Sign 'O' the Times is Prince's recorded apex, the summation and greatest articulation of all the musical fusions he'd alchemized up to that point. It's the album where he does it all – combining his synth-drums and meta-funk explorations with psychedelia, rock-guitar heroics and mainstream pop on the order of
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Inside Prince’s Groundbreaking Double LP ‘Sign ‘O’ the Times’