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Purchase of Prince (Prince 1999) is an excellent addition to my music genre. Product was as expected.
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MUST HAVE FOR ANY PRINCE FAN or ADMIRERHad this on Vinyl long before the Great CD came along & it was TOUGH back in 1983 & just as STRONG & POWERFUL in 2008...Just better sound and clearer pitch of all those great tracks on this Masterpiece!!!
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1999 Prince CDI had this CD from the start but lost it in moving. Haven't been able to find it in the stores. I just purchased my lap top and decided to do some exploring on line. So far I have not been dissapointed. Thank You.
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this was the worst experience that i ever had with a seller. i never received the product. The seller took my money. Buyer be careful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Forgive Give, I was dreaming when I wrote this...3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
Released in late 1982 by Warner Brothers and WEA for the world outside of the U.S., 1999 was the album that catapulted Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson in 1958) to international superstardom – and guaranteed him a place at every millennial New Year’s Eve party.
Prince's fifth album came right before the lascivious multi-instrumentalist became a huge star with his 1984 film and soundtrack, Purple Rain. But Prince had already proved himself to be the most audacious talent to emerge in the 1980s. Rife with nasty funk, screaming rock guitar and exuberant party jams, the uniformly strong release spawned three hit singles: “1999,” a song actually contemplating surviving a future nuclear war and wishing to be back in 1999, “Delirious,” and the slinky “Little Red Corvette.”
“D-M-S-R” and “Automatic” also received airplay even with their long run times. A classic.
Prince produced, arranged, composed, and PERFORMED all instruments and vocals with a few exceptions. His band was only used on tours.
I first became aware of Prince in 1981 when he opened for The Rolling Stones for their California dates and was prominently booed off the stage. I had a chance to see him at the San Francisco Civic Center in 1982 with one of the acts he produced The Time, but could not attend. In 1983, MTV was not a prevalent item on cable subscriptions and their play lists routinely ignored black artists. “Little Red Corvette” was one of the first “black” videos I saw while attending the US Festival II during Memorial Day weekend of that year. I have never seen -- Prince, the Revolution, the New Power Generation, Symbol, the Artist, the Purple One, or back to Prince -- live in concert as of the this writing.
The Record Industry Association of America (“RIAA”) certified 1999 gold on January 11, 1983, Platinum on May 17, 1983, Multi-Platinum (2MM) on October 22, 1984 after the release of Purple Rain, Multi-Platinum (3MM) on July 22, 1985, and Multi-Platinum (4MM) on March 24, 1999 with the renewed interest over Y2K.
Prince's fifth album came right before the lascivious multi-instrumentalist became a huge star with his 1984 film and soundtrack, Purple Rain. But Prince had already proved himself to be the most audacious talent to emerge in the 1980s. Rife with nasty funk, screaming rock guitar and exuberant party jams, the uniformly strong release spawned three hit singles: “1999,” a song actually contemplating surviving a future nuclear war and wishing to be back in 1999, “Delirious,” and the slinky “Little Red Corvette.”
“D-M-S-R” and “Automatic” also received airplay even with their long run times. A classic.
Prince produced, arranged, composed, and PERFORMED all instruments and vocals with a few exceptions. His band was only used on tours.
I first became aware of Prince in 1981 when he opened for The Rolling Stones for their California dates and was prominently booed off the stage. I had a chance to see him at the San Francisco Civic Center in 1982 with one of the acts he produced The Time, but could not attend. In 1983, MTV was not a prevalent item on cable subscriptions and their play lists routinely ignored black artists. “Little Red Corvette” was one of the first “black” videos I saw while attending the US Festival II during Memorial Day weekend of that year. I have never seen -- Prince, the Revolution, the New Power Generation, Symbol, the Artist, the Purple One, or back to Prince -- live in concert as of the this writing.
The Record Industry Association of America (“RIAA”) certified 1999 gold on January 11, 1983, Platinum on May 17, 1983, Multi-Platinum (2MM) on October 22, 1984 after the release of Purple Rain, Multi-Platinum (3MM) on July 22, 1985, and Multi-Platinum (4MM) on March 24, 1999 with the renewed interest over Y2K.
