Apparently this is some sort of a hoax. This info actually seems to be from last year - april fool 2012:-/ they should brutally kill people for posting info like this ))) - Sorry for double posting, but did WB release this finally? I found this info (with the 2 extra previously unreleased extended versions of 'Dorothy Parker' & 'ICNTTPOYM'?) BURBANK, CA-(Marketwire -04/01/12)- Warner Bros. Records has announced that in conjunction with NPG records it will be releasing Prince's seminal 1987 double-album 'Sign 'O' the Times' in a remastered and deluxe packaged box set. This marks the first time any of the Minneapolis musician's albums have been given the 'deluxe box set' treatment and only came about after extensive negotiations between Prince and Warner Bros Records. The Purple Rain star famously fell out with his longterm record company in 1993, which led to the widely ridiculed decision to change his name to an unpronounceable symbol.
However recent years have seen a thawing in the relationship between artist and record label and the stalemate which had previously seen both sides largely ignoring each other was finally resolved late last year. The set will comprise a double vinyl gatefold and CD slip case version of the album itself along with an additional CD of B-sides and remixes. Also included is a glossy 12x12' booklet featuring photos and artwork, a collection of postcards (including an enlarged die-cut replica of the 'Heart' label featured on the original album), and a limited edition poster (available in 500 numbered versions of the set only). Pricing is yet to be announced. Track List (CD/2xLP Album - Remastered) 01. Sign 'O' The Times 02. Play In The Sunshine 03.
Housequake 04. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker 05.
Starfish & Coffee 07. Slow Love 08. Hot Thing 09. Forever In My Life 10.
U Got The Look 11. If I Was Your Girlfriend 12.
Strange Relationship 13. I Could Never Take the Place Of Your Man 14.
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The Cross 15. It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night 16. Adore B-Sides/Remixes CD 01. Shockadelica (12' Mix) 02.
La, La, La, He, He, Hee (12' Mix) 03. Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake) 04. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Extended Mix) - Previously unreleased 05.
Hot Thing (Dub Version) 06. U Got The Look (Long Look) 07. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (Extended Mix) - Previously unreleased Edited 3/7/13 6:39am. BobGeorge909 said: Hell fuckin yeah!
I'm on this like black on blackbeans! I don't think I've ever heard these outtake they're mentioning. I actually SUPER excited about a Prince release. I'd go get in a queue around the store right now regardless of when its gonna be released.as if record stores actually still existed and if people actually still got in queue for Prince releases. Oh yeah.FIRST!
First April fool. But its the month of rich Irish midgets. Not a month of showers for may flowers. I'm terribly sad now.and do feel quote the fool.the FIRST fool at that! Edited 3/7/13 5:01am -Reply #8 posted 03/07/13 5:01am.
Product Page: Check out my unboxing videos from the other records in this reissue series: This is a quick look at the October 2016 Warner Brothers / NPG Music remastered reissue of Prince's masterpiece, 'Sign O The Times.' His ninth (and best) studio album was originally envisioned as a triple LP titled 'Crystal Ball.' Most of Prince's work from the 1980s and early 90s is set to be released on vinyl this year and next, and is very reasonably priced.
Sign O The Times Lyrics
Included are reissues of Around the World in a Day, The 'Love Symbol' album, Lovesexy, Sign of the Times, Batman Soundtrack, Come, and Grafitti Bridge. Here is a link to most of what is to come.
In a lot of ways, Prince’s Sign “O” The Times, which celebrates its 25th anniversary tomorrow, is the last great double-album of the LP era. When I bought a used-CD version years after it came out, I remember being a bit weirded out: The 79-minute album could just barely fit on one 80-minute CD, but the still came packaged in two separate CD cases, both of which looked almost exactly the same and which were held together with a rubber band when I bought them. If Prince or his label wanted to make things easy on the customers, they could’ve just thrown it all onto one disc. But user-friendliness wasn’t the point. The point was that Prince was joining a long and distinguished listeners here, throwing all his sprawling ambition out there on one piece of work and daring the universe to catch up with him. Sign “O” The Times is pretty staggering in its breadth, with its 16 songs veering wildly from one genre to the next and taking on big subjects with slippery panache. It’s the moment where Prince, who’d long known that he was a genius, made absolutely certain that the rest of the world knew it as well.
