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All rights reserved.New Power Soul (NPG) - Prince (CD 1998)
| Track Listing 1. New Power Soul 2. Mad Sex 3. Until U're in My Arms Again 4. When U Love Somebody 5. Shoo-Bed-Ooh 6. Push It Up 7. Freaks on This Side 8. Come On 9. One, The 10. Funky Music (I Like) 11. Wasted Kisses - (hidden track)
Album Notes New Power Generation: Prince (vocals); Mike Scott (guitar); Mr. Hayes (keyboards); Rhonda Smith (bass); Kaj (drums); Marva King. Additional personnel: Chaka Khan, Larry Graham (vocals); Doug E. Fresh (rap vocals); Kate Dyson (bottleneck acoustic guitar); Pierre Baptiste, Clark Gayton, Wayne du Main (horns); DJ Brother Jules (scratches). Following up the 4-CD opus that was CRYSTAL BALL is NEW POWER SOUL, yet another collaboration between the Artist Formerly Known As Prince and his recording unit, The New Power Generation. Continuing down the path of musical independence has allowed the Artist to mix and match musical cues. Hence, within the measures of "Mad Sex," we find minor key brass arrangements tangoing with hip-hop scratching and call-and-response chanting. His horn charts are also used to great effect on songs such as the percolating "(Eye Like) Funky Music" and the chugging funk of "When U Love Somebody," a track that finds our hero's falsetto in fine form. As is the case with much of the Artist's career, his broad creative strokes make it easy to envision his compositions fitting perfectly into other artists' repertoires. "Shoo-Bed-Ooh" could be a long-lost TLC track while Salt 'N Pepa could have a ball kicking it on "Push It Up!" One of the most interesting compositions is "Come On," a sexual paean to an older woman that finds the Glyph collaborating with a barely audible Chaka Khan over a bed of swirling synths, bottleneck acoustic guitar and a stripped-down trip-hop beat. | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||||
Reviews  New Power Soul CDReview created: 03/17/08 by:  I bought this CD for one song "The One" simply put one of the top 10 Best songs written, performed, produced by Prince, period! The album is OK and has a MN funk band feel. Makes you want to see Prince in his late night Jam Session Mode. Review ID: 10000000006239637 Was this review helpful? Report this review   New Power Soul, by PrinceReview created: 01/11/03 by: cdm72 -- a member of Epinions Pros: "Come On", "wasted kisses". Cons: All the other songs sound just about the same. Every time I listen to Prince's 1998 record NEW POWER SOUL, that's 1 hour and 3 minutes of my life I'll never get back. That probably sounds bad, doesn't it? It's meant to. I've been listening to Prince since 1987 and in 1990 I went back and bought all the records I'd missed up to that point, so if I know any music in the world, it's Prince, and whatever it is on this record, it ain't Prince. Oh, it TRIES to be Prince, with twisted around lyrics ("Every while in a great once / There comes to town a show / That lives up to all you're funkspectations / No matter how high or low" from the title.. Review ID: 10000000000259933  As Bad As It GetsReview created: 07/29/00 by: BimTrinkman -- a member of Epinions Pros: Shiny disc makes an excellent coaster Cons: Shiny disc makes an excellent coaster Prince, I gotta hand it to you. Somehow, you were able to write a software program that enabled your Mac to automatically create an album. Using a series of logarithms and other complex mathematical processes, your software not only wrote the music and lyrics to all eleven tunes on Newpower Soul, but it performed every musical instrument flawlessly, from the Backstreet Boys drum program on "Shoo-Bed-Ooh" (gotta love these song titles), to the bleeping, burping, bip-bopping key-cheese melted all over "Until Ure In My Arms Again," to the too-trite-to-be-tight horn section on the title track,... Review ID: 10000000000259934  Not as bad as they would have you believeReview created: 10/29/01 by: svk1069 -- a member of Epinions Pros: Some funky gems. Cons: This is far from Prince's best work. I'll admit it: I hated this album when I first bought it. I shelved it after one listening and left it there for three years. I just pulled it out to give it another chance, and I'm glad I did. This album is not nearly as bad as its made out to be. There are some good jams here, and even at his worst, Prince is still better than most artists on the radio today. I particularly like track number 4, "When You Love Somebody." There is some great horn work in it. Other good tracks include the opener "New Power Soul" and weird "Freaks on the Side." Be sure to leave the CD in the player for hidden... Review ID: 10000000000259935 Another JointReview created: 11/19/03 by: jtreviews -- a member of Epinions Pros: It's Prince Cons: It's sounds more like the NPG "the group" stuff and not so Prince like I wouldn't say it was his best album, but then who amongst us could review Prince's work as his best. He constantly reinvents himself and his music. This album was just one of the forks in the road and it needed to come to life. We all want to hear those jams that are in the infamous "vault", but what should we expect.... more albums like this? If so then why do we keep buying his albums? He is simply great at creating music for himself as well as others. This album does have great jams and some that just don't make it to our everyday playlist, but I for one would listen to it again. So in 20. Review ID: 10000000000259936 Epinions.com ratings are not included in the item's average rating. Links in this review may have been removed. |
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