In november 1996 "Emancipation" was released as a 3 CD-Set with 36 tracks.
disc I:
1) Jam Of The Year
2) Right Back Here In My Arms
3) Somebody's Somebody
4) Get Yo Groove On
5) Courtin' Time
6) Betcha By Golly Wow!
7) We Gets Up
8) White Mansion
9) Damned If Eye Do
10) Eye Can't Make U Love Me
11) Mr. Happy
12) In This Bed Eye Scream
disc II:
1) Sex In The Summer
2) One Kiss At A Time
3) Soul Sanctuary
4) Emale
5) Curious Child
6) Dreamin' About U
7) Joint 2 Joint
8) The Holy River
9) Let's Have A Baby
10) Saviour
11) The Plan
12) Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife
disc III:
1) Slave
2) New World
3) The Human Body
4) Face Down
5) La, La, La Means Eye Love U
6) Style
7) Sleep Around
8) Da, Da, Da
9) My Computer
10) One Of Us
11) The Love We Make
12) Emancipation
Sure, not all of the songs are classics. What are your favorite 12 tracks from these 3 CDs?
My "Emancipation" album is:
1) Jam Of The Year
2) Right Back Here In My Arms
3) Somebody's Somebody
4) Courtin' Time
5) White Mansion
6) In This Bed Eye Scream
7) Curious Child
8) Joint 2 Joint
9) Face Down
10) Sleep Around
11) One Of Us
12) Emancipation

This again huh ?

White Mansion
Damned If I Do
Can't Make U Love Me
In This Bed I Scream
Soul Sanctuary
The Holy River
The Human Body
Style
Sleep Around
My Computer
One Of Us
Emancipation

Another year, another "Emancipation" quiz!

Anyway, just for shits and giggles:

1) Jam Of The Year
2) Courtin' Time
3) Sex In The Summer
4) Curious Child
5) Dreamin' About U
6) Joint 2 Joint
7) The Holy River
8) Slave
9) New World
10) The Human Body
11) Style
12) Sleep Around

01. Jam Of The Year
02. Get Yo Groove On
03. Somebody's Somebody
04. Sleep Around
05. New World
06. The Holy River
07. Face Down
08. Dreamin' About U
09. We Gets Up (Seriously)
10. White Mansion
11. In This Bed Eye Scream
12. The Love We Make


The only songs I really sacrificed are My Computer, The Human Body (New World is superior), Courtin' Time and Damned If I Do - Everything else I can do without.

In no particular order:

Sex in the Summer
Somebody’s Somebody
White Mansion
Joint 2 Joint (should have been edited, though)
The Holy River
Human Body
Face Down
My Computer
Jam of the Year
La, La, La (Means I Love U)
Eye Can’t Make You Love Me
Get Yo Groove On (again, needs an edit)

TheNewPowerMan said:

I'll go with:

Jam Of The Year
White Mansion
In This Bed Eye Scream
Sex In The Summer
Curious Child
Dreamin' About U
Joint 2 Joint
New World
Style
One Of Us
The Love We Make
Emancipation

Jeez, I really didn't care for this album now that I'm looking at all 36 tracks...I'm even lukewarm about a couple that made it on my list!!

Matt

Disc 2...as a single cd would be one of my favorite cd's ever....just add: my computer, la,la,la,means i love u, betcha by golly wow...and you have the best love-your-wife cd ever made....

1) Right Back Here In My Arms
2) Somebody's Somebody
3) Eye Can't Make U Love Me
4) One Kiss At A Time
5) Soul Sanctuary
6) Curious Child
7) Dreamin' About U
8) Joint 2 Joint
9) The Holy River
10) New World
11) The Human Body
12) The Love We Make

1. Jam of the Year
2. Get Yo Groove On
3. Joint 2 Joint
4. Mr Happy
5. Style
6. Face Down

7. Sex in the Summer
8. New World
9. Sleep Around
10. My Computer
11. Savior
12. In This Bed I Scream

NouveauDance said:

I think this would flow well! It's okay, I like We Gets Up too.
It was hard to leave off The Love We Make, but it didn't fit on mine.

1. Jam of the Year
2. Somebody's Somebody
3. Courtin Time
4. White Mansion
5. Damned If I Do
6. Sex In The Summer
7. Dreamin About U
8. Style
9. Da Da Da
10. The Love We Make
11. My Computer
12. One Of Us

Track one to twelve: just plain silence... Aaaahhh, finally I made up a version of Emancipation that I could actually enjoy, I'm off to burn it now, bye!!!

sorry,this is one turd of an album that just can't be polished.
people have been trying to make a definitive version since it came out,can't be done!
the only track i would salvage is "in this bed i scream",even though he screwed the drum sounds on that one up too!
kirky j. be damned...

