I want to know the full tracklisting of the gold experience, including all the outtakes from the album. I'm trying to complete the album by including the outtakes to complete it. So far I have "Days O' Wild (Studio version), Interactive,and Acknowledge Me. Is that everything? Please help me.

misterman said:

Eye don't know the order of the different tracklistings considered by O+>, but here r the songs who have been considered 4 inclusion :
- Days Of Wild (studio)
- Interactive (not the version from Crystal Ball but the 1 on the Interactive CD-Rom & video from The Beautiful Xperience)
- Acknowledge Me
- Ripopgodazipa
- Hide The Bone
- Mad
- Funky Design

Please somebody correct me if eye 4got any.

Considering they more or less come from the same sessions, maybe u should also include Love Sign, Rock & Roll Is Alive & Calhoun Square on ur CDs, they would fit anyway...

Apart from the stud version of Days Of Wild, all these songs have been released in 1 4rm or another.

Peace & let us know whwt will b ur Gold Xperience...

The official track list I have is as follows:

p control
endorphinmachine
shhh
we march
tmbgitw
dolphin
now
319
shy
billy jack bitch
i hate u
gold

Hope that helps you.

ok I have that much, but where does the outtakes supposed to fit in. I know that Acknowledge Me comes right after Days O' Wild. Also does Interactive comes before or after endorphine machine. What about ripopgodazipa, and mad and funky design, where do they fir in also? I'm almost there guys. Thanks for your help.

The 1st configuration of "the gold experience" (May 94) was:

-Interactive
-Days of wild
-The most beautiful girl in the world
-Now
-Acknowledge me
-Ripopgodazippa
-319
-Shy
-Billy Jack bitch
-Eye hate u
-Gold

2nd configuration (october 94):

-P. controle
-Endorphinmachine
-Shhh
-We march
-Days of wild
-The most beautiful girl in the world
-Dolphin
-Now
-319
-Shy
-Billy Jack bitch
-Eye hate u
-Gold

Still, eye remember reading in Uptown way back in 94 dat the other songs eye've mentioned have been considered 4 the album. But eye don't think there was any order, u'll have 2 create ur own Gold Experience...

Mad
Funky Design

these were NPG trax outtakes from Exodus along with many others.

and were never considered for GOLD.

There is another outtake from this album,it's called "Strength" but I don't think it's circulating.

justanotherasshole said:

Well, eye know these 2 songs also xist with Sonny on vocal & have been considered 4 Exodus, but Uptown said they were 1st considered 4 Gold, which makes sense 2 me cuz they would fit, & the Prince version of Funky Design don't have the choirs of the NPG version, which proves it has been reworked AFTER 4 Exodus.

As JimiPaisley already said, there were only 2 completed & sequenced versions of The Gold Experience prior to it's release.

1st version:

01. NPG Operator 0:11
02. Interactive 3:01
03. NPG Operator 0:06
04. Days Of Wild 3:44
05. NPG Operator 0:18
06. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 4:36
07. NPG Operator 0:20
08. Now 4:30
09. Acknowledge Me 5:27
10. Ripopgodazippa 4:40
11. NPG Operator 0:16
12. 319 3:19
13. NPG Operator 0:10
14. Shy 5:03
15. Billy Jack Bitch 5:32
16. Hate U 5:54
17. NPG Operator 0:44
18. Gold 7:23

Track 1 is the same as the NPG Operator before Endorphinmachine on the released version.
Track 2 is the same as on Crystal Ball, except without the "R U ready?" bit.
Track 3 is the "If U want 2 access another experience, here's how" segue (normally included on the beginning of bootlegs of the studio version Days Of Wild).
Track 4 is the short studio version of Days Of Wild (unreleased)
Track 6 is the slightly longer original version used on The Beautiful Experience E.P.
Tracks 9 & 10 are exactly the same as on Crystal Ball.
Also, there's no gap between the end of Now and the scream at the beginning of Acknowledge Me.
Track 12 is the same as on the released version. It's just that the whole "319 please" segue was originally included as part of 319 rather than as part of the NPG operator segue.

2nd version:

01. Pussy Control 5:59
02. NPG Operator 0:12
03. Endorphinmachine 4:07
04. Shhh 7:18
05. We March 4:49
06. NPG Operator 0:06
07. Days Of Wild 3:44
08. NPG Operator 0:18
09. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 4:25
10. Dolphin 4:59
11. NPG Operator 0:20
12. Now 4:30
13. NPG Operator 0:31
14. 319 3:09
15. NPG Operator 0:10
16. Shy 5:04
17. Billy Jack Bitch 5:32
18. Hate U 5:54
19. NPG Operator 0:45
20. Gold 7:23

Identical to the released version, except for the inclusion of Days Of Wild (and it's preceeding NPG Operator) which are identical to the ones on version 1. Days Of Wild was dropped from The Gold Experience at the last minute. P Control was originally titled Pussy Control but changed just prior to release.

