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QueenofCardboa
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What are your favorite songs on "The Rainbow Children"?

What are your favorite songs on "The Rainbow Children"?

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Reply #1 posted 07/25/16 7:20pm

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QueenofCardboard said:

What are your favorite songs on "The Rainbow Children"?


Rainbow Children (especially the instrumental coda)

The Work, Pt 1

1+1+1=3

She Loves Me 4 Me

Family Name (last half of the song)

Last December

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Reply #2 posted 07/25/16 7:21pm

thedoorkeeper

Muse to the Pharaoh
She Loves Me 4 Me
The Work
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Reply #3 posted 07/25/16 8:00pm

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Family Name, hands down
Mellow
heart prince I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it prince heart
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Reply #4 posted 07/25/16 8:19pm

babynoz

Mellow

Digital Garden

Family Name.

Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise.
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Reply #5 posted 07/25/16 8:52pm

OldFriends4Sal
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Rainbow Children

Digital Garden
the Work
Everywhere

1+1+1=3

Everlasting Now

Muse 2 the Pharaoh
Wedding Feast

She Loves Me 4 Me

Love the album

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Reply #6 posted 07/25/16 10:41pm

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"She loves me for me","mellow","everywhere" I like the whole album though .I can't believe its selling for $200 now days eek
There's Joy in repetition
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Reply #7 posted 07/26/16 4:17am

OldFriends4Sal
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breakdown2k14 said:

"She loves me for me","mellow","everywhere" I like the whole album though .I can't believe its selling for $200 now days eek

wow $200.00 I think I got mine at Best Buy for $11

I remember before seeing he Family album being sold for anywhere from $500-$1000 at least

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Reply #8 posted 07/26/16 6:23am

scratchtasia

The Work, Pt 1

1 + 1 + 1 Is 3

And that's all.

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Reply #9 posted 07/26/16 6:32am

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OldFriends4Sale said:

breakdown2k14 said:

"She loves me for me","mellow","everywhere" I like the whole album though .I can't believe its selling for $200 now days eek

wow $200.00 I think I got mine at Best Buy for $11

I remember before seeing he Family album being sold for anywhere from $500-$1000 at least

Crazy.. just saw the Dream Factory (Thunderball version) on eBay where they ask 1.249,00 dollar for it..

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Reply #10 posted 07/26/16 8:06am

TrevorAyer

i can really only listen to she loves me for me ... everything else is absolutely unbearable ... this was the first prince record I truly hated on first listen and only felt it got worse with repeated listening ... i have since prince died, listened to it several times since, trying to find something good in there, listened to the one night alone live versions too ... still complete pill head jw brainwashed rubbish .. :y'all aren't with me .. i'm talking bout a theocratic order y'all: lol ... now that is a funny moment .. prince trying to rally his audience to embrace his wordy religious mumbo crapo ... an prince ranting about family names .. dude your name is fucking PRINCE ... a far cry from blackburn .. listening to rainbow children is like watching the phantom menace .. there is so much wrong with that movie I completely forget natalie portman is in it and george lucas wrote it ... its too bad because the title song has a nice hook .. mellow could be good sans most of the lyrics .. the work has a nice groove .. but my gawd the lyrics are just shit .. its like prince was desparately trying to impress larry by spouting JW nonsense over an hour long elevator jazz snoozefest .. prince releasing rainbow children is like donald trump running as a republican ... and i quoth "if i were to run for president i would run as a republican, they are so stupid they would eat up all my lies and elect me" ... now prince .. "if i made so many shitty records that I had to change my name back to prince i would release an album of shitty christian music because christians are so dumb they will buy anything" ... i mean yes .. i get it ... abraham lincoln was indeed a racist ... but do i ever wanna hear either family name or avalanche again ... do they inspire me to rebel like say "blowin in the wind" or "masters of war" or "hurricain" ... does rainbow make me think religions are not all brain dead cults like say even prince own "the cross" "god" "the question of u" ... the answer is absolutely no ... rainbow is the most pretentious pile of religious vomit I have ever forced my self to endure ... but yeah .. she loves me for me is pretty good!

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Reply #11 posted 07/26/16 10:47am

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TrevorAyer said:

