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1999 (Prince album)

August 24, 2023

This article is about the album. For the title track, see 1999 (Prince song).

1999 is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Prince, released on October 27, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It became his first album to be recorded with his band the Revolution. 1999's critical and commercial success propelled Prince to a place in the public psyche and marked the beginning of two years of heightened fame via his following releases.[9]

1999
Studio album by
Prince and the Revolution
ReleasedOctober 27, 1982 (1982-10-27)
RecordedJanuary–August 1982
Studio
Genre
Length70:29
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerPrince
Prince chronology
Controversy
(1981) 		1999
(1982) 		Purple Rain
(1984)
Singles from 1999
  1. "1999"
    Released: September 24, 1982
  2. "Little Red Corvette"
    Released: February 9, 1983
  3. "Delirious"
    Released: August 17, 1983
  4. "Automatic"
    Released: August 1983 (non-US single)
  5. "Let's Pretend We're Married"
    Released: November 23, 1983

1999 was Prince's first top 10 album on the Billboard 200, peaking at number nine, and was fifth in the Billboard Year-End Albums of 1983. "1999", a protest against nuclear proliferation, was a Billboard Hot 100 top 20 hit, peaking at number 12. It has since become one of Prince's most recognizable compositions. "Delirious" reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, while "Little Red Corvette" peaked at number six, becoming Prince's highest charting US single at the time. "International Lover" was also nominated for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 26th Grammy Awards, which was Prince's first Grammy Award nomination.

1999 received widespread acclaim from critics, and was seen as Prince's breakthrough album. On March 24, 1999, 1999 was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Following Prince's death in 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 and peaked at number seven, besting its original performance on the chart thirty-three years earlier. A re-release and remaster of the album, including 35 previously unreleased recordings, was released in November 2019.[10]

1999 has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time by several publications and organizations.[11] The music videos for both "1999" and "Little Red Corvette" received heavy rotation on MTV, making Prince one of the first black artists to be prominently featured on the television channel.[12] According to the Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), "1999 may be Prince's most influential album: Its synth-and-drum machine-heavy arrangements codified the Minneapolis sound that loomed over mid-'80s R&B and pop, not to mention the next two decades' worth of electro, house, and techno."[9] It is also included on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2008, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[13]

Composition

The album's opening title track, "1999", was also its first single and initially peaked at No. 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100.[14][15] It was subsequently re-released following the huge success of its follow-up single and 1999's second track, "Little Red Corvette", which peaked at No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (like other Prince songs, it again charted after his death, reaching No. 3).[16] Lisa Coleman - who sang on the album - recalled how Prince came up with "Little Red Corvette" after sleeping in her pink Mercury Montclair Maurauder.[17] Shortly after being reissued, "1999" hit No. 12, and subsequently became one of Prince's most recognizable compositions.[18] Its composition, and inclusion in the album, may have been originally prompted by a suggestion from the record company.[19]

The music videos for both "1999" and "Little Red Corvette" were significant as two of the first videos by a black artist to receive heavy rotation on the newly launched music video channel, MTV, after heated controversy over its failure to promote black performers.[20][21][22] The two tracks were later combined as a double A-side single in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 2. A subsequent single from the album and its third chronological track, the rockabilly-influenced "Delirious", still managed top ten status in the United States at No. 8, but a fourth, the double-sided single "Let's Pretend We're Married"/"Irresistible Bitch", got no further than No. 52.[23]

While "Little Red Corvette" helped Prince cross over to the wider rock audience,[24] the rest of 1999 retains the funk elements featured in previous albums and is dominated by the use of synthesizers and drum machines. The album is, however, notable within Prince's catalogue for its wide variety of themes in addition to the sexual imagery which had already become something of a trademark on his previous work.[25] "Automatic", extending to almost ten minutes, starts side three of the album with a prominent synthesizer melody and bondage-inspired lyrical imagery which, transplanted to the music video for the track (with a scene that depicted Prince being tied up and whipped by band-members Lisa Coleman and Jill Jones), had been deemed too sexual for MTV in 1983.[26]

"Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)", an ode to a harsh lover, is the centerpiece of a preoccupation with Computer Age themes that would continue into future albums.[27][28] This is also reflected in various aspects of the album's instrumentation, with Prince fully embracing the gadgetry and sounds of emergent electro-funk and 1980s sequencing technology on tracks like "Let's Pretend We're Married" and "All the Critics Love U in New York", songs that widen his use of synthesizers and prominently feature the use of a Linn LM-1 drum machine.[29] 1999 also contains two ballads in "Free", a piano piece encouraging people to count their blessings and be thankful for what they have, and "International Lover", a slow-paced love song for which Prince received his first Grammy Award nomination in 1984 under the category of Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.[30]

Artwork

The album's cover features elements from the front cover of Prince's previous album, Controversy; namely the eyes and the "Rude Boy" pin in the "1999", the jacket studs in the "R" and the smile in the "P". The "I" in "Prince" contains the words "and the Revolution" written backwards (as "dna eht noituloveR"), both acknowledging his backing band and foreshadowing the next four years of his career.

Release

1999 was released on October 27, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It was the fifth album released by Prince. 1999 was Prince's first top ten album on the Billboard 200, peaking at number nine. It was fifth in the Billboard Year-End Albums of 1983. Following Prince's death in 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 and peaked at number seven, besting its original performance on the chart thirty-three years earlier. It also peaked in the top 10 in New Zealand, reaching number six on the New Zealand Albums Chart in 1982.

