While I wait for new music -- I just listened to "Come" -- what an amazingly complex, melodic, and beautiful song!! so many layers, 11 minutes of brilliance!! And having the explicit lyrics mixed with such beautiful musical layers embodies what prince is about.

I just heard the "Come" outtake w/ the synthesizers and bass guitar and neat little rap in the middle: "Maybe you should wrap your legs for a while, see if I can make you smile, I do my very best to get you in the room, I do my very best to get you in the mood, I cry for you to take me underneath the table and (shlooop)... the time has come for me to get RUDE"

WOW -- he transformed the song into a funk classic. amazing!!

Oooh, baby U're so good.
Oooh, baby U're so good.
Aw, shut up!

I love this song. The vocals r on!
The lyrics r

I love it

theodore said:

Me too

nurse said:

Is it a clarinet solo on there? its beautiful. The lift nearer the end is awesome too.

the life is awesome! it's as if he's really made love through the song and climaxes at the end...incredible

Jatrig said:

I think the slurping noises and lazy non-artistic lyrics are a Prince lowlight. It's almost a parody of Prince's sexual side which I always assumed was done on purpose as a slap at Warner Brothers. It's like bad, going-through-the-motions sex. The music is cool though.

I love the stripped down synthy version from The Beautiful Experience TV show, as opposed to the horns-heavy version from Come....

I was playing this the other day. The horns on this track are among the best P. has ever arranged. Yes, the sexual lyrics aren't fantastic (going by the words, he seems remarkably conservative and unoutrageous in his methods, for the rampant sex innovator he styled himself as ). But the 'Fender Jazz mashed potato fuzztone' line is one of his immortal lyrics to me .

I also love the 'Spiritual Revolution' version - cool, P techno-funk. I'm not sure what other versions there are, but I think there's at least one more.

'Pheromone', from the same album is a great one too, musically, and the words are ... interesting.
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Come is my favorite P song with Little Red Corvette. maybe the 4th or 5th Prince CD I bought and I thought the song was freaking outstanding from the moment it started.

That song is INCREDIBLE! That's what I'm talking about! Only P can do that! If u can't tell I'm mad excited right now...

11 minutes of XXX rated funk-tabulous-ness. Prince’s tribute to the female orgasm and it is such a wonderful thing. Lay back and let the groove stimulate you.

love it!

Jatrig said:

I think , and I hope, that there isnt a person on this site, who doesnt like this little gem!! Its a classic

I always refer to this song as his "Ode to Oral."
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Come is an amazing song. The artistry and the musical composition of that song are... in my opinion... phenomenal. He's on the TOP of his game vocally in this masterpiece... YES... MASTERPIECE.

It's a tremendous song, and I used to listen to it regulary. I still pop it in when I'm feelin' frisky and confident. lol

BUT... with that being said...

PRINCE IS SICK! The man is disturbed! lol

I say that because he gets WAY TOO DAMNED EXCITED singin' about his honey's COME!

There's one part where his vocals dissolve into screeches, as he sings... Cooommeee... no more will you cry... COMMMEEEE!!! yeahhh yeeeaaaaahhhhh YEeeEAAaaaAHHhhhHHhhhHHHaaaaH!!!!!

The man must be all lost in the ill na na!!!!

For someone to go all off screechin' and screamin' YEeeEAAaaaAHHhhhHHhhhHHHaaaaH... that must have been one hell of a CLIMAX!!!

lol

"Dark" is the classic jam off the Come album. It hits the perfect tone for the themes of the song. I love the pleading, angry, dark, cynical, begging and insecure Prince songs. This version is so much better than the Crystal Ball version.

MantuaPharoah said:

If you've never had a screaming, screeching, swearing, sobbing orgasm (or made someone else have one), you need to bone up. Pun intended.

I like the alternate version, I believe it may be included in The Beautiful Experience thingy that came on tv back in '94 or '95.

Genesia said:

HEY... I handle mah bidness! lol

But seriously... you don't think the man is just a LITTE TOO INDULGENT in the song? lol

I love it! It's Prince in every essence of the song. To me, it was a modern soulful Darling Nikki, or Tamborine or... Lovesexy.

BUT... the man is just sick! lol

ooh baby you’re so good... Love the hell out of this song

I dig the aural effect in the middle of the track, where Prince whispers in your left ear, then moves to your right -- that's when your are wearing your cans (headphones).

It's so cool. It's just as stimulating when you are listening to the Come jazz track in your ride he whispers in one speaker to the other side. Pretty sweet.

I do also dig the "early" Come version on Prince's "Glam Slam Ulysses" stage show, which ended up on "the BEAUTIFUL xperience."

The ending - or the part I refer to as the 'rapture' or the actual orgasm (exactly at 9:00 - lasting until 10:50) is among the greatest parts of any Prince song.

Lengthy at eleven minutes - it has to be that long to make the reward of the end that much better and "nuttier" - if I may. You can feel the building explosion.

I thought maybe I was the only person who had the patience to really feel this song. Glad to see others who dig it.

bobsteezy said:

Isn't it supposed to take a long time?

(Not that 11 minutes is a long time, mind you...)
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I thought this song was 13 minutes long? Mine is

Genesia said:

Sure is.

realgirl2004 said:

Oh my bad. I checked its 11 min

Genesia said:

I'm not gonna stop til the war is over

Imagine an EP of all the versions on one disc?

Can't even begin 2 xplain what this song does 2 me!