I BELIEVE THAT THE RAINBOW CHILDREN CD WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF HIS TOP 3 ALBUMS IF IT HAD NOT BEEN RUINED BY THE VOICEOVER RUNNING THROUGH MOST OF THE TRACKS.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK FELLOW FANS IF THEY COULD HAVE THE CHOICE, WOULD THEY HAVE THE VOICEOVER OR NOT?

The fact that 'wedding feast' is on there allows me to forget about the voiceover

there's another orger who forgot to hit the Caps Lock key...

Now to answer your thread...
I think the voice over is part of the album. If you're listening to what he's saying and singing, it works fine. if you're just listening to the music, then you could do without it.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest ! What's the big deal ?
It's like saying "Lets Go Crazy" would be better without the "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today..." voice at the beginning.

i would love to let people listen to the great music and felings behind them on the album but the darth vader voice means most people just think its crap im afaid.

I would have preferred the album without the voice-over. However, that was what the person who wrote it wanted to release...sooo That's like asking an artist to erase a part of his picture.

When I listened to MP3 song "Gold" it make me member of New Powers Generating at end and now I am a Rainbow Children because all the album is one MP3!

It's time to rise!

i wouldnt mind it, but it's often hard to tell what he's saying. I have often wondered how good it would sound if prince spoke it in his normal voice.

james said:

The big deal is that it runs throughout the entire album and lasts for minutes at a time, whereas the "Dearly beloved..." bit is a brief intro to one song. Not to mention the fact that he digs into bullshit themes like "she in subjection to the Wise One," which makes me gag every time. I'm in the camp that considers "TRC" his best album in years, but when will he get over stupid voiceovers between songs??? ("Come," for example). Yeah, yeah, I know it's integral to the TRC concept, but jeeesus!

SexLovely said:

Thank you! I like "The Wedding Feast" personally. So do my kids. The 2-year-old runs around singing, "A feast! A beast! A munch! A lunch!" Reminds me of the Grinch. Maybe I'm biased cuz I don't eat meat...

I liked The Voice in Rainbow Children I tprobably would've been cooler if it was a speeded up voice though, like Camille. It tells the story of the album. I would've been cunfused if the voice DID NOT tell the story of the album.

Yeah, I would be much more likely to listen to the album from begginning to end if it weren't for that voice over. . .or if the voice over were just in his own voice, rather than the distorted one.

And I like Wedding Feast! It's funny.

Doves,
Mel!ssa

Personally the voice ruins the album for me.
Every friend i've lent or played the album to asks why the fuck that voice is there.
it was not needed, and detracts from the music.

blackboab said:

KUDOS, dawg

You are absolutely correct!
(Well, at least in line with my opinion.)
Also, the final version should have been individually tracked. As it is, I only find TRC listenable when I actually have the time to listen to the whole thing. It starts up cool, but when "Wedding Feast" cues up and i eject that trifling piece of bullshit!

PFunkjazz said:

You know that the CD release is tracked, don't you?

In a way I understand people don't like the narrative, but on the other hand they are there and so to say the album is "ruined" by them seems foolish to me.
In England there is a very common phrase that goes like this. France is a very nice country, shame is full of French people!!
To me, this kind of comment is just as silly. The voice-overs are there, they've never not been there, so you like the album or not, with the whole material as offered. I don't see how else this can be viewed.
IMO

p coulda done that voiceover ala donald duck and it still wouldn't phase me. i could care less about it...

I can definitely understand how some people are annoyed by the narrative voice-over, but it doesn't bother me. It didn't from the first time I listened, and it doesn't now. Maybe the only time I could have done without it is during the end of "Digital Garden." I'd rather hear the distorted guitar without the voice.

But I wouldn't expect a non-kooky aspect on an album by a kook like Prince.

And actually the voice is not featured thru the entire album, because it's not on every song.

Btw, PFunk, the album is tracked and has been since the day it was released on the retail market.

I actually liek the voice over parts of the album! i think it adds 2 the puzzle u need 2 solve in order 2 work out the meaning of the album as a whole. It makes u listen hard 2 wat hes saying and when u get it and what the meaning truly is the it becomes almost essential 2 the album. Although i do agree i do cringe alittle at the wedding feast bit but hey who doesnt? All in all i rate TRC as a musical masterpiece of divine spiritual depth which challenges the soul but it delivers the challange cleverly packaged in a wrapping of the funkiest, sweetest shakin yo ass music eva created.

Even without the voice-over it wouldn't even had made it into his top 10 albums.

Supernova said:

By the time I got a prod release, it was too late. The boot is what I last heard in the CD-CHANGER.


You oughta come to HOB Sat nite, We gonna funk thangs up righteously when GC hits!!

PFunkjazz said:

Really? Hmmm...Saturday night.

1.Cut the voice-over shit.
2.Cut Wedding feast, Digital Garden and instrumentals.
3.Edit some of the tracks.
4.Add Judas Kiss,Silicon,U Make My Sunshine and When I lay My Hands On U
and you have the finest Prince release since 1987!!

My CD-R
1.Rainbow Children(edit)
2.Everlasting Now(edit)
3.When I lay My Hand on U
4.1+1+1=3
5.Judas Kiss
6.U Make My Sunshine
7.The Work Pt.1
8.Muse 2 the Pharoah
9.Silicon
10.Mellow
11.Family Name(edit)
12.She Loves Me 4 Me
13.Everywhere
14.Last December
15.Everlasting Now (reprise)

I like THE RAINBOW CHILDREN.
& everything that comes with it...ya'll jes need to get ova it

I dont mind teh voice over on TRC...The interludes on Gold and the Exodus has begun annoy the hell out of me.
Interludes on any album by any artist are annoying.

This subject NEVER dies...at first couple of listens , it gets in the way...
At this stage after listening to it over 10-15 times --I hardly notice it.

Voice over doesnt bother me a bit...that Vanessa Bartholomew crap on Symbol cd is whats really shit.

It doesn't bother me...The Album is a story...with some Slammin! music behind it. The voice acts as a narrator...actually if it were to go away, it would just run through my head anyway, I've long memorized that album.

That's my shit!

Blue
Times...times

allanb said:

Now thats the cd i was looking for!
Great job (with no narrative)