20 years ago the Batman soundtrack was released. I love this album! Vicki Waiting is a classic and Electric Chair is a perfect combo of pop/rock, not to mention that the videos were wild!!

Share your love and thoughts on the Batman album!
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Yeah i love this album too

Partyman is my favourite

i loved the videos and his appearence in them was so charasmatic as Gemini

They always make me smile

20 years!?!?!




Shit.

Batman is an incredible collection of masterful work. I believe the album is completely underrated! It was a clever and creative way to demonstrate a different type of musicianship. The arrangement of “batdance” was like nothing we had heard on the radio before. Love it!

Damn it's been 20 yrs?

I JUST brought this album up to my friend today. We were talking about old cars and our first cars. Mine (at age 21) was a 1969 Delta 88. It was HOT, and in near excellent shape. It was my grandpa's, and I got it when he died.

Anyway, the car still had the original AM radio in it. I had a great boombox that I put in the car. I put the speakers in the back floorboard, and the main part of the boombox on the console. (The front seat was one big seat, but there was still a hump in the floor board that I could sit the box on. I sat it on its back so I could turn it off and on, and even hit RECORD when I heard a song on the radio I wanted. (Old habits never die).

This all happened in 1989, and Batman was out that summer. I LOVED when "Batdance" came on the radio. I'd blast it all the way home. Every time I think of the Batman album, I think of that car, the boom box, and a great summer of Prince music. Hell, I moved to Los Angeles in Jan of 1990 and there was still music coming off that album. I remember buying the single and sheet music to "The Arms of Orion" and learning it straight away.

good album but for sur his weakest of the eighties....the songs seemed
rushed...with out tru inspiration...

lemon crush and the future are amazing though

'arms of orion' is the one wormy spot that i cut around on this otherwise perfectly sweet apple of an album. i love the spirit and energy of the batman soundtrack because it's so playful and dark and cartoonish and..."batmanny".

for me, i can always see tim burton visuals when i listen to this album.

Anxiety said:

I guess I'm the only orger who likes Arms of Orion

nurseV said:

someone's gotta, i guess.

Anxiety said:

every bad track has a fan. having seen absolutely EVERY rotton apple in Prince's catalog get some love by SOMEONE on here, i'm convinced that the supreme being, or whatever, upon the release of every Prince album picks one special person out of all the people in the world, points its finger at them and says "you... you are the one that's going to love jughead. you alone."

Anxiety said:

That's cold Anx

nurseV said:

I love it too.

ernestsewell said:

another Orion lover

nurseV said:

this is why i don't turn over logs when i go for walks in the woods.

Anxiety said:

Really cold

nurseV said:

I like it too.

coolcat said:

I like it too. "Orion's arms are wide enough to hold us all together..."

The album that got me into Prince. I liked Batman comics so when the film came out I devoured everything to do with it including the funk of Prince!

I think I knew about 5 or 6 people that bought it aswell, which is a wierd thing when i think back. never happened since. maybe Diamonds and Pearls?

Also bought The Badman Is Robbin' 12" by Hijack, because it had a Batman reference!
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A great album in my opinion. Check out the indepth discussion of each song here in A CELEBRATION: BATMAN http://prince.org/msg/7/312437

Swa

ernestsewell said:

Love it too. I'll take it any day over Vicki Waiting or Lemon Crush.
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That was like the greatest thing in the world at the time. I'm a Batman fanatic and, at the time, a Prince fanatic. I listened to that album all summer long. Had the limited-edition tin and all of the 12 inch singles. Anyone riding with me knew they were going hear Batdance.

Happy Anniversary, "Batman."

Thats my favorite to this day.
Someday I hope we get a SPECIAL EDITION with
tons of b-sides.

I really like this album, although i agree it's several notches below his best work of the decade. The only song that I truly hate is Scandalous... just can't stand his vocals on that one.

I also really like 200 balloons and I wish it had been on the album.

NoVideo said:

I'd take "Scandalous" over "Insatiable" anyway. "Insatiable" is a poor copy cat of "Scandalous". "200 Balloons" was a prototype for "Batdance". I'm glad it was at least a B-side for "Batdance". I REALLY wish it was in the movie. They could have played "Trust" while the balloons were releasing the deadly gas.

dannyd5050 said:

Count me in, the lyrics are brilliant and I love the duet.

"This is what it's like at the cheese factory oh-oh..."

unkleg said:

Love the