I remember like many people here watching him at the grammys that January in 95 and having to wait forever for TGE to come out. It killed me, when he opened with Billy Jack Bitch, it was the coolest I had seen him dance and look in a while. I had the show on tape and would watch it over and over again. Later that year a record store,which was a good one at the time, had the promo for it for sale but I was late getting there after the news, some one beat me to it. The day before the release, a good friend of mine worked in a record store and got me a copy when it came in the night before. I asked my boss for the next day off so I could stay up late and play it out. When I got home from work my friend had left me TGE in my bedroom for me. I didn’t even change out of my work clothes. At first it didn’t seem to be what I had expected, I didn’t hear any bootlegs that were around with the material so almost all of it was new to me except what he previewed on the grammys. I previewed all the tracks but stopped at Billy Jack Bitch and recorded it to tape so I could go play it in my car. I had a killer system in my car, I know your thinking tape deck but this was 95 mind you, It was the last car I owned before I moved away and I spent so much money on my speakers so I couldn’t afford a cd player. Any way, I got in my car and bumped Billy Jack Bitch as loud as I could. I lived in this weird little New Hampshire town called Kenne. If you have ever seen that Robin Williams movie called Jumanji, they filmed it there. When I returned home later all of my friends that were living in the house at the time hung out in my room that night and gave their thoughts of the album. I’m a punk rocker by heart and so are all my friends, as much as my friends are not into his music they respect him as one of the masters of wierdness/guiness. They were impressed. The album delivered in my books. I had a Halloween party the next month and most of the music played was from TGE and people were dancing on the tables and getting crazy. I think we played P-control 5 times that night. It was one hell of a party, when I return back to NH people still talk about it. TGE means allot to me, it was the background music to my life at that time and I had not anticipated a album so much in my life. I never want to rank albums but this one is very important to me. I got into P when 1999 came out and will follow his music to the end. If you read the liner notes in the album, I think the review is on the money, not a stale moment on this album, this album is timeless, not that his others are not, but I recently went to a club in Texas and the DJ said This is the last time tonight, we have already played this four time to many, then he put on P-Control, the place went mad!!! I looked around and most of the people there were in the age range of 18 to 30, mind you they have the wrist band thing so they can tell who’s 21. I was so impressed. I think P would have been very flattered that so many people jam to his music. Its a great album, it was a great time for him, I’m just happy I was a fan went it all went down.

Yes ur right this a GREAT album with a terrific BIG SOUND !

nice post
i totalyy agree with that it is a timeless classic. P Control would still make the ppl shake summin in the clubs 2day
i also think the liner notes describe it all perfectly
i wasn't a proper fan untill 2002, but in '95 when gold dropped, i LOVED Gold and TMBGITW.
i would have 2 say it is his best album, 4 me anyway. and 2 think, it could have been 2wice as good aswell!
P is one talented MF!

Yeah, TGE is the album that got me in to Prince. I just listened to it yesterday, as a matter of fact, for the first time in a while. It still sounds great. If only one of the better versions of The Most Beautiful Girl In The World were on it and maybe Acknowledge Me and/or Days of Wild, it would have been-- oh forget it. I still love it.