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Prince - Sign O The Times Deluxe Reissue
from Rolling Stone:
The Prince estate has announced a massive, vault-raiding reissue for 1987’s Sign O’ the Times, featuring more than 45 unreleased studio recordings.
The Super Deluxe Edition reissue — available either as a stacked eight-CD or 13-LP set on September 25th — boasts the remastered LP alongside three discs of unreleased music culled from Prince’s vault; a disc compiling the album’s single mixes, edits, and B sides; a 1987 live gig in Utrecht, the Netherlands; and a bonus concert film from Prince’s New Year’s Eve 1987 show at Paisley Park that featured a cameo by Miles Davis.
Among the highlights from the vault material — much of it was destined for Prince and the Revolution’s unreleased 1986 album Dream Factory — are the 1979 version of “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man,” a take on “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” with horns, “A Place in Heaven” with Prince’s vocals, and “Can I Play With U?” featuring Miles Davis.
The Super Deluxe Edition comes with a 120-page hardcover book containing Prince’s previously unseen handwritten lyrics for many of the songs from the era, unseen images from Prince’s primary photographer at the time, Jeff Katz, and liner notes by Prince’s creative peers and friends, including Dave Chappelle (in conversation with photographer Mathieu Bitton), Lenny Kravitz, and Prince’s longtime engineer Susan Rogers.
The Sign O’ the Times reissue, available for preorder now at Prince’s web store, will be released September 25th in a variety of formats, ranging from a barebones remastered two-LP version of the album on peach-colored vinyl to the massive 13-LP/one-DVD pressing. Additionally, the Prince estate has teamed with Third Man Records for a limited-edition seven-inch-vinyl box set showcasing all the singles from the album as well as a newly created single for the un-vaulted song “Witness 4 the Prosecution.”
Sign O’ the Times Super Deluxe Edition Track list
Remastered Album (CD One)
Sign O’ the Times
Play in the Sunshine
Housequake
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
It
Starfish and Coffee
Slow Love
Hot Thing
Forever in My Life
Remastered Album (CD Two)
U Got the Look
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Strange Relationship
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
The Cross
It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
Adore
Single Mixes and Edits (CD Three)
Sign O’ The Times (seven-inch single edit)
La, La, La, He, He, Hee (seven-inch single edit)
La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive) (seven-inch single edit)
If I Was Your Girlfriend (seven-inch single edit)
Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B side)
Shockadelica (12-inch long version)
U Got the Look (Long Look) (12-inch edit)
Housequake (seven-inch edit)
Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake)
I Could Never Take the Place Of Your Man (fade seven-inch edit)
Hot Thing (seven-inch single edit)
Hot Thing (extended remix)
Hot Thing (dub version)
Vault, Part One (CD Four)
All tracks previously unreleased
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (1979 version)
Teacher, Teacher (1985 version)
All My Dreams
Can I Play With U? (featuring Miles Davis)
Wonderful Day (original version)
Strange Relationship (original version)
Visions
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker (with horns)
Witness 4 the Prosecution (version one)
Power Fantastic (live in studio)
And That Says What?
Love and Sex
A Place in Heaven (Prince vocal)
Colors
Crystal Ball (seven-inch mix)
Big Tall Wall (version one)
Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
In a Large Room With No Light
Vault, Part Two (CD Five)
All tracks previously unreleased
Train
It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings
Eggplant (Prince vocal)
Everybody Want What They Don’t Got
Blanche
Soul Psychodelicide
The Ball
Adonis and Bathsheba
Forever in My Life (early vocal studio run-through)
Crucial (alternate lyrics)
The Cocoa Boys
When the Dawn of the Morning Comes
Witness 4 the Prosecution (version two)
It Be’s Like That Sometimes
Vault, Part Three (CD Six)
All tracks previously unreleased
Emotional Pump
Rebirth of the Flesh (with original outro)
Cosmic Day
Walkin’ in Glory
Wally
I Need a Man
Promise to Be True
Jealous Girl (version two)
There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool
Big Tall Wall (version two)
A Place in Heaven (Lisa vocal)
Wonderful Day (12-inch mix)
Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone club mix)
Live in Utrecht (CD Seven and CD Eight)
All tracks previously unreleased
Intro/Sign O’ the Times
Play in the Sunshine
Little Red Corvette
Housequake
Girls and Boys
Slow Love
Take the “A” Train/Pacemaker/I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Hot Thing
Four (with Sheila E. Drum solo)
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Let’s Go Crazy
When Doves Cry
Purple Rain
1999
Forever in My Life
Kiss
The Cross
It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
Live at Paisley Park — December 31st, 1987 (DVD)
All tracks previously unreleased
Sign O’ the Times
Play in the Sunshine
Little Red Corvette
Erotic City
Housequake
Slow Love
Do Me, Baby
Adore
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
What’s Your Name Jam
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Delirious
Jack U Off
Drum Solo
Twelve
Hot Thing
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Let’s Go Crazy
When Doves Cry
Purple Rain
1999
U Got the Look
It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night Medley (featuring Miles Davis)
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Is tl;dr appropriate in a boner thread?
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on Thursday, June 25, 2020 – 04:04 pm
Lets Pretend We're Married -
Lets Pretend We're Married -- If I had a nickel for every time I used that line,,,,, with a boner
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on Thursday, June 25, 2020 – 08:05 pm
Coolest thread title in a
Coolest thread title in a very long time.
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on Thursday, June 25, 2020 – 08:09 pm
The thread title does seem to
The thread title does seem to contain some awesome spin-off potential. If Tulsa Chris is lurking, he must be dying right now.
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Did you just notice that, JR?
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on Friday, June 26, 2020 – 12:55 pm
While I expected the funny
While I expected the funny comments in this thread since I posted it's title, I am a bit surprised that that nobody has mentioned the music itself.
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on Friday, June 26, 2020 – 01:34 pm
Carrot before the horse,
Carrot before the horse, maybe.
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on Friday, June 26, 2020 – 01:36 pm
I listened to this album once
I listened to this album once but didn't get into it.
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on Friday, June 26, 2020 – 02:42 pm
I listened to this album once
Fair enough but I do suggest that you at least give it another listen or two. It is one of those dense albums that reveals different things at different times. While it has been one of my favorite albums since it was released, I continue to find sonic nuggets that I never noticed before to this day.
When I did the Purple Project on the original zone, one of the soundboards I passed along was the Live in Utrecht show. It was also one of the shows that garnered the most praise. I am looking forward to it being sourced and mastered from the original tapes.
As for the DVD portion of the deluxe reissue, two words...Miles Davis.