What was the first Prince song that when you heard it you went, "Uh, oh..." and just knew at that point you were going to be hooked and in for the long haul.

Mine was Raspberry Beret. Fisrt time I heard it I was like "what the heck is...." Then all of a sudden I couldn't stop listening to it then I hit a frenzy...

Controversy

Raspberry Beret!

Purple Rain. I'd heard Black Sweat and When Doves Cry before that but Purple Rain hit me like a ton of bricks. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, it was so beautiful. *sigh*

"Head"

I think Dad said thats enough of that tune.
"Controversy" was the one that really got me I think, funky strum.

Computer Blue

Darling Nikki

1999

The synth solo in "Strange But True".

Dirty Mind did it 4 me!

ychismb said:

Purple Rain

Obsidian said:

me too!!!!

that's why my first born child was born in 1999

just kidding....but he was born that year

First time it all made sense is when I saw the video to "U Got The Look"

chemreaction7 said:

I Wanna Be Ur Lover

I thought that this post was about "the first time..you...made love"


When I listened Let's go crazy for the first time I knew that I was going to be a hardcore Prince fan forever!!!
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chemreaction7 said:

"Uh oh" never really came to mind when I first heard Little Red Corvette... I knew that once I heard it (and saw the video with Prince dancing), I'd be hooked.

However,
"uh oh" did come to mind when I heard "Computer Blues" for the first time... actually, just cuz I thought it was 'Darling Nikki' ... this was while watching the movie.
But I still think "uh oh" when it comes to mind cuz once its in there, there's no getting it out. Good thing it grew on me and now I'm crazy about it.

babooshleeky said:

Watching the whole Purple Rain movie got me hooked. Thats why to this day I love that album and each and every song in it.

veronikka said:

Seeing the 2nd half of the movie definitely opened my eyes to who Prince really is. All I knew b4 that was that at one point, he became "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince". I didn't know if he ever became Prince again or what. I just knew that he did a song called "1999" and my dad had his songs "I Would Die 4 U" and "Baby I'm A Star" on his mix CD.

The movie showed me that he's an amazing songwriter very dedicated to his music and really knows how to put on a show. That's when I became a fan initally and checked out his work whenever it became available me.

I didn't dive into this world of being a HUGE fan who has Prince on their mind 24/7 until the HalfTime Show.

probably "17 Days" or "Erotic City"
it was one of those b-sides
from the Purple Rain era

that gave me a whole respect
for b-sides in general

When I went out to purchaseI the 1999 album, because of the title song,
I thought I was buying just another album by an artist whom I liked like all my other fave artists at the time.
When I first heard Automatic, Something In The Water & Lady Cab Driver all back to back,
that's when I first realized that I was a fanatic.

Thw whole Purple Rain album cemented that realization.

would have been either 7 or thieves in the temple,or in fact anythin of the hits disc 1, that was the first cd i had listened to of prince and i knew by the time it had finished i would be hooked 4 a looooong time

theodore said:

Isn't it tho????

JoeTyler said:

Lol, ya, I bet that topic would have went real well in the Prince music and more section. Lol!

I was 13 when I bought the controversy album. I knew it was dangerous item to bring home, so I had to hide it. "back in the day" LP's were much hard to hide and there weren't back packs yet
I hid between my notebooks and had to sneak out just the vynil and listen to it on head phones.
Devious bastard. My parents like prince now, but still not that album.

I taped on cassette immediately.

FYI - the poster inside never made it up on the wall