At the end of 1996, "Pre-Millennium Tension" was voted the ninth best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics nationwide. It was later included in "Q" magazine's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time". In a 1997 interview between journalist Liz Jones and Prince, Jones told Prince he should listen to Tricky, because Tricky reminds her of Prince earlier in his career. Intrigued, Prince asks her the name of Tricky's latest album; she said "Pre-Millennium Tension", and Prince spontaneously answered, "well, isn't that another way to say ‘1999’" ("1999" being Prince's breakthrough album released in 1982.) This interview is featured in Liz Jones' book "Slave to the Rhythm."