Now Streaming: Prince, “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man” (1979 Version)
If you’re a Prince fan, then you’ve no doubt been loving the reissues of His Royal Badness’ back catalog that we’ve been releasing recently, including 1999 and PURPLE RAIN. Now, the time has come to offer up an expanded edition of an already-expansive album from Prince’s discography: SIGN ‘O’ THE TIMES.
When it was originally released, SIGN ‘O’ THE TIMES consisted of 16 tracks, but now... Well, you may want to brace yourself: this new Super Deluxe Edition offers up 63 previously unreleased tracks as well as a previously unreleased 2+ hour video concert performance.
Did you brace yourself? Do you need some smelling salts? We did warn you...
In fact, there will be three different reissues of SIGN ‘O’ THE TIMES arriving on September 25:
• Super Deluxe Edition (8CD+DVD / 13LP+DVD / audio-only download and streaming)
• Deluxe Edition (3CD / 4LP 180g vinyl / download and streaming)
• Remastered album (2CD / 2LP 180g peach vinyl / download and streaming)
If you’d like to get a little sample of what to expect, we can help: here’s the original 1979 version of the classic single “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.”
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/2Wsa2bMr6Y3H71yANRC7xu?si=21BOVXh5SwmxLPU_vyHUig
That’s right, Prince had so many songs that he was able to sit on a classic like that for the better part of a decade before putting it on an album. If you needed a little more proof that he was a musical genius, now you’ve got it.
Here’s the full track listing for all of different versions:
SIGN O’ THE TIMES: REMASTERED AND EXPANDED EDITION
FORMAT & TRACKLISTINGS
SUPER DELUXE EDITION (8CD+DVD / 13LP+DVD / Digital *)
CD1 / LP1: Remastered Album (Disc 1)
1 Sign O’ The Times
2 Play In The Sunshine
3 Housequake
4 The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
5 It
6 Starfish And Coffee
7 Slow Love
8 Hot Thing
9 Forever In My Life
CD2 / LP2: Remastered Album (Disc 2)
1 U Got The Look
2 If I Was Your Girlfriend
3 Strange Relationship
4 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
5 The Cross
6 It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
7 Adore
CD3 / LP3&4: Single Mixes & Edits
1 Sign O’ The Times (7” single edit)
2 La, La, La, He, He, Hee (7” single edit)
3 La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive) (7” single edit)
4 If I Was Your Girlfriend (7” single edit)
5 Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B-side)
6 Shockadelica (12” long version)
7 U Got The Look (Long Look) (12” edit)
8 Housequake (7” edit)
9 Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake) (12” edit)
10 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade 7” edit)
11 Hot Thing (7” single edit)
12 Hot Thing (Extended Remix)
13 Hot Thing (Dub Version)
CD4 / LP5&6: Vault, Part 1
1 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 version)
2 Teacher, Teacher (1985 version)
3 All My Dreams
4 Can I Play With U? (featuring Miles Davis)
5 Wonderful Day (original version)
6 Strange Relationship (original version)
7 Visions
8 The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (with horns)
9 Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 1)