Remastered, Deluxe and Super Deluxe re-issues

The album was released as a Remastered, Deluxe and Super Deluxe edition on November 29, 2019. The most elaborate re-issue contains five CDs featuring previously-unreleased tracks, and a live DVD, with a total running time of 5 hours & 53 minutes.[31] It reached the top 20 of the charts in Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary.

Critical reception and legacy

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic100/100
(2019 edition)[32]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [1]
Blender     [33]
Chicago Sun-Times    [34]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[35]
The Guardian     [36]
Pitchfork10/10[37]
Rolling Stone     [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [38]
Spin Alternative Record Guide8/10[39]
The Village VoiceA−[2]

1999 was well received by contemporary critics. Reviewing for Rolling Stone in December 1982, Michael Hill praised Prince for "working like a colorblind technician who's studied both Devo and Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force, keeping the [1999's] songs constantly kinetic with an inventive series of shocks and surprises."[40] The Village Voice reviewer Robert Christgau was more reserved in his praise. While conceding that, "like every black pop auteur, Prince commands his own personal groove ... stretching his flat funk forcebeat onto two discs worth of deeply useful dance tracks", he also believed that the musician's only reliable subject remains race, leaving the critic with doubts about the messages behind the sex and apocalyptic songs.[2]

Retrospective appraisals have been even more favorable. According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), "1999 may be Prince's most influential album: Its synth-and-drum machine-heavy arrangements codified the Minneapolis sound that loomed over mid-'80s R&B and pop, not to mention the next two decades' worth of electro, house, and techno."[9] Paul A. Thompson of Pitchfork noted the way Prince "marshal[led] the Reagan years and the LM-1 for his own purposes" has rarely been replicated and called 1999 a "rare record that has come to define its era while also existing outside of it, a masterpiece that immediately precedes the albums Prince fashioned, conspicuously, as masterpieces." Thompson also described the album as a "computer breathing."[41] Also writing for Pitchfork, Maura Johnston wrote in 2016 that through the "balancing synth-funk explorations...taut pop construction, genre-bending, and the proto-nuclear fallout of lust, 1999 still sounds like a landmark release in 2016". Johnston further praised Prince's "singular vision and willingness to indulge his curiosities" for creating an "apocalypse-anticipating album that, perhaps paradoxically, was built to last for decades and even centuries to come."[42] Writing for PopMatters, Eric Henderson called 1999 a "massive, sexy, rump-shaking, and sometimes even disturbing masterpiece" and stated that even though it may not be better than Dirty Mind, Purple Rain, and Sign o' the Times, the album represented a "quantum leap in sophistication and scope." Henderson also claimed that 1999 raised the bar for '80s funk.[43]

1999 has appeared frequently on professional listings of the greatest albums.[44] In 1989, Rolling Stone ranked 1999 16th on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s.[11] In 2003, VH1 placed 1999 number 48 in its list of the 100 Greatest Albums.[45] The album was also part of Slant Magazine's list The 50 Most Essential Pop Albums[46] and the magazine listed the album at number 8 on its list of Best Albums of the 1980s.[47] In 2003, the album was ranked number 163 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It maintained the rating in a 2012 revised list,[48] and was re-ranked number 130 in 2020.[49] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[50] The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.[13] Based on such listings and honors, the aggregate website Acclaimed Music ranks it as the 207th most acclaimed album in history, as well as the third most from 1982.[44]

Track listing

Original album

All tracks are written by Prince

Side one[51]
No.TitleLength
1."1999"6:15
2."Little Red Corvette"5:03
3."Delirious"4:00
Total length:15:18
Side two
No.TitleLength
4."Let's Pretend We're Married"7:21
5."D.M.S.R."8:17
Total length:15:38
Side three
No.TitleLength
6."Automatic"9:28
7."Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)"4:02
8."Free"5:08
Total length:18:38
Side four
No.TitleLength
9."Lady Cab Driver"8:19
10."All the Critics Love U in New York"5:59
11."International Lover"6:37
Total length:20:55

Alternate formats

  • Originally released on vinyl as a double LP (the first of a number of double sets from Prince), 1999 was cut to a single vinyl edition in some countries, omitting "D.M.S.R.", "Automatic", "All the Critics Love U in New York" and "International Lover"; this single LP was reissued as part of Record Store Day 2018.[52]

All tracks are written by Prince

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."1999"6:15
2."Little Red Corvette"5:03
3."Delirious"4:00
4."Free"5:08
Total length:20:26
Side two
No.TitleLength
5."Let's Pretend We're Married"7:21
6."Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)"4:02
7."Lady Cab Driver"8:19
Total length:19:42

Some countries in 1983, such as Brazil and Kenya, opted to issue the release as two separate vinyl albums, 1999 I and 1999 II.[53]

  • The original compact disc version of the album was also cut, omitting "D.M.S.R." There is a notice on the back cover of the original compact disc pressing that reads "To enable the release of 1999 as a single compact disc, the song 'D.M.S.R.' has been omitted from the original LP edition." Later compact disc pressings (from a 1990 reissue onward) included the track.
  • On the cassette release, "Free" was placed after "D.M.S.R." to end the first side, balancing out the lengths of both sides of the cassette.

