Sign O' The Times (Super Deluxe)

Prince - Sign O' The Times (Super Deluxe)
Critic Score
Based on 12 reviews
User Score
Based on 20 ratings
Liked by 4 people
September 25, 2020 / Release Date
Reissue / Format
NPG, Warner Bros. / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Pitchfork
With 63 previously unreleased tracks, this newly remastered version of Prince’s groundbreaking 1987 album is a trove of lost songs and dramatic lore, a jaw-dropping look into one of the most creatively fertile times in his career.
100
AllMusic
The bonus material here may not be as incandescent or transcendent as the original, but it's thrilling and illuminating even when it's frustrating, which means this is a set that no Prince fan can be without.
100
The Line of Best Fit
For all the thrills of the bonus materials, what really impresses here is how strong and distinctly undated the original 16-track double album still sounds.
100
American Songwriter
Not surprisingly there is a fair amount of inconsequential, or less consequential, material mixed in with the shining, now uncovered gems.
100
Entertainment Weekly
On a purely musical level, this collection is a true beauty, with 63 previously unreleased tracks — some well known to hardcore bootleggers — and a never-before-seen concert performance from Paisley Park featuring Miles Davis.
100
Spectrum Culture
If the final album reflected the range of Prince’s eclectic influences and tastes, the vault cuts show just how wide that gamut could really run.
100
Albumism
It marks a huge moment in his life and artistic development when upheavals came at him left, right and center, and he produced an album that reflected those challenges and his audacious musicality.
100
Record Collector
What remains is a tightly-focused snapshot of an intensely creative period in Prince’s career: perhaps the most generous single-album box set of all time, for an album that itself just keeps giving.
90
Rolling Stone

It’s impossible to trace his thought process, which makes it all the more exciting to find the diamonds he left in the vault.

YungG
NR

Yo how prince drop

DiStrictTM
100

So I’ll start the ball rolling, I’m so freakin’ hype for this album. SOTT is always in the top 5 of my favorite albums of all time, and is actually the third album I ever bought in my life. One thing I have noticed though, is the quality of the album on digital music services and CD’s is completely dogshit by general consensus compared to the vinyl version. I’m super pumped to have some of the songs closest to my heart in the gold standard quality we’ve all ... read more

8davidprior
60

5/5 for the original album. Fantastic to hear the tracks with full punch rather than the quiet mix on the cd which I have endured for too long.

5/5 for including the extended mixes.

2/5 for the vault tracks. Very interesting to hear but many not worth a revisit and rightly locked in the vault by Prince.

1/5 for the live show. Great set list and Prince is in good form but the audio quality is lacking and was probably never recorded for a commercial release.

Overall the set is quantity over ... read more

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Track List

  1. Sign O’ The Times
  2. Play In The Sunshine
  3. Housequake
  4. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
  5. It
  6. Starfish And Coffee
  7. Slow Love
  8. Hot Thing
  9. Forever In My Life
  10. U Got The Look
  11. If I Was Your Girlfriend
  12. Strange Relationship
  13. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
  14. The Cross
  15. It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
  16. Adore
  17. Sign O’ The Times (Edit)
  18. La, La, La, He, He, Hee
  19. La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive)
  20. If I Was Your Girlfriend
  21. Shockadelica
  22. Shockadelica (Extended Version)
  23. U Got The Look (Long Look)
  24. Housequake (Edit)
  25. Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake)
  26. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade)
  27. Hot Thing (Edit)
  28. Hot Thing (Extended Remix)
  29. Hot Thing (Dub Version)
  30. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 Version)
  31. Teacher, Teacher (1985 Version)
  32. All My Dreams
  33. Can I Play With U? (featuring Miles Davis)
  34. Wonderful Day (Original Version)
  35. Strange Relationship (Original Version)
  36. Visions
  37. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (With Horns)
  38. Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1)
  39. Power Fantastic (Live In Studio)
  40. And That Says What?
  41. Love And Sex
  42. A Place In Heaven (Prince Vocal)
  43. Colors
  44. Crystal Ball (7″ Mix)
  45. Big Tall Wall (Version 1)
  46. Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
  47. In A Large Room With No Light
  48. Train
  49. It Ain’t Over ’Til The Fat Lady Sings
  50. Eggplant (Original Prince Vocal)
  51. Everybody Want What They Don’t Got
  52. Blanche
  53. Soul Psychodelicide (1986 Master)
  54. The Ball
  55. Adonis And Bathsheba
  56. Forever In My Life (Early Vocal Run-Through)
  57. Crucial (Alternate Lyrics)
  58. The Cocoa Boys
  59. When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes
  60. Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 2)
  61. It Be’s Like That Sometimes
  62. Emotional Pump
  63. Rebirth Of The Flesh (Original Outro)
  64. Cosmic Day
  65. Walkin’ In Glory
  66. Wally
  67. I Need A Man
  68. Promise To Be True
  69. Jealous Girl (Version 2)
  70. There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool
  71. Big Tall Wall (Version 2)
  72. A Place In Heaven (Lisa Vocal)
  73. Wonderful Day (12" Mix)
  74. Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix)
  75. Intro / Sign O’ The Times (Live In Utrecht)
  76. Play In The Sunshine (Live In Utrecht)
  77. Little Red Corvette (Live In Utrecht)
  78. Housequake (Live In Utrecht)
  79. Girls & Boys (Live In Utrecht)
  80. Slow Love (Live In Utrecht)
  81. Take The "A" Train/ Pacemaker/ I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Live In Utrecht)
  82. Hot Thing (Live In Utrecht)
  83. Four (Live In Utrecht)
  84. If I Was Your Girlfriend (Live In Utrecht)
  85. Let’s Go Crazy (Live In Utrecht)
  86. When Doves Cry (Live In Utrecht)
  87. Purple Rain (Live In Utrecht)
  88. 1999 (Live In Utrecht)
  89. Forever In My Life (Live In Utrecht)
  90. Kiss (Live In Utrecht)
  91. The Cross (Live In Utrecht)
  92. It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night (Live In Utrecht)
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Added on: June 26, 2020