For me, way back in '83, I didn't really care for "Little Red Corvette." I started to get into the song "1999", but the end of "Let's Pretend We're Married" hooked me in with no turning back.

Y'all?

When Doves Cry b/w 17 Days. So that's kinda cheat, cuz it was two songs all at once.

I'd heard Little Red Corvette and such prior to that, but didn't really get hooked until that single.

I bought the Dirty Mind record, I kept playing Uptown over and over, then I bought the Prince record and could not stop playing I Wanna Be Your Lover and Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?, by then I was hooked for life.

well the song that got me hooked to Prince was " If I Was Your Girlfriend" ever since i heard that song i fell in love with Prince's music.
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Tiffypoo2004 said:

me, too. ' if i was your girlfriend' and 'adore'. there was no turning back after that.

scififilmnerd said:

Same here, although I didn't get the single right away so I missed out on 17 Days until a couple years later. It was hearing When Doves Cry on the radio for the 1st time that hooked me.

It was the summer of 1984....When Doves Cry came out...I LOVED it from the first moment I heard it..then there was the b-side 17 Days...kept listening to it all day !
Around 1986 I lost interest when Parade came out ( I was too involved in HipHop and was too young to appreciate purple music and wasn´t really into pop), later rediscovered Prince when a friend of mine made a mixtape for me and took me to a live concert.

I was 8 years old when I saw 1999 video and found it so different and so sexy...

I loved the way Lisa and JJ sang one in the back of the other...

That's just when I started have interest in lingerie...

Then I went definitely hooked when I bought the when doves cry maxi single...

1999. That was the earilest Prince memorey I can remember.

Hearing "Tamborine" on a pirate radio station one sunday where between 2 & 4 they'd play nothing but Minneapolis Funk!

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As wierd as this sounds it wsa "Computer Blue" and "I would Die 4 U"

I think I appreciated the shear balls it took to record Head and Sister and beyond "shock value" or whatever you wanna cal it, they were wonderful compositions as well. That just made me think "Hey, this is my kinda guy".... wait, that sounded gay....

i saw him before I heard him.....I was hooked on his eyes....



then...i heard soft and wet....

Darlin' Nikki


He said "masturbate," I laughed, a beautiful relationship ensued!

17 Days, although I didn't hear until much later at Prince Night (Berlin). Up until then I had been a casual fan, but when I heard 17 Days I was hooked.

1999, but only found out it was by prince later, after i bought Purple Rain (because i liked let's go crazy so much.
More or less the same message ....
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I liked 1999 but I really dug When Doves Cry. It wasn't until Kiss that I realized I needed to start getting his albums. The rest is history.
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1999 as well I can remember seeing the video. Bought the Album and loved it.

Now was at the Purple Rain concert when was 4. But didn't really get hip to prince until the Batman soundtrack was released. I guess thats a product of being a child of the 80's. My earliest Prince memory was riding in the car with my brother and aunt and "Electric Chair" came on the radio, my aunt turned around and saw me singing word for word with the radio. "OMG, Travis u sound just like P". Then puberty hit and i ended up soundin like Lutha.

When doves cry with the video:slammin'.And the trip continues

i used 2 steal my moms purple rain tape just 2 listen 2 when doves cry...

then i started getting in2 computer blue...she only let me listen 2 1 side of the damn tape cause she didnt want me listening 2 darlin nikki at 8 years old...i dont know y

...but it was definately sitting next 2 the radio and having 2 rewind the tape 2 when doves cry that got me hooked

It took 3 year for me to really get into Prince!

Started with "Batdance" & "Partyman" in 1989...
...then "Thieves In The Temple" in 1990...
...and "Gett Off" & "Cream" made me become a huge fan in the autumn of 1991!

STILL WAITING on his second album. Then I went back and bought his first album and heard SO BLUE and lost my damn mind. I think it was 1980.


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The first time I heard Controversy on the radio I was like "Who is this guy?". It was unlike anything else it amazed me. I was only 9 years old at the time but I was hooked.

the video for "kiss" kick-started it all when i was 9...didn't really get my ass kicked till hearing the dirty mind album 5 years later.

well the song that got me hooked was truthfully Diamonds& Pearls
I feel like such a loser

i liked him since i wanna be your lover, brought evrything hes ever done, all the singles, all the albums, videos bootlegs, evrything

thekidsgirl said:

Don't appologize. There are some great songs on that album. I'm a fan of Strollin, believe it or not.


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