An absolute favourite album of mine, I love all the songs especially lady cab driver and international lover, i could never get sick of this album.... ever.

It is a great album, and I doubt you'll find many people here who disagree. My favorite songs are "Lady Cab Driver", "All The Critics Love U In New York" and "Little Red Corvette".

However, I'm not really a fan of.. "Something In The Water" or "International Lover". I would've preferred "Irresistible Bitch" and "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" in their place.

It sucks

I never get tired of the 1999 album, I love Automatic & All The Critics Love U in New York

LifeCanBeSoNice21 said:

I love [...] All The Critics Love U in New York

glad that someone else considers this song a highlight. Whenever people talk about worst 80s songs, this one always gets mentioned; but it's one of my top 5 all time favorite Prince songs.

CrabalockerFishwife said:

LifeCanBeSoNice21 said:

I love [...] All The Critics Love U in New York

glad that someone else considers this song a highlight. Whenever people talk about worst 80s songs, this one always gets mentioned; but it's one of my top 5 all time favorite Prince songs.

its farrrr from a 'worst 80's song', people need to clear there ears out and take a listen to it again! It's one of my top fave Prince songs too

CrabalockerFishwife said:

LifeCanBeSoNice21 said:

I love [...] All The Critics Love U in New York

glad that someone else considers this song a highlight. Whenever people talk about worst 80s songs, this one always gets mentioned; but it's one of my top 5 all time favorite Prince songs.

Really?!?! Holy crap. I think it's absolutely, utterly brilliant.

Efan said:

CrabalockerFishwife said:

glad that someone else considers this song a highlight. Whenever people talk about worst 80s songs, this one always gets mentioned; but it's one of my top 5 all time favorite Prince songs.

Really?!?! Holy crap. I think it's absolutely, utterly brilliant.

http://prince.org/msg/7/362495 - this was one of the worst 80s songs threads, where it was one of the most frequently mentioned songs, along with "Free", "Dead On It", "Ronnie, Talk To Russia" and "Lemon Crush".

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Pure Brillnance front to back with the exception of Free (which sounded great on ONA but falls flat here). Free should have been swapped with Moonbeam Levels or even Baby, Ur a Trip.

His greatest His apex. The pinnacle. One man band masturbating to synth fried funk. If you dont liek this album you suck. Anyone worth his salt cant front on 1999. His studio wizardry was in rare form here. Kitchen sinked it. Album no.5 for many bnands (Police, U2) were the ones that made them icons. This is just one in the naked city story of music.

All The Critics played up vwery very loud..is the absolute shit and should turn anyone out.

CrabalockerFishwife said:

Efan said:

Really?!?! Holy crap. I think it's absolutely, utterly brilliant.

http://prince.org/msg/7/362495 - this was one of the worst 80s songs threads, where it was one of the most frequently mentioned songs, along with "Free", "Dead On It", "Ronnie, Talk To Russia" and "Lemon Crush".

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woah! I really like dead on it & the black album, dont see why its been slated as terrible so many times.

CrabalockerFishwife said:

Efan said:

Really?!?! Holy crap. I think it's absolutely, utterly brilliant.

http://prince.org/msg/7/362495 - this was one of the worst 80s songs threads, where it was one of the most frequently mentioned songs, along with "Free", "Dead On It", "Ronnie, Talk To Russia" and "Lemon Crush".

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I can kind of agree with "Free." I used to love it back in the '80s, though. Now I think it's kinda silly, but I enjoy it somewhat anyway.

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The album was released only two weeks after my birth

What can I say about the 1999 era? Incredibly 80s as it was, take everything from the outtakes, to the survived triple threat tour soundboards, to the side projects, to the b-sides, to the albums itself, and you're bound to hear a song that don't sound dated at 2012.

I loved the arrogant, snarky, mysterious, animated, quirky personality that steeped in to all of the music associated with this era, as far as Prince was concerned. The rejection from the Rolling Stones crowd left him really hungry and filled with a F.U. attitude for daaaaays.