The Gold Experience went through many changes prior to these 2 sequenced versions, with a lot of the tracks on Come and The Gold Experience swapping between albums.
There were also earlier longer edits of Days Of Wild and Billy Jack Bitch.

It's difficult to say which tracks recorded around this time may or may not have been included on earlier versions of The Gold Experience, as there was a vast amount of material recorded around this time. It was probably Prince's most prolific period since 1986/87. There was also an earlier rumor that tracks from both come and The Gold Experience (plus others) would have been included on a 2 or 3 CD set possibly entitled The Dawn.
[This message was edited Wed Nov 20 4:41:10 PST 2002 by BorisFishpaw]

It's just my opinion,but I think Prince made a huge mistake by dropping the song "Days Of Wild" from the album.There were several other strong songs that also should have appeared on the album.Here's the way I think the CD should have been released...


PRINCE 'DAYS OF WILD' CD---Released in summer of 1994.


"Interactive"
"Endorphinmachine"
"Days Of Wild"
"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World"
"Hide The Bone"
"Ripopgodazippa"
"Dolphin"
"Love Sign" featuring Nona Gaye
"Now"
"319"
"Shy"
"Acknowledge Me"
"Billy Jack Bitch"
"I Hate U"
"Gold"


Notice I removed the weaker tracks like "P Control","We March" and "Shhh" (cool song but I prefer Tevin's version).Maybe those tracks could have been used as B-sides.

DavidEye said:

DavidEye - I agree about P Control but I love We March and Shhh. Personally I love making up pretend albums by Prince or and this was one of my favourites, a double album combining the best from Come, TGE and outtakes:

DISK ONE
"What's My Name" (cool seeing as the previous album would have started with My Name is Prince!)
"Endorphinmachine"
"Shhh"
"We March"
"Pheromone"
"Loose!"
"Papa"
"Race"
"Dark"
"Come"

DISK TWO
"Days Of Wild"
"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World"
"Dolphin"
"Now"
"Shy"
"18 & Over"
"Acknowledge Me"
"Billy Jack Bitch"
"I Hate U"
"Gold"

B SIDES
RipopGodazippa
P Control
Rock N Roll Is Alive
Strays Of The World

yOU CANNOT MAKE RIPPOPGODAZIPPA A BSIDE. DAMN THAT SHOULD HAVE BBEEN A SINGLE!!! SOMETIMES I WONDER WHAT THE MAN IS THINKING WHEN HE PUTS STUFF OUT. i MEAN Hate you was good as a single it got decent radio play but there was no video release- it could have been much more than what it was. Seriously i was a bit dissapointed with The Gold Experience- I hardly listen to it now. I mean Dolphin, Shy hate you Billy jack bitch 319 and gold are good the others I ca nseriously live without. AND YES I THINK COME WAS A BETTER ALBUM. i don't like hip hop Prince Altho SHY is some of the best stuff he has done.


LarkSanDers

So dis forum is becoming "how would u have liked the Gold Experience 2 have been like ?". Anyway, as most of us eye have wondered the same with every album, but we have 2 admit dat :

- Either we should consider every album bein in the order of the recording sessions (which means every album is a 7 CD-set).
- Either we have 2 do as eye do : accept an album is what is IS, i.e. what Prince wanted it 2 b when he decided 2 release it, & stop tryin' 2 figure out HOW it should or could have been.

Still, eye also remember of dis rumor about Come & Gold bein' released as a 2 or 3 CD set. Does any1 knows if it's true or pure bullshit ?

madcapxtc said:

Oh chill out,we're just having fun

It's fun to think of "what could have been",and with Prince albums,there are always alot of outtakes,early tracklists,rejected tracks,etc.

madcapxtc said:

I remember in winter 1994,The Prince Family newsletter printed a rumor that 'TGE' would be a 2-CD set containing not only the 'Gold' tracks,but also 'The Undertaker' songs as well.It was to be released on Tommy Boy Records ( a divison of Warner Bros).

DavidEye said:

Don't worry, eye wanna have fun with y'all also... But my dream would b a "ultimate Prince compilation" including ALL versions of ALL Prince trax by order of recording, who shares dis impossible dream ?

BorisFishpaw said:

No there weren't...

Check this thread from a while back where I posted another tracklist ready for release...

http://www.prince.org/msg...msg_114859

Neversin.

Oh yes, you're right. I'd forgotten about that one.

I consider the extended version of 'Billy Jack Bitch' (including the 'New Dell Inn' horn portion) to be the only essential outtake from this time.

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giotto said:

How about the "319" extended version?
Or better yet the "Dolphin" extended version?

Neversin.

Neversin said:

Hell, thanks for reminding me! The 'Glam Slam Ulysses' versions of some of the tracks from the 'Come' album, as well as the 'Versace Experience' versions of 'P. Control' are all essential listening!

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DavidEye said:

And an another called "Laurianne".

Hey! Wasn't the second version of 'Empty Room' also from this era???

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