Sign O' The Times Traditional Cache
angellica: Time to let this one go. I did visit the area a couple of weeks ago, but there is nowhere to hide a cache any longer. As this was set to help guide people from an event to the country park, it is no longer required
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Sign o' the Times (stylized as Sign “?” the Times) is a studio album by musician Prince, released March 31, 1987 on the Paisley Park record label. The album is the follow up to Parade, and Prince's first "solo" album following his departure from The Revolution; the symbol between the quotes is a peace sign. The double album was a synthesis of three projects from 1986, including some work with The Revolution. The bulk of the tracks originate from the final Revolution project known as Dream Factory and a later solo project called Camille. These projects, along with some other songs, merged into a 22-track, 3-LP opus called Crystal Ball. Prince's record company, Warner Bros. Records, balked at the idea of a 3-LP album, considering the lukewarm performance of Parade, and Prince's second film, Under the Cherry Moon, and forced Prince to trim the album down. The album yielded three top-ten hits, the most from a Prince album since 1984's Purple Rain.
Thematically, Sign o' the Times covers the depressing state of the world in the title track, gender identity/androgyny in "If I Was Your Girlfriend", party funk in "Housequake", sexual lust in "It", and spiritual enlightenment in "The Cross". It also showcases Prince's fourth live song released on an album, "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night" (the other three being songs from Purple Rain; "I Would Die 4 U", "Baby I'm a Star", and "Purple Rain", all recorded on August 3, 1983 at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN). Though selling modestly, somewhat akin to Parade, Sign o' the Times was almost universally applauded by critics and has since been frequently identified as Prince's finest album, and a standard of comparison for all of his albums to follow. In 1989, Time Out magazine ranked it as the greatest album of all time. It was ranked #16 on the New Musical Express list of the All Time Top 100 Albums, 3rd in Hot Press magazine's list of the 100 Best Albums of All Time, and #35 on VH1's 100 Greatest Albums. The album was also placed 8th on Nieuwe Revu's Top 100 Albums of All Time. The Times listed Sign o' the Times as the 29th greatest album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 93 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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