Remastered, deluxe and super deluxe editions

The Remastered edition contains a remaster of the original album. The Deluxe edition contains the remaster and a bonus disc with all the single, maxi-single and promo mixes as well as the B-sides. The Super Deluxe edition contains four more discs: Two of them contain 24 previously unissued studio tracks, the third contains a complete live audio performance of the 1999 Tour recorded at the late show (the second of two that day) in Detroit, Michigan, on November 30, 1982, and a DVD with another complete, previously unreleased concert from the 1999 Tour, recorded in multi-cam live at the Houston Summit on December 29, 1982. The albums were also issued on vinyl in a 2 LP, 4 LP and 10 LP + DVD set.[54] The Super Deluxe edition and the Deluxe edition are both completely out of print physically.

Disc 1: 2019 remaster
No.TitleLength
1."1999"6:14
2."Little Red Corvette"5:04
3."Delirious"4:00
4."Let's Pretend We're Married"7:20
5."D.M.S.R."8:18
6."Automatic"9:26
7."Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)"4:02
8."Free"5:07
9."Lady Cab Driver"8:17
10."All the Critics Love U in New York"5:58
11."International Lover"6:38
Disc 2: Promo Mixes & B-Sides
No.TitleLength
1."1999" (7" Stereo Edit)3:37
2."1999" (7" Mono Promo-Only Edit)3:35
3."Free" (Promo-Only Edit)4:36
4."How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" ("1999" B-Side)3:55
5."Little Red Corvette" (7" Edit)3:08
6."All The Critics Love U In New York" (7" Edit)3:16
7."Lady Cab Driver" (7" Edit)5:06
8."Little Red Corvette" (Dance Remix Promo-Only Edit)4:34
9."Little Red Corvette" (Special Dance Mix)8:31
10."Delirious" (7" Edit)2:39
11."Horny Toad" ("Delirious" B-Side)2:13
12."Automatic" (7" Edit)3:40
13."Automatic" (Video Version)8:21
14."Let's Pretend We're Married" (7" Edit)3:45
15."Let's Pretend We're Married" (7" Mono Promo-Only Edit)3:44
16."Irresistible Bitch" ("Let's Pretend We're Married" B-Side)4:14
17."Let's Pretend We're Married" (Video Version)4:03
18."D.M.S.R." (Edit)5:06
Disc 3: Vault Tracks I
No.TitleLength
1."Feel U Up"6:42
2."Irresistible Bitch"4:39
3."Money Don't Grow on Trees"4:19
4."Vagina"3:28
5."Rearrange"6:11
6."Bold Generation"5:54
7."Colleen"5:30
8."International Lover" (Take 1, Live in Studio)7:20
9."Turn It Up"5:23
10."You're All I Want"3:00
11."Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)" (Original Version)4:00
12."If It'll Make U Happy"4:12
13."How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" (Take 2, Live in Studio)6:11
Disc 4: Vault Tracks II
No.TitleLength
1."Possessed" (1982 version)8:47
2."Delirious" (Full-Length)6:00
3."Purple Music"10:58
4."Yah, You Know"3:11
5."Moonbeam Levels" (previously released on the 2016 compilation 4Ever)4:23
6."No Call U"4:30
7."Can't Stop This Feeling I Got"2:40
8."Do Yourself a Favor" (written by Pepé Willie and Jesse Johnson)9:01
9."Don't Let Him Fool Ya"4:35
10."Teacher, Teacher"3:37
11."Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Head / Little Red Corvette" (Tour Demo)7:00
Disc 5: Live in Detroit 11/30/82
No.TitleLength
1."Controversy"5:41
2."Let's Work"5:27
3."Little Red Corvette"4:18
4."Do Me, Baby"7:18
5."Head"4:13
6."Uptown"2:55
7."Interlude"2:15
8."How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?"7:03
9."Automatic"7:02
10."International Lover"8:41
11."1999"10:25
12."D.M.S.R."8:03
Disc 6 (DVD): Live in Houston 12/29/82
No.TitleLength
1."Controversy"5:01
2."Let's Work"5:24
3."Do Me, Baby"6:21
4."D.M.S.R."4:28
5."Interlude"3:35
6."Piano Improvisation" (Contains Elements of "With You")1:38
7."How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?"8:18
8."Lady Cab Driver"3:30
9."Automatic"5:47
10."International Lover"9:52
11."1999"8:09
12."Head" (Contains Elements of "Sexuality")5:54

Personnel

Musicians

  • Prince – lead and backing vocals, electric guitars, ARP Omni-2, Oberheim OB-X, Oberheim OB-Xa, Oberheim OB-SX, Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano, piano, bass guitar, Linn LM-1, Pearl SY-1 Syncussion, drums, handclaps, fingersnaps
  • Lisa Coleman – co-lead vocals (1), backing vocals (2, 3, 5, 6, 8), handclaps (5)
  • Dez Dickerson – co-lead vocals (1), electric guitar solos (2), backing vocals (2, 5), handclaps (5)
  • Jill Jones – co-lead vocals (1), backing vocals (6, 8, 9)
  • Jesse Johnson – backing vocals (1) (uncredited)
  • Bobby Z. – Pearl SY-1 Syncussion (1, 5), cymbals (5) (uncredited)
  • Brown Mark – backing vocals and handclaps (5)
  • Jamie Shoop – backing vocals and handclaps (5)
  • Carol McGovney – backing vocals and handclaps (5)
  • Peggy McCreary – backing vocals and handclaps (5)
  • Poochie – backing vocals and handclaps (5)
  • The Count – backing vocals and handclaps (5)
  • Vanity – backing vocals (8)
  • Wendy Melvoin – backing vocals (8)
  • Morris Day – possible drums (11)

Production

  • Prince – producer and arranger
  • Peggy McCreary – engineer
  • Don Batts – assistant engineer
  • Bernie Grundman – mastering (A&M Records)

While not performance credited for the studio recordings, band members Doctor Fink (keyboards), Bobby Z. (drums) and Brown Mark (bass) do appear in the music videos.

