Come is a top 5 P album

ha, maybe it is head? ive never been sure. kinda boring though, those songs that insist they dont care about the physical, but only the cerebral (like mind sex by channel live, or was it dead prez?). i mean, cmon, thats just another sexual ploy lol.

Reply #31 posted 04/09/24 11:16am

TrivialPursuit

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Ohhh, found the mix history on the Org.

Come (alternate version #1 mixed with album version)
Space (Universal Love Radio mix w/o rap)
Pheromone (album version)
Loose! (from Versace & Other Experiences mixed with elements from album version)
Papa (album version)
Race (from Versace & Other Experiences)
Dark (from Crystal Ball)
Solo (album version)
Letitgo (Caviar Radio Edit)
Orgasm (altered with new ocean segue)

don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."

Reply #32 posted 04/09/24 1:02pm

Need more sequels.
Come Reloaded
More Come
Come again and again
Come hard
Come harder

Reply #33 posted 04/09/24 6:17pm

TrivialPursuit

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funkbabyandthebabysitters said:
Need more sequels.
Come Reloaded
More Come
Come again and again
Come hard
Come harder

haha no. I did it out of boredom and just to sorta switch up the playlist. The most challenging was "Loose!" and mixing both those versions. The others were relatively easy. The title track blends back to the album after that whole mid-section with eating pussy and it sorta comes back to the main hook. The alternate version just sorta cuts off, so I had to get creative, but it's a really nice blend there.

don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."

Reply #34 posted 04/10/24 2:09am

come is interesting to compare with TGE as come was engineered to be a bit more subdued, muted, whereas TGE is engineered to be much brighter, more compressed i think?, and louder. id love to know if there were diff versions before they were separated into the diff albums. i know theres outtakes but ive never really investigated the bootlegs from this era much, aside from live shows.

Reply #35 posted 04/10/24 5:38am

Se7en

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TrivialPursuit said:

Se7en said:

That falls under the "personal opinion" column.

I don't see how it compares to any of the albums from 1980-1988:

Dirty Mind / Controversy / 1999 / Purple Rain / ATWIAD / Parade / SOTT / Lovesexy (and I didn't include The Black Album in there on purpose).

You think Come is better than any of those albums?

Now - mind you - I think Come is an excellent album. It might squeak in the Top 10 for some, but you said Top 5. I find that hard to believe.

I believe with a catalog like Prince's, which has such specific periods or eras, you have to sorta put separators in it. 80s. 90s. post WB, whatever.

As I stated above, the 80s is golden. So to compare Come to Dirty Mind is illogical. They're vastly different time periods. Frankly, it's a different person sing on each record. One is early in his WB career, the other is part of his exit from WB.
The 20 year old Prince of 1980 is not the same person as the 35 year old Prince on Come. God, if any 35 year old here is the same as they were when they were 20, I pity them. But you get my point.

In the realm of 90s records, from Graffiti Bridge through Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic is where, I believe, Come should be judged. It's the fairest place to do so. Is it a top 5 album of the 90s? Abso-fucking-lutely.

It's unfair to any listener to try and compile 42 studio albums in a top 5 or even a top 10.

That makes the most sense. Within the 90s, it's Top 5.

Reply #36 posted 04/10/24 6:11am

boomshaka

My favorite Prince album of the 90's aside from Love Symbol

Reply #37 posted 04/10/24 6:34am

dodger07

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

There’s a boot called 10,000 Wallpaper which has sparser versions of Endorphinmachine and Gold.
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The fact he had to sit on TGE for a while allowed more time to add more and more production

Reply #38 posted 04/12/24 2:14am

FunkJam

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Not even top 5 90s, but still some.gems

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system" - Bruce Lee

Reply #39 posted 04/12/24 2:50am

Krid

It certainly is a good and ratehr consistent album, loved it when it came out... Come, Space, Dark, Let it Go - all really catchy...

HOWEVER - it has two of the most unlistenable songs Prince put to record on it, Solo and Orgasm - both are really really terrible from my point of view. sad

Reply #40 posted 04/12/24 5:57am

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This one has grown on me over the years. I totally dismissed it when it came out. I added 2morrow, Hide the Bone, Goodbye from Crystall Ball and shortened the title track. Its been a solid playlist that I still listen to pretty regularly. Letitgo shouldve been a hit.

Reply #41 posted 04/13/24 11:22am

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I'm fond of it, mainly for nostalgia reasons... but Michael B/Sonny T era was his last musically interesting period, IMO, so there's definitely some cool stuff on it.

However, it came out when I was deep in my completely obsessed, PRINCE CAN DO NO WRONG phase of my fandom, so it took me a long time before I was able to admit that there are some absolute stinkers on there.

I always preferred the creepy techno version of the title track from The Beautiful Experience. I also think that one mercifully omits the sound of terrible oral sex while a trombone solo's happening.

thank u 4 a funky time

Reply #42 posted 04/13/24 12:26pm

dodger07 said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

There’s a boot called 10,000 Wallpaper which has sparser versions of Endorphinmachine and Gold.
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The fact he had to sit on TGE for a while allowed more time to add more and more production

The version on that boot of endorphin machine is def better than the official one. But most of these songs, i still think they are just not the greatest songs he wrote. Most just sound written in a rush or not honed enough. Come the original version is cool but more like a cousin to sexy mf or gett off. One of those half rapped songs he was into in the 90s. Not much depth in any of these tracks though. Thats whats missing for me. Endorphin and interactive are fun, but the lyrics are just big n dumb.