"Sign o' the Times" was nominated for Album of the Year at the 30th Grammy Awards. It was voted as the best album of 1987 in "The Village Voice"s Pazz &amp; Jop critics' poll. According to Christgau, the poll's creator, the album was "easily the biggest winner" in the poll's history and "established Prince as the greatest rock and roll musician of the era—as singer-guitarist-hooksmith-beatmaster, he has no peer." The title track "Sign o' the Times" was named the best single of 1987 in the poll, while "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" and "U Got the Look" were also voted within the top 10. The album also ranked second among "Albums of the Year" for 1987 in the annual "NME" critics' poll, and the title track ranked number one among songs. In an interview in December 1989, Robert Smith of the Cure cited "Sign o' the Times" amongst the best things about the 1980s.