1.Somebody's Somebody
2.Betcha By Golly Wow!
3.In This Bed Scream
4.Soul Sanctuary
5.The Holy River
6.Friend,Lover,Sister,Mother/Wife
7.One of Us
8.The Love We Make
9.Emancipation
10.La-La (Means Love U)
11.Mr.Happy
12.Jam of the Year

Mines by far the best:

1. Joint 2 Joint
2. Get Yo Groove On
3. Courtin Time
4. Friend / Lover / Mother / Sister / Wife
5. In This Bed Eye Scream
6. Face Down
7. The Human Body
8. Soul Sanctuary
9. The Holy River
10. Curious Child
11. Dreamin About U
12. The Love We Make

1.) Somebody's Somebody
2.) Friend,Lover,Sister,Mother/Wife.
3.) Betcha By Golly Wow
4.) In this bed eye scream
5.) The Holy River
6.) Let's Have A Baby
7.) Curious Child
8.) Dreamin' about U
9.) Soul Sanctuary
10.) One of Us
11.) The Love We Make
12.) Emancipation

Sorry but I have to leave everything except:


Courtin' Time
Right Back Here In My Arms
Damned If Do
Mr.Happy
In this Bed Scream
Holy River

I agree with PurpleKnight, this should have been a 2 disc album. I've been toying with a 2 disc tracklist, but can't decide what to keep and what to chuck, tho it must include most of the original CD2, the first few tracks of CD3, and it just has to end with 'The Love We Make', which should have been the album's title, particularly as 'Emancipation' the track is a fairly weak groove.

Oh, and I certainly think that if this album didn't have the overall 'plasticky' production sound, it would be viewed as a near-classic, even in its original form.

I do agree also with the two cd set, but if it comes to just make a single cd,watching some of your versions of the album I can't help thinking it could have become a classic, just like it could have happened with the "beautiful experience" time, if he would have released the albums in a better way.

My list, by the way, would be something like: (21 tracks - sorry,double cd)

Jam Of The Year
Right back here in my arms
Somebody's Somebody
Get Yo Groove On
Courtin' Time
Betcha By Golly Wow!
Damned If Eye Do
In This Bed Eye Scream
One Kiss At A Time
Soul Sanctuary
Curious Child
The Holy River
Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife
Slave
New World
La, La, La Means Eye Love U
Style
Sleep Around
My Computer
One Of Us
The Love We Make
[Edited 1/8/05 15:12pm]

ABeautifulOne said:

I understand where youre comming from but I kinda liked Courtin Time. It gave the album whimsy. I really dont like In This Bed... That has to go.

Courtin Time is sooooo damn dumb

Somebody's Somebody
Eye Can't Make U Love Me
Soul Sanctuary
Dreamin' About U
Joint 2 Joint
The Holy River
Saviour
Style
Sleep Around
My Computer
One Of Us
The Love We Make


This list is the best in my opinion.
Some of the songs are sooooo dated now.

I honestly don't play this stuff much anymore.

Right Back Here in My Arms
Somebody's Somebody
Emale
My Computer
Curious Child
Let's Have a Baby

Style
Face Down
New World
Sex in the Summer
Soul Sanctuary
Jam of the Year

Disc 2. Only eliminate 'The Plan' and add 'The Love We Make'.

Here's my list.Since I eliminated the title track,I'm gonna call the album 'The Holy River'...


THE HOLY RIVER---

"Get Yo Groove On"
"Right Back Here In My Arms"
"Damned If I Do"
"Courtin' Time"
"One Kiss At A Time"
"In This Bed I Scream"
"Sex In The Summer"
"Emale"
"The Human Body"
"Sleep Around"
"My Computer"
"The Holy River"

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I have come up with the ULTIMATE Emancipation 12-track CD. This one would have gone straight to #1, I'm telling you (with better production, ok).

1. Slave
2. Right Back Here In My Arms
3. Somebody's Somebody
4. Emale
5. Soul Sanctuary
6. In This Bed I Scream
7. Joint 2 Joint
8. The Holy River
9. Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother, Wife
10. Style
11. The Love We Make
12. Emancipation

A compilation I made a few years ago for my brother who doesn't like Prince's slow songs...

01 EMANCIPATION
02 NEW WORLD
03 THE HUMAN BODY
04 FACE DOWN
05 La, La, La Means I Love U
06 GET YO GROOVE ON
07 RIGHT BACK HERE IN MY ARMS
08 EMALE
09 JOINT 2 JOINT
10 SLEEP AROUND
11 MY COMPUTER
12 IN THIS BED I SCREAM
13 SEX IN THE SUMMER
14 JAM OF THE YEAR
End: Anita Interlude

(BTW right now they have the Emancipation-triple-cd-set for 3,95EUR at a little book shop that also sells cd's in my city in Germany.)

If he would have left out the four cover versions and "The Plan" everything on the record would have fitted on two regular CDs...

Anyway I'll try something different with this tracklisting. I'm gonna call it "Emancipazioné"!

Slave
New World
The Human Body
Face Down
Right Back Here In My Arms
Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother / Wife
Joint 2 Joint
My Computer
White Mansion
In This Bed I Scream
1000 Hugs & Kisses
Emancipazioné

A more elctronic-flavoured concoction in the vein of "1999"! Or something... note that the title track is not the same as on the album, but the unreleased, alternate electro / bossanova version.

New World
The Human Body
Face Down
Somebody's Somebody
One Kiss at a Time
Style
Joint 2 Joint
The Holy River
White Mansion
Sleep Around
Damed If Do
In This Bed Scream