what was it that got you hooked?

im a huge fan, even though ive only been for about a year and a half.. but ive been like, obsessed since i saw the interview on tavis smiley in 09. he just seemed so interesting to me, so i got purple rain and lotus/mpls, and.. lol well

what about everyone else? :]

dyvrdown said:

what was it that got you hooked?

im a huge fan, even though ive only been for about a year and a half.. but ive been like, obsessed since i saw the interview on tavis smiley in 09. he just seemed so interesting to me, so i got purple rain and lotus/mpls, and.. lol well

what about everyone else? :]

Im kinda the same as you...I got into him about a year ago, but I first REALLY noticed him on the BET AWARDS and I said "awww he's so cute"

i fell in love during his 1999 tour; he was so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1977.

i was at a houseparty, as we called them then....and someone had a cassette with all these songs from a kid in minneapolis.

i was 14.

i have been in it ever since.

just saw a few songs on youtube and became a fan since then, its been over a year now and i am pretty much a die hard fan.

MTV. I was always mesmerized by Little Red Corvette and Kiss. It’s probably why I’m gay.

30 something odd years ago specifically because of a wonderful DJ named....The One and Only Electrifying Mojo! He turned the city of Detroit out on Prince and his music, damn near every night...from 1978 through 1988...consecutively!

I visited my aunt in SC and she was a huge Prince fan. I saw Purple Rain there and fell in love. She gave my cousins the picture to her Purple Rain album and they hung it on their wall. I would stare at the photo all the time. And I was only eight!

With a shoe horn and a little KY.

Yeah, I would be lying if I didn't say MTV, initially.

Oh yeah, and tapes from bargain bins. They were trying to get rid of that format altogether during the first half of the 90s, so you could find all kinds of stuff for nothing. Library played a big part in it too - I could get most of his records from there (they didn't have the early albums though). Prince really wasn't the type of an artist that you "should" have listened to where I lived back then. Everyone I ever spoke to about him were just taken back by his image, but I just couldn't get enough of the guy. Now, when I started reciting his lyrics to my friends things could get a bit awkward....

The greatest thing about Prince back then was how into his own music and career he was back then - he was full of dedication and had an ambition to move on artistically with each album. So it wasn't hard to get really engaged about him and his music as a fan.

10 years old

WHEN DOVES CRY

XNY said:

With a shoe horn and a little KY.

sicko!

First i saw the i wish u heaven video and loved it......then, because i was a fan of the Batman comics i saw his new CD (Batman) and bought it....it was so different and great

grew up on batman 1989,seen purple rain on tv and was mesmerised and when i got my ipod i filled it with his music....

I don't remember exactly how old I was, but I do remember the song that did it....Let's Pretend We're Married. My parents specifically told me not to listen to that album...you know the way God specifically told Adam not eat from the infamous tree. Well, I had been in the basement adjusting the volume on the stereo trying to figure out just how low it could go with me still being able to hear it. And I played the song. The next day, I had asked my aunt "what does it mean to have the taste FUCKED out of your mouth". And the rest is history.

First seen him on the Purple Rain Syracuse show, which was broadcast on UK tv in 1985, then became a serious fan in 1986 when i was 16.

1986: KISS!!!!

It was in Italy, do u understand!!?!?!?

oscar73 said:

1986: KISS!!!!

It was in Italy, do u understand!!?!?!?

i dont understand any of this

I was 3 in the 80's and knew when doves cry from the video and radio and I would die for you, and slightly remember seeing batdance. I may have seen kiss too but it was fuzzy.

Partyman on a various artists hits tape.

It was sooo different and stood out from the other samey pop songs.

Then I played the Grafitti Bridge tape to death during my paper rounds!

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swdee said:

Partyman on a various artists hits tape.

It was sooo different and stood out from the other samey pop songs.

Then I played the Grafitti Bridge tape to death during my paper rounds!

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This question cones up every few months or so...

I liked a song or two when I was in jr high and high school (late 70s/ 80s), but nothing big....

Sophomore year of college, I had a crazy, obsessed roommate who collected bootleg cassettes. She played Prince ALL THE TIME. After a while, I started to hear things that weren't on the radio. I decided he wasn't so bad after all.

Then Sign 'O' the Times came out... I heard that song on the radio and flipped! That was the first album I can truly say I loved.

After that, I went back and filled in the ones from before and listened to them with a "new ear" and have bought every one since.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

30 something odd years ago specifically because of a wonderful DJ named....The One and Only Electrifying Mojo! He turned the city of Detroit out on Prince and his music, damn near every night...from 1978 through 1988...consecutively!

If you are over 35, and grew up in motor city MOJO is the reason you loved Prince. I feel for the young people of today. What MOJO did on the radio was just so special,no DJ today even with XM, could or would do what that man did every night....ain't nobody like you... I mean come on. Just imagine turning on your radio at night and hearing PRINCE music for 2 or 3 HOURS straight. Uncut, album versions, remixes, extended mixes, b-sides etc.

I've been with Prince since 1977.....forever. Soft and Wet. Then through Right ON! magazine.....Thank you Prince. thanks MOJO8-)

first heard him when 1999 made the top 30 in the uk charts back in january 83...thought it was a great dance song...then i saw him on entertainment usa tv programme when little red corvette was climbing the us chart in early 83 and i remember thinking he was a great performer and the song was very good.....then a year later when when doves cry came out in 84....that was it...the dj was praising him and the song so much that i taped it and listened to it closely because it did sound weird then i realised the brilliance of it and since then ..i have spend thousands on the little shit for the last 27 years.....

Purple Rain, 1984. I was 11/12. I didnt know about 'Darling Nikki', my mum recorded the album onto cassette without that song,. Sneaky!! I was surprised a couple of years later ,when i couldnt find the tape i found the album & played it, when i heard Darling Nikki, I thought hey that wasnt on the tape!!!

Yeah, i asked my mum what masterbating with a magazine was & what devices were!!!!

Mmmmmm Let's just say she wasn't ready for that!!!!

^

The Housequake performance on the SOTT Live DVD, two years ago. I became pretty much obsessed after that.

I got into Prince basically out of curiosity because I had heard about Prince as a music artist but I had never really listened to any of his songs. It was in 2008, I was 16, turning 17, at the time and I just decided, that I might as well listen to a few songs to see what he was like. And I guess I became an instant fan because ever since then, for the past three years all I've listened to is Prince music, or music by associated artists.