I'm reading on here about Prince changing up the arrangement of the "classic"? Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)Really? come on now since when is this song a classic? I know and if you honest with yourself you will agree that as a teenager in 1982 with my 1999 cassette you fast forwarded that shit past that song and "Free" to get to "Lady Cab Driver"! Erotic City is classic,LRC is classic! to call this album filler classic is absurd to me. I think folks calling anything old of Prince's "Classic". I think that is wrong. It should be on whether it was a great song or hit! what do you think?

U.

Nothing to do with age. It's a stunning track as far as I'm concerned. The vocals are absolutely classic Prince. I've skipped Free plenty of times, but never this. Even the unreleased version is a classic.

kidmelody2012 said:

I'm reading on here about Prince changing up the arrangement of the "classic"? Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)Really? come on now since when is this song a classic? I know and if you honest with yourself you will agree that as a teenager in 1982 with my 1999 cassette you fast forwarded that shit past that song and "Free" to get to "Lady Cab Driver"! Erotic City is classic,LRC is classic! to call this album filler classic is absurd to me. I think folks calling anything old of Prince's "Classic". I think that is wrong. It should be on whether it was a great song or hit! what do you think?

Something in the Water (Does Not Compute) and Free (and International Lover), are my favourite songs from 1999. Hardly filler.

I love "Free" !!

I aint never skipped anything on 1999

It has to be a combination. I song Prince puts out within the past 5 years at least can't be considered Classic by defination.

Quality and greatness of the song follows

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And YES Something In the Water and Free are classics. Not just the album but listen to both versions at the 1st Avenue 6.7.1984 show - MAGESTIC!!

mayben is this new version but yall telling me the original album version is classic? omg

airth said:

Nothing to do with age. It's a stunning track as far as I'm concerned. The vocals are absolutely classic Prince. I've skipped Free plenty of times, but never this. Even the unreleased version is a classic.

IT'S CLASSIC PRINCE.

Shafty said:

kidmelody2012 said:

mayben is this new version but yall telling me the original album version is classic? omg

airth said:

Nothing to do with age. It's a stunning track as far as I'm concerned. The vocals are absolutely classic Prince. I've skipped Free plenty of times, but never this. Even the unreleased version is a classic.

That's what I'm telling you, my friend. The things he does with his voice and the way he runs the lyrics together are defining moments in my Prince life. I remember thinking it was an oddity when I first started listening to it, but those kinds of tracks often turn out to be the best.

well maybe in the hood we didnt get all that...all i know is we skipped water and free...to get to lady cab driver so we could jack off to the sex middle section lol

Loved the entire 1999 album then and now.

u must be white?

kewlschool said:

Loved the entire 1999 album then and now.

Something In the Water was my favorite song on 1999 from the first time I heard the album... it still is. If I only had one CD to put what I considered to be Prince's best work on, SITW would definitely make the cut for me.

From my POV, SITW is in the same "classic album track" category as songs like "The Beautiful Ones," and "The Question of U."

I can understand both arguments. "Something in the water.." has fantastic lyrics, possibly within the top 10-15 of his best lyrics ever imho. But musically, it can be a bit...intense. So intense that I find myself skipping over it more than keeping it on. I guess you could say Id have to be in the right mood to jam it. Its by no means a crap song. Every song on 1999 is pretty great, but sometimes I just dont feel like hearing certain songs even though I like it all. But yes, I too skip over that and Free to get to Lady Cab Driver (easily within my top 10 favorite songs by P). But then again, the album doesnt really start for me until Lets Pretend We're Married as I skip over the first three tracks

kygermo said:

I can understand both arguments. "Something in the water.." has fantastic lyrics, possibly within the top 10-15 of his best lyrics ever imho. But musically, it can be a bit...intense. So intense that I find myself skipping over it more than keeping it on. I guess you could say Id have to be in the right mood to jam it. Its by no means a crap song. Every song on 1999 is pretty great, but sometimes I just dont feel like hearing certain songs even though I like it all. But yes, I too skip over that and Free to get to Lady Cab Driver (easily within my top 10 favorite songs by P). But then again, the album doesnt really start for me until Lets Pretend We're Married as I skip over the first three tracks

Skip LRC? Blasphemy.

Bambi82 said:

kygermo said:

I can understand both arguments. "Something in the water.." has fantastic lyrics, possibly within the top 10-15 of his best lyrics ever imho. But musically, it can be a bit...intense. So intense that I find myself skipping over it more than keeping it on. I guess you could say Id have to be in the right mood to jam it. Its by no means a crap song. Every song on 1999 is pretty great, but sometimes I just dont feel like hearing certain songs even though I like it all. But yes, I too skip over that and Free to get to Lady Cab Driver (easily within my top 10 favorite songs by P). But then again, the album doesnt really start for me until Lets Pretend We're Married as I skip over the first three tracks

Skip LRC? Blasphemy.

what is LRC?

little red corvette

OldFriends4Sale said:

Bambi82 said:

Skip LRC? Blasphemy.

what is LRC?

LRC is the crossover singalong for white folks! Never liked it!

Bambi82 said:

kygermo said:

I can understand both arguments. "Something in the water.." has fantastic lyrics, possibly within the top 10-15 of his best lyrics ever imho. But musically, it can be a bit...intense. So intense that I find myself skipping over it more than keeping it on. I guess you could say Id have to be in the right mood to jam it. Its by no means a crap song. Every song on 1999 is pretty great, but sometimes I just dont feel like hearing certain songs even though I like it all. But yes, I too skip over that and Free to get to Lady Cab Driver (easily within my top 10 favorite songs by P). But then again, the album doesnt really start for me until Lets Pretend We're Married as I skip over the first three tracks

Skip LRC? Blasphemy.

Yep, only because its played out and I know it all too well. Its not that I dont like it or whatever, its just what I do.

I didn't get the album until '84, so I pretty much was over the singles-- so the second album is what I fixated on from the start: and my two favorite tracks, from the beginning, were "Automatic" and "Something in the Water."

So, yeah. It's a classic. In my mind, at least.

us blacks liked it too...even though prince trying to dance like michael jackson failed miserably with them tight jeans on in video!lol

funkomatic said:

LRC is the crossover singalong for white folks! Never liked it!

funkomatic said:

LRC is the crossover singalong for white folks! Never liked it!

What in the entire fuck does race have to do with it?

[Edited 3/16/14 21:42pm]

kidmelody2012 said:

us blacks liked it too...even though prince trying to dance like michael jackson failed miserably with them tight jeans on in video!lol

I didn't get that from it at all.. I think his moves were pretty original, actually. I don't remember MJ doing the splits as an adult and I don't think he ever did the move Prince does where he spins his right leg under the left. I think they were both influenced by James Brown's dancing but in very different ways.

I could watch those jeans all day. lol