Prince Comes Back 2 Vinyl

March 3, 2011 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

It’s perhaps the second-best Prince news next to CD remasters: Prince’s three albums of the 1980s are being repressed on vinyl.

Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981) and the double-album 1999 (1982) are all being repressed on 180-gram vinyl. While they don’t seem to (and likely will not) boast new remastering, it’s particularly interesting to see Prince’s Warner Bros. catalogue getting any kind of attention by Rhino – especially some of the earlier, bawdier works that the devout Jehovah’s Witness has sort of renounced.

Of course, it could mean nothing, also. Order the discs here (they’re set for release on April 19), hit the jump to reacquaint yourself with track lists and let’s hope for some expanded editions on CD in, oh, let’s say the next few decades.

Prince, Dirty Mind (originally released as Warner Bros. BSK 3478, 1980 – reissued Warner Bros./Rhino WBLP 97777, 2011)

Dirty Mind
When You Were Mine
Do It All Night
Gotta Broken Heart Again
Uptown
Head
Sister
Partyup

Prince, Controversy (originally released as Warner Bros. BSK 3601, 1981 – reissued Warner Bros./Rhino WBLP 97776, 2011)

Controversy
Sexuality
Do Me, Baby
Private Joy
Ronnie, Talk to Russia
Let’s Work
Annie Christian
Jack U Off

Prince, 1999 (originally released as Warner Bros. 1-23720, 1982 – reissued Warner Bros./Rhino WBLP 97775, 2011)

Disc 1

1999
Little Red Corvette
Delirious
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
D.M.S.R.

Disc 2

Automatic
Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
Free
Lady Cab Driver
All the Critics Love U in New York
International Lover

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Mike Duquette

Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.