I love everything about Lovesexy.



Lovesexy is in my Prince top-5.... an excellent piece of art..

imo only

Purple Rain,
SOTT and
1999

are better Prince albums.

IF only Prince could make heavenly music like Lovesexy, today.. then I would be a lot happier as a fan.

and.. those who do not like the Lovesexy singles, are talking nonsense imo.

I love those 12 inch singles / extended versions of IWUH, Glam Slam and Alphabet St.

JoeTyler said:

Okay, your entire post just lost its credibility right there, with that sentence! The 1991 NPG brought back his funk/R&B edge???? You must be NUTS!!! They were the complete antithesis of "funk". I can't even describe how non-funky they actually were!!

alexnvrmnd777 said:

You're high on crack...

piepie1976 said:

She was very pretty and still is

OldFriends4Sale said:

very nice-I may change my mind about Lovesexy

nursev said:

Yes! Amazingly gorgeous woman.

nursev said:

I wish I had more pics up with events stories and whatnot

But that's a cool way to get into an era

Put some music 2gether from the album, use any long versions, use B sides and outtakes:the Line Joy In Repetition Pink Cashmere, use some live show numbers especially Just My Imagination, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, People Without, Still Would Stand All Time, a couple of numbers from Madhouse and just listen to it while check out the pics the stories, reading lyrics

You'll fall for it


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OldFriends4Sale said:

It's working

OldFriends4Sale said:

I like the Alphabet Street video.....its lo-fi quality is part of its charm.
The story of how it was made (according to the book 'Possessed') is a good one.
Classic nothingelseintheworldmatters Prince.

Prince looks much more better with his trademark moustache unshaved anyway; another negative point of the entire Lovesexy era...
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tricky2 said:

Ohhh my

mycherrymoon said:

I just died....

I saw a show on Bobby Brown (New Edition, Whitney Houstons ex husband ...) and I noticed/remembered that for his break out album (Don't Be Cruel 1989) Bobby had black coats with words on the sleave, and the women in the video were dressed similar to Sheila E. with the black dress leggings and garter clips

Prince was still influencing people...right up to the end








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OldFriends4Sale said:

I remember that also

tricky2 said:

Wow, I knew Wendy & Lisa still stayed in touch with Prince a few years after 1986

Never read this one before. Never saw the pic either

review by

http://www.twelvebar.com/...g-for.html



I make no apologies whatsoever for returning repeatedly throughout the pages of A Story To Tell to the purple genius that is Prince Rogers Nelson. After all, a man with a reputed virtual lifetime’s worth of songs, hidden album projects, videos and god knows what else in his vaults Is surely worthy of our attention every now and then. And that is the thing with Prince, his output is so prodigious that there is just so much to say about him.

And I don’t even count myself to be particularly knowledgeable, certainly when compared to the reams and reams of information that can be unearthed on fan sites across the world wide web. Seriously, the amount that has been written on forgotten bootlegs, rumoured side-projects, lost albums is itself a sight to behold. I came across one the other day which is all about a rumoured song that can only be found in the vaults of the US Library of Congress, a song written but rejected in 1988 for Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” album, entitled “By Alien Means”. Almost worth a trip to DC for. I say almost, but trust me there are plenty of fans who would have made that crazy pilgrimage, and more power to them I say. That is truly dedication. But I wanted to talk briefly here about a song which is one of those that is fully released and available, indeed featuring on 1988’s incredible “Lovesexy” album, but rarely heralded or commented upon.

To me however it epitomises much of what there is to love about Prince, through it’s obvious musical accomplishment, but also the innovation that lies behind it and seeps out of the speakers on each listen. The song in question is the skittering funk of “Dance On”, a tune that continues the social commentary of “Sign O The Times” in terms of its subject matter, but which does so to a syncopation of stunning complexity. For some this jars as an aural experience, the amalgam of a frenetic drum pattern interspersed with some rock guitar licks and a driving bass (indeed the running bass throb sounds remarkably like the source for Q-Tip’s solo stormer “Breathe and Stop” but I am unsure if this is truly the case).

Whatever the case, for me this song does something that perhaps even the master of 80s funk didn’t set out to achieve. Because “Dance On” is a song that packs so much funk per ounce into its tiny body, that it almost transcends the music that it is rooted in. If funk is the groove that gets into your soul and shakes your booty in a primeval sex-swamp, then “Dance On” is a record that is so damn funky it goes over the precipice and takes the funk a step further in evolution, into a place where the usual rules don’t apply. It is a dance record with so much groove you can’t actually dance to it. Now that, my friends, is the true source.

