Beautiful song... Don't U guys agree?

Emancipation is full of beautiful songs.


very underrated....

klhk said:

Yes... I love that album. It pisses me off that no one appreciates good music by Prince. God these people have no idea about this man.

paul0478 said:

Who are "these people?" Personally, I love Emancipation. But I do think it was slightly overstuffed. And of course it didn't help that he released it during the whole symbol era when nobody really gave two shits about him.

Disc 2, as a whole, is my favorite part of the set.

emancipation is one o' my fave p albums !

but there is a lot o' negativity regarding the album on here !

one kiss at a time

A great track.

Emancipation's production is dreadful, this is almost universally agreed, but many of the tracks are top-notch, only let down by this soul-less production of the era.

Emancipation has no shortage of ballads and slow tracks, and many stray too deep into the sugary-sweet sickly category - One Kiss At A Time strays near the border, but I think he just about pulls it off.

TheBigBang said:

Some of them know who they are on this site.

beautiful love songs by Prince on Emancipation

One of my fav prince songs. I love the middle 8. Prince ain't too good at middle 8's, but this one is one of his best.

Shoulda been a single I thought. Way more interesting then the babyfaceish "somebody's somebody".

One of my top 12 songs from that album.

I agree, one if his best songs on an album that I wish had been edited down just a bit. It would have made a killer double CD, just needed a little live horns IMO. I can hear the synthesized horns on songs like 'JamOTY' and it doesn't mix well with me. 'Get Yo Groove On' sounds like he had the song for a year and just over produced it, not fresh out of his mind.
But J2J, Holy River, Somebody's Somebody, One Kiss, Soul Sanc, Emale are some of my fave Prince tunes.

Actually, most of my least fave Prince albums -Rave, GBridge, NPS- simply sound over-produced to me, like he had the songs sitting around waiting to be released years before and just kept changing them. Listening to outtakes of the "Chocolate Box/Charade/MovieStar" album and then listening to their later official released versions on Graffiti Bridge and Pandemonium is a perfect example. I haven't listened to GB in over 5 years, but my B minus sounding 'Choc Box' gets regular play.

People always talk about over-production. To my understaning, over-producing something means relying on the studio or editing too much and taking the focus away from the music itself. For the most part, I like how Emancipation sounds crisper and clearer than a lot of Prince's 80s stuff. The songs are pretty good, and the production doesn't seem out-dated.

Can somebody explain to me what "over-producing" something means, and how this affected Emancipation?

supppedup said:

I never said it was over-produced, I said the production was dreadful and soul-less.

supppedup said:

i personally look at over-production as too much instrumentation or arrangement.....tracks that have way too many layered vocals....or songs that have obvious edits so that while technically sounding perfect it lacks any soul or heart..(see Seal's Human Being Album)

so yeah, Emancipation is over-produced..

paul0478 said:

person taste is a very objective thing my friend..best to just enjoy the album for what it gives you then worrying about what it doesnt give to others..

cause while i like some of the songs i think the project would have worked best as a good double cd or an excellent (dare i say) classic single disc.....

paul0478 said:

co sign i love this album it really have some very romantic ballads on that cd. u can tell that p was really in love during the recording of that cd.

paul0478 said:

Dude, you always readin my mind. That song taught me alot about how to properly please a woman orally