1999

1999's title track kicks off the record with a classic synth-funk sound, extremely catchy tunes and funny metaphoric lyrics. These positives are mostly appareant on Little Red Corvette, though I am not a huge fan of some vocal parts and effects. Delirious sounds slightly video-gamey with its squeaky synth-riffs, but it's catchy enough to be enjoyed. Unfortunately, the same video-gamey element and awkward instrumentals become more visible and annoying when continuing the record. The sharp synth riffs on Lets Pretend sound absolutely awful, DMSR and Automatic drag on and on (7+ minutes and barely anything new is added) and the last couple of tracks were a chore to get through. 2/5.

Not my cup of tea, cool synth and funk though. Some of the tracks seem really basic and cheesy. Overt sexual themes, can see why it might have been “different” in the 80s. Little red corvette favorite track.

Honestly, I was hyped for this, but it fell flat. Aside from the couple of hits, it sounded like Prince was experimenting to learn how to produce, and then just released his practices.

1999 and Little Red Corvette are the best songs on this album. The rest is overly drawn out nonsense. I don't get the prince hype. These songs don't need to be 8 minutes long.

Prince has a brilliant greatest hits album in him. This album has one of the tracks and even its two minutes too long

4

Just this weirdo electro funk for way too long. So hits tho

2.5

Another too long and overindulgent album by the wee purple pervert. With a good producer to rein him in he could have been great but he didn’t have that so I have to endure 70 minutes of glimpses of good ideas and some really bad ones. He’s often referred to as a genius, I’m not so sure but his massive ego wouldn’t let anyone else have a say and his work suffers for it. Other greater musicians have used producers because they acknowledge that one person can’t do everything well, Prince never did. If he was such a great producer then why are all the bands he produced long forgotten and why have several of his songs been done better by other musicians? I’ve read there are hundreds of hours of unreleased recordings in Paisley Park, but if people have any sense they should stay there, what has been released is already too much. This is really a 2.5/5 album, just about, but I have to give it 1/5 because of all the people giving it a 5 because they think proclaiming everything Prince did was a work of genius is a marker of good taste. I wanted to like this but after the first two tracks it just dragged.

I've heard about Prince so many times but never got the hype, so I tried listening to his album and it's really so sterile and vapid, both the music and the singing. Long, annoying, monotone, with stupid lyrics. I couldn't finish any of the songs. This is exactly what I mean when I say I don't like pop music. Also, apparently this is considered "sexy"? Hilarious... I guess he does sound like cats in heat, so there's that.

Crap

Meandering self-indulgent (coke fuelled?) wank.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’m not a fan of this album… songs are needlessly long and repetitive. The namesake, title track of the album is fine, but again it is just the same line over and over and over again. Maybe if I lived through its peak during some pivotal point of life I would feel some connection to the songs, but I do not. (11 songs, 70 mins)

I honestly find this stuff so boring. The opening song, and one of his biggest hits, seemed to have 3+ minutes of the synth looping, people chanting "party!" and the odd tiny flourish here and there. I didn't feel in the groove. I was bored out of my mind thinking "Are these people really still bouncing up and down yelling 'party' as though they were ecstatic?". It goes nowhere, just the same loop, the same energy, the same, over and over. And this pattern repeated throughout the album. No build and release, just loop, loop, loop. Prince has always been the "really?" guy whenever he is brought up in online music discussions. He was never really that big in Australia - he had a few hits, but never really entered the cultural core. But it seems in other places he was not just a "few hits" guy, he was THE guy, up there with MJ, not just a guitar virtuoso but a music vituoso, perfectionist, Icon, etc. And then I listen to his stuff and I'm BORED. There is no dynamism. The songs start at a certain energy level and they stay there. There's no build up, just a synth looping. I don't get any of the love for it. And I don't feel bad about giving one star.

