The minute i saw "Purple Rain" in 1984. I was an insant convert to his purple cult and a subject in his royal following:-D

lovedad43 said:

PREACH!!!!

It was about the same exact thing for me. 1999 was my first album, and getting past the first three *radio* tracks (well Delirious was not on the radio yet) that summer with my cassette walkman and really experiencing the depth of Prince's music had me hooked. It was Let's Pretend We're Married, DMSR, and Lady Cab Driver that put me over the top.

I got to listen to the 1999 album religously that summer while we took a family vacation in an RV. When I got home from that two week trip, I immediatly went to the wreka stow and purchased "Controversey". A week later "Dirty Mind" and then the week after that, "Prince" and "For You".

The next summer when the "When Doves Cry" video debuted on MTV, I was up with the VCR waiting for it to start as I had not heard the song yet. I was already a Prince fiend by this time and must have watched the video 15 consecutive times. Then, immediately connected the VCR to the tape recorder and put it on cassette and listened to it for another 15 times too.

Being a huge fan already, I did not think it could get any better, but it did.

Later

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"She's Always in My Hair" Release

I was a casual fan after the "1999" videon in '82.

Elevated to huge fan after The Purple Rain movie in '84.

Watching him rise up on the stage during "Anna Stesia" cemented my following his career and music after 11/3/88.

"Dearly beloved, we gathered here today..."

The Syracuse concert, broadcast live on German TV. Thirteen year old little kid watching the telly, and becoming awestruck. What a show, what cool songs...

Reinforced by the Lovesexy tour here in Hamburg...

No stopping afterwards...

Baby sitting for a neighbour and going through her CD rack. I came across Lovesexy.

I listened to it about 3 times non-stop.

I went out next day and bought it and the hits/b-sides

It was about 1982, I would have been about 5 or 6. I remember hearing this catchy tune. The next time I heard it, I rushed to the T.V. It was Prince singing "1999". I remember thinking this dude is cool.

1979... I was 14 years old at the time. Every Thursday night I listened to a Dutch soul/disco radio show (Ferry Maat's Soul show). One night he played 'I Wanna Be Your Lover'. That was the greatest tune I had ever heard.

1980... Back in the Netherlands we had not heard much of Prince anymore. My brother came home from a business trip to the US. He had two old albums and the new album of Prince with him. Never stopped listening to Prince since (if only someone would have told me than what the song 'Head' was actually about...I would not have sung with it so loud )

The song that made me a Prince fan was the B-side She's Always In My Hair. I used to hear that song on the radio all the time, but until it was announced that it was Prince, after about 20 listens through, I had no idea it was him.

On a similar note: When I first heard the song Purple Rain, I absolutely HATED it! I couldn't figure out why he was wasting his time on this song. Then I was listening to 101.5 KGB in San Diego, a very hard rock/metal station at the time, and they played the full version of the song, through to the coda, and when that coda started playing, I was absolutely AWESTRUCK. I was nearly asleep that afternoon, but this coda perked me right up. I had always had a thing for string quartets, even as a small child - what a way to end this song - WOOF!

brianr54 said:

I know how you feel. There are two other songs like that for me. One of them was Computer Blue. One day, I was riding to school with my cousin Jessica, who had a cassette of Purple Rain in the tape player. All of a sudden comes that throbbing drum beat with that funky guitar lick, and I literally couldn't keep still.

The other song was Let's Pretend We're Married. I'd just bought 1999, and had never heard that song before, but again, it had that kinda beat that just wouldn't quit. The screaming and the subject matter were great, but it was that beat that put me over the edge. That was my definite fave for a long time.

Another song that just blew me away was Dance On from Lovesexy. When I turned the tape over and heard that crazy hyper-syncopated beat, that took over as favorite song. That song gets to the little funky voice in my soul EVERY TIME I LISTEN TO IT.

When Erotic City came out. I think I was 11 years old. I had a tape where me and my sister taped it from the radio. When the part came on about "come on and dance while you, while you still have your cherry, babe," we quickly changed the radio station for a few seconds. We didn't want our mom and dad to hear that part. Funny...that makes me wonder if my 11 years old knows about girl's "cherries." Ugh.

Was aware of Prince and enjoyed some of his songs from the first album onward. But, the "fan" title became appropriate after watching an episode of USA Network's "Night Flight" that was devoted entirely to Prince (this was probably in 1983). Then, I became a "fanatic" after watching the "Purple Rain Live" show from Syracuse on VHS during the summer of '85.

Seeing the video for Mountains on TV when it was released as a single

Little Red Corvette was an amazing tune and from then on the period of 84-88 was an unbelieveable ride for a teen and pretty much set the soundtract for my life for at least the next 15 years...

....it all started comming unhinged after lovesexy..

According to my mother, I gigged my chubby little ass off to "I Wanna Be Your Lover" as a 1-year-old.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't into Prince.

always liked him but I fell in love after I found that my brother had
a copy of Hits1 and 2

I begged him to burn a copy for me so I could listen to When Doves Cry

but it was so much more! and the rest is history

It wasn't until I watched the movie Purple Rain, that was the defining moment, I loved that movie!!! It was after watching that movie that I truly became a Prince fan, I mean I had heard his music before that but wasn't really into him but after watching that I was hooked. I love his music, he is sooooo talented and he is such a hottie!!!!

When I was about twelve years old I bought the single "Controversy",and I bought it for that song,but then it had this B side..."When you were mine",and the two together on one disc just blew me away!
I've been listening to music most of my life,thanx dad,and from that point on our little genius had my full attention....He continued to amaze me for many years after

For me, it was hearing Do Me Baby for the first time in the early 80's. I think it was around 1983, but I could be wrong. When I heard this song for the first time, I blushed and knew right away that I loved it!! I've been hooked ever since.

I saw Purple Rain on VH1's "Movies That Rock" one night and that started it all for me!!!

Purple Rain film. Computer Blue. With Purple Rain, I could relate to Prince. I understood Prince. Prince is a rebel and Apollonia was hot.

My brother got 1999. I was about 10. It was:

"Hey!!" on Automatic.

Then "But it was Saturday night I guess that makes it alright..."

Then the little dance move in the LRC video.

and I was hooked.

dayum, finally a newbie can post

i thought it was when i first saw purple rain back when i was 10 years old...but i think i was when i first listed to around the world in a day. because i fell in love w/ purple rain (the movie and the lp) i immediately had my parents buy me his next album, awd. at first i wasn't too into it...perhaps too psychadelic for a 10 year old to deal w/. but as i kept listening to that album over and over again, the words just spoke to me, and i begin to open up my young mind to a whole new way of listening to music. i knew then that prince had a revolutionary, strange and spiritual hold on me.

-w.p.c.

whenpigeonscry said:

Welcome, newbie!