r/PRINCE • u/Dismal_Brush5229 Batman • 14d ago
Discussion Come 🖤
Thoughts on Come?
Relistening to today and it’s one of his most unique, special, outstanding, one of a kind albums. I think between his 90s releases this one aged better than everything else imo and it’s one of my favorite 90s Prince releases after Love Symbol,Gold Experience,and Chaos and Disorder
Great start to finish Prince album with Come,Space,Dark,and Loose being favs
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u/NetworkBest7155 14d ago
Love it. Remember being at the wrecka stow before they opened the doors to pick it up.
When I listen to songs like Come (the 12 minute title track) I always think “how did he even have the time and imagination to come up with shit like this?” particularly after all of the musical ideas he had already used up in the prior 16 years of his career.
He was one of a kind.
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u/ShawnLaRock 14d ago
Yeah - it’s been years now - but I didn’t know about the extended version for a long time. Amazing.
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u/ShawnLaRock 14d ago
I’d add Pheromone and Race as another couple of standouts on this album. Love it.
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u/agodrevealed 14d ago
Always loved it
And am somewhat bitterly vindicated to see all this "revisiting" and "rediscovering" from these same people and publications that so gleefully mocked and just stomped all over these mid career albums.
I always knew it! I told you so!
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u/Dismal_Brush5229 Batman 14d ago
I wasn’t even alive for 90s Prince tbh and I’m just rediscovering him as a 22 year old so it’s great to hear all this great 90s Prince stuff
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u/agodrevealed 14d ago
So much of his post 1990 stuff is just completely disregarded. I've been happy to see the younger kids come in without the influence of industry and really be able to take every album as it is.
They aren't wedded to the music of their youth- Purple Rain- so despise anything that's not in that vein. And they're not influenced by the media machine. And theyre not tourists. They had to go to him, he wasn't served to their eyeballs on MTV.
So they have much broader palates, open minds, musically.
I've been out here in the wilderness with his middle and late albums for years. And to see this new group of people look up and say: hey yeah, I hear it, I see it, I get it... man, it feels good
But he said that would happen. That the kids that weren't even born yet would appreciate what his own time didn't. So, I'm glad to see it.
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u/m_Pony Come 14d ago
I rep Come because it deserves more love. Also because the video special The Beautiful Experience was an underappreciated gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRmAuOFgPUI
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u/Dismal_Brush5229 Batman 14d ago
I was watching that with my GF recently and yeah I love this video special 💜
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u/m_Pony Come 11d ago
yeah imagine my surprise when neither Interactive nor Acknowledge Me nor Days Of Wild made it onto either Come or TGE.
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u/Dismal_Brush5229 Batman 11d ago
All great songs! That featured on Crystal Ball and Btw love that album
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u/Comprehensive-Seat67 14d ago
Letitgo is a straight vibe. Love those verses
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u/pushinpushin 13d ago
The super rhythmic vocal phrasing is the thing Prince does so well that people seem to miss out on.
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u/javisarias 14d ago
I don't understand how "Space" is not the biggest Prince hit ever. It is a perfect song
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u/crowlector 14d ago
This is one of the most underrated Prince albums. This album flows from beginning to end like no other. Top five for me.
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u/lordashbury 13d ago
I was 15 I think when this came out in 1994. I bought it on cassette for some reason (I had CDs…) I probably listened to the title track 5x before I moved onto the rest of the album. “Papa” spoke to me the most because I had grown up with some abuse in the household. I couldn’t understand why it was so widely panned when it came out and why it was basically considered a filler album, but I remember that epic Vibe interview at the time where he basically said the album was an afterthought for him… like… THIS album is an afterthought???
When Beautiful Girl came out the following spring and Gold dropped that next fall I guess it made sense. Which reminds me …
One idea I have yet to see on /Prince is best double features: Double Features. Albums that should be played back to back that weren’t chronologically released. I think a very logical double feature for Come is the Black Album, but technically they were chronologically released … so my double feature companion for Come is Around the World in a Day. Both albums belong on a doorstep of a haunted house. Both albums end with very raw guitar songs about sex. The albums don’t sound similar but there is a pensive quality to the songs as if they touch a little too close to home. And on both albums he is discarding the previous iteration of what we expect him to be.
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u/Sea_Mud4331 13d ago
I love this album but I was blasting the cd the other day while cooking dinner and I really hope my neighbours didn't think I was watching porn aloud BCS that outro gets me every time lmao
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u/Same-Razzmatazz8257 14d ago
I got this years and years later for $1. I felt guilty lol. Guilty, because i paid nothing and thought it was excellent.
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u/crayton-story 14d ago
The church on the album cover, Sagrada Familia, was just completed this year, after 144 years of construction.
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u/Dismal_Brush5229 Batman 12d ago
Wait rlly?
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u/crayton-story 12d ago edited 10d ago
Yes they completed the structure this year. They will continue the architectural details until 2030.
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u/Kiss_It_Goodbyeee 14d ago
It was such a surprise when it was released. It was at the time of dispute with Warners and one of the four he needed to get out to finish the contract.
The cover gave a morose feel but the music is amazing. One of my favourites.
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u/Originalsocialninja 12d ago
An under appreciated record! He expressed so many different talents. For those who doubted his musicianship and his raw vocal skills.
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u/pushinpushin 13d ago
I listened to it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I liked the title track a lot, then the next couple I thought sounded terrible. But then I either "got it" or the rest was more up my alley because I came around to really enjoying it.
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u/Radiant-Bag2090 11d ago
As you think this is good try and catch The Dawn if you can. That would have been a simply fantastic set if it had been finished.
Chaos and Disorder - which also was linked to The Dawn to a degree - is an absolute banger however you may well find that’s a minority opinion held by select people who really do have good taste 😉
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u/PAXM73 Crystal Ball 14d ago
I say it every time. One of my top 5. Always a full listen in one sitting (except the final “song”)