Emancipation this my first main Prince album disappointment, too sugary... (altho I like it better today than back then..)

I saw the concert on MTV, very few new songs were played.... another disappointment.

He was a socalled free artist, right???

Oh wow, 19 years went by fast! I remember (and still have) the full-page ad in USA Today for the album. The night of the concert, I watched it in the suite-room of my dorm, trying to convince my roommates that Prince was still relevant

I don't think it was broadcast in the UK

No matter what, there are times when you feel like sipping Emancipation again.

If you go for it, I think it should be for like 2 weeks, without listening to anything else from Prince. Once you adopt all of its idiosyncrasies, and you ear is trained with nothing else, it really is a great album.

With a top notch CD rip, I find the production excellent. I don't get the "plastic sound" critics.
When Emancipation came out, it sounded like nothing existing.
There a bold production moves and ideas all over the 3 records.

If you pay attention to what's going on in the background,
Emancipation is full of pleasant overdubs surprise,
not to mention moments of pure maestria,
especially on Disc 2.

I watched, I remember he did 4 songs, including Get Yo Groove On.

I remember people were disappointed in that they expected everyone to be talking about it the next day & the reaction was more "meh."

thedance said:

Emancipation this my first main Prince album disappointment, too sugary... (altho I like it better today than back then..)

I saw the concert on MTV, very few new songs were played.... another disappointment.

He was a socalled free artist, right???

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Gotta love that in the promo piano gig for his upcoming tour he played... "Sweet Thing". A song he's covered numerous times. He's got more than a thousand songs to pick from and he performs a cover.

langebleu said:

I don't think it was broadcast in the UK

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Pretty sure MTV Europe broadcast this.

Thanks

You're correct. The Vault confirms it was broadcast by MTV Europe on 23 November.

It wasn't broadcast in France and I only saw it a few months later on VHS.

I remember buying Emancipation on my way to my odd job on the day of release, though. Was a student and had to go thru 3 hours of nonsensical phone surveys and get back home to finally get to play it. I loved it instantly and still do to this day.

I can still see myself catching the triple CD in the wrecka stow. I had just turned 20 a few days earlier. Hard to believe I've lived almost as long since that day as the duration of my whole lifetime back then

Will I still be here in 19 years to discuss HnR?

PurpleSpirit319 said:

'19 YEARS AGO TODAY!!!'

Was the end of Prince as we knew him.

We should all wear black, and the Org should have a minute's silence 19:19 tonight.

RIP Prince.

I thought i had the ad for the concert, but alas, that's lost. But I do have the ad for the launch of TheDawn.com, and an interview from Nov 12, 1996 about the album (which came out on the 19th in US)


Sorry for the crappy scan quality

(full size: http://imgur.com/a/w5B5G)

Also in the Nov. 12, 1996 USA Today - a review of Madonna's "Evita" soundtrack, the "Space Jam" soundtrack, and concerns that Leo Dicaprio's "Romeo & Juliet" was driving teens to suicide!

callimnate said:

PurpleSpirit319 said:

'19 YEARS AGO TODAY!!!'

Was the end of Prince as we knew him.

We should all wear black, and the Org should have a minute's silence 19:19 tonight.

RIP Prince.

I ENTIRELY AGREE WITH U!! THE BEGINNING OF THE END!!!

The first album I missed on release day, every album from Come to Chaos and Disorder I got on release day. I had to wait until Xmas 1996 to get it and felt bad for my Mum who paid like $69NZ for it then. Nowits like $5 every where. My copy was uncensored, but bought a censored copy last year.

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Remember loving it back then, even the rap, remember playing to death Disc 2, especially Saviour and Holy River. My mother who hated Prince, amazingly loved his version of Betcha by Golly wow. That was the only Prince/TAFKAP song she liked besides The Most Beautiful Girl.

wow, Funny How Time Flies

Yes I watched it, I wondered would a different Prince rise from the chaos & disorder...

the performance was too much too much happening that I couldn't focus on the music

but I walked away thinking the music must not have been much if I was overwhelmed by the pomp and circumstance

I first heard the album at an advance listening party together with a couple of other fans organised by a newspaper, and it was remarkable how our initial enthusiasm -- "three discs of new music, yay!" -- turned into disappointment. Halfway through I realised "this is worse than D&P", which was the low bar until then (disregarding rubbish like C&D because it wasn't a real album but contract filler).

