Dark/Come - the most underrated O(+> song

Is this joint slamming or what?! I just love the organic feel of the band on this cut, quite unlike the rest of the production qualities on Come: the crisp sound of Michael's B drums, the understated nature of The NPG horns building throughout alongside the sweeping undercurrent of Morris' church-like organ, Sonny's bass punctuating during the "sunshine/dark cloud" scales, the gorgeous acoustic twanging of P's guitar toward the end and of course that magnificent climax when the hurt just bursts through...

"Sometimes I want 2 curse the ground U walk on
Even when I know that everything U feel, I feel it 2".

Is this one of the most underrated songs?
If not, which one touches you...and why?

WOW


Im gonna go listen to it again to hear what you hear! and then Ill get back to you!

I just listened to both versions of "Dark" I love them both...but one of my speakers has seperated from the cone...and the tape isn't working....so I get irritated, when the base is muffled.

ITS one of my fav. to

BEAUTIFUL song.

Fantastic description of a great song-can't decide whether I prefer Dark r So Dark.

Yeah, I like this too.


But it's credited as a Prince song and not


Gold was his first album, even though the tracks from both were mainly written and recorded at the same time!

Dark was always a song. Here's Borisfishpaw's breakdown on the evolution of the songs on Come:


"The Come album should definitely be viewed as a "" album.

"" (as a mindset) was born towards the end of December 1992, though of
course he didn't officially announce the name change until June 1993. While
it's true that some of the songs from 'Come' were recorded before the name
change, not all of them were. Besides, several songs that would up on 'The
Gold Experience' and 'Chaos And Disorder' were also recorded before the
name change too, but they're still credited to "" rather than "Prince".

Yes, there was a deliberate change from January 1993 onwards with regard to
Prince's recordings. Even though he hadn't announced it to the world yet,
he'd already changed his name to "" and 'disbanded' the NPG. He'd
decided that the new songs would all have one word titles, and he would
record them all live in the studio using just Michael B on drums and Sonny T
on bass, and do the rest himself (later he would bring Tommy Barbarella and
Mr Hayes back into the recording process as well).

In January 1993 he started recording the new songs which would later become
the backbone of the 'Come' album. The first sessions produced 'Dolphin',
'Come', 'Endorphinmachine', 'Dark', 'Pheromone' and 'Papa', with 'Loose!'
following on in February. By May he had also recorded 'Space', 'Pope', 'Solo',
'Interactive', 'Zannalee' and a couple of tracks which broke the initial one-word
rule; 'Strays Of The World' and 'What's My Name?'. It wasn't until after all
these tracks had been recorded that he officially announced the name change.

It's also worth noting that most of what became the 'Come' album was initially
officially debuted as the first recordings by "". Firstly in the "Glam
Slam Ulysses" production which featured the songs: 'Strays Of The World',
'Dolphin', 'Interactive', 'Pheromone', 'Dark', 'Loose', 'Space', 'What's My Name',
'Endorphinmachine', 'Race', 'Come' and 'Pope'. Then later in "The Beautiful
Experience" TV special which included: 'Interactive', 'Days Of Wild', 'Come',
'Race', 'Acknowledge Me', 'Pheromone', 'Shhh', 'Loose', 'Papa', 'Now' and
'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World'. Again, all tracks were credited to
"" not "Prince".

It wasn't until shortly before the final configuration of the 'Come' album was
submitted to Warners that decided to issue the album under the name
of "Prince". Initially as a way of getting two albums released almost at the
same time ('Come' and 'The Gold Experience') and getting two albums closer
to fulfilling his contract. Of course in the end both albums got delayed, and
the appearance of a "Prince" album as the first release since the worldwide
success of 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' single and the much
publicized name change just confused the public about the whole issue.

Here's a quick rundown of when each track on the released 'Come' album
was recorded...

01. Come (April 1994)
02. Space (May 1993)
03. Pheromone (January 1993)
04. Loose! (February 1993)
05. Papa (January 1993)
06. Race (November 1991)
07. Dark (January 1993)
08. Solo (May 1993)
09. Letitgo (March 1994)
10. Orgasm (August 1993)

The original version of the title track was recorded in January 1993, but the
version used on the finished album was re-recorded from scratch in April '94.
'Race' was recorded just before the "" album sessions had properly
started in November 1991, it was pulled out from the vault and revamped in
May 1993, it was then remixed in early 1994 (which is the version used on
the album). 'Letitgo' was a brand new track recorded in March 1994 (it was
originally titled 'Let It Go', but was condensed into one word shortly before
the album was released). 'Orgasm' and the album segues were originally one
track entitled 'Poem', which featured a newly recorded vocal (August 1993)
over the top of a sound collage of guitar feedback originally recorded in
1981 and Vanity's moaning from the Vanity 6 outtake 'Vibrator' which was
recorded in 1983."

http://prince.org/msg/7/262348

Excellent info! Thanks for that.

Great songs, great album.....but = Prince = Prince =

Great song and album. I love the Crystal Ball version too.

Tame said:

This has always been my favorite song on Come.

They're all Prince songs, regardless of whether he put the moniker on them or not. In the same way Camille songs are Prince songs.

If there was meant to be some kind of mindset involved in which songs belonged to which name, well even Prince himself fucked it up cos nobody can really tell the difference between which song was attributed to which name. The Beautiful Experience attributed all its songs to and yet some of those songs appeared on a 'Prince' album. Even Prince didn't know what belonged where.

Come is attributed to Prince. Come is a Prince album.

The Gold Experience is attributed to . The Gold Experience is a Prince album.