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Prince - 1999 (Staff Pick!)
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Title: Prince – 1999
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1982, Pop, Synth-Funk, Minneapolis, MN
Condition: New
Cultural Facts:
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Studio Lore: Prince played most instruments himself and treated the studio like a lab—stacking takes fast, then obsessing over tiny edits.
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Scene Ecology: The record sits inside the early “Minneapolis sound” ecosystem—Prince’s circle (The Time, Vanity 6, etc.) helped define a whole local network.
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Political Science: Built around Cold War doomsday anxiety and the early-’80s nuclear mood—turning apocalypse talk into pop culture language
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