The first time I heard a song from Prince is the song HEAD.Though not released as an Album (Dirty Mind), it was released as a single.

Soft and Wet.

RodeoSchro said:

Wow!

I Wanna Be Your Lover

Erotic City...

1999

the video

but I was little at the time, so I don't remember what my thoughts of him were

Not sure but I think it was Purple Rain

I can't remember...one of his big hits I would assume....1999 was probably the one

Partyman.

I was four years old and my dad, against my mother's wishes, took me to see Batman. I loved the song and the Caped Crusader instantly, thus sparking two life-long affairs.

Soft and Wet for me, too.

The first song I heard was "Controversy". I thought he was saying "Cut your pussy".

delirious

I'd obviously heard him before when I was young, but it was Gett Off that really made me sit up and take notice in 91 when I was 14.

I Believe it was 1999 and the 1st.time I saw him was in the Little Red Corvette video

"I Wanna Be Your Lover" - I remember it clearly. I was in the car with my aunt, uncle and two cousins, and we were on our way to the beach. Brings back great memories for me.

JuliePurplehead said:

SOTT when I was little, liked it even though didn't fully understand it back then

JuliePurplehead said:

cheers that made me
only prob is I'll prob hear that from now!!
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It's Gonna Be Lonely


Played on the radio by The One and Only Electrifying Mojo at a time when wouldn't another DJ in town touch Prince or his music with a ten foot pole!!!
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I wanna be your lover.

prinsipe said:

soft and wet- I thought it was a woman

Diamonds & Pearls

It was Tina Turners cover version of "Let's pretend we are married", when I first heard a song of Prince.

I'm from Europe, so we didn't had the chance to learn about him earlier. The first video I saw was "1999", but it didn't hit me until I saw the "Purple Rain" video. From that moment I was an fan instantly...

Most beautiful girl in the world, I heard it on the radio when I was still in grade school. I will always remember that afternoon...

the first ever i think was little red corvette, played to me by
a boy in my class all the way back in 1984 or something but i'd
never heard of prince and didn't like it



first time i consciously heard one of his songs and became an
immediate fan for life was "i wish u heaven" when the video
premiered on dutch tv back in the day

JuliePurplehead said:

it took me ages before i realised he sampled it on My Name Is Prince
and that it wasn't him singing "such a pussy" on that track but that
it was a controversy sample

Mine was the whole For U cd b/c my uncle had it and I took it b/c I fell in love with the man on the cd cover...I was only a baby...

I'm also construing 'from Prince' widely and so the first song I remember hearing at least was definitely 'Nothing compares 2 u' by Sinead O'Connor considering it was a huge number 1. I actually had my own 7" copy of it as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if I heard other Prince songs before as my Dad is a DJ and we always had music on.

As far as Prince personally, the first song I remember was 'Cream' because the video was always on MTV.

I wanna be your lover
It was part of one of those K-Tel compilation albums from back in the day, I think it was called Soundwaves

I Wanna Be Your Lover