Prince - Sign O the Times
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Free Music Review: One of the most innovative recording by a beautiful artist
Hit: 5 Stars
This is album is simply beautiful, rocking, and absolutely timeless. It deserves all the credit it gets and holds Prince in the well-deserved esteem of being one of the most prolific, quality and brilliant musical artists of all time.
All songs are quality, in particular The Cross, Sign O The Times, U Got The Look, It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night, Adore, Hot Thing, It & If I Was Your Girlfriend. The album slips up a bit with The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker, but more than compensates.
With exception of the Beatles & Led Zep, how many other artists have managed to produce more than one album rendered a masterpiece? Very rare! Prince did this four times over with Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain & this album PLUS he wrote all the songs himself! I rest my case people!
Grotesquely under-rated, sickenengly over-talented but feircly masterful both lyrically and musically... Sign O The Times (the actual song) is abundant in desolate imagery and dark wit. If I Was Your Girlfriend, a gender-bending tease of confusion. It's Gonnabe A Beautiful Night, simply a horn-ridden funk-rave up!
The album delves deep into religion, sexuality, identity and love and floats back to the surface with dance rockers like U Got The Look & Housequake which provide the album with an appropriate balance.
Certainly one of the best recordings in music history, a statement, a testimony and the world is still recovering.
Peace
Free Music Review: A musical masterpiece from the 80's.
Hit: 5 Stars
It was 1987 and our image of Prince was the little strange man from Purple Rain that after that made some interesting songs more: Kiss and Strawberry Beret. Also, the two songs had some very curious videos.And then there came "Sign O the Times". Not too much marketing, at least here in Europe, some great videos for the songs, the drums over a front car, that strange guitar, the peach and black clothes, the not for sun glasses, and the beautiful girls. There was a perfume of love and sexuality all over the record that you can smell even from the cover. And from outside you can see that there was someting happening in there, somebody was making music, somebody was dancing, and a lot more. Then you begin to see and listen, side by side.
There are little records about you can say that every song is a great song that you want to listen to. This is one. And has sixteen songs to listen to.
Overall I think this is the best produced and arranged record of all the time. I love to listen to every instrument played, and to every sound: the phone, the electric guitar and the spanish guitar, the clock, the programmed drums and the non programmed drums, the lead voice, the false lead voice, the background voices, the weeding organ, the claps, ...
You may listen it.
And if you like it, there is a step more. Get the film. The songs are even some little better arranged, and sou can see the girls dancing with Prince.
Free Music Review: The Last Paisley high
Hit: 5 Stars
when this album came out i thought Prince would be badd forever but like all good things it cames to an end. but for me after Annie Stasia from Lovesexy was the Last masterpiece for me from this genius. cuz since Batman to now in 99 he has sunk. while he makes more records than anybody in pop he has lost that edge that made Sign's,dirty mind,1999,the prince album and some of the over rated purple rain album treasures. before all the excess garbage of name moniker,written Slave over his face(best paid slave i've seen)and wack rapping and catch up to trends he was cutting edge. this album from the title track to housequake,hot thing, the ballad of dorothy parker,If i was your girlfriend(the Jam on the disc)Adore, Strange relationship etc.. ask D'angelo,Tlc,Maxwell,Tony rich,Dallas Austin etc.. about the impact about this album that was like many before and after written,arranged,composed,and performed by this gifted artist and sung by him all out of Paisley park his studio and image making digs. playing all his instruments and it seemed that the next Stevie wonder would emerge but it didn't. unlike many i feel he is way overrated today. and it's ashamed waste of talent cuz with his influence he could have done major damage but at least this record always will remind me of what might have been.he still puts a song here and there out that's good but nothing like this album again. what a musical travisty.Free Music Review: Pinnacle
Hit: 5 Stars
Judging from the other reviews, I am apparently one of many Prince fans who have chosen "Sign o' the Times" as their favorite Prince album. I see it as the absolute pinnacle of the creative peak that began with "Purple Rain" and ended somewhere in between "Lovesexy" and the New Power Generation. Here we have seventeen tracks that showcase all the sides of Prince's personality that his fans have grown to love: Social critic ("Sign o' the Times"), spiritual seeker ("The Cross"), romantic ("Forever in my Life", "Adore"), and, of course, horndog ("U Got the Look", "It", "Hot Thing"). And then there are the songs that sort of defy musical or lyrical categorization, and are probably the strongest tracks of all: "If I Was Your Girlfriend" starts off as a romantic desire to get to know a lover better, and then turns into a strange stream-of-consciousness sexual fantasy. "Housequake" could have been a generic party anthem, but with lyrics like "Don't wait for your neighbors/green eggs and ham!" takes strange forays into fantasyland. One of my favorite tracks, the mellow "Ballad of Dorothy Parker" is an intruiging song that is either a nod to the famous writer or a character study of a witty, sexy waitress, or maybe both. It's this unpredictability, as well as his ability to make music that is both bizarre and accessable at the same time, that makes Prince one of the greatest artists in rock history.Free Music Review: I know what you're thinking.
Hit: 5 Stars
Prince has about 22 full length studio albums on the market--where do you start? Sign O The Times is a good place, though you might be more at home with Purple Rain or The Hits/B-Sides package. Why Sign O The Times? It showed how experimental and original he could be. Of his 22 cds, Sign O The Times stands alone as his only double cd. 16 tracks that waste no time. Great songs such as "Sign O The Times", "U Got The Look" and "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man" combine with more experimental fare like "Starfish and Coffee", "It" and "If I Was Your Girlfriend." It's hard for an artist to continue to live up to a prior success, and for Prince that will always be Purple Rain, but Sign O The Times shows a broader range than Purple Rain did. It's difficult to say only one cd is Prince's best, but I would say that Sign O The Times is ONE of his best. It does sound like it was made in 1987, but the songs still hold up 13 years later. I'm sure Elton John, Billy Joel and Bob Dylan have all had some albums that sound very dated in their extensive catalogues. If you have Purple Rain and are looking for another Prince cd that matches it, Sign O The Times, Diamonds & Pearls and The Symbol albums are all worthwhile. This is worth the money, you won't be disappointed.