I really feel that 4 songs from Lotusflow3r could have been on The Rainbow Children CD.

From the Lotus
Feel better, Feel good... ( It sounds like twin of The Work pt.1, but much better!)
Love like Jazz
Back to the Lotus.
One can also claim that 77 Beverly Park is in a similar category.

What do you think?

None of those songs fit on The Rainbow Children for the simple reason that they aren't filled with JW dogma.

in style, yes.

in lyrics, no

ZiggmanZoo said:

From the Lotus and Back 2 the Lotus (if u ask me) were a part of the original song the Rainbow Children. They were edited out of the song 4 the cd release.
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lotusflow3r has the same vibe and sounds like rainbowchildren but without the deep voice and the jw bla bla

Graycap23 said:

Did not know this! So it seems that Prince is really found of his "Rainbow Children" I also gotta admit that I am really glad that Lotusflow3r does not include "The deep voice", that almost ruins the album.

Genesia said:

But I still hate The Rainb.....oh, you people know already.
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ernestsewell said:

So you don't care for these song either or?

TRC and Lotus can't be compared...

To very different eras, styles....

Graycap23 said:

Where do you know that from?

Dave1992 said:

My collection.

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ZiggmanZoo said:

I hate The Rainbow Children. HATE IT. Whereas with Lotus, it's not BAD music, just kind of bores me. But I get the correlation that Ziggmanzoo made with similar styles of music between the two albums.

Graycap23 said:

Musically,I consider LF to be a fairly close cousin to TRC especially the "songs" you mentioned. TRC is more rewarding for me musically but LF comes very close. It's a minor classic whereas TRC is bold and brilliant.

Graycap23 said:

I think it would help to clarify what you seem to be claiming.

Are you suggesting that edits from the released track 'The Rainbow Children' are the recordings of 'From The Lotus' and 'Back 2 The Lotus' released on 'Lotusflow3r'?

Graycap23 said:

yeah...just like Planet Earth started with the line "dance the dance electric".....will bullshit ever stop?aaaaahhh

langebleu said:

Pretty much.

ernestsewell said:

I don't necessarily hate it (there are a couple of tracks that I like a lot - musically, if for no other reason). But I have a very hard time getting past the anti-semitism and theocratic disorder of the thing.

Graycap23 said:

That's truly remarkable.

Whilst 'From The Lotus' and 'Back 2 The Lotus' share a not dissimilar guitar phrase with part of the coda on 'The Rainbow Children', the underlying song is played in a different key to the Lotusflow3r tracks.

Even more surprising, Prince credits John Blackwell with having played on the track, 'The Rainbow Children' but he credits the drumming parts you say are edited from that recording and issued as Trax 1 and 12 on 'Lotusflow3r' to Michael Bland, with the bass now played by Sonny T.

langebleu said:

These songs are morphing all over the place. The credits are what they are.
I would not have given it a second thought until some one brought it up. I pulled out some RC songs and there it was.

Graycap23 said:

But they were recorded in different years by different players.

thanks2joniandu said:

I agree. As much as I am enjoying LF, TRC is more cohesive and, so far, can't be touched.

From and Back to the Lotus, compared to TRC have a very different vibe to me, the lotus tracks to me have spacey aural feel, while TRC to me sounds very meat-n'-potatoes.


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Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Different guitar sound.

WetDream said:

I'd have to agree here...and there's nothing wrong with that.

Nothing wrong with the similarities. I gotta re-visit the Rainbow Children. I lost the album some years ago and I need to buy it again. But first I'm gonna listen more to Lotusflow3r and especially to 77 Beverly Park. It's fun when Prince throws out surprises!

stanleylieber said: