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If Emancipation was a killer single CD, what 12 tracks would you have on it? Props to DMSR for sparking the thought.
For me its: Jam Of the Year Right Back Here In your arms Damned if I do In this bed I scream Joint 2 joint Holy River Slave New World Style Sleep Around My Computer The Love We make Killer album, killer hits | |
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1) White Mansion
2) In This Bed I Scream 3) Sex In The Summer 4) Soul Santcuary 5) Curious Child 6) Joint 2 Joint 7) Holy River 8 Saviour 9) Face Down 10) Style 11) Sleep Around 12) The Love We Make This was an easy question for me, since this is the CD I made after getting Emmancipation way back when. I have burned this for MANY friends, they all thought this was the best Prince CD of the 90's. Too bad itthe actual CD was 3 TIMES this long, with a lot of shitty songs as well. | |
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The Human Body
Face Down Slave Right Back Here In My Arms White Mansion Emale The Love We Make Somebody's Somebody Get Yo Groove On New World Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife Emancipation | |
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Here we go...
1. Jam of the Year 2. Somebody's Somebody 3. White Mansion 4. In This Bed I Scream 5. Sex In the Summer 6. Curious Child 7. Joint 2 Joint 8. Holy River 9. Face Down 10. Sleep Around 11. One of Us 12. The Love We Make | |
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in no particular order:
1. Somebody's Somebody (live studio mix) 2. Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother, Wife 3. Eye Can't Make U Love Me 4. In this Bed I Scream 5. One Kiss at a Time 6. Soul Sanctuary 7. Let's Have a Baby 8. The Human Body 9. Savior 10. Joint 2 Joint 11. Curious Child/Dreamin' About U (could be 1 song w/ segue) 12. My Computer I still want White Mansion in there somewhere... | |
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01) Jam Of The Year
02) Face Down (with live drums at the very least) 03) Soul Sanctuary 04) Sleep Around 05) Right Back Here In My Arms 06) Somebody's Somebody 07) Curious Child/Dreamin' About U 08) Joint 2 Joint 09) The Holy River 10) One Of Us 11) The Love We Make (Hidden Track) Goodbye 12) Friend Lover Sister Mother Wife | |
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I'm glad Aaron added "Goodbye". How this song ever got dropped I'll never know.
My Girlfriend thinks its the best song of the whole era. | |
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Emancipation was a killer triple CD set. No need for choosing cuts. Prince has attempted since Lovesexy to get his work to be considered in its entirety. Unfortunately, the unwashed, uneducated masses are mentally incapable of doing this thus you get dumb questions and analyses like this one | |
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If I could pick twelve tracks this is what they would be...sexy!
1.Jam Of the Year 2.Dreaming About U 3.Joint 2 Joint 4.In This Bed Eye Scream 5.Curious Child 6.The Human Body 7.New World 8.The Holy River 9.Somebody's Somebody 10.Face Down 11.White Mansion 12.One of Us If I had a CD burner I'd make it myself. It's all I dream about. And you? What do you dream about? | |
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in order but these songs:
somebody's somebody white mansion I can't make you love me one kiss at a time the holy river the love we make face down right back in your arms betcha by gollie wow lets have a baby jam of the year savior | |
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FACE said: Emancipation was a killer triple CD set. No need for choosing cuts. Prince has attempted since Lovesexy to get his work to be considered in its entirety. Unfortunately, the unwashed, uneducated masses are mentally incapable of doing this thus you get dumb questions and analyses like this one
In many ways, I agree with FACE (often do). But I feel that great artists benefit from careful editing. This seems particularly true for Prince since he is so prolific. I have read that Prince wanted SOTT to be a 3-disc compilation, but Warner insisted on less, arguing that the public wouldn't buy a 3-disc release. The result was a condensed 2-disc version that sold well. In contrast, Emancipation fared less well, although there were a number of other reasons why, I'm sure. It's interesting to see the varied responses to the question on this thread. No 2 lists are the same. Even Prince devotees cannot agree on the 12 best from Emancipation, so FACE must be right...It's all good, release it all. I wonder if the question were turned around to read: What 12 songs should have been left OFF Emancipation? Perhaps then the role for editing would emerge. We're back to that old question regarding Prince - Is it important to his fanbase that he sells a lot of records, or does a true artist have few followers, and total sales are irrelevant. "When they tell me 2 walk a straight line, I put on crooked shoes" | |
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1. Friend,Lover,Sister,Mother/Wife
2. Holy River 3. Saviour 4. Joint 2 Joint 5. One Kiss At A Time 6. In This Bed Eye Scream 7. Betcha By Golly Wow! 8. Face Down 9. Jam Of The Year 10. Right Back Here In My Arms 11. The Love We Make 12. Emancipation Or something like that anyway. I like the album as a whole. | |
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thats funny, because made my own emanciaption cd today before i saw this topic! anyway, here is what is on my cd:
1. jam of the year 2. right back here in my arms 3. somebodys somebody 4. betcha by golly wow 5. dameed if eye do 6. eye cant make u love me 7. mr happy 8. the holy river 9. the plan 10. slave 11. new world 12. the human body 13. face down 14. sleep around 15. my computer 16. emancipation 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 6, 6... | |
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Not one song has featured in everybody's 12 track configuration which tells us that there is no definitive idea about the edited down best tracks, so better all 36 are there to choose from no? | |
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"When they tell me 2 walk a straight line, I put on crooked shoes" | |
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It's interesting to see the varied responses to the question on this thread. No 2 lists are the same. Even Prince devotees cannot agree on the 12 best from Emancipation, so FACE must be right...It's all good, release it all.
