I was looking on ebay and found this record:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/E...3a751f774d

At first I thought it was just a single but then I looked at the provided pics. It has a tracklisting of six 1999 songs. What is this? I have never seen anything like this nor heard anything about it. Is it genuine and rare, or is it a fake? I think it is pretty interesting and would like to know all of the info I can get.

Thanks!

[Edited 3/27/13 8:00am]

I got this one. I think it´s the UK version of the album (and it´s just one single disc)

When "1999" was realeased in the UK (and possibly Europe in general) it was felt that because Prince had had no hits in the terrority up to that point, that to release a double vinly record was too much of a risk on Warner Brothers part, so the reduced it to a single disc...

I hadn't known they had a differnt cover too!!

jfrost said:

When "1999" was realeased in the UK (and possibly Europe in general) it was felt that because Prince had had no hits in the terrority up to that point, that to release a double vinly record was too much of a risk on Warner Brothers part, so the reduced it to a single disc...

I hadn't known they had a differnt cover too!!

It's awesome isn't it! We find out new stuff about Prince every day haha.

The cover is a well known promo poster from several photos from that era.

rdhull said:

The cover is a well known promo poster from several photos from that era.

I know, I just never knew it was used as album artwork.

I used to have this uk version of the album. they cut out d.m.s.r., free, something in the water and lady cab driver from the tracklisting. I used to have this poster of this picture that my aunt bought for me when I was 7 yrs old back in 86' and hung it up on my bedroom door.

purplemajesty23 said:

I was looking on ebay and found this record:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/E...3a751f774d

At first I thought it was just a single but then I looked at the provided pics. It has a tracklisting of six 1999 songs. What is this? I have never seen anything like this nor heard anything about it. Is it genuine and rare, or is it a fake? I think it is pretty interesting and would like to know all of the info I can get.

Thanks!

[Edited 3/27/13 8:00am]

No, they cut out DMSR, International Lover, Automatic and All The Critics Love U. Free and SITW were on there.

Used to dig so much on that record back in the day.

outsideofthebox said:

I used to have this uk version of the album. they cut out d.m.s.r., free, something in the water and lady cab driver from the tracklisting. I used to have this poster of this picture that my aunt bought for me when I was 7 yrs old back in 86' and hung it up on my bedroom door.

purplemajesty23 said:

I was looking on ebay and found this record:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/E...3a751f774d

At first I thought it was just a single but then I looked at the provided pics. It has a tracklisting of six 1999 songs. What is this? I have never seen anything like this nor heard anything about it. Is it genuine and rare, or is it a fake? I think it is pretty interesting and would like to know all of the info I can get.

Thanks!

[Edited 3/27/13 8:00am]

I don't think it's really rare, but probably not valueless either.

I used to see it around often in the 1990s when I went to record stores that sold used LPs. Found it in libraries as well.

I have the cassette from Germany.

I love how the angle makes him look so tall!

benjaminira said:

I love how the angle makes him look so tall!

and that is what made the poster look so fascinating.......

benjaminira said:

I love how the angle makes him look so tall!

There is also a version of that cover (indeed the single disc 1999 album) that has the same picture, but the coat altered to be green. (I think it was Canadian, but am not 100% sure on that)

As it is, it's a rarity if anything and it doesn't add anything musically. For similar fun, there are three versions of the Controversy album, with pink, white and blue letters. (not to mention the shower poster that came with some pressings of that album)

Have fun collecting.

The "green" cover was only released in Portugal. I have a copy in my collection.

I own the single LP like shown in post 1....

I believe from UK.. (can't exactly remember),

it has the famous "Eye" logo on labels, if I remember right..

the "eye" logo later shown on the Chaos & Disorder cd as well (smashed to pieces).

Not rare at all, but still really nice...

finky said:

The "green" cover was only released in Portugal. I have a copy in my collection.

sounds cool

do you have a pic of this "green" cover pic..

thedance said:

finky said:

The "green" cover was only released in Portugal. I have a copy in my collection.

sounds cool

do you have a pic of this "green" cover pic..

Here is the picture you wanted

^ Hi Finky..

thanks a lot for posting...

the cover pic looks a bit strange to me

(I mean why did they change the colour from purple to green?)

I have two different UK pressings of the single album. One has the original Warner brothers lable and the other is the "eye" lable more associated with this record.

I still like this one