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1999 (Prince album)

1999 is the fifth studio album from Prince. It contained the hit songs "Little Red Corvette", "1999" and "Delirious". The title track was a protest against nuclear proliferation.

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

The record was released on October 27, 1982.[9]

The album's music is pop, funk and R&B.

Critical reception and legacy

Template:Music ratings 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."[10] 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.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 655. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.
  2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Erlewine.
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  4. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Hill.
  5. ↑ Kory Grow (November 26, 2019). "Prince's '1999' Box Set Contains Incredible Alternate Universe of Unreleased Songs". Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/princes-1999-super-deluxe-edition-review-915651/amp/. 
  6. ↑ Format Team (April 21, 2016). "A Visual Celebration of Prince Through His Album Covers". Format. https://www.format.com/magazine/profile/photography/prince-dead-celebration-album-covers. 
  7. ↑ 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...
  8. ↑ de Visé, Daniel. "Thirteen New Wave Album Classics". AllMusic. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Prince 1999". All Music. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ Hill, Michael (1982-12-09). "1999" (in en-US). Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/1999-2-111958/. Retrieved 2020-01-08. 
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