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Reply #30 posted 01/28/06 11:45am

silverchild

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Mine would've been:

1. Jam Of The Year
2. Somebody's Somebody
3. Betcha By Golly Wow
4. White Manson
5. Sex In The Summer
6. One Kiss At A Time
7. Soul Sanctuary
8. Emale
9. Dreamin' About U
10. Holy River (A Shorter Version)
11. Mr. Happy
12. La, La, La Means I Love You
13. In This Bed Eye Scream
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Reply #31 posted 01/28/06 11:54am

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Cheek said:

JudasLChrist said:

I can't get 12. 9 is waht i got.

1. Jam of the Year
2. Right Back Here in My arms
3. White Mansion
4. Mr. happy

5. One Kiss at a Time
6. Dreaming about U
7. Joint 2 Joint
8. The Holy River

9. Emancipation

I can't rememeber the name of that one song though, they played it on the Musicology tour "Break it down, I don't want nobody else to hear the sound. This love is not an affair...something something...you goto break it on down..." That song should be on there. I like the Bonnie Raitt cover too.. so 11.



The song you're talking about is "Shhh" from "The Gold Experience"! smile
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Damn..ok 10. I Don't have Gold nor Emancipation anymore. I sold thenm when I was broke ass. I did like Emancipation, though. I think it's concensus by everyone that there's alt least ONE good record on it.
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Reply #32 posted 01/28/06 12:12pm

origmnd

Poppycock


2 70 minute discs and an outtake disc
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Reply #33 posted 01/28/06 12:38pm

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Emancipation is hands down my LEAST favorite Prince/prince album ever! After trying to listen to it numerous times, I like exactly 3 songs...and can tolerate about 2 others, so my mix would be as follows:


Somebody's Somebody
Human Body
Face Down
Right Back Here in My Arms

Hidden track:
Big White Mansion

The other 7 tracks can be silent in honor of the death of "Prince" and the "emancipation" of prince.



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Reply #34 posted 01/28/06 1:30pm

BananaCologne

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EmancipationLover said:

Nice to see someone's appreciation for the album, 'nana. To be honest, I think that the "reduction to one disc" thing doesn't really work for Emancipation.

We had similar efforts on here several times and I think I did not even saw two identical tracklists for a 12-track "Best of Emancipation" ever. Why? Well, most people seem to agree that there are several "not-so-strong" songs on this record, but it seems to be difficult to agree what they are.

For example, you listened "Damned if I do" as weak, I like it a lot (the rocky sound, the latino-style ending...). You appreciate "Somebody's Somebody", I like it but would put it as average compared to many other tracks on the record.

The whole concept of the record obviously was to "let it all out" and to hide nothing (or at least something next to nothing) in the vault. "Free the slave". You have the chance to find your own favourites and directly choose them on your CD player, or nowadays, you can even burn your own personal copy of favourites. The alternative would have been to choose the 12 strongest songs (from Prince's point of view) and have the rest as the usual bootleg outtakes circulating, so I think we are far better off with having the complete material as an official release.


Very well said...I'm going to use my post to address a few things...this is just how I feel on a few topics relating to "songs people don't like"...it is not meant to be an attack on this or any post, or to take away from the fun that can be had in "making your own album"...

I don't believe an album can be "too long"...it's not like a movie where "filler" can slow the movie down (unless you're REALLY GOOD at editing your own version of the movie)...but with an album, especilly on CD, if YOU don't like a song, you can easily skip it. (Even Lovesexy...if you don't like one of these songs, you can still not-so-easily skip it, or find the European tracked version.) Of course if every album were 3-discs, and priced high accordingly, it may be too expensive; but price being the same, I'd rather have an 80 minute album than a 60 minute album.

For every person that complains that a particular song is crap, there's someone else who loves it...(I agree that you rarely see identical "best of's--for any album.)

Whether or not someone hates a song, I assume his/her life has not been significantly weakened by having listened to it--other than being forced to repeatedly say "That's ( ) minutes I'll never get back"...(Feel free to comment how your least favorite songs have lessened your quality of life.)

For the record, there aren't any Prince songs (or ANY songs) I hate--only songs that don't do it for me. (Sidebar: I've never understood disliking a song because "it's been played a million times"--if I like a song, I like it whether I've heard it 5 or 5000 times...I don't hold the song responsible for being good enough such that people feel the need to play it often...)

If Prince kept releasing CDs of farts (literally speaking, not "so you bought Newpower Soul" figuratively), I'd probably buy them the first couple of times--he's earned that with me. If he kept doing it, I'd say, well, this no longer is for me, and move on. Despite some stuff I don't listen to very often (like "NEWS"--but I'm sure it's somebody's favorite), he hasn't even come close to making me question whether I'm going to listen to any particular new release.

