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Trivia[edit]

US CD copies of Lovesexy have the entire album in sequence as a single track, so the listener is forced to hear the whole album in the context of a continuous sequence. European pressings and US promo copies are tracked, and contrary to popular belief are not rare.

This is not true. The individually tracked European copies were pressed much later. For years, the CD was only available as a single track (although promotional copies were multi-tracked). Lianachan 10:13, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion[edit]

Lovesexy (1988) is widely considered among fans to be one of Prince's best works. Combining funk, R&B and rock in a way seldom done before, Prince reached what may well be his artisic peak.

This is simply false; it's quite clearly not one of his most well-regarded albums critically. It was a commercial disappointment and is a relatively minor entry into his catalog in terms of pure popularity. This sentence seems to me to be an attempt by some obsessed fan to exaggerate the album's popularity, which is self-evidently silly.

That "some obsessed" fan would be me. Please be careful in your words. In print it always looks harsher than you probably mean it :) Anyway, I wrote that bacause most Prince-fans I know actually do consider it to be one of his best albums. Perhaps this was not the case elsewhere, but in Holland, where I'm from, it was definately not a commercial disappointment nor is it considered a minor work. Patrick Rasenberg

No, I meant it to be harsh, though not offensive. In any case "Prince-fans you know" don't qualify as a reliable source-- no offense. In addition, not to come down on Holland, but it doesn't qualify as one of Prince's major markets, mostly because America is a much larger country and a larger music market and Prince himself is American. If you compared worldwide sales of this album to his previous records, you would see a marked decrease. Lovesexy does mark the beginning of a commercial decline, despite it's apparent success in Holland. I find it interesting that the perception of the album would be different in a different country, however there is no way to corroborate a sentence like "it is considered by Prince fans to be one of his best albums."

It's a pity you actually meant the insult. You rant on about sales, but that was not what the stricken sentence was about. That was about the perceived artistic quality of the album, although yes, it did sell quite well and the tour sold out major stadiums in Europe. But, the text is fine as it is of course, so let's leave it at that. Patrick Rasenberg

I meant it to be harsh for effect; "harsh" and "insulting" do not have the same meaning. There's nothing necessarily bad about being obsessed. In any case, your personal feeling about the album's artistic quality is POV; furthermore, I think it important to state in an encyclopedia article that the album represented the beginning of a commercial and critical decline, because it did. --unsigned

That's hardly true. LoveSexy was a commercial disappointment in the US but it was hardly a trend. He was back to the top of the charts the following year with Batman and again 2 years later with D&P and O(+>. It wasn't until '94 that he consistently began to see less than a million copies of any given album. --John T. Folden 23:39, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New topic: Demos from Lovesexy are available as bootlegs. Someone please compile a listing of their original titles and the bootleg albums on which they appear. Bootlegs are an essential aspect of Prince's career and myth.

They're not particularly any more available than from any other year. In fact, there's not as many unreleased tracks associated with Lovesexy as with most of his other 1980's albums. Lianachan 00:17, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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