Sign “☮︎” the Times

Tracklist

• CD 1: Sign “☮︎” the Times
• 1
  Sign “☮︎” the Times
  4:56
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Play in the Sunshine
  5:05
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Housequake
  4:39
  3.0 ★
• 4
  The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
  4:03
  3.4 ★
• 5
  It
  5:09
  2.8 ★
• 6
  Starfish and Coffee
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Slow Love
  4:22
  2.6 ★
• 8
  Hot Thing
  5:38
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Forever in My Life
  3:31
  2.6 ★
• CD 2: Sign “☮︎” the Times
• 1
  U Got the Look
  3:46
  3.9 ★
• 2
  If I Was Your Girlfriend
  5:03
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Strange Relationship
  4:01
  2.8 ★
• 4
  I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
  6:28
  3.5 ★
• 5
  The Cross
  4:48
  3.0 ★
• 6
  It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
  9:01
  3.4 ★
• 7
  Adore
  6:34
  2.6 ★
• CD 3: Single Mixes & Edits
• 1
  Sign “☮︎” the Times (edit)
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 2
  La, La, La, He, He, Hee (edit)
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 3
  La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive)
  10:46
• 4
  If I Was Your Girlfriend (edit)
  3:46
• 5
  Shockadelica
  3:30
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Shockadelica (12″ long version)
  6:12
• 7
  U Got the Look (Long Look)
  6:40
• 8
  Housequake (edit)
  3:22
• 9
  Housequake (7 Minutes Moquake)
  7:11
• 10
  I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (fade)
  3:38
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Hot Thing (edit)
  3:40
• 12
  Hot Thing (extended remix)
  8:32
• 13
  Hot Thing (dub version)
  6:52
• CD 4: Vault Tracks
• 1
  I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (1979 version)
  3:12
• 2
  Teacher Teacher (1985 version)
  3:07
• 3
  All My Dreams
  7:23
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Can I Play With U?

  feat. Miles Davis
  6:39
• 5
  Wonderful Day
  3:47
• 6
  Strange Relationship (original version)
  6:41
• 7
  Visions
  2:18
• 8
  The Ballad of Dorothy Parker (with horns)
  4:56
• 9
  Witness 4 the Prosecution (version 1)
  3:59
• 10
  Power Fantastic (live in studio)
  7:18
• 11
  And That Says What?
  1:50
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Love and Sex
  4:11
• 13
  A Place in Heaven (Prince vocal)
  2:57
• 14
  Colors
  1:01
• 15
  Crystal Ball (7″ mix)
  3:29
• 16
  Big Tall Wall (version 1)
  5:58
• 17
  Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
  2:33
• 18
  In a Large Room With No Light
  3:27
• CD 5: Vault Tracks
• 1
  Train
  4:22
• 2
  It Ain’t Over ’Til the Fat Lady Sings
  2:21
• 3
  Eggplant (original Prince vocal)
  5:18
• 4
  Everybody Want What They Don’t Got
  2:08
• 5
  Blanche
  5:36
• 6
  Soul Psychodelicide (1986 master)
  12:36
• 7
  The Ball
  4:34
• 8
  Adonis and Bathsheba
  5:27
• 9
  Forever in My Life (early vocal run‐through)
  6:25
• 10
  Crucial (alternate lyrics)
  6:15
• 11
  The Cocoa Boys
  6:05
• 12
  When the Dawn of the Morning Comes
  6:16
• 13
  Witness 4 the Prosecution (version 2)
  5:02
• 14
  It Be’s Like That Sometimes
  3:19
• CD 6: Vault Tracks
• 1
  Emotional Pump
  4:59
• 2
  Rebirth of the Flesh (original outro)
  5:28
• 3
  Cosmic Day
  5:39
• 4
  Walkin’ in Glory
  5:14
• 5
  Wally
  4:44
• 6
  I Need a Man
  5:33
• 7
  Promise to Be True
  3:38
• 8
  Jealous Girl (version 2)
  4:52
• 9
  There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool
  3:48
• 10
  Big Tall Wall (version 2)
  5:46
• 11
  A Place in Heaven (Lisa vocal)
  2:45
• 12
  Wonderful Day (12″ mix)
  7:34
• 13
  Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone club mix)
  7:07
• CD 7: Live in Utrecht 6/20/87
• 1
  Intro / Sign “☮︎” the Times
  5:36
• 2
  Play in the Sunshine
  4:36
• 3
  Little Red Corvette
  1:36
• 4
  Housequake
  4:52
• 5
  Girls & Boys
  4:16
• 6
  Slow Love
  5:05
• 7
  Take the “A” Train / Pacemaker / I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
  10:16
• 8
  Hot Thing
  6:15
• 9
  Four (includes Sheila E. drum solo)

