'' is a 1994 album by
Prince , and his first full release since his public dispute with his record company,
Warner Bros .
Most of the songs from the ''Come'' album was recorded in early 1993 during a highly prolific time for Prince. An early collection of tracks included: "Come", "Endorphin Machine", "Space", "Pheromone", "Loose", "Papa", "Dark" and "Poem". It was unknown at this time if these tracks were indeed intended for an album. In late May, 1993, Prince's then band member '' album sessions - it uses a scratching sound effect similar to ''Love Symbol'''s "The Continental".
After Prince's name change to , he intended to release new songs under that moniker in formats other than albums. He would fulfill is contract to Warner Bros. by delivering unreleased material from his music vault. Prince conceived an "interactive musical experience" called ''
Glam Slam Ulysses '' - a musical loosely based on
Homer ''
Odyssey ''. Thirteen tracks were selected and premiered as the first new material from . These songs and many others would travel back and forth between different concepts of albums in a relatively short frame of time. ''The Dawn'' was a triple-album concept comprising many songs. The track listing is unknown but the idea was scrapped for single album releases. Some of these ended up on ''Come'' and some on a new album called ''The Gold Experience''. There was also an idea floating around for ''
The Beautiful Experience '' that took on various forms before its final release as a
Maxi-single .
On March 6, 1994, Prince submitted a tape of 8 songs to ". Prince tooled with the title track, creating an 11-minute horn-boosted sexual romp. He added it to the album and resubmitted to Warner Bros. and they agreed to it.
Prince changed the album once again removing the more rock oriented tracks "Interactive", "Endorphinemachine" and "Strays of the World". He broke up "Poem" into segues throughout the album with the remainder retitled as "Orgasm" and also included the newly-written track "Letitgo". This final version was submitted to Warner Bros. on the same day as a configuration of ''The Gold Experience''. Prince wanted them to release both albums simultaneously, so the ''Prince'' material would compete with in the charts (with having more commercial material). Warner Bros. accepted both albums, but refused to release them both at the same time.
Upon release, ''Come'' received little support from Prince, who derided the album as "old material" despite the fact that many of it's tracks had been recorded during the same sessions that produced The Gold Experience, as well. Since Prince placed the more up-tempo and commercial material from these sessions on The Gold Experience, the overall tone of ''Come'' is somewhat dark and experimental in nature. As it stands, the album is an interesting look inside of Prince's mind and one of his most sensual and foreboding albums; perhaps more so than the ''
Black Album ''. Despite Prince's apparent marketing neglect, ''Come'' performed moderately well, reaching #15 in the U.S., going
Gold and receiving heavy
R&B airplay with the single "
Letitgo ". In the UK the album was an enormous hit, debuting at #1. Prince also released two
Maxi-single s in support of the album.
#"Come"
#"
Space "
#"Pheromone"
#"Loose!"
#"Papa"
#"Race"
#"Dark"
#"Solo"
#"
Letitgo "
#"Orgasm"
#"Solo"
#"Alexa de Paris" (UK)
#"Pope" (UK)
- " Space "
#"Universal Love Radio Remix"
#"Space"
- All of the tracks on ''Come'' have single-word titles.
- The album lists "Prince: 1958–1993" indicating that Prince had "died" in 1993, and was reborn as .
- The moaning on "Orgasm" is that of Vanity , recorded in 1983 for the unreleased track "Vibrator". In the liner notes, Vanity is credited as "partner on ORGASM: she knows".
- In 1993, a funkier instrumental version of the song "Pheromone" was used as the theme music for the Black Entertainment Television (BET) music video program,'' Video LP ''.
- The church depicted in the background of the record's cover is the Sagrada Família in Barcelona