Singles

  • "1999" (No. 12 US, No. 4 US R&B, No. 25 UK)
  1. "1999"
  2. "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?"
  1. "Little Red Corvette"
  2. "All the Critics Love U in New York"
  1. "Delirious"
  2. "Horny Toad"
  • "Automatic" (AUS)
  1. "Automatic"
  2. "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)"
  1. "Let's Pretend We're Married"
  2. "Irresistible Bitch"

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for 1999
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[79] Gold 50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[80] Gold 7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[81] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[82] 4× Platinum 4,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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This article is about the album For the title track see 1999 Prince song 1999 is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Prince released on October 27 1982 by Warner Bros Records It became his first album to be recorded with his band the Revolution 1999 s critical and commercial success propelled Prince to a place in the public psyche and marked the beginning of two years of heightened fame via his following releases 9 1999Studio album by Prince and the RevolutionReleasedOctober 27 1982 1982 10 27 RecordedJanuary August 1982StudioKiowa Trail Home Chanhassen Minnesota Sunset Sound Recorders Hollywood California GenreFunk 1 2 synth pop 3 R amp B 4 Minneapolis sound 5 art pop 6 dance 2 new wave 7 8 Length70 29LabelWarner Bros ProducerPrincePrince chronologyControversy 1981 1999 1982 Purple Rain 1984 Singles from 1999 1999 Released September 24 1982 Little Red Corvette Released February 9 1983 Delirious Released August 17 1983 Automatic Released August 1983 non US single Let s Pretend We re Married Released November 23 19831999 was Prince s first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 peaking at number nine and was fifth in the Billboard Year End Albums of 1983 1999 a protest against nuclear proliferation was a Billboard Hot 100 top 20 hit peaking at number 12 It has since become one of Prince s most recognizable compositions Delirious reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 while Little Red Corvette peaked at number six becoming Prince s highest charting US single at the time International Lover was also nominated for Best Male R amp B Vocal Performance at the 26th Grammy Awards which was Prince s first Grammy Award nomination 1999 received widespread acclaim from critics and was seen as Prince s breakthrough album On March 24 1999 1999 was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA Following Prince s death in 2016 the album re entered the Billboard 200 and peaked at number seven besting its original performance on the chart thirty three years earlier A re release and remaster of the album including 35 previously unreleased recordings was released in November 2019 10 1999 has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time by several publications and organizations 11 The music videos for both 1999 and Little Red Corvette received heavy rotation on MTV making Prince one of the first black artists to be prominently featured on the television channel 12 According to the Rolling Stone Album Guide 2004 1999 may be Prince s most influential album Its synth and drum machine heavy arrangements codified the Minneapolis sound that loomed over mid 80s R amp B and pop not to mention the next two decades worth of electro house and techno 9 It is also included on Rolling Stone s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time In 2008 the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 13 Contents 1 Composition 2 Artwork 3 Release 3 1 Remastered Deluxe and Super Deluxe re issues 4 Critical reception and legacy 5 Track listing 5 1 Original album 5 2 Remastered deluxe and super deluxe editions 6 Personnel 7 Singles 8 Charts 8 1 Weekly charts 8 1 1 Original version 8 1 2 2019 reissue 8 2 Year end charts 9 Certifications 10 References 11 External linksComposition EditThe album s opening title track 1999 was also its first single and initially peaked at No 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100 14 15 It was subsequently re released following the huge success of its follow up single and 1999 s second track Little Red Corvette which peaked at No 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 like other Prince songs it again charted after his death reaching No 3 16 Lisa Coleman who sang on the album recalled how Prince came up with Little Red Corvette after sleeping in her pink Mercury Montclair Maurauder 17 Shortly after being reissued 1999 hit No 12 and subsequently became one of Prince s most recognizable compositions 18 Its composition and inclusion in the album may have been originally prompted by a suggestion from the record company 19 The music videos for both 1999 and Little Red Corvette were significant as two of the first videos by a black artist to receive heavy rotation on the newly launched music video channel MTV after heated controversy over its failure to promote black performers 20 21 22 The two tracks were later combined as a double A side single in the United Kingdom where it peaked at number 2 A subsequent single from the album and its third chronological track the rockabilly influenced Delirious still managed top ten status in the United States at No 8 but a fourth the double sided single Let s Pretend We re Married Irresistible Bitch got no further than No 52 23 While Little Red Corvette helped Prince cross over to the wider