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Reply #30 posted 11/08/18 3:31pm

MoBettaBliss

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MoBettaBliss said:

it changed my life


Mine, too - because it was the first Prince album I ever listened to (or owned).



i was a kid (young teen) ... i'd discovered him through controversy so had saved up pocket money to buy 1999 when it came out....we had a record player in our dining room... i used to get home from school and sit in front of the turntable with headphones on and play it over and over until i was made to have dinner etc... i was completely obsessed with it... didn't want to hang out with friends... didn't want to leave the house... just wanted to sit in front of this crappy record player (it was a tiny room... everybody had to squeeze past me to get to other parts of the house) and spin that album

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Reply #31 posted 11/09/18 8:24am

OldFriends4Sal
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The first appearance of the 'love symbol'?

I'm a New Breeder not an NPGer lol this one is my symbol O+>

1999 is purple canon

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Reply #32 posted 11/09/18 9:50am

PliablyPurple

Absolutly amazing album. Much more diverse than PR, and no filler. Always been my favorite from P. I was always amazed, and impressed, at the dirty stuff Prince could get away with back then. A penis on the cover of a mainstream album, sold as is, nothing blocked out. And Erotic City was played on the radio. I feel like other mainstream artists couldn't have gotten away with either at the time.

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Reply #33 posted 11/09/18 1:41pm

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PliablyPurple said:

Absolutly amazing album. Much more diverse than PR, and no filler. Always been my favorite from P. I was always amazed, and impressed, at the dirty stuff Prince could get away with back then. A penis on the cover of a mainstream album, sold as is, nothing blocked out. And Erotic City was played on the radio. I feel like other mainstream artists couldn't have gotten away with either at the time.


I disagree. 1999 is a very (and arguably his most) cohesive album, sonically and thematically.
Purple Rain in comparison sounds like a compilation and has much more diversity in styles and production.

Prince around 1999 was not mainstream yet. The album singles were, which is pretty different. The increase in quality of the live performances paved the way for the Rain, but he wasn't the popular artist you seem to refer to. He was slowly emerging from the underground. And he was mainstream for a very few years in his career, all things considered. Purple Rain, Diamonds and Pearls, Musicology, and that's pretty much it. The rest is surviving from fans and music connoisseurs.

As for "Erotic City", sorry young padawan, wrong album...


[Edited 11/9/18 13:43pm]

The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #34 posted 11/09/18 1:56pm

42Kristen

Saw it on MTV

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Reply #35 posted 11/09/18 1:58pm

PliablyPurple

bonatoc said:

PliablyPurple said:

Absolutly amazing album. Much more diverse than PR, and no filler. Always been my favorite from P. I was always amazed, and impressed, at the dirty stuff Prince could get away with back then. A penis on the cover of a mainstream album, sold as is, nothing blocked out. And Erotic City was played on the radio. I feel like other mainstream artists couldn't have gotten away with either at the time.


I disagree. 1999 is a very (and arguably his most) cohesive album, sonically and thematically.
Purple Rain in comparison sounds like a compilation and has much more diversity in styles and production.

Prince around 1999 was not mainstream yet. The album singles were, which is pretty different. The increase in quality of the live performances paved the way for the Rain, but he wasn't the popular artist you seem to refer to. He was slowly emerging from the underground. And he was mainstream for a very few years in his career, all things considered. Purple Rain, Diamonds and Pearls, Musicology, and that's pretty much it. The rest is surviving from fans and music connoisseurs.

As for "Erotic City", sorry young padawan, wrong album...


[Edited 11/9/18 13:43pm]

I am of the opinion that both 1999's third and fourth sides disagree with you on diversity. Strictly speaking of the music, not the production, the run of those six songs is more diverse than PR.


Re: Erotic City. I was, perhaps not so clearly, speaking of what P got away with back in the day, not this specific album, though the penis on the cover is most certainly an example. Young padawan? Please, clockwork orange pianist, I lived the dream razz.

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Reply #36 posted 11/09/18 2:53pm

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PliablyPurple said:

bonatoc said:


I disagree. 1999 is a very (and arguably his most) cohesive album, sonically and thematically.
Purple Rain in comparison sounds like a compilation and has much more diversity in styles and production.

