Prince - Emancipation
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Artist: PrinceEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Published: 1996
CD Release Date: 1996-11-19
Music Label: NPG Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Jam Of The Year
- Right Back Here In My Arms
- Somebody's Somebody
- Get Yo Groove On
- Courtin' Time
- Betcha By Golly Wow
- We Gets Up
- White Mansion
- Damned If I Do
- I Can Make You Love Me
- Mr. Happy
- In This Bed I Scream
- Sex In The Summer
- One Kiss At A Time
- Soul Sanctuary
- Emale
- Curious Child
- Dreamin' About U
- Joint 2 Joint
- The Holy River
- Let's Have A Baby
- Saviour
- The Plan
- Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife
- Slave
- New World
- The Human Body
- Face Down
- La, La, La Means I Love You
- Style
- Sleep Around
- Da, Da, Da
- My Computer
- One Of Us
- The Love We Make
- Emancipation
Free Music Notes for Emancipation
Free Music Review: This? Indulgent?
Hit: 5 Stars
This three-hour, thirty-six song triple album is my favorite Prince release - and yes, I've heard Purple Rain, Sign o' the Times, 1999 and Dirty Mind. All are good to great. This tops 'em all. Think of it like this: 36 tracks, and out of the 36, one filler. Holy frig.
The best thing about Emancipation, other than the song quality (which is very high) is the variety. Prince touches on several styles of music here: funk (Jam of the Year, Get Yo Groove On, We Gets Up, Damned if I Do, In This Bed I Scream, Sex in the Summer, Joint 2 Joint, Slave, Emancipation), ballads, sometimes with huge climactic endings (The Holy River, my favorite Prince song EVER, Let's Have a Baby, I Can't Make U Love Me, Friend Lover Sister Mother/Wife, Soul Sanctuary, with an amazing falsetto, Saviour, a stunning religious song), old-school R&B (La-La-La Means I Love You, Betcha By Golly Wow - both covers of Philly Soul classics given stunning rearrangements), rap (Da Da Da, the only loser, White Mansion, Style, emale), even a bit of big-band jazz (Courtin' Time) and house music (most of disc 3). How many other artists have released an album this varied? Not even The White Album reaches that level of variety, though it comes close. (This is a bit of an aside, but the only artist I can think of who's explored more styles than Prince is Zappa). He even makes What If God Was One of Us sound good, okay? Yes, the same What If God Was One of Us that inspired all kinds of parodies, from the Bob Rivers parody right down to my cousin's version, "What if I was one of us!" I thought that song was a piece of toxic waste until I heard Prince's cover. Good stuff.
Yet another reason why I love Emancipation is because of Prince's musicianship. He plays most of the instruments, as always: Guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, as well as obviously singing, and his guitar solos throughout are well worth listening to. Every guitar solo is good.
What can I say? Prince is the man. This might cost you quite a bit (then again, because of the joy of used record stores I got my copy for a mere $11.99 - a bargain!) This is a concept album of sorts, or at least the second disc is, as it deals with Prince's marriage and how happy he was with it. I like the music Prince makes when he's happily married.
Another point I'd like to make is that I love this album's liner notes. If there's a Grammy award for "best liner notes", I hope this took the '96 award home.
P.S. My absolute favorite songs on it are Jam of the Year, Get Yo' Groove On, Courtin' Time, Betcha By Golly Wow!, We Gets Up, Mr. Happy, In This Bed I Scream, Sex in the Summer, Dreamin' About U, Joint 2 Joint, The Holy River, Let's Have a Baby, Saviour, The Plan, Friend Lover Sister Mother/Wife, Slave, The Human Body, La-La Means I Love You and Emancipation. And that's just the metaphorical tip of the figuarative iceburg.
Emancipation Poster
As long as the stalemate between Prince "Symbol" Nelson and Warner persisted, there was no way to tell who was right: were the vaunted unreleased tracks inferior efforts, better left in the can, or, were they great songs, unwisely repressed? Now that the impasse has been broken--Nelson has left Warner and started his own label, NPG--the answer is clear. Nelson's first post-Warner release, "Emancipation," offers three full hours of music on 3 CDs, and none of it seems extraneous. Instead, every disc contains some of the catchiest melodies and most danceable rhythms of Nelson's career. It's as if a dam had cracked and a flood of pent-up creativity had been unleashed. --Geoffrey HimesPrince's first album after leaving Warner Brothers. Originally released in 1996, this three CD set runs exactly three hours which easily makes it one of the longest albums of all-new original material ever released by a popular artist. Long deleted in the States. Standard triple jewel case. EMI.
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