  feat. Sheila E.
  6:12
• 10
  If I Was Your Girlfriend
  5:17
• CD 8: Live in Utrecht 6/20/87
• 1
  Let’s Go Crazy
  6:09
• 2
  When Doves Cry
  2:46
• 3
  Purple Rain
  5:40
• 4
  1999
  5:53
• 5
  Forever in My Life
  13:11
• 6
  Kiss
  3:32
• 7
  The Cross
  7:44
• 8
  It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
  13:55
• DVD-Video 9: Live at Paisley Park 12/31/87
• 1
  Sign “☮︎” the Times
  5:11
• 2
  Play in the Sunshine
  4:22
• 3
  Little Red Corvette
  1:38
• 4
  Erotic City
  3:06
• 5
  Housequake
  4:08
• 6
  Slow Love
  0:59
• 7
  Do Me, Baby
  2:00
• 8
  Adore
  6:46
• 9
  I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
  7:41
• 10
  What’s Your Name Jam
  5:31
• 11
  Let’s Pretend We’re Married
  0:52
• 12
  Delirious
  1:10
• 13
  Jack U Off
  1:43
• 14
  Drum Solo
  4:02
• 15
  Twelve
  1:46
• 16
  Hot Thing
  4:55
• 17
  If I Was Your Girlfriend
  6:56
• 18
  Let’s Go Crazy
  6:51
• 19
  When Doves Cry
  2:43
• 20
  Purple Rain
  14:09
• 21
  1999
  3:14
• 22
  U Got the Look
  7:05
• 23
  It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night Medley

  feat. Miles Davis
  34:07
• 24
  Sign “☮︎” the Times
  3:42
• 25
  U Got the Look
  5:32
• 26
  I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
  4:02

