billymeade said:

My UK pressing just arrived yesterday and I think it sounds excellent.

I played it back to back with the new edition of The Gold Experience and I think Come sounds better. I think WB's vinyl quality control is better than Sony's (having bought nearly every reissue for the last several years.)

Still can't help but hope for an eventual deluxe edition which explores the entire era. So many great alternate versions and tracks cut from these two albums.

glamlife2 said:

I remember when that album came out.

My first "disappointment" (if you could call it that) is that Love Sign wasn't on it. I'd heard that song a month or so prior and loved it. I still think it would've fit nicely on Come - although it would have to be renamed Lovesign to keep with the one-word naming.

At first listen, I loved all the tracks except for the title track and Papa.

And, I prefer the NPG Operator segues to the water/poetry segues on Come.

I find the title track really cringe with the silly oral sex sounds. There rest of the album is perfectly fine.

Marrk said:

I find the title track really cringe with the silly oral sex sounds. There rest of the album is perfectly fine.

The "techno" version of Come is far superior and should have been the album version. Maybe he felt the album was already too techno-leaning?

Hopefully a Come:SDE has that version on it.

Se7en said:

Marrk said:

I find the title track really cringe with the silly oral sex sounds. There rest of the album is perfectly fine.

The "techno" version of Come is far superior and should have been the album version. Maybe he felt the album was already too techno-leaning?

Hopefully a Come:SDE has that version on it.

Hopefully i can set up a postal address in my coffin.

Fortunately I have it on that boot with Gold#1 and 2. I forget it's name.

Marrk said:

Se7en said:

Marrk said:

I find the title track really cringe with the silly oral sex sounds. There rest of the album is perfectly fine.

The "techno" version of Come is far superior and should have been the album version. Maybe he felt the album was already too techno-leaning?

Hopefully a Come:SDE has that version on it.

Not sure whether you mean the version in The Beautiful Experience or some other version, but I got admonished by someone elsewhere online for liking that version so much

For what it's worth, I do now love both those versions of it, just in different ways, I guess.

Joke of an album, can't understand how this gets so much love around here.

CAL3 said:

SoulAlive said:

Kares said:

JorisE73 said:

Is the sound better onthis one than the original 2 LP promo?

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BTW, someone on a.m.p. just reported that the Estate f..ked up

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I parsed "a.m.p." as "alt.music.prince" and wondered for a moment if we actually were in 1994.

olb99 said:

Kares said:

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BTW, someone on a.m.p. just reported that the Estate f..ked up

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I parsed "a.m.p." as "alt.music.prince" and wondered for a moment if we actually were in 1994.

LOL talk about a throwback.

SoulAlive said:

CAL3 said:

Joke of an album, can't understand how this gets so much love around here.

I think it’s a lazy,uninspired album with only a few good songs.

has some good stuff.

as a whole album though, come itself is too long, and has a lot of silly lines.

space is pleasant, but a bit bland.

race is corny.

all that aside, it still has pheremone, loose!, papa, solo, dark, letitgo and orgasm. plus the skits are better than those on the symbol and gold albums. so its an okay album but could make a pretty great EP.

i think most of his 90s albums would be better shorter or as EPs though. except C&D - the reason that holds up way better than most people think is cos its so short so there wasnt much room for excess fat.

gold for example, would be a lot better if it was just endorphin (interactive is great, but interactive + endorphin might be too much), shhh, dolphin, 319, shy, billy jack, eye hate u, gold.

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If he simply replaced Orgasm and ended the album with Strays of the World instead, from Glam Slam Ulysses and later Crystall Ball, it would've been more satisfying. Also if things weren't falling apart between him and his label at the time, he may have been kind enough to include The Most Beautiful Girl in the World on the album, like the label requested. That version was very similar to the mustang mix version on The Beautiful Experience EP, and in my opinion the superior version to the one on The Gold Experience, an otherwise much better album.

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funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

SoulAlive said:

CAL3 said: I think it’s a lazy,uninspired album with only a few good songs.

has some good stuff.

as a whole album though, come itself is too long, and has a lot of silly lines.

space is pleasant, but a bit bland.

race is corny.

all that aside, it still has pheremone, loose!, papa, solo, dark, letitgo and orgasm. plus the skits are better than those on the symbol and gold albums. so its an okay album but could make a pretty great EP.

i think most of his 90s albums would be better shorter or as EPs though. except C&D - the reason that holds up way better than most people think is cos its so short so there wasnt much room for excess fat.

gold for example, would be a lot better if it was just endorphin (interactive is great, but interactive + endorphin might be too much), shhh, dolphin, 319, shy, billy jack, eye hate u, gold.

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Disagree as in 1994 artists like PM Dawn and TLC were producing music like this and his was of course far superior musically, vocally and thematically. The original configuration included several stronger versions, including a shorter and more impactful version of Come and a more guitar driven version of Space.

Boshie2000 said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

has some good stuff.

as a whole album though, come itself is too long, and has a lot of silly lines.

space is pleasant, but a bit bland.

race is corny.

all that aside, it still has pheremone, loose!, papa, solo, dark, letitgo and orgasm. plus the skits are better than those on the symbol and gold albums. so its an okay album but could make a pretty great EP.

i think most of his 90s albums would be better shorter or as EPs though. except C&D - the reason that holds up way better than most people think is cos its so short so there wasnt much room for excess fat.

gold for example, would be a lot better if it was just endorphin (interactive is great, but interactive + endorphin might be too much), shhh, dolphin, 319, shy, billy jack, eye hate u, gold.

[Edited 8/16/23 11:29am]

Disagree as in 1994 artists like PM Dawn and TLC were producing music like this and his was of course far superior musically, vocally and thematically. The original configuration included several stronger versions, including a shorter and more impactful version of Come and a more guitar driven version of Space. Also every Prince album in the 1990s would be bangers if they just included 9 songs, like he used to in the 80s. The CD era ruined a lot for the concept of the album as a whole. That's why so many classic albums are considered masterpieces. Don't think they would be had they needed to include several more songs.

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SoulAlive said:

CAL3 said:

Joke of an album, can't understand how this gets so much love around here.

I think it’s a lazy,uninspired album with only a few good songs.

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Yeah, very true. Glad to see someone else with this opinion.

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It was a depressing release.