Harps said:

runningbear said:

68 Beggars Banquet

69 Let It Bleed

71 Sticky Finger

72 Exile on Main Street

73 Goat's Head Soup

Think maybe acclaimed live "get yer ya yas out" released in 70, but I prefer 73 Goats

Music of my Mind

Talking Book

Innervisions

SITKOL

Fulfillingness First Finale

This run of albums just eclipses it for me...........but its close!

theres also these bands:

queen 73-78

zeppelin 69-76

sabbath 70-75

I'd throw Bowie 71-80 in there too (not counting the live albums).

Sly and the Family Stone

-Dance to the Music (1968)

-Life (1968)

-Stand! (1969)

-There's a Riot Goin On (1971)

-Fresh (1973)

luvsexy4all said:

jdcxc said:

luvsexy4all said:

theres also these bands:

queen 73-78

zeppelin 69-76

sabbath 70-75

But with Prince, you have to also include the side projects and B-sides.

how about p-funk 1974-1979?

OldFriends4Sale said:

SoulAlive said:

jtfolden said: I recall hearing a rumor about a "lost 1983 album" but I don't think it really exists.Sure,Prince recorded a ton of songs during 1983 but I can't imagine that he was seriously planning to release an album in 1983.

Right, it does read like he is saying he has the follow up to 1999 though lol

here is where people get that from

1985 interview

I think that's the problem with the music industry today. When a person does get a hit, they try to do it again the same way. I don't think I've ever done that. I write all the time and cut all the time. I want to show you the archives, where all my old stuff is. There's tons of music I've recorded there. I have the follow-up album to 1999. I could put it all together and play it for you, and you would go "Yeah!" And I could put it out, and it would probably sell what 1999 did. But I always try to do something different and conquer new ground.

Thx OldFriends!! Love that quote! Prince was literally 30 years ahead of his time back in '83... I hear so much music today from artists like Disclosure and Santigold that makes me think of 1999...

OldFriends4Sale said:

1983

January

1999 tour

1999/How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore/DMSR in the UK

the Walk single

Little Red Corvette & Drive Me Wild videos shot/released

appeared on Solid Gold -1999

February

1999 tour

released Little Red Corvette single

March

1999 tour
released Drive Me Wild/extended) single

April

1999 tour

May

Solid Gold -Little Red Corvette

Minnesotta Music Awards and aftershow

.

somewhere in these prior months creation/work on PR music started

.

August
Delirious / Horny Toad (Bside) single released

Dance Benefit Show (recording-performance of PR music)

November
Let's Pretend We're Married / Irresistable Bitch(Bside) single released

1983 was cool as a fan in high school because it gave us time to settle into the iconic image of Prince and enjoy the last days of enjoying him as a cult artist. 1983 was the last year that he was "ours" because soon we'd have to share him with people that had previously shunned him. So it was cool, the associated acts were rounding into shape and the triple threat tour was still playing smaller venues. At school there were girls singing "If a Girl Answers Don't Hang Up" and actually calling 777-9311. We were reveling in the mystique, loving the fact that he didn't talk and basically claiming our own little Phil Spector of funk, we had no idea what we were in for. For a lot of us 1999 is superior to PR for that reason, we were children and we didn't like having to share. When LRC dropped and got heavy rotation we knew he was gone, but 1983 for me reminds me of the last year before finding out about taxes, politics or some other complexity that forces you to grow up.

SignOthetimes1987 said:

love2thenines2003 said:

1983 the Year of nothing 4 the best 2 come after this Year!

Purple Rain

ATWIAD

PARADE

SOTT

LOVESEXY

this has to be the best run of classic albums by anyone ever.

Wow. Calm down

There's also the Beatles, Dylan, The Stones, Led Zep, Bowie...
It's a very restricted club, I'll give you that.

"it gave us time to settle into the iconic image of Prince and enjoy the last days of him being a cult artist"...."we'd have to share him with people who previously shunned him"..."We were reveling in the mystique, loving the fact that he didn't talk"..."1983 was the last year he was "ours"....I couldn't have said it better myself dreamshaman32. Those years (79 to 82) were something definetly to behold back then.

SPYZFAN1 said:

"it gave us time to settle into the iconic image of Prince and enjoy the last days of him being a cult artist"...."we'd have to share him with people who previously shunned him"..."We were reveling in the mystique, loving the fact that he didn't talk"..."1983 was the last year he was "ours"....I couldn't have said it better myself dreamshaman32. Those years (79 to 82) were something definetly to behold back then.

I agree! Back then,it felt like Prince was our own special thing that the rest of the world didn't know about It was exciting to be a Prince fan during his pre-superstardom days.

jaawwnn said:

Horny Toad, Irresistable Bitch and the extended Drive me Wild look to be his only new releases that year? Wasn't he touring 1999 for the first half and writing/recording/filming Purple Rain the second half?

