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Post by SHOOTER on May 29, 2020 2:09:15 GMT -5
 Rank 1-12Jam 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 Eye Do I Can't Make U Love Me Mr. Happy In This Bed Eye Scream Emancipation Pt. 1We've now reached the bloated portion of Prince's 90s output but I already know better than to expect y'all to rank 36 songs at once SO the 3-disc Emancipation album will be split into 3 rankdowns (each 12 songs and 60 minutes long). Part 1 is due June 12th! You can do it! |
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 29, 2020 3:53:48 GMT -5
Sent.
All 3 discs have their highlights. There were a few songs that I didn't like as much but there were only a handful between the 3 that I felt were bad. We'll be getting to those on the next two.
I bought this the week it came out. I had gone to the music store on the release date and they did not have it! They didn't receive their shipment on time. I had to wait until Friday of that week to go and get it.
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Post by Sir Benji on Jun 1, 2020 11:07:50 GMT -5
This disc is full of bops there are only 3 songs on this one that I don't care for. I'm sending my list now
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Post by tim on Jun 5, 2020 1:47:45 GMT -5
Just started on this today...I’ll get ‘er done.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Jun 7, 2020 23:19:48 GMT -5
To be honest, I wasn't particularly a fan of anything on this first disc lol
I was able to vaguely sort out my preferences, but to me it doesn't really matter what wins here
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 8, 2020 1:55:16 GMT -5
To be honest, I wasn't particularly a fan of anything on this first disc lol I was able to vaguely sort out my preferences, but to me it doesn't really matter what wins here Your effort is still appreciated.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 10, 2020 1:43:24 GMT -5
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 11, 2020 19:43:47 GMT -5
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 13, 2020 15:24:40 GMT -5
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Post by samo🦕 on Jun 13, 2020 16:49:52 GMT -5
Really sorry; PAR's had me distracted the last couple of days but I should be able to send tomorrow.
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Post by LBTrocks on Jun 13, 2020 23:39:24 GMT -5
I'll do this tomorrow
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 15, 2020 15:20:12 GMT -5
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Post by LBTrocks on Jun 15, 2020 21:05:14 GMT -5
I'm still going to do this lol!
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 16, 2020 15:30:36 GMT -5
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 20, 2020 13:14:32 GMT -5
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Jun 21, 2020 0:13:14 GMT -5
You know you’re not going to start reveals until Monday!
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2020 1:35:42 GMT -5
Emancipation Pt. 1: The Rankdown
1. SHOOTER
2. 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾
3. Sir Benji
4. singingrulebritannia
5. newpower
6. tim
7. .indulgecountry
8. @antigonerising
9. LBTrocks
10. Mirago
11. samo🦕
12. if the late ho shows up
It may be far from Prince's best work but, at its time of release, Emancipation was definitely the album The Artist Formerly Known as Prince believed he was destined to make. Any artist that signed a contract at the age of 18 and had been locked into for almost two decades would no doubt be craving some sort of freedom or creative change of pace. For an artistic workhorse like Prince, who was tied to a release schedule of a project every 1-2 years in a rather specific lanes musically when he believed he could release a new album of fresh material that pulled from any and all genres every 6-7 months, complete and utter liberation meant a total abandonment of the rule book as he knew it.
The closer to freedom Prince got while on Warner Brothers, the more unruly and defiant he became with his musical output which stunted his commercial success and left his fans divided. Once his contract was finally fulfilled in the summer of 1996, there was also zero indication which route he would take next. However, fans did not have to wait long for curiosity to be satisfied - Emancipation, his 19th album overall, was born on November 19, 1996 - 4 months, 10 days after Chaos & Disorder and exactly 8 months after the Girl 6 soundtrack.
Emancipation was a sprawling three-disc album with each set having an exact runtime of one hour - an intentional choice made after Prince dove into Egyptology and studied about the construction of the pyramids and how they related to constellations (IDK, the rabbit hole I went down left me even more confused so I'm leaving it at that). It was loosely designed as a concept record centered around themes of, well, emancipation which is why it was musically rooted in R&B but freely took detours into pop, funk, jazz and even house and blues territory. Lyrically, freedom was the underlying them while Prince penned records that were less metaphorical and more intimate than much of his past work as he processed new feelings associated marriage and fatherhood (he and Mayte Garcia married on Valentine's Day 1996 and had a son, Amiir, born in October who sadly died a week later due to Pfieffer Syndrome).
