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Lovesexy vs Rainbow Children I like those threads about comparing albums so I'd like to start one about Prince's most religious LPs. Lovesexy was a big big big hype in Holland back in 1988 and the one that got me hooked on Prince. Lovesexy is the album that says , I found Jesus and I'so happy while Rainbow Children says, I believe in Jehova and if you don't you go to hell. So in my view Lovesexy is about positivity while RC is not. Also I think RC contains the worst most annoying pompous unlistenable jazzrock Prince has ever recorded. But on the train back from NSJF talking to some folks I found that RC also has its fans. So whaddaya'll think? | |
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The funk of Lovesexy with it's cover borderlining on being homoerotic
The Rainbow Children did not live up to it's awesome name and sounded awful when I sampled it in 2001. | |
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Lovesexy is a masterpiece, so uplifting in the message very positive
I guess the message in The Rainbow Children is dogmatic...
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Anna Stesia is better than anything on TRC so i'll take Lovesexy | |
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In my opinion, both albums are fantastic. I'd choose Lovesexy, but The Rainbow Children wouldn't be very far. Musically they are rich and complex, and contain some of the best music Prince has ever recorded. The Rainbow Children has the added value that it was published when Prince had completely lost his mojo, and it was a real return to form, while Lovesexy still belongs to his golden age.
Regarding the lyrics, I don't agree totally with the idea that Lovesexy is Prince finding God and celebrating it and The Rainbow Children just dogmatic preaching. There's certainly some truth in that, but I thin one can also find preaching elements in Lovesexy and a happy man celebrating his faith in The Rainbow Children.
Anyway, I find these albums fascinating, both musically and lyrically. | |
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Correct, but other than that, it's like asking which tooth you'd want to pull out. | |
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Rainbow Children feels like a follow-up album to Lovesexy. There's a similiar vibe or feel when you listen to them back to back ... Peace ... & Stay Funky ...
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I actually really like TRC compared to much of Prince's later work, BUT Lovesexy has a much better flow & vibe to it. The songs on Lovesexy are much more unique too. | |
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Eye love the rainbow children but if its 1 or the other its has 2b LoveSexy cuz of the amazing AnnaStesia but then theres Last December?????.......LOVESEXY but only cuz of AnnaStesia... Dave Is Nuttier Than A Can Of Planters Peanuts...(Ottensen) | |
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Both Masterpieces. If I had to pick though Inwould go with the Rainbow children "Still Crazy 4 Coco Rock" | |
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Lovesexy TRUE BLUE |
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LoveSexy
I didnt even have to think about it "How Can I Stand To..Stay Where I Am? Poor Butterfly Who..Dont Understand." P | |
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Lovesexy | |
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TRC!! Great album!! Lovesexy very over-rated to me. One great track with Anna Stesia and a bunch of mediocre tracks to me | |
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Lovesexy has a better vibe and flow, but the instrumentation on both are very good. However, between the two concept projects, Lovesexy is the better album.
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no comparison imo.  | |
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There are no doubt countless that wouldn't find the beauty delivered from either front. And that's completely cool. They both to me are monumental examples of concept albums that feel as good to the ears as head does to the genitalia. Writing, arranging and, most importantly, production genius that knows few peers. If you replaced the first and last tracks and "Dance On" from"Lovesexy", which are already quite good, with emboldened classics, I think you'd have Prince's finest work. Flash forward 13 years and here is "The Rainbow Children" with the same existential intimacy awash in the baptismal rapture of pure re-bliss. But this time for me with even a higher quantity of great songwriting, albeit wrapped in the swaddling arms of too much specificity and with even more enigma, perhaps choking out many in his own audience with some of the same slack that was once afforded him. And you thought appearing naked alongside the petals of a well-placed stamen was a tough obstacle to overcome? Who knows? Perhaps there's a third act where it all comes completely together, leaving even "SOTT" to blush. But I'm quite fulfilled without it. "Come a butterfly straight on your skin". -- Lovesexy "Let me play with my thing." -- The Rainbow Children We are all reborn in so many different ways at so many different times. Regardless of how silly or disgusting anyone else finds these concepts, I'm going to keep reaching for that which can best wrap a musical metaphor around the shadow of my own "Big Bang". Prince, through all his faults, foibles and misfires (like many of us without the musical genius) might encapsulate that joy inherent in intimacy, revitalization, and rebirth, just about better than anyone I've yet encountered. Thomas Jefferson translation: "If there were any sheets used in any of these acts, there's going to be hell to pay at the laundry!" | |
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No brainer.............................LOVESEXY! | |
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This isn't even fair! Lovesexy is easily better than TRC. I've listened to Lovesexy so many times, & I've only listened to TRC [all the way through] twice. TRC is too long & I hate the "Gothic" deep voice that Prince uses on that album.
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Lovesexy by a mile.
I have never been so disappointed in a Prince album than when I first listened to Rainbow Children.
It's quite possibly my least favorite Prince album, and I have virtually all of his albums. "Never let nasty stalkers disrespect you. They start shit, you finish it. Go down to their level, that's the only way they'll understand. You have to handle things yourself." | |
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VERY easily Lovesexy. Next...
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Lovesexy. People have to brainwash and hurt themselves into liking TRC. | |
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Lovesexy.
Yes, it's my favourite album, but I honestly love TRC too... because it stands so far above everything he's done from 1996 to today. But at the end of the day, Lovesexy sounds like freedom, and The Rainbow Children sounds like fascism (only because of those goddamn lyrics...). |
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Sorry to double-post, but I gotta differ. I love TRC because it's (oh god, I'm gonna say it) "real music by real musicians". Give me the choice between Rave and TRC, and I'll pick TRC every time. |
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I've come to find that 9 times out of 10, if someone proposes the question as to what is the best album from this past decade, those 9 would put "The Rainbow Children" closer to the top than anything else. Maybe because more time has elapsed and it's kinda gotten an underground following because it's a more artsy piece than the likes of Musicology and 3121.
Even then, I'd still rank those two and Planet Earth, which has been dismissed by 90% of the fans I've spoken with, above The Rainbow Children. There are some moments of brilliance... like the bridge in the middle of "Digital Garden" and as a few have said "Last December" is easily one of the best racks on the album.
Oddly I seem to be siding with albums that are more cohesive and comprehensive, so Lovesexy is easily my choice in this matter.
TRC has variously different tones and sounds, but there are only a couple of songs I'd listen to on their own. On my iPod, I would be more liable to skip forward to "Anna Stesia" than to listen to the entire TRC album. Not just because it's all in one continuous track like in the good old LP, but Lovesexy feels like every song belongs in the set and it wouldn't be complete without any of them. Even "Dance on," which is my least favorite there, has grown on me to the point where I can't willingly go through the whole album and exclude it.
I eventually removed TRC from my iPod cuz I never listened to it except maybe once or twice... I have a high tolerance for weirdness thanks to my overexposure to Prince's music, but even then, TRC just strikes me as a really odd body of work that would take a lot for me to get excited over.
Lovesexy wins by several miles in my book had 2 run away... pride was 2 strong. It started raining, baby, the birds were gone | |
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