Where were you the first time you heard When Doves Cry?

I don't remember...prolly playing with my Teddy Ruxpin

Cant remember exactly all eye know is that eye was probably on summer vacation from high school.

HaReMz said:

exactly as 4 me, i really don't remember....

im my daddy's car with all my family

I was taking a warm bubble bath~

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[This message was edited Sun May 5 16:29:39 PDT 2002 by HIGH5]

in a movie theater. It was the last weekend of my navy bootcamp days before i graduated. That last weekend we were allowed to leave the base for the first time, so me and some fellas went straight to the movie theater because purple rain had just come out. So, I heard When Doves Cry for the first time while viewing the movie. a week or so after I graduated navy boot camp, I was in a club in orlando, florida and I saw the music video for the first time. people were dancing but I was FIXATED on the video. that part in the video where they slit in half and come back together again just totally blew me away. a short time after that, I was at a club on base where they played the song and I actually danced to it for the first time. thinking back, I was going through some serious changes in my life and it was hella nice that I could divert my attention from time to time to the purlpe rain explosion that happened to be running concurrent w/ those changes at the time. side note, the first time I heard Erotic City, was Halloween night 84' in a club in Hawaii. I was dressed up as a sailor (go figure) and I was dancing w/ wonder woman to it. lol!!! I was trying to get my rap on w/ wonder woman when the song came on. I had never heard it before so I didn't know it was Prince. I mentioned to her that it sounded like Prince. She told me that it was Prince and that it was his latest. immediately I was like, would you like to dance. that was a great moment...a funky ass new tune by prince in a night club on halloween night in hawaii on the dance floor w/ wonder woman.

I was in Los Angeles. It was the year the Olympics were being held there. I was about 15 years old and we were getting ready to leave for Germany because we were moving there.

rdhull said:

In my bedroom sick from school it played on the radio station I was listening to (I had heard ABOUT it from others before that). Late spring of 1984. Didn't know what to make of it, it perplexed me the first few times I listened to it.

This is one of those songs that most people know where they were and what they were doing the very first time they heard it. It seems like unless something significant is going on in your life at the time, you usually don't remember (the where/what aspect) the less groundbreaking music you hear initially. My rookie experience with WDC is burned into my consciousness. Probably forever.

I first heard it when I was 12 when I started listening 2 the top 20 on my transistor radio,it got me seriously into music,the guitar intro was the coolest thing I had heard at the time.

Supernova said:

Mine too. I had a babysitter that used to bring over records (I get the feeling I've already told you all this) and she had it on a 45. I remember that I loved it, especially the record itself cause it was purple and had the coolest label (with the flowers and etc...) and I remember lookin at the picture of Prince with his big glasses and lace collar and thinking "this is the coolest guy/record/song ever!" I still think it's one of the best songs of all time, and the B-side is my fave Prince song ever.

I was in first grade making puppets.

pff.. beats me.

I was just out of school in my bedroom switchin stations to keep listenin for the new release I kept readoing about that was coming soon.When I heard it and it was already in the middle of the song and I thought,"hmm,what the hell is this?" and then they said it's Prince and I was like,"what is that crap?,wheres the heavy 1999 like synth?,what is When Doves Cry"" etc. WDC was a never talked about song for inclusion that was reported in Right On and other mags discussing Princes upcoming movie.I was very shocked at the turn his music went. I was expecting Purple Rain to be the single and it was to sound like 1999-continuation.Oh yeah, it was very warm that day.

bloody hell would I know...

but I'm glad some of y'all remember!!!

i was 7 years old....living in los angeles area, it was hot outside, and i was eating icecream and listening to the radio....it came on the radio...and i didn't pay much attention to it. don't know why? it wasn't until i was 13 years old that i re-discovered it.

peace.

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I was living in a foster home in the LA area and I heard it 4 the first time on the "Mighty 690"...U all in LA, remember that station?? And K-Day??? anyway, that was just the jam...the "awaowawawa" in the background was just the shi*...and than the video...damn, he just looked so cool standing on the edge of that lake...And soon after, at age 14 I would become "the Prince guy" and am still refered to that by some small minds...

Senior year in high school (no comments from you whipper snappers. Yo mama is old too!) I was cumming home from a successful date at about 2 AM and was listening to a NYC radio station. Suddenly this song came on that sounded like Prince was singing but it was different. There was no bass, and very little keyboard until the end. I heard this joint in like January/February 1984. I didn't hear it again until the single was released. Alwas one of my favorites.

It was my freshman or sophomore year in high school - my sisters were watching TV and I was typing on the computer (my back was to the TV)... they were watching something on Vh1 and they did a little segment on Prince and played some of the chrous of WDC. I thought it sounded really neat so I immediately downloaded it (which took a zillion hours with an ftp server and a 28.8 k modem).

Although I didn't think much of Prince at the time, I thought the song was fantastic.

(If you couldn't already tell, this didn't happen during the 80s... I missed that decade )

Natsume said:

Never consider yourself "born too late" a person born tomorrow can hear everything that came before and have a fresh perspective on that which comes after. Us older people will consistantly dislike new things for one reason or another. If I had been a Prince fan since day one I may have become disillusioned when Lovesexy or Batman came out, or maybe even ATWID, but since most of my Prince listening was done in retrospect I was able to take each recording as a peice of the big picture. It wasn't until TRC that I began to lose faith, and I wouldn't say it's gone yet.

PS the 80's sucked! The early 90's now that's a time period I miss.

I was in bed listening 2 the radio (B96 in Chicago) and they were playing it 4 the first time. This was, of course, back in '84...

I was 13... and on holiday in this place called Margate, and a couple of friends and I went to this shocker of a club... with equally as bad music!

Then When Doves Cry came on... it was our salvation! It justified the evening... I might have heard it before when I was younger subconsciously... but this is my first recollection of hearing it and appreciating it fully. It was just a couple of months before the whole Prince obsession started, but wasn't the reason it did... maybe just a sign of things to come, a slight precurser.

I was just getting out of my last exam on the last day of school my sophmore year. I walked out the building and going across the parking lot heard this fuzzy guitar blaring from someone's car. It changed my life literally! I'm learning to play guitar and I couldn't believe what my ears were hearing. I knew it was Prince right away. I don't know how,but no one else could've created that kind of beat in those days. It was the perfect way to begin my summer and a momemt I'll never forget!!!

wishuhvn said:

Yep! Now it's XTRA Sports. I like the loose cannons.



Nope.

Cornerman said:

Yep.

I was in the eighth grade. I can't what day it was that spring, but I remember the very first time I heard it when the radio premiered it. It was intoxicating. I ran to the record store every day till the single was released and wore out my 12" vinyl. I never get tired of hearing that song.

I was a kid playing at the local Southwest Atlanta gameroom which had a TV on the (upper)back wall. This Gameroom aired taped videos since MTV was new to this region then. After The System's, "You're In My System" ended, "When Doves Cry" began. I did not view the whole video because I was trying to get the attention of Gameroom Attendant to get some more tokens. As those familiar "symphony chords" signaled the end the song, this guy looked up at Prince (who was that veiled Sisco-kid hat) and says,

"That's a Bad M-th-r&@#%*$!"




And I've been cursing ever since!