i heard about the movie in aug of 1983 and the 1st single was"when doves cry" in 1984 the movie and the song "purple rain" was a touchdown 4 me.that album alone made me buy all the previous albums and listen 2 music.4 real!

No particular song but the first album I first listened 2 was Around the world in a day, completley different to anything at that time..never liked Prince b4, but since then I've been hooked.

Prince doesn't make any bad songs, but he has such high standards that even his poorest songs, would perhaps be any other artist's great songs.

When Doves Cry
I fell in LOOOOOve with him during Purple Rain days.

yeah i remember that song soooo well the first time i heard it was when i ask my dad for the money to go buy the record so when i got it home i started listening to it and that song lets pretend we are married came on and my mom was in the room when the whole thing was going down i was so embarraced and my mom told me that i had to put the record up until i turned 18 yrs old it was funny oohh i still listened to it when she was not home lol

beautiful ones!

thats is 1984 to me!! That mix, that keyboard in the background, the r&b song that turns into a rock song.

amazing

now cast your mind back to hearing that in 8th grade in 1984

there were a few, when I heard Lets Work on the radio I thought it was a group called Prince, I could not stop playing Uptown and I Wanna Be Your Lover on the record player over and over then I heard the explosion on the radio, 1999, then I saw the little cat struttin around and screaming in purple smoke, March, 3 1983

When Doves Cry. We liked his songs (singles) before that and would flock to the tv when he was on (Solid Gold, MTV, BET) but when we heard "Doves" that changed er'thing.

The Cross
What if God was one of us
Purple Rain
Nothing compares 2u
Plus many more...


M xx

I would say, for me, it was a tie between Controversy and 17 Days. i was truly a tyke when Controversy came out but I had first cousins who were teenagers then. They would play the album all the time and laugh when I used to attempt to dance to it.

I was like 10/11 when I first heard 17 Days. The radio station in my area played it a gazillion times a day (short and long version) for 17 Days leading up to the release of the movie Purple Rain. By the end of those 17 Days, I was so addicted to Prince, it would be nearly two decades later that I realized he can and did make crappy songs (cough NPS).

I'm a new fan as i've said a million times so i'll cut 2 the point.


Gotta Borken Heart Again (smooth jazz version, from the ONA tour)

"Just As Long As We're Together"....when I was 10,I bought the 45 in a promo bin at an old Mom & Pop store when I lived in Buffalo (Audrey & Del's Records on Broadway St.). Then when my sister got the "Prince" LP in 79, IT WAS OVER!!!!!

Shhh (the live version just blew me away)
When Dove's Cry (classic)

It's gots ta be Darlin Nikki. It made me want to have sex... lots of sex.

Believe it or not,the Prince song that won me over as a true fan was 'Partyup". I was 9 yrs old when the Dirty Mind album came out. Prince of course had 2 previous albums before then but as a youngster I still wasn't totally sold yet.(Especially since I were huge Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson fan at the time). I loved "Uptown" when it was played on the radio but when my cousin came over one day with the album and we started playing it, I was becoming intrigued until the last song on side 2.Yes it was "partyup" and that point on I fell in love with his music. Then, when "Controversy" came I was already sold. So "Partyup" will be that que song to me. Welcome 2 the dawn.