it sucked that he didnt tour the US...but it may of kept his star power in the US a little longer...

Only big p can answer that 1!

yeah...but since he's not avalibile for comment...have at it..

Absolutely. Sign O' The Times, U Got The Look, and I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man all had heavy rotation on radio and MTV. On the other hand Lovesxy only had Alphabet St. Glam Slam and I Wish U Heaven didn't fare as well. I saw the Lovesexy tour in Chicago, where he did 3 sold out shows, so couldn't have been much better than that there. Although I have heard he didn't do quite that well in other cities, including Minneapolis.

NO NO NO

simply because that tour was SOOOO fucking ahead of it time

realy

everyday cats were not ready for that

it still makes you go HOW DID HE DO THAT???

A SOTT tour would have done much better than what Lovesexy did do at the box office. SOTT was a much better album and Prince did himself great harm by releasing the album when he did. Add the flub with the album cover and you see the result.

The Lovesexy concept was released early and the concept was too heavy for many to grasp at the time.

muleFunk said:

A SOTT tour would have done much better than what Lovesexy did do at the box office. SOTT was a much better album and Prince did himself great harm by releasing the album when he did. Add the flub with the album cover and you see the result.

The Lovesexy concept was released early and the concept was too heavy for many to grasp at the time.

Well, my reaction to it when it came out was "what is this Jesus crap?"

Lovesexy was a step down from his earlier work, and it's the last record where he seems to be showing his genius. It;s really the beginning of the end.

Prince didn't do a proper tour of the the U.S. for SOTT and consequently I think he did himself a disservice businesswise. The hype around Prince hd died significantly by the time Lovesexy rolled around. Had he toured SOTT American audiences would have been reminded how awesome he was, and Lovesxy would have been more well recieved, I think, jus due to Prince staying in people's mind.

why wouldn't it do a little better, the further away from PR, the more alienated the pop crowd became from him. SOTT was a genius album, not quite on par with 1999 or PR in my eyes but even better in it's own way. Lovesexy recieved pretty good reviews of the ones I read, Rolling Stone said he was returning to his Dirty Mind peak but really, by that point, he was oversaturating the market with something the market didn't really want. His genius work went by and to this day is still questioned by even diehard fans, Lovesexy I think was an ok album, about on the level of ATWIAD as far as quality. A few good songs, some great musicianship, crisp clean production, more of the wierd mystical crap which thank god I outgrew decades ago. I don't think it was the fall from grace some people do, I'd say it was a starting point of the days when Prince album releases became non-events. Then, you take hip hop and grunge, all the 80's megastars began to drag inthe 90's outside of madonna maybe.

and remember, his "best" work is always a subjective thing. When i first heard the Symbol album, my mind was blown I thought "Jesus, he's just getting better and better as a singer, songwriter and musician". My friend pointed out the misguided hip hop stuff, but I always just listened for what i liked in his work. It's easy to find reasons not to like anything. His 90's work had lots and lots of great stuff. I thought Emancipation had loads of great songs, I don't think he was doing anything nearly as fresh as 1999 but how many times can one man show himself and have it be fresh? Even today i think he still keeps his chops up, is a better musician, still competent in the studio and still a pro in the strictest sense of the word. I'd still rather listen to a new P album than an album released by anyone else today.

muleFunk said:

MikeyB71 said:

muleFunk said:

A SOTT tour would have done much better than what Lovesexy did do at the box office. SOTT was a much better album and Prince did himself great harm by releasing the album when he did. Add the flub with the album pcover and you see the result.

The Lovesexy concept was released early and the concept was too heavy for many to grasp at the time.

Concept too heavy? Maybe for Americans it was, but the rest of the world seemed to absorb it quite well.

Is that right? Well the more mature this fan got, the more tired that kind of mess became, I mean what the fuck is a Spooky Electric, if you're going to go mystical do it right and come up with something better than that. Prince seemed to buy his own mythology by that point, but for some fans it was a turnoff. That's also the point I began to listen to more Bruce and became a bigger fan of his, not because the actual music was better but because his songs were more earthy.

mozfonky said:

MikeyB71 said:

muleFunk said: Concept too heavy? Maybe for Americans it was, but the rest of the world seemed to absorb it quite well.

Is that right? Well the more mature this fan got, the more tired that kind of mess became, I mean what the fuck is a Spooky Electric, if you're going to go mystical do it right and come up with something better than that. Prince seemed to buy his own mythology by that point, but for some fans it was a turnoff. That's also the point I began to listen to more Bruce and became a bigger fan of his, not because the actual music was better but because his songs were more earthy.

If he had toured the US in the fall of 87,the tour would have been a soldout success.He was riding high at that point."U Got The Look" reached Number Two on the pop charts and "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man" followed it into the Top 10.In addition,album tracks like "Hot Thing","Housequake" and "Adore" were getting heavy airplay on radio stations.He could have ended 1987 on a high note,with a kickass American tour.Yes,the concert film was nice but it can't take the place of a real tour.

The Lovesexy tour had problems in the US for several reasons.For one thing,the album wasn't selling.There was the mini-backlash because of the album cover.Singles like "Glam Slam" and "I Wish U Heaven" were being ignored by US radio stations.Even MTV didn't really show the videos very often.That was a rough period for Prince.