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Come - Prince 1958 - 1993 - Some of his best work? Hi Prince Fans,
Although I have most of Prince's records (not all), my collection is a mixture of old tapes and CD's. So a couple of months ago, I started replacing my tapes with CD's. As dull as this reads, it made me listen to albums that I'd not listened to for at least 2 hours! (no really, for months & months). 'Come' was one such album. I apologise if this thread has already been done but I just wanted to say how fantastic this album is! (for me) I beleve it is definately up there with some of his greatest work. The Guitar work is amazing,(hendrix esk even,- listen to the end of Orgasm) Some fine vocals (well they never disappoint!) And some superb tracks like Letitgo, Race, Space, Pheromone really bring out the best in Prince. There is also a bluesy feel to the album on some of the tracks which for me is an area where Prince excels. Would be interested to hear what you guys had to say about this album. Thank you. I heard the rip when you sat down! | |
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I wouldn't go that far, but it's certainly an album that seems to have aged very well considering it's impact at the time.
The 93/94 period the material was culled from produced a lot of strong tracks, I think Come could've been even stronger had it kept a few of the earlier tracks on there like Endorphinmachine, or even Interactive. | |
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when this cd came out it was ahead of its time some fans just warent ready for it i think its a great cd and i listen to it all the time  aka ChristinaS | |
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Come is a great album. Dark is one his most haunting and classy ballads and his vocals at the end rival any other vocal delivery in his canon of work.
Papa has a great groove and is all the better for it's disturbing commentary. Although some of the tracks sound a bit rushed and few of them represent what he is truly capable of as a songwriter, the album really works as a whole and in terms of sitting down and actually listening to an album beginning to end, I definately find it one of his most rewarding. And the cover is cool as fuck. [Edited 10/22/08 5:47am] | |
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Come is one of those albums that, when it's good, it's very, very good and when it's bad, it's horrid.
Very, very good... Come Space Pheromone Dark Letitgo The poem that runs through it all (Part of which ended up in 21 Nights - did you notice?) Horrid... Solo Orgasm On balance, it's one of my favorite albums. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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I think Come is a very underrated album. I mean, Pheromone and Loose and Race and Papa and Dark and Solo are great songs. 
The album version of Come is a great and very sexy extended version of the unreleased track. 
The only track I don't really like is Letitgo. It was a late addition to the album and isn't really one of the one-word titled tracks that makes up the rest of the album.  [Edited 10/22/08 8:14am]   FREE THE 29 MAY 1993 COME CONFIGURATION!
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Compared to what Prince has done in the last 10 years, "Come" is great. But compare it to what he did up to Sign O The Times and it sucks. | |
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hell yeah the album is banging along with the gold experience album a one-two punch!!!
btw the solo at the end of orgasm is lifted from the seque of private joy-ronnie talk 2 russia from controversy man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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Come is very good, imo, but also uneven. As someone else said when it's good it's very good, but when it's bad...
I prefer the original sequence that included Interactive, Endorphinmachine and Strays of the World. To scrap those and replace them with the bland "letitgo" was a mistake. It spoiled a would-be classic. But then again, Prince wanted The Gold Experience to be regarded as a classic, not Come. Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths...(Jeremiah 6:16) www.ancientfaithradio.com
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come is okay.. let's relax here. papa. let it go is fine. the rest of it was nothing to write home about BOB4theFUNK | |
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I luv Come (apart from Solo and Papa) 1 of my faves of his Come, Pheromone, Race, Letitgo are my best tunes...but my all-time fave Come song is Space its just a very great dreamy shexy track, I also brought the Space maxi-single with its amazing remixes (Universal Love etc) it makes a genuis companion for Come.....an album thats a work of genuis!  [Edited 10/22/08 14:37pm] Everybody's looking 4 the ladder
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93-96 i think was one of his best eras. just he put Come and Choas and Disorder in a bad sequence because of his battle with WB.
the Dawn would have been an awesome album. You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
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One of his best? 
Now I don't know about that. It'd say its around the middle of the pack for me
But I dig it for: Space, Letitgo, Pheromone, Dark, Loose! and Solo. I know a lot of people hate this one, but it feels more like the centerpiece of the album, ultimately explaining why a lot of people felt his heart wasn't in this project. And Letitgo makes for a good resolution
My top albums are mostly from the 80's but as far as 90's go... I'm still not sure. All of the 90's albums I own are great in their own way. I find it hard to discriminate had 2 run away... pride was 2 strong. It started raining, baby, the birds were gone | |
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I never understood Y the original sequence omitted the funky title track. I Love U, But I Don't Trust U Anymore... |
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Come is a "very good" album... not great, not terrible.
