Happy 30th!!

Latin said:

Check out the article published today by Albumism entitled "Prince's 'Lovesexy' Turns 30 | An Anniversary Retrospective": http://www.albumism.com/f...rospective

Thanks, Latin.

This was the album that brought me firmly into the Paisley fold. These were the words I decided to write about it a little while ago:

https://simoncwilliamsblo...urrection/

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Happy 30th Anniversary to Lovesexy! Thanks for sharing the article Latin

Hey Latin,

If you check out the latest edition of Wax Poetics (Issue 67) there's a full feature on Lovesexy & Lovesexy Live.

Featuring interviews with Cat Glover, Ingrid Chavez, Eric & Alan Leeds, Nelson George, Leroy Bennett, Raphael Saadiq and more. Think you might dig it mate.

Is this the Prince issue or the latest regular issue?

I´ve heard of Waxpoetics but I´ve never seen it anywhere.

Is it only available via online order?

SoulJones said:

Hey Latin,

If you check out the latest edition of Wax Poetics (Issue 67) there's a full feature on Lovesexy & Lovesexy Live.

Featuring interviews with Cat Glover, Ingrid Chavez, Eric & Alan Leeds, Nelson George, Leroy Bennett, Raphael Saadiq and more. Think you might dig it mate.

Both mate. Issue 67 the latest one which is also a Prince issue. Includes a Chris Moon interview feature as well, and one devoted to Jill Jones solo work amongst others. Available via the Wax Po site or on Amazon.

KoolEaze said:

Is this the Prince issue or the latest regular issue?

I´ve heard of Waxpoetics but I´ve never seen it anywhere.

Is it only available via online order?

SoulJones said:

Hey Latin,

If you check out the latest edition of Wax Poetics (Issue 67) there's a full feature on Lovesexy & Lovesexy Live.

Featuring interviews with Cat Glover, Ingrid Chavez, Eric & Alan Leeds, Nelson George, Leroy Bennett, Raphael Saadiq and more. Think you might dig it mate.

Lovesexy is Everything, Happy B'Day

SimonCharles said:

Lovesexy is the one till my day is done!

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Great image by Leroy Pugh.

Latin said:

SimonCharles said:

Thanks, Latin.

This was the album that brought me firmly into the Paisley fold. These were the words I decided to write about it a little while ago:

https://simoncwilliamsblo...urrection/

[Edited 5/8/18 22:46pm]

Thank you for sharing.

You're welcome.

It's a very special album.

This was released just at the beginning of a very difficult, confusing, stressful period of my then-young life. I had been digging "Alphabet St." in the weeks before, but after my first listen of "Lovesexy" the album I was floored. I was a relatively new Prince convert - a friend forced me to listen to "Sign 'O' The Times" the previous summer and I saw the light - so I wasn't aware of all the personal dynamics that went on behind the scenes and led to the creation of the albums. All I knew was my ears and brain (and heart!) were blasted by an amazing set of tunes, music that went from uplifting to soul-searching to pants-droppingly sexy in the span of 40 minutes. This album (okay, the cassette, actually) was the soundtrack for my entire summer of 1988.

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To this day, "Alphabet St." is still one of my favorite Prince tunes ever... definitely a Top 10. And I listen to "Lovesexy" from beginning to end a couple of times a year. Considered one of the lesser albums from his "golden era", I personally rank it shoulder-to-shoulder with "Purple Rain" and "Sign 'O' The Times".

Prince's handwritten notes for the Lovesexy Tour programme.

They are clickable to a larger size.

TrivialPursuit said:

Prince's handwritten notes for the Lovesexy Tour programme.

Now this is the coolest thing I've seen in a loooooong time!!!

Thank you for posting!

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Happy 30th anniversary Lovesexy x

Image: https://peopledotcom.file...vesexy.jpg

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Happy Birthday Lovesexy.

It's one of my favourite albums and I listen to it regularly, the only song I'm not that fussed on is Dance On. I could listen to the title track on repeat and not get fed up hearing it.

It would be interesting to hear Luv Sexy which I believe some of the lyrics were taken from?

I love Lovesexy.

"New Power, New Power, give it to me",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Latin said:

Check out the article published today by A Pop Life entitled "Lovesexy: Prince’s Crowning Achievement": http://en.apoplife.nl/lov...hievement/

Nice. Thank you.

SoulJones said:

Hey Latin,

If you check out the latest edition of Wax Poetics (Issue 67) there's a full feature on Lovesexy & Lovesexy Live.

Featuring interviews with Cat Glover, Ingrid Chavez, Eric & Alan Leeds, Nelson George, Leroy Bennett, Raphael Saadiq and more. Think you might dig it mate.

Good. Lookin'. Out. Just copped the hardcover version.

Did we ever figure out if love could be trusted?

I was so disappointed with this release back then, especially coming right after the perfect SOTT. In time I've learned to love it. Positivity (which ultimately is funky as hell) never gets any love and I'm cool with that because it makes it seem like it's only a song I know of. And Lovesexy, the song itself, has probably his greatest line.

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If you think about it, Lovesexy is really the first time Prince so pointedly mixed sex and spirituality. Now while people can harken back to things like "Temptation" with it's quasi-prayer ending, or adding the Lord's prayer to "Controversy", even the latter wasn't a mix of sex and spirituality. There were elements of religion and sex from 1981 onward. But Lovesexy was a pointed effort.

It seems that almost every other song on Lovesexy was either about God or sex. A loose interpretation of the songs:

"Eye No" was a joyful exuberant modern gospel song of redemption, his version of "Amazing Grace"'s "I was lost but now I'm found"

"Alphabet St." was, ultimately, about eating pussy; licking the alphabet against her vagina, "I'm goin' down" being a great easter egg of oral sex

"Glam Slam" and "Anna Stesia" mirror each other's themes about seeking a higher state of being

"Dance On" is political.

"Lovesexy" directly pits the joys of sex against the joys of finding that higher state of being mentioned on side 1. He teases that they are going to make love with only words, then proclaims that she really does want him to walk right down her halls. He says heaven is just a kiss away. He treats the elation of either his spirituality or sex to needing it morning, noon, and night every single day. He's dripping precum (you got me drippin' all over the floor) in anticipation of making love. The holy ghost has taken over everything about him and he segues it into making love.

"When 2 R In Love" takes the end of "Lovesexy" and moves it from proselytizing on the street to private moments in the bedroom; almost an extended dialog of the second half of "Alphabet St." with the cunnilingus and beyond.

"I Wish U Heaven" leaves the bedroom and goes back to church.

"Positivity" is interesting. A lot of social commentary in it, but the chant of "Yes" is almost like a woman moaning during sex juxtaposes the overall kumbaya message of the song.

So while there was the Lord prayer and "Jack U Off" on the same record, or "Let's Go Crazy" allegedly being about the devil and God, even it visited not letting the devil bring you down yet his girlfriend seemed to be obsessed with it. His mix of sex & God wouldn't come fully realized until Lovesexy. It's a stomp from church to the bedroom and back again. His alter is a queen size brass waterbed. This was before Madonna ever made out with a saint in "Like A Prayer" or mixed religion and sex on The Blond Ambition Tour of 1990 (the album coming out in 1989). If she modeled her career around his, then Lovesexy was certainly his prelude to her Like A Prayer, both albums beginning and ending with a prayer.

Latin said:

Here is the article published by The Quietus entitled "30 Years On: Lovesexy By Prince Revisited": http://thequietus.com/art...nniversary

Interesting but does include the now traditional narrative arc about Prince's career. Hopefully, as years go by, someone will be able to create a new narrative arc for journalists to use when they write about Prince.