Prince around 1999 was not mainstream yet. The album singles were, which is pretty different. The increase in quality of the live performances paved the way for the Rain, but he wasn't the popular artist you seem to refer to. He was slowly emerging from the underground. And he was mainstream for a very few years in his career, all things considered. Purple Rain, Diamonds and Pearls, Musicology, and that's pretty much it. The rest is surviving from fans and music connoisseurs.

As for "Erotic City", sorry young padawan, wrong album...


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I am of the opinion that both 1999's third and fourth sides disagree with you on diversity. Strictly speaking of the music, not the production, the run of those six songs is more diverse than PR.


Re: Erotic City. I was, perhaps not so clearly, speaking of what P got away with back in the day, not this specific album, though the penis on the cover is most certainly an example. Young padawan? Please, clockwork orange pianist, I lived the dream razz.


Sorry about the Jedi condescendence, your org's date of birth suggested otherwise.
I see what you mean on disc 2, but again, come on, the sound of the album is all Linn and Oberheims. The reverbs used have all the same color. The compositions may be varied, but this has always been the case since the first album. And I still hear a cohesion in the compositions and arrangements that is much harder to find in the Purple Rain tracklist.

As for Prince getting away with stuff, he really didn't: Dirty Mind was banned from radios, He got kicked out of stage opening for The Stones, Tipper Gore sticked her Parental Advisory on his ass. And Prince as a social shocker is part of the mystique: not sayin' it doesn't bear a part of truth, but Donna Summer moaning on "Love To Love You Baby", the whole Punk movement, The Beatles openly talking in interviews about illicit drugs intake, Ziggie Stardust's sexual ambiguity... The eighties were very clean in comparison, almost clinic, especially in the US. It didn't take much to offend/excite your average Joe when the Moral Majority was a thing.

In Europe, less so, especially in France. Serge Gainsbourg had already paved the way back in 1969, and naked tits have been displayed on parisian billboards for ages. The real excitement primarily comes from Prince's music, not his antics.

The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #37 posted 11/09/18 3:25pm

PliablyPurple

And I still hear a cohesion in the compositions and arrangements that is much harder to find in the Purple Rain tracklist.

Agree with this, and possibly reconsidering. PR definitely has a greatest hits feel to it because of that.

But the other stuff? Not sure how the Stones incident is even related to this. Bunch of discriminatory rockers who couldn't stand the sight of a man in tights. They are not what I would consider the establishment of which I was referring that P played like a fiddle. A flesh colored fiddle. I am familiar with Serge, and Love to Love You Baby probably gave me my first boner, but P was explicit in a way that probably only came to us through blue comedy. Speaking of the Stones, hell, live, they actually lowered the age of the girl in Stray Cat Blues. But most of their stuff was more nuanced (or indecipherable) than "masturbating with a magazine" and, I have to reiterate - "Fuck so pretty you and me" and "We can fuck until the dawn" were on U.S. national radio. Those words happened. Not live, where only fans who purchased tickets could hear. Or, as Tipper flipped her lid, on albums that only fans who purchased the album could hear. No, on public, national radio that song was played.

And the penis. And how about the '91 MTV Awards? Akin to a Roman orgy onstage. P was a button pusher, no question. But, I would love to see something from a mainstream artist of any generation that put on that performance whose name isn't Madonna. And I'm not saying they aren't out there, I just can't think of any at the moment...

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Reply #38 posted 11/09/18 4:02pm

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PliablyPurple said:

Absolutly amazing album. Much more diverse than PR, and no filler. Always been my favorite from P. I was always amazed, and impressed, at the dirty stuff Prince could get away with back then. A penis on the cover of a mainstream album, sold as is, nothing blocked out. And Erotic City was played on the radio. I feel like other mainstream artists couldn't have gotten away with either at the time.

I don't compare 1999 vs Purple Rain because the latter was purposefully put together as a movie soundtrack.

