RumAndRaisin said:

Well OK, but wasn't he concerned that the fans and everybody who went to his shows didn't even know those songs existed and he mostly played those in concert?

LiveToTell86 said:

it would of been hypocritical to change your name and distance yourself from the prince figure, than come out and play kiss and purple rain

I love this album, and it is in my top ten! Absolutely love P Control - have such good memories of life at the time it was released back in '95!

Even listening to it in the car at the moment!

i adore this album i rly do, i luv p control,shhh,the most beautiful girl in the world(although the original version that was on the beautiful experience ep is much better) dolphin(definitley my fav on this album),now,eye hate u and gold was ok thought it was a bit cheesey but love the guitar solo,of course what rly inoys me about this album is those stupid npg operator intros i think that will date the album quicker than it should date

RumAndRaisin said:

Makes sense... But it really hurt his relevance and public image, that he was performing only then-currently not released songs, right?

LiveToTell86 said:

no, Eye Hate U and Gold which were performed on thew march 1995 Ultimate Live Experience Tour were released later in the year and charted really well in the uk, so if anything it helped

RumAndRaisin said:

And don't forget he'd already aired "The Beautiful Experience" TV Special which featured a couple of the tracks.

If only "We March" had been "Lovesign" this would have been a pretty darn perfect Album.

RumAndRaisin said:

But did the tour itself do well and did it get good reviews? And didn't it hurt the attendance of the tour after this one (because he refused to sing old hits)?

LiveToTell86 said:

That's because at the time it looked like The Gold Experience would never get
released. So Prince decided to tour the album anyway. The idea being that he
was basically a 'new' artist without a record deal or any officially released
material. So the only way to hear his new album was to come to the show and
hear it live.

BorisFishpaw said:

Well in that way, he was doing the right thing, and the songs were good enough too, better than most of his material in the past few years. So was the tour a success?

LiveToTell86 said:

in some countrys the crowds were brilliant and they loved the new stuff, others wernt so sure, the england crowd on the 4th march wembley show sounds poor. it sounds like about 12 people have turned, and 2 are death and 9 are drunk.

RumAndRaisin said:

Yeah, especially the second night, some awesome jams and his great putdown :"This ain't a photo-session, muthaf***er!!"

As I recall, didn't the tour not do too well financially because of the million-dollar stage that Roy Bennett pleaded with Prince not to make, and which he couldn't even completely put up at some venues?

Re TGE, I always loved that he put a diff version of TMBGITW, more faithful to the live version, on the album.

BlackCandle said:

it was called the endorphinemachine

didnt it used to have a lot of problems some nights?

My God what an album. I LOVE the shit outta this CD. It's criminal that it's out of print. Prince was on point like a mofo when he did this CD. P Control, Endorphinemachine, Dolphin, Hate U and Gold are my jams. Hell, I love the whole thing.

Yeah it's a great album!

I love Dolphin, Gold and Sshh!

PatrickS77 said:

the guitar solo in dolphin is one of the best minuites in anything anywhere by anybody!

If only "We March" had been "Lovesign" this would have been a pretty darn perfect Album.[/quote]


This is without a doubt Princes greatest album from the nineties, and being a fan from the 80's, (I think we've all noticed that the 80's fans favour all the earlier albums, and all the fans from the nineties see Prince from a totally different perspective and are all about the nineties!), I rate this album in my top 5.

It is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! The only song that I don't care much for is "We March" but I wouldn't replace it with "Lovesign".....

I think "Interactive" should have been on this album. That song is too easily forgotton and should have made the album.

BlackCandle said:

1) Interactive
2) Endorphinmachine (original version)
3) Shhh
4) Days Of Wild
5) Now
6) The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Mustang Mix)
7) Acknowledge Me
8) Ripopgodazippa
9) Love Sign
10) Dolphin
11) Pussy Control
12) 319
13) Hide The Bone
14) Billy Jack Bitch
15) I Hate U
16) Gold

This would have been a killer
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Fantastic album and tour, it was such a pity that Dayz of Wild and Interactive didn´t make it onto the album. Ok, they made it onto the Crystal Ball, but not everyone has that. Funk wise, Dayz of Wild kicks the shit out of about anything he did of that gerne in the 90´s, i would nearly put the song on a par with DMSR.

Whitnail said:

i wuld say its better than dmsr, although i do prefere the 90's as a rule.

days of wild really came alive live, that bass!

Question for oldschool prince fans.

Do you like this album like the cats posting?

or is this a newbie thing?

I think its ok,... overated, I think of this period as the begining of the dumbed down music and lyrics.


"I Hate U" is the best of the bunch, the eric leeds extended version best.

violetblues said:

erm.. dumbed down music and lyrics?? have you heard days of wild, race, come, letitgo, the most beautifull girl in the world, now and superhero?

violetblues said:

depends what is oldskool, I have been a P fan since 84, not sure if that is counted as oldskool or not. It is fair to say, the TGE would have had problems living up to most of P´s early 80´s work but it would have been a good follow up to Lovesexy instead of Batman

Whitnail said:

Ohhh yea you're O l d s c h o o l.

More from oldschoolers, c'mon

For sure a newbie thing
Most of the songs from that era just sound like AOR (hows that for old school)
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DexterDayglo said:

i take it you like reo speedwagon then

RumAndRaisin said:

I love "Days Of Wild" I love "Letitgo",...i kinda like "Come" .....i like the "Come" album a lot more.
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truley love TGE think its one of his better put together albums and too love "Dolphin". My most fav is the beginning of " hate U" b4 he starts all the talking wish he would have put a third and fourth verse in there. Its one of the most beautiful dark song have heard. And Shhh, Endorphin Machine, Gold is up there 2.

DexterDayglo said:

lol, yea nobody uses the term AOR unless they are very oldschool,lol