This summer marks the 20th anniversary of the legendary "1999" album! I was 9 years old in the summer of 1982, when I first heard the title track on the radio! What can I say? Messed my head UP!!!! LOL I couldn't believe my ears! I was dreaming when I wrote this, 4give me if it goes astray..."...What was this supernatural funk coming thru these speakers?? Was it an alien? Was the world coming to an end? Who cares! I was too busy dancing my ass off to notice! Alright you Orgers!...share your "1999" memories...The Album, Tour, and the videos too!

20 years awready??? wow....2 bad i have no memories...i wuz only a year old when it came out.

I was freakin' 4 years old when it came out.
Damn!!! What happened in 20 years -- much less ten?
And where are we now? Living in a generation of crap and looking back at the novelty of every decade.....and it all ended in the 90's when it became the decade that decided to STOP and look back at every other decade preceding it.....and yes, we're still in the 90's people, even if it is 2002.....we may be stuck there a little while longer.....hang in there, peoples!!!!

T-O-DoubleD

This album changed my life. I was pretty young when I convinced the store clerk to let me buy it. He knew it was x-rated, but let me have it anyway. I had to hide the album from my Dad cause my mom said that 1 on the cover looks alot like a penis and my dad was pretty strict. He really got freaked out when I played the record and the eye spun around in the middle of the turntable. It was the first time my dad realized I wasn't going to be a 9-5 businessman like himself! I got the album on cassette, cd and vinyl, love every song.

This was the first album I listened to. I was 12. I was hooked from the song "I Wanna Be Your Lover" but I only ever heard that on the radio. My cousin bought 1999 on tape and I remember just being so excited by it. I would come home everyday after school and lock myself in her closet (no pun intended) and listen to it over and over till my mom came to pick us up. I do remember being very afraid of Something in The Water though. That screaming towards the end, it scared me.

Even though I was a Prince fan from "I Wanna", it was this album that gave me a full taste of funk genius and I've been craving that funk ever since. Thank you Prince for saving the life of a little kid with not a lot of friends. I'm forever grateful.

I remember mine melting in the back of my sister's car...

it's called vinyl people, GEEZ!

young bastards...

The girls in junior high carried the album cover around with them in school. International Lover became a classic on day one.

it's been 20yrs!!! whew... Time's going by so Fast...

This lp was the bomb!! One of the stankiest and funkiest lps EVER! As for as I'm concerned this is the lp that woke the public up to Prince. It had all the nastiness of James,George and Sly all rolled up into some new innovative FUNK.

CalhounSq said:

ooh. not good. and i am not a young bastard!!! i remember vinyl 2, u know!!!

it will be 20 years October 26th 2002.


Still have over 7 months 2 go.

Look for a special announcement regarding the 20th anniversary of 1999 from the Bump Squad in Early April.



j7

i was young so don't have memories of this album when it came out.

so excluding 2003, we will be having a 20th anniversary every year concerning prince's albums!

This album is the most stylistically like me! It ranks with Lovesexy as my favorite of all albums! I was only 2 when it was released (and yes I do have it on vinyl, Calhoun Sq! ), but soon thereafter (maybe when I was 4), I remember knowing the title track. It quickly became my favorite song, and singularly got me into Prince. I remember sneaking the money that I had saved for 5 weeks worth of allowance to my brother when I was 9 so he could buy the album on tape for me. My mom wouldn't have approved, that's for sure! To this day, I probably listen to that album more than any other, and I credit it for being an early inspiration for me to get hardcore into modern music. I think it is one of the few "perfect" albums out there- every song is incredible!

Moonbeam, I obviously wouldn't know cos' I don't know u.

But four years old 'fuck orrffff'

It's true! I saw the "When Doves Cry" video in 1984 with my brother when our cousins played it for us, and I remember that it wasn't my first exposure to Prince- 1999 was.

jseven said:

_MUST_ U be so literal?? LOL Ok fine, 7 months, but the point is...it's happening THIS YEAR...LOL....