rock audience 24 the rest of 1999 retains the funk elements featured in previous albums and is dominated by the use of synthesizers and drum machines The album is however notable within Prince s catalogue for its wide variety of themes in addition to the sexual imagery which had already become something of a trademark on his previous work 25 Automatic extending to almost ten minutes starts side three of the album with a prominent synthesizer melody and bondage inspired lyrical imagery which transplanted to the music video for the track with a scene that depicted Prince being tied up and whipped by band members Lisa Coleman and Jill Jones had been deemed too sexual for MTV in 1983 26 Something in the Water Does Not Compute an ode to a harsh lover is the centerpiece of a preoccupation with Computer Age themes that would continue into future albums 27 28 This is also reflected in various aspects of the album s instrumentation with Prince fully embracing the gadgetry and sounds of emergent electro funk and 1980s sequencing technology on tracks like Let s Pretend We re Married and All the Critics Love U in New York songs that widen his use of synthesizers and prominently feature the use of a Linn LM 1 drum machine 29 1999 also contains two ballads in Free a piano piece encouraging people to count their blessings and be thankful for what they have and International Lover a slow paced love song for which Prince received his first Grammy Award nomination in 1984 under the category of Best Male R amp B Vocal Performance 30 Artwork EditThe album s cover features elements from the front cover of Prince s previous album Controversy namely the eyes and the Rude Boy pin in the 1999 the jacket studs in the R and the smile in the P The I in Prince contains the words and the Revolution written backwards as dna eht noituloveR both acknowledging his backing band and foreshadowing the next four years of his career Release Edit1999 was released on October 27 1982 by Warner Bros Records It was the fifth album released by Prince 1999 was Prince s first top ten album on the Billboard 200 peaking at number nine It was fifth in the Billboard Year End Albums of 1983 Following Prince s death in 2016 the album re entered the Billboard 200 and peaked at number seven besting its original performance on the chart thirty three years earlier It also peaked in the top 10 in New Zealand reaching number six on the New Zealand Albums Chart in 1982 Remastered Deluxe and Super Deluxe re issues Edit The album was released as a Remastered Deluxe and Super Deluxe edition on November 29 2019 The most elaborate re issue contains five CDs featuring previously unreleased tracks and a live DVD with a total running time of 5 hours amp 53 minutes 31 It reached the top 20 of the charts in Belgium the Netherlands and Hungary Critical reception and legacy EditProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic100 100 2019 edition 32 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 1 Blender 33 Chicago Sun Times 34 Entertainment WeeklyA 35 The Guardian 36 Pitchfork10 10 37 Rolling Stone 3 The Rolling Stone Album Guide 38 Spin Alternative Record Guide8 10 39 The Village VoiceA 2 1999 was well received by contemporary critics Reviewing for Rolling Stone in December 1982 Michael Hill praised Prince for working like a colorblind technician who s studied both Devo and Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force keeping the 1999 s songs constantly kinetic with an inventive series of shocks and surprises 40 The Village Voice reviewer Robert Christgau was more reserved in his praise While conceding that like every black pop auteur Prince commands his own personal groove stretching his flat funk forcebeat onto two discs worth of deeply useful dance tracks he also believed that the musician s only reliable subject remains race leaving the critic with doubts about the messages behind the sex and apocalyptic songs 2 Retrospective appraisals have been even more favorable According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide 2004 1999 may be Prince s most influential album Its synth and drum machine heavy arrangements codified the Minneapolis sound that loomed over mid 80s R amp B and pop not to mention the next two decades worth of electro house and techno 9 Paul A Thompson of Pitchfork noted the way Prince marshal led the Reagan years and the LM 1 for his own purposes has rarely been replicated and called 1999 a rare record that has come to define its era while also existing outside of it a masterpiece that immediately precedes the albums Prince fashioned conspicuously as masterpieces Thompson also described the album as a computer breathing 41 Also writing for Pitchfork Maura Johnston wrote in 2016 that through the balancing synth funk explorations taut pop construction genre bending and the proto nuclear fallout of lust 1999 still sounds like a landmark release in 2016 Johnston further praised Prince s singular vision and willingness to indulge his curiosities for creating an apocalypse anticipating album that perhaps paradoxically was built to last for decades and even centuries to come 42 Writing for PopMatters Eric Henderson called 1999 a massive sexy rump shaking and sometimes even disturbing masterpiece and stated that even though it may not be better than Dirty Mind Purple Rain and Sign o the Times the album represented a quantum leap in sophistication and scope Henderson also claimed that 1999 raised the bar for 80s funk 43 1999 has appeared frequently on professional listings of the greatest albums 44 In 1989 Rolling Stone ranked 1999 16th