Segundo disco dele que ouço, e ainda estou esperando o momento mágico que ele vai clicar pra mim. Onde está o gênio que todos tanto falam sobre? Que tantos teimam em comparar com o Rei Michael? Isso me deixa verdadeiramente encucado. Escrevi bem detalhadamente a respeito de meus sentimentos com Prince na minha review do disco Sign O’ The Times. Aqui, em 1999, não há muita mudança. A introdução deste álbum é tão xula, tão pastelão, tão sessão da tarde. A canção introdutória também exalta o problema da super-extensão das composições deste disco, pois essa faixa poderia ter uns 2 minutos cortados sem perder nada de valor, e digo o mesmo da próxima canção na sequência, Little Red Corvette, uma música bem saborosa mas que também dura mais que deveria. Menos é mais, Prince. Chega a ser impressionante isso. Toda, e eu quero dizer, TODA canção desse álbum poderia ser mais curta. 11 faixas em um disco duplo! Que laboriosa é a escuta desse disco por esse motivo. Todas as faixas te conquistam com algum elemento agradável, seja uma linha de baixo bem gordinha, ou um sintetizador estilizado new-wave viciante e lindinho, mas depois de minutos e minutos com aquilo martelando sua cabeça, ela perde todo o encanto. É muito frustrante ouvir esse álbum porque isso acontece o tempo todo! Prince sabe falar sobre algo além de sexo? Suspeito que não. ”I wanna fuck you so bad…” é uma letra real nesse disco, que não é cantada e sim gemida pelo artista. Álbum monotemático, com canções hiper longas e redundantes… Meu Deus! Esse é o ídolo de tanta gente! Tô fora, não quero andar nesse trem aí não. Esse vai ser o 1.5/5 mais difícil da minha vida. Porque muitas canções aqui possuem aspectos MUITO legais, que se fossem editados e trabalhados cuidadosamente seriam canções clássicas e ótimas, mas que Prince decidiu estender ao ponto de exaustão, e encher de coisas aleatórias desnecessárias e degradantes. Mas no final das contas, eu estou avaliando o álbum, e a experiência de ouvir esse álbum é extremamente insatisfatória, frustrante e exaustiva. Ouça a canção Lady Cab Driver e você vai entender minha frustração: Faixa maravilhosa, baixo delicioso, vocais incríveis, ornamentação de sintetizador bem temperada e gostosa… tudo isso arruinado por uma duração criminosa de OITO minutos. Uma canção que poderia facilmente ser uma das melhores da década de 80 (Se fosse cortada aos 3 minutos, quando os gemidos asquerosos começam), completamente arruinada a troco de um hedonismo nojento, desarticulado e desordenado. Lamentações infinitas. 1.5/5

Absolutely horrible. 9 minute long synth loops with prince whispering about sex and grunting the whole time. I thought he was supposed to be some sort of legend?

for the right person, I am sure this is great. I am not that person, I don't like this album

too tired to say anything else but every song on here is too long

I am baffled as to why a guy who can play guitar like Prince can fills his albums with the cheesiest, most boring songs.

A sto punto non so se sono io oggi che tollero poco, peró non mi é piaciuto Mi é sembrato un po noioso e generico, probabilmente sono io che sopporto poco il genere? non saprei ma ci potrebbe stare

Absolutely disappointing. I thought going in I would see what all the fuss is surrounding this "genius" but I feel now it was all overinflated. So boring and unimaginative. I tried to find some quantities in the tracks but not a thing. How sad.

Not a fan of this album. I had to stop after listening to the first three songs. With that being said, I can see how other people enjoy it. but its not for me.

Popular culture would say I’m supposed to like Prince, but I think he’s just a creep and this album certainly didn’t help.

Really boring and I had trouble getting through it. It dragged and I didn’t like it

Niet mijn muziek

I know I am supposed to like Prince; but this was such an emotionless drag on my soul. I would rather repair drywall than be bothered by the annoyance of the a truly dated sounding album, with blithering misfiring of sex appeal.

