The Gold Experience

Prince - The Gold Experience

The Gold Experience
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Artist: Prince
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-09-26
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. P Control
  2. NPG Operator
  3. Endorphinmachine
  4. Shhh
  5. We March
  6. NPG Operator
  7. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
  8. Dolphin
  9. NPG Operator
  10. Now
  11. NPG Operator
  12. 319
  13. NPG Operator
  14. Shy
  15. Billy Jack Bitch
  16. Eye Hate U
  17. NPG Operator
  18. Gold

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Despite earning lots of praise, this flopped badly, and is now quite out-of-print - I finally found it used, for nineteen dollars, which is more than I would normally pay for a new double-album, let alone a used single. But I gotta tell you, it was more than worth it. Oh, sure, it's nothing Prince hasn't done before, and I could've definitely done without the segues. But the songs are so freaking fantastic that those two complaints are insignificant. All Prince's usual trademarks are in attendance: hard-driving funk ("P. Control", with lyrics so explicit they're not in the lyrics booklet, "We March", "Now", "319"), ballads (the sweetly romantic single "Most Beautiful Girl in the World", which easily lives up to other ballads like "Adore" and "International Lover", the horny slow grind "Shhh", "I Hate U", with an admittedly pretentious monolog, the Messianic but brilliant "Gold", which would probably fit in my top 10-15 Prince songs), and wild rockers (the reincarnation-themed "Dolphin", "Endorphinmachine", Prince at his most intense since "The Beautiful Ones"). And I don't know where to place "Shy" (country-jazz, I guess), but I like it. Every song has something about it that really makes it wonderful: the screaming and driving beat of "Endorphinmachine", dazzling guitar soloing on "Shhh", "I Hate U", "Gold", and "Dolphin", genre-blending psychosis on "Shy", moving falsetto on "Most Beautiful Girl", a surprisingly engaging rap on "Now"... I could go on for ages. Hell, even the trivial "Billy Jack B*tch" has some pleasant horn playing, even though I find myself rapidly losing patience with whoever decided to shout "B*tch!" once a measure (because hearing any word repeated once every four beats for six minutes would probably drive you up the wall too). The lyrics are perhaps negligible, covering Prince's usual themes of individuality, spirituality, and (what else?) sex, but strictly judging by tune quality it's debatably Prince's best ever. Other than the segues. Does ANYONE like the segues?
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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
Available again after being deleted for years! Originally re lesed in 1995. 12 tracks including 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World'.

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