I remember the summer of 87 I was 15yrs old in a 6 week program at the University. I was staying in the dorm and listening to the music I brought..One Item I brought along was the 45 single of If I was Your Girlfriend/ Shockadelica.
I was listening to it through out the evening so another lover of Prince music who was rooming next to me..stopped by and said if your digging that your going to Love this.
so she handed me the Sign of the times tape which I did not have at the time. She told me to press play, that she already had it at the song she wanted me to listen ..she left and I proceeded to listen to the song...Oh my I was
thinking how beautiful that song is. I listen to it several times before I gave it to her. I told her she was right and I was hooked ever since. As soon as the program was over I made sure I was going to get a copy of Sign of the Times..and you know what song I had to listen to first. ;
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songs that are on the same level
U make my sunshine
Friend lover sister Mother Wife
Soul Sanctuary
The Beautiful ONes
Nothing Compares to You
SAVIOUR some things never change
but change is good


what's your story?

Until the end of time I'll be there for you , you ...

I can't remember

I did adore o+>!

Probably I was in my bedroom, sitting on the bed, listening to the SOTT tape and with tye lyrics sheet in my hands... I think.

I was lyin on my bed listenin' 2 The Hits 1 CD i bought...my third Prince CD(first two were PR and the Hits 2...weird huh?)...and was listenin 2 the last strains of Nothing Compares 2 U in the dark 'round 1 am...the next track came...The horns...the sexiness...a killer of a ballad...those three consecutive songs in the CD...Nothing Compares 2 U,Adore and Pink Cashmere were my ultimate remedy 4 gettin over a gal who left 4 anotha guy b4 i had the chance...haha...I really think Adore's opening lines are already enough 2 "kill" any girl instantly...


Ecnirp84

I dont fucking know.

The Beautiful Ones was part of the remedy as well...


Ecnirp84

GoldiesParade said:

Whats up GoldiesParade?

xxx

and this will go down in history as the thread that begged for the GD forum to be re-opened..

ecnirp84 said:

Ecnirp, if you heard Adore on the Hits cd, then you only heard the edited version. Please tell me you now have the Sign o the Times cd in your collection or that you have at least heard the full version of Adore in all it's glory. WB did a great job of pulling together some of the best Hits from Prince's collection. But they really did Prince a disservice by putting edited versions of otherwise classics on the cd. I beg any newbie fan out there that may not have collected ALL of Prince's official cd albums to get them as soon as possible. Trust me, as in the case of Adore and Do Me Baby and others on the Hits cd, you're missing a lot if you don't have the full length album version.

ah, that hot, bittersweet summer of 1987

I'm glad you only turn 15 once

Eye was 22 at the time and eye remember very well when that song came out, eye LOVED it. My friend and eye were cruisin in her car and we nearly wrecked the car when it came on the radio, let's just say we were very excited!

abucah said:

Stop now you're making me feel BAD!!

LOL I neva felt Prince's till LAST YEAR(2001) well unlike my sister who have to be a SUPER FANATIC!!!. I picked up 'Rave un2 the joy fantastic' CD and I REALLY LIKED IT it was mighty cool 4 a girl who listen a lot to R&B/HIP-HOP music.

Anyway after that I bought the SOTT/HITS-B-SIDES/PR/PARADE/Sympol/Gold/Emanc and I (typicaly) the hits/b-sides was the best thang and when I downlouded the lyrics I was like DAMN 1999 ain't complete yet, Do me baby, Head, Controversy maaannn there're SSooo many edited things in that CD and that was the most messed up thang!!!

Ok as 4 SOTT, well I was (only 5 yrs old) when P released it so,,,.

But YES SIR ADORE is the best love song by Prince ever.

And SOTT is what I need from the brotha, you got the sexy slow jams(Slow Love-Adore) the funky vives(It-Srange relationship-If I was-Hot thang and most of all Housequake) Dance in the sunshine, starfish and coffee mmaaannn sooo much to explain.

U don't really wanna Know... now do ya...

