Sign 'O' the Times by Prince

Pros: Multi Genre Masterpiece.
Cons: Cons??? This is Sign O The Freaking Times!

Too often, people label Sign O’ The Times as the brightest moment of Prince’s career. Are they wrong? Well, that comes down to personal opinion, but really, it is hard to put any album against it, and have that album stand up against The ...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

In the winter of 1987 I received, along with everything else I got that year, 3 albums for Christmas. I got Def Leppard's "Hysteria", Aerosmith's "Permanent Vacation" (on vinyl no less), and Prince's "Sign 'O' the Times". I couldn't begin to tell you...

Pros: Almost total perfection.
Cons: "It"

Everyone knows Prince is a genius, I assume. "Sign o the Times" is one of those albums that I like more each time I hear it, which is kinda difficult since it's already my favorite album of all time. For slightly under 80 minutes, Prince shows that he is...

Pros: You’ll have to read the review
Cons: This CD is my fix. I mean, really.

This condition I got – it is crucial Prince, “Adore” Prince Roger Nelson is truly a mystery. Not like we didn’t know what he’s thinking of (most of the time, that is). But he’s illogical. You could write a dozen ...

Pros: This is a Prince MasterWork, a perfect introduction to the artistry of Prince.
Cons: This is a perfect Album/CD/Tape, take your pick, it's all good.

In the course of human history there are events that help us define who we are as individuals or as a nation. It seems rather silly to think that a song or an album could assist in such an endeavor, but I submit to you that the things we remember...

Pros: Classic
Cons: Prince has become a punchline

People get nostalgic about America in the '80s, and I have trouble imagining why. For every wonderful college radio track, there were nine hundred insipid ballads and coke-fueled Aquanet rockstars crowding out the airwaves. For all the open-minded ...

Pros: 80 minutes of eclectic musical bliss
Cons: A few clunkers in the second half, hasn't aged all that well

As a music listener, there are certain things I respect in an artist or album. One of them is their ability to play their instrument (or sing) at a high level, and another is an artist's ability to experiment and change up their sound. Many of my ...

Pros: Production, Performance, Versatile Styles, Arrangements, Lyrical Themes, Guest Musicians, & Prince's Vocals.
Cons: None.

After the release of the film Under the Cherry Moon, its soundtrack album Parade, and its accompanying tour with an expanded line-up of the Revolution. Prince was clearly embarking on a new transitional phase in his career. Though his ...

Pros: Some devastatingly pretty tunes scattered throughout.
Cons: Some awful, unlistenable tunes scattered throughout.

I bought 'Sign O'The Times' for my 18th birthday and was admittedly not pleased with what I heard. Over two discs Prince, who I admire for his individuality and always current sense of style, tries to perfect a magnum opus of pop, rock, funk, r&b, ...

Pros: Great songs, brilliant sounds, incredible arrangements, and unending diversity of styles
Cons: It jumps from place to place with no seeming organization

There was never any denying Prince's genius, but before this album he was essentially a pop-star sort of genius. SIGN O' THE TIMES, however, was still commercial, but was diverse, occasionally dark, stylistically masterful, and above all demanded to be...

Pros: if love is good...
Cons: let's get to ramming!

Prince has been ridiculed so much over the last ten years that it’s easy to forget that, at one time, he was a truly ferocious talent, and one who altered the way both Rock and Soul music sound today, courtesy of masterpieces like ”Sign O’ The...

Pros: A solid work of art that shows his finest colors
Cons: None

The coolest thing about Prince is that he entices and invites the voyeuristic nature in all of us. He says, “Come to my house, and watch me play; And we do.” That’s what he does here on the Sign of the Times Album.

He kicks open the album...

Pros: It's friggin brilliant
Cons: There are none

Prince is a true musical polymath. Besides all the usual accolades you hear about Prince (he plays 10,000 instruments, he writes/produces everything himself, he is an enigmatic and energetic live showman, etc.), Prince is like an aural melting pot of...

Pros: Music from four different sources coming together to make one big statement.
Cons: Music from four different sources coming together to make one big statement.

Sign O' the Times is best described as first post-limousine music album. First conceived in part as Crystal Ball, then as a three-record set entitled The Dream Factory, then whittled down to a double-album comprising the best material of these two...

Pros: A consistently brilliant journey
Cons: Remastering badly needed

Prince's world in 1987 was a whirlwind of sudden and precipitous change, having only recently fired longtime band The Revolution (retaining only keyboardist Matt Fink) and breaking things off with fiancee and sometime collaborator Susannah Melvoin. It...