I LOVE the title track. Come just puts me in a zone. The part where Prince is just goin' off... screaming... and really getting into the song about 3/4 through is unbelievable! It's as though the man is really "in the mix". I could do without the slurps... lol... but it's an amazing song! The segue into Space, and Space itsself... is wonderful. Great tune. After that Dark and Letitgo are cool... and Papa is just "interesting" I suppose. I could do without Race and Solo... but as a whole, I enjoy this album. Not one of my faves, but Come is one of my favorite Prince singles. I still rock to that in my car on Friday and Saturday nights when I'm in "pimp" mode.  The public is squeezin' you kiddo. You'd better kick ass on your next album or else! |
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"Come," has always got me dancing...I spent many years in an antique home built in 1875...My stereo was in the dining room and there was nothing like the sound coming off of these hard wood floorz...I miss the acoustics there...I haven't heard music as clear and romantic since, and although I had two husbands in that home, neither one of them listened to music like I did. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight... | |
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I can't get this effin album nowhere!!!     I swear the words "HATER" is wayyy over-rated...smh | |
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Although I can totally empathize with this statement,
DreamyPopRoyalty said: My top albums are mostly from the 80's
but as far as 90's go... I'm still not sure. All of the 90's albums I own are great in their own way. I find it hard to discriminate I find Come to be one of Prince's best 90's albums. It's different, which is good. Papa is a brilliant song... but very disturbing. I absolutely love Leititgo. The symbol album would almost be perfect except for the presence of Tony. The Gold Experience is good, but it doesn't resonate with me like it did when I started listening to it (in '99 I think). Come is a little more subdued. I little more classy (sans the ridiculous Orgasm track). I think that maybe it's an underrated album because it doesn't have the wild funk that fans expect. It still has the wacky sexual content, but it's a slower, smarter, softer, and darker album than most. | |
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rusty1 said: come is okay.. let's relax here. papa. let it go is fine. the rest of it was nothing to write home about
subscription 4 a life time supply of q tips is on it's way 2 u man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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Nope. It's got some good songs on it, but it's an average album compared to his 'best work'. | |
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Come is an under-appreciated album. Perhaps the reviewers didn't give it appropriate attention. While it's not a new Purple Rain or Sign O The Times, it contains several very good songs like Come, Space, Pheromone and Letitgo. | |
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SOMEBODY HELP A SISTA OUT PLEASE  I CAN'T FIND THIS ALBUMI swear the words "HATER" is wayyy over-rated...smh | |
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I still remember when I bought the tape the day it came out (I was a Prince fan for some time but "Come" was the first I bought on its day of release) and I was shocked to find out that "TMBGITW" wasn't there and I never heard any of the songs. But wow what a great album it was. It was always on my headphones.
Yes to me it is one of his best and along with "The Gold Experience" his best 90s album. I never understood why people seem to hate it so much. Each and every song is great and it has few songs (like an 80s album) which means it is impossible to get tired of it . And a lot of different styles too. 10/10 from me | |
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Hi Jayai,
Try Ebay,there's loads!....that's where I've just got my copy! I heard the rip when you sat down! | |
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Lot of threads on Come lately!
I went to put it on, couldnt find it, so i just got me a copy on Ebay for $4.00 (used)+ $ 3.00 shipping, not bad, yeah lots of em there, most were around $10. + shipping | |
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I count myself among those who believe "Come" to be Prince's best album of the '90s. I think the proposed 3-LP opus "The Dawn" (which would have combined the albums "Come" and "The Gold Experience" and also added tracks from that era that later surfaced on "Crystal Ball"--e.g., "Endorphinmachine," "Acknowlege Me," and "Strays of the World" as well as [possibly] some "Chaos and Disorder" songs, IIRC) SHOULD have been allowed to be released by WB. Had it been released I think it would've been HUGE, and I definitely know it would have been in my Top 5 Favorite Prince albums!
