Long time Prince fan, purchased every album in the 80's on release date. At the time listened to Lovesexy, liked it, loved a couple songs ,but honestly have not listened to the entire album since the early 90's.

Revisiting today courtesy of Apple Music and I can't believe how extraordinarily excellent this album sounds now. Perhaps I have matured in my musical tastes, no longer yearning for more Linn Drumm Prince as I was back in the day, it just all sounds so fresh, funky, eclectic & beautiful

Lovesexy track came on and just crushed me it was so fucking awesome. I was seriously speechless, and a little teary it was that good.

When 2 R in love, so sublimely beautiful and now , Positivity, Lawd. Thank you Prince.

Anybody else finding new found or revisited love for specific tracks or albums now that they are all so accessible?

More accessible? Lovesexy? The Family is inaccessible. One Nite Alone Piano & Vocal is inaccessible. Lovesexy has been widely available to buy on CD since it came out and has been available to download on iTunes for years. Don't call Prince's music inaccessible just cuz you're too cheap to purchase it through the methods he chose to release it.

Streaming sucks, because it completely devalues an artists work thanks to cheapskates who won't part with $10 for an album.

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MattyJam said:

More accessible? Lovesexy? The Family is inaccessible. One Nite Alone Piano & Vocal is inaccessible. Lovesexy has been widely available to buy on CD since it came out and has been available to download on iTunes for years. Don't call Prince's music inaccessible just cuz you're too cheap to purchase it through the methods he chose to release it.

Streaming sucks, because it completely devalues an artists work thanks to cheapskates who won't part with $10 for an album.

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Thanks for the misinformed ad hominem attack dude - I hope your day improves. As mentioned in the FIRST line of my post, I have purchased every single one of Prince's releases & have never purchased a bootleg. Hell by streaming his music catalogue, which I have already purchased (purely due to the Apple Music's eco-system which I love) I am paying Prince over and over would you not agree? Now where is that middle finger emoji...

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I'd agree, with a lesser passion, that Prince's music has always been here. Just maybe not in the now-typical way people consume music.

Lovesexy is an interesting piece of work, for sure. The EQ on it all is a bit high. There's a lot of ear-piercing sounds in it that could have been brought down and re-leveled. (I think it was Eric Leeds that said even he said something to Prince about the levels being a bit too "hot" (high) and it sounded blown out.)

It also stands to note that Lovesexy is Prince on a mission. He hadn't really had a 'message' per se on previous albums. Each album to that point had its own nuances and stories (like the Linn being used the first time, or recording live in the warehouse, etc), but he never quite had a statement. Lovesexy is his first really all-around religious record, despite dips into the baptismal pool here and there before. Even the tour was divided into two parts - evil, evil dying, then rebirth/salvation. Bad vs. Good. The first half was Camille, acting on carnal urges talking about sex, violence, and the battle between lust and love. Camille struggles between truly adoring a woman, to daydreaming about having more than one woman, to just fuckin'; trying to impress a girl, yet equally embracing fear and violence to control her. The 2nd act of the show opens with him literally rising out of the ground, like a Phoenix from the ashes, flowers pop up and bloom around the edge of the stage. The band members are re-created out of the earth and rise up to meet the reborn creature praising God in all he does.

Of course, a year later he's back to sticking the 7" in the computer, and wanting to bust that body. But, Lovesexy stands as a watershed moment, in that Prince could convey any message he wanted, if he put his mind to it; something more than 8 or 9 songs about fucking (a la Dirty Mind). He proved it again when he made songs for Batman. Specific, pointed, characters, stories. I don't think he was that pointed again until The Rainbow Children when it came to storylines, but there are albums with a very specific point of view either in production, sound, or mood. (The Gold Experience, Exodus to name a couple.)