If U're 18 and over, come here
I got something 4 your mind

RIP PRINCE 1958 - 1993

The album cover proclaims "Prince: 1958–1993", indicating that Prince had "died" in 1993, and was reborn under his Love Symbol alias. The church depicted in the background of the record's cover is the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. The outtakes from the photoshoot for the cover of the album were released a year before in The Sacrifice of Victor, Prince's first book.

Released August 16, 1994
Recorded 1991–1994
Paisley Park Studios, Chanbassen, MN; The Record Plant, Los Angeles; Larrabee Sound Studios, Los Angeles

1. Come – 11:13
2. Space – 4:28
3. Pheromone – 5:08
4. Loose! – 3:26
5. Papa – 2:48
6. Race – 4:28
7. Dark – 6:10
8. Solo (Prince/David Henry Hwang) – 3:48
9. Letitgo – 5:32
10. Orgasm – 1:39

Like a strawberry, chocolate, fender jazz, mashed potato fuzztone
All over your thighs

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[Edited 4/11/11 12:09pm]

Airiq Anest – programming
Michael Bland (as Michael B.) – drums
Tommy Barbarella – performer
Jearlyn Steele Battle – sampling
Kathleen Bradford – background vocals
Chronic Freeze – engineer, mastering, mixing
Brian Gallagher – horn
Tom Garneau – assistant
Ray Hahnfeldt – engineer, mixing
Kimm James – assistant
Dave Jensen – horn
Kathy Jensen – horn
Eric Leeds – flute
Mayte – background vocals
Micah Nelson – horn
Ricky Peterson – keyboards
Prince – arranger, composer, vocals, background vocals, producer, engineer, mixing
Steve Strand – horn
Sonny T. – performer
Tom Tucker – engineer, mixing



Most of the songs from the Come album were recorded in early 1993 during a highly prolific time for Prince. An early collection of tracks included: "Come", "Endorphinmachine", "Space", "Pheromone", "Loose", "Papa", "Dark", and "Poem". It was unknown at this time if these tracks were indeed intended for an album. In late May 1993, Prince's then band member, Mayte Garcia, sent a letter to a Prince fanzine listing the above tracks, plus a few others: "Interactive", "Peach", "Pope", "Solo", and "Race". Most of these songs were newly written, except "Peach" (written in 1992), and "Race" (written in 1991 during the Love Symbol album sessions - it uses a scratching sound effect similar to Love Symbol's "The Continental").

After Prince's name change to an unpronounceable symbol, he intended to release new songs under that moniker in formats other than albums. He would fulfill his contract to Warner Bros. by delivering unreleased material from his music vault. Prince conceived an "interactive musical experience" called Glam Slam Ulysses - a musical loosely based on Homer's Odyssey. Thirteen tracks were selected and premiered as the first new material from Prince. These songs and many others would travel back and forth between different concepts of albums in a relatively short frame of time. The Dawn was a triple-album concept. The track listing is unknown, but the idea was scrapped for single album releases. Some of these ended up on Come, and some on a new album called The Gold Experience. There was also an idea floating around for The Beautiful Experience that took on various forms before its final release as a maxi single.

On March 6, 1994, Prince submitted a tape of eight songs to Dutch radio stations which included the song "Pheromone." Five days later, he submitted the first version of the Come album to Warner Bros. The album consisted of: "Poem", "Interactive", "Endorphinemachine", "Space", "Pheromone", "Loose", "Papa", "Race", "Dark", "Solo", and "Strays of the World". This version of the album has been leaked, and is commonly known as the Come Test Pressing. Interestingly, the title track was absent. Warner Bros. rejected this version, asking for the title track and some other new material, such as the recent hit "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World". Prince tooled with the title track, creating an 11-minute horn-boosted sexual romp. He added it to the album and resubmitted it to Warner Bros., and they agreed to it.

Prince changed the album once again, removing the more rock-oriented tracks "Interactive", "Endorphinemachine", and "Strays of the World". He broke up "Poem" into segues throughout the album, with the remainder retitled as "Orgasm", and also included the newly-written track "Letitgo". This final version was submitted to Warner Bros. on the same day as a configuration of The Gold Experience. Prince wanted them to release both albums simultaneously, so the Prince material would compete with the one released under the symbolic moniker in the charts (with the latter having more commercial material). Warner Bros. accepted both albums, but refused to release them both at the same time.

