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Come is a top 5 P album Far and away best of the 90s and one of the best of his whole career. It's a very consistent, tight, and well thought out project even if Gold was "the one" and this was presented as some afterthought for WB. Beats the hell out of what Gold ended up as IMO. [Edited 4/6/24 14:12pm] | |
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Meh. "Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends" | |
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That's a hot take. I disagree with you, but that's a hot take. | |
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Come, The Gold Experience, and Exodus are a trilogy of excellent albums.
Touching on domestic abuse with "Papa" or pointedly "We March"-esque race and social issues as in "Race," the album stays balanced. The other side is lustful sexuality with "Come" and "Pheromone," then sees the opposing arguments of regret and forlorning in "Dark" and "Solo." It's peppered with other varying topics like euphoria ("Loose!"), love ("Space"), and the familiar war with Warner ("Letitgo").
I think TGE's production has a sharper treble-esque filter on it which gives it that brighter, sparkling type of sound. It sounds digital. Whereas something like Come damn near feels like it was made to be pressed solely on vinyl. In the shadowy production, there's a mid-range warmth to it that - despite being taught to not explore empty dark houses - invites us into the ominous and foreboding that is Come. Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. | |
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agreed a million percent: Pheromone Space Loose
one of his best 3-in-a-rows ever | |
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top 5 90s album
is it better than:
PR SOTT Parade/ATWIAD Dirty Mind 1999
(these are generally regarded as the obv picks for top 5 prince albums)
id say no.
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in no order: | |
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Pheremone is a top 5 90s song of his to me. | |
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Meh to your comment | |
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Better than all albums recorded before 1989 ! | |
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Come vs head: best oral sex song? | |
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COME is a great album, like 8/10. Does it compare with any of his 80's album ? Maybe not. But compared to most of the artists of the time, Come is a masterpiece. It s definitely better than anything D Angelo ever released. Lose is ahead of its time. | |
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It's a fantastic album, but not Top 5, not enough good tracks. Space live & studio versions are fantastic, the title track is killer, Dark live was fantastic especailly in the later years, but then after that, Phermone is good every now and again, can't say I listen to the other tracks. | |
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Interesting! I love hearing other folks' hot takes.
Totally disagree with it being top 5, but I definitely enjoy the album a lot - worth revisiting for sure. It still bugs me that we didn't get the original "acid house bass line" version of the title track though, and I prefer the remix version of Space as well.
It's kinda terrible as an album imho but there are good songs on there for sure. ALSO I love the length of it. | |
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TrivialPursuit said: Come, The Gold Experience, and Exodus are a trilogy of excellent albums.
Touching on domestic abuse with "Papa" or pointedly "We March"-esque race and social issues as in "Race," the album stays balanced. The other side is lustful sexuality with "Come" and "Pheromone," then sees the opposing arguments of regret and forlorning in "Dark" and "Solo." It's peppered with other varying topics like euphoria ("Loose!"), love ("Space"), and the familiar war with Warner ("Letitgo").
I think TGE's production has a sharper treble-esque filter on it which gives it that brighter, sparkling type of sound. It sounds digital. Whereas something like Come damn near feels like it was made to be pressed solely on vinyl. In the shadowy production, there's a mid-range warmth to it that - despite being taught to not explore empty dark houses - invites us into the ominous and foreboding that is Come. Pretty much my thoughts too on these 3 or 4 albums. . It's hard in a way to seperate Come as a stand alone album as the whole batch of songs from the time were intertwined on The Beautiful Experience movie and live shows. . I love the album but maybe just outside my top 5. We were spoilt and always think what ifs... It could've been better without Orgasm and the segues/ Poem. Strays Of The World would've been a great closer. And a shame the Come EP didn't happen with the remixes.. | |
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lustmealways said: Far and away best of the 90s and one of the best of his whole career. It's a very consistent, tight, and well thought out project even if Gold was "the one" and this was presented as some afterthought for WB. Beats the hell out of what Gold ended up as IMO. [Edited 4/6/24 14:12pm] Yes. Very underrated album. "The password is what." | |
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Actually I'd forgotten how great Pheromone and Dark were. Hmm maybe this better than I remember! | |
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That falls under the "personal opinion" column. [Edited 4/8/24 13:44pm] | |
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Come is one of Prince's best albums of the 90s It's even better than TGE imo. U are now an official member of the New Power Generation
Welcome 2 The Dawn Free the SDE now! | |
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My opinion is unpopular (lol) but I think Come is a mediocre album. On the other hand,I think TGE is Prince’s best album of the 90s. | |
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Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. | |
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Yeah I find it impossible to rank Prince albums.
If I was to make two little tweaks to it, I would: 1. Swap "Come" for the original with the arpeggiator style bassline 2. Swap "Space" for the remix 3. Swap "Orgasm" for "Strays of the World" | |
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Many people have a lot of fun with anything you can think of and write down. I'm one of those people who like what you write
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.... to poop on. There's a 90's reference for you. | |
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which space remix?
i actually agree that it doesnt quite work as an album for a long time i thought it was one of his better 'albums' from the 90s, ie something that only works if you listen to it as an album, which is half true, but even in spite of that, id say come is like his 90s equivalent of controversy, as an album. its pretty inconsistent. the title song is cool and has some great horns but its just padded out to fill up the album length. race is just trite, lyrically, and irritatingly peppy. i do like space but its also kind of bland, but its a nice bland prince song. dark is musically great, i love the bridge especially, but its a second tier 'my lover left me and done me wrong' prince song. i like let it go though, its the most fully formed song on there, and i like solo just cos its got amazing vocals, and a very unusual thing for prince to do, and i like orgasm, just as a cool little weird thing to have. papa is great but too short. all personal taste obs, but for a 90s top 5, id rate it like: D&P (minus push and jughead), C&D, the truth, emancipation (with lots of skipping/editing lol), GB/love symbol/come.
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I'd rather put Come on for a listen than Dirty Mind, Parade, Lovesesy or 1999. Never been particularly fond of the sparsness of DM, or the production soundscapes on Parade or Lovesexy. The best songs on Parade and Lovesexy are some of his best but there's much that I don't especially enjoy. 1999 is something I've spoken about enough times before, half of it is top tier untouchable, the other half just bores me and has never touched me in any meaningful way. The orger formerly known as https://prince.org/profil...nglishGent | |
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Re Space remix, it was the one from the Maxi Disc single, I think it was called "Universal Love Remix" or something. Anyone unfamiliar, do look it up. Enjoyed your takes on the rest of the songs, I think we're pretty aligned on that. I think there's probably a great extended version of the album, if we mined the best stuff from the Beautiful Experience, the Come stage musical project, and other odds and ends from the era (e.g. Sampler Experience etc). | |
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Ill refresh my memory I always wondered about one line in space That everything I wanna do to your body, baby I would do to your hand Does he mean he wants a handjob? | |
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Yeah, we can agree to disagreee on that one..lol. Come is an ok album, not to me one his best, but even stuff that's just ok, always has some strong, solid songs, and that is what Come is to me. We all have our opinions though, so there's no right or wrong answer to this one. | |
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Haha I thought he was saying "I would do to your head"
But genius.com disagrees so who knows | |
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