Vijay Iyer on Prince’s “Sign O’ The Times” (1987)

Episode notes

This week, we discuss Prince for the SIXTH time on Heat Rocks with musician/scholar Vijay Iyer. We get into Prince’s love of the drum machine, Vijay’s love of the 80s, and the many sides of Prince we see on this record.

More on Vijay Iyer

• Floating Along In Uncertainty With Vijay Iyer (NPR)
• Check out Uneasy
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Sign o’ The Times

• Is Prince’s Sign O’ The Times the greatest album of all time? (BBC)
• The Story of Prince’s Sign o’ The Times (Classic Album Sundays)
• Prince’s ‘Sign O’ the Times’ Turns 30: All the Songs Ranked (Billboard)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Sign o’The Times unless otherwise indicated):

• Housequake
• Starfish and Coffee
• Vijay Iyer: Night and Day
• Prince: Little Red Corvette
• Slow Love
• Sign O’ The TImes
• Starfish and Coffee
• It
• Housequake
• If I Was Your Girlfriend
• The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
• If I Was Your Girlfriend
• It
• Hot Thing
• The Cross
• Adore
• U Got The Look
• It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
• Hot Thing
• The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
• Lords of the Underground: Flow On (New Symphony)
• The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
• Forever In My Life
• The Cross
• Slow Love
• Vijay Iyer: Human Nature
• Mystic Brew
• If I Was Your Girlfriend
• The Cure: Just Like Heaven
• Madhouse: Three
• Prince: Sometimes It Snows in April

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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