I hate prince

The one song I liked on this album turned into softcore 👎

mä! schade dabei schätze ich Prince und mochte sogar pearls sehr gerne aber 89/90 dunno...c

I only liked DMSR 🫣

Prince… no puedo con él… sorry… ya de pequeño nunca pude y hoy en día es un “next”… es como “regreso al futuro” nunca me atrapó…

Didn’t really enjoy anything besides the last song.

Meh apart from Little Red Corvette

eh, not my thing at all

Not good, too disco(y)? Not my vibe

Oh Prince. What a fricken little horndog. Very 80s, very synth, very funky. Not my cup of tea, Ive heard better Prince songs. Too nasty lol

Why is this album on this list? There’s 2 hits and they aren’t even that good. Songs that just go on and on doing nothing. Up to this point in his career there wasn’t too many defining tracks but they were coming soon! It’s hard to say you like prince but don’t like the bits where he’s finding himself. Which also is weird because he knew what he was but this feels like he hadn’t quite leaned in. And maybe prince is best when he’s being the most prince he can be which sadly isn’t this album.

2/10

Maybe wasn’t the best time for me to try and jump back into listening to the albums again.

Whilst I’m willing to accept the proclamations of people better qualified than I, that Prince is an excellent musician, I’m afraid that his type of music does not resonate with me at all. Very, very occasionally, I do hear a superb guitar solos which makes me take notice. I’m thinking here of Purple Rain. But on this album there is no such guitar work so I found it hard to like anything. 1/5 7/11/25

I have never "got" Prince. I have always found him to be overblown and irritating. I couldn't bring myself to listen to the whole album, despite my best efforts with gritted teeth,

Not fire at all

Really didn't find anything to like about this album. Dross.

Tylsä ja kasari ei yleensä kuulu samaan lauseeseen, mut tää levy teki poikkeuden. Todella tylsää Prinssiä. Biisit oli jotenkin todella ahdistavan sekavia ja jokasen kohdalla teki mieli heittää kuulokkeet takkaan. Onneksi ei ole takkaa ja pääsee etenemään seuraavaan albumiin. Tähän en palaa.

Eeee helvetti! En kyl tajuu mitä ihmiset täs näkee. Yrittäny useamman kertaa kuunnella, mut aina se vaan kuulostaa roskalta. Mistään ei saa koppia ja mikään ei kuulosta miltään.

Like the solos at the end of Lady Cab Driver but other than that, not feeling the party maaaaannnn.

Meh

didn’t know what to expect besides knowing he’s some purple famous guy in music. his songs are alright but this album just sucks. so have the albums i’ve been suggested to listen to on here.. i’ll give it a week because maybe i just got the lowest rated ones on the list or something.

This sounds in all ways like a parody record of what is wrong with this sort of music. Too long, horrible sounding synths, painful vocals. The one redeeming feature of Prince as an artist is his guitar playing and that's almost totally missing here. A touch listen. 1.5*

The best thing about this album is that it gives a very concrete example of what music I don't like.

I found this to be nearly unlistenable. I know Prince is talented and very popular. For some reason I just can't find my entry point. I would've skipped most of The songs on this if it weren't for so many friends who love and sing Prince praises, but because of that I made it a point to listen to every song completely until the very last track. And once he started doing the cabin pressure announcement thing, I just couldn't go on. On. I know it's silly and what not but it just seemed so cringy.

Trash

Picture this: 1982 I'm a senior in high school. Prince 1999 is on the charts. With enthusiasm i listen to it. Blank. So I listened again. Some emotions. So I listened again. Ahhh there it is : this shit sucks. 40plus years later. Still sucks

Not for me

I don't really know Prince and his music. The first twos are hits and I've heard many times before. Was looking forward to the rest, but it was all a bit disappointing.

Biggest load of sh*te ever since the last biggest load of sh*te ever two days ago (yesterdays was just an average load of sh*te).

I really didn’t like this at all

This whole album could have been released as just the solo track Little Red Corvette

Overrated, theatraal, vage softe klanken. Paar klassiekers wel.

