Out Now: Prince, SIGN O’ THE TIMES

If you’re a Prince fan, then you’ve no doubt been loving the reissues of His Royal Badness’ back catalog that we’ve been releasing recently, including 1999 and PURPLE RAIN, which means you’ve probably also been following our posts about the latest special  edition in our ongoing series.

In case you haven’t, though, prepare to be excited, because it’s finally time for SIGN O’ THE TIMES: THE SUPER DELUXE EDITION.

When it was originally released, SIGN ‘O’ THE TIMES consisted of 16 tracks, but now... Well, you may want to brace yourself: this new Super Deluxe Edition offers up 63 previously unreleased tracks as well as a previously unreleased 2+ hour video concert performance.
 
Did you brace yourself? Do you need some smelling salts? We did warn you...
 
In fact, there are three different reissues of SIGN ‘O’ THE TIMES, all of which are available today:
 
•    Super Deluxe Edition (8CD+DVD / 13LP+DVD / audio-only download and streaming)
•    Deluxe Edition (3CD / 4LP 180g vinyl / download and streaming)
•    Remastered album (2CD / 2LP 180g peach vinyl / download and streaming)

Last but not least, here’s the track listing for all of the different versions...

SUPER DELUXE EDITION (8CD+DVD / 13LP+DVD / Digital *)
 
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) (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)
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)
 
(All tracks previously unreleased)
 
* N.B. video content is exclusive to the physical DVD and will not appear on digital download or streaming versions of the Super Deluxe Edition set.
 
DELUXE EDITION (3CD / 180g 4LP / Digital):
 
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) (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)
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)
 
REMASTERED ALBUM (2CD / 180g 2LP / Digital)

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

SIGN O’ THE TIMES – LIMITED EDITION 7” VINYL SINGLES BOXED SET

1A    Sign "O" The Times (Edit)
1B    La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Edit)

2A    If I Was Your Girlfriend (Edit)
2B    Shockadelica    

3A    U Got The Look
3B    Housequake (Edit)

4A    I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade)
4B    Hot Thing (Edit)

5A    Hot Thing (Edit)
5B    Hot Thing (Edit)

6A    The Cross
6B    Adore

7A    Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1)
7B    Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 2)

(Tracks 7A and 7B previously unreleased)