PurpleSpirit319 said:

Prince celebrated his 'emancipation' from his Warner Bros. contract‪ in 1996, with a concert broadcast on MTV, BET and VH1 to preview the 3CD set Emancipation released the following week.

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You forgot to mention the child drama.

udo said:

PurpleSpirit319 said:

Prince celebrated his 'emancipation' from his Warner Bros. contract‪ in 1996, with a concert broadcast on MTV, BET and VH1 to preview the 3CD set Emancipation released the following week.

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You forgot to mention the child drama.

Which in my humble opinion explains Larry Graham and the JW shift.
But who knows.

bonatoc said:

udo said:

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You forgot to mention the child drama.

Which in my humble opinion explains Larry Graham and the JW shift.
But who knows.

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Which is way more important than the album that he rarely plays any songs form.

First Prince album I didn't rush out to buy.

I remember listening to it for the first time and thinking "How many songs can he start by singing the song's title?"

Been a long while since I've given it a listen, but I'm sure it could have grown better with age... maybe!?

udo said:

PurpleSpirit319 said:

Prince celebrated his 'emancipation' from his Warner Bros. contract‪ in 1996, with a concert broadcast on MTV, BET and VH1 to preview the 3CD set Emancipation released the following week.

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You forgot to mention the child drama.

To save time, as I was busy doing something else at the time, I just copied and pasted the info from an original post on Facebook, and there was no mention of the baby drama in the original post!! If the original poster thought it was significant to the subject in hand it would have been mentioned as well!!

BartVanHemelen said:

thedance said:

Emancipation this my first main Prince album disappointment, too sugary... (altho I like it better today than back then..)

I saw the concert on MTV, very few new songs were played.... another disappointment.

He was a socalled free artist, right???

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Gotta love that in the promo piano gig for his upcoming tour he played... "Sweet Thing". A song he's covered numerous times. He's got more than a thousand songs to pick from and he performs a cover.

Gotta love how you turn anything into some kind of deep flaw in Prince.

udo said:

bonatoc said:

Which in my humble opinion explains Larry Graham and the JW shift.
But who knows.

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Which is way more important than the album that he rarely plays any songs form.

Maybe it's precisely the reason.
He doesn't feel like going back to anything that reminds him this period in time.

"Friend, Sister, Mother, Wife" — see what I mean ?

bonatoc said:

udo said:

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Which is way more important than the album that he rarely plays any songs form.

Maybe it's precisely the reason.
He doesn't feel like going back to anything that reminds him this period in time.

"Friend, Sister, Mother, Wife" — see what I mean ?

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There's more tracks.

And time has passed.

bonatoc said:

udo said:

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Which is way more important than the album that he rarely plays any songs form.

Maybe it's precisely the reason.
He doesn't feel like going back to anything that reminds him this period in time.

"Friend, Sister, Mother, Wife" — see what I mean ?

wrong spelled song, the correct title is

"Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/ Wife". Mayte being the Mother/ Wife

[Edited 11/13/15 22:20pm]

I remember buying Emancipation on the day of release and playing the song "Emale" over and over and over.That was an early favorite.Actually,it's still my favorite song on the album.

thedance said:

bonatoc said:

Maybe it's precisely the reason.
He doesn't feel like going back to anything that reminds him this period in time.

"Friend, Sister, Mother, Wife" — see what I mean ?

wrong spelled song, the correct title is

"Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/ Wife". Mayte being the Mother/ Wife

[Edited 11/13/15 22:20pm]

I think it's meant to be taken in the sense of

(Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother) = Wife

"Wife" standing for all the four things combined that precede it. He's certainly using all those words in reference to Mayte and no one else.

^ Right NovaB.: this makes sense..