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Lovesexy: classic or rubbish? Personally, I think Lovesexy is a bit overrated by the fans. Anna Stesia is one the best Prince songs ever, but the rest of the album doesn't measure up for the most part. The songs on Lovesexy can be divided into three categories:
Great: Anna Stesia Alphabet St Glam Slam MOR: I Wish U Heaven When 2 R In Love Weak: Lovesexy Positivity Eye No Dance On Do three great songs make a great album? Not quite, in my opinion. Still, the fifteen minutes of aural bliss from Alphabet St to Anna Stesia make it essential. The album as a whole is no classic, though. Please discuss... End. | |
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Eye No
Alphabet St Anna Stesia Dance On When 2 R in Love I Wish U Heaven Positivity All Good. One of his last truly great albums. | |
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Great:
Alphabet St ...(Cat's rap sounds 2 cheesy 4 me tho) Annastesia (legend!) Lovesexy Dance On When 2 R In Love (not one of my fave slo jams but its ok) the rest i havent gotten in2,& ive had this album 4 a year! definately not 1 of my faves,but Anna Stesia is truly amazing! ***************************************************************************************
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In my opinion, 1999, Lovesexy and The Rainbow Children are Prince's greatest albums. The only weak track (well it's not really weak, but it doesn't fit the album that well) is When 2 R In Love. The rest of it is 40 minutes of Prince at his most creative and playfull. Tracks like No, Dance On and Lovesexy on first listening may sound like standard Prince/Funk tunes, but there is just so much more to them. Glam Slam and Anna Stesia! (enough said). I Wish U Heaven and Positivity are just beautiful. The whole album should be listened to on a good pair of headphones to get the most out of it. Toejam @ Peach & Black Podcast: http://peachandblack.podbean.com
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PeterJL121 said: Great:
Anna Stesia Alphabet St Glam Slam MOR: I Wish U Heaven When 2 R In Love Weak: Lovesexy Positivity Eye No Dance On It depends what you like, Peter. If you want subtlety,spirituality and message, then 'Alphabet Street', 'Anna Stesia' and 'Positivity' will be great for you. If you want funk, then 'Dance On', 'Eye No' and 'Lovesexy' will be great. If you want melody, then 'I Wish U Heaven' and 'Glam Slam' will be great. You catch my drift? In other words, one reason why Prince is genius is that he can cover so many styles, and cover each brilliantly. Just like he can play many instruments, and play each brilliantly. This is what separates the maestro from the grand-maestro. regards, andyf --------
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you know i dont think you could be more wrong.
Great: Lovesexy Positivity Eye No When 2 R In Love Average: I Wish U Heaven Anna Stesia Weak: Alphabet St Glam Slam Dance On Thats what you meant wasnt it ! Sure it was. | |
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OK,
I get the distinct impression that rather than having any Prince albums, our freind Peter is just trying to piss people off with inane opinions. I'd hate to waste my time flaming such a complete moron who has such an obviuos lack of both intelligence, and more importantly, musical taste. Therfore, I choose to ignore his ridiculous threads Dance On [This message was edited Thu Nov 21 5:54:43 PST 2002 by dewmass] ----------------------------------------- | |
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Oh, and by the way, each track is a masterpiece on its own, but the beauty will only be found by listening to the whole album at once.
This period of time brought the best out of Prince. Not only do you get Lovesexy, but the Lovesexy tour, the Small Club and other aftershows and to a lesser extent the Black album. Prince in his prime recording his best stuff. ----------------------------------------- | |
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PeterJL121 said: Personally, I think Lovesexy is a bit overrated by the fans. Anna Stesia is one the best Prince songs ever, but the rest of the album doesn't measure up for the most part. The songs on Lovesexy can be divided into three categories:
Great: Anna Stesia Alphabet St Glam Slam MOR: I Wish U Heaven When 2 R In Love Weak: Lovesexy Positivity Eye No Dance On Do three great songs make a great album? Not quite, in my opinion. Still, the fifteen minutes of aural bliss from Alphabet St to Anna Stesia make it essential. The album as a whole is no classic, though. Please discuss... End. Shouldn't you put the title track Lovesexy in the great list and glam slam in the weak list? | |
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Lovesexy is a Goddess of an album...
And it should never be anywhere near the word rubbish! --ยปYou're my favourite moment, you're my Saturday... | |
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It's up there with classic
Tracks I think are great: Alphabet St, Glam Slam, Anna Stesia, Lovesexy, I Wish U Heaven OK: I Know Don't Like: Positivity, When 2 R in Love, Dance On The great tracks make it classic | |
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Diva said: Lovesexy is a Goddess of an album...
And it should never be anywhere near the word rubbish! U R A DIVA!!! :LOL: i agree! how can anyone call any music rubbish? music is sooo personal and touches people on different levels at different times ... and different places WHO ME? | |
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It sounds very eighties... | |
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gooeythehamster said: It sounds very eighties...
r we not still in the 80's? I HAVE SHOULDER PADS FOR SALE - WHO WANTS 'EM!! AND A TEASING COMB... WHO ME? | |
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Cloudbuster said: Eye No
Alphabet St Anna Stesia Dance On When 2 R in Love I Wish U Heaven Positivity All Good. One of his last truly great albums. I absolutely agree with this. The other songs are pretty weak though. Glam Slam and Lovesexy are awful and two of Prince's worst for me. | |
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The only songs that are weak in my opinion are Glam Slam and I Wish U Heaven. The rest is fantastic!