Critics were kind and receptive, many stating that it may was not top shelf as far as his overall albums were concerned but acknowledged that it did contain some of his best work of the decade thus far. Commercially, the results weren't blockbuster; it produced three top-20 hits in the UK and a top-40 airplay hit in the U.S. while peaking at #11 on the Top 200. Due to its runtime, the 500,000 units it managed to sell qualified it for double Platinum certification and it remains the fourth best-selling triple-disc album of all time in the States. Artistically, it was a win for Prince and quietly laid the foundation for what would become seismic shifts related to ownership in the industry decades later.
Bottom-half reveals will commence tomorrow evening. Feel free to discuss what you think will exit first and what you would like to see in the top-half as well as your thoughts on the album in general. |
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2020 16:50:06 GMT -5
You know you’re not going to start reveals until Monday!  |
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Jun 22, 2020 16:54:47 GMT -5
You know you’re not going to start reveals until Monday! Yet here we are on a Monday!  Now let me get started on Part 2 now so I can turn it in 3 days after the deadline. |
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2020 17:03:52 GMT -5
Yet here we are on a Monday! Now let me get started on Part 2 now so I can turn it in 3 days after the deadline. Fuck around and get left if you want to!  |
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2020 21:24:44 GMT -5
Let's kick this off. #12 has the lowest SD with only two people bold enough to rank it outside their bottom-3. Any guesses? (probably not) |
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2020 21:36:02 GMT -5
I've been holding back a good deal longer than I shoulda oughta
I bet you got the notion that I couldn't make up my mind
But now I'm ready to tell your mama that I got to gets with her daughter
Put on your good dress, baby, it's... samo🦕 : 6 newpower : 8 No Time for It
@antigonerising : 10 tim : 11 singingrulebritannia : 11 .indulgecountry : 11 Linnethia Monique : 12
LBTrocks : 12
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 12
Sir Benji : 12
SHOOTER : 12
Mirago : 12Courtin' Time saw Prince tap into his inner Count Basie for a big band swingin' romp. He originally recorded this song in 1992 around the time he shot the 7 video. |
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Jun 22, 2020 21:38:23 GMT -5
Courtin Time was ungodly corny
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 22, 2020 21:41:39 GMT -5
I almost guessed this would be last, lol. Yeah, she and the one I ranked below it were the only 2 songs on the album I did not fuck with.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2020 21:43:37 GMT -5
#11 has the 2nd-highest SD with four people ranking it outside the bottom-3. We're already losing a top-2. 
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2020 21:50:40 GMT -5
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 22, 2020 21:57:34 GMT -5
Yasssss I got the bottom 2 right (albeit reverse order, but close enough)! Neither of these were it. Sorry Prince.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2020 21:57:58 GMT -5
#10 has the 3rd-highest SD and needed 11 more points to break out the bottom-3; 6 people put it outside theirs including a top-3 ranker.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2020 22:05:13 GMT -5
I got some money, I got some juice
But something's funny, I ain't got you
I comes to party, don't wanna be alone
I need somebody - somebody grown... LBTrocks : 3 .indulgecountry : 4 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 5 Sir Benji : 5 @antigonerising : 7 Linnethia Monique : 8 Mrs. Downernewpower : 10
SHOOTER : 10Mirago : 11 tim : 12 singingrulebritannia : 12 samo🦕 : 12 Another Prince foray into hip-hop, Mr. Happy long been debated among Prince fans as being one of the album's least essential cuts; Prince's own engineer, Kirk Johnson, once referred to it as a "waste of time". It's also the rare Prince track to incorporate a sample; the "bought a house next to Prince" sound byte is from Ice Cube's 1993 song What Can I Do?. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 22, 2020 22:08:55 GMT -5
Welp, my good start didn't last I see. I was feeling this one!
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