SoulAlive said:

Hey good to see they can still get along after all this time , the last two of the 80's greats...now that MJ is no longer with us...

love it, love it, love it!!!

I don't know it actually.First I've heard of it.

errant said:

I sorta agree. I do like the song very much and it gets stuck in my head all the time. But these R 2 incredible musicians and I feel like this song could've been much better. But then again sometimes its better when 2 great artists dont collaborate because people always expect 2 much.

^Madonna is an incredible musician????

sorry wen i say musician i mean artist that i admire.

errant said:

It works from 1980 to 1988

SoulAlive said:

wow...how cool!!
thanks 4 that pic...

Bohemian67 said:

Seriously? It's on her 1989 'Like A Prayer' album.

it the best collabo that Prince ever did.

no it sucks ass , as does everything else hagdonna is on/in

Dewrede said:

BOOOO!!

i really like the beat on this one. very sign o the times-ish it's an okay tune

Yeah i love it, only 5 Madonna songs on my ipod, this was the first i downloaded

it is

I tried to listen, but that song was awful

LaAmi said:

I always wondered about Act of Contrition.

But Lika a Prayer and Keep it together? I'd never heard that. What did he do on those tracks?

LOVE IT!

I wish Prince and Madoona would record something new again.

johnart said:

bass

1989 MADONNA interview from a magazine called "Song Talk"----she discusses Prince's involvement in her 'Like A Prayer' album


Interviewer: You and Prince wrote "Love Song" together, which is a wonderful song. Did you and he work together or did he give you a track?

Madonna: No, he didn’t give me a track. We sat down and just started fooling around. We had a lot of fun. What happened is that he played the drums and I played the synthesizer and we came up with the original melody line; I just, off the top of my head, started singing lyrics into the microphone. And then he overdubbed some guitar stuff and made a loop of it and sent it to me, and then I just started adding sections to it and singing parts to it. And then I sent it back to him, and he’d sing a part to it and add another instrument and send it back to me…it was like this sentence that turned into a paragraph that turned into a little miniseries. So it was great. It was a completely different way to work. And because of our schedules and everything, and he was in Minnesota and he likes to work there and I like to work here. So we kind of sent it back and forth. He’s great. He’s a real interesting…unique talent.

Interviewer: And it was an easy connection from the beginning for the two of you?

Madonna: Yeah, it was. We started out being real admirers of each other’s work. And, you know, we’re already successful so we didn’t have to prove anything to each other. We were on the same level. And I don’t think he’s had that same opportunity with other people that he’s worked with. Because generally he tends to dominate everything.

Interviewer: "Act of Contrition," the closing track of Like a Prayer, has backwards masking and other mysterious elements. Did he have anything to do with that one as well? The credits only say, "Produced by the powers that be."

Madonna: Yeah, he did. He played guitar on it. He also played guitar on "Keep it Together."

Interviewer: I noticed on "Act of Contrition" that you have the choir from "Like a Prayer" reversed on that.

Madonna: Yeah, we turned the tape and played everything backwards.

Interviewer: Your idea?

Madonna: Yeah. And then, of course, the whole thing, the saying of the prayer (on "Act of Contrition") and everything,that was totally conceived of in the studio, in the control room. Pat put out a microphone, and I just started fooling around; and that was free-form, too. Whatever was on my head. It’s totally unedited.

Interviewer: You, Prince and Michael Jackson were all born in the same year, 1958

Madonna: I know. Isn’t that weird? And I think Michael’s birthday is right near mine, in August…there are so many Leos in my life. I’m August 16.

You know what's funny about this song? The way that the album is sequenced with "Love Song" followed by "Till Death Do Us Part," I always picture the fighting couple in the latter not as Madonna and Sean Penn, but Madonna and Sean Penn. Except I see Prince as the battered spouse. He's wearing the D&P era white pants-suit and typoon and high heels and throwing vases at her and speeding off in his Little Red Corvette.

TikiColadas said:

It has long been rumored that,in 1994 or 95,the two of them recorded two duets---"Mad" and "Funk Of A Thousand Years"---which were submitted to the 'From Dusk Til Dawn' film.Since those two songs aren't circulating by now,I'm gonna assume that this story is false.

SoulAlive said:

Then he reworked it into Graffity Bridge.

Madonna was wise to walk away from that.

SoulAlive said:

as I've said before, repeatedly, I was the one who passed that along to that madonnacatalog site at the time, in 1996, based on some information I received. I passed along the correction (that it was not true) to them shortly thereafter, but they chose not to update it. I was the source of that rumor in Madonna circles (given to me by a fairly trustworthy source in Prince circles), and I'm telling you I was duped. Please stop bringing it up here as its untrue

errant said:

Seriously? You started this rumor? Wow! It was so widespread,I read about it in the Prince Family newsletters,lol.

SoulAlive said:

I started the rumor in Madonna circles. I don't know if the Prince Family newsletter got it from the madonnacatalog site or if they were duped by the same person I was

errant said:

Ah

I went searching for this song (As I couldnt remember hearing it before) and found a remix (which was ok actually)

Im most excited about an updated and very funky dance version of Love Acoustic!! Very bouncy it is too It's dated as being new last year 2009. But I couldnt find a related thread, has anyone heard this or am I just tardy to the party again?

JOYJOY said:

the acoustic version of Love was a "jam of the week" on 3121.com in 2007.