jaypotton said:

I don't think it would have mattered, because people still had the image of Prince in that yellow ass-less jumpsuit stuck in their heads. The feud with Warner and the name change just cemented it in these people's minds that, yep, Prince really has lost his damn mind. Personally, I just think these two factors just added more insult to injury. The only song that I really like on "Come" is "Letitgo", but I do like "Pope", so ...nope, can't live without "Letitgo". I love "Acknowledge Me", so I would have actually preferred this over the real "Gold Experience".

Spanky said:

he definitely wanted to go commercial with Gold
and Graffiti, Diamonds, &
he fought HARD with WB over this issue
i think he first stopped looking for hits after Rave fizzled
[Edited 2/13/07 22:19pm]

bellanoche said:

I agree. He had the guts to step out of his safety zone and try something different, something that I admire from any artist, which is probably why I think music sucks soo much nowadays. Nobody is willing to step out of their safety bubble and try something new. I love the Revolution, but he had reached the stars with them success-wise and also music-wise; and since you can't go any higher than that, might as well try something different, otherwise it becomes boring and generic and we all know that Prince doesn't do boring.

ElCapitan said:

Yeah, I agree. No radio station in America was going to risk being fined by the FCC to play "Pussy Control". If they actually did put it on the radio, it would have been extremely edited and would have most likely sucked. Damn, I hate that...main reason why I absolutely refuse to buy any music from Wal-Mart. Man, this makes me think about the night when I was in Wal-Mart and these two guys were asking me if I had seen a copy of Lloyd Banks CD. I soo wanted to tell them to just save their time and money; and just buy it from a store where they don't take away your rights to listen to swear words on something you pay your hard earned money to buy, but it was late and I wanted to go home and get some sleep.

Spanky said:

Gotta disagree with you there. In 1992 Prince was ALL about commercial success and this was in fact the basis of his fall out with Warners:

1) Early 92 Prince signs the reputed $100million deal with WB for 6 albums that guaranteed Prince an advance of $10million per album but ONLY if the previous album had sold over 5 million copies (as D&P had).

2) Prince felt that WB had not marketed/supported adequately as it only sold in the region of 2 million thereby negating the advance in the contract.

3) Warners for their part had hoped Prince would slow his output to allow more time to milk each release (like most major artists releasing an album every 2-3 yrs)

It was only really in this millenium that Prince became less concerned about commercial success (until Musicology that is).

BEAUGARDE said:

Except in my scenario (point one) Prince didn't fall out with Warner Bros and therefore Come would not have been a contract filler album! Also, having Come out in 93 getting appropriate promotion from both parties leaves the way clear for promoting TGE in 94!

Snap said:

Yep he wanted to release Come as Prince and TGE as simultaneously in summer 1994 but unsurprisingly Warners said no way! In fact Warners asked Prince to include TMBGITW on Come and he refused. Endorphinmachine was also on early configurations of Come. Basically once the fall out started Prince, IMHO, sabotaged Come as it became a contract filler.

jaypotton said:

Many fans will disagree with me,but here's what I think should have happened:

'Come' should have never been released That album is obvious contract filler and it's clearly not Prince at his best.Instead,he should have released 'The Gold Experience' in the summer of 94',but with the original tracklist ("Days Of Wild","Interactive","Ripopgodazippa",etc).The album should have also included "Acknowledge Me" and "Hide The Bone".This album would have been HUGE in the summer of '94! Release "Hide The Bone" as the first single,go on a big summer tour and this project would have been unstoppable!

Instead,he released 'Come' which was a "softer" album with fewer highlights,and he tinkered with 'TGE',removing some truly amazing songs and re-recording many of the existing tracks.By the time it was finally released in late 1995,the thrill was gone.Many fans had already heard most of the songs.He waited too long.

so basically,what I'm saying is,he should have shelved 'Come' and instead,released this album in the summer of 94.I'm gonna title it 'Days Of Wild' because I always thought 'The Gold Experience' is an odd title for an album,lol...


PRINCE 'DAYS OF WILD' (release date: Summer of 1994)

Days Of Wild
Hide The Bone
Interactive
Endorphinmachine
Acknowledge Me
Ripopgodazippa
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Shhh
Dolphin
Now
319
Shy
Billy Jack Bitch
Eye Hate U
Gold

I know damn well that,in the summer of '94,an album like this would have been well-received.It would have fared better than 'Come'.


Singles:

"Hide The Bone"
"319"
"Eye Hate U"
"Gold"

ufoclub said:

I was thinking it could have been a single,but they would have had to edit out the bad words I'm not sure it would have had the same impact,lol

Who cares at this point?

The songs were great regardless of reviews or sales.

origmnd said:

I totally agree!

Ahh, it's all for the better, more fans only means more headaches, harder to get rare stuff, harder to meet prince, harder to get tickets to shows, harder to get into aftershows (which is hard enough already). I think a part of Prince is happy where he is now. While another part wants the big time recored sales. (which is natural)