Harlepolis said:

What can I say about the 1999 era? Incredibly 80s as it was, take everything from the outtakes, to the survived triple threat tour soundboards, to the side projects, to the b-sides, to the albums itself, and you're bound to hear a song that don't sound dated at 2012.

You're also bound to hear the most dated song he ever made.

CrabalockerFishwife said:

Harlepolis said:

What can I say about the 1999 era? Incredibly 80s as it was, take everything from the outtakes, to the survived triple threat tour soundboards, to the side projects, to the b-sides, to the albums itself, and you're bound to hear a song that don't sound dated at 2012.

You're also bound to hear the most dated song he ever made.

Which is?

CrabalockerFishwife said:

It is a great album, and I doubt you'll find many people here who disagree. My favorite songs are "Lady Cab Driver", "All The Critics Love U In New York" and "Little Red Corvette".

However, I'm not really a fan of.. "Something In The Water" or "International Lover". I would've preferred "Irresistible Bitch" and "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" in their place.

Something In The Water demo sounds better for me...

Harlepolis said:

CrabalockerFishwife said:

You're also bound to hear the most dated song he ever made.

Which is?

1999. You can tell that wasn't recorded in 2012.

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Ramzoo said:

CrabalockerFishwife said:

It is a great album, and I doubt you'll find many people here who disagree. My favorite songs are "Lady Cab Driver", "All The Critics Love U In New York" and "Little Red Corvette".

However, I'm not really a fan of.. "Something In The Water" or "International Lover". I would've preferred "Irresistible Bitch" and "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" in their place.

Something In The Water demo sounds better for me...

I never heard it.

CrabalockerFishwife said:

Harlepolis said:

Which is?

1999. You can tell that wasn't recorded in 2012.

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Message wise? True, but sonically its the blueprint of many up & coming producers who are trying to capture that 80s sound.

Bring it back to the mixing board and clean it up, and there, you got yourself a recent club banger.

If we're going to talk about his most dated songs "ever", we can make a count down starting from 1990 till his VERY last album

Harlepolis said:

CrabalockerFishwife said:

1999. You can tell that wasn't recorded in 2012.

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Message wise? True, but sonically its the blueprint of many up & coming producers who are trying to capture that 80s sound.

Bring it back to the mixing board and clean it up, and there, you got yourself a recent club banger.

If we're going to talk about his most dated songs "ever", we can make a count down starting from 1990 till his VERY last album

Yes, I was just going by the lyrics..

I do think the 80s synthesizers make 1999, and moreso Purple Rain sound a bit dated. I actually think they make PR sound very dated. But I do think that 1999 is probably his best sounding album of the 1980s, in terms of production or whatever you'd call it..

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It's my favorite Prince album of all, front, back, & side to side. It gets play from beginning to end. it to this day. If I had to only pick one, this would be it for me.

I know I already said this earlier, but I really wish he would've included the B-sides on this album. "Irresistible Bitch" and "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" are both all time top-20 songs for me. I think just having those two songs added on could've made this my favorite album. But as it stands, it's not even top 10 for me..

typo

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This is my all time favorite Prince album. His last one man band album.

Its a complete MASTERPIECE 4rm start 2 finish...

The album is sheer brilliance.

UnpronounceableSymbol said:

An absolute favourite album of mine, I love all the songs especially lady cab driver and international lover, i could never get sick of this album.... ever.

Unless there is real break through in negoiations on the World powers curtailing Irans nuclear program, 1999 the song is going to be very relevent again!

Not only was this album his commercial breakthrough, it was his artistic breakthrough as well. The production, musicianship, and songwriting just leaped out at you. This album also saw him began to embrace his natural singing voice. All in all this remains a quantem leap in his catalog.

WinterIsComing said:

Not only was this album his commercial breakthrough, it was his artistic breakthrough as well. The production, musicianship, and songwriting just leaped out at you. This album also saw him began to embrace his natural singing voice. All in all this remains a quantem leap in his catalog.

Phenomenal album. It was great in 1982. It's great today. DMSR, LRC, Lady Cab Driver, and All the Critics are my favorites.