Seriously needs to be remastered though- arrgh!!! | |
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Over-rated... I also hated that it was one continuous track. SUPERJOINT RITUAL - http://www.superjointritual.com
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I like the album, but don't listen to it in its entirety as much as SOTT, which, to me, is P at his finest.
IceNine said: Over-rated... I also hated that it was one continuous track.
YES...and it was very misleading in 1988 when I bought the CD (still have the original, too!). It had an oval sticker on it that read "Songs are in a continuous sequence." I thought, "What in the hell does that mean?" Soon, it became perfectly clear what it meant: "This is the first CD that's more difficult to fast forward through than a cassette." I made my own tracked version about 6 months ago. Check out The Mountains and the Sea, a Prince podcast by yours truly and my wife. More info at https://www.facebook.com/TMATSPodcast/ | |
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Every song on this record is a CLASSIC! It should've been up there with "Purple Rain" NEW WAVE FOREVER: SLAVE TO THE WAVE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. | |
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Lovesexy is a classic. It's Prince at his most bold, Prince at his most relevant and Prince at his most ecstatic. | |
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Moonbeam said: Lovesexy is a classic. It's Prince at his most bold, Prince at his most relevant and Prince at his most ecstatic.
Really, Moonbeam? I think SOTT is Prince at his most bold, relevant and ecstatic. Social commentary (SOTT), gender benders (the "Camille" voice"), abusive funk (shut up already), quirky psychadelia (Starfish and Coffee, Play in the Sunshine), religion (The Cross), the only officially released live track for a good period of time (Beautiful Night), incredible soul (Adore), jazz (I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man), sex (It)... I just think Prince painted such a broad picture with SOTT that no other album reaches. But who the hell am I kidding...I like Lovesexy, too. Check out The Mountains and the Sea, a Prince podcast by yours truly and my wife. More info at https://www.facebook.com/TMATSPodcast/ | |
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IceNine said: Over-rated... I also hated that it was one continuous track.
Shit, that must've been annoying. U mean just 1 track so u had to fast-forward? That's really crap. When did they start to make the CD with separate tracks? I never knew. | |
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SuperiorTe said: IceNine said: Over-rated... I also hated that it was one continuous track.
Shit, that must've been annoying. U mean just 1 track so u had to fast-forward? That's really crap. When did they start to make the CD with separate tracks? I never knew. Yeah... one fucking track... The non-American versions of the disc have been tracked all along from what I understand. I could be VERY wrong, but I have a German version that is tracked. SUPERJOINT RITUAL - http://www.superjointritual.com
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IceNine said: SuperiorTe said: IceNine said: Over-rated... I also hated that it was one continuous track.
Shit, that must've been annoying. U mean just 1 track so u had to fast-forward? That's really crap. When did they start to make the CD with separate tracks? I never knew. Yeah... one fucking track... The non-American versions of the disc have been tracked all along from what I understand. I could be VERY wrong, but I have a German version that is tracked. DAMN. Well, I bought my copy in England. It's fine. But who really thought that putting it all on one track would be a good idea? Silly question I guess. ... | |
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Mine is tracked, too. | |
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Purchased mine in Netherlands, just a tiny bit non-American version back in 1988 and it is tracked as in it has one track. Brilliant idea and enjoy listening to it all the way as it is supposed to!
Lovesexy is not a classic: there has never been an album like it. So far Lovesexy is a genre on its own - a category with only one album yet... Diva is right... the words Lovesexy and rubbish should never appear in the same sentence, paragraph, hell even book. Except of course when you want to mention that Lovesexy is not rubbish at all Now run and tell yo mamma about that! | |
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PeterJL121 said: Personally, I think Lovesexy is a bit overrated by the fans. Anna Stesia is one the best Prince songs ever, but the rest of the album doesn't measure up for the most part. The songs on Lovesexy can be divided into three categories:
Great: Anna Stesia Alphabet St Glam Slam MOR: I Wish U Heaven When 2 R In Love Weak: Lovesexy Positivity Eye No Dance On Do three great songs make a great album? Not quite, in my opinion. Still, the fifteen minutes of aural bliss from Alphabet St to Anna Stesia make it essential. The album as a whole is no classic, though. Please discuss... End. I agree. I bought "Lovesexy" the day it came out and I STILL don't really rate it - mind you, after "Sign OTT", ANYTHING would have been a disappointment. | |
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LoveSexy is the one
Till my day is done! love all of the album; 2 bad it's only one track, tho. THAT SUX! | |
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dewmass said:[quote]OK,
I get the distinct impression that rather than having any Prince albums, our freind Peter is just trying to piss people off with inane opinions. I'd hate to waste my time flaming such a complete moron who has such an obviuos lack of both intelligence, and more importantly, musical taste. Therfore, I choose to ignore his ridiculous threads Yes, but you DIDN'T ignore him, did you (see above)? He has as much right to his opinions as you. Be fair. Peace. | |
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love4oneanother said: LoveSexy is the one
Till my day is done! love all of the album; 2 bad it's only one track, tho. THAT SUX! Get the German version. | |
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