The "newer" fans, or the ones who were introduced to Prince by the Gold Experience are lucky. Viewed as an album it is great, but viewed as the live performance that preceeded it, the agonizing wait and hype over it and the songs that were expected to appear but didn't, this album can only be seen as a letdown. When you got the album in your hand, you're first thought wasn't. "Wow, I can't wait to get this home" It was "WTF!! - Where's Days of Wild + Interactive"

I must admit though. Crystal Ball was very expensive at £50, and I was a poor student, but I didn't think twice knowing it had those missing songs on it. Maybe that was the idea...

dewmass said:

If we thought it was something of a let down because of the concerts and hype, then I'd be curious to know what Prince thought of the final Gold album?

Anji said:

Prince must have been disapointed with the sales of Gold. The Single Gold had Number 1 written all over it.Chris Evans was giving it all the airplay and respect it deserved and still it struggled manfully to Number 10. Same with Eye Hate U, got nowhere really in terms of chart position, I thought the single should've been Dolphin as it was getting huge play on MTV. Another example of bad decisions which plauged that whole period. Maybe, he dropped Days of Wild as it has a touch of controversy and he wanted to stay strictly mainstream. He ended up between a rock and a hard place with Gold IMO

'The Gold Experience' could have been a hugely successful album IF Prince had...


***Released a video for "I Hate U"---This song just missed being a big hit.It was receiving a TON of radio airplay (at least in the U.S.) and many people liked this song.All it needed was a kickass video.Prince actually made a video but refused to hand it over.It seems that Prince WANTED this project to fail.

***Temporarily called a "truce" in his war with Warners---Prince did a ton of interviews around this time,but NOT to promote 'TGE'.He used those interviews to attack Warners and the music biz in general.

***Released a strong uptempo single---"319" or "Dolphin" are strong uptempo songs that had major hit potential.

dewmass said:

Isn't that just so ironic though? Was it not the controversy that kept the mainstream interested in hearing a new Prince record. Gett Off, and even Sexy MF to a certain extent, worked wonders. Did he lose his balls or did someone just put them away?!

Bust still, I think both Come and TGE are nicely sequenced.. the waves and Prince whispering on Come and of course the famous NPG-operator give both albums a nice flow.. He tried again on TRC, but the slow-downed voice wasn't really appreciated by all

I'm curious how the ONA liveset will be sequenced, as they are performances from different shows. Maybe he will solve this problem with his famous overdubs...

Best sequenced? Puple Rain and Lovesexy.
Worst? Emancipation - I think. Or Grafitti Bridge

Nikkie said:

I know I'm in a very small minority when I say this but I actually really love the Bob George style voice on The Rainbow Children. The first impression I had when I listened to those opening words was, 'this is Prince daring to be daring again, and it sounded wicked!' For the first time in a long while, he was doing something that was gonna make people say, 'what the fuck?!'

nuthinbuttamuffin said:

Sorry. Some of us don't think so. And many of those that don't have actually been buying Prince's records since 1978. Imagine that!

If you ask me, Lovesexy is THE most overrated album by Prince's staunchest, most hardcore fans. That's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it.

So I guess we're NOT really talking about "sequencing" as in drum programming and the sequencing done during the composition of a song/album.

Maybe "best track order" would be more clear.