while i wait for prince to release a version of the rainbow children album without all that darth vader nonsense, i will make one myself...take out all the voiceover(apart from the opening track), take out the wedding feast and take out the stephen hawking voiceover in family name.once its done i will let you know how its sounding.

I've been working on my own - very sloooowwwwly though. I got 1+1+1=3 to come out perfect and made Family Name sound decent. The title track is way hard because the voice is all over the place.

nah it does kinda work well as an intro to a few of the songs

it might sound a little...um, empty after you rehash it.

i'd not only buy a de-narrated version of TRC, but i'd probably LISTEN to it about 10 times more than i've listened to the original. that fat albert voice ruins the whole thing for me, i can't help it.

the residents had a similar album years ago, called "god in three persons" - it was a decent album, but it had a redneck soundin' narrator blabbing all the way through. soon after they released the album, they released an instrumental version of the record without the narration. i thought it was a great idea.

I don't have a problem with the narration.

In fact, I'd say it adds to the album, and I enjoy it

Although of course, I'm in the minority.

NouveauDance said:

With you there. I recall getting a copy with out the narration and my friend telling me the narration was one of the best parts...that it put it all together. WHen I get the release I was very pleased with it. It was sorta Bob George/Camille sounding and clicked with me right off.

I have a few problems with some of the songs like Family Name, but for the most part, I have enjoyed it. Actually since I have been hanging out here I have heard the voice/and wedding feast in a different light. Knowing how much these things are hated, makes me notice them more and think I shouldn't be liking it for some reason.

NouveauDance said:

I'm with you in that minority.

xpsiter said:

I would be happy if he just got Mavis staples to do the voide, unaltered.

AsianBomb777 said:

Now that would be interesting!!

superspaceboy said:

I will never understand why people have a problem with Family Name when all it is IS african American History. How do you think Black people in America got their last names? Have you ever met an african with the last name Nelson?

I happen to love the song. i think it is one of funkiest songs on the whole album.

AsianBomb777 said:

Yeah, although bea arthur did an ok job as the trc voice.

dearlybeloved said:

Some people see that song and Muse (would you rather be dead or be sold?) as taking digs at Jews. I'm not sure I can hear that in Family Name, though he says names like Rosenbloom.

So many different reactions to the album. It turns out that it was controversial after all.

Personally, I think it's great and anyone who thinks he's anti-Semitic, racist, or sexist doesn't understand his music.

Taureau said:

... and then the minority became a majority in the blink of an eye.



Or something like that

whodknee said:

Here, here (or is it hear, hear?).

Gawd, what am I doing in this forum?

Supernova said:

I'm not a fan of the voiceover, but it cracks me up every time I play the beginning of the album because it sounds like he says:

The accurate understanding of God and his LOG.
[Edited 10/29/04 18:27pm]

dearlybeloved said:

i like it on the album. don't particularly care for the vibe of it when he was doing it live on the ONA tour, with the asshole banter with the audience.

Get over the voice-over already.

Faux said:

NO!

Anxiety said:

YES!
[Edited 10/30/04 3:32am]

dearlybeloved said:

No but I have met a Peterson, Smith, Bender... hell I've even met a great deal of African people with Dutch and French names. Most parts of Africa were basically European colonies until the 20th Century so quite naturally a lot of people there have European names as well.