An over the top appraisal you may feel, but it is a point worth making in urging a repeat listen to this tune, and indeed the whole of the “Lovesexy” set, an album which commercially marked a slight downturn for Prince, but which is a stunning collection for all sorts of reasons, some of which we have mentioned, and some we will doubtless return to. For now though, if you can catch the groove, just dance on, dance on*

^

that was fucking awesome.

nursev said:

Hoooaaa! Word up!

TRON said:

Co-sign. Oldfriends4sale is one talented cat.

Btw, Bob George? One of the hardest records ever!

2. Cindy C. (6:15)


BOURDON ST, LONDON, 26 APRIL 1988

During the 1980s and 1990s, Cindy was among the most popular supermodels, a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, and in fashion campaigns. In July, 1988, she became the first modern supermodel to pose nude for Playboy magazine, in a shoot by photographer Herb Ritts. In October, 1998 Crawford returned to the pages of Playboy for a second, more revealing nude pictorial. That issue was one of the magazine's all-time biggest sellers.

Cindy C.

Yeah!
This song's about a high-class model over in Paris, France (Oh Cindy C.)
If I get a camera, tell me will U dance? (Will U play with me?)
If I take a picture in the middle of the night (Oh Cindy C.)
Will U funk with me, sugar? (Will U funk with me?)
Say it's alright, come on (Say it, say it)

CHORUS:
(Cindy C., play with me)
(I will pay the usual fee)
Ah Cindy C. (What's it gonna be?)
Will U play with me? (What's it gonna be?)
(Cindy C., play with me)
(I will pay the usual fee)
Ah Cindy C. (What's it gonna be?)
I'll pay the fee (Cindy C.)

Super-fine heifer, U're so bloody vogue (Super fine)
I knew U would be trouble (trouble, trouble) from the word go (go, go)
I'll give U 7 sips of elderberry wine (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
Maybe we'll unlock the secrets of your mind

CHORUS

The passion's in the mix (Serve it up, Sheila)
Drink it quick Cindy – shit!
Where'd U get that beauty mark?
Baby, U and I should be undressing

Don't all girls look the same?
They don't? Oh, what a shame
Cindy, Cindy - I'll pay the usual fee
What's the matter, don't U like me?

(Poppy, tell me what it's all about)

I'm talkin' 'bout a long crucial leg

(Cindy C. – listen 2 me)

Girl, if I have 2 beg

(She's so tired)

I'ma see U in your birthday suit 2night

(Look at me)
(She doesn't look as good as I do)

I'm sure U're quite intelligent

(U think she does, but think again)
(See? How 'bout that?) (Ha, ha, ha)

A whiz at math and all that shit
But I'm, I'm a tad more interested in flyin' your kite 2night

(Look at her, she can't even walk in those shoes)
(I can walk better than that)
(She can't even dance)
(I would put somethin' on her she ain't never seen before)

Baby, is that alright?

(Cindy C.)

Oh Cindy C., will U play with me?
I'll pay the usual fee

2 organ solos 2 go

Oh Cindy C. {repeat}
(Yeah)

Oh Cindy C., will U play with me?
Oh Cindy C., I will pay the fee
Ah Cindy C., will U play with me?
Ah Cindy C., I will pay the fee

Help me! (Ah shit)
Uh!

Excuse my savoir-faire
But baby, I'm dyin' 2 take U everywhere (Oh yeah?)
I wanna show U 2 my friends (Ha ha ha)
Because baby, U're the living end (Tell me now)
Baby, U have a debt worth winning
I can feel your ice is thinning
Like a frozen pond in spring (Woo)
Your furry melting thing awaits me (Ah)
Your furry melting thing awaits me and my 6-string
(Oh Cindy C., will U play with me?)

(Cindy, where are U?)
Come on Cindy (Oh my God)
Come on Cindy (Wait)
Don't U wanna play with me? (Uh yes, no, wait)
Don't U wanna play with me? (Yes)
What's the matter with me, Cindy? (Nothing)
Ahhh!

Shockadelia!

Oh Cindy C., won't U play with me?

[b]{Rap from "Music Is The Key" by J.M. Silk}
Music is the key 2 set yourself free
From depression, drugs and increasing poverty
The key is 2 the lock, the lock is on the door
The door has a knob that U never turned before
The jack, use the jack, it opens up the lock
Cuz there's the key 2 unlock the body
Place it like that 2 open up the door
The door 2 the house 4 the people galore
The beat won't stop till the J.M. jocks
And he jacks the box till the party rocks
The clock tick-tocks and the place gets hot
And believe it or not, all the troubles U forgot
It's just that easy if U want it 2 be
4 all the fellas and the young ladies
So ease your mind and set yourself free
2 the mystifying music that we call Cindy C.

Oh Cindy C., won't U play with me?
Oh Cindy C.[/b]