on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s 11 In 2003 VH1 placed 1999 number 48 in its list of the 100 Greatest Albums 45 The album was also part of Slant Magazine s list The 50 Most Essential Pop Albums 46 and the magazine listed the album at number 8 on its list of Best Albums of the 1980s 47 In 2003 the album was ranked number 163 on Rolling Stone magazine s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time It maintained the rating in a 2012 revised list 48 and was re ranked number 130 in 2020 49 The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 50 The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008 13 Based on such listings and honors the aggregate website Acclaimed Music ranks it as the 207th most acclaimed album in history as well as the third most from 1982 44 Track listing EditOriginal album Edit All tracks are written by PrinceSide one 51 No TitleLength1 1999 6 152 Little Red Corvette 5 033 Delirious 4 00Total length 15 18 Side twoNo TitleLength4 Let s Pretend We re Married 7 215 D M S R 8 17Total length 15 38 Side threeNo TitleLength6 Automatic 9 287 Something in the Water Does Not Compute 4 028 Free 5 08Total length 18 38 Side fourNo TitleLength9 Lady Cab Driver 8 1910 All the Critics Love U in New York 5 5911 International Lover 6 37Total length 20 55 Alternate formats Originally released on vinyl as a double LP the first of a number of double sets from Prince 1999 was cut to a single vinyl edition in some countries omitting D M S R Automatic All the Critics Love U in New York and International Lover this single LP was reissued as part of Record Store Day 2018 52 All tracks are written by PrinceSide oneNo TitleLength1 1999 6 152 Little Red Corvette 5 033 Delirious 4 004 Free 5 08Total length 20 26 Side twoNo TitleLength5 Let s Pretend We re Married 7 216 Something in the Water Does Not Compute 4 027 Lady Cab Driver 8 19Total length 19 42 Some countries in 1983 such as Brazil and Kenya opted to issue the release as two separate vinyl albums 1999 I and 1999 II 53 The original compact disc version of the album was also cut omitting D M S R There is a notice on the back cover of the original compact disc pressing that reads To enable the release of 1999 as a single compact disc the song D M S R has been omitted from the original LP edition Later compact disc pressings from a 1990 reissue onward included the track On the cassette release Free was placed after D M S R to end the first side balancing out the lengths of both sides of the cassette Remastered deluxe and super deluxe editions Edit The Remastered edition contains a remaster of the original album The Deluxe edition contains the remaster and a bonus disc with all the single maxi single and promo mixes as well as the B sides The Super Deluxe edition contains four more discs Two of them contain 24 previously unissued studio tracks the third contains a complete live audio performance of the 1999 Tour recorded at the late show the second of two that day in Detroit Michigan on November 30 1982 and a DVD with another complete previously unreleased concert from the 1999 Tour recorded in multi cam live at the Houston Summit on December 29 1982 The albums were also issued on vinyl in a 2 LP 4 LP and 10 LP DVD set 54 The Super Deluxe edition and the Deluxe edition are both completely out of print physically Disc 1 2019 remasterNo TitleLength1 1999 6 142 Little Red Corvette 5 043 Delirious 4 004 Let s Pretend We re Married 7 205 D M S R 8 186 Automatic 9 267 Something in the Water Does Not Compute 4 028 Free 5 079 Lady Cab Driver 8 1710 All the Critics Love U in New York 5 5811 International Lover 6 38 Disc 2 Promo Mixes amp B SidesNo TitleLength1 1999 7 Stereo Edit 3 372 1999 7 Mono Promo Only Edit 3 353 Free Promo Only Edit 4 364 How Come U Don t Call Me Anymore 1999 B Side 3 555 Little Red Corvette 7 Edit 3 086 All The Critics Love U In New York 7 Edit 3 167 Lady Cab Driver 7 Edit 5 068 Little Red Corvette Dance Remix Promo Only Edit 4 349 Little Red Corvette Special Dance Mix 8 3110 Delirious 7 Edit 2 3911 Horny Toad Delirious B Side 2 1312 Automatic 7 Edit 3 4013 Automatic Video Version 8 2114 Let s Pretend We re Married 7 Edit 3 4515 Let s Pretend We re Married 7 Mono Promo Only Edit 3 4416 Irresistible Bitch Let s Pretend We re Married B Side 4 1417 Let s Pretend We re Married Video Version 4 0318 D M S R Edit 5 06 Disc 3 Vault Tracks INo TitleLength1 Feel U Up 6 422 Irresistible Bitch 4 393 Money Don t Grow on Trees 4 194 Vagina 3 285 Rearrange 6 116 Bold Generation 5 547 Colleen 5 308 International Lover Take 1 Live in Studio 7 209 Turn It Up 5 2310 You re All I Want 3 0011 Something in the Water Does Not Compute Original Version 4 0012 If It ll Make U Happy 4 1213 How Come U Don t Call Me Anymore Take 2 Live in Studio 6 11 Disc 4 Vault Tracks IINo TitleLength1 Possessed 1982 version 8 472 Delirious Full Length 6 003 Purple Music 10 584 Yah You Know 3 115 Moonbeam Levels previously released on the 2016 compilation 4Ever 4 236 No Call U 4 307 Can t Stop This Feeling I Got 2 408 Do Yourself a Favor written by Pepe Willie and Jesse Johnson 9 019 Don t Let Him Fool Ya 4 3510 Teacher Teacher 3 3711 Lady Cab Driver I Wanna Be Your Lover Head Little Red Corvette Tour Demo 7 00 Disc 5 Live in Detroit 11 30 82No TitleLength1 Controversy 5 412 Let s Work 5 273 Little Red Corvette 4 184 Do Me Baby 7 185 Head 4 136 Uptown 2 557 Interlude 2 158 How Come U Don t Call Me Anymore 7 039 Automatic 7 0210 International Lover 8 4111 1999 10 2512 D M S R 8 03 Disc 6 DVD Live in Houston 12 29 82No TitleLength1 Controversy 5 012 Let s Work 5 243 Do Me Baby 