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 (three years ago) link
Oh man I needed this.
― lukas, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:18 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
Oh hell yes
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 May 2020 23:06 (three 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
Great to have a "Everybody Want..." and "Cosmic Day" remastered/mastered but where is "Traffic Jam" which is ... a godlike instrumental?!?
Also - about 5 things here I never heard of before so really psyched.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
Hoping that price comes down a little. I don't think I paid more than $65 for the 1999 CD box. This obviously has a few more discus, but feels like a big jump.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
discs even
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
Looking at the setlist from that Paisley Park show, looks like none of the Miles Davis-featured songs are on the dvd tracklisthttps://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/1987/paisley-park-studios-chanhassen-mn-4bd857c2.html
― Chris L, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjgKgirygjA
― piscesx, Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Looking at the setlist from that Paisley Park show, looks like none of the Miles Davis-featured songs are on the dvd tracklist
According to the press release, all the Miles live tracks are all part of a long medley - it's the last track on the DVD.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 25 June 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
Great interview with the archivist who put the box together; he explains why the movie isn't included (basically, Prince sold the rights).
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
Fwiw, the movie is still up as a free title on Prime.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
Holy shit, "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" is from 1979!?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah that's a hell of a shocker. That and these unreleased remixes and more -- gotta say, Howe really seems like a first-rate guy to be doing this work based on the details in the answers and the clear care he's got with the material.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Totally makes sense in a way, I always think of it as a companion to When You Were Mine
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 26 June 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
If ‘Witness For The Prosecution’ is anything to go by we’re in for a treat...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 26 June 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 June 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
I was about to preorder the deluxe box set this on Amazon, but wtf is up with its price? On the German Amazon it's 153 euros (with taxes) and on the US Amazon it's 160 dollars! The 1999 box set had 5 CDs and 1 DVD and it cost 72 euros on Amazon, and I felt that one was already a bit pricey, but this one has 8 CDs and 1 DVD and it costs twice as much? The price is pretty much the same as if you would buy 9 individual albums separately, which is ridiculous for a box set.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 11 July 2020 08:28 (three years ago) link
Popmarket.com has it on vinyl for about $250 after you give them your email and phone number (gets you 10% off).
Bullmoose has the CD set for $122, free shipping.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 11 July 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
Managed to order it via Amazon Italy, about €100.
Obv postage extra, but often enough it gets supplied from a domestic warehouse
― Mark G, Saturday, 11 July 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link