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Track List
01) Rainbow Children
02) Muse 2 the Pharaoh
03) Digital Garden
04) The Work, Pt. 1
05) Everywhere
06) The Sensual Everafter
07) Mellow
08) 1+1+1 Is 3
09) Deconstruction
10) Wedding Feast
11) She Loves Me 4 Me
12) Family Name
13) The Everlasting Now
14) Last December
01) Rainbow Children
02) Muse 2 the Pharaoh
03) Digital Garden
04) The Work, Pt. 1
05) Everywhere
06) The Sensual Everafter
07) Mellow
08) 1+1+1 Is 3
09) Deconstruction
10) Wedding Feast
11) She Loves Me 4 Me
12) Family Name
13) The Everlasting Now
14) Last December
10:03
4:21
4:07
4:28
2:54
2:58
4:24
5:17
1:59
0:54
2:49
8:17
8:18
7:57
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First Released
2001
Funk
Energetic
Urban/R&B
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Medium
Album
320,000 copies
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"The Rainbow Children" ist das 24. Studioalbum von Prince. Es erschien am 20. November 2001 bei dem Label NPG Records, Red Line Entertainment und enthält 14 Songs, darunter die Single "The Work, Pt. 1". Registrierte Mitglieder seiner damaligen Homepage NPG Music Club konnten das Album bereits am 16. Oktober 2001 als Download erhalten. Die Laufzeit des Albums beträgt 68 Minuten und 49 Sekunden. Das Albumcover gestaltete der Maler Cbabi Bayoc und zeigt sein Bild "The Reine Keis Quintet".
Die Albumaufnahmen fanden zwischen dem 5. September 2000 und 19. Juni 2001 in den Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen statt. "The Rainbow Children" ist das erste Studioalbum nach der Beendigung des Vertrags mit dem Label Warner Bros. Records und erschien unter dem Namen Prince. Am 16. Mai 2000 verkündete der Künstler in einer Pressekonferenz, dass sein Name wieder Prince sei, nachdem er seit dem 7. Juni 1993 ein unaussprechbares Symbol als Pseudonym statt eines Namens trug.
"The Rainbow Children" ist ein Konzeptalbum. Es behandelt durch die fiktive Geschichte einer sozialen Bewegung in Richtung einer von Martin Luther King jr. inspirierten utopischen Gesellschaft übliche Prince Themen wie Spiritualität, Sexualität, Liebe, und Rassismus. Die Songtexte nehmen starken Bezug auf die Zeugen Jehovas, denen Prince sich im Jahr 2001 anschloss. Die Handlung des Albums erzählt Prince in einer tiefen und verzerrten Tonlage, die seiner Stimme im Song "Bob George" aus dem "Black Album" ähnelt. Mit "The Rainbow Children" verfolgte Prince primär keine kommerziellen Absichten. Er erklärte, die Songs seien nicht fürs Radio gedacht. Er sei jetzt die Plattenfirma, und erhalte sieben Dollar von einer zehn US-Dollar-CD, und nicht wie bei herkömmlichen Plattenverträgen üblich, "nur Pennys".
Das Album erreichte in den amerikanischen Billboard Charts nur Platz 109 und wurde in den USA ca. 175.000 Mal verkauft. In Deutschland wurde das Album 10.000 Mal verkauft und erreichte nicht die deutschen Album-Charts.
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Prince’s creative peak (and his first album back again under his birth name). Perhaps The Rainbow Children is also his most inaccessible album to date, and thank god (literally!) that Prince decided to release this in stores rather than side step it as an internet only venture. Subscribers to the NPG Music Club were able to download the album as a single MP3, which as I look back on it now took four days to download the 48mb file through dial-up: this highlighted the biggest flaw of the club – it was too ahead of its time. Anyway, Prince had finally released an album that really did showcase his dexterity. Isn’t it sublime when you listen to an album and fall in love with every track. The Rainbow Children is beautiful, funky, yet musically inspiring, it takes music to higher levels in every sense of the word. It does not even take a second listen to grow to like it, you don’t know then why you liked it but you do and give it another go at which point its playability takes root. The Rainbow Children is easily one of Prince’s all-time best, although probably not to the taste of the casual listener. This is a collection of songs and that could only go together on the same album but are let down by the religious undertones which comes across too sermon like. One could hardly believe this is the man who also wrote Scarlet Pussy and Sexy MF still there are few albums as well crafted as this. Like fine wine Prince improves better over time. The Rainbow Children could well be the album Prince’s musical genius found its peak, a fact also underlined with the tour, his best to date. It also demonstrates the fruits of Prince’s hard fought musical freedom, for he would never have been allowed to release this under a conventional label. Yet it deftly blends funk, melody, lyrical godliness, with some truly stellar guitar. The title track and Family Name make the album, yet it is so nice to hear Prince being genuinely enjoying music making once again and not using his craft to bicker about the industry that made his name. Prince rediscovers music once again or had the music rediscovered him.
