Anybody like this Prince track?

anybody got this in their collection? hee hee

I love the song and I think it sucks that it's in the vault. One day it will c the light of day. Great song

sms130 said:

I sure some Purple Fam on here got it!
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love it, love it, love it!. The classic Lovesexy feel [especially guitars] are all over my version. Isn't it rumoured that it was a long work in progress and P would have guests singers who jammed at PP to lay down vocals on the main chorus. Imagine the many stars who have jammed with P over the years laying down vocals on this.

Interesting song. I like it but I dont think it would have worked on Lovesexy. I feel like the 9 songs on that album were just meant to be together in the order that they were with no alterations. It's just perfect.

The quality that this particular song is circulating in is just PRISTINE. It makes me think that it was intended to be released on SOMETHING. And whatever that thing was, it got pretty close to the final stages of being released.

I don't love it, but I really do LIKE this song

another Lovesexy era song, I still remember when I 1st say Prince of Paisley Park (which was basically a videography of the Lovesexy era) and Mavis talking about how this recording came about

It was performed live during some LS aftershows

***** *****

Flash, flash!
Jack just got the news
God is alive! God is alive!

CHORUS:
Whoa, oh! {x3}
God is alive

News is comin' like a hurricane
Comin' down hard on those who live in vain
Treatin' each other funky when U know we're all the same
God is alive, this is not a game

CHORUS
(He's alive)

News is comin' like a dog in heat
He's lookin' 4 soldiers with strong feet
That can dance on whoever can't say His name
God is alive, this is not a game (Listen)

CHORUS
(Listen)
(Yeah, I'm a witness)
(Do U believe?) (U know it)

All of His children come take a blissy ride
4 all who see Him, 4 all He lives inside
U can be so happy, purely satisfied
God is alive

Live, live!

One step at a time, we need a new rhyme (Alive)
Up with education, down with crime
Alive!

CHORUS
(God is alive!)

Live, live!
God is alive! {x5}

(CHORUS) {repeat parts in BG}
Oh yeah
Woke me up this morning
Started me on my day
Got my health and strength, y'all
I can truly say
Ooh, He's alive! Well
Ah, He's alive!
All over me
Ah, He's alive!
I'm a livin' witness
That God's alive!
I'm a livin' witness He's alive!
Do U believe that He's alive?
Do U believe, oh, He's alive?
Ooh, yes He is
Sho'nuff He is, well
Yes He is
Each breath I breathe lets me know
Every step I take lets me know
Every song I sing, oh, lets me know
Oh, God is alive!

Whoa, oh
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It's a a good song I love the way the multi layered background vocals are mixed.

It's not a Lovesexy outtake as it was recorded after the release of Lovesexy. It was intended for the unreleased Rave album and also included on a very early configuration of Graffiti Bridge..

i like this one...
the bass iz funky...the pad iz smooth...ang the guitar tinges are
classic lovesexy era

mavis sounds good on it...

any of u non-believers out there...must realise that GOD iz alive.

I've never heard it but I like the lyrics.

Tame said:

There could be a hook up in the next few days!!!

I like it.

I have it and I love it

funkyhead said:

Loveseaxy? really? I always felt it had that Grafitti Bridge style (over)production.
Great track all the same!

I like it!

Hatman said:

I believe 'God Is Alive' was recorded in London during the Lovesexy tour. A short video exists of Prince and Mavis Staples recording the song. It appears in the BBC Omnibus report, i think.
The song was sometimes played during the aftershows of the Lovesexy tour, at the GroBe Freiheit 36 show in Hamburg for example.

cycozora said:

Sure be nice to see ....A short video exists of Prince and Mavis Staples recording the song.!

Anybody got a link?

nyse said:

I'll pass on this dogmatic bullshit, thanks. But it's a fantastic song.

Hatman said:

Yeah it was also performed during Lovesexy aftershows

a good number of the songs were recorded with the Lovesexy band or band members

Astasheiks said:

You'll see some of it in the documentary Prince of Paisley Park

Hatman said:

Some of the GB style came from the Lovesexy era

I remember at one of the After shows when he got ready to intro Rave un2 the Joy... he told Sheila E. that a New Power beat would work for this one

This song actually feels similar to Rebirth of the Flesh

This was definitely recorded in the Lovesexy era. On the old BET "Video Soul" show Mavis was being interviewed and debuting the video for "Time Waits 4 No One" and they ran the clip of the recording of "God Is Alive". Mavis offered up an explanation of the track and the lyrics that put her off until Prince explained them to her.

He also played the song DURING some Lovesexy shows. In the Charlotte, NC show on 9/24/88, he played God is Alive instead of Blues in C.

Gohi said:

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