Reefer was totally a hooker gateway drug back in the day, don't worry about it :)
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
78. He rhymes "moon" with "June" in the title track.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link
79. "Her favorite number was 20"
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
https://theshibeparkvaults.bandcamp.com/album/sign-o-the-times-rehearsals-disc-1
https://theshibeparkvaults.bandcamp.com/album/sign-o-the-times-rehearsals-disc-2
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
cool but who gets the 7 bucks if you actually pay for those things?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
80. The way "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" takes a curve from 80s New Wave pop into an early 70s "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"/Traffic blues rock jam, from which it only returns for a very brief instrumental reprise of the first part of the song, then out.
― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 05:23 (seven years ago) link
78/79/80 all v great things
― albvivertine, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 08:21 (seven years ago) link
Those Sign O The Times rehearsals are currently free to download btw
― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
still looks like they're $7 to me. weird to see bootlegs posted so brazenly on Bandcamp.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
wtf I'm not paying some asshole for these
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
i've just been streaming, it's free to stream in full
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
maybe just free in Europe then?
― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
interesting recreationg of "Dream Factory" the album that was scrapped then combined with the Camille album to become Sign O the Times
http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/2016/05/prince-and-revolution-dream-factory.html
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 July 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
Heyo
http://www.okayplayer.com/music/princes-sign-o-times-concert-movie-will-air-showtime.html
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
I haven't seen this since we threw out our VCR (we had a VHS copy) so I'm pretty excited to hear that my Twin Peaks:the Return-motivated Showtime subscription comes w this bonus
I don't understand why that article calls the SotT movie "rare" and "out of circulation"? It's been reissued on Bluray which is pretty easy to find, or at least it was when I bought it a couple of years ago. Great concert movie anyway, all the little stories that come with each song's performance are neat, and the choreography is gorgeous. And it has that massive Sheila E drum solo, my favourite part!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
it is not available in America
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
multi-format copies of it on Amazon are currently $175
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
Oh, that's weird. Why would they reissue it in Europe but not the US?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
some rights dispute, I assume. bigger Euro market, who knows
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
Forget it Shakes, it's Paisley Park.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
[snips nostril]
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
There's a Japanese Blu-Ray you can get for about $50 which is Region A, meaning it will play on standard US players.
Here you go.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
80. The way "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" takes a curve from 80s New Wave pop into an early 70s "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"/Traffic blues rock jam, from which it only returns for a very brief instrumental reprise of the first part of the song, then out.― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, July 6, 2016 1:23 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, July 6, 2016 1:23 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, with a screaaaaaaaaam.
That's my favorite song on this. It has a good message too -- don't lead on single mothers looking for companionship when you're out at the bar on a lonely friday night.
― Treeship, Thursday, 24 August 2017 01:12 (six years ago) link
Region 2 DVD available for as little as £3.36 - multi-region DVD players are CHEAP
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Sign-O-Times-DVD/dp/B0009PZ89E/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1503572329&sr=1-1&keywords=sign+o+the+times
― Gulley Jimson (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:01 (six years ago) link
yeah I had that dvd and... gave it away :O
quite a few dvd players can be made multi region using a universal remote (or another customizable ir-transmitter, some old phones can be used)
― niels, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:36 (six years ago) link
Until Youtube just started putting up Prince videos, I had never seen the video for Sign O The Times before, so I didn't realize that Prince was somewhat responsible for the birth of the lyric video.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 24 August 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
movie news
PSA: Sign O’ The Times is on Amazon Prime.— Chris McKay (@buddboetticher) March 10, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
If only Stop Making Sense had plasma ball interludes, then it might be as good as Sign O' The Times.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Monday, 12 March 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
Also, the outfits in the So'TT film have held up better than Purple Rain.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Monday, 12 March 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Um...holy shit.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZM5i3CXkAA3Dbm.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 29 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
Oh man I needed this.
― lukas, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
This is my favorite album so I guess I have to get the big box.
― lukas, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
I need to know what's in the box but yeah, I'm definitely buying some version of this.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 29 May 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Presumably the big box will include all the stuff that ended up on Crystal Ball + B sides and unreleased tracks from that era + the movie? It's easy to imagine all that measuring to 8 CDs... The 1999 box already had two CDs worth of unreleased tracks from the vaults, and AFAIK there's way more of those from the SOTT era.
― Tuomas, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
Oh hell yes
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 May 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
ALERT ALERT partial tracklist
fucking hell, the end of music, ciao pic.twitter.com/Giga0lLSNQ— Boomkat.com (@boomkatonline) June 12, 2020
― J. Sam, Friday, 12 June 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
Why yes please.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 June 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
That live show (12/31/87) is the one where Miles Davis appeared.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 12 June 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
I don't know why I want to throw more money at this when the big box will bankrupt me, but I would love standalone releases of Camille, Dream Factory, Crystal Ball...
― Cow_Art, Friday, 12 June 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
I’m s bit surprised that Dream Factory isn’t included within this box
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
C U R R E N T L Y U N K N O W N
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
with Australian ears I've always thought "turn on the telly" in the title track sounded slightly incongruous - like, I associate "telly" with the UK and feel the US is more of a "teevee" kinda place - or is this just the result of over-reductive generalising
sorry for this monumentally inconsequential q but every time I listen to this it makes me curious and I will never find a better place to make the enquiry
― umsworth (emsworth), Friday, 12 June 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
It's always stuck out for me, too. A weird affectation. It's not like saying "telly" instead of "TV" changes the flow of the line in any way.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 12 June 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
Well, fwiw, he was coming off the Parade tour through Europe, maybe that had something to do with it.
I listen to the fan remastered Sign-era box all the time, this will be great. I'm beginning to sense a pattern: release a deluxe edition of a Prince masterpiece, then a bunch of shitty stuff from the 90s and beyond, then a deluxe masterpiece, then a bunch of shitty stuff, then another masterpiece ...
It's a marathon, not a sprint, I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 June 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
One of the fondest compilations in my collection: a CD-R of those DF and CB outtakes.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 June 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
We appear to have a formal tracklisting:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BMXT2SK/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=prince&qid=1592933387&refinements=p_lbr_music_artists_browse-bin%3APrince%2Cp_n_date%3A1249114011&rnid=1249111011&s=music&sr=1-4
Tracks not listed in the earlier summary include "Wally," "Cosmic Day," "When the Dawn of the Morning Comes," "I Need a Man" and various others.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
The CD version is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BMSF4XT/50.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
Sorry, bad link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BMSF4XT
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link