| |introduction = '''Slave''', previously titled ''(Slowly Candle Burns)''', is the first track on the third disc of [[Prince]]'s 19th album [[Album: Emancipation|Emancipation]], the third album to be credited to [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]], and, eleven months before the album's release, [[Single: Slave|Slave]] was given out as a cassette single at a [[Paisley Park Studios]] show on [[09_December 1995|9 December 1995]] (the same show where the [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]] version of [[Days Of Wild]] was recorded and the studio version of [[One Of Us]] was premiered). | | |introduction = '''Slave''', previously titled '''(Slowly Candle Burns)''', is the first track on the third disc of [[Prince]]'s 19th album [[Album: Emancipation|Emancipation]], the third album to be credited to [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]], and, eleven months before the album's release, [[Single: Slave|Slave]] was given out as a cassette single at a [[Paisley Park Studios]] show on [[09_December 1995|9 December 1995]] (the same show where the [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]] version of [[Days Of Wild]] was recorded and the studio version of [[One Of Us]] was premiered). |
| Initial tracking dates are unknown, but it is likely that the track was recorded in mid-1995 at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA. It was included as the third track on a July 1995, configuration of [[Album: Emancipation|Emancipation]], and as the fourth track on another 1995 configuration. The released version contains a drum pattern during the chorus that is sampled directly from [[Ain't No Place Like U]], which was not included on an earlier, unreleased version of the song. The song contains some lyrical and musical similarities to [[Slave 2 The System]], but the two are otherwise different songs. | | Initial tracking dates are unknown, but it is likely that the track was recorded in mid-1995 at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA. It was included as the third track on a July 1995, configuration of [[Album: Emancipation|Emancipation]], and as the fourth track on another 1995 configuration. The released version contains a drum pattern during the chorus that is sampled directly from [[Ain't No Place Like U]], which was not included on an earlier, unreleased version of the song. The song contains some lyrical and musical similarities to [[Slave 2 The System]], but the two are otherwise different songs. |
