I, ve just bought it and watched it for the first time and I am amazed as usual. TIt, s phenomenal and I completely fell in love with If I was your girlfriend, which is a song I had never really liked before!
And Sheila is ROCKS!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!
My favourites are
Housequake
It, s gonna be a beautiful night
If I was your girlfriend.

dag said:

Cat, Sheila or Boni?

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i could do without the storylines and the segue/vignette thingies, but at least it's kept to a minimum. the performances are fantastic. i wish this film would have gotten more attention.

Anx said:

I wish there was an official CD release for it too.

This movie and era really put it into perspective how amazing Prince was/is. Like when you compare it to the 3 chains of gold era or whatever...it just blows it out of the water. I love Mayte and all and lots of those songs but against Sign of the Times it really just doesn't stand a chance. Prince is just fantastically entertaing throughout the whole movie. And that band was his best band ever imo.

Krystal666 said:

Anx said:

I liked everything about it!!!!! loved this concert movie

dag said:

If I remember rightly, this film was only made to make it up too his British fans for cancelling 2 shows at Wembley Stadium because of the weather and it was made in a very short space of time.

How many people on here saw SOTT in the theatre when it was first released?

There was only like 3 others screening it when i saw it.

lazycrockett said:

I saw it before it went to video.

Some guys rather took the piss by getting out their ciggy lighters and swaying on occasions.

lazycrockett said:

I first seen it on video on it's release and the sound quality was lousy.

The video sound quality is AWESOME. It's perfect as it is! I wish all Prince records sounded the same.

Novabreaker said:

I bought the dvd of it about 18 months ago,I thought the sound quality on that was crap too, but I think a remastered version of it has been issued, I haven't bought it yet, it must be better though.

lazycrockett said:

Yeah I was at the Dominion on Tottenham Court Road in London on the first night it was shown. I still have my heart shaped Sign O' The Times badge that was handed out to everyone that turned up
[Edited 7/2/06 14:23pm]

Does anyone know how much of the music is actually "live"? There seems to be an awful lot of overdubbing going on.

lazycrockett said:

electriclife said:

Yeah , about 90% is overdubbed , i felt cheated when i heard that
Still a good film tho

Dewrede said:

Really,90%, I would have never guessed it was that much. That is kinda disappointing to me. Oh well, I still love it.

Well , i'm not certain exactly , i thought i read that here a while back

DVD nonetheless

yeah i thouht that was in Alex Hahn's book that Prince had the band go back 2 Paisley Park & had them re-record the whole movie.

Dewrede said:

herb4 said:

GangstaFam said:

i thought SOTT was the official cd

I saw it about 7 times in the theater, still haven't watched the dvd of it, have the video tape and watched that a million times. fave part in forever in my life..no other version of that anywhere

GangstaFam said:

Yes me too

I love the movie version of "If I Was Your Girl Friend". Its GREAT.

GangstaFam said:

I love all the pastel colors and neon lights throughout the whole movie. It's not just the music (which is fantastic), I also love how it was shot on film.

My Fav part is definitely the guitar solo at the end of ICNTTPOYM

I am SO bummed out about the fact there is conversation during that long intro to I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man. I would LOVE to see a conversation-less version of THAT hit the NPGmc...

HamsterHuey said:

You mean you didn't like Cat's wonderful acting?

"But Wally, what am I gonna do??"