I wouldn't call this album "perfect" but it is definitely one of his most interesting albums.In 1988,this album was pretty much the soundtrack of my life.It's the main album I listened to that year.I was really impressed with it.

The only criticism I have is,a few songs are over-produced."Eye No" has so many powerful messages throughout,but the whole thing feels bloated and noisy,with too many things going on at the same time.Great song though.

The title track is one of Prince's best songs of the 80s,and one of his songs that truly should have been a single.

TyphoonTip said:

"Glam Slam" is an okay 'album track' but it should have never been a single.I don't like the lyrics at all,especially all those silly things he says after the second chorus ("heavy feather flicka nipple,baby scram water ripple"...wtf?).Notice that in the video,he removed all that gibberish from the song,lol.

optimus said:

Time to relax and listen to the album once more.
On headphones.

YES

It's a decent album. It's the first sign of his later tendency to overproduce basically great songs. It is quite an artistic achievement since it's practically inaccessible but in the end I got it, it just didn't stick for long...

As someone already mentioned before, ATWIAD was also very complex but that album DID stick for me.

P.S the best Lovesexy-era song is I think Take This Beat

And by the way, it was never a grower to me. It was an instant crush
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emesem said:

Ever heard the first track of his first album, "For You"?

The cover of this album alone killed any chance it had to succeed. A few gems, no doubt, but overall not one of his best...

I see this as a pefect album but I also find it very arrogant. The music works as a whole but i feel this is where prince started to divide people. You couldnt throw this album at a random stranger and go listen how catchy this is. it was at this point where to buy a Prince album you had to be a Prince fan, mass consumption was nolonger an option. For me and for many here I assume thats fine but hereon in prince was a superstar by critical acclaim not statistics. I know he pulled commercial success with D&P but that was the exception that proved the rule. Like I say that doesn't phase me at all but I do feel this is wher ego became bigger than craft

Didn´t like it very much at first. It seemed overproduced, too clean and it had weaker melodies than most of his previous albums.
Today, it is one of my favourite albums and I love it very much. The only tracks I don´t really love on it are "Glam Slam" and "Positivity". The rest: Perfect! Especially the title track!

There is only one thing I HATE about my lovesexy CD and that is that it's all on one track. Sometimes I want to play "I Wish You Heaven" and put it on repeat so it can play for a while. Because the song doesn't have it's own track # I can't do that. (I only put songs on indeffinate repeat when nobody else is around to drive or make )

emesem said:

I feel exactly the same about this record!

I wouldn't say his most perfect album

The energy of the Lovesexy era was seriously high
but the album, even though I get it, is hard to get the concept
Even Eric Leeds said he and many of the band members didn't get the vision
Once the vision becomes blurry people have a hard time grasping what your doing

I do love the crispness of he music on the album though

Eye Know is a full Revolution track from the Dream Factory:Ball
Alphabet St is one of my favorites the video was week, it was shot in a rush in Minneapolis in the winter one night Prince called up a manager and decided he wanted a video tonight. Called up Cat & Sheila and did Alphabet St

Glam Slam, I love the video, the concept of the song evades me
Anne Stesia I love the lyrics and I get what he's talking about, he's really conveing some emotional hurt here

I Wish U Heaven is my favorite track on this album, the video is one of my favorites

Dance On the instrumental work is hot, the guitar work is raw

When 2 R in Love I loved from the Black album and it works on Lovesexy

Lovesexy I really like, live and studio and really like the 'make love with only words' section

Positivity I really like, I like all the background sounds and how it builds

I would love to hear more for this album in his current live shows, and would prefer to hear Alphabet St in it's original form, not the country jam, which is cool, but I prefere there hard sharp sounds of the album version

the album cover is no problem for me, maybe a different one would have made if more comfortable for people to buy and put the nude inside

masbas said:

To this day,I still insist that the album would have done better (sales-wise) if....

***It had a different album cover
***the song "Lovesexy" was released as the second single


The nude cover really prevented alot of people from giving the music a chance.Many dudes were not too keen on buying an album with a nude guy on the cover,lol.

