...you collected every poster and album sleeves from his albums starting with Controversy and every magazine cover including Rolling Stone, Right On! and Black Beat... I had his posters plastered on my bedroom and dorm room walls....and still got them!!

You saw Prince open for the Rolling Stones & got booed.

mellow1 said:

How many people know that Prince included the booing and taunting from that Rolling Stone concert on his song, "Poplife" I only learned that a few weeks ago on VH-1. It makes me sort of sad to hear that part of the song now. But who got the last laugh.

I still have the Prince buttons, Tshirts, Vinyl, Black Beat and Righton!mags.

I also wore thick blackeyeliner everyday allday, darkened my beauty mark and wore my hair like Wendy when she first joined the revolution.

Ahhh, the good ol days!!

You try to find that 12" of Deborah Allen's Telepathy you are certain you bought in '87

You have every album from For You - Lovesexy in LP AND CD.

Your SOTT is in 2 jewel boxes.

Your ATWIAD CD is NOT in a jewel box

You have 2 CDs of 1999 (1 with DMSR, 1 w/o), 2 Batman (1 batcan, 1 reg),

a gold foiled Symbol CD package.


I guess I must be quite old school then.....!!!!!

You have around 10 Musicology giveaways CDs but never bought the regular release

"downloaded" 3121 probably do the same for PE.
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The first time you saw Purple Rain in your home was on VHS. (I did!)

...U have over 400 Prince recorded tracks, and over 530 Prince LIVE tracks on your ipod!!!

fredericdoug said:

Wow!!! That's a graet piece of trivia. After all these years, I always wondered what crowd noise was from on Pop Life!!! I'm gonna go call my sister!

ZsaZsaZsu said:

VonMarie said:

I've heard that rumor too, but I don't think it is true. The sound probably came from the SFX library that he was using at that time. Many of the songs on that album were lightly seasoned with sound effects, and I think it came from that collection. VH1 may have just picked up that rumor and ran with it.

. . .the albums "For You" all the way to "Dirty Mind" were part of the soundtrack to your high school years.
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Are you talking about the post card from the "Dirty Mind" era that says...."My all..Prince"? You still have yours? I had that postcard in a drawer for years and it came up missing when I moved to another house.

emesem said:

Or ONE think double jewel case.

Or BOTH...

U know ur an old school fan when....u STILL harbour feelings of resentment and anger towards ur mother 4 not letting u go 2 the Purple Rain concert 22 years ago when u were 15 yrs old. I think I need therapy ya'll.

madhouseman said:

I think I also remember some former band member saying it was not from the Rolling Stones concert.

...you watched MTV's UTCM Red Carpet contest...you sat like a couch potato and waited all freaking day long in front of TV to watch Madonna's "Papa Dont Preach" video and called the 800 number to win the contest...but to lose to a girl in the Midwest who didnt seem to appreciate winning the darn thing!!!

madhouseman said:

I think I also remember some former band member saying it was not from the Rolling Stones concert.

Really old school is remembering that the winner's name was Lisa Barber. A friend of mine called her immediately after the announcement to get tickets. He didn't end up going.

madhouseman said:

if you can find it. People magazine
did a story on it. They talk about people calling. One person said that they or someone they knew was dieing had only a few weeks to live and wanted tickets but they said something like "well you'll be dead before he comes."

And I agree, this kind contest is has little chance of being won by an actual fan.

The first time you saw Purple Rain in your home was on VHS. (I did!)