XXX Puzzle: Title

by Jeffrey Chan and Jofish Kaye

Certain words in the text have been replaced with other words, a la Cockney rhyming slang. Those words are:

• clam = clam chowder = powder
• chuck = Chuck Vest = rest
• horowitz = horowitz and hill = ill
• runcible = runcible spoon = noon
• draper = Draper Lab = crab
• stata = Stata Center = enter
• dharma = Dharma and Greg = leg
• gin = gin and tonic = phonic
• kendall = Kendall Square = ware
• abercrombie = Abercrombie and Fitch = itch
• keanu = Keanu Reeves = thieves
• radio = Radio Shack = hack
• federal = Federal Express = depress
• bituminous = bituminous coal = mole
• lord = Lord and Taylor = sailor
• sonny = Sonny and Cher = rare

• halle = Halle Berry = perry
• click = Click and Clack = ipecac
• slim = Slim Shady = Lady
• salt = salt and pepper = leper
• al = Al Gore = poor
• cheech = Cheech and Chong = wrong
• clark = Clark Kent = intent
• ricki = Ricki Lake = take
• soap = soap on a rope = hope
• shake = shake and bake = rake
• condi = Condi Rice = ice
• judi = Judi Dench = stench
• Mercedes = Mercedes Benz = ends

The first letters of the original words spell PRINCE LP WITH DMSR and PIL LP WITH RISE. Prince's "D.M.S.R." is on the album 1999; Public Image Ltd.'s "Rise" is on the album Album (at least, the LP is called "Album"; the tape is called "Cassette" and the CD is called "Compact Disc"). The answer is 1999 ALBUM.