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Lovesexy Cover I’ve got this book that has the "100 best album covers" and this is in it. This is the short paragraph and annotations on it.
"When Jean - Baptise Mondino began the Lovesexy photo-session he must have thought that he was dealing with a case of the ‘the Emperor's new clothes’. Circumstance had not permitted him and his client to discuss how intimate the pictures were going to be. When Prince arrived there was some confusion over whether he was to pose nude for the portrait because the studio contained a wardrobe full of costumes for him to wear. The question was finally resolved, and the result is a very daring and sensuous portrait. The pose is feminine, yet the flower stamen suggests ideas of ambiguous sexuality. Was it was just a case of barefaced chic?" The Commission: When Mondino was staying at Prince's Paisley Park studios in Minneapolis while working on a video project with him, Prince asked him if he was still taking photographs and would he be interested in doing the cover. Tantric Sex: Lovesexy was already the name of the album when Prince commissioned Mondino to photograph the cover. Mondino felt the title reflected Prince's spirituality, as well as his lyrics about love and sex. Lovesexy also feels like a tantric word, and Mondino wanted the stamen of one of the flowers to represent a small phallus. Kit off or on? Prince wanted the photographs taken in Los Angeles and told Jean - Baptiste Mondino that they could discuss ideas on the flight. Unfortunately, Mondino was unable to get a seat next to Prince, so they were unable to discuss anything. The next morning (the day of the photoshoot) Mondino suggested to Prince that he would like to shoot him naked. Photography: Mondino shot one roll of Kodak Ektachrome film using a Hasseblad camera. Later that day he met Prince at his hotel and showed him the contact sheets. Prince chose one shot for the album cover and the rest were destroyed. Jean-Bapiste Mondino: The French fashion photographer and video director Jean - Baptiste Mondino is best known for his graphically composed, colour saturated images. His photographs are renowned for their subversive and sexual imagery. He has directed videos for artists such as Madonna, Neneh Cherry and Bjork. The Quantel Paint Box: At the time of this album digital paint boxes were still a thing of the future. None existed in the US, so Mondino flew to Paris were his friend Kiki had a demonstration model. Mondino played around with the photograph for a couple of days and when he was satisfied he called Prince to, who flew over to Paris with his bodyguard. They all sat squashed into Kiki's tiny kitchen, with Kiki's kids playing around them, and examined the cover. Prince's initial response was that he didn’t like it. For two hours they played around with some more until Prince concluded that he preferred what he had seen at the beginning. No Freestyling. | |
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So he wasnt planning on posing nekkid in the first place No Freestyling. | |
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AzurePanther said: Prince chose one shot for the album cover and the rest were destroyed.
Darn!! "You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Water can nourish me, but water can also carry me. Water has magic laws." - JCVD | |
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i still think it's one of his worst album covers "Americans consume the most fast food than any nation on Earth and the stupid motherfuckers wonder why they are so fat? " - Oprah Winfrey | |
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I can't believe it made the top 100. But that's really interesting stuff. Don't hurt me, I'm a newb. I'm supposed to be stupid. | |
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They used to have a Quantel Paintbox at my University (Middlesex, North London). I seem to remember it was 1 of only 2 in the country at the time and cost about half a million! This was back when we still only had black and white AppleMac screens in our computer room. Funny thing is, to help pay for it, professionals from tv companies came to use it - us students never got a look in! It was too expensive for us to actually use!
It basically did what Photoshop does. How times have progressed. | |
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WaterInYourBath said: AzurePanther said: Prince chose one shot for the album cover and the rest were destroyed.
Darn!! I know! No Freestyling. | |
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What are the others in the top 100? | |
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TheFrog said: What are the others in the top 100?
I knew it would come to this Well they're all just alphabetically arranged, if you tell me some of your favourites i might be nice enough to write it out for you No Freestyling. | |
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AzurePanther said: TheFrog said: What are the others in the top 100?
