So I called him at the studio, the sunset sound, he picks up the phone and he just says,

I hear you don't like my album. Oh, oh, oh, oh, rather than dance.

Rather than, This is Prince, the story of Sign of the Times, brought to you by the current in collaboration with the Prince Estate, Paisley Park, and Warner Records.

Hey, it's Andrea Swenson. That track you're hearing is called It Bees Like That Sometimes,

and it's one of the many unreleased tracks from Prince's Balt

that are included on the new Super Deluxe reissue of Sign of the Times.

Elements of it would end up in I Know, a song in his 1988 release, Love

Sexy. But at the time it was recorded in October 1986, it was one of dozens of songs that Prince was tracking between the breakup It was

between the breakup of his hit-making band, The Revolution,

and the completion of Sign of the Times.

Years later, while writing the liner notes for his 1998 compilation of unreleased music, Crystal Ball,

Prince would look back on this period.

Writing about the track Good Love, he said,

this track was recorded during an intense period of

musical change for Prince. He had disbanded the revolution and moved to LA, booking

sunset sound studios, sometimes for months at a time. booking Sunset

Sound Studios, sometimes for months at a time.

Shockadelica, Feel You Up and parts of the Black Album were also recorded during this period.

Prince was happy, he reflected, and very optimistic about his musical possibilities with a new lineup

of musicians, which included Sheila E.

By the time the news of the Revolution's breakup was reported in the papers. Prince had already

set up camp at sunset sound and was recording one or two songs a day.

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