A great album, solid A- effort, but I think Sign, Parade, 1999, Purple Rain and Crystal Ball are all better. Still Annastesia and When 2 R in Love are in my Top 10 jams of all time. Lovesexy and Dance On and Positivity weigh the album down a bit.

SoulAlive said:

I can see that. But as a kid, I was very fascinated by that cover

emesem said:

These things you site as excesses are things I love! I always took "Glam slam, thank you maam." to be kind of a jokey lyric. I loved "Heather feather flicka nipple baby scram water ripple".
Lovesexy remains a very special album to me. Saw that concert, front row-center.

asdfjkl said:

"I dont understand" "That means I love you!"

I was in my teens, caught the concert wayyyy up in the nose bleed section, remember going through the tour book before the show thinking how cool it was.

This was a transition point.
[Edited 6/5/09 6:11am]

sun is risen,moon is gone....soda fizzin' on the lawn
come a butterfly straight on your skin

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

I also like the "ficka nipple" part. Concerts were amazing as well. My only point is that you start to see Prince get into some bad habits on LoveSexy that he never was able to break out of.

..." This is not music... this is a trip"..." This is not music... this is a trip"..." This is not music... this is a trip"..." This is not music... this is a trip"..." This is not music... this is a trip"..." This is not music... this is a trip"..." This is not music... this is a trip"...

asdfjkl said:[quote]

emesem said:

These things you site as excesses are things I love! I always took "Glam slam, thank you maam." to be kind of a jokey lyric. I loved "Heather feather flicka nipple baby scram water ripple".
Lovesexy remains a very special album to me. Saw that concert, front row-center.[/quote]


Unless you were in Japan, it was in the round.
[Edited 6/5/09 22:38pm]

udo said:

haha i agree with u! it's a complicated, serious, good album!! it really sounds strange the first time you ever listen to it because you don't know what to expect! but then you adore it!

Did anybody compare the perfectness of Lovesexy with the perfectness of For You?
It's a different kind of perfectness if you ask me, but still...

My favorite Prince album. The whole is so much more than the parts - and the parts are very good already. The Lovesexy tour also was my favorite tour.

It's spastic, garish, and messy, but artistically ambitious... but I prefer the dark solid tones of the minimal SOTT and the multilayered Black Album. You can tell Lovesexy was recorded in a hyper state with no afterthought to tones, levels, and complimentary sound textures... part of the concept was to do it so quickly it's retarded.

Unfortunately, that's probably why it tanked/bombed/failed in the U.S.

Case and point is comparing The Ball to Eye No... the first being a very thought out, creative, surreal, masterfully blended and mixed production, the latter being like a producer on cocaine with no discipline just mixing with a tie limit of one hour. Same musical idea, different attitudes.

It's ok, but for me it's always been massively overrated. I love a couple of tracks (the single version of "Alphabet Street" - the album version is too long and loses its way, and "Glam Slam", at least until the last minute or so after that tremendous instrumental section finishes and he's just arsing around on an organ) but there are too many duff tracks for my liking, and he seemed to be trying just a bit too hard, which probably explains why it sounds just too dense in places, rendering it almost unlistenable in parts (most of "I Know" for example, due to way too many overdubs). As an album it's always left me a little cold, and personally it marked the beginning of the end for me, as this was the first of his albums in five years or so which I didn't fall in love with. I wish he'd stuck with the original plan of releasing "The Black Album" instead as in my opinion that one is far, far better, whereas "Lovesexy" is a bit of a mess.

peppeken said:

I remember getting ?rince's LOVESEXY on cassette at the mall in my senior year of high school. I thought it was amazing. The images and everything in the liner notes I thought it was like a Valentine's Day album or something. I thought the Margo Chase fonts, icons and designs were amazing.

I think after LOVESEXY...?rince's music suffers.

emesem said:

didn't he always layer his voice in different ways though?
think about when doves cry...a lot of that is him alone as well.
nevertheless, i still agree...i clearly remember thinking:
"what's going on here?" when lovesexy came out
something appeared to be missing. like
others though, i eventually ended up loving it and it's still 1
of my all-time favs.

glam slam
alphabet street
i wish u heaven
positivity
annastasia

some of the 1's i enjoy
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[Edited 6/23/09 11:10am]

Giovanni777 said:

all of what you just said