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PrintableI truly can't stand this record. My first reaction was that I liked the music but the lyrics kinda scared me. Prince was always a religious man but never preached hell and damnation like on this one. Worst thing of all was that it felt like he actually meant it. This was not the Prince I liked, but a religious fundamentalist. My second reaction is that I don't even like the music. It's as bombastic and self-righteous as the lyrics. Fake jazzrock, that's what it is.  | |
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It's in his bottom ten, with NEWS, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, Come, Planet Earth and others. | |
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I LOVE it. A masterpiece. Love the lyrics, arrangements, everything. | |
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This album keeps on dividing fans a lot, as one can see in this thread. | |
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Top 1 for me MPLSOUND | |
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Javi said: This album keeps on dividing fans a lot, as one can see in this thread. Yeah! More than any other. But that's exactly what I like about Prince. He does something to you whether you like it or not! You can't feel nothing. I guess it will always be like that. I prefer this to artists whose albums all sound the same, like Lenny Kravitz or JJ Cale. | |
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It's his most controversial album. Effa Controversy, as TRC split fans and caused oh so much tr.................... "Climb in my fur." | |
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This album defines Prince's genuis...  &  | |
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I can't dismiss that album! It's a sincere gem, and despite the "Jehovah Witnesses" overtones; the production, is crystal perfect. It's actually the first album I listened to as a whole from Prince from start to finish! I am yet amazed, at how he arranged it like this. It was like a story containing all the necessary components in making it excellent! It's one impeccable album! I recently told my girlfriend; because she asked. "Should I listen to 'The Rainbow Children?...Is it a good album"
I await the results from the poll! I have to say my favorite song has to be "The Sensual Everafter AND Muse 2 The Pharaoh, Mellow, and ahh I can't really choose. LOL.Not me. It's kinda hard to listen to imo. I've only gotten through the whole thing twice & I rarely remember the songs on it after I listen to it. I honestly think 'Lotusflow3r' is way better. "Boom" alone is almost better than everything on TRC [there are a few good tracks on TRC]. الحيوان النادلة ((((|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|)))) ...AND THAT'S THE WAY THE "TITTY" MILKS IT!
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Not me, i place it among his worst 5 - 7 albums.
And not only for the useless, waaaay tooooo slowwww 'darth vader voice' and the annoying dogmatic lyrics, but also for the music itself.
I agree, he is experimenting again after the 'plastic years' of Emancipation, NPS and Rave, but not in a good way IMO: the music owes a lot to seventies jazz-rock / fusion, a type of music that seems to come more from the head then from the heart, and that usually bores me to death. Next to that he isnt convincing me with his delivery of the material, both lyric- and musicwise, it appears to me as if his soul isnt into it... its a rather cold / dark album to me.
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Me. But I must admit that this place kinda ruined the experience for me...  I never pay attention to lyrics (I can't sing along with most of my favorite Prince songs ) and as I'm not a native English speaker I have no problem just completely ignoring lyrics as they're not as intrusive to me as words in my mother tongue. So when I came here and first read about what dark lyrics the album had I was like: "what are they talking about?"  I paid attention to the lyrics the next time I listened the album, and I can't put myself past the paranoid nonsense he's talking about everytime I listen to it ever since...  It still has a spot in my top 10, but it did drop some 3-4 places. Thanks a lot y'all... You mean you're gonna actually hear what we play tonight? You're not gonna make up the notes in your mind? |
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Y do ppl hate this album so much? I think its among his best. Then again, I don't have a worst Prince album. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE UGLY. YOU JUST HAVE BAD LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO MIRRORS AND SUNLIGHT!
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I have TRC in my top 10 'all albums'. I am a big Prince fan and my total music collection is about 75% funk/R&B/soul and the rest eclectic, e.g., the albums in my top 10 include things like Bowie's Ziggy album. DrD | |
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don't like it much. | |
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