It's gonna hurt some but here they are: Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette(!!!) and Sign O the times... it's funny cuz these are the tracks i used 2 get my friends interested in prince, or at least respect him...

Zeezow said:

well thes are not song that wloud not be out of staly or what they wouldent listen to but i wloud of tryed do me baby and cream ang jack u off love peace and love

First time around I barely listened to Lady Cab Driver - - for years I never listened to/ or ignored this song.

Now I love it!

Also the entire Batman album. Again I shelved this album for years. Barely noticed it. Barely thought of it as a Prince album.

NOW I love it! Love Arms of Orion - - think it's a classic Prince song. And NEVER stop playing Lemon Crush.

Same for Tambourine of Around The World in a Day.. Always put up with this song but NEVER liked it. Now love it!

What else...Ooo U Got The Look.. didn't like this for ages..

"I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man". I love the song now but for some reason I wasn't feeling it when I was 10 years old.

I'm the one you wanna see. I still don't like it.

condition of the heart... always skipped it becuz of the overdrawn intro...now listen 2it everyday!

Somewhere Here On Earth

wildgoldenhoney said:

I thought it was a beautiful song, but didn't listen to it carefully at first.

I recently rediscovered "Temptation" and I play it all the time. That is what is great about Prince. There is so much music to choose from, why complain about what you don't like?

I didn´t like some tracks like Come... Believe it? I love that one

I guess over the years u get maturity, and that allows ears to value his music differently than u did when u was young.
Prince was always ahead of all others, we know. Even I think that if Prince would edit many albums - 10 or 15 years ago - again, perhaps they would shock for busines music with the right difussion ...

I've loved every song the first time around and thereafter, except Joint 2 Joint...because of the "Sex Me rap"...although...where I hated the whole song I began trying to ignore the over top rap...and realized that I do like the song underneathe...I would just shave the sex...it's was just discusting to listen to.

so many, as others have said. i just recently gotten into slow love. i always liked the song, but found it to be my least fave off of sign o the times (), that it just didn't "fit in" with the album. any live or rehearsal version i listen to now though, i'm just over . he does that shit to you sometimes . such a great song!

Thanks for the replies, y'all

I've been a fan of Prince for one year now, and I'm 22 years old... so its not about me being too young to appreciate or that it took me a long while to do so, but I'm still dumbstruck that I didn't like LRC the first time around... I feel it's almost blasphemous >_< !!

'Purple Rain' is an "Inspiring" song so its not meant to be listened to in any mood I think. 'Sign o The Times' only got me when I listened to the lyrics (English isn't my mother tongue so I can't get the lyrics with the first listen).

Sorry for the long post! I tried my best not to say too much

Most of them.

Most of them.

Prince was hard for me to get into because his music requires more than one, two or three listening, but it´s definitely worth getting into.

For me it wasn't just songs but albums that took me awhile to get into. When I was a kid, my mom got me ATWIAD, Parade and SOTT while my uncle and aunt got me Lovesexy and I had all of these albums by the time I was 9. A lot of what Prince was saying went over my head but I loved the music. I got these albums 10-12 years later and that was when those albums and the beauty of those albums finally hit me. In recent years, I finally "dug" For You, Prince, Come and Chaos and Disorder. A recent song that didn't hit me but I finally dig is, believe it or not, Mr Goodnight. I thought it was stupid at first but a friend of mine thought it was hot and thought I should listen to it again. Somehow or another, I heard it differently than before and I now I enjoy it when it comes up on shuffle on my iPod. Strange things happen on this earth.

Believe it or not: "Adore". And I know I wasn't alone amongst my Prince buddies on that. Happy to report we all came around on that one.

tambourine took me 2 full years 2 finally get in2 it

Live 4 Love - didn't like it until saw it live and now it is one of my fave's from that album

JuliePurplehead said:

LOL Maybe because you were 10 at the time!

Still don't appreciate Jughead, Papa, and All the Midnights...Everything else is cool.

I was never huge on 7 until i got the beginning verse memorized and now i love that song!

Dayclear said:

WTF!!

pepper7 said:

i've been listening 2 this...i decided it's as good as the rest, & can't understand y arms of orion is so often moaned about.
ok, it's a bit twee but sheena e sounds good & hits notes even p struggles with
trust
[Edited 7/23/08 19:22pm]

Condition Of The Heart - Now it's just an anthem 2 me.
I was the early part of single figures so I liked the commercial stuff at the time!

'dre

Like most music the ones you like straight away never get played a month later

LinnLM1 said:

I believe it, cause I still don´t get the song.

OMG Has anyone listened to

Love Thy Will Be Done.....????

It's the most amazing song ever!!

I've had it on loop for about 3 weeks on my iPod and still am enjoying listening to it.

It's Prince songs like that that the majority of people don't know about but would love.

Memorial00 said:

He seems to love singing this live - and always does it really well and makes it feel like an anthem!

It's very inspiring and has a really uplifting feel about it.

Zeezow said:

not the only one. First time i heard Purple rain and everybody was goin crazy over it i just didnt understand but now i love it.
Most of his mainstream songs like kiss, 1999 and sign o the times