it's an artistic manifest.

no less!

up there with SOTT and LOVESEXY. even higher and more mature.

If that's really what you think, then why do you give a fuck about someone else's opinion? Sounds to me like you're insecure.

how can a (post)modern individual be anything but insecure?

benjamino71 said:

ignore 'im buddy.

By the same token, what's so bad about:

cockroaches
flat tires
rainy days
Mondays
flat Coke
charley horses
diarrhea
projectile vomiting
traffic jams
Paris Hilton
famine
pestilence
nuclear waste
genocide
baby seal clubbing
crack
Ashlee Simpson's singing
Graffiti Bridge's direction
Graffiti Bridge's screenwriting
Graffiti Bridge's acting

yeah, you've got a point...
what's so bad, really, about crack?

The slowed down voice between the songs!

GottaLetitgo said:

mmmmm.....flat Coke....
[Edited 9/22/05 13:56pm]

benjamino71 said:

TRC is a fine album, and i really enjoy hearing it played live. i like the compositions on the album - it's the most challenging music he'd recorded in years - and the lyrics, while kinda ranty and a little more idiosynchratic than usual, were at least engaging and even clever in parts.

it's an interesting album - i kinda think of it as his underground manifesto in which he got everything out of his system before preparing for a huge commercial comeback...he got all of the conspiracy theories, WB rants, religious speeches, etc., completely out of his system with this album and the ONA tour, and was able to clear his throat and refashion himself as a shiny happy rock star for the musicology project (though there was a bit of ranting here and there in 2004...it IS prince, after all).

i don't think it was meant to be a major mainstream success...ONA was an album for prince - conceptually and musically. it was a man coming to terms with his new spirituality, and with a new direction in his career. he was shrugging off old problems like an old skin and facing a different perspective on his world. kinda heavy stuff, really.

the only thing i don't like about ONA, and the thing that keeps me from listening to it more often, is the narration. it really annoys me. if a version were released without the fat albert/darth vader narrator, i'd be a happy camper.

benjamino71 said:

depends on the crack....tit crack...ass crack

HEY! I like Paris Hilton & Ashlee Simpson's singing!

Absolutely Nothing, it's one of the best things the man has ever done. He's last great album.

JACKAL said:

TRC is amazing.

lilgish said:

Is there a high-5 or dap emoticon?

JACKAL said:

Why do people keep posting the SAME COMMENTS OVER AND OVER about the SAME TOPIC OVER AND OVER ?

the rainbow children-best album ever

GottaLetitgo said:

They are all just around the corner.

origmnd said:

Because Prince hasn't come out with anything new in over a year.

Blame Prince.

Compared to everything put out since Gold Experience...it was very refreshing! Highly enjoyable and a huge shift in musical style and certainly a very mature album that was very well thought out. You certainly don't hear the words Hodge Podge that gets attributed with Emancipation, Rave, the internet releases and even most recently Musicology. Hodge Podge it wasn't. It also banked in on the concept album bucks P had been saving over the years. It was finnaly a cohesive effort that I think many of us were craving.

I agree that it would have been a better album without the narration. In fact, it would have been hearladed by most of the community as a masterpiece had it NOT had the narration.

I like the Rainbow Chidlren. Track 5 makes me cry all the time.

lilgish said:

Oh.

PurpleKnight said:

true, but, then again, who could, without sounding immature, somewhere in the midst of their fourties, just skip the depth of an aged insight, and keep singin the same song over and over about fun and charmin topics like having a lion in your pocket that's ready to roar. we know prince had such a lion. the interessting thing about the man is that his pocket contains other things today, and his art represents that.