Rumpofsteelskin said:

how can an album make you gay ??? either you are or your not !! surely ???

danielboon said:

from what I've read here, Lovesexy is one of those Prince albums that helped many folks make a decision when they were unsure about coming out...(i.e..Lovesexy saved my life) Don't take it so personally or so literally.

It was the last really great album. It's got this flow that you don't find on later albums.

I'm not saying that he hasn't made better songs since but as a collection of songs it flows like a good movie.

I think that your overall appreciation may depend on:

a) Your age at the time of first listen;
b) If you heard this album sequentially after Sign O' The Times and The Black Album;
c) How American you are.

Do you remember before the internet and actually queuing in front of a record store to open so you could buy the new Prince single?

Remember that the last single from Sign O' The Times was 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man'? Stadium-rock MOR pop and then... BOOM! 'Alphabet St.' dropped. It sounded like nothing else before. A funky sparse ballad with nursery-rhyme melodies, cartoon production and the 'Yeah, yeah, yeah' refrain. It sounded like a barely-rehearsed jam recorded to 4-track. It's the only time that I can ever remember local mainstream DJs playing both sides of the 7".

Then the video... Silly, wilfully cheap, garish, bizarre but above all - fun. Subliminal messages and chroma-key distortion.

I can remember buying the album on cassette like it was yesterday. I got the bus into town, armed with my walkman. I was confronted with nude Princes all over the record store. The image is still my favourite of his album covers. It's art - it really is. The flower's stamen standing in for his dick was sacred and profane all at the same time.



I listened to the album all the way through on the journey back home. It was like the musical equivalent of drinking undiluted squash.

Somebody earlier commented that the album was "shiny" sounding. It isn't at all - not in the way that his 90s crap was. It sounded "bright" - not shiny.

To me, "Lovesexy" is one of his typical average albums from 1985 to the present, it's "good" music but it's not "spectacular" music like the ealier albums. The album I have seen so far overrated around here is "Sign O The Times".

Rumpofsteelskin said:

that's what makes it so great about it! it turns people gay!! YAY! MORE DICK FOR ME!!

danielboon said:

He discovered Lovesexy cuz he's gay or Lovesexy made him realize he's gay I think...

Its overrated because it was released in the 80s (1988). The Black Album is a much better album.

rudeboynpg said:

Ummm...that's your opinion. The Black Album is more of a b-tier album. It's a good funky mix of music, but no where near the critical success of it's successor, Lovesexy.

And as for the guy who thinks Lovesexy is over-rated, I have this question to ask (again - ) Have you listened to Lovsexy like Prince means you to listen to it? It's a revival album, mixed with sexual and political imagery.

I realize that you may not be able to understand this concept album as such. There haven't been many of this kind of record to come out in the last ten years, but please don't spoil it for other people who might pick it up and jam hard on it.

And no, to that person who was wondering, you're not the only gay org'er. I'm a happy guy myself.

Its overrated because it was released in the 80s (1988). The Black Album is a much better album.

It’s an extremely uneven and ultimately mediocre record that is over-rated by Prince’s hard-core fans. Let’s take stock of what we have here:

-one good (but not great) pop-funk single in Alphabet Street

-three very bland, ordinary funk work-outs that Prince could have written in his sleep (eye no, glam slam and positivity)

-two fairly effective jams that are spacey, loose and good fun (dance on and the title track)

-one sappy, generic sex ballad (when 2 r in love)

-one pleasant and extremely unremarkable piece of filler (I wish u heaven)

I don’t think that this adds up to an exceptional album by anyone’s standards. It certainly doesn’t meet the high watermark that Prince had set for himself. His abilities as a songwriter were displayed to dazzling effect on SOTT, and rather than expanding on those qualities, he gave us a (mostly) lazy, bloated and listless recording.

This was the beginning of the end of Prince’s reign as popular music’s most interesting and creative recording artist.

damosuzuki said:

r u talking bout Musicology !!! ???

"If the "1999" lp is a funky celebration of the secular, then "Lovesexy" is a funky celebration of the sacred...something we all wrestle with at various times in our lives. Prince really played on this conflict with the "Lovesexy" tour...and people also think the tour was overrated and hypocritical.


I'll take this lp over anything he has released since."





Me too. I adore the Lovesexy album. Timeless, beautiful melodies and instruments recorded properly-analogue and valve. I think the difference in production now is everything being recorded digitally. Gives everything a clean, clinical sound. Put Lovesexy on, turn it up, and you've got the band playing there with you.
I don't understand how it's possible to overrate a gorgeous album like Lovesexy.