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My First Time Listening To The Gold Experience Well, today is my lucky day! I finally recieved The Gold Experience and I'm mindblown. The production is so powerful and the energy is so alive. Prince mostly show all his cards here. I now think this is the best record he did in the 90's alone, IMHO Even though The Gold Experience was his last record for Warner Brothers, he was going to leave with style and pride and TGE proves that case wonderfully. This album truly rocks!!! How do you feel about it?  [Edited 4/16/06 19:11pm] Check me out and add me on:
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It's one of his best albums along with Purple Rain, SOTT, Lovesexy, Parade, 1999 and yes 3121.
Great energy and I think my all time favourite Prince track Shhh. | |
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yup.. Gold is Great | |
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omnithanos said: It's one of his best albums along with Purple Rain, SOTT, Lovesexy, Parade, 1999 and yes 3121.
Great energy and I think my all time favourite Prince track Shhh. hmm i agree with all those! "Paisley Park is in your Heart" | |
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omnithanos said: It's one of his best albums along with Purple Rain, SOTT, Lovesexy, Parade, 1999 and yes 3121.
Great energy and I think my all time favourite Prince track Shhh. Shhh sounds like a sequel to Do Me Baby that is just steamy, but great. It's definitely one of my favorite tracks from the album. Check me out and add me on:
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Gold is my favorite all time Prince album. Everything on there is golden, including We March, which is widely hated here. Great, great stuff.
I'm pretty sure that Chaos was his last album and that for 1995, he found a way to release The Most Beautiful Girl in the World and The Gold Experience independently. That's why it's so good. Don't hurt me, I'm a newb. I'm supposed to be stupid. | |
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silverchild said: Well, today is my lucky day! I finally recieved The Gold Experience and I'm mindblown. The production is so powerful and the energy is so alive. Prince mostly show all his cards here. I now think this is the best record he did in the 90's alone, IMHO Even though The Gold Experience was his last record for Warner Brothers, he was going to leave with style and pride and TGE proves that case wonderfully. This album truly rocks!!! How do you feel about it?
[Edited 4/16/06 19:11pm] as i have always said TGE is Prince's Purple Rain of the 90's Check it out ...Shiny Toy Guns R gonna blowup VERY soon and bring melody back to music..you heard it here 1st! http://www.myspacecomment...theone.mp3 | |
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doctamario said: Gold is my favorite all time Prince album. Everything on there is golden, including We March, which is widely hated here. Great, great stuff.
I'm pretty sure that Chaos was his last album and that for 1995, he found a way to release The Most Beautiful Girl in the World and The Gold Experience independently. That's why it's so good. The Gold Experience was not released independently, so, no, that isn't why it is so good. It's just a stellar album, no matter what the means of its release. | |
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The gold experience is incredible. I'm not fond of some of the segues but the album's songs are very very tight. | |
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And let me add that if Prince had released this right after  or Diamonds and Pearls, it would have been a big hit.
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Imago said: And let me add that if Prince had released this right after or Diamonds and Pearls, it would have been a big hit.
I definitely agree, but I think he saved the best for last! Check me out and add me on:
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silverchild said: Imago said: And let me add that if Prince had released this right after or Diamonds and Pearls, it would have been a big hit.
I definitely agree, but I think he saved the best for last! His early output was incredible. It really made me feel that he was going to unlease a wave of brilliant new music.
That illusion was quashed when Emancipation was released. A terrific 3-CD concept album that has many times the number of good songs compared to bad ones, but by no means a work of genius. If Emancipation where 3 hours of The Gold Experience I would still be talking about that shit now. 
What really has me perplexed is this strange mellow streak that he's going through. Musicology and 3121 are great albums, but they're very "Safe". I'm not talking abou the cursing, but the Music. I'd like to see him do an experimental album like The Rainbow Children again, but without that jazz fussion crap and the strange narration.
Either way, I'm sure Prince will continue to surprise and confound. But that bitch needs to just go ahead and release the songs from the Vault aready 
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Imago said: silverchild said: I definitely agree, but I think he saved the best for last! His early output was incredible. It really made me feel that he was going to unlease a wave of brilliant new music.
That illusion was quashed when Emancipation was released. A terrific 3-CD concept album that has many times the number of good songs compared to bad ones, but by no means a work of genius. If Emancipation where 3 hours of The Gold Experience I would still be talking about that shit now.
What really has me perplexed is this strange mellow streak that he's going through. Musicology and 3121 are great albums, but they're very "Safe". I'm not talking abou the cursing, but the Music. I'd like to see him do an experimental album like The Rainbow Children again, but without that jazz fussion crap and the strange narration.
Either way, I'm sure Prince will continue to surprise and confound. But that bitch needs to just go ahead and release the songs from the Vault aready
That is true about what you stated about TGE and Emancipation! I mean if you hold up TGE to his NPG output, TGE kills them all! I mean, this is tighter and rocks a little more than Emancipation and Rave alone. I'm not saying that Emancipation is a weak or bad album, but TGE has better quality. I'm glad he's at the point of doing that now with Musicology and 3121, by producing tighter and compact albums with material that mostly everyone can accept, even though they play them "safe". [Edited 4/16/06 19:53pm] Check me out and add me on:
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Imago said: silverchild said: I definitely agree, but I think he saved the best for last! His early output was incredible. It really made me feel that he was going to unlease a wave of brilliant new music.
That illusion was quashed when Emancipation was released. A terrific 3-CD concept album that has many times the number of good songs compared to bad ones, but by no means a work of genius. If Emancipation where 3 hours of The Gold Experience I would still be talking about that shit now.
