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Tarfumes.com - 1999
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075992372022
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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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, and 1999, the bulk of which features Prince on all the instruments, reflects the dance-rock styles that he also brought to the acts he produced, particularly the Time. Prince knows how to run a one-man-band individual instruments don't blend together as much as they compete in a funky showdown which allows tracks like "Automatic," "D.M.S.R.," and "Delirious" to sustain their long playing times. But the album's two enduring hits, "1999" and "Little Red Corvette," outshine the rest, and define the essential roles that rock and funk play in Prince's music. "Little Red Corvette" is a sexy song about a car, which would have been enough to make it a terrific rock song even if it didn't also boast an infectious chorus and a great guitar part. As for "1999," count on it being the dance song of the millennial year. --John Milward
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Summary: 1999's gone, but "1999" isn't going anywhere
Comment: In 1982, "Thriller" burst through doors that Prince had been trying to unlock. With those doors unlocked, he presented his first real work of genius. Some songs stand above others--the titular apocalypse romp, for one, or "D.M.S.R.," the ultimate party track. The best of the bunch is the divinely salacious "Little Red Corvette," which, for the last time, is not about a car, but which is one of the best songs of the decade. Most of the songs are just damn good funk ditties that are danceable and brilliant. The anti-war piece, "Free," is a little heavy-handed, and that brings things down a little--but then "Lady Cab Driver" is a resurrection of Lazarean proportions. The album never loses any momentum--and for a funk record composed of six- to nine-minute songs occupying 70 minutes, that's something special. As is the artist behind it all: with "1999," he proved he could write brilliantly-constructed songs that would get a dead man dancing, but also that he could make those songs socially relevant. He's even interesting when he veers off into surrealistic Dickian abstraction ("Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)"). How many funk/dance/pop artists could you say that about?
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Summary: The Place Where Your Horses Run Free
Comment: For some reason when I woke this morning I had this tune in my head and couldn't rest till I traipsed down to the basement and found the old LP. What a difference from today when you can play all 10 tracks on the CD without switching or changing the record, but back then I never heard the songs on side 2--and never played the second disc on the double-LP, not ever, didn't see any point to changing up from the first 2 tracks. Why did artists make such long LPs, why not just collect a few perfect tracks? And thus it wasn't until today that I would up hearing "International Lover" and "Free" and the other songs (some of them not so great) on the "second disc" of the double LP--well, that dates me, but I expect at this time in Prince's career most of his fans are those who, like me, remember the 1980s as if they were yesterday and a time when 1999 seemed a zillion light years away, and when Wendy and Lisa puzzled us with their odd, superior androgyny like a pair of aloof Claude Cahuns, always nodding to the same beat, thrusting out their chins in unison, ten tons of hairspray making them look sort of feminine.
That's not to say that today's Prince fans love what used to be sides one and two, tbree and four with equal fervor, how could they? They won't even remember the exquisitely perverse take on "Little Red Corvette" that Sandra Bernhard gave in her concert film "Without You I'm Nothing," her unsuccessful attempt to divert 80s energy into 90s irony.
Vanity's on this CD too, which I did not realize in the 1980s, but that's because I never heard "Free," in which her vocals ring out loud and clear. That's not such a good thing.
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Summary: Prince's Best Early Album
Comment: There's not much that hasn't already been said about Prince's "1999" - It's some of his best work, from the era when he wasn't so deep into his religion and wasn't afraid to offend someone. It's raw, real funk-rock that knows no bounds. I would call "1999" Prince's best album, except that I'm also partial to the collaboration with Wendy & Lisa in his later Paisley Park releases.
This is an album that is meant to be played straight through. No shuffling. No listening to individual tracks. Start at the beginning and play it through to the end. It's a brilliant work of art that everyone should check out if they like rock or funk.
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Summary: The beginning of his reign...
Comment: At the beginning of Prince's reign as Prince of Pop, we have albums such as this. It was here that he first insisted on breaking ground on every album, and every track. He was one of the pioneers in the 80's, of music as art, and through him and other such artists, the standards were raised.
As with many of Prince's albums, you cannot simply listen to them as good music, but must appreciate the artistry that goes into them. This man is obscenely talented, and this album has some of the most important songs of the 20th Century.
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