A few years ago an orger did a thread detailing his extensive research on the '93-'95 period (one of the greatest threads I've ever seen and well worthy of archival). It covered EVERY configuration of EVERY project Prince worked on in those years. BorisFishpaw was a heavy contributor to this thread. Can anyone link to the thread I'm remembering? EDIT: Found the original thread! http://prince.org/msg/7/101499 as well as a follow-up thread http://prince.org/msg/7/105603 Has anyone ever configured their own 3-disc set of "The Dawn," and if so, would he/she please post the tracklist? I want to try my hand at throwing one together...what a wealth of great songs from this time period! 
EDIT -- BorisFishpaw said: Here's a little explaination of some of the alternate versions and remixes I used on this...
THE DAWN disc 1: 01. WELCOME 2 THE DAWN (2:08) - slightly edited version (so it's more like an 'intro') 02. npg operator (0:11) 03. COME (PART 1) (2:57) - the beaut.exp. remix, with the outro from the original version. 04. ENDORPHIN MACHINE (3:50) - original version. segues from come & into space 05. SPACE (5:11) - extended by creating a 'breakdown' with the universal & funky stuff mixes 06. DAYS OF WILD (7:15) - edit of crystal ball version, plus NPGMC guitar solo version. 07. npg operator (0:17) 08. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD (4:54) - mix of album vers & mustang '96 09. THE POPE (4:32) - uses parts of the 12" remix (and a sneaky snippet of dmsr) 10. RIPOPGODAZIPPA (4:36) 11. npg operator (0:06) 12. RACE (8:01) - extended using the 'outa space' part from the unreleased vers. of super hero 13. EMPTY ROOM (3:16) 14. npg operator (0:06) 15. MAD (5:29) - these last 3 tracks segue into each other 16. ROCK & ROLL IS ALIVE (4:30) 17. SHHH (7:25) disc 2: 01. PUSSY CONTROL (5:38) - the VH1 fashion awards version 02. npg operator (0:08) 03. PEACH (3:04) - ending mixed with part of purple medley version, segues into... 04. CHAOS & DISORDER (4:12) 05. SHY (4:56) 06. npg operator (0:14) 07. PHEROMONE (4:27) - snippet of instrumental version's into edited on front 08. 319 (3:19) 09. 18 & OVER (6:10) - full length version 10. npg operator (0:14) 11. LEMME SEE THAT BODY GET LOOSE (4:30) - remix of loose and get loose 12. PAPA (2:48) 13. npg operator (0:05) 14. BILLY JACK BITCH (7:06) - full length version 15. I HATE U (8:50) - extended using parts of 'extended remix', segues into... 16. LET IT GO (5:31) 17. DON’T TALK 2 STRANGERS (3:12) disc 3: 01. INTERACTIVE (3:01) 02. ACKNOWLEDGE ME (6:33) - extended using parts of good life big city remix 03. npg operator (0:09) 04. SOMEBODY’S SOMEBODY (3:43) - livestudio mix 05. LOVE SIGN (4:31) - edited together an ending for this one 06. WHAT’S MY NAME (3:01) 07. THE RIDE (7:36) - edit of crystal ball and undertaker versions 08. npg operator (0:20) 09. NOW (3:59) - runs straight into... 10. FACE DOWN (2:09) - acapella version over the backbeat from 'now' 11. npg operator (0:09) 12. THE SAME DECEMBER (3:27) 13. EXTRAORDINARY (2:25) 14. DOLPHIN (6:17) - extended by using the undertaker version's outro, segues into... 15. COME (PART 2) (9:06) - edit of album version, segues into... 16. npg operator (0:38) 17. GOLD (7:22)  Just...WOW!  I want this set!  [Edited 10/25/08 16:30pm] https://www.youtube.com/@PurpleKnightsPodcast | |
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This album is kind of like the "Around the World in a Day" of the 90's. Pretty experimental, but compared to some of the "titans" of the decade, it pales in comparison.
One thing I will say about Come that puts it above a lot of Prince's albums is the fact that its songs flow well into one another (with the aid of the segues otherwise known as the remains of "Poem"). All of the songs are generally R&B, experimental and the album consists of tracks that go back to songs he'd written before (given the lyrics), but musically, they give the impression that Prince is experimenting with new techniques. When looked at from a certain way, they tell the tale of Prince's "last hours" before he supposedly died and was reborn as  (i.e. the name change).
Though it gets somewhat depressing towards the end with Dark & Solo, its a very artistic approach and in its way, I certainly can appreciate it. Not sure if I can say its one of the best, but its nothing less than interesting had 2 run away... pride was 2 strong. It started raining, baby, the birds were gone | |
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