Irresistable Bitch was a 1999 B side not Erotic City. Even though IB is a 1999-PR bridged song

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Reply #39 posted 11/09/18 4:21pm

PliablyPurple

smh. Very familiar with the release of how and when Erotic City was given to us. I really need to pay closer attention to my wording.

Strictly speaking of the concept of comparing regular albums with soundtrack albums, if it were a soundtrack culled from various artists, I wouldn't either. But a soundtrack album from a singular source, I don't really see the difference between that, and say, a concept album, which is basically what a soundtrack album like PR is. So, yes, I would compare PR with Tommy, but I wouldn't compare PR with the soundtrack from Performance, where not only did you have various artists, but also songs that had proper releases elsewhere. Or, at least one - been a while. I know the Last Poets released Wake Up, Ni**ers, on their own album a few months prior.

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Reply #40 posted 11/09/18 4:32pm

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PliablyPurple said:

smh. Very familiar with the release of how and when Erotic City was given to us. I really need to pay closer attention to my wording.

Strictly speaking of the concept of comparing regular albums with soundtrack albums, if it were a soundtrack culled from various artists, I wouldn't either. But a soundtrack album from a singular source, I don't really see the difference between that, and say, a concept album, which is basically what a soundtrack album like PR is. So, yes, I would compare PR with Tommy, but I wouldn't compare PR with the soundtrack from Performance, where not only did you have various artists, but also songs that had proper releases elsewhere. Or, at least one - been a while. I know the Last Poets released Wake Up, Ni**ers, on their own album a few months prior.

There is a big difference, because the songs now have to fit a scene.

But the songs all are 10 pointers and powerful making each scene much more than the acting.

That makes all the difference.

Also Prince initially wanted to do with Purple Rain what he did on Graffiti Bridge, which is include the Time, Mavis Staples, Tevn Campbell etc

Even songs like Computer Blue were asked be cut down. Computer Blue was intended to be longer

I just do not really see how it as a soundtrack can be compared.

The output on both are extemely strong.

I wish God the Love them could have been included on the album though.

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Reply #41 posted 11/09/18 4:36pm

PliablyPurple

There is a big difference, because the songs now have to fit a scene.



And if an artist is writing songs to fit a scene, how is that not a concept album? I think PR fits the bill as a concept album more than most soundtracks that are just a collection of songs that may or may not fit the mood of a scene but are not specifically written for a scene or plot.

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Reply #42 posted 11/09/18 5:49pm

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Stop disrespecting 1999

"Climb in my fur."
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Reply #43 posted 11/09/18 6:23pm

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rdhull said:

Stop disrespecting 1999

don't be PA refer who you are refering to

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Reply #44 posted 11/09/18 6:26pm

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I could see them having an appearance in Blade Runner

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Reply #47 posted 11/14/18 8:47am

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Bobby Z said that the song 1999 was inspired by Nostradomus prophesy for the year 1999 that they were watching on a tv special back then

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Reply #51 posted 11/15/18 12:59pm

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Bobby Z said that the song 1999 was inspired by Nostradomus prophesy for the year 1999 that they were watching on a tv special back then

Prince confirmed that when he talked about the song during his interview with Larry King in 1999.

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Reply #52 posted 11/15/18 1:04pm

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bonatoc said:

PliablyPurple said:

Absolutly amazing album. Much more diverse than PR, and no filler. Always been my favorite from P. I was always amazed, and impressed, at the dirty stuff Prince could get away with back then. A penis on the cover of a mainstream album, sold as is, nothing blocked out. And Erotic City was played on the radio. I feel like other mainstream artists couldn't have gotten away with either at the time.


I disagree. 1999 is a very (and arguably his most) cohesive album, sonically and thematically.
Purple Rain in comparison sounds like a compilation and has much more diversity in styles and production.

Prince around 1999 was not mainstream yet. The album singles were, which is pretty different. The increase in quality of the live performances paved the way for the Rain, but he wasn't the popular artist you seem to refer to. He was slowly emerging from the underground. And he was mainstream for a very few years in his career, all things considered. Purple Rain, Diamonds and Pearls, Musicology, and that's pretty much it. The rest is surviving from fans and music connoisseurs.