Cheesy 80s drum machine and keyboard music. It sounds like Prince is snarling as he sings here. This was not enjoyable.

Niente di che

Boring

Not for me. 1/5

1/10. Well well too dated. Not a fan of Prince anyways.

ugh, don't know if I'll be able to hang through this whole album, not a prince fan at all..

I’m not convinced that this album isn’t a prank. It really sounds like prince just went wild over bop-it samples. I’m sure this was innovative in its day, but I can’t take it seriously.

no

The music that plays in hell, round 2. hated. (⌐☍_☈)

Det sämsta soundet från 80-talet. Alla låtar låter som ett demo på en synt. Ofta går beatsen och sången på loop. Det finns väldigt lite som är njutbart på skivan. Allt låter som filmmusik till B-komedier från 80-talet. Obegripligt att Prince är så hyllad. Hellre Fiona Apple än Prince.

Title track is decent though Sussudio by Phil Collins is a better song

Songs i knew:2 Songs i like:0 Jesus christ, thank god that's over with. Took me 3 attempts to finish this album, a hard graft with lots of teeth gritting. I always thought I liked prince but thats based on that video of him shredding while my guitar gently weeps. Now I've had to sit through 1 hour 10 minutes of that I'm not sure I do like him as much as I thought. Sounds like a teenager who's just discovered how to use a synthesiser while refusing to sing directly into the microphone. Can't understand a word he's saying half the time and the other half is him basically having a wank with porn on the background. Mid 1.

Might as well call this Jizzing: The Album Never been big into Prince. Talented? Sure. Prolific? Absolutely. International sex midget? So he’d have you believe. His stuff’s always left me a bit cold. Purple Rain is obviously flames 100, but his output is a bit spotty. 1999 is a brilliant tune though. I recall New Year’s Eve of 1999 fondly - Nick arrived from the birth of his first child and proceeded to squirt vodka into my mouth using some syringes he’d stolen from the hospital. What a guy. Actually this may have been NYE 2000, which still counts as it’s mentioned in the song and it’s a good anecdote, and I can’t be arsed editing this. He’s managed to formulate the single most annoying synth sound of all time on Delirious (Prince, not Nick). Impressive. “Let’s pretend we’re married and go all night” - is he taking the piss? Maybe he’s being sarcastic. MAYBE HE’S NOT AS MUCH OF A SHAGGER AS HE MAKES OUT. To give him his due, he is excellent at extended on-the-nose sex metaphors (Prince, not Nick). International lover is just ridiculous. Ultimately I think my issue with nearly all of Prince’s stuff is the production. Every note is quantised, every snare sound gated. It just gives everything this weird plastic-y sound and strangles the life out of it. This has its moments (well, one moment), but by and large I think it’s a bit shite and way too long. Guess I like my sex jams shorter and a bit more rugged. Best tracks: 1999 Worst tracks: The rest of it P.S. “two thousand zero zero” would imply the year 200,000 AD, so either he’s shit at maths or he’s doing a very big shag (Prince, not Nick).

Garbage music from the most overrated musician in the history of pop and rock. Yes, you read that correctly. Weird little midget gets a few hits here and there but otherwise his output sucks. Fight me, IDGAF.

I found this very irritating.

I hated this so much

Except for 2-3 of his most famous songs I've never really listened to Prince before. I don't think this is his most famous and popular album and I'm not sure if there is a correlation but a lot of the songs seems kind of meh. Its not bad in any means, its just not that good or anything that sticks out. Nothing that makes we want to come back and listen again.

Repetitive and feels dated, the production especially. Some of the synth lines and samples sound straight out of a sega game. Uncomfortably over sexual in places.

Few catchy songs but the production is achingly dated, it probably sounded like the sound of the future at the time but it's aged like milk!

Stupid dance music, don’t like

Besides the title track this isn't much to my taste at all 1/5

They could never make me like you Prince

Don’t like prince couldn’t listen to the first 3 songs and stopped listening

No

Starts off OK but loses steam after the first 3 songs. Too much electronic drum machine and the songs get longer and drag on. Would not listen again.

