The Gold Experience is his best of the 90's followed closely by The Truth
It featured some stunning guitar work - Endorphinmachine, Shh, Dolphin
Great Party trax - P Control, Now
but the best part of the lp was shy in2 bjb in2 hate u
one of my faves and one of his best

MashedPotatoKid said:

That's a sweet thread.

As 4 me, I like 'Shh' which rarely gets a mention.

Out of all the 90s albums The Gold Experience is very hard to beat!

hmmm... although I did really like Come aswell

tanx JD
your right, shh never gets the props it deserves
hope he plays it on the new tour

CAMILLE4U said:

U would!




ehehehe

MashedPotatoKid said:

INHO "Come" is way better and is his last great album... Even though "The Gold Experience" includes and lacks his best songs of the 1990's ("Dolphin" & "Days O' Wild")...

Neversin.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

True.

1. GB
2. C&D
3. TGE
4. EMANCIPATION
5. COME

CAMILLE4U said:

True.

Milty said:

Come needs to be higher up on that list.
Come and TGE are definitely P's best albums of the 90s. Don't know which one is better...

Xpertlover said:

it's been said b4 that if GB was just just a Prince album, it would have been up there with Parade, SOTT and Lovesexy.

Official 10 best of the 90s

1 Chaos and Disorder
2 Graffiti Bridge
3 Gold Experience
4 Emancipation
5 Crystal Ball
6 New Power Soul
7 Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
8 Come
9 Love Symbol
10 Diamonds and Pearls

definitely the very best of the nineties, in the top five all-time.

Wonderful album, but my top 10 would go like this:

1. Crystal Ball
2. The Gold Experience
3.
4. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
5. Graffiti Bridge
6. The Vault
7. Come
8. Emancipation
9. Diamonds and Pearls
10. The Truth

The Black Album was his best of the 90's.

The Gold Experience album is over-rated. It makes Rave look cutting edge and underground. Half of it's full of stadium-anthems... I don't dislike the album, stuff like Billy Jack Bitch, P Control and Dolphin are great, but to rate it above anything else he did in the eighties is a bit much...

This'd be my ranking:

1. Crystal Ball
2. Emancipation
3. Symbol
4. Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic
5. Old Friends 4 Sale
6. The Gold Experience
7. The Truth (the great tracks are truly wonderful, but stuff like Animal Kingdom stinks the joint out!)
8. Diamonds & Pearls
9. Chaos & Disorder

MattyJam said:

That's what I'd say about "The Rainbow Children."

squirrelgrease said:

That's just idiotic... 1987! Hello!

I think it's a tie between Come and The Gold Experience... With Emancipation close second... Chaos and disorder is great album too... The 90's albums. They all have musical merit... The album is very very good... Actually they all stand pretty strong... So to me, the expression is enough... as is...

My top five of the '90's:

The Truth
Emancipation
Diamonds & Pearls
The Gold Experience
Come.

The Gold Experience is a very good album, but I still prefer
COME over it. I just like those songs a bit more. Altho the
Gold Experience does have DOLPHIN. It's a hard call.

But still, personally, I consider "The Truth" his best 90's
album.


My 90's top 5 would probably be

01. The Truth
02. Come
03. The Gold Experience
04. Diamonds&Pearls
05. The Undertaker

i think its cool...minus...maybe one song i didnt like


the truth,come,gold,d&p,symbol,all fine cd's...

I think its a bit over rated actually. I think it contains some of his best and most radio friendly songs of the 90's (Dolphin, TMBGITW, Gold, Endorphine Machine), but the production is dire, and some of the songs have dated very badly (P Control, Now, Billy Jack Bitch)...none of these particularly excite me.

Id love to hear this album stripped down, freed of all the imposing synths, and ridiculous drum fills that characterised much of his mid 90's work. Id've configured the album including Rippopgodazippa, Calhoun Sq, Days Of Wild. Id've even liked to have seen some of the Exodus stuff on this album (The Exodus has Begun, Count The Days, Get Wild) that wouldve been amazing.

My 90's top 5:

5. Graffiti Bridge
4. The Gold Experience
3.
2. Diamonds & Pearls
1. The Truth

IstenSzek said:[quote]The Gold Experience is a very good album, but I still prefer
COME over it. /quote]


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
Not your intention I'm sure, but that's very funny!
G

LMAO


I can't believe that some of you actually think 'Come' is a better album than 'TGE'.Y'all are joking,right? While 'Come' has a few good songs,'TGE' kicks it's ass! There is nothing on 'Come' that can compare to "Eye Hate U".

DavidEye said:

july said:

technically it's a 90's album based upon the release date.

if you're arguing that its 1987 then you should drop GB & CB from the list as they're all outtakes from earlier times.

gsh said:

Uhm, no actually it wasn't meant to be a funny comment.

I don't understand why so many people look down upon an
album like "Come" just because it is considered to have
been "contractual obligation".

All of those tracks were recorded at the same time as
the tracks that ended up on "The Gold Experience".

Together with others like "Lovesign", "Ripopgodazippa",
"Days Of Wild" and some others, most of them were also
mentioned or included on early tracklists/testpressings
of the "Gold Experience" album.

I just consider the "Come" album to be more subdued and
solitary. The album sounds bewildered and haunting from
a purely musical point of view. It has some great funk,
and some deeply intoxicating jams altho it lacks obvious
rock elements of which most were hauled over to "Gold".

If come had contained a more catchy opening song, like
say "Interactive" and had concluded with something better
than the obnoxious "Orgasm", say "Strays Of The World" I
think it would have surely been a better album than Gold.

"Gold" has a whole lot going for it, but as an overall cd
I think it just didn't live up to the hype created round
it before it's release. Nothing would have been able to
live up to that hype, admitting. But he tampered with the
songs and the tracklist so much that it became less and
less enigmatic and more and more overproduced and pastiched.

Still, the redeeming powers of "Dolphin", "Gold", "319"
and "Endorphinmachine" alone make it one of the best 90's
releases anyway.

I just prefer "Come". [ducks his head and runs from the
commencing guttoral laughter about to break loose].