The guitar sound on "Orgasm" is a sample of a feedback guitar solo from a previous Prince track, "Private Joy" from his 1981 album Controversy. The moaning on "Orgasm" is that of Vanity, recorded in 1983 for the unreleased track "Vibrator". In the liner notes, Vanity is credited as "she knows".

Upon release, Come received little support from Prince, who derided the album as "old material", despite the fact that many of the tracks had been recorded during the same sessions that produced The Gold Experience. Since Prince placed the more up-tempo and commercial material from these sessions on The Gold Experience, the overall tone of Come is somewhat dark and experimental in nature. As it stands, the album is an interesting look inside Prince's mind, and one of his most sensual and foreboding albums; perhaps more so than The Black Album. Despite Prince's apparent marketing neglect, Come performed moderately well, reaching #15 in the U.S., going gold and receiving heavy R&B airplay with the single "Letitgo". In the UK, the album was a huge hit, debuting at #1. Prince also released two maxi singles in support of the album.

Come

If U're 18 and over, come here
I got something 4 your mind

(Come)

CHORUS:
U should do that, baby - no more will U cry
The spirit's calling, here's a reason why
If U had a chance 2 see the future, would U try?
If U will, so will I

When I call U up, I wanna tell U what 2 wear
Don't be surprised if I tell U 2 go bare
Long as U wash between your soul and through your hair
(I'm gonna do it) I'll do my duty there, oh

CHORUS

(When U) When I lay U down, I wanna tell U what 2 feel
(Don't U) Don't be surprised if I make U my daily meal
Lickin' U inside, outside, all sides up and down
With my tongue in the crease, baby, I go round when I go down, down, down, down...

When I do U, no more will U cry
The spirit's calling, here's a reason why
If U had the chance 2 see the future, would U try?
If U will, so will I, so will I

U should do that, baby
U should do that, girl
U should do that, baby
U should do that, girl

When I suck U there, I don't wanna hear U scream
Don't talk or breathe, don't cough or sneeze (Achoo!)
Oh, just dream, dream, dream
Baby, huh, my tongue's gonna do things that U've never seen
Oh girl

When I blow that mind, baby
I'm gonna drive U crazy

U should do that, girl (No more will U cry)
U should do that, baby (Here's a reason why)
(If U had the chance 2 see the future, would U try?)
(Do that girl, do that girl)
U should do that, baby (If U will, so will I)

(Come on, come on, come on - no more will U cry)
(Here's a reason why)
(If U had the chance 2 see the future, would U try?)
(If U will, so will I)
Now break it down

When I blow that mind, baby
I'm gonna drive U crazy

Can I suck U, baby?
Can I fuck U, baby?
I wanna suck U, baby
Shout it out!

(No more will U cry)
(Here's a reason why)
And if U had a chance 2 see the future, would U try?
Oh, if U will, if U will, so will I (If U will, so will I)

Like a splendid, open-ended, celibate friend pretending
(No more will U cry)
Not 2 know it when I blow it in your eyes
(Here's a reason why)
Like a strawberry, chocolate, fender jazz, mashed potato fuzztone
All over your thighs, oh baby
That's the only come I know when I'm deep inside that... yeah!
That's the only time, the only time U go
"Ooh baby, U're so good" {x2}
Aw, shut up!
This is just so U
Come {x3}

No more will U cry

It's no wonder there's a puddle there, holding it in 4 so long
U know U can let it go, it won't be wrong
It's just U and me, baby, 2night and 4ever more
U should do that, baby - fuck it on the floor
Or better yet, why don't U do it on the chair?
U should get that shit started, U can change your underwear
Yeah, U can always change your underwear

It don't mean U're wrecked cuz U kiss in a restaurant
It don't mean U're wrecked just cuz me tallywhacker suckin' is all U want
All it means is that the one that come before me never made U come
U should do that, baby
Do that, baby {x3}

Let me suck U
Don't scream
Don't talk
Don't breathe
Just lay back {x2}
Just lay back and dream
Dream {x3}

Oh yeah
Oh love
Did U come, come, come, come?
I wanna know
(U should do that, baby) U should do that, baby
Oh yes (Oh yes), oh yes
Come - U should do that, baby (Do that, girl)
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah... ! (Oh yeah)

No more, no more (No more will U cry)
Will U cry, cry, cry, cry (Here's a reason why)
If U had the chance 2 see the future, would U try?
If U will, if U will, so will I (Come, come, come, come)
(Do that, baby)