i can really only listen to she loves me for me ... everything else is absolutely unbearable ... this was the first prince record I truly hated on first listen and only felt it got worse with repeated listening ... i have since prince died, listened to it several times since, trying to find something good in there, listened to the one night alone live versions too ... still complete pill head jw brainwashed rubbish .. :y'all aren't with me .. i'm talking bout a theocratic order y'all: lol ... now that is a funny moment .. prince trying to rally his audience to embrace his wordy religious mumbo crapo ... an prince ranting about family names .. dude your name is fucking PRINCE ... a far cry from blackburn .. listening to rainbow children is like watching the phantom menace .. there is so much wrong with that movie I completely forget natalie portman is in it and george lucas wrote it ... its too bad because the title song has a nice hook .. mellow could be good sans most of the lyrics .. the work has a nice groove .. but my gawd the lyrics are just shit .. its like prince was desparately trying to impress larry by spouting JW nonsense over an hour long elevator jazz snoozefest .. prince releasing rainbow children is like donald trump running as a republican ... and i quoth "if i were to run for president i would run as a republican, they are so stupid they would eat up all my lies and elect me" ... now prince .. "if i made so many shitty records that I had to change my name back to prince i would release an album of shitty christian music because christians are so dumb they will buy anything" ... i mean yes .. i get it ... abraham lincoln was indeed a racist ... but do i ever wanna hear either family name or avalanche again ... do they inspire me to rebel like say "blowin in the wind" or "masters of war" or "hurricain" ... does rainbow make me think religions are not all brain dead cults like say even prince own "the cross" "god" "the question of u" ... the answer is absolutely no ... rainbow is the most pretentious pile of religious vomit I have ever forced my self to endure ... but yeah .. she loves me for me is pretty good!

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Wow! eek

Thanks for sharing. neutral

Do you feel better now that you got that off your chest? confused

Okay, I think that that is one vote for the song "She Loves Me For Me". biggrin

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Reply #12 posted 07/26/16 10:52am

daingermouz202
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Muse 2 the Pharaoh
Mellow
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Reply #13 posted 07/26/16 12:55pm

OldFriends4Sal
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I cut n pasted the Voice pieces, I'm surprised the story did not end with a conclusion from the Voice

.

narration from a computer-distorted Prince

...nice sweater, prince

As prophesied, the Wise One and his woman were tempted by the Resistor. He,
knowing full well the Wise One's love 4 God, assimilated the woman first and
only. Quite naturally, chaos ensued and she and 5 others were banished from
the rainbow.4ever.

.
The Wise One who understood the law that was handed down from God long ago,
held fast in his belief that the Lord would bring him another one who loved him so.

.

The Banished Ones approaching the palace shouted obscenities. They tried 2
confuse the Rainbow Children and dethron their king. Using the lies promoted
by the whosepapers, hellavisions, and scagazines- The Banished Ones
constructed a Digital Garden around the palace that extended throughout the
world. Furthermore they demanded compensation 4 their time spent in the
palace b4 the exile. This was noise! "So be it," said the Wise One, and
gladly obliged with an INVISIBLE DEED. The Banished Ones accepted and
returned to their place of birth in MendaCity. As 4 the Rainbow Children,
they began deconstructing the Digital Garden. Door to door they went in
search of those willing to do The Work

.

From all over, the people came 2 do The Work. And with every phase of the
deconstruction the Everlasting Now became evermore reality. Everywhere the
people were witnessing a change, but the alchemy occurred most in the Muse.

.

To all his good brothers
The Wise One spoke highly of his Muse,
Because her love for the one true God
Was growing with every passing day.
So he said, "to all a good night",
Sent them to bed early and invited his Muse to join him in
The sensual ever after

.
As she fell in2 the Sensual Everafter, out of bodyout of mind,
she stroked her hair a hundred times.
And as she fell deeper in2 the hypnotic unwind, he counted his way in2 the suggestive mind.
Planting a seed that bears fruit on the tree,
he said, repeat after me.repeat after me.repeat after me.1+1+1 is 3

.

One after the other, the Banished Ones fled
As they watched from the distance
The destruction of the Digital Garden

With no more fruit to bear from its trees
The Haze was finally broken
With the rains came the awareness that never again
Would anyone ever lay claim to the treasures of the Rainbow Children

As though awakened from a dream
The Muse opened her eyes
This time as Queen

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Reply #14 posted 07/26/16 1:25pm

Genesia

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TrevorAyer said:

i can really only listen to she loves me for me ... everything else is absolutely unbearable ... this was the first prince record I truly hated on first listen and only felt it got worse with repeated listening ... i have since prince died, listened to it several times since, trying to find something good in there, listened to the one night alone live versions too ... still complete pill head jw brainwashed rubbish .. :y'all aren't with me .. i'm talking bout a theocratic order y'all: lol ... now that is a funny moment .. prince trying to rally his audience to embrace his wordy religious mumbo crapo ... an prince ranting about family names .. dude your name is fucking PRINCE ... a far cry from blackburn .. listening to rainbow children is like watching the phantom menace .. there is so much wrong with that movie I completely forget natalie portman is in it and george lucas wrote it ... its too bad because the title song has a nice hook .. mellow could be good sans most of the lyrics .. the work has a nice groove .. but my gawd the lyrics are just shit .. its like prince was desparately trying to impress larry by spouting JW nonsense over an hour long elevator jazz snoozefest .. prince releasing rainbow children is like donald trump running as a republican ... and i quoth "if i were to run for president i would run as a republican, they are so stupid they would eat up all my lies and elect me" ... now prince .. "if i made so many shitty records that I had to change my name back to prince i would release an album of shitty christian music because christians are so dumb they will buy anything" ... i mean yes .. i get it ... abraham lincoln was indeed a racist ... but do i ever wanna hear either family name or avalanche again ... do they inspire me to rebel like say "blowin in the wind" or "masters of war" or "hurricain" ... does rainbow make me think religions are not all brain dead cults like say even prince own "the cross" "god" "the question of u" ... the answer is absolutely no ... rainbow is the most pretentious pile of religious vomit I have ever forced my self to endure ... but yeah .. she loves me for me is pretty good!


