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PrintableDavidEye said: Hmmm,"Partyman" is another single that I have mixed feelings about.I like the song,but I wonder if "The Future" or "Trust" would have made better singles.
"The Future" was a single in the U.K. | |
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I don't think it's the "worst" but I've never been crazy about "Gett Off." | |
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BinaryJustin said: "Betcha By Golly, Wow", "New Power Generation", "Dinner With Delores", "The Holy River".
All terrible choices... I also think that Warners should have skipped releasing "Thunder" as a single in the U.K. and released "Insatiable" like in the U.S. I think that "Insatiable" would have done well on Urban radio stations here, whereas I don't remember "Thunder" being played anywhere! How many more people would have bought Emancipation if he'd released the following as singles: 01) Sleep Around b/w Somebody's Somebody; 02) Soul Sanctuary b/w In This Bed Eye Scream; 03) The Love We Make b/w My Computer; 04) Friend, Sister, Lover, Mother/Wife b/w Face Down. No Offence but those are some of the worst choices for singles ive ever seen. My skin would've crawled if hed released Sleep around as the first single. The Holy River was the only obvious choice for a single on the album. The rest of the stuff was mediocore. The Love We Make would've been okay, and Jam Of the Year might have worked, but the whole problem with Emancipation was that there wasn't enough stand out songs to make it work. There was a lot of good stuff on there, but none that would motivate me to buy it...except The Holy River. | |
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jtgillia said: Prince really did not choose his singles well after 1987 or so (exception being Diamonds and Pearls album). He has had a couple of potential hits on each album he's released (almost) and he's usually picked songs that are either mediocre or totally uncommercial...
Agreed.I think,beginning with the 'Parade' album,he began choosing wrong singles,in most cases.Songs like "Glam Slam","New Power Generation","If I Was Your Girlfriend" and "The Morning Papers" were poor choices for singles.But I don't know if it was him,or Warners who had the final say. | |
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DavidEye said: jtgillia said: Prince really did not choose his singles well after 1987 or so (exception being Diamonds and Pearls album). He has had a couple of potential hits on each album he's released (almost) and he's usually picked songs that are either mediocre or totally uncommercial...
Agreed.I think,beginning with the 'Parade' album,he began choosing wrong singles,in most cases.Songs like "Glam Slam","New Power Generation","If I Was Your Girlfriend" and "The Morning Papers" were poor choices for singles.But I don't know if it was him,or Warners who had the final say. If I was Your Girlfriend did okay in the UK getting to number 20. But he should've released HouseQuake in the US. | |
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Cloudbuster said: DavidEye said: jtgillia said: Prince really did not choose his singles well after 1987 or so (exception being Diamonds and Pearls album). He has had a couple of potential hits on each album he's released (almost) and he's usually picked songs that are either mediocre or totally uncommercial...
Agreed.I think,beginning with the 'Parade' album,he began choosing wrong singles,in most cases.Songs like "Glam Slam","New Power Generation","If I Was Your Girlfriend" and "The Morning Papers" were poor choices for singles.But I don't know if it was him,or Warners who had the final say. If I was Your Girlfriend did okay in the UK getting to number 20. But he should've released HouseQuake in the US. It did very poorly in the U.S.,peaking at Number 87 if I'm not mistaken (or was it 78?).Understandably,most radio stations were afraid to play it,and Prince didn't dare make a video for it...lol | |
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DavidEye said: It did very poorly in the U.S.,peaking at Number 87 if I'm not mistaken (or was it 78?).Understandably,most radio stations were afraid to play it,and Prince didn't dare make a video for it...lol
No. 67, I believe. | |
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I also think Gold is a bit on the crap side. Especially the edited 4 radio version. | |
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JDINTERACTIVE said: I also think Gold is a bit on the crap side. Especially the edited 4 radio version.
A UK no.10. But yeah, a bit too poppy and er...'80's sounding. | |
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Cloudbuster said: JDINTERACTIVE said: I also think Gold is a bit on the crap side. Especially the edited 4 radio version.
