mordang said:

Crazy talk ... really emancipation is ground breaking not just because it's Prince it's 1996 and a 3 Disc CD is released that cover every music type / sound out there bar reggae ... how many artist can do this ...?

This is from the same guy that produced ATWID and LoveSexy ...come people..

Genesia said:

You couldn't have said it better.

murph said:

That's his best album of the 90's and his best since SOTT.

Personally, I'm glad he put it all on there. If you want to whittle it down to 1 cd or an EP be my guest, but don't deny us sensible people the ability to decide for ourselves what we like.

Having said that, if it were up to me I would have made 2 discs out of it. I would've left the 2nd disc as is. It's perfect. If you look at it song by song, maybe some aren't as good as others from the other discs, but together they work perfectly. I would include the following tracks on my other disc:

Somebody's Somebody
Right Back Here in my Arms
Damned if I Do
White Mansion
In this Bed I Scream
Human Body
Sleep Around
One of Us
The Love We Make
Emancipation (since it's the title track)

I would find this disc enjoyable without expecting it to live up to Purple Rain standards.

As for the rest of Emancipation I can stomach Mr. Happy, Jam of the Year, Slave, Face Down, , Da-da-da, My Computer, I Can't Make You Love Me, and even Courtin Time but I wouldn't miss them if they weren't there. We Gets up, Betcha By Golly Wow, and La,la,la means I love you were really songs that let me know Prince was losing his golden touch. He had put out some songs that maybe weren't very good before but those were just misses when he was trying something new. These songs were BAD and he wasn't even experimenting.

I really like Emancipation. It was nice to see new material for once and not have material that was from whenever-early-90s-ish-leftovers. It sounded like if Prince made a good solid double-album (like 80-90min lenth) and had a *lot* of b-sides. I think as of right this minute if i were pressed to make a single 80min disc, first I would edit some of the songs. not teh guitar jams..just the ones where the beat ran on too long to make it fit 60min exactly on each disc.

1. Jam Of the Year
2. Face Down
3. Slave
4. One Kiss At A Time
5. White Mansion
6. In This Bed I Scream
7. Somebody's Somebody
8. Courtin' Time
9. Sleep Around
10. Joint 2 Joint
11. I Can't Make U Love Me
12. Sex In The Summer
13. One Of Us
14. La, La, La Means I Love U
15. Emancipation
16. The Holy River
[Edited 3/21/10 18:08pm]

I'd go for:

1. Right Back Here in My Arms
2. Somebody's Somebody
3. Betcha by Golly Wow!
4. White Mansion
5. Dreamin' About U
6. Joint 2 Joint
7. The Holy River
8. Saviour
9. Sleep Around
10. My Computer
11. One of Us
12. The Love We Make
[Edited 3/21/10 18:13pm]

This link only made me pull out the 3 disc Emancipation set and play the hell outta them for the whole week. Now I am enjoying For youi this week,