What really has me perplexed is this strange mellow streak that he's going through. Musicology and 3121 are great albums, but they're very "Safe". I'm not talking abou the cursing, but the Music. I'd like to see him do an experimental album like The Rainbow Children again, but without that jazz fussion crap and the strange narration.
Either way, I'm sure Prince will continue to surprise and confound. But that bitch needs to just go ahead and release the songs from the Vault aready
I agree more TRC type stuff. | |
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Strange that today is my first time listening to the Gold Experience too and i feel the same way about it..... | |
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The most overated p.o.s., other than TRC  | |
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I AGREE 100%
I was listening to my P collection on iTunes on shuffle, when it hit p.control...i turned off the shuffle and continued with the rest of the album Still sounds as good as it did when it came out. On par with LoveSexy and SOTT. | |
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It is a fantasitc album...lots of great songs to break a sweat too!  | |
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silverchild said: Even though The Gold Experience was his last record for Warner Brothers, he was going to leave with style and pride and TGE proves that case wonderfully.
You mean besides C&D and The Vault  | |
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NouveauDance said: silverchild said: Even though The Gold Experience was his last record for Warner Brothers, he was going to leave with style and pride and TGE proves that case wonderfully.
You mean besides C&D and The Vault Yeah, he released Come and was going to release TGE 'independently' through another small label, but then Warner's agreed to release it. To get out of his contract quick, he then handed over complete versions of Chaos & Disorder and The Vault - The Vault being held back by Warners until releasing it in 1999! Technically, that is the last album by Prince for Warners. A lot of people believe Prince holds the masters for TGE but since it was released by Warners I've never been sure of that... | |
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Krystal666 said: It is a fantasitc album...lots of great songs to break a sweat too!
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Imago said: Krystal666 said: It is a fantasitc album...lots of great songs to break a sweat too!
HAHAHA I LOVE THAT its so cool
lets see some more dancing cats! yeah its a great album! something special about it. gold is magic and the start off Shh is awesome haha i put it as my alarm ring tone i wake up to it every morning You saw the apple
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ingela said: The most overated p.o.s., other than TRC
Overblown, bombastic, plastic... Terrible lyrics. Just three or four good songs on the whole album. | |
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silverchild said: Well, today is my lucky day! I finally recieved The Gold Experience and I'm mindblown. The production is so powerful and the energy is so alive. Prince mostly show all his cards here. I now think this is the best record he did in the 90's alone, IMHO Even though The Gold Experience was his last record for Warner Brothers, he was going to leave with style and pride and TGE proves that case wonderfully. This album truly rocks!!! How do you feel about it?
[Edited 4/16/06 19:11pm] In my top 3 Prince albums, such a rush when you first hear it!! | |
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great album 9/10 Keenmeister |
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Gold Experience is at once a great album and a frustrating one.
The album has a lot of urgency and live energy, and the compositions are inspired, but there are still some annoying touches that typify Prince's frustrating actions in the 90's. The segues become tiresome, Prince leaving off BRILLIANT rock songs like Interactive and Days Of Wild for shit like We March is absolutely baffling, and he butchers his Most Beautiful Girl song here with ridiculous overproducing (loud water drop sound effects? Lord.). The lyrics also sometimes border on silly. That said, Prince's guitar work on this is amazing, there are plenty of brilliant gems here (Shhh, Endorphinmachine, Gold, etc.), and it's still a more brilliant and energetic pop album than any he's recorded since. I'd give it a 4/5. The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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PurpleKnight said: Gold Experience is at once a great album and a frustrating one.
The album has a lot of urgency and live energy, and the compositions are inspired, but there are still some annoying touches that typify Prince's frustrating actions in the 90's. The segues become tiresome, Prince leaving off BRILLIANT rock songs like Interactive and Days Of Wild for shit like We March is absolutely baffling, and he butchers his Most Beautiful Girl song here with ridiculous overproducing (loud water drop sound effects? Lord.). The lyrics also sometimes border on silly. That said, Prince's guitar work on this is amazing, there are plenty of brilliant gems here (Shhh, Endorphinmachine, Gold, etc.), and it's still a more brilliant and energetic pop album than any he's recorded since. I'd give it a 4/5. Interactive is the best track from that era imo. I love it when he says "ain't that a bitch" and rips into the guitar solo I'm testing postive 4 the funk | |
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PurpleKnight said: Gold Experience is at once a great album and a frustrating one.
The album has a lot of urgency and live energy, and the compositions are inspired, but there are still some annoying touches that typify Prince's frustrating actions in the 90's. The segues become tiresome, Prince leaving off BRILLIANT rock songs like Interactive and Days Of Wild for shit like We March is absolutely baffling, and he butchers his Most Beautiful Girl song here with ridiculous overproducing (loud water drop sound effects? Lord.). The lyrics also sometimes border on silly. That said, Prince's guitar work on this is amazing, there are plenty of brilliant gems here (Shhh, Endorphinmachine, Gold, etc.), and it's still a more brilliant and energetic pop album than any he's recorded since. I'd give it a 4/5. I'd agree that the album could have been even better with the inclusion of Days Of Wild and Interactive, however I don't mind the segues, they are relatively short and give the album a consistent feel, I particularly like the one before 'Now' "that was then... this is..." Also, I like that there was a different version of 'The Most Beautiful Girl' rather than just the same one from 'The Beautiful Experience' EP, now you have 2 versions. | |
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I don't mind that there are two versions. I mind that the shitty one is on the album. [Edited 4/17/06 9:51am] The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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PurpleKnight said: I don't mind that there are two versions. I mind that the shitty one is on the album.
[Edited 4/17/06 9:51am] I actually prefer the album version over the single version... 
I agree with you on "We March" and the omission of some fantastic tracks though. | |
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