When i was 14yrs.old my friend craig would play parliament all day long when i used 2come over his house So,1day i was looking though some of his albums in a milk cart and discoverd a Prince album (his now known 2nd album Prince) and i started laughting at Prince saying that nobody would buy his album.Then craig said boy is u crazy that's Prince i then said who is Prince and he said that's the guy that sing "I want to be your lover",so i said no he didn't michael jackson sing that and he played the song and i said wow! that's 1 of my favorite songs.And that's my 1st Prince experience.What's yours?

I don't remember

But I like your's
it's pretty funny.

I remember dancing my ass off to 'around the world' and 'tamborine'. I played it on my parents set, really loud. Those were my fave songs because they were so energetic.

Later, when seeing the video to 'new power generation', I was hooked, the energy, the attitude, the funk did it for me. In hindsight, I think I missed P's best years, studio wise that is.
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i was 10 yrs old back home in ireland, about 1983, i was at a friends house and 1999 came on the radio and i stopped what i was doing and got up and danced my ass off, then a few weeks later i saw the video for the song and was hooked, been obsessed ever since.

Back in high school, I first heard When Doves Cry, and loved it because it spoke to my soul. But my first encounter with Prince face to face was in concert, that was the first time I ever saw the man. The concert was the best I've ever been to, which I never expected it to be.

Wow! Thank u all 4 sharing! It is always a great experience 2speak about our past especially when it comes 2 Prince.

I was 4 and my mom played the Controversy album alot so when I wanted to hear Prince I used to tell my mom to "DO ME, BABY". I have been in love with him ever since!

I like that!lol

As a kid I always loved When Doves Cry. I have always liked songs that have a darkness to them. And of course Partyman and Trust from the Batman movie which I probably watched 2295834598346359 times as a youngun'. Always loved those songs. But I still though of him as that gay dude. Until the RnR hall of fame thing. Never saw anyone play guitar like that. But his music still wasn't anything to me. He was guy who I thought was brilliant at guitar, but his music just wasn't my thing. Until my friend got Ultimate. Then I started getting more into his stuff, and then I heard Darling Nikki and that was that.

I was 14, I flipped on the TV in England to BBC2 and was watching "Entertainment USA" which previewed new releases from across the pond.

They showed about 2 minutes of When Doves Cry and I'd never heard anything like it.

I thought, "Amazing song...but the guys sunglasses look stupid!" A couple of weeks later, I had my first cassette Single, the 4 track "Doves/17Days/DMSR/1999. Thats it, I was hooked.

Only problem was, the front cover of the cassette single had him in those damn silly shades again!

wildgoldenhoney said:

Ok, When Doves Cry for me too.
I have a bad memory so it takes me
a while to remember sometimes.

I have lots of brain farts...

My first "Oh, hey that's Prince" experience that I was old enough so I can actually remember?
04, Grammies.
The real first one would be Batman. I've seen that flick a gazillion times not knowing P's music was in it or "I wanna be your lover." It always get heavy airplay, I can hear it, like, 3 times a day on the radio where I live, so that too.
But...
Up until a last year...
I didn't know that was Prince
I thought it was a girl...
But I've loved that song since I was a baby.

ToraToraDreams said:

That's so cute.

Probably Little Red Corvette video, still a great song. I thought his little skippity dance in the solo break was funny, I thought he should have busted out a backspin or hurricane, breakdancing was huge at the time :lol:

My older sister and cousins were HUGE fans and then my older brother became obsessed, so I never had to buy an album because that was all the damn well played ALL THE TIME nonstop before they left the house. New albums and singles and videos were like AN EVENT in our house. When they moved out I had to start buying his stuff all over again. They kind of drifted off but here I still am.

my 1st experience?
the "1999" video
i saw
i came
he conquered

'Michael Jackson sings it!'

My obsession is my sisters fault.

Back in 89/90 (i was 9), i was doing my usual listening to "Bad" by MJ, when my sis walked into my room and said:

her: "WTF are you listening to this shit for?"
Me: "huh?"
her: "here listen to Prince you loser" (or something like that)

She tosses me a tape, cant remember wot album, but i was hooked! Cya MJ!

xperience319 said: