mrsquirrel said:

It was probably half way through Condition Of The Heart that phasing thing kicked in and I suddenly realised I'd heard this back in the 70s before I was born but not before then.

It is impossible to describe but considering I'd borrowed the CD off my older brother it was probably just a 6 year imprint mind larceny of hearing the music next door.

"...It's just a phase...", yana yada yeah. I can see why people ask how to tune a piano now.

Obviously I'd love to qualify this with something other than being a massive bore, so feck off love.

Cx

I feel ya, squirrel.

dadeepop said:

mrsquirrel said:

It was probably half way through Condition Of The Heart that phasing thing kicked in and I suddenly realised I'd heard this back in the 70s before I was born but not before then.

It is impossible to describe but considering I'd borrowed the CD off my older brother it was probably just a 6 year imprint mind larceny of hearing the music next door.

"...It's just a phase...", yana yada yeah. I can see why people ask how to tune a piano now.

Obviously I'd love to qualify this with something other than being a massive bore, so feck off love.

Cx

I feel ya, squirrel.

it's cool, I have the CD

1contessa said:

214 said:

Oh guys you and your old asses ahahaha. It all dates back to 2008 when i saw a video of him playin Somewhere here om earth as far i can remember. then i saw Call My Name video and loved it, still love that video. So back when i was 20 it started to like Prince.

Oh you young un.....2008, u don't have a clue!

What do you mean by that? young un...?

214 said:

1contessa said:

Oh you young un.....2008, u don't have a clue!

What do you mean by that? young un...?

It's just an old fashioned term used by folks way back in the day for young people, meaning "young one".

Even though I was a fan prior, the Purple Reign years caused me to fall in love with everything Prince. I was sold. It was a combination of things that really did it. the Purple Rain music, the Glamorous Life, Sugar Walls, Purple Rain movie, one of the stations I listened to started playing these Prince snippet mixes:combinations of Music from Prince the Time Vanity 6 Sheila E Sugar Walls from 1978-1984 and a lot of stuff I never heard like Horny Toad, long versions etc

That's when i saw that this was a musical culture.

I was hooked.

1contessa said:

214 said:

What do you mean by that? young un...?

It's just an old fashioned term used by folks way back in the day for young people, meaning "young one".

and the you don't have a clue?

214 said:

1contessa said:

It's just an old fashioned term used by folks way back in the day for young people, meaning "young one".

and the you don't have a clue?

I was joking in return for your remark about "us guys and our old asses and that it's dates back to 2008 when you saw a video". My saying that you don't have a clue, meant that there was so many more way before that time, hence the term "young un"

1991-1992, Diamonds and Pearls started it and Symbol album hooked me.

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1contessa said:

214 said:

and the you don't have a clue?

I was joking in return for your remark about "us guys and our old asses and that it's dates back to 2008 when you saw a video". My saying that you don't have a clue, meant that there was so many more way before that time, hence the term "young un"

ohh like saying that it was not even one of his best, there was mucho more before that song

214 said:

1contessa said:

I was joking in return for your remark about "us guys and our old asses and that it's dates back to 2008 when you saw a video". My saying that you don't have a clue, meant that there was so many more way before that time, hence the term "young un"

ohh like saying that it was not even one of his best, there was mucho more before that song

1648.

novabrkr said:

Age 11, 1983, Detroit.

1999 and LRC were in constant rotation on the radio, and at that timeI honestly had no idea what he even looked like.

1999 got me interested, Purple Rain got me hooked. I had the joy of collecting his albums forward and backward for many years, finally getting current before SOTT came out.

Was indifferent to For You, but loved everything since for quite a long time.

my defining moment was seeing those eyes in Purple Rain putting on make-up in the beginning of the movie. at that moment, it was like the past melted into the present. i felt like this was someone who really was on the path to know and love God.

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[Edited 10/2/15 20:09pm]

My mom had a dub of Purple Rain on one side and David Bowie's Let's Dance on the other side. I grew up seeing every one of his videos. I particularly enjoyed "Kiss", "Mountains", "Alphabet Street", "Batdance", "Thieves In The Temple", "My Name Is Prince" and "7". Most of his stuff went over my head. I had the Batman soundtrack on cassette. My sister had the album on cassette. I bought The Hits 1 CD. I had the "Letitgo" cassingle. I noticed TLC kept covering his stuff ("Get It Up", "If I Was Your Girlfriend") or being compared to him. I was 15 when I finally bought Purple Rain, The Hits 2, Girl 6, Emancipation, which is why I like Emancipation so much. Then I went about collecting all of it.

From the day that Soft and Wet was released and I have loved him ever since - no matter what

Hooked since I listened to the Dortmund 1988 concert that was live on radio. I think I was 13, already in bed and listened to it secretly with my headphones on so my parents wouldn't notice. Still don't know WHY I wanted to hear it then, but no regrets.

Emancipation, early 1997.

skipthecharades said:

Still don't know WHY I wanted to hear it then, but no regrets.

Thank you for inspiring THAT thread.

The 1999 album; so my junior year in High School. MTV was a big gateway for me. I LOVED me some Little Red Corvette. One day our social studies teacher played "1999" in class and asked us to analyze it's political message. It was sublime. I bobbed my head and my musical taste was being validated. I guess discovering Prince was the first time I felt that I had discovered music on my own that spoke to my individual tastes, which were (and still are) all over the map.

The 1999 album really grabbed me. It had it all. The new wave weird funk of Talking Heads. The psychedelia and studio wizardry of Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel. The gender bending of Bowie and Little Richard. Hendrix guitar licks. The funk of Parliament. The rawness of the Stones. The slickness of the Jackson Five and the disco tempo of Earth Wind and Fire. The theatricality of KISS and Alice Cooper. The raw sexuality of Blondie and the Vegas chic of Elvis Presley. The pounding rythms and riffs of Led Zeppelin. The pop sensibility of popular disco acts and the Beatles. The profanity and vulgar "in your face" attitude of punk. The throwback "togetherness" of Sly Stone. The old school rythms of James Brown. The rockabilly style of Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

Prince back then had it all, could do it all and did it all.

In my world there was a lot of negativity from others about the advent of Prince circa Purple Rain. It's hard to believe but he was viewed as a 'manufactured' artist because of the sheer scale of arriving in a movie.
But I'd already met a Prince freak who had discovered 'Dirty Mind'. He was in my band and raved after discovering the album while in America.
So one wet wednesday I wandered into a cinema and was pretty blown away.

But the real kick-in for me was 'Around The World In A Day' because I was dreaming, myself, of a way to combine jazz, psychedelia in a pop form. I saw The Beatles as the masters of how to reconcile popular with experimental and even weird and Prince sucked all that up while chewing on his own goat.

I still wish, though, that he'd made a movie to go with THAT album.
Can you imagine?