warners actually made a release exactly like this.

• Side 1:

1. 1999 (6:22)
2. Little Red Corvette (4:58)
3. Delirious (3:56)
4. Free (5:08)

• Side 2:

1. Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7:20)
2. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) (4:00)
3. Lady Cab Driver (8:25)

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

No thanks, 2LP or no album.

How fortunate we are that we'll never know.

Genesia said:

How fortunate we are that we'll never know.

1. 1999

2. Little Red Corvette

3. D.M.S.R

4. Moonbeam Levels

5. All The Critics Love U In New York

6. Lady Cab Driver

7. International Love

8. Purple Music

never understood why free is on this. a non electronic ballad just sticks out.

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funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Genesia said:

How fortunate we are that we'll never know.

Bingo. Let's whittle down Emancipation's bloated nature, or even Crystal Ball. But 1999? GTFO.

RODSERLING said:

What would have been your tracklist? To me, the album didn't deserve the 2 LPs treatment. . 1999 Little Red Corvette Let's Pretend Were Married DMSR Something in the Water Free Lady Cab Driver . With Lady Cab Driver as the third single

Because a double album of great Prince music doesn't serve your needs?

Weird.

I guess it would have sold even better as a single album. That's all you're really interested in, right?

Phase3 said:

Rimshottbob said:

Let's whittle down SOTT SDE to 1 disk, what would you put on it?

Side A

1) 1999

2) Little Red Corvette

3) Delirious

4) Let's Pretend We're Married

Side B

1) Lady Cab Driver

2) All The Critics Love U In New York

3) Something In The Water (Doe Not Compute)

4) International Lover

Dandroppedadime said:

RODSERLING said:

Dandroppedadime said:

Let's whittle down SOTT SDE to 1 disk, what would you put on it?

Very interesting question, but that deserves a topic in itself.

No - you're wrong. (Not to mention sarcasm impaired.)

slyjackson said:

1. 1999 2. Little Red Corvette 3. Delirious 4. Let’s Pretend We’re Married 5. How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore 6. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) 7. Lady Cab Driver 8. Purple Music

exchange Delirious for DMSR and we have a perfect album IMO.

funkaholic1972 said:

slyjackson said:

1. 1999 2. Little Red Corvette 3. Delirious 4. Let’s Pretend We’re Married 5. How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore 6. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) 7. Lady Cab Driver 8. Purple Music

exchange Delirious for DMSR and we have a perfect album IMO.

Nah, it's already a perfect configuration.

If you really wanted to condense the album, just whittle down the lengths of the longer-running tracks.

Good way to get rid of the dog Automatic.

2freaky4church1 said:

Good way to get rid of the dog Automatic.

WTF shut it freaky

Phase3 said:

This gives me a idea to make a 1 LP emancipation thread Very curious as to what everyone's configurations would be

Here's an idea: Do a search on the site. That one's been done ad nauseum. I once had it whittled down to two disks, and it was great, although it had no title track.

Se7en said:

If you really wanted to condense the album, just whittle down the lengths of the longer-running tracks.

That would certainly be an option as well, it would have made 1999 more concise album. Although personally I enjoyed most of the longer tracks on 1999.

Se7en said:

If you really wanted to condense the album, just whittle down the lengths of the longer-running tracks.

That's really the best approach. Prince was having a Linn orgy on the album. Most of the single versions would suffice, and cutting down others to 7" versions would certain (probably?) help. An LP is what...45 minutes? Those would be pretty short songs to fit 11 songs onto a record. That's 4 minutes per song, at most, really. At least "Delirious" is already there.

But, doable. Why would any cut any song from that album?! Emancipation? Sure. But something like 1999 or SOTT to be whittled down... GTFO.

RODSERLING said:

And this piece of crap of Delirious was a hit in the US... In the rest of the world nobody cared about 1999 until Purple Rain was released. The b-side How Come You Don't Call Me was better than some unnecessary long tracks such as Automatic, Delirious ( the single version was already too long for me), International Lover... [Edited 11/9/20 21:52pm]

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Yikes! Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. I absolutely LOVE "Delirious". And over the last decade, "Automatic" has become maybe my favorite track from the album.

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But that's Prince Fandom for you! Everybody loves different stuff!

Se7en said:

If you really wanted to condense the album, just whittle down the lengths of the longer-running tracks.

That could be, and put some of the vault songs there.

jaawwnn said:

2freaky4church1 said:

Good way to get rid of the dog Automatic.

WTF shut it freaky

Yeah WTF x2 great song love it.