1999 (album)
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| 1999 | ||
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| [[Image:|200px|Album cover]] | ||
| Album by Prince | ||
| Released | 1982 | |
| Recorded | ||
| Genre | Pop, Rock, Funk | |
| Length | ||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |
| Producer | Prince | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Prince Chronology | ||
| Controversy_(album) {1981) | 1999 (1982) | Purple_Rain_(album) (1984) |
1999 (also known as Nineteen Ninety-Nine) is Prince's fifth album, which was released in October 1982 (see 1982 in music). It became his first Top 10 album on the Billboard 200.
In 2003 the TV network VH1 named 1999 the 49th greatest album of all time.
Track listing
- "1999"
- "Little Red Corvette"
- "Delirious"
- "Let's Pretend We're Married"
- "D.M.S.R."
- "Automatic"
- "Something In the Water (Does Not Compute)"
- "Free"
- "Lady Cab Driver"
- "All the Critics Love U In New York"
- "International Lover"
Singles and Hot 100 Chart Placings
- "1999" #12
- "Little Red Corvette" #6
- "Delirious" #8
- "Let's Pretend We're Married" / "Irrisistible Bitch" #52
Trivia
"Irrisistible Bitch" is not featured on the album, but received significant airplay as "Let's Pretend We're Married"'s B-side to have it listed as a double-sided hit in Billboard.
"Little Red Corvette" was Prince's first Top 10 on the Hot 100.
"1999" was originally the first single released from the album and it peaked at #44. After the Top 10 success of "Little Red Corvette," it was rereleased and hit #12.
1999 was originally released as a double vinyl album. When the compact disc was a new product on the market and many albums were bring transferred to this new media, technological limitations of CD players did not allow playing discs longer than approximately 70-74 minutes. Thus, in early CD pressings of 1999, the track "D.M.S.R." was omitted.
The song "1999" was originally to be sung entirely in three part harmony between Prince, guitarist Dez Dickerson and Lisa Coleman. While mixing the track, Prince split up the vocal parts and decided it sounded better with each line of the lyrics sung by a different individual.
The 1999 cover makes the first reference to Prince's band The Revolution. Shown within the letter "I" in "Prince" (some say it also looks like the numeral "1") the words and the Revolution appear, written backwards.
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