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Sign o’ the Times (Super Deluxe)

#Prince #Signo’theTimes  #PurpleRain  #Wendy  #Lisa #TheRevolution Sign o’ the Times   is probably the most complete exhibition of   Prince ’s talent. Almost every style he’d attempted up to that point in his career is presented in its most clarified and uninhibited form. It’s also one of the leanest-seeming double albums of all time—not a note across its four sides registers as indulgent or out of place. But the very notion of “place” is a complicated one on Prince’s masterwork; the sessions that produced the record lasted over a full year and were intended for multiple unrealized projects and albums. The songs themselves sometimes hail from even further back in time, closer to the beginnings of Prince’s career, when he was still exploring the slender shadow-space between funk and new wave. Which is why it might be helpful to think of the  original 1987 release of  Sign o’ the Times  as more of a network than an album—a small reservoir of music f...