Everytime i crank this song it blows me away, such a powerful song. I remember it being played on the radio when i was a kid, but i live UK where the song did ok.

Apparently it didnt really take off anywhere else?!

Madness.

I like Not love Gold

But when I 1st heard the song, it blew me away aswell, the lyrics are great. But i feel compared to some of his other work, its just okay, but still a nice tune

When ever eye play this it upsets me!!!!When eye heard it live eye cried....Thats what u call a great song!!!!

Kickass track and it's totally killer live!

great song. very pertinent lyrics.

it's too over the top for me. it's a failed attempt at making a purple rain type song imo

I love it too Prince sure does have his way

I LOVE this song. It's one of my most played Prince songs. Love the video too.

Of course you like "Gold", cuz it is a really great song.

I don't get the lyrics though.....

TrueFunkSoldier2 said:

it's too over the top for me. it's a failed attempt at making a purple rain type song imo

Gold, The Holy River, Welcome 2 The Dawn.

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I find Gold and just about everything on The Gold experience much too cheesy. Not one of my favorites.

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Love Gold and pretty much that whole era, this is a killer tune, i too remember it on the radio, but it was the crappy edit which took out the killer guitar solo. I think Chris Evans made it his record of the week when he did the breakfast show and trying to get evertyone to buy it to get it to number 1. It got to 10 i think.

One of my favorites... even with its preachiness.

"Gold" has been meaningful in my life as an admirer of Prince's work.
Seeing him perform it at the end of the "Love 4 one another" special really put things in perspective for me.

He grabbed my attention and I was mesmerized start to finish. But I felt something much deeper going on inside that made my heart and soul sing at the same time, in the same octave. Something that'd never happened to me before listening to any song.
Then one time I listened to it after a day where I went overboard with his music, listened to 3121 the first time, saw Purple Rain maybe the 4th time that week I had it on loan from Blockbuster.
Can't remember if I listened to that song in particular or the entire "Gold experience"... but I had an epiphany that helped me keep it together. I was literally crumbling under the pressure of trying to do so much at once and trying to take it all in stride. I discovered that I had to go through his music my own way and in the end its my decision what I like/don't like, what I want to buy and don't.

And there were a few moments where I'd listen to the song and it made me feel better about something I was going through. College was a time of self-discovery, trying to figure out who I was and what I wanted in life. I'm still working on that but for minutes after listening to it I'd have clarity and be fine with myself as I was that just made me feel good.

Listening to "Gold" is a different experience each time and it tells me what I need to hear, so I refer to it as my "soul tattoo"... the one Prince song tattooed on my soul for all eternity