Gold, yay or nay?

Is the song a stone cold classic or an overrated piece of shit? I for one thing this is one of his top songs. Simple keyboard line, great vocals, interesting lyrics, great fadeout. A real building classic, with that Stairway to Heaven jive that makes anthems stick.

The song is just amazing. When P still had it.

Wave your wildsigns high!!

this song sounds like something off a Disney soundtrack

may u live 2 see the dawn

a yo prince im really happy for you imma let you finish but Michael Jackson had one of the best records of all time!

I rarely play it. Its overrated as its a typical Prince good/great quality release. Coming in th eera of Chaos and Come makes it seem all the mover great imo. Cause shit like Dolphin, Endorphine Machine, Now, and We March sounds uninspired or by the numbers to me.

EDIT: I thought you meant the album not the song. The song is trying to be the 90's Purple Rain to me. Its a good song but overbaked to me. Grade B to B+
[Edited 11/17/09 16:58pm]

Love it.

Yay.

I JUST finished listening to this album like 20 minutes ago. I wasn't bored once, and actually looked forward to the last track as it approached.

The sad thing is some of these folks prefer Lotus.

Wave your wildsigns high!!

2freaky4church1 said:

Who's pimpin' who if nobody gets a second chance?
This is the story of illusion, coma, pimp & circumstance...

Now, DANCE!

I think it's truly underated. I think it should have gotten as much attention as Purple Rain. I wish he would drop Purple Rain and start playing this.

fantasticjoy said:

Who's pimpin' who if nobody gets a second chance?
This is the story of illusion, coma, pimp & circumstance...

Now, DANCE!

Like the song; LOVE The Gold Experience

I dig it but not as much as Purple Rain or even The Love We Make. I've never heard the unreleased version that's supposedly more raw. I think that would help?

For me, the song didn't live up to the hype.

Yay

squirrelgrease said:

For me, the song didn't live up to the hype.

Who's pimpin' who if nobody gets a second chance?
This is the story of illusion, coma, pimp & circumstance...

Now, DANCE!

2freaky4church1 said:

vivid said:

Who's pimpin' who if nobody gets a second chance?
This is the story of illusion, coma, pimp & circumstance...

Now, DANCE!

poetcorner61 said:

squirrelgrease said:

For me, the song didn't live up to the hype.

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WOW, is all I can say! Where did you get hold of this letter? That is what I am wondering (while I sit here and fume at my X for leaving me with a Sony 5 disc changer that worked for a year until I put what was for me new Prince CDs that I have been waiting to hear--Thnx Ira!). Let me know what your source is! Thnx 4 Real!

I LOVE Gold and the whole album, he does seem to have lost something and his output was better when there was quality control, now he'll release whatever he wants which is ok but back in 94/95/96 he was angry and i liked him better then. For me TGE was the last exceptional album definately a 9/10. would've liked Days Of Wild on there but that cut didn't work in the studio, way better live and is glad Interactive didn't make although Aknowledge Me would've been good.

Stone Cold Classic.


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Gold is a classic.

I absolutely LOVE this song & video.

thedance said: wow I love My Name Is Prince, both the song and the video.....
xlr8r said: You're female, correct?
thedance: Haha funny, actually I'm male, 44 yrs old and Prince fan since 1983

poetcorner61 said:

vivid said:

Much prefer! Can't listen to Gold all the way through - I only really like Shy. The title track is a good stab at an anthem but is too cheesy. I'd enjoy it live though if he ever dusts it off.

That only means that you never really listened to it in the first place!

Definetly, yea!

Prince was quite adamant at the time that Gold was even better than Purple Rain, wasn't he?

It's clearly not - less emotional connection, a bit cheesy and definitely TOO LONG.

That said, I'm so sick of PR, I'd gladly hear him resurrect this live.

"Gold," is a Beautiful Song. This is what a "Beautiful," Song really sounds like.. Prince is really good a making these kinds of records.

Its complete cheese!!!

The only thing i like about it is the solo.

Mega cheesy mess, mj standards (when he aims for the same thing).

2freaky4church1 said:

I prefer the Lotus album compared to Gold, although Shy is an all time favourite. I like the Gold track too. It's not his deepest, but it's got a kind of collective sound to it, as if it involves everyone, whereas some songs have more of an individual lonely sound. I'll give it an 8. It's a happy sounding song and those are sometimes nice, even if they sound a bit more "poppy" than others. All that glitters ain't gold is not exactly a happy lyric but still the song comes over to me as happy. A kind of resignation to peace.

Gold is a alright song on a alright (but a bit overrated among fans imo) album.

Bohemian67 said:

As many threads have stated before the original intention of this album and Come was to release Come as Prince and Gold as on the same day putting the better more commercial sounding material on Gold but Warners didn't like that idea so yes it will sound commercial, that was it's intent, but overall the lyrics are a big fuck you to WB. To me the content of Gold (song) seemed to be that as good as these big contracts are it ain't that good as he was in dispute at the time. overall i think he was grateful to WB for the oportunity but outgrew them in turnover of music in the end.

I think that a false dichotomy has been set up asking if it is a stone cold classic or an overrated piece of shit. I think Gold is a good song, middle of the road. I play it every couple of weeks, but there are at least 5 songs on the album that I like better.