On an unpublished article on PrinceVault (for Purple Rain Deluxe), it says the following;

Love And Sex is from February 1984 and was recorded by Prince alone at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, California. The title was in fact found on a handwritten sequence for the album, although it was crossed out on there and was likely never seriously considered to be featured on the album.

Does anyone have a scan of this apparent sequence?

bluegangsta said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

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Cool.

The fact that he has only listed 3 songs for the B-side indicates he was planning on using the full version of Computer Blue.

MiceElfAgin said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

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Cool.

The fact that he has only listed 3 songs for the B-side indicates he was planning on using the full version of Computer Blue.

yep

At this time in the timeline, Take Me With U was probably still going to be on the Apollonia 6 album and When Doves Cry not written yet

OldFriends4Sale said:

MiceElfAgin said:

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Cool.

The fact that he has only listed 3 songs for the B-side indicates he was planning on using the full version of Computer Blue.

yep

At this time in the timeline, Take Me With U was probably still going to be on the Apollonia 6 album and When Doves Cry not written yet

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Rather pointless speculation from me, but I'm just wondering whether he crossed out 'Love & Sex' because he was already considering using TMWU instead, or he was considering using the unedited LGC.

Anyway, I think it's interesting to see that Computer Blue was so important for him that originally he was planning to give it so much room on the album and such a key position as B/1.

MiceElfAgin said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

yep

At this time in the timeline, Take Me With U was probably still going to be on the Apollonia 6 album and When Doves Cry not written yet

.
Rather pointless speculation from me, but I'm just wondering whether he crossed out 'Love & Sex' because he was already considering using TMWU instead, or he was considering using the unedited LGC.

Anyway, I think it's interesting to see that Computer Blue was so important for him that originally he was planning to give it so much room on the album and such a key position as B/1.

Yeah it seems like that song was as important as Purple Rain or the Beautiful Ones, especially reading it's place in the script(unedited script)