For me it was Purple Rain. Then It spindled from there.

I bought Purple Rain and Dirty Mind on the same day. All I'd heard before that was the Hits cds, so DM blew me away!

let's see, Prince, Controversy, Dirty Mind, 1999, For You, Purple Rain, ATWIAD Sott Lovesexy, Diamonds and Pearls, Emapciaption then Gold in that order. Well be getting everything else i missed in between next week courtesy of a friend!!!

The first one I bought with my own money was 'Around the World...' on LP in 1985. "Say Papa, I think I wanna dance!" What a great memory. By the way, anyone know if "Musicology" is on vinyl anywhere?

1999, after a friend played me 'Let's Pretend We're Married'.

purple rain on the day the record came out with my own money. i got the last one on the shelf.

Prince Greatest Hits as seen on tv. i was in this cheap hotel in Nashville the day after thanksgiving. i will never forget that night. i'd heard Purple Rain before that, but this was the first one i'd ever bought. I got it cuz i'd heard Rasberry Beret on the radio, and i wanted to hear Kiss. Turns out, Gett Off and Cream are my favortie on that album. no. then i got PR, Parade, ATWIAD, Lovesexy, and 1999 on the same day.

"Purple Rain", on cassette, a day or so after I first heard "When Doves Cry", which was about a week after it was first released as a single here in the UK.

Since then I've bought each one on or around the day of release, all apart from "NPS", which I've still never heard (not too bothered.)

Purple Rain

Sign O The Times.

I got 1999 when it came out in 82 (after hearing the title track). Then I went
back and bought his other albums. Then of course a year and a half later,
Purple Rain hit.

I got 1999 for Christmas -- made me an instant fan, but being only 12 with no allowance, I had to wait for another gift: Purple Rain. Then I started mowing lawns and saving up money -- bought all the previous albums, then every one since then.

After falling in love with the copy of the Hits that my brother made. I went out and bought...

Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic

Maybe thats why I love it so much despite all the hate it recieves

First Album I heard: It was in 5th grade, my first girlfriend's party her parents had 1999

First Album I bought: Purple Rain

thekidsgirl said:

"Rave in2 the Joy Fantastic" is a little better IMO, Beautiful Strange and no Winding Road.

on tape, BATMAN
on CD...symbol or the Hits

now the first tape I bought was the WWF Wrestling Album with Hulk Hogan, JYD, Jesse the Body Ventura and Mene Gene Okerlund!

Ahhh memories...

but yeah got me in2 Prince

8up said:

It is if u r lucky enuff 2 get it in promo form


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I had the 45 of "Uptown" but the first album I bought was "Dirty Mind". The radio was pumping "Head" at the time, which was not available on 45, and I thought it was the funkiest thing I had ever heard.

I bought "Prince" a few months later because I had also loved the songs "I Wanna Be Your Lover", "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad", and "Sexy Dancer" on the radio earlier. As I said, I already had the 45 of "Uptown" with "Crazy You" on the B Side and could not understand why this track wasn't on the "Prince" album.....I didn't know that "For You" existed yet.

I bought "Controversy" within the week it was released. During that time, the radio played a "Prince double play" and played "Controversy" followed by "Soft and Wet", which I didn't know existed. The DJ said it was from his first album. I had always assumed that "Prince" was the first album, so I was off to the record store that afternoon to pick up "For You"....I found it in the cut out section. I also was shocked as hell to see the afro.

When I bought the 12 Inch of "Let's Work" and heard "Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" on the B Side, I said "NOW what have I missed!".....that was Prince's first non album B Side.
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I think it was Come.

Back in Christmas '86 I mentioned to my brother how much I liked Prince's new single "Mountains". That Christmas I opened up my present from him and he'd got me every Prince album up to and including Parade, so they were all my first Prince albums . I spent the whole of Christmas day and Boxing day listening to every single album. From that day I was absolutely hooked.

The first one I actually bought myself was Sign 'o The Times. Queued up outside HMV in Oxford Stree, London to get my copy which came with a free Sign 'O The Times T-Shirt!

Purple Rain was the first album that I got. The first one I bought was ATWIAD.