Before Prince, there was...?

before i became a full-fledged prince freek, i was a....you may wanna sit down for this one....a marilyn manson fan. seriously--i was a pretty big fan of manson, much to my dad's dismay (he didn't want me listenin to that "satan-worshipping music", as he called it ). soon as the antichrist superstar album came out and manson's remake of "sweet dreams (are made of this)" started gettin played all the time and all the abercrombie & fitch-types started latchin on to 'im, i disbanded from the marilyn manson fan camp and went along with my then 2nd in line guy...prince. my dad breathed a lot easier after that.

my question to ya'll is this: before you got into prince, what artist/group were you a big fan of?

before prince, i was pretty much torn three ways between MJ, culture club and eurythmics. basically, if they could sing and if they dressed like the opposite gender, they were okay with me.

at the same time, though, i was brought up on the beatles, hendrix and bowie, so when prince came down the pike, it was kind of a no-brainer that i'd go nutso over the guy's music and image.

Also a Manson fan, although I stuck with him through Mechanical Animals
Metallica
Madonna
Beatles
and then the Prince breakthrough

Um (sheepishly) okay it was Wham! I admit it, I was a Wham freak! I thought Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go was pure pop magic. I thought Careless Whisper was the epitome of love songs. I thought Wham Rap was hardcore gangsta. I was sick and needed help...and then the purple man from Minneapolis save me from mediocrity.

I feel better for having admitted all of that. It has been on my chest for oh so long...

Geez, I don't really remember much before Prince, but I used to flip flop between Prince and STP in my CD changer. I guess I still listen to STP but Prince never leaves my stereo car/work or home.

I was always hardcore Prince, Culture Club and Kiss. Those were the groups that I absolutely had to have everything they put out. So far the only person I haven't met is Prince. I would be a blithering idiot if I did.

The 80's made a big impact on me because of MTV. I fell in love with the british scene. SPLIT ENZ, SMITHS, SELECTOR, SPECIALS, DEPECHE, SIOUXIE, ADAM AND THE ANTS, MARILYN(not Manson), FUN BOY THREE, ULTRAVOX. I can go on forever. It's funny because everything really did sound different.

Miguel

Well before Prince was quite awhile ago...

I was in my preteens and it probably was Wham! and Michael Jackson (during the Thriller days).

GottaLetitgo said:

I was pretty much TOP 40....

Whatever the radio told me to like (Wham,Cure, MJ, Duran Duran)

Then I turned it to the "Electrifying Mojo's" radio show and the "Mothership"
landed and "Ronnie Talk 2 Russia" came on and the rest is history..

All u Motor Babies know what I am talking about..

Before Prince I was into Missing Persons and The Plasmatics.

GottaLetitgo said:

I'll spend all my cool tokens at once and say Bon Jovi.











































































I was NINE you fucks!!

Number23 said:

I'll spend all my cool tokens at once and say Bon Jovi.



I was NINE you fucks!!

I actually liked

Rick Springfield NOT Bruce.....but Rick

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Number23 said:

I'll spend all my cool tokens at once and say Bon Jovi.



I was NINE you fucks!!

number23

...just jokin. in fact i did worse than you: when i was nine i loved milli vanilli.

sly & the family stone
Parliafunkadelicment
Isley brothers
James Marshall Hendrix

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

GottaLetitgo said:

Um (sheepishly) okay it was Wham! I admit it, I was a Wham freak! I thought Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go was pure pop magic. I thought Careless Whisper was the epitome of love songs. I thought Wham Rap was hardcore gangsta.

i was a little kid when "wake me up..." came out...i thought george was singin wake me up before you cocoa. i still love me some wham!, make it big is one of my fave albums.

A Different Corner..now that brings it back

letyourfreakflagfly said:

Club Tropicana.....boy....I don't think I have listened to Wham since 1989 or so...but when somebody says the title, I KNOW the songs by heart..
DAMN!!!

Thanks to Prince I learned about the music I still love best: Jimi Hendrix, Parliament/Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown, etc. Thank you Prince!

MidnightFunk said:

and of course, my favorite..."Last Christmas"

Stevie.


Wonder, not Nicks.

Does being a Prince-fan nececcarily mean that you can't listen to M.Manson?

Before I discovered Prince at the tender age of 13 in 1991, I mostly listened to thrash-metal. Nowadays, anything goes; from classical music to black metal. And loads of Prince, of course.

I used to be obsessed with Billy Joel (and I still moderately am), but nothing compares to Prince now. I have about 25 cd's of each (all different).

ottoegil said:

MidnightFunk said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Understand you to the fullest. I respect Marilyn a lot, he's probably one of the most intelligent guys out there in the biz...

Well, on the topic...let me think. I was 13 when I became a part of the purple hype...
Before that - straight HipHop. I was a major 2Pac follower... That whole West Coast - Gangsta attitude...
I still love Tupac lots, but our little man somehow took over first place and stayed there ever since

"Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies -
tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I"

ottoegil said: