Ok, I've decided this is my favorite dance song! I love the simple keyboard stanza (right word?) in it.

mynameisnotsusan said:

Been playing 1999 really loud on my commute for the last week or so - Automatic f**king slays

CNickyD said:

Amen! I'm beginning to think 1999 is my favorite album.

Same here

Trent Rezor said he was inspired by Prince and you can definitely tell by this song.

jdcxc said:

Moonbeam said:

Thank God for this double album.

I was listening to this last night while typing an essay paper for school, yeah!

There is something extremely electric about the 1999 and Purple Rain albums. Do you think it has something to do with the band...The Revolution? Something in Prince's life at the time that he was making this music?

I really loved Dez Dickerson's voice combined with Prince's voice. They sounded so much alike but it is like Dez amplified Prince's voice. It gives me chills (the good kind) when I hear them together.

But there was something at this time...I'd like to look into it and learn what it was that made both albums like a bolt of lightning.

I don't like automatic, never have, I have the same problem with three other tracks on 1999. There's something about them that I just don't get. The rest of the album is absolutely stellar but I really don't get on with Automatic, Lady Cab Driver, Something In The Water (althugh I absolutely love every live version I've ever heard) and All The Critics Love U.

This is my favorite Prince song!

TheEnglishGent said:

I don't like automatic, never have, I have the same problem with three other tracks on 1999. There's something about them that I just don't get. The rest of the album is absolutely stellar but I really don't get on with Automatic, Lady Cab Driver, Something In The Water (althugh I absolutely love every live version I've ever heard) and All The Critics Love U.

1999 is my fave album, & Automatic is absolutely top 2 or 3 off that album. I think DMSR edges it out but not by much at all - killer track, LOVE the video, need this song in my life!!

CalhounSq said:

1999 is my fave album, & Automatic is absolutely top 2 or 3 off that album. I think DMSR edges it out but not by much at all - killer track, LOVE the video, need this song in my life!!

I never knew you were also part of the "1999 is the best Prince album" club. Good to have you in it!

Moonbeam said:

CalhounSq said:

1999 is my fave album, & Automatic is absolutely top 2 or 3 off that album. I think DMSR edges it out but not by much at all - killer track, LOVE the video, need this song in my life!!

I never knew you were also part of the "1999 is the best Prince album" club. Good to have you in it!

It's my "take ONE album on a desert island" album it's the one that absolutely HOOKED me - just so good, so solid, SO GOOD I was so nuts over him, so when PR hit it was like the world was just discovering what I already knew

CalhounSq said:

Moonbeam said:

I never knew you were also part of the "1999 is the best Prince album" club. Good to have you in it!

It's my "take ONE album on a desert island" album it's the one that absolutely HOOKED me - just so good, so solid, SO GOOD I was so nuts over him, so when PR hit it was like the world was just discovering what I already knew

It was the first full album I bought with my own money. It was already "old" at that point (1989 or 1990), but I knew I had to have it after hearing the singles. I saved up my allowance money and had my brother buy the tape for me because my mom would have fainted had she known her 9 or 10 year old son was buying it.

It is the alpha and omega.

Moonbeam said:

CalhounSq said:

It's my "take ONE album on a desert island" album it's the one that absolutely HOOKED me - just so good, so solid, SO GOOD I was so nuts over him, so when PR hit it was like the world was just discovering what I already knew

It was the first full album I bought with my own money. It was already "old" at that point (1989 or 1990), but I knew I had to have it after hearing the singles. I saved up my allowance money and had my brother buy the tape for me because my mom would have fainted had she known her 9 or 10 year old son was buying it.

It is the alpha and omega.

It was my first purchase too!!! I really wish I could remember it all, or kept a diary - I specifically remember buying a 45 of "Kiss" so the timeline is fuzzy for me. Why would I buy that if I was already into albums? Maybe just for the picture? Maybe I couldn't afford the Parade album yet? Was the single out before the album & I just had to have it?? I dunno, I just remember owning 1999 as my first, being super proud to have it, playing it nonstop. It is, indeed, THE P album to have

TheEnglishGent said:

I don't like automatic, never have, I have the same problem with three other tracks on 1999. There's something about them that I just don't get. The rest of the album is absolutely stellar but I really don't get on with Automatic, Lady Cab Driver, Something In The Water (althugh I absolutely love every live version I've ever heard) and All The Critics Love U.

That's like saying you love everything about Mona Lisa except her eyes.

TheEnglishGent said:

I don't like automatic, never have, I have the same problem with three other tracks on 1999. There's something about them that I just don't get. The rest of the album is absolutely stellar but I really don't get on with Automatic, Lady Cab Driver, Something In The Water (althugh I absolutely love every live version I've ever heard) and All The Critics Love U.

WTF?!

surelyafan said:

Marrk said:

TheEnglishGent said:

I don't like automatic, never have, I have the same problem with three other tracks on 1999. There's something about them that I just don't get. The rest of the album is absolutely stellar but I really don't get on with Automatic, Lady Cab Driver, Something In The Water (althugh I absolutely love every live version I've ever heard) and All The Critics Love U.

WTF?!

IKR Those tracks he don't like are stellar.

Guitarhero said:

Marrk said:

WTF?!

IKR Those tracks he don't like are stellar.

Those songs are CORE, ESSENTIAL! I think it's the first time I've heard a P fan say they didn't like them, but it speaks to the diversity of his catalogue

TheEnglishGent said:

I don't like automatic, never have, I have the same problem with three other tracks on 1999. There's something about them that I just don't get. The rest of the album is absolutely stellar but I really don't get on with Automatic, Lady Cab Driver, Something In The Water (althugh I absolutely love every live version I've ever heard) and All The Critics Love U.

My 3 favourite tracks from the album!

surelyafan said:

There is something extremely electric about the 1999 and Purple Rain albums. Do you think it has something to do with the band...The Revolution? Something in Prince's life at the time that he was making this music?

I really loved Dez Dickerson's voice combined with Prince's voice. They sounded so much alike but it is like Dez amplified Prince's voice. It gives me chills (the good kind) when I hear them together.

But there was something at this time...I'd like to look into it and learn what it was that made both albums like a bolt of lightning.

1999 is by and large solo Prince with no backing band, besides vocals. Someone will probably correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the only instrumentation not by P is the guitar on Little Red Corvette.

Saying that, you are totally right about Dez's voice! Something about Prince and Dez singing just gels.

TheEnglishGent said:

Aerogram said:

CNickyD said:

TheEnglishGent said:

I don't like automatic, never have, I have the same problem with three other tracks on 1999. There's something about them that I just don't get. The rest of the album is absolutely stellar but I really don't get on with Automatic, Lady Cab Driver, Something In The Water (althugh I absolutely love every live version I've ever heard) and All The Critics Love U.

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OMG, you just named some of my all times faves! You must be a post-WB fan. He was very different then.