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Music Reviews: Prince's 'Sign O' the Times' (Super Deluxe Edition) Plus Richard Hell Sign In Jeff Burger, BLOGCRITICS.ORG FacebookTwitterEmail A new edition of Sign O' the Times, Prince's brilliant and remarkably eclectic 1987 double album, easily earns its "super deluxe" billing with a long list of bonus goodies. Delivered in an LP-sized slipcase, the set includes an excellent remaster of the original album on two discs, plus six additional CDs: one with remastered single mixes and edits, three with previously unreleased contemporaneous material from the vaults, and two with a terrific Jun...

Legendary punk rock band Blank Generation in 1977, but its follow-up LP, Destiny Street (recorded in 1981 and released in 1982), wasn’t up to snuff recording-wise, according to the renowned Richard Hell. Finally Destiny Street (the New York-based rockers’ second and final album) has been taken into the meticulous and informed care of Omnivore Recordings and restored, revamped, and expanded into the classic opus it was meant to be. On January 22nd Omnivore is releasing Destiny Street Complete, a four-record (two CDs; digital) odyssey with new liner notes by Richard Hell outlining the...

>> jim: my first film was a student film, "permanent vacation." >> i think people like myself are crazy. because of the way i live, you know. >> jim: nyu film school made a mistake, so i had a $12,000 budget for my first film. >> anthony: which is enormous for the time. >> jim: it was huge, for me. but the root of the word amateur is the love of a form. and professional means you are doing it for money. which i still hope -- i consider myself an amateur, for sure. >> anthony: what was the budget on your first film? >> amos: oh man. >> jim: $12. >> amos: yeah. well, it depends on what you call ...

Make films. >> anthony: and your first film was a student film? >> jim: my first film was a student film, "permanent vacation." >> i think people like myself are crazy. because of the way i live, you know. >> jim: nyu film school made a mistake, so i had a $12,000 budget for my first film. >> anthony: which is enormous for the time. >> jim: it was huge, for me. but the root of the word amateur is the love of a form. and professional means you are doing it for money. which i still hope -- i consider myself an amateur, for sure. >> anthony: what was the budget on your first film? >> amos: oh man...

Which i still hope -- i consider myself an amateur, for sure. >> anthony: what was the budget on your first film? >> amos: oh man. >> jim: $12. >> amos: yeah. well, it depends on what you call first film, but um, "blank generation" was like $2,200. i started shooting bands, and it was more, how do you shoot music with a silent camera. and then "unmade beds" was like my first narrative film. it was like about $4,000. >> jim: i think in "unmade beds" someone from "the new york times" called it "the cinematic equivalent of kindergarten scribbling." and amos put that on his posters. "new york time...