This covers record, a mash note following their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, shows the Chilis as surprisingly mutable. The jokers who once grunted "Catholic School Girls Rule" nail "A Teenager in Love" with startling tenderness, and elsewhere go mostly for accuracy: Neil Young's "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" gets a gutterpunk edge, the Beach Boys' "I Get Around" some doo–wop color, the Stooges' "Search & Destroy" some extra groove. Only the Ramones' "Havana Affair" is flipped, from Redscare rant to Commie crush–out ballad – because absurdity is a rock tradition too.

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“1999”

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.