I don't wanna sound like a cunt, but i am, so tell me what else you can remember from 1984.

Or 1982 when 1999 was released.

Phew all those numbers.

xenon said:

that was 4 moonbeam by the way

xenon said:

OK! When I saw the "When Doves Cry" video, my cousins were babysitting me and my bro. It was the summer of 1984. They made me eat chocolate pancakes, even though I informed them that I HATE chocolate. I still tease them about that to this day! I also remember losing my velcro shoe on the way back from pre-school, and being too embarassed to claim it because the teacher said that she thought it was a girl's shoe... I don't have many memories from 1982, and I don't remember the first time I heard "1999," but I do remember that I knew it before seeing the video for "When Doves Cry." I remember thinking that the purple tear was cool. To be honest, I don't have many memories from 1984, but the ones I have mentioned are valid!

I mean't what else was in the chart's, what was on T.V and wot was happenin' in the world

not much- Fraggle Rock and Transformers!

Oh my god!! D'ya remember the doozers and the gorgs.

That one was aimed at anyone. I'll come back to Moonbeam

later.

It was a picture of Prince in the 1983 Rolling Stone Yearbook that for some subliminal reason threw me into a pre-pubescent frenzy. "I MUST HAVE A COPY OF '1999'! I MUST HAVE IT NOW!!!!"

This is the oddball thing. I'd seen Prince before. I'd heard him before. I thought he was cool, but he didn't really make much of an impression. Then I saw that picture, and out of nowhere decided "this guy is a FREAKSHOW, and musically he just, somehow, GETS IT, and IT'S ALL ABOUT PRINCE!"

That little fit kinda subsided and I didn't get the album and I completely forgot about it, but then the next spring I saw the TV commercial for the Purple Rain movie for the first time, and I started freaking out all over again.

Don't think I've been quite the same since.

(And for the record - pardon the pun - I did finally get my vinyl copy of the 1999 album...it was a birthday gift from my GRANDMOTHER, who had no idea what she was buying me - my mom just told her I wanted it, so she got it. When I unwrapped it and took out the sleeves, my Grandma was all, "let's see what the inside sleeve looks like!" and I'm turning as purple as the album cover cuz of course, I discovered the picture of Prince's ass, and what 14 year old kid really wants to share a picture of Prince's ass with his grandmother, I mean REALLY? It was a horrible moment that I've laughed about ever since. At least he had the decency to wear GLOVES in the picture, ha...)

This album has one of Prince's fubkiest jams...Lady Cab Driver!! That song is off the chain. And for those who missed the legendary 1999 tour with The Time and Vanity 6.....shame shame cause it was sssssmmmokin!!!!!

I used to listen to the album just staring at the dust cover with Prince and the band, "DMSR" was my jam. 1999 was also the first tour I ever seen Prince on, so this is one of my favorites of ALL time!!! Happy now LCD???

I bought 1999 IN 1999
so i really have no story i went to C.city, picked it up and listened to it.

I was around 9 years old. I think i was breakdancing then! AHHHHH!!!!!
Peace and Love!

dancing around my living to dmsr and lady cab driver...forcing my 7 year old brother to pretend he's brown mark

Eye remember that time so well, that was the first time eye saw P in concert "the 1999 tour". Actually eye had no idea eye was going 2 the concert that night. 1 of my friends called me up and told me she had an extra ticket. Ever since then eye have been in luv with the man, he is such a genious. Eye just hope 1 day eye will b able 2 tell him how much and how long eye have luved him, and always will.

Paisley

1999 was the first album I ever bought. I was 8 1/2 years old and saved 2 weeks worth of allowance and my mom took me to On Target Records in Skyline (San Diego). We brought it home and I didn't actually get to listen to it 4 a couple of days. My parents wanted 2 listen 2 it first. They let me listen, and I can remember them sitting there watching me groove. I guess it was some kind of experiment 2 them.

Anyway...from there on, I WORSHIPPED Prince.

My father regrets it 2 this day.