The Gold Experience:Prince

The Gold Experience is the seventeenth studio album by American recording artist Prince. It was released on September 26, 1995, by Warner Bros. Records and NPG Records.[2]  The album charted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the Top R&B Albums.[3]  The singles "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" and "I Hate U" charted on theBillboard Hot 100 at number 3 and number 12, respectively.[3]



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[hide]  *1 Reception  ==Reception[ edit] == In a contemporary review for Playboy magazine, music critic Robert Christgau said that the album's "strongest tracks ... namely, P Control and Endorphinmachine—funk and rock as outrageously and originally as anything he's ever recorded."[14]  In a retrospective review, Keith Harris of Blender cited the album as "his strongest record of the '90s, a mix of newly stripped-down funk and delicate balladry that reasserts [Prince]'s dynamic range."[5]
 * 2 Track listing
 * 3 Credits and personnel
 * 4 Singles
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

Several people speculated that the song "Billy Jack Bitch" was written about a Minneapolis Star Tribune gossip columnist known as "CJ".[15] [16] [17]  Prince denied the song was about the columnist when CJ herself interviewed him.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[18] ==Track listing<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">All songs written by Prince, except where indicated.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Special edition vinyl bonus tracks:
 * 1) "Pussy Control" (censored as "P Control") – 5:59
 * 2) "NPG Operator" - 0:10
 * 3) "Endorphinmachine" – 4:07
 * 4) "Shhh" – 7:18
 * 5) "We March" (Prince, Nona Gaye) – 4:49
 * 6) "NPG Operator" - 0:16
 * 7) "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" – 4:25
 * 8) "Dolphin" – 4:59
 * 9) "NPG Operator" - 0:18
 * 10) "Now" – 4:30
 * 11) "NPG Operator" - 0:31
 * 12) "319" – 3:05
 * 13) "NPG Operator" - 0:10
 * 14) "Shy" – 5:04
 * 15) "Billy Jack Bitch" (Prince, Michael B. Nelson) – 5:32
 * 16) "Eye Hate U" – 5:54
 * 17) "NPG Operator" - 0:44
 * 18) "Gold" – 7:23

==Credits and personnel<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Produced by Prince, except: 7, 12, 16, 18, co-produced by Ricky Peterson, and 5, co-produced with Ricky Peterson and Kirk Johnson.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[19] ==Singles<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Another track, "Shhh", charted from The Gold Experience in July 1994; it was not the album version, but rather a live version performed on "The Beautiful Experience" TV special, which aired in 1994. It received some R&B airplay, causing it to chart and peak at #62 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart.
 * 1) "I Hate U" (extended remix) – 6:17
 * 2) "I Hate U" (LP version) – 6:08
 * 3) "I Hate U" (Quiet Night Mix) – 3:56
 * 4) "I Hate U" (single version with guitar solo) – 4:25
 * 5) "I Hate U" (edit - no guitar ending) – 3:48
 * Prince - all other vocals and instruments
 * Tommy Barbarella, Mr. Hayes - keyboards (3, 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 18)
 * Sonny T. - bass (3, 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 18), backing vocals (5)
 * Michael B. - drums (3, 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 18)
 * Ricky Peterson - additional keyboards (5, 7, 12, 16, 18)
 * Kirk Johnson - drum programming (5)
 * James Behringer - additional guitar (7)
 * Brian Gallagher - tenor saxophone (10, 12, 15)
 * Kathy Jensen - baritone saxophone (10, 12, 15)
 * Dave Jensen, Steve Strand - trumpet (10, 12, 15)
 * Michael B. Nelson - trombone (10, 12, 15), horn arrangement (15)
 * Nona Gaye - co-lead vocals (5)
 * Lenny Kravitz - backing vocals (15)
 * Mayte - spoken vocals (1, 5)
 * Rain Ivana (as NPG Operator) - voice (2, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15-18)
 * "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (#3 US, #2 US R&B, #1 UK, #1 Australia)
 * "Eye Hate U" (#12 US, #3 US R&B, #20 UK)
 * "Gold" (#88 US, #92 US R&B, #10 UK)