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PrintableWith the title of the album being "New Power Soul", you got to expect more soulful songs than funky songs. I think that the listeners had different expectations after his latest releases of: crystal ball, emancipation and the gold experience before this. I think most listeners had gotten use to hearing at least 1 song that was "funky", but this album doesn't really have that type of song.
I got this album because of the song "The One" and at that time I was a little disappointed in the album. But this was early on in my collection of Prince. (Basically because this album was really cheap.) Since then I came to realize that Prince likes to make music of all kinds. This album is just an example of him trying something different. The only question I have is why is there so many blank tracks to get Wasted Kisses to track 49? [This message was edited Sat Apr 5 22:10:34 PST 2003 by buist] | |
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It's like a piece of shit that's been baking on a hot sidewalk. "You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." "
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Supernova said: teller said: And some of you fuckers call this lifeless...  Awright, get your ass off your shoulders. It's a song, not politics.  Hey look pal, I'm the official org defender of NPS. It's my job. Fear is the mind-killer. | |
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CryForLife said: All U funky folks gotsta free up your myndspaces, "good & bad" R just meaningl-S constructs created by (in)humankynd 2 jusTfy forcing their opinions on 1 another. None of us shud know N-y bettr than tha neXt if the rap is or is not tha real Prince, shudnt he B tha judge of that?
As an outer reflection of humani-T, artists evolve, and they gotta B true 2 themselves and I think 2 debate whether 1 X-pression is mobetta than another is N X-ercise in pointl-S-ness. Cry For Life http://www.cryforlife.com Spoken like a champ! Excuse me Perlman, nOW DAS WHUT I'm SAYIN! Soups On! "Sooup's On!" | |
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This is from New Music Express; England hates the man, but their critics sure are funny.
NME THE ARTIST New Power Soul (NPG) ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS a handsome Prince. He made beautiful, inventive, magical music which charmed all the world's more adventurous princesses into falling in love with him. But one day he turned, bizarrely, into a twisted typographical error and waged a one-man war with the evil kingdom of Warner Brothers for his freedom to flood the market with substandard funk drivel. Once the dragon was slain, the multimillionaire slave was free to make merry with the fairest maidens in the land. Alas, coincidentally, the maidens decided they were all washing their hair that night. Without even noticing, the prince had turned into a frog. Put it another way: Prince, as he was, wrote songs as drop-dead sexy as 'Alphabet Street', as anthemic as '1999', as portentous as 'Sign 'O' The Times', as roaringly dramatic as 'Thieves In The Temple'. The Artist, meanwhile, specialises in piss-poor, ladeez-in-the-house party jams such as 'Push It Up' or 'Freaks On This Side', two characteristically vacuous cuts from this latest forgettable collection. Most of 'New Power Soul' is bad George Clinton right down to the rubber-kneed basslines and appallingly shoddy cartoon sleeve. It's not a question of needing to know your porno-funk history to appreciate it either: stupid-fresh retro chic or not, this is ripe tripe on a silver platter. The remainder of the album is all helium-voiced slush ballads, with The Artist drooling on about treating his laydee real fine with perfume and champagne. Oh, ambassador of lurve, with these rank romantic cliches you are spoiling us. Let's face it, take away his maverick spark and Rogers Nelson is naffer than an '80s provincial disco full of lecherous travelling salesmen. With moustaches. Sure, even those prime-time Prince albums had their incontinent jams and bonkers asides, but always balanced by bravura ambition and breathtaking self-reinvention. And granted, all the maestro's usual tricks are here: James Brown licks, lascivious seducto-grooves, multitrack vocals, pristine production, shimmering guitars. But without memorable tunes or innovative thrust, it all adds up to a degree in slap-bass from the University Of Muso Toss. Thus, as he turns 40, The Artist becomes ever more like Kenny G with a side order of George Michael: a wanker in a waistcoat. For my money, Warner Brothers were right: old Purple Head was far more interesting as a 'slave'. Only a fool would write off a talent this febrile, but for now, the schlong remains the same. 3/10 Stephen Dalton 
But you are all full of shit gas, NPS was meant as a party album or should I say, party favor. Not everything has to be SOTT, calm down. Good album, except for awful title track. --- All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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I think Mad Sex is really good, but the rest of the album is just ehhh except for a few songs... I think Rave is better, but that's not sayin' much about Rave. Personally . I think we are all Boring with No Lives cause all we do is talk about Prince,Criticize and Gossip. I need a Horny Man is what I Need and probably so do most of yas. We are Sexually Frustrated what we R... Amen..!!! - zelaire | |
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 It's not that bad. Come On, Mad Sex, & The One makes the cd worthy. I think the art work is a piece of  | |
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I really dig this album, I love She-be-do ( or how ever its worded ) and can basicly listen to it straight through. Its not one for everyone. | |
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