There are so many songs on that 2nd disc that I really dig. Well, about 4. They are all the slow grooves...esp. "One Kiss at a Time". Oh my!!!!! Ultra sexy and romatic and simply well crafted. That was obviously an interesting time in his life. What was going on then besides Mayte? That baby song is sad. Little did he know what was to come. I am being really teenage here-but I do feel like "Man! He should have stayed with that woman! Or vis versa".

"Last night,I spent another lonely christmas...Darlin'., darlin' you shouldv'e been there....Of all the ones I dream about, you are the one that makes my love shout, You are they only one I care for"

Maybe Emancipation might be my favorte Prince CD of all time.

Right on

Definitely agree! I love the all 3 discs!

The middle disc is definitely the best of the three.

Soul Sanctuary, Curious Child and Dreamin' About U are my favourites.
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This album has a special place with me, that year some happy things happened and some sad things. So I will always love this album!

When I first got it, I liked disc 2 the best, with Dreamin' About U as the absolute higlight. But now after a couple of years disc 3 is my fav, very funky!

Disc 2 is my favorite of the three.
Soul Sanctuary is my favorite song from Emancipation.
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soul sanctuary
one kiss at a time
dreamin' about u
saviour
let's have a baby
friendloversistermotherwife

did i 4get anything?

diana7777 said:

I've always been amazed by One Kiss at a Time - that Prince could create such a melodic groove with the bare essentials of voice and a little synth/percussion. Disk 2 is defintiely the strongest one on Emancipation - still say Joint 2 Joint is one of his sickest tracks ever.

Disk 2 is definately the best from Emancipation. I always think of this as his "Love" CD, because it has so many ballads and love songs just on this one CD. I can't think of another album of his that has as many ballads!

I love that disk, but I skip Sex in the Summer, maybe the worst first track of the three. I like The Holy River a lot, and the rest of the tunes.

Disc 2 of Emancipation is my least favorite of the three... It's filled with lots of slow, sappy songs that do nothing for me.

BUT... it DOES contain my 2 favorite songs from the entire 3-disc set, "Holy River" and "Joint 2 Joint" (especially "J2J", which is just amazing). So go figure.

Hello,

I love the 2nd Disc from Emancipation as well.

I have wonderd if Prince had thought about releasing Disc 2 seperately as a Prince album at some point.I recently uploaded Emancipation to my IPOD. Disc 1 and 3 upload on the IPOD info cards as being credited to , and Disc 2 was credited to Prince. I was wondering maybe early versions of Emancipation were being considered for different release formats similar to stories I had heard about Come and Gold; Come being a Prince release and Gold being a release and the idea of releasing them in the same year(1994 I believe).

Maybe before Prince got out of his contract some of this material was ready to be released as something else.

Just ideas.


Chris

Definatly one of my fav discs period outa all his stuff. "Dreamin Bout U" is by far one of the most sentual songs hes done and the mix of the track is very nice. ....okay now I gotta go listen to it

diana7777 said:

Oh my God, I never thought I'd hear someone say they liked that disc too! It's my favorite!!
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The second disc of Emancipation always gets a couple of spins in my CD player, especially in the springtime. It just puts you in a good mood and it's also the tightest and cohesive disc out of the three discs. I'm just thinking how big Emancipation could have been if he just released the second disc alone with a few joints from the first disc. It would've been another classic and blockbuster, don't u think?

fms said:

Agreed!

What happened with that album? Did it bomb? Was it not marketed correctly? It's another one that most of the public didn't get to hear. Sadly. There are some amazing songs on it. Holy River, Joint 2 Joint, Emale, Dreamin About You, etc.

oh i luv sex in thr summer.....GREAT song!


"the mamas in the short dress, blowin' in the breeze.."

pkidwell said:

You know...I wish I knew. Was it just another Prince album only a true Prince fan could love? A lot of the stuff from the 90's of his was hard for most of the public to hold onto. I don't LOVEEE every single song on those discs. But, like all his other stuff, I appreciate and respect his work, even if I don't go bananas whene I listen. I know he will eventually make me crazy again, at some point. He always delivers.

My favorite Prince love songs are on Emancipation disc II