Didn't like it at all, 1.5/5. Had to stop listening ffs.

His singles are, for the most part, very well known and liked. So I was really interested to hear this whole album. How disappointing. So many people say what a talented multi-instrumentalist he is, but very few say what a self-obsessed egotistical twat he is. Unfortunately it is the latter description that comes over in the rest of this album and the good work that was done in the famous tracks is completely undone by the rest of the album. Deserves no better than a very disappointing 1

Morceaux longs et très monotones ...

Two decent hit singles followed by an hour I will never get back, an hour when I could have been listening to something great, an hour when I heard 9 songs which are all contenders for the worst song I have EVER heard. Finally 'International Lover' arrived and claimed the prize! I would rather listen to Right Said Fred singing 'I'm too Sexy' on a loop for an hour than listen to this again, and hear Prince going on, and on, and on, and on about how he is so sexy. I can't stand Right Said Fred but at least they were having a laugh, Prince seemed to believe it all and it's so boring!!! He was an incredible musician, he wrote and performed some great stuff, but only when he dropped this egotistical nonsense!

Not his best work

Couldn't relate much, doesn't align with my taste.

Achei paia

I stopped at D.S.M.R. Prince is one of the greatest musical minds of all time. He was an incredible multi-instrumentalist and an absolute legend in every sense of the word.. With that said, I hated this album so much. I didn’t even finish it, and even skipped a couple songs. All of the tracks seem to be at least 2 minutes longer than they needed to be. I’d rather scoop my eardrums out with a cocaine spoon than listen to this ever again

Blech

Every song is one minute of shitty synth keyboard played over and over for 8 minutes. Felt like i was watching a corny 80s rom com. I dont understand prince.

I almost didn't finish listening to it. Perhaps if I had been around at the time of release, I'd have a greater appreciation for this album. There were some moments on the record that had me moving but those were few and far between.

A few of these songs are catchy, but that's the only positive thing I have to say. Every song is way too long. Prince's voice is over the top melodramatic and just sort of weird. My favorite was Lady Cab Driver until the sexual part ruined it.

All the songs sound the same and are too long.

I just don't get Prince. I liked Little Red Corvette, that's about it.

Gefällt mir nicht.

eh i didn’t really like this album. the first song 1999 is great. a timeless classic. but the rest of the album didn’t stick out to me and i was just bored while listening to this album

Couldn't even finish it. I can't figure out the hype with Prince.

Not my thing

Not a big fan

Yuck!!

i don't get the hype

Out

Listened to about half of it. Obviously there's a lot of talent and cultural relevance here but it just isn't my cup of tea.

Didn’t do much for me

Everytime I listen to Prince it just sounds like he's trying to do things to my earhole non-consensually. This album was the worst case of it. This should never have been a 70 minute album. 1999 the song was pretty good. DMSR needs to be erased off of this planet. I hated this album. I know a 31 year old white male born in 1992 probably wasn't Princes target audience for this album but I don't care.

Awful

So long, so sexual. Prince makes Robert Plant look elementary with his insane level of sexual groans and innuendos. The music just doesn't do it for me. Also why did this album come out in the 1980s?

If I could rate this album lower than 1, I would. It's rubbish. Below average, made-in-his-bedroom-when-he-was-14-and-thought-it-was-cool, drum machine Casio VL-Tone electro garbage. Couldn't make it through a whole song, and every sung sounded like the last. Weak.

Not sure how to explain this album, just a generally very annoying record. I feel obliged to like Prince’s music but I really hate it

Not my cup of tea.

Not my cup of tea. The 80s pop music seems to be created with the latest technologies for the time but these techs sound retro now and they are not like the ones from 60s and 70s that are not digital and still sound good.

