Sign O' The Times (Super Deluxe Edition 8CD+DVD)
Prince

Sign O' The Times (Super Deluxe Edition 8CD+DVD)

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The Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition represents the deepest dive to date into Prince’s vault and includes a total of 92 audio tracks across eight CDs and a DVD. Remastered for the very first time, this set includes the original Sign O’ The Times album, along with 63 previously unreleased tracks from Prince’s legendary vault, of which 45 are studio tracks.

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Overflowing with musical ideas and topical lyrics that sound just as relevant today as they did when they were initially released, Prince’s iconic double album Sign O’ The Times captured the artist in a period of complete reinvention. The final 16-track album included just some of the countless songs Prince recorded in the prolific period of 1985-1987, which saw the dissolution of his band The Revolution, the construction of his innovative recording complex, Paisley Park, and the creation (and ultimate abandonment) of the albums Dream Factory, Camille, and Crystal Ball.

The Super Deluxe Edition will feature the classic album remastered for the very first time, 63 previously unreleased tracks, and a previously unreleased 2+ hour video concert performance from Prince’s legendary vault that illuminates his wide-ranging and prolific creativity in this era. Following the successful release of the 1999 Super Deluxe Edition in the fall of 2019, the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition represents the deepest dive to date into Prince’s vault and includes a total of 92 audio tracks across eight CDs.

Contents
  • 92 audio tracks, of which 63 are previously unreleased, including 45 studio tracks from Prince’s Vault.
  • Opens with Prince’s iconic album, Sign O’ The Times, dazzlingly remastered for the very first time by Prince’s original mastering engineer Bernie Grundman.
  • Includes an entire previously unreleased audio recording of Prince’s Sign O’ The Times tour performance in Utrecht, Netherlands, on June 20, 1987.
  • DVD features a complete previously unreleased recording of Prince’s benefit performance at Paisley Park, December 31st, 1987. The show includes Prince’s only on-stage collaboration with Miles Davis.
  • Housed in a 12” box, and accompanied by a 12” 120-page hardback book featuring:
    • Brand new liner notes by: Prince’s creative peers and friends Dave Chappelle (in conversation with photographer Mathieu Bitton) and Lenny Kravitz; Prince’s longtime engineer Susan Rogers; Daphne A. Brooks, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale University; Minneapolis radio host and author Andrea Swensson, host of the Official Prince Podcast; and Prince scholar Duane Tudahl.
    • Rare and previously unseen photography by Jeff Katz
    • Prince’s handwritten lyrics

Princes Sign O The Times emerged from three discarded albums and the loss of The Revolution. Find out how he created his greatest work here.

CD1: Remastered Album (Disc 1)

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

 

CD2: Remastered Album (Disc 2)

1. U Got The Look

2. If I Was Your Girlfriend

3. Strange Relationship

4. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

5. The Cross

6. It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

7. Adore

 

CD3: Single Mixes & Edits

1. Sign O’ The Times (7” single edit)

2. La, La, La, He, He, Hee (7” single edit)

3. La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive) (7” single edit)

4. If I Was Your Girlfriend (7” single edit)

5. Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B-side)

6. Shockadelica (12” long version)

7. U Got The Look (Long Look) (12” edit)

8. Housequake (7” edit)

9. Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake) (12” edit)

10. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade 7” edit)

11. Hot Thing (7” single edit)

12. Hot Thing (Extended Remix)

13. Hot Thing (Dub Version)

 

CD4: Vault, Part 1 (All unreleased)

1. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 version)

2. Teacher, Teacher (1985 version)

3. All My Dreams

4. Can I Play With U? (featuring Miles Davis)

5. Wonderful Day (original version)

6. Strange Relationship (original version)

7. Visions

8. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (with horns)

9. Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 1)

10. Power Fantastic (live in studio)

11. And That Says What?

12. Love And Sex

13. A Place In Heaven (Prince vocal)

14. Colors

15. Crystal Ball (7” mix)

16. Big Tall Wall (version 1)

17. Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A

18. In A Large Room With No Light

 

CD5: Vault, Part 2 (All unreleased)

1. Train

2. It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat Lady Sings

3. Eggplant (Prince vocal)

4. Everybody Want What They Don’t Got

5. Blanche

6. Soul Psychodelicide

7. The Ball

8. Adonis And Bathsheba

9. Forever In My Life (early vocal studio run-through)

10. Crucial (alternate lyrics)

11. The Cocoa Boys

12. When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes

13. Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 2)

14. It Be’s Like That Sometimes

 

CD6: Vault, Part 3 (All unreleased)

1. Emotional Pump

2. Rebirth Of The Flesh (with original outro)

3. Cosmic Day

4. Walkin’ In Glory

5. Wally

6. I Need A Man

7. Promise To Be True

8. Jealous Girl (version 2)

9. There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool

10. Big Tall Wall (version 2)

11. A Place In Heaven (Lisa vocal)

12. Wonderful Day (12” mix)

13. Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix)

 

CD7&8: Live In Utrecht – June 20, 1987 (All unreleased)

1. Intro/Sign O’ The Times

2. Play In The Sunshine

3. Little Red Corvette

4. Housequake

5. Girls & Boys

6. Slow Love

7. Take The “A” Train/Pacemaker/I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

8. Hot Thing

9. Four

10. If I Was Your Girlfriend

11. Let’s Go Crazy

12. When Doves Cry

13. Purple Rain

14. 1999

15. Forever In My Life

16. Kiss

17. The Cross

18. It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

 

DVD: Live At Paisley Park – December 31, 1987 (All unreleased)

1. Sign O’ The Times

2. Play In The Sunshine

3. Little Red Corvette

4. Erotic City

5. Housequake

6. Slow Love

7. Do Me, Baby

8. Adore

9. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

10. What’s Your Name Jam

11. Let’s Pretend We’re Married

12. Delirious

13. Jack U Off

14. Drum Solo

15. Twelve

16. Hot Thing

17. If I Was Your Girlfriend

18. Let’s Go Crazy

19. When Doves Cry

20. Purple Rain

21. 1999

22. U Got The Look

23. It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Medley (feat. Miles Davis)

 

*N.B. video content is exclusive to the physical DVD and will not appear on digital download or streaming versions of the Super Deluxe Edition set.