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Come is Prince's first album since his public dispute with Warner Bros. The 1994 album received little to no support from Prince and in fact was sabotaged by Prince himself who derided the album as "old material". This was not necessarily true, however. In fact, some of the material was written at the same time as the highly promoted Gold Experience album before its release.

Nevertheless, Prince withheld some of the better material for later albums, leaving Come with a somewhat bitter mood. The album is an interesting look inside of Prince's mind and one of his most sensual and dark albums. Perhaps more so than the cancelled Black Album. And despite Prince's attempt to sabotage it, Come did quite well commercially, going platinum and receiving heavy R&B airplay with the single "Letitgo".

Interestingly, Come's title track was performed live before this album's release and the live and studio versions of the song are very different. The studio version took out the loud drums of the original, giving it an ambient, soft yet powerful edge.

Track listing

  1. "Come"
  2. "Space"
  3. "Pheromone"
  4. "Loose!"
  5. "Papa"
  6. "Race"
  7. "Dark"
  8. "Solo"
  9. "Letitgo"
  10. "Orgasm"


Singles and Hot 100 Chart Placings

"Letitgo"
  1. "Letitgo"
  2. "Solo"
  3. "Alexa de Paris" (UK)
  4. "Pope" (UK)




"Space"
  1. "Universal Love Radio Remix"
  2. "Space"





Trivia

  • All of the tracks on Come (except "Papa", "Solo" and "Letitgo") were written for the 1993 ballet Glam Slam Ulysses.
  • All of the tracks are single words.
  • The album lists "Prince: 1958-1993" indicating that Prince had "died" in 1993, and File:Princesymbol.png was born.
  • The moaning on "Orgasm" is that of Vanity, recorded in 1983 for the unreleased track "Vibrator".
  • An early tracklist for the album did not include the title track, but did include 3 tracks released later: "Endorphinemachine" (on The Gold Experience), "Strays of the World" and "Interactive" (both on Crystal Ball).
  • The poetry broken up throughout the album was originally continuous in a track called "Poem" which fused with what became "Orgasm".


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