As for "Erotic City", sorry young padawan, wrong album...


[Edited 11/9/18 13:43pm]

^^^ Regarding the bolded type - remember also though, the singles were not mainstream right away. It took some time before the "cross over" with the singles. That happened after the videos hit MTV, which was some point in 1983. Someone also mentioned Prince getting booed off the Rolling Stones stage too, but that was more about race and musical style then his raunchy lyrics.

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Reply #53 posted 11/15/18 1:06pm

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One of his best covers for sure...!!!

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Reply #54 posted 11/15/18 4:16pm

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bonatoc said:


I disagree. 1999 is a very (and arguably his most) cohesive album, sonically and thematically.
Purple Rain in comparison sounds like a compilation and has much more diversity in styles and production.

Prince around 1999 was not mainstream yet. The album singles were, which is pretty different. The increase in quality of the live performances paved the way for the Rain, but he wasn't the popular artist you seem to refer to. He was slowly emerging from the underground. And he was mainstream for a very few years in his career, all things considered. Purple Rain, Diamonds and Pearls, Musicology, and that's pretty much it. The rest is surviving from fans and music connoisseurs.

As for "Erotic City", sorry young padawan, wrong album...


[Edited 11/9/18 13:43pm]

^^^ Regarding the bolded type - remember also though, the singles were not mainstream right away. It took some time before the "cross over" with the singles. That happened after the videos hit MTV, which was some point in 1983. Someone also mentioned Prince getting booed off the Rolling Stones stage too, but that was more about race and musical style then his raunchy lyrics.


Yet, the Stones in 1980 weren't exactly Rocking Off.

[Edited 11/15/18 16:18pm]

The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #55 posted 11/15/18 4:30pm

violetcrush

bonatoc said:

violetcrush said:

^^^ Regarding the bolded type - remember also though, the singles were not mainstream right away. It took some time before the "cross over" with the singles. That happened after the videos hit MTV, which was some point in 1983. Someone also mentioned Prince getting booed off the Rolling Stones stage too, but that was more about race and musical style then his raunchy lyrics.


Yet, the Stones in 1980 weren't exactly Rocking Off.

[Edited 11/15/18 16:18pm]

Well....ya can't blame them for veering off a bit. I mean, those were the days of Disco... but not for much longer... biggrin

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But....this is why we love them:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37LyeSrFTY Sorry, can't get the friggin' hyperlink to work!

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Reply #56 posted 11/15/18 4:38pm

violetcrush

violetcrush said:

bonatoc said:


Yet, the Stones in 1980 weren't exactly Rocking Off.

[Edited 11/15/18 16:18pm]

Well....ya can't blame them for veering off a bit. I mean, those were the days of Disco... but not for much longer... biggrin

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But....this is why we love them:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37LyeSrFTY Sorry, can't get the friggin' hyperlink to work!

And I just have to add....that video makes me really want to have been a teen in the late 60's!!

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Reply #57 posted 11/16/18 11:34am

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I love "Emotional Rescue".
The falsetto on "Kiss" makes use of the same wet noises.
They both howl like horny coyotes who can't take it anymore.
It's all in the mouthfuls of frustrations spit. All over the emotional floor.

There are some crazy beatbox bits from Prince all over 1999.
Prince is still way underrated in the beatbox category.
The Coda of LRC Dance Mix alone, these few seconds when he's rolling toms.
And his final tonguepressedonteeth doing a final wet kiss to the song, it's over.

The Led Zep/Stanist in reverse fake moans on "Irresistible Bitch",
doing some pervert electro-shaker slowly dying out of a burned fuse.
And the whip of the snare that cuts through it. Like Severine from Metropolis
waking up the crowd with her metal hat: cutting through the moans
of a sleeping backroom full of endorphins.
The Doomsday church bells ring.
The disco nod at the end: it was just a farce, a dance.
But she sure was Irresisitible.

The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #58 posted 11/16/18 3:27pm

violetcrush

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I love "Emotional Rescue".
The falsetto on "Kiss" makes use of the same wet noises.
They both howl like horny coyotes who can't take it anymore.
It's all in the mouthfuls of frustrations spit. All over the emotional floor.

