Have you had your POLL sign today? Favourite track on Prince's Lovesexy

Yeah, with hindsight, this is quite an interesting period, even though to some it must have seemed like Prince was losing his mind around this time. Personally, I think his antics in the '90s were more bizarre.

more bizarre sure, but the music was not as good

Yeah, I was thinking more stuff like the whole Warner Bros. saga and changing his name to a symbol, rather than the music itself, which I actually think got less bizarre!

"come"

...is a very underrated record, IMO. My favourite post-Lovesexy LP.

Come is great. I have to thank ilx for making me even listen to it.

'CUZ LOVESEXY IS THE ONE
'TIL MY DAY IS DONE!

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My desert island disc if I could only bring one. It was the second record I ever bought (at age 14), and it blew my german suburban pre-pubescent nerdy (and slightly dirty) mind in the most thorough way imaginable. I had no idea that music could be like this.

So naturally this poll is kinda ridiculous to me but I could not not vote when I saw it. I went with Dance On cause it's the most out there, which is where my musical development was headed so I guess it was the most influential.

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Well, holy shit :D

'Eye No' and the title track both deserve more than one vote!

Not a single vote for 'Positivity' despite the nod in the thread title. Ouch! I feel bad for this neglected amazing song and will give it some attention later today.

I love 'Positivity', although it's easy for me to see why people's votes ended up going elsewhere - there's a lot of strong stuff on this record! Tim F was OTM about the percussion. It's a real headphones track, as is the whole album really!

Yeah I hadn't decided on my favourite in time to vote but it may well be "Positivity". Definitely the most obvious (though certainly not only) argument against Alfred's suggestion that this album didn't involve Prince stretching himself past his prior material.

Humph!

Y'know, I was watching the footage of the Dortmund show of the Lovesexy tour a couple of days ago, and Prince sure looks as if he's having a whale of a time performing 'Bob George' ... It's yet another reason I don't buy the whole "The Black Album was evil" thing.

In the live Osaka boot there's this adorable moment where he goes 'mushi mushi' and then giggles in this totally genuine way

I envy anyone who got to see him on that tour, by the way! It just seems like he put his all into the whole thing. I haven't heard the Osaka boot, but that performance of 'Anna Stesia' at Dortmund is quite something!

This is also the tour where the famous 'small club' aftershow boot comes from isn't it?

HUNDALASILIAH!

ok this album is on spotify now but it's as one 45-minute track wtf?

"The album is designed to be heard in the context of a continuous sequence: LP pressings split the album in two side-long tracks, without visual bands to indicate individual songs. Similarly, early CD copies of Lovesexy have the entire album in sequence as a single track, though some later editions have it as nine separate tracks."

yeah no shit isn't like almost every fucking album?

Surely that means that Spotify Free users'll be able to listen to the entire album ad-free?

Over time, this has become one of my favourite Prince albums. I just listened to it back to back with The Gold Experience and this is so far ahead it's not even funny.

take this beat, i don't mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkab8eyYQc4

Best songs-
Alphabet st (part one)
Glamslam
Ana stesia
I wish u heaven

It's a rushed album though. And the 'I'm reborn! I'm cleansed!' tone can get a bit irritating.

But its genuinely inspired. Still, the tour is what made this so good. Genuinely one of the great concert videos ever.

Oh I went to that one, Wembley arena. Lovesexy/black album. Got the tour prog somewhere.. (when did gig programmes stop being mandatory? Do the 1975 do them?)

Anyway, my sis&broinlaw were with me (it was their birthday present, which shows how 'reasonable' gig prices were back then) and they loved it. But my sis (who didn't go to many gigs) assumed all gigs were like that, and got massively disappointed when they went to see Bobby Brown 6 months later. Apparently, he also had a bed on stage but that was as far as the 'comparable' went.

Princes 87/88 tours were just ridiculously superior

One thing about this album and the black album bott sound thrown together. Like he barely spent any time on them and thought that would be enough. Glam slam and I wish... even have the same verse repeated !

that 3-way tie for second place lol

re-up of the extended mix for "eye wish u heaven"—
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RedVIrWYuGI

maybe my favorite thing p ever did?

Theory: “Alphabet St” is reworked from P taking a stab at a new Sesame Street theme for his “Starfish and Coffee” appearance