6 214 D M S R 4 285 Interlude 3 356 Piano Improvisation Contains Elements of With You 1 387 How Come U Don t Call Me Anymore 8 188 Lady Cab Driver 3 309 Automatic 5 4710 International Lover 9 5211 1999 8 0912 Head Contains Elements of Sexuality 5 54Personnel EditMusicians Prince lead and backing vocals electric guitars ARP Omni 2 Oberheim OB X Oberheim OB Xa Oberheim OB SX Yamaha CP 70 electric grand piano piano bass guitar Linn LM 1 Pearl SY 1 Syncussion drums handclaps fingersnaps Lisa Coleman co lead vocals 1 backing vocals 2 3 5 6 8 handclaps 5 Dez Dickerson co lead vocals 1 electric guitar solos 2 backing vocals 2 5 handclaps 5 Jill Jones co lead vocals 1 backing vocals 6 8 9 Jesse Johnson backing vocals 1 uncredited Bobby Z Pearl SY 1 Syncussion 1 5 cymbals 5 uncredited Brown Mark backing vocals and handclaps 5 Jamie Shoop backing vocals and handclaps 5 Carol McGovney backing vocals and handclaps 5 Peggy McCreary backing vocals and handclaps 5 Poochie backing vocals and handclaps 5 The Count backing vocals and handclaps 5 Vanity backing vocals 8 Wendy Melvoin backing vocals 8 Morris Day possible drums 11 Production Prince producer and arranger Peggy McCreary engineer Don Batts assistant engineer Bernie Grundman mastering A amp M Records While not performance credited for the studio recordings band members Doctor Fink keyboards Bobby Z drums and Brown Mark bass do appear in the music videos Singles Edit 1999 No 12 US No 4 US R amp B No 25 UK 1999 How Come U Don t Call Me Anymore Little Red Corvette No 6 US No 15 US R amp B No 54 UK Little Red Corvette All the Critics Love U in New York Delirious No 8 US No 18 US R amp B Delirious Horny Toad Automatic AUS Automatic Something in the Water Does Not Compute Let s Pretend We re Married No 52 US No 55 US R amp B Let s Pretend We re Married Irresistible Bitch Charts EditWeekly charts Edit Original version Edit 1982 weekly chart performance for 1999 Chart 1982 PositionAustralian Albums Kent Music Report 55 35Canada Top Albums CDs RPM 56 23Dutch Albums Album Top 100 57 45New Zealand Albums RMNZ 58 6UK Albums OCC 59 30US Billboard 200 60 9US Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums Billboard 61 42016 weekly chart performance for 1999 Chart 2016 PositionSwiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 62 51UK Albums OCC 63 28US Billboard 200 64 72019 reissue Edit 2019 weekly chart performance for 1999 reissue Chart 2019 PositionAustrian Albums O3 Austria 65 72Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 66 12Dutch Albums Album Top 100 67 15German Albums Offizielle Top 100 68 37Hungarian Albums MAHASZ 69 13Portuguese Albums AFP 70 39UK Albums OCC 71 46US Billboard 200 72 45Year end charts Edit 1983 year end chart performance for 1999 Chart 1983 PositionNew Zealand Albums RMNZ 73 24US Billboard 200 74 5US Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums Billboard 75 41984 year end chart performance for 1999 Chart 1984 PositionUS Billboard 200 76 221985 year end chart performance for 1999 Chart 1985 PositionUS Billboard 200 77 952016 year end chart performance for 1999 Chart 2016 PositionUS Billboard 200 78 200Certifications EditCertifications for 1999 Region Certification Certified units salesCanada Music Canada 79 Gold 50 000 New Zealand RMNZ 80 Gold 7 500 United Kingdom BPI 81 Platinum 300 000 United States RIAA 82 4 Platinum 4 000 000 Shipments figures based on certification alone References Edit a b Erlewine Stephen Thomas 1999 Prince AllMusic Retrieved September 15 2011 a b c d Christgau Robert December 28 1982 Consumer Guide The Village Voice New York Retrieved March 10 2012 a b Hill Michael December 9 1982 Prince 1999 Rolling Stone No 384 New York ISSN 0035 791X Archived from the original on July 17 2007 Retrieved September 15 2011 Kory Grow November 26 2019 Prince s 1999 Box Set Contains Incredible Alternate Universe of Unreleased Songs Rolling Stone Nathan Brackett Christian David Hoard 2004 The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Simon and Schuster p 655 ISBN 978 0 7432 0169 8 Format Team April 21 2016 A Visual Celebration of Prince Through His Album Covers Format Archived from the original on November 4 2016 Pitchfork Staff September 10 2018 The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s Pitchfork Retrieved April 25 2023 1999 remains a high water mark of nuclear new wave madness de Vise Daniel Thirteen New Wave Album Classics AllMusic Retrieved May 7 2023 a b c Prince Biography Rolling Stone Archived from the original on October 21 2006 Prince estate to reissue 1999 along with 35 previously unreleased songs a b 163 1999 Prince Rolling Stone Archived from the original on March 6 2010 Retrieved September 15 2011 Prince 1999 Reissue to Feature 35 Unheard Songs Billboard Retrieved January 6 2020 a b News Release 2008 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductees Announced PDF grammy com The Recording Academy December 19 2007 p 4 Archived from the original PDF on February 16 2008 Longbored Surfer 1983 longboredsurfer com Single 1999 Prince Vault Prince Billboard Interview Wendy and Lisa TheGuardian com September 19 2008 Music Top 100 Songs Billboard Hot 100 Chart Billboard Album 1999 Prince Vault Archived from the original on July 7 2016 Retrieved October 28 2020 Back then There Were Five The Black Arists And Their Videos that Changed 80 s MTV Wriit David Bowie takes MTV to task for not playing Black artists in 1983 Watch June 17 2020 How 1999 Helped Prince Break Down Barriers at MTV September 24 2022 Prince Billboard Cheal David December 26 2016 The Life of a Song 1999 Financial Times Review Prince 