When I blow that mind, baby
I'm gonna drive U crazy
Come

U should do that, baby
Come

© 1994 Controversy Music - ASCAP

DETROIT FREE PRESS

COME: 1958-1993 -- Prince (Warner Bros.): "This is the Dawning of a New Spiritual Revolution" reads the legend on the back of Prince's new album. Problem is, "Come" marks the first time we've heard the often-visionary Prince treading musical water. The word is that for his Warner Bros. albums, Prince will be Prince -- not the multisexual hieroglyphic he's using for a name these days. "Come" and future Prince albums are purported to be vault-cleaning exercises, though some of the tunes here are new. And all of them traverse familiar James Brown-George Clinton musical terrain -- the spare, taught rhythms, funky bass lines, jazzy horn charts and the occasional rock guitar power chords. Lyrically his dirty mind runneth over, which should be no surprise considering song titles such as "Come," "Loose" and the "spoken" performance "Orgasm." It has some tuneful moments and a couple of hot grooves, but "Come" is largely a toss-off that doesn't merit the excitement usually accorded Prince albums.

-- GARY GRAFF

These threads are excellent. Good work, thanks for posting. Especially this one as its my favourite era

Sacrifice of Victor:photos by Terry Gydesen

I remember Radio 1 in the UK going to town on the release date for this, hyping it up by playing tracks throughout the day - "The new album from Prince... has COME!".

OldFriends4Sale said:

i have this pic on my wallpaper

Ooh, my fav era, my fav album (The Gold Experience), my fav music video (Race), my fav performance (AMA Awards 1995) and my Mayte. <3

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do you want more or it isn't pic theard?

Released November 18, 1993
Recorded Olympic Studios, London, June 1992

Peach is a song by Prince from his 1993 compilations, The Hits 2 and The Hits/The B-Sides.

The B-side was the live version of "Nothing Compares 2 U" in the U.S., while the UK backed the song with an edit of "My Name Is Prince". In addition, the UK issued two CD singles for "Peach", each backed by hits not on the collection. The first disc contained "Peach", "Mountains", "Partyman", and "Money Don't Matter 2 Night". The second disc contained "Peach", along with "I Wish U Heaven", "Girls & Boys", and "My Name Is Prince". The first disc was sold in a special fold-out collector's case with a place holder for the second disc, which was sold separately.



Uh-oh, here she come
She got them gold hot pants on again
Yeah man
I wanna talk, but I don't know her
She's a peach

She was dark - she was tan
She made me glad 2 be a man
She was young - she was smart
Just one glance and she stole my heart
The kinda girl U wanna teach
She's a peach

Summertime, feelin' fine
Gettin' wild all that's on my mind
Here she come dressed in red
Get her done is all that's in my head
Her hot pants can't hide her cheeks
She's a peach

Hey

She was pure, every ounce
I was sure when her titties bounced
Every way she's a winner
Turn a gay preacher 2 a sinner
No one U want your mama meet
She's a peach

(Look at that girl playin' hard 2 get)

I would die if I kissed her
I would try, but I'm last on her list
She's so cool and I'm so ugly
I'd be a fool 2 think she could love me
This kinda girl's always outta reach
She's a peach

Hey
She's a peach
Hey

Fuck with that

© 1993 Controversy Music - ASCAP

i loved this era - coming out of the Love Symbol album and into Come but then it got really weird with his actions and appearance. it seemed so desperate at the time.

Despite all that though, i love Come and the Gold Experience.

Nice thread.

Is there anymore info on Space?

Like when it was written, all the technical music info behind the song. I've seen it was also a single. Did it do well?

Bohemian67 said:

Nice thread.

Is there anymore info on Space?

Like when it was written, all the technical music info behind the song. I've seen it was also a single. Did it do well?

"Space" is a song by Prince from his 1994 album Come. The B-side of the single is actually the album track. The A-side is the "Universal Love Radio Remix" of "Space", with completely new lyrics.

In the album version of "Space" Prince sings about being obsessed with a lover and wanting to take their love higher comparing to the likes of space whereas the Universal Love Remix features a rap from Prince at the end.