10 Power Fantastic (live in studio)
11 And That Says What?
12 Love And Sex
13 A Place In Heaven (Prince vocal)
14 Colors
15 Crystal Ball (7” mix)
16 Big Tall Wall (version 1)
17 Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
18 In A Large Room With No Light
(All tracks previously unreleased)
CD5 / LP7&8: Vault, Part 2
1 Train
2 It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat Lady Sings
3 Eggplant (Prince vocal)
4 Everybody Want What They Don’t Got
5 Blanche
6 Soul Psychodelicide
7 The Ball
8 Adonis And Bathsheba
9 Forever In My Life (early vocal studio run-through)
10 Crucial (alternate lyrics)
11 The Cocoa Boys
12 When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes
13 Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 2)
14 It Be’s Like That Sometimes
(All tracks previously unreleased)
CD6 / LP9&10: Vault, Part 3
1 Emotional Pump
2 Rebirth Of The Flesh (with original outro)
3 Cosmic Day
4 Walkin’ In Glory
5 Wally
6 I Need A Man
7 Promise To Be True
8 Jealous Girl (version 2)
9 There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool
10 Big Tall Wall (version 2)
11 A Place In Heaven (Lisa vocal)
12 Wonderful Day (12” mix)
13 Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix)
(All tracks previously unreleased)
CD7&8 / LP11-13: Live In Utrecht – June 20, 1987
1 Intro/Sign O’ The Times
2 Play In The Sunshine
3 Little Red Corvette
4 Housequake
5 Girls & Boys
6 Slow Love
7 Take The “A” Train/Pacemaker/I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
8 Hot Thing
9 Four
10 If I Was Your Girlfriend
11 Let’s Go Crazy
12 When Doves Cry
13 Purple Rain
14 1999
15 Forever In My Life
16 Kiss
17 The Cross
18 It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
(All tracks previously unreleased)
DVD: Live At Paisley Park – December 31, 1987
1 Sign O’ The Times
2 Play In The Sunshine
3 Little Red Corvette
4 Erotic City
5 Housequake
6 Slow Love
7 Do Me, Baby
8 Adore
9 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
10 What’s Your Name Jam
11 Let’s Pretend We’re Married
12 Delirious
13 Jack U Off
14 Drum Solo
15 Twelve
16 Hot Thing
17 If I Was Your Girlfriend
18 Let’s Go Crazy
19 When Doves Cry
20 Purple Rain
21 1999
22 U Got The Look
23 It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Medley (featuring Miles Davis)
(All tracks previously unreleased)
* N.B. video content is exclusive to the physical DVD and will not appear on digital download or streaming versions of the Super Deluxe Edition set.
DELUXE EDITION (3CD / 180g 4LP / Digital)
CD1 / LP1: Remastered Album (Disc 1)
1 Sign O’ The Times
2 Play In The Sunshine
3 Housequake
4 The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
5 It
6 Starfish And Coffee
7 Slow Love
8 Hot Thing
9 Forever In My Life
CD2 / LP2: Remastered Album (Disc 2)
1 U Got The Look
2 If I Was Your Girlfriend
3 Strange Relationship
4 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
5 The Cross
6 It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
7 Adore
CD3 / LP3&4: Single Mixes & Edits
1 Sign O’ The Times (7” single edit)
2 La, La, La, He, He, Hee (7” single edit)
3 La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive) (7” single edit)
4 If I Was Your Girlfriend (7” single edit)
5 Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B-side)
6 Shockadelica (12” long version)
7 U Got The Look (Long Look) (12” edit)
8 Housequake (7” edit)
9 Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake) (12” edit)
10 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade 7” edit)
11 Hot Thing (7” single edit)
12 Hot Thing (Extended Remix)
13 Hot Thing (Dub Version)
REMASTERED ALBUM (2CD / 180g 2LP / Digital)
CD1 / LP1: Remastered Album (Disc 1)
1 Sign O’ The Times
2 Play In The Sunshine
3 Housequake
4 The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
5 It
6 Starfish And Coffee
7 Slow Love
8 Hot Thing
9 Forever In My Life
CD2 / LP2: Remastered Album (Disc 2)
1 U Got The Look
2 If I Was Your Girlfriend
3 Strange Relationship
4 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
5 The Cross
6 It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
7 Adore
SIGN O’ THE TIMES – LIMITED EDITION 7” VINYL SINGLES BOXED SET
1A Sign "O" The Times (Edit)
1B La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Edit)
2A If I Was Your Girlfriend (Edit)
2B Shockadelica
3A U Got The Look
3B Housequake (Edit)
4A I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade)
4B Hot Thing (Edit)
5A Hot Thing (Edit)
5B Hot Thing (Edit)
6A The Cross
6B Adore
7A Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1)
7B Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 2)
(Tracks 7A and 7B previously unreleased)
