Interesting list of songs here: http://www.avclub.com/art...-mu,43207/ not to mention one of my favorite 1999 era photos at the top of the article

And the write up on 1999:

6. Prince, “1999” (1982)
“Everybody’s got a bomb, we can all die any day—oww! / But before I let that happen, I’ll dance my life away.” The title hit from Prince’s fifth album offers one of his most memorable (and questionable) life lessons: When the apocalypse comes, the only sane way to handle it is to chuck everything and, as the coda insists, parrrty! End-of-the-Cold-War politics made it into a fair amount of Prince’s songs during this period: “Ronnie Talk To Russia,” from a year before “1999,” was more frantic, while “Free,” also on the 1999 album, was an unabashedly pro-American-freedom rock ballad, whose message showed up again on “America” on Around The World In A Day in 1985. But compared to those songs, “1999” is as seductive as “Do Me, Baby”: Prince’s version of partying down to the end of the world sounds totally irresistible, thanks to that instant-classic synth riff and some tricky vocal layering, courtesy of guitarist Dez Dickerson and keyboardist Lisa Coleman offering support singing the lyric.