This is not about your favorite song. But which song hooked you in and made you start to like Prince. For me it was When Doves Cry back in '84. It was something about the opening, that guitar, that made it so interesting. Never listened to Prince before that. Ofcourse when I saw the video, I was like, hmmmmm. When Doves Cry opened up the door and pave the way for many years to come.

Diamonds and Pearls, baby.

Little Red Corvette

Dolphin is what made me love him. To be completely honest, his performance of P. Control at the VH1 fahion awards was what caught my attention. I was so shocked, because I was pretty sheltered before that. But at the same time, I was strangely intrigued...

1st time I heard Soft n Wet on the radio....peaked the curiosity....

...almost getting kicked out of Catholic School for reciting "The Lord's Prayer" during Controversy sealed the deal.....

I went Uptown and never came back! So Uptown,yeah!

I don't know which, but it was one of these two and the fact that the same person did both of them -- that's what got me interested... and then when I saw the videos, I was hooked for good!

"1999" and "Little Red Corvette"

UCantHavaDaMango said:

yeah, that was quite a performance! the look, the choreography, mayte, tommy, the rest of the band... and of course, the song

Party Up

Private Joy hooked me in "82 my freshman
year of college. Liked him but started to love
the music more after this song.

"I Wish U Heaven"

The first song I heard from Prince was "I Wanna Be Your Lover"... What was that... 1978? 1979??

My sister was playing it, as she always did with her newest ALBUMS, and I froze... I thought, cool song, great female singer.

Then I saw the album cover... What???? it's a dude!?!

I checked out the rest of the album, the rest is history.

Thanks Sis.

Anotherloverholenyohead - had sort of liked some of the stuff prior to that, but this song (probably because of the title) really drew me into listening to what Prince was doing. Fell in love with the song, fell in love with the singer.

purple rain

wonder505 said:

Me too. That song blew me offa my socket. It mixed so many musical styles and was so special it made me buy the album.

I loved Little Red Corvette and 1999, both hits in Holland, but that song did it for me.

i was only young dancing around the front room to my dad's cd's when no-one was in, coz he was like "don't ever touch my records!" and he had loads of cd's of this guy called prince, so i just picked one, put it on random and it was "thieves in the temple", i was hooked then it just evolved into listening ever album after that and i've never looked back x x

Somebody lent me a tape of Lovesexy. So I guess it was the whole album, not just one song.

FrancerulzV99 said:

that one

that's a very intermate question don't you think?

1999

head cuz its funky

DMSR pulled me in

MickG said:

Do you mean "intimate"? If so no, but you don't have to reveal yours if you don't want to.

I Wanna Be Ur Lover

Definitely If I Was Your Girlfriend. I still feel the song has it all: edgy lyrics, great music and Camille. This is the kind of music I'd like to make some day, I mean "the spirit of it".

When doves cry

Automatic.

Purple Rain and Adore

3 young ppl in a row, this is what i like seeing