Sold Date: April 22, 2016
Start Date: April 22, 2016
Final Price: $25.00 (USD)
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Original 1988 PAISLEY PARK RECORDS pressing of the PRINCE album, LOVESEXY (25720)
Original custom inner sleeve
Record club edition
AMG 3 1/2 STARS: It's nearly impossible to judge as anything but a hastily assembled substitute for the withdrawn , which does the record a disservice. An exactingly sequenced song cycle -- the compact disc didn't have index markings to separate the individual tracks -- is quite a different record than not only , but anything else had recorded. Where was single-minded in its lust, connects the carnal with spiritual, and the calmness of the music reflects this outlook. Even when the record dips into hard funk, such as on the title track or the single "Alphabet Street," there's a relaxed, casual quality to the music that is shocking after the dense paranoia of , , and . intends to enter a new phase of maturity with such considered music and ambitious lyrical themes, but neither his music nor his lyrics are consistently well stated over the course of the album. A handful of tracks are worthwhile -- the sappy ballad "When 2 R in Love," the moving "I Wish U Heaven," the weird psychedelia of "Anna Stesia" and "Glam Slam," as well as the wonderful "Alphabet Street" -- but is his weakest album since .
Condition: the sleeve- still in the original shrink wrap- grades EX. The record grades NM. Original inner sleeve included; the record ships in an anti-static, dust free, archival sleeve. 
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