From his 1994 Album "Come"

I always loved this song. It's a Pop/Soul/Funk gem.

It sounds at least a decade ahead of it's time or perhaps it just sounds timeless.

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Beautiful track with some great remixes (remember those days?)

The Universal Love one is amazing.

I love the live version he did at Glam Slam Miami w/guitar solo ending. It's on youtube.

I love this song. Probably my favorite song on that album, and the maxi single was great. The Universal Love remix is even better than the album version.

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There´s an unreleased rock version of this song that I´d love to hear one day.

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The bassline is a little bit reminiscent of Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic.Listen to both songs back to back and you´ll see what I mean.

themend said:

Love the bass line

Its so good.

All the elements are great in this song, I love the melody also. The bass takes it to another level.

hausofmoi7 said:

Incredible song, I love the vibe from it...I have the Maxi single, the Accoustic Remix is my favorite remix on it.

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One of my favorite single artworks too!

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I have one of the singles, but it doesn't have the rap on it. I never minded it much. The Acoustic & Universal Love remixes are the best. Either the album or the Universal Love are great. There's something so groovy about, so laid back. There definitely are hooks & rhythms that can be related to "Cosmic Slop", although Funkadelic's song is a bit more in your face. The two songs do seem like distant cousins.

I did a playlist of the songs from Come. I resequenced the ocean sounds with new effects (took out the poem stuff), and used almost all remixes in the same track order. I used the Universal Love remix for "Space". I love it in there like that. It so much keeps the original vibe, but adds something new to it with the lyric changes. I called the configuration Come Again.

Oddly, my playlist runs 4 seconds shorter than the album, but some of the track lengths differ greatly.

1. Come (alternate version #1 mixed with ending of album version)
2. Space (Universal Love Radio mix w/o rap)
3. Pheromone (album version)
4. Loose! (from Versace & Other Experiences mixed with elements from album version)
5. Papa (album version)
6. Race (from Versace & Other Experiences)
7. Dark (from Crystal Ball)
8. Solo (album version)
9. Letitgo (Caviar Radio Edit)
10. Orgasm (altered with new ocean segue)

TrivialPursuit said:

One of my favorites too and my favorite from the album.

I enjoy the remixes but my fav is the album version since it was the first one I heard

Well Space was my instant favorite.

jdcxc said:

Come version of Dark is so much better than Crystal Ball version!

The point of the playlist is to put a different spin on the songs, replacing a remix where possible; and finding the best remix available. Some had more options than others, but I don't hate the CB version, nor the album version.

An instant fav from this album
In a good way it feels like the early 90s

McD said:

A classic. But I really wish it had been tracked to start a few seconds earlier, just as Come collapses into Space, and not after it already has. I always end up going into Come and forwarding to the end when I want to listen to Space for the whole experience.

on the space maxi-single CD there is the album version which doesn't segue from Come.

That's my SHIT! I think my fave mix is Universal Love, but I like Funky Stuff as well.

I love this time period for him and wish he would have just continued it longer. I realize now why record labels had a hard time with him. Between 1994 and 1996 he made Come, Exodus, Chaos and Disorder, Gold Experience, Emancipation, Gold Nigga and the leftovers he put on Crystal Ball.

PurpleColossus said:

Incredible song, I love the vibe from it...I have the Maxi single, the Accoustic Remix is my favorite remix on it.

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One of my favorite single artworks too!

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It's nice but I strongly prefer the cover of the Spanish Promo CD, more in line with the album and "Letitgo" single release.

On a side note, I would like to listen to a CD quality of the "Glam Slam Ulysses" unreleased version.

A little longer and sparse, unfortunately missing the synthbells in the chorus section.

But to be honest, I would like to listen to a CD quality of the entire "Glam Slam Ulysses".

Love this song...for many years thought the lyric was "everything I want to do with your body I would do to your hand" and not "to your head" which changed the meaning of the song quite a bit. I like this song in the same way I like "Glam Slam", they have always kind of hit the same spot for some reason.

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Prince's greatest vocal is delivered on the verse below. He cuts in with a raspy, gritty voice for the "I've had dreams of us..." line. Then he deftly switches to that beautiful high falsetto ("with eyes that fall somewhere...")...and then abruptly ends it all with a shift to a conversational tone.

Sheer brilliance.

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"I've had dreams of us cuddling on the planet Mars,

Then when i wake up, I'm all covered in sex.

With eyes that go somewhere between rubies and stars

Don't look at me baby or I'll flex."

^^^^^ some strange ass lyrics though, wouldn't u agree?

Dandroppedadime said:

Musze said:

dodger said:

The Universal Love Remix is brilliant. His 90's maxi singles were awesome the way he'd expand on a song and completely re-do it in many ways with additional lyrics etc.

Yes, I loved that about his 90s singles. For me, it all started with the Gett Off maxi singles and all those different versions. I liked some, disliked some others, and LOVED Violet the Organ Grinder....basically more of a whole new song than a remix.

Sure, he started much earlier with the extended versions, in the early 80s....but those 90s remixes were so cool.

The Universal Love remix of Space, the incredible I Hate U remix with those adlibs, and Eric Leeds´s saxophone version. I Hate U was one of the last great remix singles.

But then again, there was also the Come On remix, which was also pretty cool. Then he took a long break and came back with the ManOfWar and HotWitU remixes....those were not so great.

How do you feel about those late 90s remixes?

Or The Dance?

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Too bad that he didn´t put the rock version of Space onto the Space maxi. But it probably would have sounded a bit out of place there.

KoolEaze said: