Prince - The Gold Experience
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Artist: PrinceEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Dictionary); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1995-09-26
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- P Control
- NPG Operator
- Endorphinmachine
- Shhh
- We March
- NPG Operator
- The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
- Dolphin
- NPG Operator
- Now
- NPG Operator
- 319
- NPG Operator
- Shy
- Billy Jack Bitch
- Eye Hate U
- NPG Operator
- Gold
Free Music Notes for The Gold Experience
Free Music Review: His best material as O(+>
Hit: 5 Stars
I've never written a review before, but I simply had to respond to the one previously listed. Quite simply, The Gold Experience is the best of Prince's albums under the name O(+> (rivalled in quality and consistency only by "The Truth" album released in conjunction with "The Crystal Ball" set).
Some of Prince's best raps appear here ("P Control" and "Endorphinmachine"), along with his most boisterous, raucous, and rollicking funk jams ("Billy Jack Bitch"---especially the joyous abandon of instrumental mayhem at the song's closing). Songs such as "319" and "Shy" exhibit a return to his sexual inventiveness. "319" documents a raunchy scene with a call girl; it's as lively, inventive, and energetic as past favorites "Gett Off" and "Darling Nicki" but kinky enough to conjure up more obscure songs, such as the excellent and riveting "Pheromone" from the sometimes dismissible "Come" album. "Shy," on the other hand, is a meandering folk-soul jam about a girl mixed up in gang culture---the aimless musical sprawling cleverly mimics the girl's aimless wanderings in LA. "Shy" yet again showcases Prince's inimitable ability to combine genres effortlessly while painting a picture and telling a story in the music itself.
The previous reviewer spoke too quickly in dismissing some songs as "mainstream" pop and R&B. "Shhh" is among Prince's most atmospheric sexual ballads, at once hearkening back to "Do Me Baby" while breaking the mold of its predecessor with more compelling drum parts, harmonies, dynamic shifts, sporadic guitar riffs, and a commanding, utterly confident vocal part. It is entirely too complex in its aural landscapes for anyone to classify it as a "mainstream R&B" song.
"I Hate U" may have been released as a single, but that doesn't mean that it's a useless pop throwaway. It's frankness is signature Prince---the lyrics more than redeem this song from any sentimentality. Consider the line: "I'd like 2 have the defendant place her hands behind her back / So I can tie her up tight and get into the act / The act of showing her how good it used 2 be / I want it 2 be so good she falls back in love with me." What other artist switches so swiftly between metaphoric ideas over a range of emotions, from the indifferent to the sexually charged to the emotionally heartbroken? He goes from 'witness on the stand', to 'kinky lover in the bedroom', to lovelorn ambivalence---all in 4 lines! Prince gives his audience plenty of credit in putting such a range of feelings in his lyrical images and musical impressions.
In short, this album is a pure return to form for Prince---and by "form" I don't mean "formulaic.' At his best, Prince's form has always been to explore and expand upon his previous innovations. He does not repeat himself on "The Gold Experience." On this album, Prince exhibits that unaging freshness that his last official Prince albums simply lacked ("Diamonds and Pearls" and "O(+>").
In short, this album is more than worth its purchase price, and its complexity and breadth reward close listening!
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Available again after being deleted for years! Originally re lesed in 1995. 12 tracks including 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World'.Prince Rogers Nelson is the most talented musician of his generation, but he has often seemed strangely out of sync with his own time. Performing under the single name of Prince, he mixed European American and African American musics like few others in history. Yet his extravagant obsessions with sex, religion, and dance grooves made him a stranger in the strange land of rock & roll, while his melodic genius and instrumental virtuosity made him the odd man out in an R&B world dominated by programmed rhythm machines. Perhaps that's why Nelson abandoned the stage name of Prince and adopted an unpronounceable symbol as his nom de musique. The Gold Experience is Nelson's first full-length album released under his symbol moniker and it's his strongest work under any name since 1990's Graffiti Bridge. Less a new direction than a return to the hard-edged funk of 1987-88's Sign o' the Times and The Black Album, The Gold Experience is better than either of those albums because this time the stripped-down rhythms have been bolstered by lots of guitar. In other words, the most effective integrationist in pop music has married deep-groove funk to in-your-face rock guitar--without sacrificing his usual gift for melody and harmony. Nelson has long been one of the best guitarists around, but because his licks were usually buried deep in his thickened arrangements, his chops weren't always obvious. In the more open arrangements here, they're pretty hard to miss. With this raw music come some rather raw lyrics, counterbalanced by a genuinely romantic ballad and two gospel-rooted songs lamenting the current state of American society. --Geoffrey Himes
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