That's exactly it! No one can agree 100% on what to cut! My own favorites have changed too. I've grown to love disc 2 the most, but initially liked 1 and 3 more. "Joint 2 Joint" and "The Holy River" are just awesome tracks. The only Emancipation tracks I don't care much for are "Get Yo Groove On" and "We Gets Up" but they're probably somebody else's favorites. And I still would rather have them than not! "The Love We Make" is majestic-awesome too! Can you imagine the EMANCIPATION set with the organic/live sounding production of THE RAINBOW CHILDREN? Whoa! I hope he plays some of these tracks on the new tour. JACKZILLA!!! | |
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Oooooh! I wanna play!
White Mansion Damned If I Do I Can't Make U Love Me In This Bed I Scream Curious Child Dreamin' About U Joint 2 Joint Holy River Saviour Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother, Wife New World The Human Body Personally, I think Emancipation is already a killer album. It's the first album of his that actually felt 'complete' to me. | |
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I don't agree that Emancipation should be dwindled to a single- I think it would be best served as a double. A double would've been perfect for this. However, in keeping with the thread, I'll take the bait and try to pick 12 faves.
1.Jam of the Year 2.Somebody's Somebody 3.Courtin Time 4.Damned if I Do 5.Sex in the Summer 6.One Kiss at a Time 7.Soul Sanctuary 8.Joint 2 Joint 9.Let's Have a Baby 10.Savior 11.The Human Body 12.Sleep Around For the 2 disc (preferrable) set, add these 12: 1.Betcha by Golly Wow 2.In this Bed I Scream 3.Curious Child 4.Dreamin about U 5.Slave 6.New World 7.Face Down 8.My Computer 9.The Love We Make 10.Emancipation 11.Journey 2 the Center of Your Heart 12.Goodbye Ok, so the last two weren't on E, but they were part of those bountiful sessions! This 2 disc set, with a little different track placing would be perfection! | |
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If it had 2 be a single disc...
1. Jam of the Year 2. White Mansion 3. In This Bed Eye Scream 4. One Kiss At A Time 5. Soul Sanctuary 6. Emale 7. Friend, Love, Sister, Mother, Wife 8. My Computer 9. The Holy River 10. One of Us 11. Let's Have a Baby 12. Sex In The Summer 13. Emancipation The Mothership Connection... Funk, Soul, R&B, & Jazz every Monday night @ 8:00 p.m. Listen @ www.wqaq.com (We are off the air 4 the Summer. Returning in early September 2004) | |
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1.White Mansion
2.One Kiss At A Time 3.Damned If I Do 4.Somebody's Sombody 5.Courtin' Time 6.The Love We Make 7.One Of Us 8.The Holy River 9.I Can't Make You Love Me 10.Face Down 11.Soul Sanctuary 12.Savior [This message was edited Thu Feb 21 13:21:55 PST 2002 by automatic] | |
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I think Sign 'O' the Times would've faired well as a triple disc especially since it was his 1st solo release after the break up of the Revolution. | |
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I'm just scanning to make sure that Joint 2 Joint is on everybody's list. | |
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i think emancipation would have been ideal as a double-disc, but if i had to choose 12 joints, then:
jam of the year new world soul sanctuary in this bed eye scream face down style slave eye can't make you love me the holy river my computer friend,lover,sister,mother/wife the love we make | |
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This very question led me to believe there will never be consensus anywhere, ever. I just cannot believe people actually putting 'damned if I do' or 'new world' on it.
So I'm glad it's a three disc set, this way we can all our favs. : ) | |
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Disc 2 is pretty perfect as I see it.
The only song I would substitute is 'The Plan' for 'The Love We Make'. | |
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1. right back here in my arms
2. somebody's somebody 3. white mansion 4. soul sanctuary 5. curious child 6. dreaming about u 7. joint 2 joint 8. the holy river 9. in this bed i scream 10. new world 11. face down 12. my computer [This message was edited Sun Mar 17 16:34:36 PST 2002 by tiger2] | |
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