As with all great artists, we can divide Prince’s career up into interlocking chronological periods. And when Prince released Sign “O” The Times in 1987, he was a few years removed from one period ending. As an era-defining pop superstar, Prince had peaked with Purple Rain — both the classic album and the still-kinda-underrated movie — in 1984. Since then, he’d folded inward to an extent.
Under The Cherry Moon, his next movie, was a notorious bomb. Around The World In A Day and Parade, his next two albums, were two of his least satisfying and successful, though the latter did give us “Kiss.” But that downward career turn almost happened by design. Purple Rain had been a Moment, and unlike other superstars of the era, Prince knew that he couldn’t just come back and make something bigger than that. So he went a different route instead, turning towards a flowery, vaguely Beatles-informed smooth-rock psychedelia, a sound that didn’t come as naturally to him as the muscular new-wave funk-pop that had made him famous.
Sign “O” The Times, which Prince had wanted to make a triple-album at first, didn’t serve as a return to Purple Rain-era sales dominance, but it did something arguably even more valuable. It crystallized all the artistic experimentation of those previous two albums into something huge and tangible, displaying Prince as a musical adventurer without equal.
Prince tries out a ton of different musical ideas on the album, and he nails almost all of them. It’s a thing to behold.
Sign O The Times Album
The album-opening title track is the one that announces the album as a grand statement, an everything-is-wrong harangue along the lines of “What’s Going On.” Its actual content is a little goofy; I don’t know how worried Prince really was about the teenagers whose “idea of fun is being in a gang called the Disciples, high on crack, toting a machine gun.” (This has always bugged me: Why did he specify the gang’s name? And was he talking about the Chicago-based Gangsta Disciples in particular?) But the bubbling, minimal, uncanny backing track, like a lot of other stuff on the album, predicts the warped and dubbed-out R&B that Timbaland would get famous making a decade later. “Slow Love” is a dizzy old-school R&B fuck-anthem that proves that Prince could’ve done just that for his entire career and made himself an immortal of the form. “U Got The Look” is pounding, glimmering new-wave with some surprisingly discordant guitar soloing. “If I Was Your Girlfriend” is cascading and virile top-40 stuff that would’ve fit just beautifully on Purple Rain. “Housequake” is what mid-’60s James Brown might’ve sounded like if he was really, really uptight, and the nine-minute “It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night” is an expansive funk throwdown where even the fake live-crowd noise is exactly in its place.
For a lot of people, the album’s real classic is “Adore,” the album’s closer and the one that pushes Prince’s soul showman side toward its platonic ideal, ducking and feinting away from obvious crowd-pleasing moments but still hitting titanic falsetto high notes at every available opportunity. But my two favorite songs on the album are the ones that step the furthest away from what Prince is supposed to be good.
The utterly gorgeous “Starfish And Coffee” is practically a Suzanne Vega song; it’s jazzy singer-songwriter pop with gospel-style backing vocals, fluttery harp runs, gigantic drums, and lyrics that, on the chorus, lovingly detail someone’s psychedelic breakfast. It makes no sense whatsoever, and it’s one of the single prettiest things Prince ever recorded. “The Cross,” meanwhile, is straight-up epic-rock power-balladry, like Prince looked hard at what U2 were doing in the same moment and then decided to top it. Those two songs make up a pretty stunning argument: Prince wasn’t just great when he was stepping out of his comfort zone. He was best when he was doing it. Even with all its big leaps and breathtaking landings, I can’t say that Sign “O” The Times is Prince’s best album. I’d give that distinction to Purple Rain.
On that one, Prince didn’t divide up all his gifts into different songs; he found ways to incorporate all of them into every song without making them sound like hypercrammed messes. But Sign “O” The Times is probably Prince’s most complete piece of self-presentation, the best possible example of how he wanted the world to see him. It’s an absolute essential, one of a handful in the man’s catalog. Obviously, there’s a lot to talk about with this album. What’s your favorite song from it?
Your favorite moment? Where do you think it fits in the overall arc of Prince’s career?
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