Are there any Songs on CD4-6 from the SIGN O' THE TIMES REMASTERED SUPER DELUXE EDITION (8CD + 1DVD) that you think in your opinion are Great or Brilliant? Especially Dance songs?

Vault, Part 1 (CD 4)

All tracks previously unreleased

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

Vault, Part 2 (CD 5)

All tracks previously unreleased

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

Vault, Part 3 (CD 6)

All tracks previously unreleased

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

There are some Interesting Song Titles on these CD's for sure!

Plus that Big Book looks Cool...

Astasheiks said:

Vault, Part 1 (CD 4)

All tracks previously unreleased

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

Vault, Part 2 (CD 5)

All tracks previously unreleased

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

Vault, Part 3 (CD 6)

All tracks previously unreleased

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

I think a great album could be made from these.......

1. All My Dreams

2. In A Large Room With No Light

3. Train

4. Eggplant

5. Blanche

6. Adonis & Bathsheba

7. Witness 4 The Prosecution

8. It Be's Like That Sometimes

9. Emotional Pump

10.Promise To Be True

11.There's Something I Like About Being Your Fool

12. Cosmic Day

Hidden Track. A Place in Heaven (Prince Vocal)

These discs contain some of my all time favorites:

• All My Dreams
• Strange Relationship (original version with sitar intro and Prince singing in his normal / non-Camille voice)
• In a Large Room with No Light
• The Ball
• Adonis & Bathsheba
• Coco Boys
• A Place in Heaven (Lisa vocals)

However, you said you're specifically interested in dance songs. Besides Strange Relationship, I'm not sure that any of the songs I listed would be considered dance songs . . . Well, you could waltz to Adonis & Bathsheba.

I dont know if anything on these discs deserves to take the place of anything on SOTT except maybe All My Dreams, but all these songs are pretty incredible. If you can imagine an alternate reality where the Purple One released all of these as little side projects under various names and groups, we'd put them as some of the best side projects he ever did, maybe THE best.

The most brilliant ones are All My Dreams, When the Dawn, and Wally. Crystal Ball is actually the best track of all but only in its full verison, and Crucial deserves to be on the highest tier, but I prefer the 1998 release. Colors and Visions I've played countless times, but they are not really Prince songs.

those outtakes are incredible! Some really great stuff on those discs.

Walkin' In Glory

SoulAlive said:

those outtakes are incredible! Some really great stuff on those discs.

indeed, I play these discs all the time. totally in love with these tracks.

very very thankful for their release.

there is so much here to love.

The Super Deluxe version is highly recommended. If you don't yet have it - grab it

And the outtake songs are really nice - what variety of styles...

Still, in my humble opinion, as good as the outtakes/vault songs are - nothing beats the original SOTT set - but man, it must have been difficult to choose an album sequence at this time, so prolific

Big Tall Wall version 1 is my jam! a perfect bridge from Parade to SOTT.

I'm a life long fan and am well into the bootlegs but the level of greatness on SOTT's Vault disc blew me away-

All My Dreams

Big Tall Wall 1

Train

Eggplant

Adonis Bathsheba

Forever In My Life (early demo) - amazingly a diff song entirely...most days, I think this is better then the one we've had for 30 years...

Emotional Pump

Walk iN Glory

Wally

Promise 2 Be True

There's Something About

Rebirth of the Flesh

Large Room

Crucial

IN the list of superemely interesting would be -

Power Fantasic (take 1)

Cosmic Day

Big Tall Wall 2

Blanche

I Could Never

The Ball

Ballad of Dorothy with horns

Landonfunkmonkey said:

Cosmic Day is the choice pick for me. It actually exceeded my expectations. I loved the snippet and I used to dream of the day I got to hear the full song. What a great day that was. It's in my top 5 songs ever.

oh yes, cosmic day did not disappoint another highlight of this box full of gems.

I knew there was some real Purple Fam out there!

I am going to have to check out a lot these Tracks you all have mention.

Oh, how can i forget Cosmic Day....it hated it when I'd heard snippets on bootlegs. I always wondered why people raved about it. However, once I digested the full version on the set, I was pretty much a fan. It is weird, odd and so damn Princish.