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{{Infobox album
| name = I Predict 1990
| type = studio
| artist = [[Steve Taylor]]
| cover = IPredict1990-Album.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1987
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = {{flatlist|
* Music Grinder {{small|[[Los Angeles]], California}}
* Reelsound Bus {{small|[[Nashville, Tennessee]]}}
* Wayne Cook Studios {{small|Los Angeles, California}}
* CBS Studios {{small|London}}
}}
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| length = 43:44
| label = [[Myrrh Records|Myrrh]]
| producer = The Beaufort Twins {{small|Dave Perkins and [[Steve Taylor]]}}
| prev_title = [[On the Fritz]]
| prev_year = 1985
| next_title = [[Squint (Steve Taylor album)|Squint]]
| next_year = 1993
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r91301}}</ref>
| rev2=''[[CCM Magazine]]''
| rev2Score=(not rated)<ref name="CCM_10_7">{{cite journal |last=Brown |first=Bruce A. |date=January 1988 |title=Reviews: ''I Predict 1990'' |journal=[[CCM Magazine]] |issn=1524-7848 |volume=10 |issue=7 |pages=34, 36 }}</ref>
}}
'''''I Predict 1990''''' is the title of the fourth release and third full-length album by singer-songwriter [[Steve Taylor]]. Lyrically, the album explores actions that exploit others to various ends from multiple perspectives. ''CCM'' magazine found that the overall theme is that the ends never justify the means.<ref name="CCM_10_7"/> It was released as a one-off on [[Myrrh Records]] instead of [[Sparrow Records]]. Taylor has said that the album's title was meant as a [[parody]] of a [[Lester Sumrall]] TV program and book, ''I Predict 1986''.<ref name="chattaway">{{Cite web |last=Chattaway|first=Peter |title=Steve Taylor Interview = |publication-date=1997|url= http://peter.chattaway.com/articles/steve97.htm}}</ref>

==Background==
The cover was designed and painted by Taylor's wife, Debi. It was intended to resemble early 20th-century French poster art; however, some Christians felt that it resembled a [[tarot]] card, which sparked controversy. Additionally, one televangelist claimed that the image was of Taylor [[Satanism|saluting Satan]],<ref name="WD_145"/> and that it additionally contained [[subliminal stimuli|secret messages]] and links to [[New Age]] philosophy.<ref name="WD_145">{{cite journal |last=Peterson |first=Doug |title=Door Magazine, This Is Your Life! Revisiting Past Graduates of The Door Interview, Part 5 |journal=The Whittenburg Door |date=Jan–Feb 1996 |issue=145 |issn=1044-7512}}</ref> These accusations caused some Christian book stores to pull the album.<ref name="Powell_fe">{{Cite book |last=Powell |first=Mark Allan |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers |place=[[Peabody, Massachusetts|Peabody]], [[Massachusetts]] |edition=First printing |publication-date=2002 |isbn=1-56563-679-1 |year=2002 |chapter=Steve Taylor |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/931 931] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/931 }}</ref><ref name="Gibson">{{Cite thesis |degree=MFA|last=Gibson |first=Sarah Edith |title=Behind the Scenes of the Steve Taylor Story: A Documentary |publisher=University of North Texas |date=2009|url= https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc10992/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf |page=6}}</ref>

Per the album's credits, all songs were written by Steve Taylor, except "Babylon" by Taylor and Dave Perkins. The ending theme to "Jim Morrison's Grave" was "borrowed" from [[Claude Debussy]]; and [[Vocalise (Rachmaninoff)|the introduction]] to "Harder to Believe" was "stolen" from [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://empoprise-mu.blogspot.com/2010/02/jim-morrisons-grave-steve-taylor-song.html |title=Jim Morrison's Grave (the Steve Taylor song) and Kurt Cobain |last1= Bredehoft |first1= John E. |date= 2010-02-22 |website= Empoprise-MU |access-date= 2016-05-31}}</ref>

