For me it was when he rhymed Puerto Rican with everybody just a freakin on the song Uptown. How bout u? When was the moment when u realized Prince was a musical genius? Don't be afraid to share. No answer is too silly or trivial.. Tell ur gurl adorable all about it!

The first time I heard "Do Me Baby" back in '81. It sounded like it came from another world. I loved Controversy a lot, but Do Me Baby was unreal. It got me laid for the first time too...

MarcelJ said:

It was Do me Baby for me too. Can't say that it got me laid , but when I first heard it I had never heard anything else like it and I was hooked from that moment on.

I'm going with listening to 7 on headphones. I had listened to an appropriate amount of Prince b4 then, but my bro got from BMG(20 records for a penny). Listened to it on my discman....WOW...the vocals cued me in...that this man was capable of MANY things!





edit:missing the Y in MANY...COMPLETELY changed the post....ewwwww
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For me, it was seeing Purple Rain. Once I saw the whole movie I was like . Purple Rain made me drive to Tower Records and buy as many Prince cds as I could afford

When I heard the first notes of Sign 'o' the times.

jess555ja said:

I was 6 when purple rain came out. When I saw it...what I said was "WOW...those r what Boobies look like!"

BobGeorge909 said:

I didn't see it until I was 17. I was born in '85.

jess555ja said:

....children...U can't take them anywhere.

adorable2 said:

when he tore a whole in my ass on guitar

adorable2 said:

Shawnt24 said:

what? u don't agree?

After The Musicology concert in Phily and I got my first computer and learned of his complete mastery of his music and it's history!

When I saw the Sign O' the Times tour in Paris. That was the sickest musical mastery I have ever born witness to.

For me, probably Another Lonely Christmas (full-length version). You could tell it was Prince playing all the parts, but it felt like a full band, all having a real, transcendant musical moment together. I thought, 'how the hell did he get this vibe playing one instrument at a time??? Which did he record first? Which did he record last?'. Absolutely incredible.

I urge any orgers only familiar with The Hits/B-Sides version to seek out the full 12" cut.

Oddly, it was when I first heard 'Damn U' at the 1992 concert in Manchester. I was a little older and out of my teens and it just blew my mind that somebody who'd come up with the body of work that was Diamonds & Pearls the autumn before could come up with something so lovely and so different than what was on D&P within the space of a few months.

I seriously don't think many other mainstream artists could do that.

Automatic

When i saw him On 'Lovesexy Live' on piano, i remember sayin 2 my friend, 'hes a genius'.

Sam 8)

I think it was the first time I heard SOTT.

Hearing the opening guitar of "When Doves Cry". I was 8.

Trying to figure out the synth chords to "1999". Everything I tried just wasn't working, even though I knew I was playing the right notes!. Then I realised it was actually the combination of the different chords being played by the guitar that made that line 'work'. I was like: "How does he make something so simple sound so ... fantastic?!"
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Tick Tick Bang!

i hadnt really heard much Prince stuff till my dad took me backstage to one of his shows... and when i saw him playing Purple Rain in front of me i think that musically scarred me forever, ive listened to that song frequently ever since.. aswell as the purple rain album and also watch the movie still heh. (ok the acting is a bit shoddy in places but all of the music is fantastic )

When I heard the guitar at the end of Shhhh

When I made the deliberate effort to compare Prince to all the other musicians, composers, songwriters, singers, performers, etc. There is nobody out there that would even come close when compared to Prince's artistic aptitude.

adorable2 said:

Very good question.

I've known Prince since I was a kid, since 1999/Purple Rain, but never been really into his music.

I realized that Prince was a musical genius, when one of my best friend told me how Prince could play all the instruments and compose all his music (Back in the day, I thought he was just a guitarist)

When I discovered all his discography, all the instruments he could play and all his concerts. I realized that he was much better than what I thought.

eyewishuheaven said:

I found it...

Jochem said:

Gracias...Had that track, but I experienced a fatal portable HD issue...>can u imagine!