There are some crazy beatbox bits from Prince all over 1999.
Prince is still way underrated in the beatbox category.
The Coda of LRC Dance Mix alone, these few seconds when he's rolling toms.
And his final tonguepressedonteeth doing a final wet kiss to the song, it's over.

The Led Zep/Stanist in reverse fake moans on "Irresistible Bitch",
doing some pervert electro-shaker slowly dying out of a burned fuse.
And the whip of the snare that cuts through it. Like Severine from Metropolis
waking up the crowd with her metal hat: cutting through the moans
of a sleeping backroom full of endorphins.
The Doomsday church bells ring.
The disco nod at the end: it was just a farce, a dance.
But she sure was Irresisitible.


I cranked LRC in my car every time it cane on the radio back then. Just loved it. When it was first released and starting to cross over I remember the kids in my church youth group were talking about the lyrics, and one guy said, "you know what the LRC is in the song right? It's not really a car. I just looked at him and was like "uh-huh, right I get it". Then went back and figured out the lyrics lol
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Love Irresistible Bitch too. So good!! Especially the unreleased version
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Reply #59 posted 11/16/18 3:44pm

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Fuck it, here 's my old drunk review bck in the day because ppl were dissing the record elsewhere and always praisng Parade

I wrote this in my "the freak" days on AMP while getting sexy with red wine (so Im cleared of all lawsuits of being weird and mispellings heh) back in 2001 so its old, but I still stand by what I wrote. I wrote it because folks were talking shit about 1999 and not respecting it back then. But its all about the velvet sweat for days.

Word is goin around that fools are disrespecting the album 1999 by Prince .Parade heads and SOTT people are so blinded. Sure SOTT was a pinnacle and Parade was just other people and THEIR influence..but 1999 was the sound of one man jerking off. Or one wunderkiind genius pervert new leader in his own private studio xanadu stroking himself. And everyone knows that your own person knows exactly how to get yourself off. U can have the most primo puzzy in front of you and tear that shit up and have a sammich after..you can have the hunkiest construction worker and do that deed..but everybody knows when they are all alone and get their mastabatory pleasure that all the right spots are fulfilled efficiently and its take no prisoners. And that's what 1999 is

...it starts with-- 1999---rips of Monday Monday melody but takes it to a synth fried guitar laden level..nothing made like this then or since. Futuristic sounding ..opening ominus voice telling you that this Prince guy is going to take you "THERE" so don't worry. It wont hurt..but u betta hang the fuck on and then the synths and cymbals hit, then the solid groove. Chicks singing, altered voice and Prince singing out of falsetto..goes on with some intense imagery, lions in pockets, destruction, and something about the year 2000 being out of time and dancin like its the end. Ultimate party song with chicken scratch, and a coda rave-up. War is all around us so the mind says prepare to fight. The ultimate host saying "if u didnt come to party then dont bother..." and "we're runnin out of time, everybody got a bomb we could all die any day". Forboding set to funk. Unprecidented to this day. Then the coda as mentioned..all kinds of mugs singing "Party!!"--we could all die anyday...then it sizzles down to a simple drum and guitar lick after the orgasm proceeding to the seemingly afterglow and soothing synths of..

Little Red Corvette-beautiful synths--simple yet they "sound" like actual velvet. Then the way he says "sideways" sounds like he stressed the syllable wrong on purpose..sideways. Ha! Then the cheesy factor of organ keys etc but a chorus that allows one to sing it loud and handclaps!handclaps! It was Saturday night--have u got enough gas? pocket fulll of horses? My god! This is sexual genius! The ultimate woman as a car metaphor song...fuck Pink Cadillac and Trampled Underfoot ( well maybe not Trampled),but the imagery is jammin. Then the chick isnt just a corvette--her shit is so good...it is sooo good that she isnt just a got-damn car, she's a mu-fuggin Limousine! A Limo! "girl u got an ass like Ive never seen"-who the fuck says that on wax!? A cornucopia of musical elements and ideas all meshed into one beautiful rock synth hybrid and Lisa singin "ride to the ground" at the end.Then...