[Edited 1/28/16 8:38am]

Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix) hit in '83.

databank said:

SoulAlive said:

Except it's written in plain English that Prince would have to "put it all together", i.e. what he meant was just that he had enough material to assemble a 1983 album, but he had not assembled it. I think he said something similar in 1985 or 86 about the fact that he could have released PR2 instead of ATWAID and people started hallucinating in a similar manner about a possible album configuration that would have contained mpls sound outtakes from 1984.

[Edited 1/28/16 22:49pm]

I think the comments are slightly different but if you look at the heart of the quote "I have the follow-up album to 1999. I could put it all together and play it for you" then I think it's solid enough to think that he might sort of have a specific set in mind. That doesn't mean there's a "lost" album or that one was mastered or canceled like TBA but he was horribly prolific during that period even with the movie and soundtrack on the agenda. Look how fast ATWIAD was started after PR was done.

Prince was reloading.

Bulding off the crossover success and buzz of 1999 before unleashing the unprecendented atomic bomb that was "Purple Rain". I really doubt he was "nothing". He was making a movie on top of recording songs every day like he always does and then exploded in 1984.

bonatoc said:

SignOthetimes1987 said:

this has to be the best run of classic albums by anyone ever.

Wow. Calm down

There's also the Beatles, Dylan, The Stones, Led Zep, Bowie...
It's a very restricted club, I'll give you that.

but he ALSO has 92-96

jtfolden said:

databank said:

Except it's written in plain English that Prince would have to "put it all together", i.e. what he meant was just that he had enough material to assemble a 1983 album, but he had not assembled it. I think he said something similar in 1985 or 86 about the fact that he could have released PR2 instead of ATWAID and people started hallucinating in a similar manner about a possible album configuration that would have contained mpls sound outtakes from 1984.

[Edited 1/28/16 22:49pm]

I think the comments are slightly different but if you look at the heart of the quote "I have the follow-up album to 1999. I could put it all together and play it for you" then I think it's solid enough to think that he might sort of have a specific set in mind. That doesn't mean there's a "lost" album or that one was mastered or canceled like TBA but he was horribly prolific during that period even with the movie and soundtrack on the agenda. Look how fast ATWIAD was started after PR was done.

It may also mean that. It's hard to say how many album concepts were drafted in his mind or even completed and left in the vault.

dreamshaman32 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

1983

January

1999 tour

1999/How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore/DMSR in the UK

the Walk single

Little Red Corvette & Drive Me Wild videos shot/released

appeared on Solid Gold -1999

February

1999 tour

released Little Red Corvette single

March

1999 tour
released Drive Me Wild/extended) single

April

1999 tour

May

Solid Gold -Little Red Corvette

Minnesotta Music Awards and aftershow

.

somewhere in these prior months creation/work on PR music started

.

August
Delirious / Horny Toad (Bside) single released

Dance Benefit Show (recording-performance of PR music)

November
Let's Pretend We're Married / Irresistable Bitch(Bside) single released

1983 was cool as a fan in high school because it gave us time to settle into the iconic image of Prince and enjoy the last days of enjoying him as a cult artist. 1983 was the last year that he was "ours" because soon we'd have to share him with people that had previously shunned him. So it was cool, the associated acts were rounding into shape and the triple threat tour was still playing smaller venues. At school there were girls singing "If a Girl Answers Don't Hang Up" and actually calling 777-9311. We were reveling in the mystique, loving the fact that he didn't talk and basically claiming our own little Phil Spector of funk, we had no idea what we were in for. For a lot of us 1999 is superior to PR for that reason, we were children and we didn't like having to share. When LRC dropped and got heavy rotation we knew he was gone, but 1983 for me reminds me of the last year before finding out about taxes, politics or some other complexity that forces you to grow up.

Yep I agree, he was very much underground

We sorta got him back in 1985 with ATWIAD

For me '83 is a huge year as a Prince fan & collector. I got 1999 in June and found my new favorite artist. By the end of the year I had Dirty Mind, Controversy & Prince (the album). Even though I was only into Prince a year before Purple Rain, I still felt like the masses were getting into "my" thing when PR came out. Good times...

djThunderfunk said:

For me '83 is a huge year as a Prince fan & collector. I got 1999 in June and found my new favorite artist. By the end of the year I had Dirty Mind, Controversy & Prince (the album). Even though I was only into Prince a year before Purple Rain, I still felt like the masses were getting into "my" thing when PR came out. Good times...

I travelled the same road. I saw 1999 and LRC on MTV and was transfixed. I wore that 1999 cassette falt the fuck out and, during the same period, dug around his back catalog and unearthed Prince, Dirty Mind, Controversy and For You. I knew I had founf my new favorite artist as well. I thin it was because none of my friends were into it. They liked Rush, Stones, Led Zep, Ozzy, the Police, U2...I felt like I'd made my own personal discovery.

Then I remember hearing the opening riff and beat to "When Doves Cry" on the radio for the first time and knowing in my heart who it was. The rest is history.