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1999: Or, "How To Write Intelligent Dance Music"Review created: 06/22/07
by: floatingcity-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Music
Pros:
Creative, well-arranged and funky dance grooves with some immaculate single material.
Creative, well-arranged and funky dance grooves with some immaculate single material.
Cons:
"Free" is a weak ballad that derails the throbbing experience.
"Free" is a weak ballad that derails the throbbing experience.
Although previous releases such as Dirty Mind and Controversy had made electro-funk maestro Prince a critical hit, it wasn t until 1982 s double album "1999" that his commercial reception reached equally rapturous levels. Originally running across four vinyl sides, "1999" consists of seventy minutes of meticulously measured synth-dance pleasure. Above all else, this is a party record, and while dissuading being over-cerebral about it would be a disservice to Prince s talents as a composer, you are simply not going to enjoy this album if you don t like getting your dancing and drinking shoes...
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Prince's 1999: "Life is Just a Party and Parties Weren't Meant to Last"Review created: 04/21/06
by: Pantagruel-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Music
Pros:
this is the album that brought Prince a wider/whiter audience
this is the album that brought Prince a wider/whiter audience
Cons:
the double album format means there is the inevitable filler
the double album format means there is the inevitable filler
Chock full of funky jams but overlong by a third, the double album, neo-psychedelic covered groove-a-thon 1999 showcases some of Prince's best work as well as some of his excesses. Lyrically, Prince still has sex on his mind, be it on the dance floor or in the back of a taxi cab, but he backs it up with some deftly layered music credited to his backing band, The Revolution. Heavy on synthesizers, most tracks also feature Prince's lead guitar, and rhythm guitar, popping bass and either drums or a drum machine. The first three songs, "1999," "Little Red Corvette," and "Delirious," all became...
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1999, by PrinceReview created: 09/02/02
by: cdm72 -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
11 songs, double-album.
11 songs, double-album.
Cons:
Some tunes over-done.
Some tunes over-done.
With moderate success from his first two records (FOR YOU and PRINCE), and even more success with albums three and four (DIRTY MIND and CONTROVERSY), Prince finally hit the REAL big time in 1983 when he released the dance-floor double-album "1999". With three top-ten singles (1999, Little Red Corvette, and Delirious), Prince was setting himself up to become a major player in the music industry, FINALLY. "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I only want you to have some fun" he tells us in a computer-altered bass voice, opening the record and preparing us for the fun to follow. And follow it does...
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A review longer than 1999 words for an album beyond wordsReview created: 05/08/03
by: blksqul -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
One in an embarrassingly long string of Prince '80s masterworks.
One in an embarrassingly long string of Prince '80s masterworks.
Cons:
What, you don't like Prince?
What, you don't like Prince?
Every once in a while I hit this mood where the only music I can listen to is Prince. Seeing as I have a large amount of his discography, this does not pose a problem. It also gives me an, I hope, informed opinion on an album that is easier to ooh and ahh over than to make intelligent statements -- or say anything new, really -- about the music. Let's start with a few basics. The art has shrunk to such a degree when being moved from its original double-album configuration to CD that you can only make out the words "and the Revolution" and "Dirty Boy" if you know where to look, and you won't...
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Prince 1999Review created: 03/27/06
by: scapp70 -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Real good songs, some great songs
Real good songs, some great songs
Cons:
<i>Free</i>, maybe <i>All The Critics</i> too.
<i>Free</i>, maybe <i>All The Critics</i> too.
1999 was Prince's first US Top Ten album. It is his fifth release, and it has gone on to sell around ten million copies worldwide. This is Prince's 1982 breakthrough album that launched him into the big time and started him on the path to super-stardom, as his mega smash Purple Rain album and movie were his next musical moves two years later in 1984. For this album, Prince renamed his band Prince and the Revolution in lieu of the go it alone Prince that his first four albums toted. His first four albums sold modestly well, breaking into the top 40 twice, and his singles did even worse,...
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