Exodus (The New Power Generation album)


Exodus is the second studio album by the New Power Generation. Although the track listing boasts 21 tracks, many of them are narrative segues, leaving only nine actual songs. Of those, one is an instrumental. The album spawned three singles, however only one was released in the United States.

Album concept significance

The album's title was seen as mysterious by most people, due to Prince's s and unusual behavior in various interviews given during promotion of the album. However, in an interview, former NPG dancer Mayte Garcia made a statement regarding the album's title and concept:
In the same interview, Morris Hayes added on to Mayte's statement and said:

Album background

While their previous album, Goldnigga was more hip-hop oriented, Exodus is more of a pure funk offering, strongly influenced by the sound of Parliament and P-Funk. This album still downplays Prince's involvement in the band, with "Tora Tora", another in the long line of Prince's personas, as a background vocalist whose face is covered with a red veil. The front man for the NPG on this release is bass player Sonny T. who handles the lead vocals. Prince does provide lead vocals on two tracks, "Return of the Bump Squad" and "The Exodus Has Begun" using manipulated vocals and is clearly present on many of the spoken segues, although sometimes using a disguised accent.

Track listing

  1. "NPG Operator Intro" – 0:35
  2. "Get Wild" – 4:32
  3. segue – 0:38
  4. "DJ Gets Jumped" – 0:22
  5. "New Power Soul" – 4:10
  6. "DJ Seduces Sonny" – 0:38
  7. "segue" – 0:43
  8. "Count the Days" – 3:24
  9. "The Good Life" – 5:48
  10. "Cherry, Cherry" – 4:45
  11. segue – 0:18
  12. "Return of the Bump Squad" – 7:20
  13. "Mashed Potato Girl Intro" – 0:21
  14. segue – 3:00
  15. "Big Fun"– 7:26
  16. "New Power Day" – 3:49
  17. segue – 0:14
  18. "Hallucination Rain" – 5:49
  19. "NPG Bum Rush the Ship" – 1:40
  20. "The Exodus Has Begun" – 10:06
  21. "Outro" – 0:37

    Singles and Hot 100 positions

  1. "Get Wild" – 4:51
  2. "Beautiful Girl" – 4:32
  3. "Hallucination Rain" – 5:52
  1. "Get Wild" – 6:01
  2. "Get Wild" – 6:38
  3. "Get Wild" – 5:04
  4. "Get Wild" – 6:14
  5. "Get Wild" – 4:33
  6. "Get Wild" – 6:20
  1. "The Good Life" – 4:12
  2. "The Good Life" – 6:40
  3. "The Good Life" – 6:40
  4. "The Good Life" – 5:14
  5. "The Good Life" – 5:05
  6. "The Good Life" – 5:48
  1. "Count the Days" – 3:29
  2. "Count the Days" – 3:25
  3. "New Power Soul" – 4:11