

Some seriously good tunes too. I love the stupidness and funkiness and nastiness. Such nastiness

Except for "Count the days" and "Exodus" pretty forgettable!

"Goldnigga" gets my vote for best NPG album.

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funkomatic said:

Except for "Count the days" and "Exodus" pretty forgettable!

"Goldnigga" gets my vote for best NPG album.

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Hallucination Rain is 4gettable?

Graycap23 said:

funkomatic said:

Except for "Count the days" and "Exodus" pretty forgettable!

"Goldnigga" gets my vote for best NPG album.

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Hallucination Rain is 4gettable?

uh

yeah

Favs: Cherry, Cherry, Hallucination Rain, New Power Soul, Exodus Has Begun.

'95. Best NPG line-up, best NPG album. Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhh.

3rdeyedude said:

Exodus comes across as Prince's homage to Parliament Funkadelic. This is the funk!!

Be sure to check out The Good Life (Big City Remix) and Get Wild (Money Maker Funky Jazz Mix) from the singles. Good stuff...

ufoclub said:

Can't believe you all are missing the true classic on that album "return of the bumpsquad"

djThunderfunk said:

Exodus comes across as Prince's homage to Parliament Funkadelic. This is the funk!!

It all depends on your funk expectations. IMO this kind of funk doesn't really work. I even enjoy "TAPOAFOM" by the old funk master himself more than this "Exodus" medicocrity.

Like his music in general with the end of the 80s Prince's funk began to be all subpar.

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Big Fun and Exodus shit over any track on The Gold Experience. He should have been braver and released the more dirty funk tracks as his own

Great album, Exodus..

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near as great as the Gold Experience and the Come album...

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my fave Exodus tracks:
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Count The Days,

The Good Life,

Big Fun,

Return Of The Bump Squad,

The Exodus Has Begun

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the only I don't like is "Cherry Cherry".

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and those seagues are annoying as well.

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Come - Exodus and The Gold Experience. Those 3 are fantastic, really the prolific Prince,

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Try to look for THE DAWN bootleg from this 1994-95 era, studio mix and alternate versions.

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The Dawn 3CD, maybe the "best" studio bootleg ever..

funkomatic said:

djThunderfunk said:

Exodus comes across as Prince's homage to Parliament Funkadelic. This is the funk!!

It all depends on your funk expectations. IMO this kind of funk doesn't really work. I even enjoy "TAPOAFOM" by the old funk master himself more than this "Exodus" medicocrity.

Like his music in general with the end of the 80s Prince's funk began to be all subpar.

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lol.......thanks.

ufoclub said:

Can't believe you all are missing the true classic on that album "return of the bumpsquad"

That is my jam. But the whole album is great. Fun and funky. I actually like the segues too...mash potato girl cracks me up.

Poplife88 said:

ufoclub said:

Can't believe you all are missing the true classic on that album "return of the bumpsquad"

That is my jam. But the whole album is great. Fun and funky. I actually like the segues too...mash potato girl cracks me up.

listen 2 mash potatoe and pan it left.

IstenSzek said:

he should really dust off "get wild" again for his live shows.

YES!!! It's long overdue. I'll never forget hearing this song for the first time. It was live at Glam Slam MPLS in 1994. He had his black top hat with the bundle of flowers on it, and his one-eyed bass, and went the fuck OFF for like 10 minutes. The crowd was going crazy and nobody even knew the song. Such a jam.

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I remember this record tided me over until Gold came out. I made a mix tape of some of the Come tracks, a couple Space and Letitgo remixes, Love Sign, Mustang Mix, and some key Exodus tracks to make my own Gold Experience until the real thing finally came out.

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Still love "Count The Days." The rhythm guitar is just to die for. If only there was a P-only vocal version available.

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The title track is just epic with all of the vocal layering. The lyrics are quite interesting as well. It's an odd mix of like 70's funk meets futuristic soul, and it doesn't get as much attention as it should IMO.

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"Cherry Cherry" is also a personal fave. I like the story it tells, and Prince back-ups are just heavenly. I especially love, "Using all the money her boyfriend Wilbur gave her she'd buy/Anything I wanted that's why my baby's so fly." Someone told me this was originally called "Chili Chili," and was about Rozonda "Chili" Thomas from TLC, but was changed when Sonny told him a story about an old girlfriend. He does mention the name Rozonda in the song and was rumored to be kickin it with Chili around that time. I remember seeing her at Paisley back then. Maybe someone remembers but didn't she get up and sing Sweet Thing one time? I swear that was her but I could be mixing up concerts.

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"Big Fun" is a cut. "Bump Squad" is killer. "Good Life" has a great chorus. The only one that never grabbed me was "Hallucination Rain." And maybe "New Power Soul." It kinda sounded like elevator music to me at the time.

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Yea, this was a great record! I would not be mad if Prince released a version of it on 3rdEyeGirl.com with him on lead vocals. I'd even pay like 7.77 for it.

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Individual songs on it are good, even very good, but no stone cold classics. Also its ruined by all the stupid segues, and unfortunately its mid 90s, meaning its from the period of olympic swearing on albums.

Mainly because of potty mouthed gangster rappers who were the rage in that 1992 -1996 period, how can I say this without being offensive, its just too ghetto Watts for my liking and him recording this stuffwas below an artist of his calibre. I mean a beautiful song like Count the days is ruined by the word - motherfucker several times and sounds like a ghetto gospel novelty rather than a proper song.

Thank God that get wild and good life lift this above the mire. I don't really get the song Exodus that just goes on too long. Some people love it, but to me its just a self indulgent experiemnt thats too uneven to be taken seriously. He's trying too hard to be like Tupac here.

3/10

That record is THE BOMB! from start to end! my absolute fav in the 90ies. hallucination rain!

the vinyl:

GET WILD 12 inch was playing from the inside and out

=> The reverse way, (normally from the edge and in)...

djdaffy1227 said:

Adorecream said:I mean a beautiful song like Count the days is ruined by the word - motherf***er several times. Agreed 100% This song would be one of my all time favorites if it didn't have the swearing in it.

the CD single has an edit version,

a sound noice (keyboard) instead of the swearing.. very cool..

even though I love when Prince swears.