Here are 10 highlights from the Super Deluxe Edition of 1999 that'll have you partying like it’s 1982 all over again
on Oct. 27, 1982 -- his fifth album, released as a double LP -- it was the beginning of his purple reign on the pop charts, becoming his first top 10 entry on the Billboard 200. Now the classic that gave us “Little Red Corvette,” “Delirious” and, of course, “1999” is getting a royal reissue complete with alternate versions, remixes, previously unreleased tracks and live cuts. out Friday that will have you partying like it’s 1982 all over again.
jam -- this previously unreleased track finds the Purple One working to “rearrange your brain.” There’s a hippie spirit in the mix that lets you free your mind to the funk.There are two tracks here that would turn up later, in different versions, on 1990’s soundtrack: “Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got” and “Bold Generation,” which would become “New Power Generation.
The fact that this song was never previously released is testament to just how much of a roll Prince was on in the ’80s. The sweetest of soul-pop kiss-offs, this is irresistible bliss.Taken from the 1982 Detroit midnight show captured on this reissue, this seven-minute rendition of the classic ballad, one of Prince’s all-time best slow jams, shows just how much he could transform his material in concert.
debut, this was one of Prince’s A-list B-sides, as the flip half of his “1999” single. The B-side version is included here as well as an alternate studio take, but it’s the live rendition from the 1982 Detroit concert that really stands out. With Prince on the piano oozing stripped-down soul and sass, he’s a playful player.
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