Title track great. This album hasn't aged well. Some of the beats and melodies sound like they have been done by a three year old. Songs are way too long and repetitive. Boring, will never listen to this again

Just boring. I was originally going to review this with "horse shit". But it's worse than that - it's boring horse shit. And Free is worse than that again. I have a mate who really likes Prince - the sort of bloke who hears one song and decides he's going to like everything the artist does. Little Red Corvette doesn't make this a great album (you can keep 1999 - that's more of the same). Great albums need more than one or two decent tunes, and this is just boring as fuck.

Couldn't enjoy this. With the risk of annoying Prince fans i found it repetitive, turgid music. It felt like a really lazy album. Probably wouldn't appear in my top 10000 albums.

I've never understood the fuss about Prince; there's nothing on this album that wasn't already going on: Nile Rodgers had been doing this stuff for years. Bowie, Heaven 17, numerous second rate new romantic bands. It's merely not very good disco music.

Esperaba mucho y no me gustó.

I dislike this immensely. Prince is cheesy and while he's a really great musician, none of it ever leaves that cheesy 80s lane. Also not helping was his planet sized ego. This just isn't for me.

Kinda like the Madonna album, there are two good songs and the rest are trash.

This album is very bad. Not good! Prince is considered an enigma, a prodigy, one of the greats - but this album is just not good. The album starts off okay, 1999 and Little Red Corvette are half-decent songs. Everything after is downright terrible. Most tracks are 6-9 minutes and don't really offer much beyond a standard chorus/verse structure, so these tracks don't really go anywhere - why not make them 3-4 minutes then? I understand that this is a concept album and there's some story but that doesn't excuse making the music crap for the sake of whatever story he's trying to tell. I partially hope there's a better Prince album in this list but then I'd risk having to listen to some of his crap songs.

Prince is actually one of the greatest guitars of all time but I barely hear any noticeable guitar parts, with the exception of a couple songs. A damn shame. Most of these songs are stuck in a very specific era of time. Which is hard to listen to if that vibe isn’t popular at the current moment. Most of this album doesn’t transcend time, which is the sign of a great album, in my opinion. I like a few Prince songs, and I’m kinda into his whole aura. But the majority of this record sucks. It’s very Madonna-ish.

Prince can rip on the guitar (although you wouldn't know it) and he's got a great voice but man, this was not enjoyable, almost turned it off a few different times. No real highlights for me, maybe Delirious because I found it pretty catchy? DMSR is one of the worst songs I've ever heard. A lot of the production on this album is pretty cringe.

Prince was an immensely talented musician who used his abilities to create awful music. It's like if all Monet did was take big steaming dumps on canvases.

did not like.

1999: 3/5. It's a classic, but nothing special by today's standards. Little Red Corvette: 4/5. Nice beats, I'm a fan of synth. Delirious: 3/5. Nothing remarkable. Let's Pretend We're Married: 1/5. Lyrics get real awful by the end, so sad. D.M.S.R.: 1/5. Yawning... Automatic: 1/5. Cease the cheesiness at the end, my god. Something in the Water: 1/5. This song could turn frogs gay. Free: 1/5. Uninspiring. Lady Cab Driver: 1/5. Song not to hear in public, and maybe not at all. All the Critics Love U in New York: 2/5. One minute song gone for too long. International Lover: 1/5. And here I thought this was post-nut clarity. Nope.

Not my taste.

No, tremendo.

Não gostei de nada, mas não gosto de Prince então dificulta

לא שמעתי את כולו, קצת חזר על עצמו ושיעמם אבל אולי זה כי לא היה לי הרבה כוח לשמוע אותו

Auf seine eigene Art extrem nervig. 1.1

I don't like prince that much.

I just don't get why Prince is considered so special.

Made me kinda uncomfortable

This album confirmed my long-held opinion that Prince's head is so far up his own backside that he just ponces on stage

3/10

Not my style

Honestly very repitive, the weird deep vocals at the beginning didn't add anything to the song except for a creepy feeling. Might have to try another prince album... I don't think this one is a great representation of his work.

Beautifully

Meh

Amazing that this was written in the early 80s. First half is great. Second half is decent and closes strong.