All the pain that a human has to go through, in a planet that's so bitter and cold / Universal love awaits you, baby all you got to say is that you really, really, really wanna go / And we're outta here

[Edited 4/13/11 12:32pm]

prince's 1994 5 cut cd maxi single 'space' from his 1994 cd 'come'


Space

T-minus 60 seconds and counting
Arm light on
Switching command 2 internal {x2}
Missile and new count in sync?
Affirmative
Ready
Check
Affirmative {x2}

(Space)

I never been one 2 hide my feelings
Baby, U blow my mind
I painted your face upon my ceiling
I stare at it all the time (I...)
Imagine myself inside your bedroom (Oh I...)
Imagine myself in your sky (U...)
U are the reason there's bass in my boom (Oh U...)
U are the reason I'm high

BRIDGE:
If U and I were just 10 feet closer
Then I'd make U understand
That everything I wanna do 2 your body, baby
I would do 2 your hand
Then U'd be hip 2 the deep rush
Deeper than the boom of the bass
With every other flick of the pink plush
The closer we get 2 the space

(The space) {x3}
Don't U want 2 go?
(The space) - Where the souls go
(The space) - Where the tears flow
(The space) - Where the love grows
Do U want 2 go?

I never been one 4 this thing obsession
But just keep your eye on my hips
The circles they make will be my confession
Just say the word and I'll strip
I've had dreams of us cuddling on the planet Mars
Then when I wake up, ooh, I'm all covered in sex
With eyes that fall somewhere between rubies and stars
Don't look at me, baby, or I'll flex

BRIDGE

(The space) - Go
(The space) - Flow
(The space) - Grow
Do U want 2 go?
(The space) - Where the souls go
(The space) - Where the tears flow
(The space) - Where the love grows
Do U want 2 go?

Bass

T-minus 60 seconds and counting
Arm light on (The space)
Switching command 2 internal {x2}
Missile and new count in sync?
Affirmative
Ready {x2}
Check {x2}
Affirmative

(The space) {x2}
Closer we get 2 the space
(The space) {repeat 2 fade)

© 1994 Controversy Music - ASCAP
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Come
Lie down beneath my shadow
Lie down beneath my shadow with great delight
And your fruit will be sweet 2 me
Come

My left hand under your head
While my right embraces time
Therein, my virgin, love's wine

chelsearodgerslovesya said:

Ooh, my fav era, my fav album (The Gold Experience), my fav music video (Race), my fav performance (AMA Awards 1995) and my Mayte. <3

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do you want more or it isn't pic theard?

wow lol Well these pic remind me who quickly he went into the Gold Experience

the change, but I guess Act II Come era went for a min before his look changed

First time I've seen it big and blown up.

5 different versions then on that cd? Mmmm I must get it!

I know it has a sample of Larry G in it but I wonder what else is used.

I am technically beyond illiterate when it comes to those things. Probably wouldn't understand the breakdown either if it was in jargon. Such a magic number!

Cheers.

It's one of my favorite albums of Prince...Thank you I've learned a lot ^_^;;

Papa

There was one September day that papa worked 2 hard
First he crucified every dandelion out in the yard
Then he screamed at baby twice 4 throwin' rocks at passin' cars
Baby didn't listen, so like a priceless work of art
He got snatched by his papa who then opened up the closet door
And pushed the 4-year-old down onto the closet floor
Baby cried - "I'm sorry, I won't do it no more"
Papa said - "Yeah, I know, that's what this here's 4"

Smack! Ooh papa
Smack! Smack! Ooh papa, papa
Smack! Ooh papa
Smack! Smack! Ooh papa, papa

As the door closes, baby starts 2 cry
"Please don't lock me up again without a reason why!"
Papa just went outside and pointed a shotgun up in the sky
He said - "How come I don't love my woman?"
Then he took aim and died

Boom! Papa
Boom! Boom! Papa, papa
Boom! Papa
Boom! Boom! Papa, papa

Don't abuse children or else they turn out like me

Fair 2 partly crazy, deep down we're all the same
Every single one of us knows some kind of pain
In the middle of all that's crazy, this one fact still remains
If U love somebody, your life won't be in vain
And there's always a rainbow at the end of every rain

© 1994 Controversy Music - ASCAP

OldFriends4Sale said:

In this pic, he looks like the epitome of a vampire.

space (universal love mix) is my most listened to prince song for the last 10 years....

come era is underrated also because of the way it was promoted..who wants an album with 'old stuff' and no promotion? ...but if you look carefully it has some great stuff..i like it better then the gold experience which has more weaker songs then come...imo

The kid was in rare form in 1993!

Bohemian67 said:

Nice thread.

Is there anymore info on Space?

Like when it was written, all the technical music info behind the song. I've seen it was also a single. Did it do well?

http://www.princevault.co....php/Space

Great thread...... I LOVE the "Come" album

But "Lovesign" should had been on this album...

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freeeaky era