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Old 06-26-20, 12:43 AM
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PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

1987 album Sign O’ The Times will be reissued by Warner Records in September and amongst the formats are two enormous CD and vinyl super deluxe editions that offer a massive 63 previously unreleased tracks, including 45 studio ‘vault’ tracks.

The 45 vault tracks are full of unreleased gems including a 1979 version of ‘I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man‘, two unreleased versions of ‘Strange Relationship‘ (including a Shep Pettibone club remix!), alternate versions of ‘The Ballad of Dorothy Parker‘ and ‘Forever in My Life‘ and a fantastic amount of songs that Prince simply never issued, many of which were destined for three aborted albums conceived in 1986: The Dream Factory, Camille and Crystal Ball. These songs include ‘Rebirth of the Flesh‘, two completely different versions of ‘Witness 4 the Prosecution‘ and ‘Wonderful Day‘ (again two versions, one of which is a 12-inch remix). It’s an embarrassment of riches and of course as well as all this unreleased material, the super deluxe editions contain a CD (or two LPs) of all the commercially released seven-inch edits, 12-inch remixes, B-sides, dub mixes and more. Like the album itself these have all been remastered by Bernie Grundman.

The box sets also deliver an entire previously unreleased audio recording of Prince’s Sign O’ The Times tour performance in Utrecht from 20 June 1987 and a DVD (NTSC, region free) with a complete previously unreleased recording of Prince’s benefit performance at Paisley Park, 31 December 1987 (featuring Prince’s only on-stage collaboration with Miles Davis).




Both vinyl and CD boxes are presented in a 12″ x 12″ sets and come with a 120-page hardcover book featuring brand new liner notes from various parties including Lenny Kravitz (who provides a foreword), audio engineer Susan Rogers, Dave Chappelle and Minneapolis music scene commentator Andrea Swensson. There are also detailed notes on the vault tracks by Prince scholar Duane Tudahl and the book also includes previously unseen photos and Prince’s handwritten lyrics.

As well as the two big boxes, 3CD and 4LP packages offer remastered album alongside the single mixes, edits and B-sides while the album-only editions come on limited 2LP peach-coloured vinyl and 2CD. All formats except 2CD and 2LP are ONE TIME ONLY pressings. Once the initial run sells out that’s it! Once the 2LP peach vinyl is gone, it will be replaced with a black vinyl version. Fans will be well aware that the 1999 super deluxe editions are now out of print less than a year after release. The vinyl sets will come with a download code!









CD1 / LP1: 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 / LP2: 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 / LP3&4: 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) (12” version)
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 / LP5&6: Vault, Part 1

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

All tracks previously unreleased

CD5 / LP7&8: Vault, Part 2

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

All tracks previously unreleased

CD6 / LP9&10: Vault, Part 3

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)

All tracks previously unreleased

CD7&8 / LP11-13: Live In Utrecht – June 20, 1987

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

All tracks previously unreleased

DVD: Live At Paisley Park – December 31, 1987

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 (featuring Miles Davis)


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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Fuck it, pre-ordered the box set

$149.98
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BMSF4XT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BMSF4XT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

3-disc
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BN4TDQY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BN4TDQY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

I would love to have it, but that's way out of my price range.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Originally Posted by gerrythedon
I did the same!
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Good interview with the guy who puts these sets together:

https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/i...es-bonus-cuts/
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

$132.73 (before 15% off coupon "MEGALODON" valid until 6/30 Tuesday, 5PM CT)

https://www.deepdiscount.com/sign-o-...n/603497847563
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Originally Posted by gerrythedon
$132.73 (before 15% off coupon "MEGALODON" valid until 6/30 Tuesday, 5PM CT)

https://www.deepdiscount.com/sign-o-...n/603497847563
Thanks dude! $127 is a lot better than the $162 I had at Amazon. I will hold my Amazon one open to see if they drop the price at all but I bet it is unlikely unless it is a slow mover.

How has DD been on pre-orders like this recently? I haven't bought from them in forever and honestly kind of forgot about them. Never had any problems with them before though.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

I think the Prince 1999 Super Deluce CD set was under $100
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Originally Posted by Spiderbite
Thanks dude! $127 is a lot better than the $162 I had at Amazon. I will hold my Amazon one open to see if they drop the price at all but I bet it is unlikely unless it is a slow mover.
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Yeah I'm holding on to my Amazon one also, for now. I sent them Lower Price link... we'll see.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Originally Posted by JeffTheAlpaca
I think the Prince 1999 Super Deluce CD set was under $100
I got it for $49.29 from Amazon. Had to wait forever for it to ship but finally got it from them once they either reprinted it or got new stock.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

It was at the Prince Store and Barnes and Noble until they sold out
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

$122.97 https://www.bullmoose.com/p/34599495
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Originally Posted by gerrythedon
Nice. No tax and free shipping for me.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Is it possible the Amazon price will drop and match this?
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

12x12 seems like the perfect size for amazon to squeeze into a bubble mailer.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Originally Posted by JeffTheAlpaca
Is it possible the Amazon price will drop and match this?
I sent them the link to Bullmoose to PM a couple of times, they haven't budge.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

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Nice. No tax and free shipping for me.
Yup, me too! I've been buying from them for less than a year, and will continue. Fully satisfied with them... Amazon
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

What’s the status of the movie? Is it available anywhere? Surprised it’s not included?
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Rights were sold to some company forever ago and they still have it I think. Which is why remastered good versions never made it to the US for like ever.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

3-Disc Deluxe dropped to $14.99 (was around $25-$30 since announced)

https://www.target.com/p/prince---si...-/-/A-80718688
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Deep Discount is offering the 8cd+1dvd set for $125, plus 15% off using promo code AUTUMN.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

My edition arrived today, right on time. Thanks Bullmoose. Even the outer shipping box had a "☮" printed on the back side.

It's a massive set. Will take a while to go through. Listened to a little of the album in my car driving home. It sounds great. Can't wait to fully dig into it.

Fun little interview here from Rolling Stone

Inside the Making of the Super-Deluxe Reissue of Prince’s ‘Sign O’ the Times’

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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

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My edition arrived today, right on time. Thanks Bullmoose. Even the outer shipping box had a "☮" printed on the back side.
Yeah mine arrived also from BULLMOOSE. Saw the symbol on shipping box also, but haven't even opened (shipping box) it yet.
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Re: PRINCE: Sign O' The Times (Remastered) - September 25, 2020

Got mine in the mail yesterday, too. Also love the peace symbol box. I forgot it was coming, so I had two packages outside my door when I came home from work. I knew one was from ebay, but I was like "what the hell is that other box?" Saw the peace symbol and knew it was a good day.
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