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The Chocolate Invasion (Trax from the NPG Music Club Volume One) (2004)

Where the lyrics of The Chocolate Invasion (Trax from the NPG Music Club Volume One) take you, and where it was really made.

Nine of this album's ten tracks were already on Prince's website in 2001, and the album has never been officially released as a CD.

Key places

Recorded at Paisley Park Studios (2004)

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Album story

Overview

• The Chocolate Invasion (Trax from the NPG Music Club Volume One): the twenty-ninth studio album by Prince
• Released March 29, 2004 by NPG Records
• Download-only release through Prince's website, NPG Music Club
• Ten tracks, all songs written by Prince
• The album's title comes from a line in "Judas Smile"

Background

• Nine of the ten tracks were already available on the same website in 2001
• Some of those tracks may have rearrangements in music and/or lyrics
• "U Make My Sun Shine", a duet with Angie Stone, was released as a single in 2001
• Three more tracks had a limited release as CD singles during Prince's 2001 Hit'N'Run Tour: "Supercute", "Underneath the Cream", and "Gamillah"
• "The Dance" was later re-recorded and included on the 2006 album 3121
• All tracks except "Judas Smile" and "The Dance" were at one point included on the aborted album project High

Recording

• Paisley Park Studios is listed as the place where the album was recorded

Cover

• The disc artwork on the download page showed a slightly different configuration of the album
• That version was missing "The Dance" but included "My Medallion"
• The difference suggests a last-minute change by Prince, replacing "The Dance" with "My Medallion"

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Prince Rogers Nelson, born June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; died April 21, 2016 at Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
• Signed with Warner Bros. Records in 1977 at age 18; first album For You released April 7, 1978.
• Career spanned funk, rock, R&B and pop, with estimated sales over 100 million records.

Career

• Breakthrough with Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981) and 1999 (1982).
• Purple Rain (1984) made him the first singer to hold the number-one film, album and single in the US at the same time.
• Sign o' the Times (1987) is widely considered his greatest work.
• Changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993, becoming known as the Artist Formerly Known as Prince; reverted to Prince in 2000.
• Won seven Grammy Awards and an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released as a download-only album through NPG Music Club
• Never officially released as a CD

Reappraisal

• In 2015 the album was released on the streaming service Tidal in a different configuration
• The 2015 version also included the full-length version of "U Make My Sun Shine"
• The 2015/2018 edition runs 7:05 for "U Make My Sun Shine", compared with 5:52 on the 2004 release
• In 2018 the album was released on other music services, including Spotify and the iTunes Store

Records

• No official CD edition exists
• Bootleg CDs of the album are available

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album's title comes from a line in "Judas Smile".
• "The Dance" was the only track not previously available on the website in 2001, and it was later re-recorded for the 2006 album 3121.
• The 2015/2018 configuration replaced "The Dance" with "My Medallion".
• "U Make My Sun Shine" was a duet with Angie Stone and was released as a single in 2001.
• Three tracks were given limited CD single releases during the 2001 Hit'N'Run Tour.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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