Sign O' the Times

13lp 180gr. Boxset + DVD

Super Deluxe Edition, High Quality, Remastered, Box Set

Prince‘s 1987 album Sign O’ The Times will be reissued 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‘

Super Deluxe Edition: • The Super Deluxe Edition contains 92 audio tracks, of which 63 are previously unreleased, including 45 studio tracks from Prince’s legendary Vault. • The Super Deluxe Edition 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. • The set also includes an entire previously unreleased audio recording of Prince’s Sign O’ The Times tour performance in Utrecht, Netherlands, on June 20, 1987 • The 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. • Both CD and LP sets are housed in a 12” box, and accompanied by a 12” 120 page hardback book featuring: o Brand new liner notes by: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University – Daphne Brooks; US comedian Dave Chapelle; audio engineer Susan Rogers; and Minneapolis music scene commentator Andrea Swensson. Foreword by Lenny Kravitz. o Detailed notes on the Vault Tracks by Prince scholar Duane Tudahl o Rare and previously unseen photography by Jeff Katz o Prince’s handwritten lyrics

LP 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

LP 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

LP 3:
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)

LP 4:
1. Housequake (7" Edit)
2. Housequake (7 Minutes Moquake) (12" Edit)
3. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Fade 7" Edit)
4. Hot Thing (7" Single Edit)
5. Hot Thing (Extended Remix)
6. Hot Thing (Dub Version)

LP 5:
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)

LP 6:
1. Power Fantastic (Live In Studio)
2. And That Says What?
3. Love and Sex
4. A Place In Heaven (Prince Vocal)
5. Colors
6. Crystal Ball (7" Mix)
7. Big Tall Wall (Version 1)
8. Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
9. In a Large Room With No Light

LP 7:
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

LP 8:
1. Adonis and Bathsheba
2. Forever In My Life (Early Vocal Studio Run-Through)
3. Crucial (Alternate Lyrics)
4. The Cocoa Boys
5. When the Dawn of the Morning Comes
6. Witness 4 the Prosecution (Version 2)
7. It Be's Like That Sometimes

LP 9:
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

LP 10:
1. Jealous Girl (Version 2)
2. There's Something I Like About Being Your Fool
3. Big Tall Wall (Version 2)
4. A Place In Heaven (Lisa Vocal)
5. Wonderful Day (12" Mix)
6. Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix

LP 11:
1. Intro/Sign O' the Times
2. Play In the Sunshine
3. Little Red Corvette
4. Housequake
5. Girls & Boys
6. Slow Love

LP 12:
1. Take the "A" Train/Pacemaker/I Could Never Take the Place of
2. Hot Thing
3. Four
4. If I Was Your Girlfriend
5. Let's Go Crazy
6. When Doves Cry

LP 13:
1. Purple Rain
2. 1999
3. Forever In My Life
4. Kiss
5. The Cross
6. It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night

DVD:
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)