Oh no, I have an (admittedly resistable) urge to buy Prince's "Emancipation" set!

Listening to this again and... I'm guessing Prince thought he was really going to take the world by storm with this record!

and if trimmed down to a single album/cd, he could have.

I think a single disc version of this could have been as good as The Gold Experience at least!

umm, is that genuine or a back handed compliment ?
i happen to think that TGE is bloody wonderful but there are many that do not.

It's a genuine compliment - I think The Gold Experience is one of his best '90s LP's.

Toss up between The Gold Experience and Come for me.

I think The Gold Experience is one of his best '90s LP's.

low bar. Come is a bit better imo.

Come is up there too, IMO. His most underrated LP.

('90s LP, I should say)

blimey, i have Come in the archive.
guess its time to give it another spin as i have no recollection of it.

Of course, his '90s work doesn't really compare to his '80s work, but that goes without saying!

huh I had no idea that was the Sagrada Familia on the cover of Come

funny how he wanted to release it simultaneously w/the Gold Experience in some weird market-manipulation attempt to make his "love symbol" branded stuff more popular

Not so funny how he dismissed it as being "old material" when it wasn't!

This could be been his best 90s album if he edited it

The rest, while good, isnt anything that remarkable

The craft is there, but the inspiration isnt

But at this point in his career, a triple is crazy. Weird way to relaunch yourself! Buried in this is a really lovely, mature album, subdued yes but more reflective if an adult prince in a way his later albums weren't, and that's something g this album proved might not be exciting or a hit,but could be still quite beautiful and moving.

Gold would have been a much better 45 min album. This would be a much better 60 minute album. Yeah it has some cool little weird moments, but it never comes alive. Would have been better to just focus on the love songs, the stuff about being a 37 year old who just got married. Might not have been a smash but would have been a sharper, more cohesive album. All the rest could have been on maxi singles. The party songs on here are asinine or lifeless, the raps are just awful, production is overly measured but it hasn't dated strangely. It's just a bit devoid of energy.

Idk who is management was at this point but they were crazy.

I enjoy the production on some of these and if they come up on shuffle I wouldn't skip but agree it's just fatiguing to listen to for 3 hours straight.

Hasn't got the highs of gold experience (I hate u pr Billy Jack bitch) but it's got so many well honed songs (maybe too well honed), it's a shame it sunk, and if it wasn't 3 CDs long, it might not have done.

A triple in the 80s, that's one thing, a triple when each disc can be 70 mins long, that just untenable

Also every ballad on disc 2 is worth listening to, but there are just too many of them. Saying that though, the opening line of one kiss at a time, 'come and get your cum on' is just a bit weird. And sex in the summer just sounds so forced.

Actually listening to it now, my main thought is yes, a song can be good, but that doesn't mean it needs to be on an album. All the outtakes from the late 80s even, they're great, but he made the right call in not including them on the albums released.

disc two >>>>>

Has anyone ever posited an entirely post-Lovesexy greatest hits tracklist, and what it might entail?

disc two >>>>>

― ivy.

second side of Disc Two.

will no 1 stan for "Emale"

― Neanderthal, Sunday, April 24, 2016 4:47 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

*raises hand*

I just risked visiting www.emale.com on my work computer to discover that "The owner of emale.com is offering it for sale for an asking price of 485000 EUR!"

this is a weird album. every time i try to make it a single or double album, it doesnt work really. i think its cos while a good 75% of it is very good, theres no real amazing highlights on there, or no 'big' standouts apart from the covers (one of us is still one of the best things he did in the 90s, and well, ever, the most perfect cover he ever picked). its also really fussily engineered and produced, theres not a note out of place. i guess that makes it both state of the art in 96, but also just a bit... sterile? as an album/playlist, i like to make it start with slave, and end with emancipation, but i find both tracks a bit of a bore really, even though it makes sense to have them there to create an album kind of experience (and this an album that needs to be an album as it doesnt have many big peaks). i love sleep around but its too long, and needed a proper house remix. it is his one true 90s rnb album, def more conservative in many ways for him, but i think he lost something in the process, just cos trying to be a more pure (relatively speaking) rnb artist wasnt really prince i think, even though he did try to cleave more to that as he got older. but this was the last time he was trying to sound current maybe, until the art official age album (which i like more, and was maybe the best late period album he did).