We all are wondering about Emancipation outtakes, and though I believe there are just a couple circulating, I am sure he could have heaped on a bit more material.

Why not pull a Rave and bring an old song back, maybe There Are Others Here With Us or Schoolyard.

Cmon P, you really could have showed Warner Bos. and maybe issued a 5 disc set of all-new material, at the very least 4. For us, the fans.

He followed it up with another 4 disc set. Let me tell you, it was a lot of listening for a new fan!

runningbear said:

If he had released it as four or five discs, there would probably be a million org threads about how to turn it into a great three-disc set.

We're due for another purple-indulgent multi-CD set. !

4 discs?!

To me, Emancipaton was already 2 and a half discs of filler material; or at least some very uninspired stuff...

I would have rather had one lean disc (but with the terrible drum programming going on, it still would have been mediocre).

it was supposed to be 4 discs and 64 songs

IAintTheOne said:

Wasn't it supposed to be 51 tracks and 5 discs?

Thank the lord he showed a tiny bit of restraint and only released three discs full of with that album. Emancipation is a hot pile of steaming garbage--who'd want more of that crap? There are only about 5 marginally decent songs in the whole mess.





(I really hate Emancipation. I'd rather watch Graffiti Bridge every night for a month than listen to that album. )

Releasing it as a 3 disc set was already a problem 4 a lot of us,
it would have been better if he released every album after Emancipation
as a 2disc set.
And after 20 years I would finally wanna hear Schoolyard!!

luvsexy4all said:

i think the only things said about it was by mayte in one of her
few european interviews just after they got engaged and she told
reporters that he had 52 songs ready for the project

Why 4 discs? Why not 5, 7, 37? He's got enough to fill them up!!

You have to stop somewhere don't you. It was meant as both a commercial comeback and an artistic statement. So too many, and it's not commercially viable, too little and it's not as grandiose as intended.

The simplest answer is that Emancipation was a kiss off to Warners - Now he's "free" of their "chains", he can make the triple album that they wouldn't let him release all those years back.

He could have at least filled up the empty space on the Crystal Ball discs.

novabrkr said:

oh no don't even go there don't open up the door of that trauma
again for me.

i mean, wtf!!! there's like 70 minutes of space left spread over those
discs!

that's at least another 14 songs

jone70 said:

Its not that bad

Slave 2 The System
I Am The DJ
Feel Good
2020
Journey 2 The Centre Of U're Heart
How We Livin'
Nothing Left to Give
Van Gogh
The Dance
Goodbye

Are all Emanciaption Outtakes I believe, so you could make a fourth disc just two songs short of the 12.

Maybe the 3-disc length was his ironic kiss-off to WB execs...who wouldn't let him do a 3-disc Crystal Ball in '87.

Romeoblu said:

Add "2morrow" to that list.

jone70 said:

thats going a bit far! nothing is worse than Graffiti Bridge

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Romeoblu said:

isn't Hypno Paradise an emancipation outtake too?

and what about that Holy River-ish instrumental that was released on the npgmc
together with Van Gogh and HypnoParadise?

Romeoblu said:

and what is that? "Nothing Left To Give" ?? never heard of it before.

where did it come from? isn't that juts another title for some track
that we know better?

oh, hold up, rewind. "She Gave Her Angels" is also an emancipation
outtake.

it was even on pressings of the album he plaid for interviewers in
1996 (!)

so
20/20
eye am the dj
van gogh
slave 2 the system
journey 2 the center of ur heart
feel good
how we livin'
she gave her angels
the dance
hypnoparadise
intrumental
goodbye


*drumroll*

i think we've just made the 4th disc

IstenSzek said:

Now the question is whether or not it's 60 mins. long:)

InsatiableCream said:

No, to me, it really is that bad. At least Graffiti Bridge has some redeemable songs like Joy in Repetition, Question of U, We Can Funk. Emancipation has a bunch of crappy love songs and horrible covers. It's the only album that I make a conscious effort to NOT listen to the songs when they come on an all Prince internet station.

xpertluva said:

let me go check that

it clocks in at just under 50 minutes

someone needs to make some extended mixes

How many of those outtakes should have made the final album.

I'd say Goodbye, Journey, She Gave Her Angels and hypno

Prince himself said at a paisley performance that it would be 52 tracks and 5 CDs.

IstenSzek said:

Add some "excepts" from "Kamasutra" then....

MartyMcFly said:

lol. i would but i think i burried it out in the backyard