Re: Prince The Gold Experience Full Album Zip
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The Gold Experience is the seventeenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Prince. It was credited to his stage name at the time, an unpronounceable symbol (shown on the album cover), also known as the "Love Symbol".
The album was produced entirely by Prince and released on September 26, 1995, by NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album charted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the Top R&B Albums.[2] The singles "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", "I Hate U", and "Gold" charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at numbers 3, 12, and 88 respectively.[2]
On June 18, 2022, The Gold Experience was reissued for Record Store Day 2022. The reissue on vinyl is a replica of the original translucent gold expanded, limited promo album from 1995.[3] The day prior, the album's CD version was rereleased. This marked the first time the complete album had been reissued following the legal battle over "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World".
The Gold Experience sold 500,000 copies in the United States and peaked at number six on the Billboard 200, failing to meet the record label's commercial expectations. According to biographer Jason Draper, it may have undersold because Prince was losing touch with younger listeners and also because his contractual dispute with Warner Bros. Records overshadowed the album's promotion, which he had done well before it was released.[14]
The Gold Experience was voted the 30th best album of 1995 in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published by The Village Voice.[19] Christgau, the poll's supervisor, ranked it 10th best in his own year-end list.[20] In a retrospective review, Keith Harris from Blender cited The Gold Experience as the best album Prince recorded in the 1990s, "a mix of newly stripped-down funk and delicate balladry that reasserts his dynamic range".[5]
Several people speculated that the song "Billy Jack Bitch" was written about a Minneapolis Star Tribune gossip columnist known as "CJ".[21][22][23] Prince denied the song was about the columnist when CJ herself interviewed him.[24]
The Gold Experience was the first full-length Prince album to be credited to his unpronounceable symbol, and was released at the most public, heated stage of his battle with the major label industrial complex. With the word SLAVE written on one cheek, Prince shined on the opulent ballads The Most Beautiful Girl in the World and Gold and the defiant single Eye Hate U, and the album earned widespread critical acclaim.
The Record Store Day 2022 re-release of The Gold Experience is an homage to the rare US-only promo version of the album released in 1995. The two-LP set is pressed onto translucent gold vinyl with a bonus suite of Eye Hate U remixes on Side D.
I don't know how Come is explicity weird. It's not. It's overtly sexual, if anything. It starts with come and ends with an orgasm, while facing many emotions (or experiences) like racism, animalistic lust, corporate slavery, love and more. Come has it's amazing moments. The epic title track, the mellow beauty of "Space," the funk workout of "Race," the balls out jam of "Pheromone" (which feels like a sister song to the title track), some EDM meets NIN of "Loose!" the personal "Papa." Plus, the timely (for him) talk about Warners in "Letitgo." It always seemed he was just sick and tired of being sick and tired by the time he recorded "Letitgo." I think something like "I Wanna Melt With U" would fit quite well on Come.
I did a remix album of Come called Come Again. I reworked parts of it, did new segues, and it comes in 4 seconds shorter than the original. I like both versions equally.
The Gold Experience is a whole other story. It's brighter, crisper, more layered, thicker. I love it's rock edge with "Endorphinmachine," "Dolphin," it's funkiness with "Now," "P Control," it's dirty funk like "319," and it's power ballads, "Gold," "Shhh," and "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World." It's so wide and varied. I can't stand "Shy," and I've taken it out of my playlist, and re-segued the spaces between. (I will fite u)
They're two very specific times in Prince's life, it seems. Yet recorded around the same time. I think they're equally stellar albums, but TGE may win out by a hair, simply because there's more of it.
It's a tough choice for me, both albums are really incredible with some really high quality tracks. However, overall I prefer Come slightly over TGE...I've always loved the Dark hypnotic grooves and mysterious vibes on Come. I'm a little curious which album fans prefer, from what I've seen here before I think it may be split about 50/50
Over time I have come to appreciate Come more than TGE. TGE won me over initially with its' energetic, polished and bombastic songs and production style. But now I feel like Come is less 'in your face' and more subdued in nature, which I seem to prefer apparently these days.
I don't know how Come is explicity weird. It's not. It's overtly sexual, if anything. It starts with come and ends with an orgasm, while facing many emotions (or experiences) like racism, animalistic lust, corporate slavery, love and more. Come has it's amazing moments. The epic title track, the mellow beauty of "Space," the funk workout of "Race," the balls out jam of "Pheromone" (which feels like a sister song to the title track), some EDM meets NIN of "Loose!" the personal "Papa." Plus, the timely (for him) talk about Warners in "Letitgo." It always seemed he was just sick and tired of being sick and tired by the time he recorded "Letitgo." I think something like "I Wanna Melt With U" would fit quite well on Come.
That ain't weird. That's just kinky fun! Dark, but kinky.
The gun and masturbation line you noted always raised an eyebrow for me. Even the first season of Big Brother in the US had two house guests making out in the kitchen. The girl was sitting on the counter, the guy was in a towel between her legs. He held a knife to her throat, and she continued to kiss him. He took the knife away, and she pulled his hand back. It was enough that the male houseguest was warned about it but later removed from the game.
Hey, some people have kinks. Prince's just plays out in music as well. I guess it's weird to Baptists or something. haha
I have a memory of reading an interview he did before these albums came out. (Maybe in Spin magazine?) He described the albums and their forthcoming release. The interview said that Prince seemed more excited about The Gold Experience than Come. Perhaps that was simply because The Gold Experience was fresher in Prince's mind? Regardless, it biased me. If Prince was bored with Come and thought TGE was better, then perhaps I was inclined to think that as well.
I have a memory of reading an interview he did before these albums came out. (Maybe in Spin magazine?) He described the albums and their forthcoming release. The interview said that Prince seemed more excited about The Gold Experience than Come. Perhaps that was simply because The Gold Experience was fresher in Prince's mind? Regardless, it biased me. If Prince was bored with Come and thought The Gold Experience was better, then perhaps I was inclined to think that as well.
To expound on that, I think he saw TGE as a new beginning, and the end of Prince was COME (especially with the death dates on it). He literally wanted corporate PRINCE and independent to battle it out on the shelves. NPG Records was his new indie label and he wanted to make a point. But, WB thwarted that.
It's also not surprising to me that one looks drab, gray, colorless, and the other is bright in sound, artwork, and production.
Possible, but then it would boggle the mind why he would remove Days of Wild since it was dripping in profanities. DOW was pretty much a constant until I think he ultimately decided to remove it because Pussy Control and Now kind of already make the album hip-hoppy enough.
let it go, i do like, but its pretty workman like for prince really. just a song made as an attempt at a radio friendly single in 93/94. it was already dated when it came out. gold is just a bad, weak attempt at a big inspirational anthem. eye hate u, great as it is, its more of an album track than a single IMO.
they should have released dolphin, billy jack bitch (obv radio edited), and shhh as singles. shhh was big on black radio as far as i remember, so why that didnt get a single release, is strange.
Yes it is, but even better in the configuration with "Days Of Wild" and the original superior studio take of TMBGITW.
I also agree with who's sayin' "Gold" and "Come" are like a double album.
I never understood what's so great in "The Dawn" 3CD fan-made-bootleg and why it is regarder so high here, even looking at it as overall better of the original P releseas.
Yes, it is interested to listen once to some edited versions of songs and to a different tracklist to what we already have, but to me it isn't more of a novelty.