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.

Cherry, Cherry is so dumb; it makes me laugh, but I love it anyway. Even with that song's silliness, there's not one bad tune on the whole album. And Get Wild, The Good Life, and Return of the Bump Squad are three of my favorite songs of his from the '90s.

"Bow down, muthafuckahs..." Skits are bit excessive. The Mashed Potato Girl segue is my shit, for real.

KeithyT said:

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.

FULU

dance4me3121 said:

i believe this album came out in 94 and i am just now hearing it for the first time. i think its a great album.i kinda wish it was released as a prince album with just prince vocals. Did this album sale well? are there outtakes for this album? whats everybodys favorite songs? im really like "cherry cherry" a lot and "new power day" is hilarious.

It's actually from 1995. It's indeed Prince's homage to the P-Funk Allstars, a wonderful album that definitely needs to be rereleased. If you like it you should check out for 2 unreleased, older versions of the album from 1994, that have surfaced 2 years ago with perfect sound quality. They contain some astonishing outtakes to say the least!

Eye've dusted mine off now its in heavy rotation again...

It was nice of 2 produce an album 4 his childhood idol Sonny T....

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SchlomoThaHomo said:

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.

Good post. I've never heard that before about 'Cherry Cherry' originally being titled 'Chilli Chilli' after Chilli from TLC, and I suppose the Rozonda line makes it believable

Great album from my favourite era. As others have said great out-takes and B-sides as well.

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thedance said:

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..

I completely agree with you on this!!

wasitgood4u said:

A couple a yrs ago I played the Exodus has begun for my 11th graders in honor of Passover and it literally tore the roof of the mf. They were running to other classes to bring Their friends in to check it out - and these were the music students!!!

That must've been awesome. I would've been going nuts if my music teacher played this -- partially because of all the cussing. "My music teacher just played a song that says 'muthafucka' and 'Tearin shit up with a vengeance'!"

That song is one of the funkiest from Prince in the 90s. For me, it's in the top 10 of Prince's pure funk songs from any era.

The "Slave" years was some of his best work (The Gold Experience, The NPG Album, a few tracks from COME, Beautiful Experience), but he didn't have any support. He was fighting with WB, folks were looking at him like he was "crazy", the market was flooded (WB Prince album, NPG albums, TAFKAP album)....the avg person didn't know what was going on.

I remember hearing Acknowledge Me on Soul Train and couldn't wait for the CD to come out and then it was left off...really?!?!? LOL!!!!

I think GOLD might have been a better "come back" album than Emancipation. I pulled that out the other day and couldn't beleive how dated it sounded. Besides White Mansion, I can't make you love me, Betcha by golly wow, joint 2 joint and a maybe a few others I couldn't listen to it.

wasitgood4u said:

A couple a yrs ago I played the Exodus has begun for my 11th graders in honor of Passover and it literally tore the roof of the mf. They were running to other classes to bring Their friends in to check it out - and these were the music students!!!

Nice!!! Whenever I play some Prince stuff they can't believe how good it is.....they're shocked. LOL!!!!