i just left the gym jammin my ass off to "Billy Jack Bitch" & "The Greatest Romance."!!!!!

i'm happy.
U should be too.

Wasn't TGE released in '95?

From TGE: Billy Jack Bitch and March
From Emancipation: In This Bed I Scream, Right back here in my arms, Somebody's Somebody, White mansion, Betcha by golly wow!, sex in the summer, email and style, and My Computer just to name a few
From Newpower Soul: Push It Up and Come On
From The Vault: 5 Women and Extraordinary
From The Crystal Ball: Crystal Ball, Dream Factory, Good Love, 18 & Over, Hide The Bone, Acknowledge me, Days Of Wild, The Ride and Last Heart
From Rave Un2: Hot Wit U, Man O’ War, Undisputed and The Greatest Romance ever Sold
From Rave In2: Man O’ War remix

Emancipation: Alot of it sounded really generic. "The Holy River" is a standout though, and there were other songs as well that were good

NewPower Soul: CD sucked, but "The One", "Come On" and "Wasted Kisses" kick ass

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic: "So Far So Pleased", "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold" and "Man O War" were good pop songs, and I Love You But I Dont Trust You Anymore is just downright classic

1996-2000 there's a wealth of great material. It's the last five years or so which is lacking.

Give it up for CHAOS AND DISORDER, which is clearly the best collection from this period. Standout tracks are the title track, "I Like It There," and "The Same December." This CD rocks more than any of the others from the period.

NPS has really grown on me the last few years.
I'm still not fond of TGE.
Rave is a mixed bag.
Emancipation is my favorite of that era.

Nasalhair said:

Exactly. Emancipation is three discs of steaming

Emancipation is great. It's 3x the pleasure. Sure there are a few weaker tracts like Courtin Time and We gets Up but even those have their charm. Disc 2 is nearly flawless.

I've never heard whining about "plastic production" and other nonsense outside of this website. You either like the songs or you don't. Production doesn't make or break a song unless it doesn't match the song, which is rarely the case with Prince.

The Prince of the ninties was my era!

Graffiti Bridge...soooo many good songs on here!

Diamonds and Pearls....I actually like the videos and concert footage alot more that I like the songs on the album.

...oh GREAT GREAT GREAT album...great videos...great storyline!

Come...ehhh...I appreciate it alot more than I did back then.

Gold Experience....man I was koo koo for Princey puffs when this album came out!

Chaos and Disorder...dissapointing!

Emancipation...really fresh, different sounding Prince. LOVE that!

Crystal Ball....oooooh love, love....can't get enough!

New Power Soul.....OMG this is the funk right here!

Rave unto the joy fantastic...I was completly over Prince when this came out so I didn't pay much attention to it. But there ARE good songs on it!

Nasalhair said:

Agreed!

1.The Sun, The Moon, The Stars,
2.The Love we Make
3.The Gold Experience album (Minus The NPG Operator tracks)
4.The One
Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head...

CinisterCee said:

I like it a lot more than Emancipation.
It's punkier, rawer and not so than disc 2 of Emancipation.
I know every record of him exactly, I could sing all records in real time (if I could sing), but this one (Emancipation)is a hard record to stand (and stay awake..)
Kinda lame..sorry

Wow! What can I say but thanks to you all for suggesting your faves. You all seem to have such a mix of different songs that you'll like. It just goes to show how openminded Prince fans can be to music.

I went missing in the 96 to 03 period because I was either into death/thrash metal, depressing rock or dance music and that too shows an eclectic mix!

Personally I'm now more of a fan of the 78-82 period plus the mad B-sides from 84-88 than the mid 80's stuff which I was lovin when I got into him first.

I asked this question because i was doing my own mega 5 or 6 hour compalation of P's best stuff, in release order, and it went from Sexy MF to The Everlasting now... Too much of a gap eh? (hadn't got round to ripping Come and C&D to puterat that point).

I've recently got TGE, Emancepation, Rave, The Truth and Karmasutra so loads of catching up to do! Up to now I really like Shhh.. and The Truth seems like an interesting listen.