My love for Prince lies in 1999 and Little Red Corvette...I was hooked!!!!!
Before that I just curiously looked at the Controversy album cover in the stores LOL.

Jestyr said:

Controversy!! Was the first time I ever heard him. In a friend's car in '82.

The songs that got me hooked forever were D.M.S.R. and Let's Work. I danced for hours and hours.

I literally have laughed (Movie Star), cried (Sometimes it Snows In April), Contemplated (The Question Of U) and just tripped out on his music for 24 years.

Many of my friends have not understood, but I wonder how boring music would be or would have been without P.

FrancerulzV99 said:

Ditto! It was the 1999 album.

wonder505 said:

Precisely.

Beside the statement the lyrics made, the musical arrangement itself was a vast departure from anything being released at the time. No one was creating layered vocals like that against layered keyboards and such a throbbing rhythm bed. I remember being totally transfixed by that vocal. It almost melded new wave and soul music of the period into an entirely new form.

maniraptess said:

That's interesting. What did you like about it that made you a fan? I have not heard this CD myself which is why I'm asking.

Little Red Corvette and When Doves Cry

wonder505 said:

North because it just grabbed my attention.

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as soon as I heard the opening of When Doves Cry

THAT WAS IT!!!!!



hooked!

I was HOOKED by Private Joy and I Wanna Be Your Lover.

To this day, to hear either of those tunes immediately brings a smile to my face, no matter what.

purple rain

First U Got The Look, then Glam Slam.

When Doves Cry!

Gett Off

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maniraptess said:

North = Masterpiece!

I hope he records and releases more like it soon.

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It was Kiss for me

Paint a perfect picture.....
Bring 2 life a vision in 1's mind.....
The Beautiful Ones got me.1 of the best days of my life when I heard that

back in early 1983....

Little Red Corvette and 1999,

WOW, I'm still amazed how great the 1999 album is !!

thedance said:

and then during Purple Rain, the Beautiful Ones culminating in Let's Go Crazy

that guitar that voice that face

Anne Christian! Without a doubt!

At 12 years old that song scared the crap out of me! From that point on I was hooked!

rosanda said:

I wanna be your lover is what did it for me back in 79 or 80, but Private Joy is another of my favorites as well.

I strangled Valentino you've been mine ever since
If anybody asks you, you belong to Prince.
Come on baby, get up!

dseann said:

Aww man, Private Joy always puts me in a good mood, even to this day.

wonder505 said:

dseann said:

Well its true. The melody is so cute.

dseann said:

Have you really listened to "Joy in Repetition"?
I live in Antigua and before "Blue Light" I think this was his first official attempt at reggae though not hard core.

It is a beautiful song, with a even more beautiful guitar solo.

dseann said:

Yup, I have the live version from One Night Alone. I have not listened to the studio version in a long time.

Controversy

Purple Rain..... back in the day ... 1984

has to be the Controversy album.

the first time i was able to put a face to the name was after watching the video for Sexuality!

the tracks that really did it for me though, were Private Joy and Do Me Baby and i've been a hardcore fan ever since seeing the video for Little Red Corvette.

Soft & Wet. The first time I heard it (in Junior High) I was like, "who is that!!!!" I loved the whole album, it was unlike anything that I had been listening to and then when the second album came out, that did it. I have been hooked ever since.

What always does it for me is the non commercial, b-side, no radio play songs.