1999 Slant Magazine December 12 2003 Prince Explores Motivations of the Flesh on Automatic October 19 2017 A Legitimately Magical Prince Album The New Yorker September 29 2014 Prince Finds Hope Among Crushing Loneliness on My Computer 365 Prince Songs in a Year August 24 2017 Prince 1999 Pitchfork Weiss Shari April 21 2016 Grammys Mourn Prince See Statement From Grammy Awards Recording Academy Gossipcop com Archived from the original on April 24 2016 Retrieved April 24 2016 Prince s Estate to Reissue 1999 Album with Unreleased Songs Concert Footage September 12 2019 1999 Super Deluxe Edition by Prince Reviews and Tracks Metacritic Retrieved September 12 2021 Harris Keith June July 2001 Prince Every Original CD Reviewed 1999 Blender New York 1 Archived from the original on August 20 2004 Retrieved April 8 2017 Keller Martin April 4 1993 A Prince Discography Chicago Sun Times Archived from the original on April 8 2017 Retrieved April 8 2017 Browne David September 21 1990 Purple Products Entertainment Weekly No 32 New York Archived from the original on October 19 2014 Retrieved August 6 2011 Price Simon April 22 2016 Prince every album rated and ranked The Guardian London Retrieved April 25 2016 Johnston Maura April 30 2016 Prince 1999 Pitchfork Retrieved May 1 2016 Matos Michaelangelo 2004 Prince In Brackett Nathan Hoard Christian eds The New Rolling Stone Album Guide 4th ed New York Simon amp Schuster pp 654 57 ISBN 0 7432 0169 8 Weisbard Eric Marks Craig eds 1995 Prince Spin Alternative Record Guide New York Vintage Books ISBN 0 679 75574 8 Hill Michael December 9 1982 1999 Rolling Stone Retrieved January 8 2020 Prince 1999 Pitchfork Retrieved January 8 2020 Prince 1999 Pitchfork Retrieved January 8 2020 Henderson Eric December 12 2003 Review Prince 1999 Slant Magazine Retrieved January 8 2020 a b 1999 ranked 207th greatest album Acclaimed Music Retrieved November 30 2020 Rock On The Net VH1 100 Greatest Albums www rockonthenet com Retrieved October 24 2016 Vital Pop 50 Essential Pop Albums Slant Magazine June 30 2003 Retrieved August 6 2011 The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s Feature Slant Magazine March 5 2012 Retrieved November 20 2013 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone s definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time Rolling Stone 2012 Retrieved September 18 2019 1999 ranked 130th greatest album by Rolling Stone magazine Rolling Stone September 22 2020 Retrieved February 13 2021 Robert Dimery Michael Lydon March 23 2010 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Revised and Updated Edition Universe ISBN 978 0 7893 2074 2 Prince and the Revolution February 15 2023 Album 1999 Prince Vault Rare Prince 1999 LP Single To Be Reissued On Record Store Day The Future Heart April 13 2018 1999 sleevographia2 free fr Archived from the original on March 11 2005 1999 Remastered Shop the Prince Official Store Kent David 1993 Australian Chart Book 1970 1992 St Ives NSW Australian Chart Book ISBN 0 646 11917 6 Top RPM Albums Issue 6289a RPM Library and Archives Canada Retrieved July 7 2017 Dutchcharts nl Prince 1999 in Dutch Hung Medien Retrieved July 7 2017 Charts nz Prince 1999 Hung Medien Retrieved July 7 2017 Official Albums Chart Top 100 Official Charts Company Retrieved July 7 2017 Prince Chart History Billboard 200 Billboard Retrieved July 7 2017 Prince Chart History Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums Billboard Retrieved July 7 2017 Swisscharts com Prince 1999 Hung Medien Retrieved May 4 2016 Official Albums Chart Top 100 Official Charts Company Retrieved July 7 2017 Prince Chart History Billboard 200 Billboard Retrieved July 7 2017 Austriancharts at Prince 1999 in German Hung Medien Retrieved December 12 2019 Ultratop be Prince 1999 in Dutch Hung Medien Retrieved December 7 2019 Dutchcharts nl Prince 1999 in Dutch Hung Medien Retrieved December 7 2019 Offiziellecharts de Prince 1999 in German GfK Entertainment Charts Retrieved December 6 2019 Album Top 40 slagerlista 2019 49 het in Hungarian MAHASZ Retrieved December 12 2019 Portuguesecharts com Prince 1999 Hung Medien Retrieved December 15 2019 Prince Artist Official Charts UK Albums Chart Retrieved December 12 2019 Prince Chart History Billboard 200 Billboard Retrieved December 14 2019 Top Selling Albums of 1983 The Official New Zealand Music Chart Recorded Music New Zealand Retrieved February 2 2022 Top Pop Albums of 1983 Billboard December 31 1983 Retrieved April 24 2014 Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums Year End 1983 Billboard Retrieved March 5 2021 Top Pop Albums of 1984 Billboard December 31 1984 Retrieved April 2 2014 Top Billboard 200 Albums Year End 1985 Billboard Retrieved April 11 2021 Top Billboard 200 Albums Year End 2016 Billboard Retrieved August 1 2021 Canadian album certifications Prince 1999 Music Canada Retrieved May 2 2013 New Zealand album certifications Prince 1999 Recorded Music NZ Retrieved November 19 2019 British album certifications Prince 1999 British Phonographic Industry Retrieved April 2 2014 American album certifications Prince 1999 Recording Industry Association of America Retrieved May 2 2013 Sources Nathan Brackett Christian Hoard 2004 The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition Simon and Schuster ISBN 978 0 7432 0169 8 External links Edit1999 at Discogs list of releases 1999 at Prince Vault Podcast Archived November 28 2019 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1999 Prince album amp oldid 1170723016, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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