Album dossier / 1987
Sign o' the Times
Prince · Funk/Pop
Sign o' the Times rose from the ashes of three albums Prince scrapped in 1986 -- the band-driven Dream Factory, the androgynous alter-ego project Camille (built on pitch-shifted vocals), and the triple-LP Crystal Ball -- after he disbanded the Revolution and lost Wendy & Lisa. Engineer Susan Rogers, his studio right hand throughout, recalled sessions running full 24-hour cycles at Sunset Sound Studio 3 and at his Galpin Boulevard home studio, with the Fairlight CMI, Linn LM-1 and Yamaha DX7 driving the sound and the Camille voice achieved by slowing the tape and pitching Prince's vocal up on tracks like 'Housequake' and 'If I Was Your Girlfriend.' Warner Bros. forced him to cut the planned triple album down to a double LP; the result peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200, went platinum, and is now widely ranked among his very best work.
Record facts
- Label
- Paisley Park/Warner Bros.
- Producer
- Prince
- Chart peak
- #6 Billboard 200
- Notable tracks
- ★ Sign o' the Times
- ★ If I Was Your Girlfriend
Artist & discography
Complete 1980s Studio Discography
9 studio albums released from 1980–1989 by Prince. Archived records link directly to full dossiers; remaining releases are queued for harvesting. MusicBrainz source.
Complete track listing · 16 tracks
- Sign "O" The Times
- Play In The Sunshine
- Housequake
- The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
- It
- Starfish And Coffee
- Slow Love
- Hot Thing
- Forever In My Life
- U Got The Look
- If I Was Your Girlfriend
- Strange Relationship
- I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
- The Cross
- It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
- Adore
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pistand.com, magazine.waxpoetics.com, en.wikipedia.org · track listing: https://www.discogs.com/release/123915 · cover art: coverartarchive.org
Last enriched: 2026-08-24