Delirious-in concert real rock-a-billy sounding. Here on wax it sounds new wave. The into drum leads to the cheese organ or whatever --sounds like a rubber ducky synth. Prince singing in deep voice trying to be Elvis..yeah thats right he tries to be Elvis in this one. Talks about a woman drivin him to delerium. Take him for a little ride up and down in n out around HER LAKE---what a metaphor for down there where it counts! Then the ending with a baby coo-ing! Ha! Prince is in his essence..use what ya got--put it all in there. Its your world..then...

Lets Pretend Were Married-now who''s ol' skool hasn't used this line when they were undressing gettin ready to do the dirty deed. Um let's see--tongiht lets pretend were married..in other words lets fuck with no guilt and like we are in love n together. Crude but it works. Opening drum and the Linn trademark "CAK" sound. I love that! Begins to pulsate and Prince singing low again talking to a chick. Then the ooh we sha shah coo coo yeah--just like Michael said mamasaymmasaymaacoocoosa in Wanna Be Startin Something--how odd they both came out at the same time. Negros were in a zone or sumfin back then. But Prince saying excuse me I need a mouth like yours and the synths to the fore and just drums it seems..and in the middle a "smackk-kisss ugh!" and Prince beggin with the beat still pulsing makes it seem like one big stroke session then Prince finally lets lose and does that scream ..and then says lets pretend were married and boom!...just da drums, just da drums..and the long version ending with the coda of Prince declaring who and what he is with an out there declaration. This isn't your fathers soul record. This Prince cat is on some out there level..tellin the hippies to sing ..and he is a hippy--he has that sensibility of love not war etc..and the salicious pre Nikki lets ball talk and the ultimate "I wanna fuck u so bad it hurts..look Marsha..I'm not sayin this to be nasty.." etc. When he says I wanna fuck u that one synth goes "rrwwrerrt" like its crying lol...also sounds like Wheelie from Wheelie and The Bunch cartoon.

Then you have DMSR---ok- The funk--the beat--the synth--the wanton abandon of everything having a fit..him pronouncing his kingdom of The Time and Vanity 6...the guitar causing blisters...sort of a slow grind type of song..you can strip to this..you can funk to this--you can love to this..the call and response of "ooo -alright" and Prince teachin people how to clap. Right after the "all the white people clap your hands on the 4 now" part comes this one synth part that belongs on The Times first album...then comes... <p> </p> Free--the prototype for the song Purple Rain. Moonbeam Levels first cousin. Gentle piano, basic verse chorus verse structure but starting with the army marching...chrous utilizing dirty guitar then back to piano only for chorus..Prince talking hippy talk about freedom with soul. Then the coda ending with everyone singing Free and Prince gettin down like Jimi on the vocals..when he says "free to change my mind" that one synth part that cries comes up that belongs on Vanit y6 album and guitar finishing up to a drumbeat with a little guitar scaled ending and the pre Purple Rain like piano just doodling..

.then.. Automatic--hmmm. Linn drums, cheese synths that takes off on a flight. Prince singing in stressed proper voice. This isn't music its a trip..for real. Synth and drumbeat. Dramatic phrasing and the girls screaming "hey!!"--then the sex s&m scene..and chicks talkin about torturingyo u now. Swirling all around with the synths and percussion and the singing getting all rushed--like your pumping and pumping. Prince singing about he will go down on u all night long and Lisa sayin "u will" "yes I will baaabe"..and the girls come with bondage and ' heys' being screamed with the drums still steady and more pressured singing "alright! alright!" and the girls starting to cry til u get dizzy and then boom..just the drums and the robotic girls singing automatic. Torture scene and the ending taking off to the stratosphere and drop...then...

Something In The Water Does Not Compute--pow! Drums pushing you out of the way immediately after the carnal afterglow of the romp of Automatic. Then Prince talking about his great legs(thanks!) and an ominus low synth over a nerdy computer synth...then about it not computing..talkin love/shit about a woman.."bitch..u think your special" and he states "so do I." What a sweet way to put it lol. How it must be something in the water for all the bullshit that woman give him..then the vocals get kind a wild in the middle with Prince just releasing the most uninhibited screams and howls..primal scream like a muthafucka...and the part where it stops and "I gotta get to ya baby"--and he also says "bitch! u think yur special? well so do I!" ( I got in trouble for that once) sounds like its all done in a sterile jar or sterilized pressurized room..and ending again after the coda orgasm to a whisper of him saying in all exasperated after came breath.."I do love u..I do.."..