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Release credits

• Adam Holzman
  synthesizer [4]
• Alan DeVeritch
  viola [2]
• Allan Harshman
  viola [2]
• Allen Vizzutti
  trumpet [2]
• Assa Drori
  violin [2]
• Betty Moor
  violin [2]
• Bill Hybel
  violin [2]
• Bill Watrous
  trombone [2]
• Bob Findley
  trumpet [2]
• Bob O'Donnell
  trumpet [2]
• Bobby Z.
  electronic drum set [6]
• Boni Boyer
  keyboard [26], video appearance [25]
• Brad Marsh
  other vocals [3], spoken vocals [8]
• Brent Fischer
  percussion [2], timpani [2]
• Brian O’Connor
  French horn [2]
• Brownmark
  electric bass guitar [6]
• Calvin Smith
  French horn [2]
• Carol Mukagawa
  viola [2]
• Cat
  choreographer [25], video appearance [26]
• Charles Loper
  trombone [2]
• Chuck Domanico
  double bass [2]
• Clare Fischer
  strings [7]
• Coke Johnson
  engineer [2.1, 3.1, 3.4], other vocals [3], spoken vocals [8]
• Dave Edwards
  woodwind [2]
• David Duke
  French horn [2]
• David Hogan
  video director [25]
• David Stock
  viola [2]
• Dick Mitchell
  woodwind [2]
• Don Ashworth
  woodwind [2]
• Donald Palmer
  violin [2]
• Dr. Fink
  keyboard [4.11, 2.6, 9.26], video appearance [25]
• Ed Green
  violin [2]
• Endre Granat
  violin [2]
• Eric Leeds
  saxophone [1.3, 1.7-8, 2.6-7, 4.4, 4.9, 4.11, 4.18, 5.2, 3.2, 3.8, 3.11, 9.26], video appearance [25]
• Francine Walsh
  violin [2]
• Frederick Seykora
  cello [2]
• Garnett Brown
  trombone [2]
• Gary Foster
  woodwind [2]
• Gene Cipriano
  woodwind [2]
• Gilbert Davison
  other vocals [3], spoken vocals [8]
• Greg Brooks
  video appearance [25-26]
• Harold Wolf
  violin [2]
• Henry Ferber
  violin [2]
• Irma Neumann
  violin [2]
• Isabelle Daskoff
  violin [2]
• Jack Nimitz
  woodwind [2]
• James Arkatov
  cello [2]
• James Kanter
  woodwind [2]
• Janice Gower
  violin [2]
• Jill Jones
  background vocals [2.6, 3.5-6]
• Jim Thatcher
  French horn [2]
• Joe Meyer
  French horn [2]
• Joe Soldo
  woodwind [2]
• John Clark
  woodwind [2]
• John Lowe
  woodwind [2]
• Jorge Moraga
  viola [2]
• Joseph Shoenbrun
  violin [2]
• Junior Vasquez
  editor [11-13]
• Karen Jones
  violin [2]
• Larry Ford
  trumpet [2]
• Levi Seacer, Jr.
  electric bass guitar [4.18, 9.26], video appearance [25]
• Lisa Coleman
  additional [2], background vocals [2.6, 4.2, 4.9, 1.7], calliope [2], finger cymbals [2], keyboard [6], lead vocals [4.17, 6.11], organ [2, 9], piano [4.11, 4.18, 5.2], sampler [3], synthesizer [2], vocal [18]
• Marcus Miller
  electric bass guitar [4]
• Margot Maclaine
  viola [2]
• Mari Tsumura
  violin [2]
• Marni Johnson
  French horn [2]
• Matthew Blistan
  trumpet [1.3, 1.7, 3.2, 3.8, 4.9, 4.11, 4.18, 5.2, 2.6-7, 9.26], video appearance [25]
• Michael Hutchinson
  engineer [11-13]
• Mike Soltys
  other vocals [3]
• Miko Weaver
  electric guitar [9.26, 2.6], video appearance [25]
• Miles Davis
  trumpet [4]
• Morris Repass
  trombone [2]
• Myer Bello
  viola [2]
• Norbert Stachel
  saxophone [18]
• Norman Forrest
  viola [2]
• Novi Novog
  viola [7]
• Oscar Chausow
  violin [2]
• Pam Gates
  violin [2]
• Pamela Goldsmith
  viola [2]
• Pat Johnson
  violin [2]
• Prince
  12 string guitar [2], Hammond organ [2.7, 1.4], acoustic guitar [1.9, 2.4, 3.10], arranger [1.1-9, 2.1-7, 3.1-2, 3.4-5], background vocals [6], bass guitar [6.3, 4.1], cowbell [1.8, 3.11], drum machine [2.2-4, 2.7, 3.1, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10-11, 1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8-9], drums (drum set) [6.3, 5.2, 1.2, 1.6-7, 2.5, 4.1, 4.11], electric bass guitar [3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10-11, 1.2-4, 1.6-8, 2.2-5, 2.7], electric grand piano [7], electric guitar [3.1, 3.6-8, 3.10-11, 2.1, 2.3-6, 9.26, 1.1-3, 1.5-8], engineer [3.1, 3.4, 2.1], finger cymbals [7], guitar [4.1, 6.3], instrument [3.2, 3.5, 6.11, 4.2-4, 4.9, 4.16-18], keyboard [2.6, 4.1, 6.3], lead vocals [1.1-9, 3.1, 3.4, 3.6-8, 3.10, 9.26, 2.1-7], performer [1], piano [2, 6-7], producer [2.1-7, 3.1-2, 3.4-5, 3.10, 1.1-9], sampler [2.1-5, 2.5, 2.7, 3.1-2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.6-8, 3.10-11, 1.1-2, 1.2-6, 1.6, 1.8], synthesizer [3.4, 3.7-8, 3.8, 3.10-11, 3.11, 1.2-3, 1.3-4, 1.7-8, 1.8, 2.1-4, 2.7], tambourine [1.6, 1.8, 3.11], video appearance [25], vocal [4.1-4, 4.9, 4.13, 4.16, 4.18, 6.3, 3.2, 3.5]
• Ray Brown
  trumpet [2]
• Ray Kramer
  cello [2]
• Raymond Kelley
  cello [2]
• Reggie Hill
  violin [2]
• Rich Cooper
  trumpet [2]
• Robert Tricarico
  woodwind [2]
• Ron Clark
  violin [2]
• Sheena Easton
  guest [7], lead vocals [2.1, 3.7], video appearance [25]
• Sheila E.
  congas [3], cowbell [7], cymbal [2.1, 3.7], drum machine [2.1, 3.7], drums (drum set) [9.26, 7.9, 4.18], hi-hat [2.1, 3.7], lead vocals [6], percussion [3.2, 2.6, 4.18], solo [9], timbales [2.1, 3.7], video appearance [25], vocal [3.2, 4.18]
• Sheldon Sandu
  violin [2]
• Shep Pettibone
  additional [11-13], remixer [6.13, 3.11-13]
• Steve Purcell
  editor [25]
• Susan Rogers
  engineer [2.1, 3.1, 3.4], other vocals [3], spoken vocals [8]
• Susannah Melvoin
  background vocals [1.2-4, 4.9], vocal [18]
• Terry Schoenburn
  violin [2]
• Todd Herreman
  other vocals [3], spoken vocals [8]
• Tommy Johnson
  tuba [2]
• Wally Safford
  video appearance [25-26]
• Wendy Melvoin
  acoustic guitar [2], additional [2], background vocals [4.2, 4.9, 4.17, 2.6, 1.7, 6.11], bass [5.2, 4.2, 4.11], electric guitar [2.3, 2.6, 4.2, 1.7], guitar [9, 18], sampler [3], tambourine [3], vocal [18]
• William Hymanson
  violin [2]
• [unknown]
  video appearance [25]
• Árni Egilsson
  double bass [2]
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  2x 12" Vinyl (Allied Record Company pressing)
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  1987
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  1987
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  1987
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  31 July 2007
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