Back to the original "filler" topic, here's my question:

If you had the choice, which would you rather have...an album with 12 songs that you thought were perfect (100% great songs, in your opinion), or that same album with 3 extra songs, but only 1 which you think is great. (13 "great" songs, 2 filler--87% "great"...)

Most people I've asked have said "100% great"...but I'd MUCH rather have the one extra song I really like...simply I'd rather get to hear 13 great songs rather than 12--hence I'd rather have the 80 min. album over the 60 min. (I could make billions of life analogies, but than my post would be waaaay too long, rather than the current too long...though I suppose you could make your own "favorite post" and edit out the filler...)

May you find a flux-capacitor to help you get back the last few minutes of your life you wasted reading this. Thanks.


Think we've concisely covered this already. So, back on topic...
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Reply #35 posted 01/29/06 2:29am

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Here you go....

01. Jam Of The Year
02. Get Your Groove On
03. Courtin' Time
04. Somebody's Somebody
05. We Gets Up
06. New World
07. Dreamin' About U
08. Sleep Around
09. White Mansion
10. The Holy River
11. The Love We Make
12. In This Bed I Scream
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Reply #36 posted 01/29/06 2:36am

NouveauDance

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Dewrede said:

I like Damned If I Do hmph!


Me too, I think it's cute biggrin

Just suffers from really nasty, tinny cheap production like most of the album.

I don't think it sounds so much like the C&D material, maybe The Same December, but also Sarah from The Vault.

I just thought listening to it now, it would make a great bridge a home-made mix of C&D and The Vault...OF4S, . hmmm
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Reply #37 posted 01/29/06 7:24am

Cheek

NouveauDance said:

Here you go....

01. Jam Of The Year
02. Get Your Groove On
03. Courtin' Time
04. Somebody's Somebody
05. We Gets Up
06. New World
07. Dreamin' About U
08. Sleep Around
09. White Mansion
10. The Holy River
11. The Love We Make
12. In This Bed I Scream


Freakin' love your config! cool
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Reply #38 posted 01/29/06 10:05am

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EMANCIPATION

01. Slave
02. Joint 2 Joint
03. Holy River
04. Sleep Around
05. Courtin' Time
06. Emale
07. White Mansion
08. Damned If I Do
09. My Computer
10. One Of Us
11. The Love We Make






12. Emancipation (Hidden Track)
"She made me glad to be a man"
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Reply #39 posted 01/29/06 12:20pm

Dewrede

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NouveauDance said:

Dewrede said:

I like Damned If I Do hmph!


Me too, I think it's cute biggrin

Just suffers from really nasty, tinny cheap production like most of the album.

I don't think it sounds so much like the C&D material, maybe The Same December, but also Sarah from The Vault.

I just thought listening to it now, it would make a great bridge a home-made mix of C&D and The Vault...OF4S, . hmmm


Yeah , i think it will fit in nicely smile
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Reply #40 posted 01/29/06 1:22pm

Nasalhair

Prince's worst album in my opinion, and the one that stopped me buying his stuff for a good while (which is why I've never heard "NPS"). Only two tracks do anything for me and they are "The Holy River" and "Slave". The rest is, in my opinion unmitigated toss and a sheer disaster of an album from start to finish.
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Reply #41 posted 01/29/06 1:47pm

clavere

1. I can't make you love me
2. eMale
3. My Computer
4. Saviour
5. Somebody Somebody's
6. Joint 2 Joint
7. In this bed I scream
8. Sex In the Summer
9. One of Us
10 Let's have a baby
11.RIght Back here in my arms
12.White Mansion
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Reply #42 posted 01/29/06 1:52pm

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1.jam of the year
2.somebody's somebody
3.white mansion
4.in this bed....
5.one kiss at a time
6.soul sanctuary
7.emale
8.savior
9.sleep around
10.my computer
11.the love we make
12.emancipation

emale, somebody's,and one kiss would have been singles imho
minor keys and drugs don't make a rollerskate jam
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Reply #43 posted 01/29/06 2:21pm

Prospect

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In no particular order...

1. Soul Sanctuary
2. One Kiss At A Time
3. Dreamin About You
4. LA-LA Means I Love You
5. Betcha By Golly Wow
6. Sex In The Summer
7. The Love We Make
8. My Computer
9. Somebody's Somebody
10. Friend/Lover/Sister....
11. Eye Cant Make You Love Me
12. Curious Child
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Reply #44 posted 01/29/06 2:59pm

bunnyman

slave
new world
face down
jam of the year
right back here in my arms
get yo groove on
courtin' time
curious child
one of us
dreamin' about you
friend, lover...
the love we make
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