Come

Publication: Melody Maker [UK]
Date: August 13, 1994
Title: "The Summer of 69"
Summary: There's no getting round it. Price's new album is, explicitly, all about eating pussy. Beavis & Butthead would explode. Simon Price needed a good hosing down.

Publication: The Daily Telegraph [UK]
Date: August 13, 1994
Title: "Reviews: The Barmy, Brilliant Sex Symbol Rock Records"
Summary: PRINCE? Prince? That name sounds familiar. He was the guy who recorded a tune called My Name is Prince (punchline: "and I am fonk-eh") and then decided that it wasn't; thereafter demanding to be known by a strange little symbol, half-dagger and half-tadpole, and which no-one knew how to pronounce.

Publication: The Boston Herald [US]
Date: August 16, 1994
Title: "Symbol Guy's 'Come' Is Some Real Princely Funk"
Summary: With today's release of 'Come,' the artist formerly known as Prince once again proclaims his abandonment of his name. But not so fast. 'Come' is not an Unpronounceable Symbol Guy album.

Publication: The Jerusalem Post [US]
Date: August 16, 1994
Title: "Prince's Not-So-Comely Album"
Summary: PRINCE, or Symbol as he now calls himself, has a new album out called Come (Hed Arzi), featuring orgasms as a central theme.

Publication: The Washington Post [US]
Date: August 17, 1994
Title: "Recordings; Nelson Or Prince, That Singular Guy"
Summary: Prince Rogers Nelson would like us to believe he can change personalities as easily as he changes names, but his recordings contradict him. For no matter what name he uses, Nelson's music is unmistakable.

Publication: Billboard [US]
Date: August 20, 1994
Title: "Spotlight"
Summary: Last album Prince recorded before glyphing out last year is harder-edged and more direct than his '92 release with the New Power Generation.

Publication: The London Independent [UK]
Date: August 21, 1994
Title: "Records: New Releases"
Summary: His name is Prince. Well, it was Prince, and this album is apparently the last thing he recorded before changing his sobriquet. He gave up writing melodies a while ago: most of the tracks here are James Brown funks and disco grooves, heavy on the brass and synth. The subject matter is what you'd expect.

Publication: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [US]
Date: August 26, 1994
Title: "From Frog To Prince"
Summary: I remember when the artist formerly known as Prince used to freak us out. Now he just ticks us off with obscurantist games we can barely summon the energy to think about while scanning the People column.

Publication: The Hartford Courant [US]
Date: September 1, 1994
Title: "Young Is Heavenly; Public Enemy Mad; Amy Grant Inspired"
Summary: Prince has hinted a bit of method to his maddening name-change in recent interviews. He said his former name would go on his backlog of old material as it is released on his old label, Warner Brothers. His newer stuff, already proven commercial with his No. 1 "Most Beautiful Girl in the World," would go on his new NPG label using his new, unpronounceable symbol of a name.

Publication: The Indianapolis Star [US]
Date: September 2, 1994
Title: "He Was Prince Then, But CD Wouldn't Earn Him A Crown"
Summary: This 10-song set, recorded when he was still Prince and not "the artist formerly known as Prince," is fun, forgettable and totally absent of the cutting-edge novelty usually associated with a new Prince disc.

Publication: The Phoenix Gazette [US]
Date: September 2, 1994
Title: "Ex-Prince's 'Come' Surprisingly Good In Spots"
Summary: OK, pay attention, 'cause this gets tricky. About two years back, Prince announced that he was "retiring" from active recording. He said he had left his longtime label, Warner Bros. Records, with about 500 songs from which to cull albums into perpetuity.

Publication: Musician [US]
Date: October 1994
Title: Come Review
Summary: Yes, you are reading correctly. Come is not an album by the artist currently known as a symbol, but is rather an album by the artist known as Prince.