Epic. clapping

We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves.
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Reply #15 posted 07/26/16 4:25pm

RJOrion

Everywhere
1+1+1=3
Digital Garden
Sensual Everafter
Family Name
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Reply #16 posted 07/26/16 4:57pm

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I guess this album is like (a British thing), you either love it or hate it!

My favourite songs in order of preference:

Rainbow Children

Digital Garden
1+1+1=3
the Work

Everlasting Now

Muse 2 the Pharaoh

She Loves Me 4 Me
Mellow

rainbow

Life Matters
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Reply #17 posted 07/26/16 4:59pm

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Everywhere

Digital Garden

Sensual Everafter

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The whole thing is great though - Those final four songs are kind of untouchable.

I find Mellow a bit... mellow but that's the point right! I think I'd like an instrumental maybe though to actually 'get lost in the mellow' the lyics kind of get in the way for me, but in sequence I'd just let it play I wouldn't skip it.

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Reply #18 posted 07/27/16 2:56am

rob1965

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Digital Garden
The Work
Everywhere
Last December
'Liberate My Mind'
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Reply #19 posted 07/27/16 3:20am

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Muse 2 the Pharaoh

She Loves Me 4 Me
Mellow

Everywhere

Last December

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Reply #20 posted 07/27/16 5:20am

thisisreece

NouveauDance said:

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The whole thing is great though - Those final four songs are kind of untouchable.


This. The album's last stretch is such an incredible run of music. Really sounds like Prince giving it his everything. One of Prince's finest achievements (as is the whole album).

The Rainbow Children

The Digitial Garden

Everywhere

She Loves Me 4 Me

Family Name

The Everlasting Now

The Last December

Love this album - truly one of Prince's best.

Hundalasiliah!
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Reply #21 posted 07/27/16 5:28am

justAmeda

thisisreece said:

NouveauDance said:

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The whole thing is great though - Those final four songs are kind of untouchable.


This. The album's last stretch is such an incredible run of music. Really sounds like Prince giving it his everything. One of Prince's finest achievements (as is the whole album).

The Rainbow Children

The Digitial Garden

Everywhere

She Loves Me 4 Me

Family Name

The Everlasting Now

The Last December

Love this album - truly one of Prince's best.

thumbs up! wave highfive This is one of his albums that I like EVERY song on it!

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Reply #22 posted 07/27/16 5:35am

Adorecream

Don't like this album much at all for its lyrical content. But the better songs are.

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Last December

She loves me for me

1 + 1 + 1 =3

The everlasting now

Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name
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Reply #23 posted 07/27/16 6:14am

leecaldon

It's all about the last 4

She Loves Me 4 Me

Family Name

The Everlasting Now

Last December

Just, wow!

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Reply #24 posted 07/27/16 7:21am

Kara

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Everywhere cloud9
Digital Garden
Mellow
The Everlasting Now
Rainbow Children
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Reply #25 posted 08/15/16 5:56pm

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My favorites are;

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1+1+1=3

Deconstruction

Family Name

The Everlasting Now

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Reply #26 posted 08/16/16 12:28am

BlueLantern

Last december

The Everlasting now

[Edited 8/16/16 0:29am]

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Reply #27 posted 08/16/16 12:45am

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OldFriends4Sale said:


Rainbow Children


Digital Garden
the Work
Everywhere


1+1+1=3


Everlasting Now


Muse 2 the Pharaoh
Wedding Feast


She Loves Me 4 Me



Love the album



Looking to quote someone lol
This looks good
Cant believe my purple psychedelic pimp slap pimp2

And I descend from grace, In arms of undertow
I will take my place, In the great below
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Reply #28 posted 08/16/16 5:59am

lynx

Musically, this album is probably in my Top 5.

Lyrically, I mean it was ridiculous then and it's ridiculous now, I don't mind Prince throwing out a shout-out to God every now and then but this was a straight up Jehovah Witness recruiting record.

1+1+1=3 could have been one of the funkiest records in Prince history if not for the concept and cringworthy stuff like "we don't give a DUCK".

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Reply #29 posted 08/17/16 7:49am

CAL3

Genesia said:

TrevorAyer said:

listening to rainbow children is like watching the phantom menace ..



The fourth-best 'Star Wars' movie so far (after the original trilogy).

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