A UK no.10. But yeah, a bit too poppy and er...'80's sounding. Say what?? "Gold" is brilliant! But yeah,it does kinda resemble a big 80s rock anthem,of sorts. | |
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DavidEye said: Say what?? "Gold" is brilliant! But yeah,it does kinda resemble a big 80s rock anthem,of sorts.
I don't mind it but I think there were better choices for singles from TGE. | |
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It's weird but some of these songs mentioned are my favorites. That's really interesting. But I HATE (and I don't know the real title of the song) but I think it is called "Courtin' Time".
I skip that song everytime it comes up on the CD. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 | |
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dearlybeloved said: It's weird but some of these songs mentioned are my favorites. That's really interesting. But I HATE (and I don't know the real title of the song) but I think it is called "Courtin' Time".
I skip that song everytime it comes up on the CD.  I love that tune. | |
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Cloudbuster said: DavidEye said: Say what?? "Gold" is brilliant! But yeah,it does kinda resemble a big 80s rock anthem,of sorts.
I don't mind it but I think there were better choices for singles from TGE. What songs would you have chosen as the singles from that album? I would have picked these,in this order... *"I Hate U" *"319" *"Shy" *"Gold" | |
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Cybersingle. | |
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Some of y'all are gonna think I'm insane for saying this,but I think it was a mistake to release "Do Me Baby" as a single.The third single from 'Controversy' should have been "Private Joy",a song that was strong enough to have even been the FIRST single. | |
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DavidEye said: What songs would you have chosen as the singles from that album? I would have picked these,in this order...
*"I Hate U" *"319" *"Shy" *"Gold" The Most Beautiful Girl In The World Dolphin P Control Eye Hate U Shy | |
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dearlybeloved said: It's weird but some of these songs mentioned are my favorites. That's really interesting. But I HATE (and I don't know the real title of the song) but I think it is called "Courtin' Time".
I skip that song everytime it comes up on the CD. But, the question isn't whether or not a song is good or not, but if it would make an impact on the charts and the record-buying public!! Just like If I Was Your Girlfriend, as others have mentioned, is an excellent masterpiece, but to release as a single to get max airplay, it just wasn't going to happen. I think it's a little more about good business sense than about what's actually just good.  | |
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Cloudbuster said: DavidEye said: What songs would you have chosen as the singles from that album? I would have picked these,in this order...
*"I Hate U" *"319" *"Shy" *"Gold" The Most Beautiful Girl In The World Dolphin P Control Eye Hate U Shy LMAO
"P Control" as a single??!! Yeah,I'm sure radio would really embrace a song like that...lol | |
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DavidEye said: Cloudbuster said: DavidEye said: What songs would you have chosen as the singles from that album? I would have picked these,in this order...
*"I Hate U" *"319" *"Shy" *"Gold" The Most Beautiful Girl In The World Dolphin P Control Eye Hate U Shy LMAO
"P Control" as a single??!! Yeah,I'm sure radio would really embrace a song like that...lol Hey, Sexy M.F. got to no. 4 over here. So you never know.  | |
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Cloudbuster said: DavidEye said: Cloudbuster said: DavidEye said: What songs would you have chosen as the singles from that album? I would have picked these,in this order...
*"I Hate U" *"319" *"Shy" *"Gold" The Most Beautiful Girl In The World Dolphin P Control Eye Hate U Shy LMAO
"P Control" as a single??!! Yeah,I'm sure radio would really embrace a song like that...lol Hey, Sexy M.F. got to no. 4 over here. So you never know. Serious? Did they play it on the radio? In my area,the song "Sexy Mf" was played a few times on our R&B station,but they did a really clumsy edit,the chorus sounded like this... "come here baby...yeah...you sexy mutha mutha mutha... come here baby...yeah...you sexy mutha mutha mutha" it sounded ridiculous! | |
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DavidEye said: Serious? Did they play it on the radio? In my area,the song "Sexy Mf" was played a few times on our R&B station,but they did a really clumsy edit,the chorus sounded like this...
"come here baby...yeah...you sexy mutha mutha mutha... come here baby...yeah...you sexy mutha mutha mutha" it sounded ridiculous!We got the clumsy edit as well.
But yeah, it got to number 4. | |
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alexnvrmnd said: dearlybeloved said: It's weird but some of these songs mentioned are my favorites. That's really interesting. But I HATE (and I don't know the real title of the song) but I think it is called "Courtin' Time".
