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PrintableGoing on a road trip to Sea Ranch in Mendocino cty in '97 or '98. My friend brought The Beautiful Experience, Girl 6, Emancipation, Crystal Ball, and Purple Rain with us. After that, I stopped thinking of him as the squeaky clean guy who came up with Ras Beret(well, I didn't really understand the lyrics back then) and Kiss, and more of...something else. He looked so cool in the booklets and the music was jamming. Don't hurt me, I'm a newb. I'm supposed to be stupid. | |
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Alphabet St. & 1999 | |
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GoldenGlove said: Alphabet St. & 1999
the best moment are gone.  I got a new Avatar from my dear friend Goldenglove. | |
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Oooohhhh Snap. I remember that Poster.
The Electrifying Mojo used to play these 35-35-35's and I would wait stay up late waiting for Still Waiting, Lonely and Do Me Baby. Party Up, Uptown, Gotta Stop messin' about. All of it. When 1999 was on the way I told my mother I had to buy it. I was the first Album I ever bought. I got the Album and Lady Cab Driver blew me away. I remember how anxious I was about the cursing and the fact that I had to figure out how to buy Four more albums. (1999 was a hard sell because it was expensive- a double album). But it was over. Everything I got from him was so much better that anything else that was coming out. And he was consistently coming out with something. I think it spoiled me. Anyway I couldn't find anything like him until I started going backwards to the likes of Stevie Wonder and Jimi Hendix. I love it! | |
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1985 American Music Award's  If u and I were just ten feet closer, then I'd make u understand
Everything I want 2 do 2 ur body baby, I will do 2 ur head | |
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it was his appearance on american bandstand, in like '79 or '80?
he barely spoke to dick clark. i think clark asked him how many instruments he played or something and instead of answering he just held up 4 fingers. i was only 9 or 10 and had never seen anything like him. i remember my older sister saying "what a freak" or something... | |
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thisbediscream said: Let's Pretend We're Married..... Listening to it, while looking at the girl I was into.... while she listened to it and told me that she liked to mastrubate to that song..... I was hooked right then!
 she liked to masturbate to "Lets Pretend We're Married." | |
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anytime I see him wearing gloves.....he makes me think that I want to "know" him in the biblical sense.
oh...are ya'll talking about something else.  | |
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From the moment I saw this video:
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RipHer2Shreds said: From the moment I saw this video:
the gloves....  | |
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Rhondab said: RipHer2Shreds said: From the moment I saw this video:
the gloves....  I just read your post after I did mine. | |
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For me, I remember really diggin' "Little Red Corvette", but at the time it was just another cool song on the radio. It was when I saw the video for "1999" that I was hooked! Here was this guy who looked so weird, yet so cool, and he had these hot chicks playing keyboards in their underwear together!!! It was a great tune, that sounded like nothing else on the radio at the time.
A few weeks later, I saw the vid for LRC, and realized it was the same dude! A girl in my carpool to school had the 1999 cassette, and loaned it to me. I was totally hooked, and soon returned the favour by making her copies of For You, Prince, Dirty Mind and Controversy! 
Do not hurry yourself in your spirit to become offended, for the taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones. (Ecclesiastes 7:9) |
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He had me when I saw the movie Purple Rain. There was no turning back after that! My heart belong to him forever!
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Seeing the video for Mountains on ITV in the UK, then a couple of months later my brother buying me all of his albums from For You to Parade for my Chrtstmas present, then spending the WHOLE of Christmas and Boxing days listening to them over and over. | |
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RipHer2Shreds said: Rhondab said: the gloves.... I just read your post after I did mine.
On the real, I first saw Prince in Right On! mag with that big ass fro and I thought he was beautiful and then my cousin let me know that he was the same guy who was singing Soft n Wet....It was ova!! | |
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When I saw him on the Rick James Tour. I was in the 5th grade at the time. I was mesmerized by the little man I saw twirling around in high-heeled boots, bikini underwear, thigh highs and a trenchcoat.  | |
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Forever in my Life performance in Sign o the times Video | |
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I remember the time he first came to my attention very well indeed! I was pretty young back then, i'm 28 now and Diamonds & Pearls had just been released (you do the math). I was training with a youth dance company at the time, and the company director was trying to teach us a piece that she had choreographed to Thunder. I was mesmerized!! I thought it was a fab piece of music, certainly unlike aything that was in the UK charts at the time, and very different to anything I had danced to previously. So I went home, nagged my parents to give me my weekly allowance early and went and bought the album! That was it! From that point on I made it my goal to try and get my hands on as much stuff as possible! My dad was chuffed to say the least, cos up until then my interest in music had been limited to crappy boybands (new kids on the block?) etc. My dad is a musician and he's been playing in bands all his life. He had longed for either me or my sister to take up an instrument of some sort, but in the end neither of us did. My musicality instead came out through dancing, but that isn't really a "father/daughter" thing, so when he realised I had started to take an interest in "real music" as he puts it, and in particular Prince who he thinks is fabulous, he was really pleased and we would chat for hours on the subject! Ahhh! | |
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Gett Off , every single part of that song , I used to listen to the radio for particular lines from that song cos I loved it to death , still do really. Check out Chocadelica , updated with Lotusflow3r and MPLSound album lyrics April 2nd 2009 :
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Really liked the Prince's music  and then there was Lovesexy..... Below your threshold of conscious perception.... is where you will find me. | |
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I will never forget it. We had gone out to field service (yes, i was raised as a JW) and my mom took me to one of those pizza/movie houses. She pretty much controlled my media intake so I had never even heard of Prince. At least, I thought so. I did like a song that I snuck and taped off the radio one day when she wasn't home called "It's gonna be lonely" by someone I thought the dj said was named Princess (probably said "Prince's). Anyway, back to the outing. Lo and behold, they were playing "Purple Rain" on the movie . That was IT for me been in 'love'  ever since even if it was forbidden.  But now, my mom can't stop talking about her Brother Prince.  "...If she could B muse 2 the Pharoah, then 1 day she might b Queen...." | |
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