Prince - The Gold Experience POLL

"letitgo" too. i love "letitgo"

most of come is really successful new jack prince imo

Come is dope and I like all of the tracks

Come is the only Prince album whose tracks I've trouble remembering beyond "Letitgo" but like anyway.

"Letitgo" was the radio hit, right?

“Letitgo” is one of his best songs

You don't remember the title track? "Space"? "Papa"? I'm with DJP that Come is right up there with his best '90s stuff.

I actually recorded a version of Letitgo with me doing all of the harmonies maaaaaaaaany years ago.

are you ready for the reaaaaaaal?

I listen to Come more like a continuous album, it just doesn't let up the funk and dope atmosphere.

You don't remember the title track? "Space"? "Papa"? I'm with DJP that Come is right up there with his best '90s stuff.

― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.),

Yep on "Space." Nineties Prince:

1. Emancipation
2. TGE
3. Come
4. Symbol
5. D&P
6. C&D
7. Bleh

I'm not here to shit on Emancipation because "Sleep Around" is one of his hottest house-era jams but ... there's a lot there that doesn't need to be there.

well, yeah

That's why I love triple albums.

Emale.coooooom

Lot of emancipation sounds like he struggled to get through it. Or like he really worked to get rid of offending weird edges. Though he still ended up with cringe moments. I've tried to come up with perfect playlists of it but it's really tricky to make it work.

Agree with the 90s ranking above

The more I think about pussy control I keep wondering if John waters wrote it

https://www.discogs.com/The-Artist-Formerly-Known-As-Prince-The-Dawn/release/14983400

This looks great and like a triple with more life than emancipation but God, what a slog. I wish he just made short n sharp albums in the 90s like he did ten years earlier. The CD era did his weakness for musical overload no favours.

Actually that dawn set just looks like a compilation of every single thing he meant to release in this period. That's a LOT of npg action

the dawn is really not a slog inasmuch as any three-disc behemoth is inherently a slog, it would surprise you, it surprises me too. whatever fan put it together had an excellent sense of sequencing and pacing. i almost like to think of it as the unrealized glam slam ulysses

i'm relistening to the dawn rn and once again find it so impressive that i will send it to anyone curious but also my ilxmail does not work bc it is tied to a dead email address

im tempted to find it but idk if i want to listen to half those songs that much (18 and over? pussy control? we march?), though maybe in this new context, they will seem different. i know a lot of fans really adore this period as prince was so fired up and productive. im actually reading a jim walsh book on the era at the moment (basically just write ups he filed from the time, rather than a bigger picture view of it).

here's the undertaker if anyone hasn't heard it. worth half an hour of your time i think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZwGxv1GvMU

Alfred's list OTM.
Anyone creeped/skeeved out by Prince lyrics in the 90s or otherwise should prob
stop listening to a good portion of all his stuff asap. You shouldn't go to pre-JW Prince for family friendly musical wholesomeness.

Who wants wholesomeness? Dont think anyone has argued for that. So untwist your panties please.

My boxers are hanging fine. You?

Got briefs on today but they're not my favourite. Only got them on as they were a gift. Wonder if prince was briefs or boxers guy.

boxer briefs: https://flic.kr/p/2k2JmPw

I know somewhere there is a fan with all the npg store merchandise in pristine condition.

When ppl say prince never really opened up in his music its these little details that make up the man that are missing.

I've a feeling he wasnt into underwear actually.

kinda sad people are ignoring his great late career masterpiece Vikings song #skol #purplepride

crank it up to celebrate our win over the pack yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq3SfauwzgQ

When ppl say the gems stopped after 92 its songs like purple n gold that tell me they just weren't paying attention. Says more about them than anything else.

90's Prince for me from beast to least:

Come
Grafitti Bridge
Symbol
Gold Experience
Emancipation
Diamonds and Pearls
Crystal Ball/Truth
Black Album (if you want to count it)
Vault
Chaos and Order
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic

At least 100 great tracks! An enormously fecund era!
I will also rep for all four of the final albums.

in fact: Prince: Graffiti Bridge - What is the Answer to The Question of UR Favorite Song?

Y’all just talking about 90s Prince like this epic demonstration of quality control never came out:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4166E3PC5GL.jpg

For me, a lot of how I hear this album and mid-90s Prince is through the Crystal Ball box – which is a total dog’s breakfast but also shoved a lot of 90s odds and sods up against outtakes from his 80s heyday. And perhaps surprisingly the 90s stuff is, candidly, no more hit or miss than the material from the 80s, with plenty of experimentation and playfulness. As a result I wasn’t particularly disappointed when I finally dug into the proper releases during this era (including TGE) as they seemingly all had a few amazing moments, a couple of horrible clunkers and a lot of stuff that was serviceable and maybe rewarded deeper listening for an incredible guitar solo or the like.

Also, and I’ll say this again, the Crystal Ball version of P. Control remains the absolute fucking greatest.

"Wasted Kisses" is great. It says a lot that it was an unlisted track buried as track #49 (with 38 blank tracks preceding it) while the rest of that album is crap.

i dont think the 80s albums had any real duds
def some umm idk how good this is moments, but even those were still interesting in some way?
in the 90s, the highs were just not as high, which made the rest seem less good.
but obv there were still good songs there. he still sounded inspired and like he was trying, compared to the 00s and 10s. i recently listened to his hit n run albums and couldnt believe that in 2014/15 he was still trying to write modern sounding bangers.
wasted kisses just leads to the suspicious myth that there were lots of great songs he made but didnt make it to the albums. but who knows if that is really even true?
but as soon as he left warners, and he becomes independent, you can see that his albums start to sound fairly forced. he never stopped trying to write commercial material, which at that stage, he prob should try avoiding.

theres a doc on the 90s called slave on amazon which is interesting and makes a good case for him as a business sage and innovator in the 90s and beyond, but while thats all great, as the music started to suck, it was hard to care so much. but hey, thats all artists after a certain stage in their careers. i suppose the drop with prince just seemed more dramatic.

i made this post but prob should have posted it here
Prince's 'Slave' era and battles with Warner Bros - C/D