In its own roundabout way, Sign 'O' the Times is the sound of the late '80s -- it's the sound of the good times collapsing and how all that doubt and fear can be ignored if you just dance those problems away.

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Rolling Stone

Both discs are heavy with songs about hot sex ("Slow Love," "Hot Thing"), but those songs are outweighed by the towering ballads about love and commitment. "Adore" remains one of the greatest love songs of all time and continues to make women weak and wet with its opening promise: "Until the end of time, I'll be there for you." Even in a world so hopeless, Prince seems to say, love can conquer all.

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Sign 'O' the Times begins a fragmented mess, sifting through the wreckage of a shuttle explosion and the AIDS crisis, but it ends with a singular baptismal flourish.

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Back in form, Prince finally delivers the goods he’d been promising in the wake of Purple Rain.

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All these years later, it’s still a vibrant thing, the product of a great artist at the height of his powers.

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Prince the polymath in full and frightening effect, across funk, rock and genres yet to be given names. A double album with scarcely a sub-phenomenal moment.

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MasterCrackfox

Keeping up with Prince is, unsurprisingly, impossible. When listening to Purple Rain your head might have spun from just how many directions the artist was going by bending pop genres left and right. Then on his follow up album, he would shift once again into new territory, with Around the World in a Day bringing in psychedelic flourishes throughout that made it clear that Prince hadn't lost his sense of experimentation. Sign "O" the Times is in many ways the magnum opus of Prince as ... read more

JeremiahMurphy

100

Yes. yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes im sorrry this is a lazy review but what can i say i mean album is just a yes yes yes yes yes

ARTPOP

Sign 'O' The Times 7.4💚

Play In The Sunshine 8.8💚

Housequake 9.0💚

The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker 9.6💚

It 8.5💚

Starfish And Coffee 6.3💚

Slow Love 7.3💚

Hot Thing 8.1💚

Forever In My Life 8.2💚

U Got The Look 8.6💚

If I Was Your Girlfriend 7.2💚

Strange Relationship 8.3💚

I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man 10.0💚

The Cross 9.3💚

It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night 8.4💚

Adore 7.3💚

Nota Final:82💚💚💚💚(Muito Bom)⭐

8mo

【Slush Puppy】

I'm absolutely flawed. Only artists with absurd amounts of talent are able to make albums that are 75+ minutes and make the whole listening experience fly by. Every track is unique and has its place in the tracklist. No filler. Prince just really outdid himself with this release. This album doesn't feel as ambitious as it really is because it keeps you entertained for its whole runtime and it displays Prince's talent on all fronts.

It's vibrant. It's powerful. It's Prince.

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ocrakraut

My personal Nr.1 in the Book of Prince. This record features all I love about Prince in full bloom. He even invented a second character Camille for a weird "female" voice so there were no artistic boundaries left unbroken. His songwriting is stellar w/ Ballad of Dorothy Parker, If I was your Girlfriend, I could never take the Place of your Man and Sign o´ the Times. He bows down before Joni Mitchell in one of his most convincing weird compositions (Dorothy Parker), he goes from ... read more

7mo

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