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Thread started 08/20/02 10:06pm

christophertra
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What sparked ur love 4 Prince & his music??

We've had all kinds of agreements and disagreements about Mr. Nelson. What sparked u in ur life 2 cling 2 his music?? We've talked about what song we 1st. heard and so on, but why him?? Some fans like a band 4 a couple of years and move on 2 the next. A lot of us have been around over 20 years plus.

I started listening in 81'. In 1984 When doves cry hit the airwaves it really hooked me in w/ the lyircs. I was brought up in a abuseive houehold 4 15 years. I found comfort in the music, and a place 2 belong. Ever since then it's been in my life 24-7. I know ppl. love Elvis, Beatles, The Grateful Dead, etc. But what is it that Prince has that no1 else seems 2 have??

We've also thought he has made big mistakes, and does a lot of stupid things. We all still stick up 4 him, and love the music. Some fans come and go, and could care less about his music. Why us?? Why U??
"Everybody's looking 4 the ladder, everybody wants salvation of the soul. The steps u take r no easy road. But the reward is great 4 those who want 2 go.."
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Reply #1 posted 08/20/02 10:10pm

CherrieMoonKis
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his voice & all those notes he rolled, how he sung them, played them.

I fell head over heels in heart.I had it bad(and still do!)

THEN, i saw him & it only got worse...I didn't think it could get much betta (and still don't!)

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(remember ya'll:it ain't ova!!)
worship GOD, i luv THAT MAN worship
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Reply #2 posted 08/20/02 10:12pm

goo

YOUR MOMMA
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Reply #3 posted 08/20/02 10:14pm

NEFRETIRI

I was in grade five when I first listend to purple rain, my brother was getting rid of his old tapes and got them all.

I don't know why I clinged to his music, i guess I just loved it and got hooked straight away. I could have stopped listening because none of my peers were into his music. I was known as the weird girl who loved prince all through high school. All I know is that I wasn't going to stop listening just beacuse no one else did!
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Reply #4 posted 08/20/02 10:16pm

christophertra
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goo said:

YOUR MOMMA



Naw...she hates Prince. That's why I moved out sad
"Everybody's looking 4 the ladder, everybody wants salvation of the soul. The steps u take r no easy road. But the reward is great 4 those who want 2 go.."
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Reply #5 posted 08/20/02 11:24pm

subyduby

i question myself that everyday.
his personality and image are too disturbing.
his music currently sucks.

if it weren't for the non-prince section, i wouldn't come here.
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Reply #6 posted 08/20/02 11:32pm

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subyduby said:

i question myself that everyday.
his personality and image are too disturbing.
his music currently sucks.

if it weren't for the non-prince section, i wouldn't come
here.



ALLLRIGHTY THEN!!
"Everybody's looking 4 the ladder, everybody wants salvation of the soul. The steps u take r no easy road. But the reward is great 4 those who want 2 go.."
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Reply #7 posted 08/21/02 12:04am

NEFRETIRI

his personality and image are too disturbing.
his music currently sucks???




This is comming from a person that has Michael Jackson as his avatar!!
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Reply #8 posted 08/21/02 12:12am

subyduby

NEFRETIRI said:

his personality and image are too disturbing.
his music currently sucks???




This is comming from a person that has Michael Jackson as his avatar!!


check out the profile pic!! it isn't a "his".
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Reply #9 posted 08/21/02 12:17am

MightBQueen

in about '81 i read an article about him... a review of dirty mind. controversy was the first album i bought. i was attracted to his daring and his ideas. have always found his music very idea-oriented and spiritually-based... "sexuality," for instance. here's a man rejecting received values and searching for his own.
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Reply #10 posted 08/21/02 12:19am

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5 th grade.. my first girlfriend had a birthday party.. there parents had the 1999 album ( this was brand new).. and we all danced in her basement to it! smile

then in 7th grade purple rain came out.. and I was hooked, I have "Prince Pins" on my jean jacket..

the actually moment even to this day is..

in the beautiful ones.. the keyboard track in the middle of the song just reminds me sooo much about 1984! the movie, the album and the smell in the air..

also in the movie when Prince explains to apolliana that the track is BACKWARDS.. the person sounded happy but she was crying! ( I was like WOW how cool.. you can do that!!)
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Reply #11 posted 08/21/02 12:32am

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NEFRETIRI said:

his personality and image are too disturbing.
his music currently sucks???




This is comming from a person that has Michael Jackson as his avatar!!


:LOL:

thats funny

also a guy MJ who ripped off the whole mysterious personality .. barely being able to talk in interviews,ect..from Prince

hey his first born is named after Prince? that 100% blonde white boy he said he had actual hetro sex with a women? Umm.. that media hyped story 4 years later, kinda told us the truth about that one huh.

I guess naming "your" first born after a guy.. tell us how hard he is on Prince's Jock

MJ reminds me of that character in the movie Basic Instinct.. where that lady (michael douglas's girlfriend) who we find out at the end of the movie is totally mentially crazy over Sharon Stone's character..

( remember when they go and look in her past driver's license and they found out she DYED her her Blonde to be more like Sharon Stone)


Thats MJ with Prince
:LOL:
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Reply #12 posted 08/21/02 12:36am

Biscuit

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What sparked my love 4 his music was how many of today's
artist's have been influenced by him.Most of the R&B artists
today have been influenced by Prince,and so that just led me
2 listen 2 his music.

I know some of U don't like Mariah's or Alicia's cover versions of his songs,but those covers actually made me a
Prince fan.Now his music is the soundtrack 2 my life.

Peace.cool
dancing jig My name is BISCUIT...and I am funky! nod
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Reply #13 posted 08/21/02 1:08am

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subyduby said:

i question myself that everyday.
his personality and image are too disturbing.
his music currently sucks.

if it weren't for the non-prince section, i wouldn't come here.


If it wasn't for your true voice of reason and your clever remarks, I would not come here either.
If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot.
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Reply #14 posted 08/21/02 1:24am

aspera773

Friends and their families dug that whole Purple Rain era, but that ain't what did it 4 me.
College friends/radio stations ... started reeling me in with their "collectibles" ... Question of U, Joy in Repetition, When We're Dancing Close N Slow, Free ...
But, 2 tell the truth, two borrowed bootlegs sealed the deal. On them:
Noon Rendevous, When Doves Cry (ext.); Something in the Water (alt. ext.), Do Urself A Favor, Love Thy Will B Done, etc.
Been hooked from that point on, because I could always select a song 2 fit my LIFE due 2 his diversity.
Nothin' but love,
PEACE
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Reply #15 posted 08/21/02 3:32am

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goo said:

YOUR MOMMA


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Reply #16 posted 08/21/02 4:02am

rave66

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Since Soft & Wet first came out and when he first appeared on American Bandstand. I have been hooked since, and my enthusiasm for him and his music has only increased over the 20+ years.

Love, Love that man!!!
Where u wanna eat 2nite, baby? I know this dope spot called one another!
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Reply #17 posted 08/21/02 7:44pm

monica

subyduby said:

i question myself that everyday.
his personality and image are too disturbing.


Prince is too disturbing? I can't even look at MJ's face it's so deformed from all the plastic surgery.
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