Back in 1995, "Q" magazine had a interveiw with Prince about the release of the Gold Experience. Prince handed a copy to the reporter and he descibed the cover as having a woman painted gold lying on a bed. Does any one have anymore info on this? I will add the peice from the interview later for more detail.

The version that David Letterman held up when Prince played Dolphin on his show was all glittery (This was back when Prince was saying the album would never be released).

lovemachine said:

I have a friend who has one of these. It was a prototype, and all the pages were printed on a foil paper. It was really cool but very fragile. I'm not sure where he got it but I know he paid a lot for it.

I also have a verson of The Gold Experience with the studio version of Days Of Wild on it!!

The picture on the front is of Prince with his head 2 one side and hes holding his collar up with his hands!!
Its got & The New Power Generation along the top and The Gold Experience down the right hand side!!

I found this at a record and CD Fair in Southampton!!

I hate the cover it has now. It's just horrible. Looks like
it was thrown together in two minutes. Especially the font
on the front cover is a nightmare. Yikes.

Okay people...
Please SCAN these alternate covers ya'lls be talkin' 'bout?!?! PLEASE?!

And post them here for all to see and share? Maybe photos?











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Phill said:

That sounds like a scene for "Goldfinger" (James Bond)

IstenSzek said:

isn't that the story of most of prince's albumcovers?? 'graffiti bridge', 'chaos and disorder', 'the vault..old friends 4 sale', 'the truth', 'exodus', 'kamasutra', 'newpower soul', 'the gold experience' and 'one night alone'. nobody at paisley park seems to know how to work with adobe..!!

purpleone said:

Well maybe they do know how to work with it, but they sure
as hell haven't got any taste. Beyond music that is.

Just look at all those dogs of album covers he's got. Brrr.

Why can't he ever release an album with a normal nice glossy
photo on the front and an average typefont on the back?

I guess they tried with One Nite Alone Live. And it's nice,
except they chose that godawfull mafioso picture of him to
go on the cover.

The inside pic of him in the purple light with habibi would
have been 100 times better.

Same thing with the Aftershow disc. Hell, that isn't even a
cover. That's like, thrown together.

Uptown magazine had a picture of the orignal cover for The Gold Experiencealbum{during an examination article of the album} back in 95' or 96'. I liked the original one better.

Gold319 said:

That's a live compilation of tracks from The Gold Experience.

Gold319 said:

that one ain't official, if you what i'm sayin'.

Those here that don't like the covers...what are good examples of great covers?

Care to post a few?






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IstenSzek said:

istenszek, your criticism brings a smile to my face; i feel EXACTLY the same way! the only time he used an average type font successfully in my opinion was on the 'parade' album..

I didn't know that it was released. Ha ha.

Yeah, I saw an original copy of the Gold Experience CD about a year or so before it came out. It had the same picture as the released version but it was printed on gold paper, and the symbol was foil blocked/embossed (I think the cd tray was gold plastic too).

The only real differences between it and the released one were that Days Of Wild was included (after We March), and P Control was called Pussy Control. The whole booklet was printed on gold paper, and it didn't include the Jim Walsh bit (but it did include the lyrics to Pussy Control).