| |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> |
| Basic tracking took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], during a three-and-a-half hour session with [[Michael B.]] on drums and [[Sonny T.]] on bass at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota that also yielded [[From The Lotus...]], [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], [[Colonized Mind]], [[Love Like Jazz]], [[Wall Of Berlin]], [[Planet Earth]], [[Guitar]] and a song titled [[Shameless]] as well as two or three others. A tape photographed in [[Prince]]'s vault at [[Paisley Park Studios]] lists [[Wall Of Berlin]] as [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], which alludes this is the exact date for all of the songs in this sessions. <br> 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. Much like [[Ripopgodazippa]], [[3121]] was based around a bass line and a beat created by [[Sonny T.]] and [[Michael B.]] during that session, although they are uncredited. | | Basic tracking took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], during a three-and-a-half hour session with [[Michael B.]] on drums and [[Sonny T.]] on bass at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota that also yielded [[From The Lotus...]], [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], [[Colonized Mind]], [[Love Like Jazz]], [[Wall Of Berlin]], [[Planet Earth]], [[Guitar]] and a song titled [[Shameless]] as well as two or three others. A tape photographed in [[Prince]]'s vault at [[Paisley Park Studios]] lists [[Wall Of Berlin]] as [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], which alludes this is the exact date for all of the songs in this sessions. 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. Much like [[Ripopgodazippa]], [[3121]] was based around a bass line and a beat created by [[Sonny T.]] and [[Michael B.]] during that session, although they are uncredited. |
| [[Prince]] allegedly wrote the song inspired by the 3121 address of the house, in the week he hired it, so it is likely an early version of the song was recorded in October 2004. | | [[Prince]] allegedly wrote the song inspired by the 3121 address of the house, in the week he hired it, so it is likely an early version of the song was recorded in October 2004. |