The song "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good" proved controversial. The song's lyrics – a scathing critique of [[anti-abortion]] activists who in turn [[Anti-abortion violence|blow up abortion clinics or kill doctors]] – resulted in Christian bookstores pulling the album, either because the song's critique of the [[anti-abortion]] movement offended store owners and customers, or because these same individuals missed the song's satirical point, and believed Taylor advocated such violence. Taylor himself would occasionally call these stores to personally explain the song to them.<ref name="CCM">''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music''; Powell; p931; Hendrickson Publishers; paperback edition (August 2002)</ref> Taylor's tour of Australia was canceled due to the controversy around "I Blew Up The Clinic Real Good", largely due to misunderstanding of its satire.<ref name="WD_145"/>

Disillusioned with the Christian music scene following these and other controversies during the course of his career, Taylor formed the secular alternative rock band [[Chagall Guevara]] shortly after the release of the album.<ref name="sockheaven">{{cite web|url=http://www.sockheaven.net/press/interviews/nc_20060616|title=Steve Taylor Interview}}</ref>

==Track listing==
# "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good" – 4:12
# "What Is the Measure of Your Success?" – 4:39
# "Since I Gave Up Hope I Feel a Lot Better" – 3:29
# "Babylon" – 4:51
# "Jim Morrison's Grave" – 4:29
# "Svengali" – 4:30
# "[[Carl Jung|Jung]] and the Restless" – 4:32
# "Innocence Lost" – 5:03
# "A Principled Man" – 3:27
# "Harder to Believe Than Not To" – 4:32

== Personnel ==
'''Some Band'''
: Steve Taylor – vocals and backup percussion
: Dave Thrush – saxophones
: Jeff Stone – guitar
: Glen Holmen – bass
: Jack Kelly – drums
: Steve Goomas – keyboards
: Gym Nicholson – guitar

'''Additional musicians'''
: Dave Perkins – additional guitar on all songs except "Jim Morrison's Grave" and "Harder to Believe"
: Greg Husted – assorted keyboard tracks and accordion
: [[Papa John Creach]] – fiddle
: [[Ashley Cleveland]] – vocal stylings on "Jim Morrison's Grave", "Svengali" and "Babylon"
: Annie McCaig – backing vocals on "Success" and "A Principled Man"
: [[Nathan East]] – bass on "Clinic"
: Gary Lunn – bass on "Hope"
: Lisa Cates – percussion
: [[Mike Mead]] – more percussion
: Mary Bates – operatic vocal on "Harder to Believe"
: [[Jim Horn]] – tenor saxophone on "Clinic"
: Ross Holmen – French horn
: John Andrew Schreiner – synth bass on "Svengali"
: Janet Croninger – "Jung" woman
: [[Fred Travalena]] – "Jung" doctor
: [[Del Newman]] – orchestration on "Harder to Believe Than Not To"

'''Production notes'''
: The Beaufort Twins (Dave Perkins and Steve Taylor) – producers and engineers
: Dave Perkins – producer, engineer, mixing
: Steve Taylor – producer, mixing
: David Schober – engineer
: Malcolm Harper – engineer
: Robert Wartinbee – assistant engineer
: Michael Ross – engineer on "Harder To Believe"
: Music Grinder, [[Los Angeles]], California – recording location
: Reelsound Bus, [[Nashville, Tennessee]] – recording location
: Wayne Cook Studios, Los Angeles, California – recording location
: [[Columbia Records|CBS Studios]], London – recording location
: Reelsound truck, [[Austin, Texas]] (48 track) – mixing location
: Bob Ludwig – mastering
: [[Masterdisk]], New York, New York – mastering location

* Dave Perkins and Steve Taylor are listed as producers as "The Beaufort Twins." A likely satire of the [[Mick Jagger]] & [[Keith Richards]] production/songwriting partnership billed as [[The Glimmer Twins]]. They got the name from the [[Blackadder]] TV show.<ref name="chattaway" />

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