the only prince album that i never feel like listening to is emancipation. i dont know what it is about the album, i mean the songs are mostly ok, some are sub standard but on the whole it's not a bad collection of songs. maybe its just too damn big. maybe it's the sleek production on the album the puts me off. i just don't know.

Get stoned first...

I think..in a nutshell

because it is done with waaay to much Key Board & then live Vocal & Guitar Tracks.

He used keyboards for everything and just pasted & looped it everywhere. (more then usual)

blackboab said:

Good question (its cold sound and weak arrangements may have something to do with it...) In any case, these 3 CDs won't do any good to your gastric pains.

Just burn a good single album out of it.There's a shitload of filler on it otherwise.

blackboab said:

The album is dull, musically and lyrically conservative; it follows trends instead of setting them. Prince sounds like a follower rather than a leader and churns out an album that is designed to appeal to all but ended up pleasing few.

frankjotzo said:

Like everything he made from 1991 to 1999. Apart from The Truth.

Cloudbuster said:

Co-signed (even The Truth has its bad-taste moments...)

Another problem is,the album is simply too long.When I play a CD,I like to hear the entire disc.But with 'Emancipation',I can never do this.I rarely have three hours to sit and listen to an album.So,when I do play 'Emancipation',I find myself skipping through many of the songs,mostly the less-than-fantastic songs.


I still think it would have been a kickass 2-CD set.Remove the weaker songs like "We Gets Up","La Da Da",the title track,the four remakes,and a few others,and it would have been just perfect.Plus,2 filler-free CDs is easier to digest than a sprawling 3-CD set.

All of the above mentioned reasons.

Come on. Eman is not that bad compared to some other "gems" of the 90'ies.
Do you really feel like listening to Come, New Power Soul, Rave ... ?

In particularly Eman disc 2 is very special if you're in the right mood. You may disagree but to me it contains some of the best + deepest love songs he has ever done.

disc 2 is good, most of it, but disc 1 and 3 are outdated, mostly.

no idea , i think its bril ! i love the covers , only 3 tracks i dont like !

slave
new world
the human body

i just LOVE face down and style !!!

give it another try !!!

I really do like
Slave
New World
The Human Body

strange huh. they are certainly not the greatest things around, but Slave is superb to me!! it's strange, hunting, funky, non-melodic, and it's surprising. Listen to it with Headphones, and get lost in it's rythmic melody, which is só strange and unheard of...

frankjotzo said:

I wonder if setting a trend is necessarily something good.

DOROTHYPARK said:

I'm xactly tha same as u Dorothy, but:

I CANNOT BELIEVE NO1 HAS THOUGHT OF THE LOVE WE MAKE. YOU SINNERS. EMANCIPATION IS WORTH KEEPING 4 THAT SONG ALONE!!!

I love " my computer".

Don`t know if it`s trendy though.

blackboab said:

I feel the same way, When it first came out its all I listened to.. Now I dont even touch,nor feel like it..


As long as ure musics evolving u'll b fine.. Im not upset about it at all... Someday i'll put it back in.

Does everyone but me listen to all 3 discs back to back regularly then.I love 90% of Emancipation, but I've NEVER listened to all 3 discs in one go , I take it as 3 seperate discs ,the first full of a mix of party tracks and some deeper stuff,the 2nd pretty much an album of luurve,the 3rd is the best,full of allsorts of cool experiments and shit.

All of the above... nearly.

In short, the songs themselves (and arrangements) are scattered... mostly weak songs, with brilliant songs lost in the mix (i.e. "The Love We Make")

The engineering just SUCKS... "H.M. Buff" aka Hans Buff is a kid from Minneapolis, who mixes everything super dry and lifeless. Sounds like the whole album nearly was recorded direct and all digital...

Very Cold indeed.

Notice how the sound of Rainbow Children is nearly the opposite... fat and warm.

G.

Giovanni777 said:

co-sign

I listen to
Holy River
In this bed I scream
the love we make
soul sactuary
betcha by golly wow
one of us


and maybe one or two more off Emancipation

that's it I need to brun a cd with just these songs and be done with it huh?

blackboab said:

I rarely fel like listeing as well--its too long etc for me to worry about...the productio etc ..it just sems like a lot of "work" to listen too

funkystuff said:

Yep. I'd rather listen to Newpower Soul. However, Emancipation also isn't the worst album he's ever made.

probably because of getcha groove on/

Spookymuffin said:

I agree Spookymuffin. The Love we Make is one of the best songs on Emancipation. I could listen to it over and over again, which I have been doing for the past month.
[This message was edited Sat Dec 13 14:19:06 PST 2003 by LolaM]

blackboab said:

...or maybe 'cause it blows...

I'm listening 2 curious child at this moment and it's beautiful!
But I prefer the second and third cd ...

I like CD 2 and occasionally listen to the "house music" songs on CD 3.

But then again, my Prince cd's arent getting that much rotation anymore. Perhaps I'm getting old, but I'm just not listening to music that much anymore.

Then again, I'm NOT old...maybe I'm just not obsessed like I used to be.