which do you think they are? mY guesses are the exodus and new power soul albums

Exodus for sure!!

Thibaut said:

which do you think they are? mY guesses are the exodus and new power soul albums

Exodus is obviously P-Funk inflenced.

The War is P's homage to Funkadelic.

I don't see any obvious reference to P-Funk in Newpower Soul. Of course there's the west-coast hip-hop influenced beats but that was all over P's music from 96 to 01 and actually all over R&B in general in the mid-90's.

Eh, I think that it's the late-70s Funkadelic and Parliament that comes through in Prince's music the most ("Knee Deep", "Agony Of Defeet", "Icka Prick"). I can hear that influence on NPS myself. Especially the "spooky" synths on that album and Exodus must be influenced by P-Funk.

Bernie Worrell's synth playing seems to have influenced Prince quite a lot in any case. I'm hearing things that sound like something Bernie might have played even on recent albums like MPLSound or 20Ten. As a guitar-oriented album Lotusflow3r isn't that far removed from Funkadelic's stuff either.

The Camille character seems to have quite a lot in common with the "Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk" character that appears on Parliament records (his voice is either sped up or slowed down and he goes through a "transformation" or a "healing process" on the records).

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Thibaut said:

which do you think they are? mY guesses are the exodus and new power soul albums

I'm not gonna say the whole album Gold experience, but song wise I say Billy Jack Bitch.

some good points, Camille is straight out of the P-Funk book.

I hadn't thought about it before but yes Lotusflow3r is kind of influenced by early funkadelic probably with the mix of rock guitars and other music styles.

New power soul sounds P-Funk influenced to me because of the horn arrangements, and yes so does billy jack bitch... Interesting remarks keep up the good work

Also some parts of the rainbow children like the song 1+1+1=3 remind me of p-funk

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databank said:

Thibaut said:

which do you think they are? mY guesses are the exodus and new power soul albums

Exodus is obviously P-Funk inflenced.

The War is P's homage to Funkadelic.

I don't see any obvious reference to P-Funk in Newpower Soul. Of course there's the west-coast hip-hop influenced beats but that was all over P's music from 96 to 01 and actually all over R&B in general in the mid-90's.

I'd say "Push It Up" and "Freaks On This Side" are P-Funk influenced to a decent degree, especially Larry Graham's deep-ass vocals on "Push It Up".

Larry's used his low voice throughout his career, but I agree that those tracks sound P-Funk inspired (moreso than they sound like Sly / GCS). The title track isn't that far removed from late-70s P-Funk either. The disco hat fused with an otherwise pretty heavy groove should be an obvious nod in that direction (of course, the horns too).

"1+1+1=3" is definitely in the "Sir Nose" territory (looser form, psychedelic). The song is often seen as a sort of a "sequel" for "Erotic City" and Prince has said that "Erotic City" was written after he saw the P-Funk mob play "Knee Deep" live. Sort of interesting, never really thought about the possible connection there.

Prince fans hate on new power soul and I agree it's not his best or most inspired work but those horn arrangements on certain songs are extremely dope.