The Gold Experience

Publication: New Music Express [UK]
Date: August 3, 1995
Title: The Gold Experience Review
Summary: 1 PUSSY CONTROL
Starts like some electronic intergalactic war with rapid keyboards and a woman talking in Spanish.

Publication: Los Angeles Times [US]
Date: September 24, 1995
Title: "With 'Gold,' Prince Regains His Midas Touch"
Summary: Although he says 'Prince is dead' countless ways on this record, 'The Gold Experience' finds the man formerly known as himself very much alive.

Publication: Now [Can]
Date: September 28 - October 4, 1995
Title: The Gold Experience Review
Summary: Among the least of Prince's many talents is self-editing. So along with the sizzling Sly Stone-inspired party workouts central to The Gold Experience there is the inevitable cheese quotient.

Publication: Vibe [US]
Date: October 1995
Title: "The Gold Experience"
Summary: Before he became a symbol of ego trips that kept missing their exit ramps, the artist formerly known as Prince was a symbol of another kind. Creatively eclectic and artistically rebellious, he symbolized the dark side of black-boy musical genius.

Publication: College Music Journal (CMJ)
Date: October 1995
Title: "O{+>

Publication: The Gold Experience"
Summary: Since 1990, most of the talk about the artist formerly known as Prince was more often about his troubles with record labels, or of his personal politics -- which caused him to turn himself into a little icon for the computer generation -- rather than his actual records.

Publication: Ikon [?]
Date: October 1995
Title: The Gold Experience Review
Summary: Good morning ladies and gentleman, boys and mutherfuckin' girls, this is your captain with no name speaking and I'm here to rock your world". So begins the best album ever by the man they're calling... well, prince.

Publication: Scene [US]
Date: October 9-15, 1995
Title: The Gold Experience Review
Summary: OK. Let's get a few things straight here right off the bat. No matter what he's calling himself these days, Prince will always be Prince.

Publication: Blues & Soul [UK]
Date: October 10-23, 1995
Title: The Gold Experience Review
Summary: At times the sex crazed pimp-preacher on acid delivering a sermon of screaming, charged rock/funk the exact contents of which remains only clear to the speaker himself, and at others the delicate, sensitive falsettoed soulful elfin crooner touching a chord with tuneful melodies and vocal dexterity.

Publication: News-Leader [US]
Date: October 22, 1995
Title: "Prince: Silly Symbol, Great Music"
Summary: The guy who was Prince may generate giggles with the silly, unpronounceable symbol he now goes by, but his music is no joke and never has been. This album bristles with creativity and good songs.