ZombieKitten said:

First cd I ever bought in my life where I liked every song on the cd.

lovebird said:

YES me too
I was 13 so only 3rd album I bought


NOTHING else lived up to it!!!

The first sure sign of his genius. A couple of stinkers, but hey, it's a Prince album.

And it started one of the best runs in pop history.

Cloudbuster said:

I had no complaints

ZombieKitten said:

Tremendous piece of work. The flaws can be overlooked.

Ironically, the songs on that album are the ones I listen to the most, but I don't own the album. I have some unreleased stuff from the album and I've been playing that non-stop so I decided today that I'm gonna buy it. It'll be my 2nd Prince album purchase. yay. go me.

Cloudbuster said:

I can imagine Kate dancing to those stinkers!

Cheek said:

On Prince's grave.

I wasn’t a big Prince fan until Purple Rain came out. I didn’t event own 1999 until the fall of ‘84 (in its entirety, I had all the singles from it though). But once I finally listened to it all the way through, it instantly became my favorite and still is as of today. Not only is it my favorite Prince album of all time, it is my favorite album of all time. Period. Noting else comes close.

Dirty Mind, Controversy and 1999.....I love this Prince era.

I was one of the few who was disappointed in Purple Rain...

Rhondab said:

WHAAAAAT!!!!!

mikek1 said:

I like some of the songs.....beautiful ones, darling nikki, when doves cry...but take me with u, purple rain.....nope....not my favs.


Purple Rain, the cd, is the one of the least played around my house.

This was the first whole Prince album I ever heard and I have to say right now I'm leaning toward it as my favorite. The impression it left made me obsessed and I knew I had to hear everything I could possibly hear right then.

The title track, of course, is amazing, and so are the rest - so much that I can't choose a favorite. Each one has something about it that makes me unable to decide which is the best song.

I remember opening up the album to see the picture (and I was thrilled, lol: I sat there and looked at it while I listened to the album ) - this is one of the few albums, period, that I can't find anything wrong with. I can sit through the whole thing or even listen to it on repeat, though that might get me really tired of the album after a while. But I love this album...I can't even think of one thing I dislike off the top of my head.

It's funny, but u can totally tell when a thread is inspired by recent post of a subject. There has been a lot of talk of the 1999 album the last few days. I know myself have talked in DEPTH about the album in the past few days in various threads. But, I've always talked in depth about this album. Obviously, it's my fave of P's and I feel it's his best album, hands down.

This album right here is when i became a Prince fan. i love the album and still to this day, and it is my top fav Prince albums.

silverchild said:

Prince's Greatest!!!!

Rhondab said:

Exactly. Same here. PR was a "wtf is this?"material

iconsweat said:

P was just trying to get some of that American Bandstand money. He already had Soul Train.

Four letters...four words...DMSR...That song is AMAZING!

Cloudbuster said:

ZombieKitten said:

Haha hate to say it was year early on my cal, but count me in one of those Me too reponces. I playing it right now and the manager of the Marriott LAX had to ask me to turn it down....

Snap said:

i cant agree more!!! it was the 1st album i EVER bought(needless to say i was about 10-12 when it came out and my grandmother actually bought it for me lol) they would play 1999 every 4-5 songs on the radio station where i lived at the time. i loved it so much i asked my grandmother to buy it for me, then that was when i got Contraversy. i ,IMHO,think that 1999 was pure genious, and PR as well. Ieven liked ALL the songs on there (i have the CD since the quality of the cassette is worn out since i played it so much before CD's lol)

1999, the album is in my Prince Top-3 right behind Purple Rain and Sign O' The Times.

I just looove the Linn drum sound & the guitar/ bass playing on this great album

You've all summed it up so perfectly, I wouldn't know where to begin...

I just can't imagine my Prince, or entire music, collection without this. Absolutely inspired. It sets a benchmark for his entire body of music.

It took me a long time to full appreciate this; almost 10 years. I bought it, listened to it, wondered what the fuss was about, thought it too long, filed it away. What a mistake. It was literally years and years later when I pulled it out and gave it a *proper* listen. And something... clicked. I felt such a fool.

I think you have to be ready for this album. Not mikek1 specifically but anyone who approaches it. You have to let it take you on its' journey. One of Princes's strongest, most cohesive and illuminating albums. Period.

Can't say much more than has already been said about this album. I was already into Prince's music from Controversy and Dirty Mind, but when I heard this I knew that I was witnessing(hearing) musical genius unlike anything that I had heard before. Probably my favorite Prince album and was the catalyst for a kind of musical awakening for me.

thedance said:

Love ur avatar

This album was banned from my house, so I had to have it on cassette for over a year. Not many here may remember those cassettes, but if you played too much they would heat up and stretch out. I went through two of them.

To include with the aformentioned compliments, it should be said that The Time and Vanity 6 releases in the same year truly are prolific. The Time - The Time is their best in my opinion and must for any prince collection. While the Vanity 6 album is not a neccessity it's has brights spots.

Shit the man wrote and released 4 albums

it's a fucking disco record. and it features some of P's best songs, ie Lady Cab Driver, and some others. Oh, the drum machine goes on a bit too long..... it was geared for the dance floor baby - or perhaps a lot of prince's tracks were originally 28 minute jams edited down to perfection.... why change it? All The Critics Love U In New York is still entertaining and mixes very well into a techno set. sort of. Oh and Automatic. And Something In The Water, and it's better than purple rain. And it's rude. And perhaps he'd heard of the Global 2000 plan of 1980 and thought that 2 billion people should be partying in 1999 like it's the end of the world (for them). who the fuck knows. bloody administrations.