I skip that song everytime it comes up on the CD. But, the question isn't whether or not a song is good or not, but if it would make an impact on the charts and the record-buying public!! Just like If I Was Your Girlfriend, as others have mentioned, is an excellent masterpiece, but to release as a single to get max airplay, it just wasn't going to happen. I think it's a little more about good business sense than about what's actually just good. That is not what the questions was though. I was only answering the question... 1 Thessalonians 5:23 | |
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DavidEye said: Cloudbuster said: DavidEye said: Say what?? "Gold" is brilliant! But yeah,it does kinda resemble a big 80s rock anthem,of sorts.
I don't mind it but I think there were better choices for singles from TGE. What songs would you have chosen as the singles from that album? I would have picked these,in this order... *"I Hate U" *"319" *"Shy" *"Gold" I thought I hate u was a terrible choice for a single. Its a boring slow jam. Id've had: TMBGITW Dolphin Gold Endorphine Machine In general, bad single choices : Paisley Park (1985) - This was released before Raspberry Beret in the UK (WTF???) Gett Off (1991)- I love this song, but its not a first single choice (even though it did well in the UK) Letitgo (1994) - I thought Space was much better than this. I Hate U (1995) - Still sends me to sleep now. Betcha By Golly Wow (1996) - Since when did Prince release covers as singles? The One (1998) - Nice enough song, but again its just a slow jam, Come On was much better. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (1999) - Too slow again, doesnt grab the listener. I guess Prince has never been good at choosing lead singles, but then again, hes also had some of the greatest: I Wanna Be Your Lover Controversy 1999 When Doves Cry Raspberry Beret Kiss Sign O The Times Alphabet St | |
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DavidEye said: Some of y'all are gonna think I'm insane for saying this,but I think it was a mistake to release "Do Me Baby" as a single.The third single from 'Controversy' should have been "Private Joy",a song that was strong enough to have even been the FIRST single.
I don't hate you baby. What you said was utter foolishness...but I don't hate you. Do me baby is the funkiest teenage dry hump song ever (besides international lover). When it comes to funk, i am junkie | |
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Cloudbuster said: DavidEye said: jtgillia said: Prince really did not choose his singles well after 1987 or so (exception being Diamonds and Pearls album). He has had a couple of potential hits on each album he's released (almost) and he's usually picked songs that are either mediocre or totally uncommercial...
Agreed.I think,beginning with the 'Parade' album,he began choosing wrong singles,in most cases.Songs like "Glam Slam","New Power Generation","If I Was Your Girlfriend" and "The Morning Papers" were poor choices for singles.But I don't know if it was him,or Warners who had the final say. If I was Your Girlfriend did okay in the UK getting to number 20. But he should've released HouseQuake in the US. No. 20? i'm sure it got to No 11. (i got the picture disc) |
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CrozzaUK said: BinaryJustin said: "Betcha By Golly, Wow", "New Power Generation", "Dinner With Delores", "The Holy River".
All terrible choices... I also think that Warners should have skipped releasing "Thunder" as a single in the U.K. and released "Insatiable" like in the U.S. I think that "Insatiable" would have done well on Urban radio stations here, whereas I don't remember "Thunder" being played anywhere! How many more people would have bought Emancipation if he'd released the following as singles: 01) Sleep Around b/w Somebody's Somebody; 02) Soul Sanctuary b/w In This Bed Eye Scream; 03) The Love We Make b/w My Computer; 04) Friend, Sister, Lover, Mother/Wife b/w Face Down. No Offence but those are some of the worst choices for singles ive ever seen. My skin would've crawled if hed released Sleep around as the first single. The Holy River was the only obvious choice for a single on the album. The rest of the stuff was mediocore. The Love We Make would've been okay, and Jam Of the Year might have worked, but the whole problem with Emancipation was that there wasn't enough stand out songs to make it work. There was a lot of good stuff on there, but none that would motivate me to buy it...except The Holy River. Sleep Around was the most commercial-sounding song on the album! It was Emancipation's equivalent of "U Got The Look". Why would this have been a bad choice for the first single? | |
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