1)right back here in my arms
2)white mansion
3)in this bed eye scream
4)sex in the summer
5)soul sanctuary
6)the holy river
7)joint 2 joint
8)curious child
9)friend,lover,sister,mother,wife
10)savior
11)sleep around
12)style
13)my computer
14)the love we make
15)face down
16)email

SO MANY GOOD SONGS. true it had its share of filler but what do you expect with 3 hours of music. it had some plastic production but there are a lot of very good songs on it

Co sign

I know damn well it was underrated

It's alright, I guess.

The best songs on it would have to be "Somebodys Somebody" & "I Can't Make U Love Me"

i love 'i can't make you love me'. his is the best version of this song, it is one of my favs.
emancipation is one that you can have on in the background.

there are a few good ones.
kind of sad one in that he bears his soul re kids.

its one of my fav releases from him, and it doesnt get enough love - but then again, it went platinum and managed to chart well...thats surely one hell of an achievement for a 3 disc set by prince at tha time in his career as the symbol.

Underrated by some. Overrated by others, as is the case with most of Prince's music. There are some great songs on the record, some so so tunes & some absolute shitters.

viewaskew said:

co sign

I didn't underrate, "Emancipation." For lack of a dictionary string of wordz...The cd, is a generous and beautiful collection.

viewaskew said:

O kay which ones do you consider shitters as you called them just so I can know what you consider to fit in your category. I personally think it is a great collection of songs. I'm sitting here trying to figure out what on this cd could be consider with your choice of words a shitter on this album. So please enlighten me to what your thoughts on this subject.

An incredibly underrated album to say the least.
This was the equivalent of George Michaels "Older": Both artists, once again, reinventing themselves....

Although, GM's version of "I Can't Make You Love Me" was a tad better IMHO - but I bet he couldn't do "La La La..." like Prince could!

"Style" is such a statement and "Sleeparound" is "Chelsea Rodgers" over 10 years ahead of its time!

'dre

And the day it came out... Wow!

Having 36 new Prince songs to listen to and digest - amazing!!!


And I still love it.

Sure, the production is a bit plasticy and it would be great to hear the songs a little rawer, but for what it is - a 3 CD set designed to sell to the masses, it works perfectly. Just such a shame Prince decided to release Betcha By Golly Wow as the first single. If he'd chosen Sleep Around instead...

And The Holy River really is prime Prince.

yes i think its by far 1 of his best albums deffo in my top 5

my fave tracks >

1.White Mansion
2.FLSM/W
3.Face Down
4.In This Bed I Scream
5.Holy River
6.Right Bck Here In My Arms
7.Lets Have A Baby
8.Saviour
9.My Computer
10.The Love We Make

I don't know...I have a lot of trouble with that album, despite the fact that I love a number of songs on it. I find there are quite a few songs I absolutely loathe on there, which is rare for me.

Overall, it seems a mediocre effort. It wasn't commercial; there are very few songs that could have been hits. And it's not particularly brilliant or groundbreaking. Up until that point, Prince had always been brilliant and/or commercial, so it was disappointing to me that his grand opus, his first album post-record contract, was so plain.

i love about half the songs on it, the other half .

Emancipation is right there with New Power Soul, Chaos and Disorder, and Rainbow Children as my least favorite Prince albums. Emancipation did have a couple of good songs, but there were so many songs that I disliked that they dwarfed the good stuff.
I will say, however, that the first show I saw was the "Jam of the Year" tour, and it was great

emancipation and TRC are better than anything he has done since 2001. i mean musicology,3121 & planet earth are okay at best. those 3 albums combined don't match emancipation

YUP! This is a good 3 cd set. I always thought it was underrated. I like this cd from day one it came out.

how underrated was it? That album was shoved down my throat in 1996 with the commercials, specials and all

jimmyrogertodd said:

Fine, although I can guess from your attitude that any criticism of Prince falls on deaf ears as far as you're concerned.

Standout Tracks:
Joint 2 Joint
Emancipation
The Love We Make
Courtin' Time
Sleep Around
Face Down
Slave
Get Your Groove On
Soul Sanctuary
One Kiss At A Time
In This Bed I Scream
Somebody's Somebody
The Holy River
Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother, Wife

Average Tracks:
Right Back Here In My Arms
My Computer
One of Us
New World
Betcha By-Golly Wow
The Jam of the Year
Emale
Sex in the Summer
Let's Have a Baby

Shitters:
Damned If I Do
I Can't Make You Love Me
Da Da Da
The Plan
Dreaming About U
Curious Child
Style
Mr. Happy
The Human Body
We Gets Up
White Mansion

Has anyone seen this album in the music stores? FYE.com has it as in stock and not as used. Amazon.com also has it available to buy new. Wouldn't it be great if Emancipation were available on iTunes? But I know this will probably never happen.

rusty1 said:

yes i totally agree, i really enjoy listening to emancipation as you can probably tell by my sig

I love this album! It usually gets put on first thing in the morning.....Dance my way awake in the kitchen!!

Yes Emancipation has many song too good...

god i so agree with this, i really love emancipation, infact its prob one of my fav p albums!! so many good songs, holy river and right back here in my arms are two of my fav prince songs eva i love this album and it is so underated as its ace!!

Penultimate Prince ...I love alot of the songs from it. The love songs especially . Disc II is my favorite with Disc III close behind.