After listening to Rainbow Children again for the 1 millionth time and still loving it's diverse creativity, I am convinced that Lovesexy is perhaps as preachy if not more preachy than Rainbow. Almost every song on Lovesexy was aimed at conversion of the masses at that time to relish in Princes feelings of "love is GOD" rhetoric. Even the one hit "Alphabet Strt." hints at it. Songs that blatenly allude to religion on that LP include: Eye No, Positivity, Anna Statia, Iwish U heaven, Dance On...
God I loved this Album too. Ihave to say Rainbow Children is as great as Lovesexy was 15 years ago, an update on Prince's mind blowing Opus to GOD/JEHOVAH. and the voice through out the music is my spiritual guide through a wonderifical trip through another one of Prince's dark visions of the Promised. I love your music dude. I wish I had your talent.
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I AGREE-HE HAS ALWAYS HAD GOD AND GOD HAS ALWAYS HAD HIM...

Yes, but Prince is hanging out with the organized religion crew, more specifically the JWs. Famatics find that to be a Had they not known this, there would be no brouhaha.
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[This message was edited Wed Feb 12 0:55:37 PST 2003 by Supernova]

lovesexy = trc, v. 1.0...in a super-easy 2 swallow package.

I agree with Supernova, Lovesexy had God in it in a general sense. The Rainbow Children is JW, not God in a general sense.

Plus Lovesexy was a much better piece of work.It wasnot racial or controversial.

the difference I think was that "Lovesexy" had His Sex&Salvation divided up&combined those Elements where Everything was cool.but on TRC He seemed Focused in just dealing with One Being.Lovesexy Welcomed all Things TRC seemed closed off.different Vibe but Same way in it's own self of Self-Awareness of a Higher Power.

mistermaxxx said:

Couldn't have said it better

Though both albums are fantastc, Lovesexy was innovative, TRC is not.

Lovesexy to me is more spiritual than TRC. I love both of them, But Lovesexy is my fav. In some ways you could say that TRC is like a sequel to Lovesexy since they are both so grounded in faith.

Yup. Prince has always been preachy and it never bothered me. I just ignore the stuff I don't agree with and enjoy the music. TRC and Lovesexy are two of my favourite albums by P...

Lovesexy was preachy, but it explored his ideas in a non divisive joyful context...TRC seems a bit more ridgid in its theology...a "my way or the highway" mentality...personally i don't care if Prince believes in little green elves as a Supreme Being...just don't try to force it upon me as that is the easiest way to make any belief repellant...regardless of whether it is JW, Judaist, Hindu or any other faith...I think TRC was an album that forgot it was supposed to be entertainment...not a manifesto to Prince's ideas of how others should live...

lovebird said:

i don't think that's what Supernova is saying...

i think she's saying that if people didn't know that prince was hanging out with the JW's, nobody would be saying all that shit about TRC...

in other words, i don't think she was saying that one talks about god any more general than the other...


"mybe, maybe, maybe icould learn to love
i mean the right way, i mean the only way"

followed by

"save me jesus"

and then

"love is god, god is love"

that's not really all that general...

AprilMichelle said:

or maybe it didn't...

perhaps it was prince's intention for that album to be manifesto of how prince believes others should live... that's how i heard it...

LoveSexy was preaching all things good. No album that I've listened to ever, has given me so many things to be happy about. The positive message is unique, unforgettable, and thruout.

The Rainbow Children, to me, has a dark side. The vocals that tell the story, keep the mood dismal. This mood gives me the impression that I am outside this realm he is speaking of. I would not listen to this album on a down day.

It's all about the vibe. Preaching love, sex, and positivity is very different in my eyes, than preaching hell and damnnation for those who don't believe in his "truth", therefore making some people feel like the banished ones...

Lovesexy has a wonderful spirit. The Rainbow Children doesn't.

LaVisHh said:

Exactly! The spirituality and preaching of "Lovesexy" was not exclusive to any one religion.But,with 'TRC',it's clear that he is referring strictly to the JW religion.As such,I think 'Lovesexy' is alot more fun.There are no boundaries,no specific rules ("if you can hang you can trip on it,you surely won't fall").It was a more "free" album.

With 'TRC',I think the preaching is much more direct and intimidating,which is why many fans have problems with it.

cmicasa said:

[This message was edited Wed Feb 12 6:26:10 PST 2003 by rdhull]

Lovesexy welcomes people, TRC whines about banishing people, and demands.

I see TRC as a direct follow up to Lovesxy spiritually (and to some extent musically) speaking... You got the concept thing the moral etc... Lovesxy is my fav of all time TRC is on the same level for me... a masterpiece...

Lyrically, I prefer Lovesexy.

Musically, I prefer TRC.

LaVisHh said:

That's interesting, Lavvy.

lovebird said:

LaVisHh said:

I totally agree with you, LaVishH. When TRC was released to us as a download, we were going through 9/11 and I was going through a bad period in my life. I listened to the album everyday for about a month. I haven't played it since the concert last March. The album as a whole is kind of disturbing to me. Lovesexy is a celebration.

stymie said:

You may prefer Lovesexy but the racial and controversial statement does not add up to me.

Anji said:

To me, saying that Lincoln was a racist is controversial. To me, Family Name is a racial/racist song.

stymie said:

You may prefer Lovesexy but I don't think it necessarily makes for a better record because you do not find it racial or controversial. In this case, in your opinion, it does. I just disagree.

cmicasa said:

Actually, Alphabet St. is about going down on women.

Anji said:

Thank you for disagreeing with me and not beating me up for it.

stymie said: