PRINCE / SIGN O' THE TIMES 1987

Damn!....Is there a bad song on this album.
This album holds a special place in my heart 4 very many reasons, and I do think it is "The Bomb!" First of all, This was my Birthday present as a teenager( given to me of course from "Pops"), and it also brings back fond memories of entering high school as a young man, it dropped as i was going into my freshman year. This also marks one of the few rare times where i snuck into a movie theatre 2 see this movie (OK I was sort of a rebel growin' up! :) ) and last but not least...the song "Adore" became "My song" for a young lady that would become my first "legit" girlfriend and 4 a very long time i might add, and still 2 this day when i hear it, I think about her (Hopefully my wife never reads this! : ) )

Prince goes through basically the first of many personnel changes in his group. Gone are The Revolution which basically means it is just a Prince album.
Now this is an interesting story....it goes like this.....Prince recorded initially over 200 songs with the intention of paring down the album to a triple disc set called "Crystal Ball" (hmmmmm sounds familiar?) @ that time, the songs were mostly recorded with The Revolution and he also developed this idea to create 1 of many alter-egos, this one being a woman named "Camille" using his own voice sped up on all the songs, even tossing around the idea of creating a whole album around this concept. Of course, that never happened, but, a handful of those songs are still featured that way on the "Sign O' the times" album. "If i was your girlfriend", and "U got the look" are 2 of them. Seems a little confusing? Yeah, it is!
But the output is pure genius once all the filler was taken out and it narrowed down to the 2 disc set we have today. This has got everything, sort of reminiscent of Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the key of life" Its got its Rock edge, a little hip-hop, songs about love, drug abuse, God, and just havin a good time, and of course that 1 stand-out ballad he was known 4 giving us on every album. And who could resist "Starfish and Coffee" ,a song about being in school with other kids throughout the day and questioning what some little girl ate 4 breakfast. (Listen 2 that backwards drum pattern throughout the song...DAMN!

I could go on forever about this album, but let me mention the movie of the same title, which I thought was very good. Although not really considered a movie, It is actually a concert with some adlib and different scenarios sequencing 2 the subjects of the songs about 2 be performed. I thought it was very well put together, a little ahead of its time, and DAMMIT, i just like 2 watch the man perform! It's awesome!, and he directed this thing????
I think now it is considered a cult classic, it did disappear 4 awhile and was only available on VHS there are some bootlegs floating of the dvd, but the quality is not superb, so it never got nationally re-released or re-produced as of this time, so if u still have that laser disc or VHS copy...hold on 2 it.

This is definitely a must have and i love it 2 death!

Stand out tracks here are "The ballad of Dorothy Parker", "Adore", "It's gonna be a beautiful night", "Starfish and Coffee", and "Sign O' the times" of course!