Right here.

I know lots of folks love Rainbow Children but I just can't get into it. Am I alone? I love the last four tracks (She Loves Me 4 Me, Family Name, The Everlasting Now and Last December) but the rest is very hit or miss. And all the "weirdness" just kills the album for me.

IVery good, but definitly not a masterpiece. Prince has done WAAAAY much better b4 & since.

TRC is to be listened to as a single record not just a song here or there.Do this on a long drive by yourself . A greater understanding of the album should be gained .If not a soul searching session is in session.

Masterpiece is defined as either: the most outstanding achievement of a creative artist or craftsman or an outstanding achievement by a creative artist or craftsman.

TRC is one of those no? It is an outstanding achievment. I totally agree, it is an album to be heard all the way through for total mind blowing enjoyment, and I really like listening to it on headphones, the stereo imaging is great and real. Even though this album was recorded on tape and then transferred and then edited to ProTools, it suffers none of the indecisiveness that other early ProTools albums (of other artists) did. The technology did not get in the way. The double speed guitar on 1+1+1=3 is a stroke of genius alone, commenting and kind o' taking the mickey out of the vocal thread. Get's me every time, from the first time I heard TRC until now, probably a hundreds of listenings, I'm listening again as I write this. On a few occassions I've chosen one track to listen to on its own, but doing that seems to decontextualise the music. It really works as an album. It is a concept album (oh boy! that's a dirty term nowadays huh?) Prince pulls it off. Wedding Feast is a joke... that's the point and a welcome foil. Each song has a fresh and unique sonic platform, I love the 'space' around all the sounds. And despite the signal processing available in the digital audio domain, there is no feeling of trickery for its own sake. TRC is a very contextualised album, perhaps some of the difficulty some people have with this arise from a basic disagreement with the messages of the album. No one has to like every Prince album, and TRC will have it's ditractors, I can see that. As I'm a musician, I've played it to a lot of colleagues, because I love it, I've been surprised by some of the reactions. TRC is not a background album, it doesn't sit well in the background. But then I really don't like the placement of music in the background anyway, so perhaps this is another factor. I know some people just don't listen with attention to detail. To do so one has to work, are you ready to do the work? It's message to me is very clear, Prince seems to be engaged and up against a load of important issues in TRC. I find it quite a political album, in the best possible way. If music can change peoples' lives, TRC is up there is a source for change. I really hope he returns to this level of seriousness again. Suits me. Yeah overt pop is great, but don't you love it when someone with the genius of Prince has got something to say and can articulate with such a high degree of craft. I'll never get tired of TRC... it is a masterpiece. Oh yes.
It's music, we don't have to like it, but man, I love it. Oh.... and it turned me back on to Prince totally. Gold, Rave and Emancipation I liked and respected but TRC was the one. It's quality has kind of spoilt my appreciation of Musicology, but then I favour music which tries out new stuff, has a feeling of experimenting with new ideas, but then I love Lovesexy too.

NAMASTE!
[color=violet:e95d656cff]...on the one[/color]

Masterpiece is defined as either: the most outstanding achievement of a creative artist or craftsman or an outstanding achievement by a creative artist or craftsman.

TRC is one of those no? It is an outstanding achievment. I totally agree, it is an album to be heard all the way through for total mind blowing enjoyment, and I really like listening to it on headphones, the stereo imaging is great and real. Even though this album was recorded on tape and then transferred and then edited to ProTools, it suffers none of the indecisiveness that other early ProTools albums (of other artists) did. The technology did not get in the way. The double speed guitar on 1+1+1=3 is a stroke of genius alone, commenting and kind o' taking the mickey out of the vocal thread. Get's me every time, from the first time I heard TRC until now, probably a hundreds of listenings, I'm listening again as I write this. On a few occassions I've chosen one track to listen to on its own, but doing that seems to decontextualise the music. It really works as an album. It is a concept album (oh boy! that's a dirty term nowadays huh?) Prince pulls it off. Wedding Feast is a joke... that's the point and a welcome foil. Each song has a fresh and unique sonic platform, I love the 'space' around all the sounds. And despite the signal processing available in the digital audio domain, there is no feeling of trickery for its own sake. TRC is a very contextualised album, perhaps some of the difficulty some people have with this arise from a basic disagreement with the messages of the album. No one has to like every Prince album, and TRC will have it's ditractors, I can see that. As I'm a musician, I've played it to a lot of colleagues, because I love it, I've been surprised by some of the reactions. TRC is not a background album, it doesn't sit well in the background. But then I really don't like the placement of music in the background anyway, so perhaps this is another factor. I know some people just don't listen with attention to detail. To do so one has to work, are you ready to do the work? It's message to me is very clear, Prince seems to be engaged and up against a load of important issues in TRC. I find it quite a political album, in the best possible way. If music can change peoples' lives, TRC is up there is a source for change. I really hope he returns to this level of seriousness again. Suits me. Yeah overt pop is great, but don't you love it when someone with the genius of Prince has got something to say and can articulate with such a high degree of craft. I'll never get tired of TRC... it is a masterpiece. Oh yes.
It's music, we don't have to like it, but man, I love it. Oh.... and it turned me back on to Prince totally. Gold, Rave and Emancipation I liked and respected but TRC was the one. It's quality has kind of spoilt my appreciation of Musicology, but then I favour music which tries out new stuff, has a feeling of experimenting with new ideas, but then I love Lovesexy too.

NAMASTE!
[color=violet:e95d656cff]...on the one[/color]

TRC was his true comeback and just as with 1999, the music world is an album late in taking notice.

muleFunk said:

That's exactly the way I think it should be listened to, as well. I don't think I've ever put it in to just single out one or two tracks. I always listen to it from beginning to end. Whenever I would go to the Oakland airport from Santa Rosa, I always brought TRC with me, because I knew I would be able to listen to it, uninterrupted.

It's an awesome experience, this album, and it's too bad there are so many so-called Prince fans that just didn't "get it."

TRC is Prince, 100 percent.