Talk:Sign o' the Times/Archive 1

Official name
Officialy the name of this album is Sign "peace sign" The Times. The alternate spelling is Sign 'O' The Times, NOT Sign O' The Times. Sign 'O' The Times is used in the discography on the NPG Music Club, the official site of Prince. I will (try to) change the name of the article to the correct alternate spelling. If someone ones to use the correct peace sign, you van use nl:Afbeelding:Princesottpeacesymbol.png. Cheers, Jeroenvrp 17:23, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Peace symbol bliss
If your browser does not display the ☮ peace symbols in this article, please read my explanations. All Mac OS X browsers work natively. On Windows XP, Firefox works but may require installing East-Asian fonts. IE6 fails even with proper fonts. Your Linux mileage may vary. -- JFG 04:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

-Shouldn't it be said somewhere in the intro what symbol it is instead of the reader having to search the images which show it to find it only down there? It would make it easier... 201.31.229.15 01:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh come on
Wasn't the peace symbol just the style of his writing? Do you really think Prince actually meant the album to be called Sign (Peace sign) the Times? M.C. Brown Shoes 10:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind, Prince later went on to call himself by the non-linguistic symbol [[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg]] for seven years. At least we can pronounce this album as "Sign of the times" even if it isn't spelled that way. --Metropolitan90 05:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Not only that, but even the Japanese release, which translates all titles into katakana, has the peace symbol instead of the word "Of". Check it: --Matharvest 03:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * If you read well, they've written "of" in katakana over the peace symbol.189.82.48.16 (talk) 16:54, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This is a little ridiculous; the peace sign is just a design, the name of this encyclopedia entry should not be Sign (peace symbol) the Times. Prince fans need to chill out with the symbolism stuff. This is pretty silly. I had trouble taking this article seriously just because of the title, and I'm sure any objective fans of this album would as well. Really, the title should be Sign "O" the Times, unless anyone can find evidence that Prince meant for the record to always be written with a peace symbol. No one tries to recreate all the decorations he made on the cover of 1999 people just call that album 1999.

Please rename (not about the peace symbol)
Could we please move and rename these articles so that the curly quotes are replaced with straights? On my browser, curly quotes always have a big spacing problems. So what you see as Sign “O” the Times, I see as Sign  “O”   the Times. It's really quite annoying. Plus, this (and the song) are the only articles I know that have curlies in the title space. I would argue that the album cover looks like it uses straight quotes anyways.--SeizureDog 12:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Blender´s review
Blender gave five stars for Sign "O" the Times. Can somebody place this review to "professonial reviews"? I don´t know how to do it.

http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2280

Thank you

Prince-fan

Alternate sleeve
Why isn't in the article the other cover art of this album (that one with the white background and Prince holding a giant black heart in front of his face)?189.82.48.16 (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

that's the cover art for Sign of the times (single). Actually it's his backup dancer Cat holding the heart up, but a lot of people thought it was Prince. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.159.119 (talk) 20:16, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Chronology
I understand why The Black Album is placed as a subsequent album in the Chronology in the infobox, but if you go to the Black Album article Sign o' the Times isn't there as a preceding album in the Chronology section. I think there should be consistency between the two articles, though I don't know whether The Black Album should be deleted from this page or Sign o' the Times added on the other? Personally I think chronology should just be by release date.Peteds (talk) 00:16, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Dorothy Parker
It has been recorded (and to my astonishment when I read it) that the use of the name "Dorothy Parker" in the song was entirely coincidental and did not refer to the real Dorothy Parker - but I can't find the ref. Possibly in Michaelangelo Matos but I've lent my copy. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:45, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Article title
I get why the peace symbol isn't used in the article title, but why is there only an apostrophe instead of two double quotes? I can't think of a legitimate reason for that, as the title is clearly intended (and best known) to have the double quotes. 128.151.71.16 (talk) 13:10, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree Rhindle The Red (talk) 12:50, 10 May 2012 (UTC)