Harlepolis said:

Don't worry y'all...
I've got all the full length versions of these songs on the Prince albums...since that day i picked up almost every dang album... And 2 think i almost wanted 2 stop at those 3 Cds...scary.

Ecnirp84

Hmmm...OH, I was like dancing in my room. I LUV to do that, ohmigod and yoga too! There is sooo much fun stuff to do!!

The first time I heard 'Adore' I was home and had just got my B-sides a couple of weeks before. I was surprised because I didn't know Prince had made some R&b tunes like that and and was just looking for some funky music. The same as when I first heard 'Pink Cashmere', I then fell in love with these songs.
[This message was edited Sun Jul 7 18:09:49 PDT 2002 by Starmist7]

i remember picking up the SOTT 12-inch the day it came out and playing it for some friends...usually when i pick up a new release, i run it in the car on the way home. first listen is always by myself, then i drop it on others...Adore went on repeat for an hour or so that first day...

Bought it on tape, loved every song, memorized Adore quickly from repeated listening, was just freaked out by how he sang on that tune, he taught me SO much...yeah, those days were the ones...
thank U prince 4 that song, thank U 4 all your music, thanks 4 teaching me 2 use my voice as an instrument, not just as a way 2 sing!!!

I was making love with subyduby's mama, the kid is in fact my daughter!

I listened 2 adore after buying the SOTT album when it came out. At that time I did have 2 get used 2 the different speeds of the singing but I really digged the song. But it is on the SOTT album and that are lot of good songs.

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SOTT songs are mixed up

Therapy said:

Nothing, but thanks for asking.

I was 9 and I remember my sister's (male) friend was a Prince freak-lookalike. He would even pose like him in pictures. He had every Prince, and Prince associated LP lined up on his bedroom wall in order of release. I remember being over his house and hearing it on the radio and then of course he played it all the time. I was young and innocent and fell madly in love with it. It's so nostalgic for me

I was 8 when SOTT came out and I must say I remember hearing Adore but it didn't knock me out until I was in L.A. for the first time with my Dad in 92. It came on the radio and I started to scream cause I thought it a new song but towards the end of the song, I realized that it sounded familiar. The next year, I brought The Hits/B Sides and when I read the Liner notes and it said SOTT (I think), I realized that I had the song before. I've loved it since then. It's the best love song that Prince has ever done. A true gem.

Listening to the The Hits 1 -compilation, duh!

...on c-cassette for that matter. But I do remember that I was eating Pizza at the same time. Pizza with sahrami...

In my area,our local R&B station (KSOL) was "spotlighting" the album a few days before it was released.They spent the whole weekend playing various tracks,and "Adore" was one of them.I pulled out a cassette and taped it.I thought it was brilliant.

Btw,those of you who live in the Bay Area...do you remember KSOL? That station was da bomb!!

I had just dyed my shoes from white to Orange because that is my Favorite Color&I went to the Mall&there was a line for the Record&I just had got mine&I was going to Meet up with this Girl&right before I got to Her Door "Adore" Came on&I was feeling the Vibe of the Cut.Adore was the Cut but as Fine as She was "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" could have Been on&I would still be in LA LA Land!!

was thinking of moving to france. was lonely and it just made me feel lonelier.

i love the song tho.

I was in gradeschool, trying to vote "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" as the song of the year for my yearbook, but all the friggin chicks in my class voted for "Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing.

It was 1987 -- a hot day. I was 16. I bought two copies of SOTT on vinyl that day because the first one had glue on the edges from the inner record sleeves. Remember the post card inside? I played the album all the way through. The last song I heard was "Adore" of course. I liked it, beautiful song!, but I was in a hurry to go back over all the other songs I especially liked. Later, I rewrote the "Adore" lyrics (giving some credit to Prince) and gave it to a girlfriend of mine. A year or two later, I fell in love with a piano instrumental remix version of "Adore" that I arranged. The song could repeat a hundred times and I wouldn't get bored of it. I remember a girl named "Princess" from Philadelphia dancing to this song on a television show called Dance Party USA. There was a rumor that it was going to be released as a single in the US. Not sure what happened.