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"The Rainbow Children" ist das 24. Studioalbum von Prince. Es erschien am 20. November 2001 bei dem Label NPG Records, Red Line Entertainment und enthält 14 Songs, darunter die Single "The Work, Pt. 1". Registrierte Mitglieder seiner damaligen Homepage NPG Music Club konnten das Album bereits am 16. Oktober 2001 als Download erhalten. Die Laufzeit des Albums beträgt 68 Minuten und 49 Sekunden. Das Albumcover gestaltete der Maler Cbabi Bayoc und zeigt sein Bild "The Reine Keis Quintet".
Die Albumaufnahmen fanden zwischen dem 5. September 2000 und 19. Juni 2001 in den Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen statt. "The Rainbow Children" ist das erste Studioalbum nach der Beendigung des Vertrags mit dem Label Warner Bros. Records und erschien unter dem Namen Prince. Am 16. Mai 2000 verkündete der Künstler in einer Pressekonferenz, dass sein Name wieder Prince sei, nachdem er seit dem 7. Juni 1993 ein unaussprechbares Symbol als Pseudonym statt eines Namens trug.
"The Rainbow Children" ist ein Konzeptalbum. Es behandelt durch die fiktive Geschichte einer sozialen Bewegung in Richtung einer von Martin Luther King jr. inspirierten utopischen Gesellschaft übliche Prince Themen wie Spiritualität, Sexualität, Liebe, und Rassismus. Die Songtexte nehmen starken Bezug auf die Zeugen Jehovas, denen Prince sich im Jahr 2001 anschloss. Die Handlung des Albums erzählt Prince in einer tiefen und verzerrten Tonlage, die seiner Stimme im Song "Bob George" aus dem "Black Album" ähnelt. Mit "The Rainbow Children" verfolgte Prince primär keine kommerziellen Absichten. Er erklärte, die Songs seien nicht fürs Radio gedacht. Er sei jetzt die Plattenfirma, und erhalte sieben Dollar von einer zehn US-Dollar-CD, und nicht wie bei herkömmlichen Plattenverträgen üblich, "nur Pennys".
Das Album erreichte in den amerikanischen Billboard Charts nur Platz 109 und wurde in den USA ca. 175.000 Mal verkauft. In Deutschland wurde das Album 10.000 Mal verkauft und erreichte nicht die deutschen Album-Charts.
User Album Review
Prince’s creative peak (and his first album back again under his birth name). Perhaps The Rainbow Children is also his most inaccessible album to date, and thank god (literally!) that Prince decided to release this in stores rather than side step it as an internet only venture. Subscribers to the NPG Music Club were able to download the album as a single MP3, which as I look back on it now took four days to download the 48mb file through dial-up: this highlighted the biggest flaw of the club – it was too ahead of its time. Anyway, Prince had finally released an album that really did showcase his dexterity. Isn’t it sublime when you listen to an album and fall in love with every track. The Rainbow Children is beautiful, funky, yet musically inspiring, it takes music to higher levels in every sense of the word. It does not even take a second listen to grow to like it, you don’t know then why you liked it but you do and give it another go at which point its playability takes root. The Rainbow Children is easily one of Prince’s all-time best, although probably not to the taste of the casual listener. This is a collection of songs and that could only go together on the same album but are let down by the religious undertones which comes across too sermon like. One could hardly believe this is the man who also wrote Scarlet Pussy and Sexy MF still there are few albums as well crafted as this. Like fine wine Prince improves better over time. The Rainbow Children could well be the album Prince’s musical genius found its peak, a fact also underlined with the tour, his best to date. It also demonstrates the fruits of Prince’s hard fought musical freedom, for he would never have been allowed to release this under a conventional label. Yet it deftly blends funk, melody, lyrical godliness, with some truly stellar guitar. The title track and Family Name make the album, yet it is so nice to hear Prince being genuinely enjoying music making once again and not using his craft to bicker about the industry that made his name. Prince rediscovers music once again or had the music rediscovered him.
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