| |introduction = '''3121''' is the first track on [[Prince]]'s 31st studio album [[Album: 3121|3121]]. In 2008, a 2007 live recording of the track was included as the first track on [[Prince]]'s fourth live album [[Album: Indigo Nights|Indigo Nights]], incorporating renditions of [[The Entertainer]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin Scott Joplin]'s 1902 composition), [[Alexander's Ragtime Band]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin Irving Berlin]'s 1911 composition), [[Music! Music! Music!]] (by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Baum Bernie Baum] and Stephan Weiss, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Brewer Teresa Brewer]'s 1949 single ''Music! Music! Music!''), and [[Prince]]'s own [[D.M.S.R.]] (from [[Album: 1999|1999]]). <br> | | |introduction = '''3121''' is the first track on [[Prince]]'s 31st studio album [[Album: 3121|3121]]. In 2008, a 2007 live recording of the track was included as the first track on [[Prince]]'s fourth live album [[Album: Indigo Nights|Indigo Nights]], incorporating renditions of [[The Entertainer]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin Scott Joplin]'s 1902 composition), [[Alexander's Ragtime Band]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin Irving Berlin]'s 1911 composition), [[Music! Music! Music!]] (by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Baum Bernie Baum] and Stephan Weiss, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Brewer Teresa Brewer]'s 1949 single ''Music! Music! Music!''), and [[Prince]]'s own [[D.M.S.R.]] (from [[Album: 1999|1999]]). <br> |
| While an exact recording date is not known, initial tracking took place in November 2004, during a three-and-a-half hour session with [[Michael B.]] on drums and [[Sonny T.]] on bass at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA that also yielded [[From The Lotus...]], [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], [[Colonized Mind]], [[Love Like Jazz]], [[Wall Of Berlin]], [[Planet Earth]] and [[Guitar]]. In an August 2006 [http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2006/08/michael-bland-2/#.VD7L3IvF_HI interview], [[Michael B.]] confirmed the recording date and said [they recorded] eleven or twelve tracks in three and a half hours that night. <br> | | While an exact recording date is not known, initial tracking took place in November 2004, during a three-and-a-half hour session with [[Michael B.]] on drums and [[Sonny T.]] on bass at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA that also yielded [[From The Lotus...]], [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], [[Colonized Mind]], [[Love Like Jazz]], [[Wall Of Berlin]], [[Planet Earth]] and [[Guitar]]. In an August 2006 [http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2006/08/michael-bland-2/#.VD7L3IvF_HI interview], [[Michael B.]] confirmed the recording date and said [they recorded] eleven or twelve tracks in three and a half hours that night. <br> |
| [[Prince]] wore a jacket with the "3121" logo (as on the album cover) when performing at the 36th NAACP Image Awards on [[19 March 2005]], and his rented mansion in Beverly Hills, CA, USA, was known as [[3121 (Mulholland)|3121]] (the name may have come from the track or vice versa - this is unclear). The track was included as the first track on a late 2005 configuration of [[Album: 3121|3121]], where it remained for release. <br> | | [[Prince]] wore a jacket with the "3121" logo (as on the album cover) when performing at the 36th NAACP Image Awards on [[19 March 2005]], and his rented mansion in Beverly Hills, CA, USA, was known as [[3121 (Mulholland)|3121]] (the name may have come from the track or vice versa - this is unclear). The track was included as the first track on a late 2005 configuration of [[Album: 3121|3121]], where it remained for release. <br> |
