The Gold Experience | 
 enlarge | Artist: Prince
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 3398
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 093624599920
EAN: 0093624599920
ASIN: B000002N1E
Release Date: September 26, 1995
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Condition: Mint- looks & plays great! Free first class upgrade in USA, Int'l upgrade to airmail.
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| Tracks:
| • | P Control | | • | Endorphinmachine | | • | Shhh | | • | We March | | • | The Most Beautiful Girl in the World | | • | Dolphin | | • | Now | | • | NPG Operator | | • | 319 | | • | Shy | | • | Billy Jack Bitch | | • | I Hate U | | • | NPG Operator | | • | Gold |
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Amazon.com essential recording
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
Album Description
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Prince is an under-rated concept artist September 15, 2008
Said Head (MN, USA)
Although segues between songs is nothing new in the world of CD's, I have never heard such an idea pulled off so well. The almost futuristic SFX and female voice-overs offer much to the atmosphere of this brilliant album. I could go on and on about the music, but I think everyone else has already done so. This is Prince at his artistic best.
 Prince is one of the greatest July 10, 2008
Timothy Barnard
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Gold Experience is a cool album that I had a long time ago, but it broke. I tried to find it in stores but no one had it for sell and I heard it was out of print, so the years past and than I started ordering stuff on the internet and found it on amazon.com. I ordered it and now I am happy.
Supreme Prince May 23, 2008
Scott Rivers (Los Angeles, CA USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
"The Gold Experience" (1995) is an essential Prince recording that ranks favorably with "1999" and "Sign 'O' the Times." For 65 glorious minutes, His Royal Badness delivers one classic after another: "Endorphinmachine," "Shhh," "We March," "Shy," "Billy Jack B---h" and the transcendently brilliant "Dolphin." Though criminally out of print, this treasure trove of rock and soul belongs in every Prince collection.
(4.5 stars) Do yourself a favor and buy it February 25, 2008
finulanu (Here, there, and everywhere)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
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?
Goose Bumps! May 9, 2007
Angela Berry (Temple Hills, MD USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I first heard all the chaos surrounding the Warner thing, I was worried it would affect him and the music. What was I thinking?! The man can't be stopped! Gold is one of his most original albums. I love the NPG Operator, he is so innovative and does not hesitate to try something outlandish and new. He has no fear when it comes to the creativity of his music. I was lucky enough to get a copy of a rare live version of Endorphine Machine, it was even more funky than the CD version! Eye Hate U is my favorite on this album and is currently pumping in my CD player right now. He always knows the right things to say. Everything he touches turns to GOLD! "Right now I hate you so much I wanna make love until you see..."
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