I knew it would come to this Well they're all just alphabetically arranged, if you tell me some of your favourites i might be nice enough to write it out for you Tell me them all. | |
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TheFrog said: AzurePanther said: I knew it would come to this Well they're all just alphabetically arranged, if you tell me some of your favourites i might be nice enough to write it out for you Tell me them all. No Freestyling. | |
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AzurePanther said: TheFrog said: Tell me them all. Tell me them all. | |
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TheFrogSpawn said: AzurePanther said: Tell me them all. Album name: TheFrog Written/produced/arranged/performed by TheFrog Stars: picture fuck up [Edited 5/25/05 7:18am] No Freestyling. | |
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you're extremely aggressive in the way you interact with me.
why is that? | |
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i like the cover 2 Rainbow Children, its like hes spyin on us 2 c if we like the music or not!
yeah p we c u there. no u can feel me no u can dance, but wot do u know about the greatest romance? | |
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TheFrogSpawn said: you're extremely aggressive in the way you interact with me.
why is that? Ok i admit that was a bit harsh. But do you really expect me to write it all out for each the albums? There isnt even a list of the contents or anything It would take me ages Tell me your favourite No Freestyling. | |
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if ur not goin go all the way dont post!
no u can feel me no u can dance, but wot do u know about the greatest romance? | |
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purplepants said: if ur not goin go all the way dont post!
No Freestyling. | |
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Ok bitches:
Santana- Abraxas John Surman - The amazing adventures of Simon Simon Miles Davis - Agharta The Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa Sadistic Mica Band - Appare The Popinjays - Bang up to the date with the popinjays Itakura, Konishi, Shigeto, Banana & Wakui - Bettenchi Roger Eno - Between tides Laurie Anderson - Big Science Blinda Faith - Blind Faith Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Pixies - Bossanova Supertramp - Breakfast in america Depreche Mode - A broken frame Happy Mondays- Bummed The Cars - Candy-o Heavenly Bodies - Celestial Big Brother & The holding company - Cheap thrills Cathrine Wheel - Chrome Joy Divsion - Closer Roxy Music- Country life Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark - Crush Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon Buzzcocks - A Different kind of tension Finerprintz - Disnquishing Marks Pink Floyd- The division bell Captain Beefheart - doc at the radar station Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Do it yourself Jefferson Starship - Dragon fly Litle Feat - Down to the farm Edgar Winter - The edgar winter band with rick derringer Richie Havens - The End of the begining Prodigy - The fat of the land Talking Heads - Fear of music Free - Free Gamma - Gamma 2 World Party - Goodbye Jumbo Hank mobley - Hank mobley Harshash and the coloured coat - Haphash Joni Mitchell - the hissing of the summer lawns his name is alive - home is in your head patti smith - horses abc - how to be a zillionaire led zeppelin - houses of the holy freddie hubbard - hub- tones the art of noise - in no sense? Nonsense! edward versala/sound & fury - invisible storm its a beautiful day - its a beautiful day slammin watusis - kings of noise various artists - the last testament arthur blythe - lenox avenue breakdown freddie hubbard - liquid love the beastie boys - licensed to ill johny coles - little johnny c joe jackson - look sharp the clash - london calling heidi berry - love bruno walter - mahler -symphony no.9 kazumi & the gentle thoughts - mermaid boulevard blur - modern life is rubbish the damned - music for pleasure bef - music quality and distincion vol 2 rod stewart - never a dull moment the sex pistols - nevermind the bollocks nirvana - nevermind grace jones - nightclubbing wayne shorter - night dreamer jane's addiction - nothing's shocking beck - odelay the small faces - ogden's nut gone flake 10cc - the original sountrack orchestral manouevres in the dark - the pacific age peter gabriel - peter gabriel david bowie - pin ups los lobos - la pistolay y el corazon bjork - post new order - power, corruption and lies led zeppelin - presence the 13th floor elevators - the psychedelic sounds of.. the tubes - remote control wes montgomery - road song the beatles - sgt pepper bow wo wo - see jungle! see jungle! go join your gang... bob dylan - self portrait system 7 - 777 the rolling stones - some girls the rolling stones - sticky fingers the doors - strange days yes - tales from the topographic oceans the rolling stones - their satanic majesties request pulp - this is hardcore jarrett, peacock & dejohnette - tribute john lennon and yoko ono - two virgins the velvet underground - the velvet underground & nico pink floyd - wish you were here the mothers of invention - weasels ripped my flesh moby grape - wow peter erksine - you never know take your pick No Freestyling. | |
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Xavier23 said: i still think it's one of his worst album covers i beg to differ i think is one of his most revealin sexest covers ever. | |
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AzurePanther said: Ok bitches:
Santana- Abraxas John Surman - The amazing adventures of Simon Simon Miles Davis - Agharta The Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa Sadistic Mica Band - Appare The Popinjays - Bang up to the date with the popinjays Itakura, Konishi, Shigeto, Banana & Wakui - Bettenchi Roger Eno - Between tides Laurie Anderson - Big Science Blinda Faith - Blind Faith Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Pixies - Bossanova Supertramp - Breakfast in america Depreche Mode - A broken frame Happy Mondays- Bummed The Cars - Candy-o Heavenly Bodies - Celestial Big Brother & The holding company - Cheap thrills Cathrine Wheel - Chrome Joy Divsion - Closer Roxy Music- Country life Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark - Crush Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon Buzzcocks - A Different kind of tension Finerprintz - Disnquishing Marks Pink Floyd- The division bell Captain Beefheart - doc at the radar station Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Do it yourself Jefferson Starship - Dragon fly Litle Feat - Down to the farm Edgar Winter - The edgar winter band with rick derringer Richie Havens - The End of the begining Prodigy - The fat of the land Talking Heads - Fear of music Free - Free Gamma - Gamma 2 World Party - Goodbye Jumbo Hank mobley - Hank mobley Harshash and the coloured coat - Haphash Joni Mitchell - the hissing of the summer lawns his name is alive - home is in your head patti smith - horses abc - how to be a zillionaire led zeppelin - houses of the holy freddie hubbard - hub- tones the art of noise - in no sense? Nonsense! edward versala/sound & fury - invisible storm its a beautiful day - its a beautiful day slammin watusis - kings of noise various artists - the last testament arthur blythe - lenox avenue breakdown freddie hubbard - liquid love the beastie boys - licensed to ill johny coles - little johnny c joe jackson - look sharp the clash - london calling heidi berry - love bruno walter - mahler -symphony no.9 kazumi & the gentle thoughts - mermaid boulevard blur - modern life is rubbish the damned - music for pleasure bef - music quality and distincion vol 2 rod stewart - never a dull moment the sex pistols - nevermind the bollocks nirvana - nevermind grace jones - nightclubbing wayne shorter - night dreamer jane's addiction - nothing's shocking beck - odelay the small faces - ogden's nut gone flake 10cc - the original sountrack orchestral manouevres in the dark - the pacific age peter gabriel - peter gabriel david bowie - pin ups los lobos - la pistolay y el corazon bjork - post new order - power, corruption and lies led zeppelin - presence the 13th floor elevators - the psychedelic sounds of.. the tubes - remote control wes montgomery - road song the beatles - sgt pepper bow wo wo - see jungle! see jungle! go join your gang... bob dylan - self portrait system 7 - 777 the rolling stones - some girls the rolling stones - sticky fingers the doors - strange days yes - tales from the topographic oceans the rolling stones - their satanic majesties request pulp - this is hardcore jarrett, peacock & dejohnette - tribute john lennon and yoko ono - two virgins the velvet underground - the velvet underground & nico pink floyd - wish you were here the mothers of invention - weasels ripped my flesh moby grape - wow peter erksine - you never know take your pick i knew you loved me really. thanks. | |