Then we have Lady Cab Driver--this is Prince funk--Pop Life precurser..this is what his terminology of funk is--live drumming mixed with the Linn, the beat, him screamin for a taxi to pick his black ass up and minimilist instrumentation. Drums, and bass and the falsetto..talkin to the lady who's driving about escape..then the middle where he has a rape-sex-love scene in the back seat where each thrust is for the atrocities of the world (tourists at Disneyland) and then the thrusts are then for sweet things like the stars the moon and for her--the cab driver.. that's who one is for..for women who are complex, love without sex etc and ends with them at the beach, u can hear the sea-gulls..then the good part really comes..u get these bells ringing,flute synth dooing jazzy stuff, this extended part and ...and a big azzed battle between synth and geetar!! I play this air style..a big battle between the two with the guitar screaming for vengeance at the end of the battle..and then this ..this..gurggle? Sounds like something under water or a used condom being removed..then the drum and CHICKEN SCRATCH GUITAR and Time razor synths..and back to the original beginning and it ends with street sounds..the city..then...

All The Critics--new wave, pulse pounding, bass noodlings, Prince speak-singing listlessly..play this one loud! Chorus with cheesy spooky synths allto the same "wicka wocka" synth and beat..monotous but like trance..trance...a get high song..a zone song..and every now and then a guitar line comes on and Prince talking about jazz dying with geetar screaming in the back..."body dont wanna quit-gotta get another hit"..more wicka wocka zone trance...then he yells out "what are u lookin at punk!?" and his testament that all the hippies arent as sharp as him and "aint about the sexuality-turn it up!"..more circus music synths and him as a cop speaking into a handset that "he's defintiely masturbating" lol and it all ends with weird synths, the voice, background heavy metal geetar to and edit and stop..and then..

International Lover--cheesy organ synth but in the background some pop bass and a doo wop piano beat that u can barely make out. Then his falsetto real real high ..a slow lounge beat..Prince doo woppin old fashioned sigin that he's going to take a girl on a date..but they are going to go on a plane instead of drivin because he loves internationally..the chorus and the doo wop begins...then Prince promising he wont fly to fast and screaming a hoot as release and him screaming the rest right before the coda long extended has P getting the woman ready as if in flight--seat cushions used for floatation devices, no smoking signs, and Princes' seduction. In Do Me Baby he was in a room and all shy etc...here Prince has grown up and become a man of the world and "knows" how to take her there. This mufucka is a trip. Ends with the landing of the plane, the orgasm, no time for afterglow like on Do Me Baby..he makes the final approach and she puts her legs in the up and locked position for..landing lol with Prince SCREAMING in ecstasy lol...and after he hums and the synths slowing and the drums crashing to an end and the piano and synth noodling and Prince letting her off at the airport gate with a thanks. Prince tellin you next time u fly, fly Prince lol--in other words, next time u fuck, fuck me!.. His deep voice box vocoder started here on 1999 and he used it as Bob George,God in Temptation , on TRC etc...he first did his dramatic ending talks on Intl Lover here, and Temptation etc..

.and yes some songs go on for a while..but in 82 that was the thing. Extended play for extended dancing.."you can sing and dance cant you?"..so it isn't a bother to some. But to disrespect 1999 like that is some bullshit. If it wasn't for 1999, P wouldn't have realized all what he had at the tip of his hands..the world. He had sex with a woman on wax! He realized it with 1999 and wrecked shit and decided that he could do this and take it on the road, then he could make a movie after this. This was what made Purple Rain. He had reached the apex with 1999,he conquered. Wasn't shit left to do BUT to go Hollywood and change the script for something else. Respect 1999 please. Or it will kick your ass.

"Climb in my fur."
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