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TheFrog said: AzurePanther said: Ok bitches:
Santana- Abraxas John Surman - The amazing adventures of Simon Simon Miles Davis - Agharta The Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa Sadistic Mica Band - Appare The Popinjays - Bang up to the date with the popinjays Itakura, Konishi, Shigeto, Banana & Wakui - Bettenchi Roger Eno - Between tides Laurie Anderson - Big Science Blinda Faith - Blind Faith Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Pixies - Bossanova Supertramp - Breakfast in america Depreche Mode - A broken frame Happy Mondays- Bummed The Cars - Candy-o Heavenly Bodies - Celestial Big Brother & The holding company - Cheap thrills Cathrine Wheel - Chrome Joy Divsion - Closer Roxy Music- Country life Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark - Crush Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon Buzzcocks - A Different kind of tension Finerprintz - Disnquishing Marks Pink Floyd- The division bell Captain Beefheart - doc at the radar station Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Do it yourself Jefferson Starship - Dragon fly Litle Feat - Down to the farm Edgar Winter - The edgar winter band with rick derringer Richie Havens - The End of the begining Prodigy - The fat of the land Talking Heads - Fear of music Free - Free Gamma - Gamma 2 World Party - Goodbye Jumbo Hank mobley - Hank mobley Harshash and the coloured coat - Haphash Joni Mitchell - the hissing of the summer lawns his name is alive - home is in your head patti smith - horses abc - how to be a zillionaire led zeppelin - houses of the holy freddie hubbard - hub- tones the art of noise - in no sense? Nonsense! edward versala/sound & fury - invisible storm its a beautiful day - its a beautiful day slammin watusis - kings of noise various artists - the last testament arthur blythe - lenox avenue breakdown freddie hubbard - liquid love the beastie boys - licensed to ill johny coles - little johnny c joe jackson - look sharp the clash - london calling heidi berry - love bruno walter - mahler -symphony no.9 kazumi & the gentle thoughts - mermaid boulevard blur - modern life is rubbish the damned - music for pleasure bef - music quality and distincion vol 2 rod stewart - never a dull moment the sex pistols - nevermind the bollocks nirvana - nevermind grace jones - nightclubbing wayne shorter - night dreamer jane's addiction - nothing's shocking beck - odelay the small faces - ogden's nut gone flake 10cc - the original sountrack orchestral manouevres in the dark - the pacific age peter gabriel - peter gabriel david bowie - pin ups los lobos - la pistolay y el corazon bjork - post new order - power, corruption and lies led zeppelin - presence the 13th floor elevators - the psychedelic sounds of.. the tubes - remote control wes montgomery - road song the beatles - sgt pepper bow wo wo - see jungle! see jungle! go join your gang... bob dylan - self portrait system 7 - 777 the rolling stones - some girls the rolling stones - sticky fingers the doors - strange days yes - tales from the topographic oceans the rolling stones - their satanic majesties request pulp - this is hardcore jarrett, peacock & dejohnette - tribute john lennon and yoko ono - two virgins the velvet underground - the velvet underground & nico pink floyd - wish you were here the mothers of invention - weasels ripped my flesh moby grape - wow peter erksine - you never know take your pick i knew you loved me really. thanks. And that took time! Now tell me if you see something you like before i go mad again No Freestyling. | |
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AzurePanther said: TheFrog said: i knew you loved me really. thanks. And that took time! Now tell me if you see something you like before i go mad again i like loads of them. | |
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TheFrog said: AzurePanther said: And that took time! Now tell me if you see something you like before i go mad again i like loads of them. I love your vagueness No Freestyling. | |
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AzurePanther said: TheFrog said: i like loads of them. I love your vagueness well, when you're bored, you can pull up some info on one of the Floyd albums. now get revising!! | |
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i wonder how many copies were sold in brown paper bags | |
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