I am interested in what people had as their first Prince album. I would like to know other info as well:
1. What was your first album?
2. When did you get it?
3. What format (tape, cd, record, electronic)?
4. Does the album have special meaning to you?

Here is mine:

Symbol album. I got it in December 1992. I bought the tape. To this day, it is still my favorite album and it has 2 of my top 25 Prince songs in 7 and The Continental.

I had Purple Rain on tape!
It was 1984, I can't remember the month but it should be Fall.

(I remember listening to When Doves Cry all summer on the radio, driving me crazy in a bad way because I didn't like it at all!!! It was so unlike anything I had ever heard! It really pissed me off that it was on No1 for so many weeks! Can't remember exactly when I got into it, but it was winter when I went to see the movie, so somewhere in between...)

I can't decide on a favourite album since I've not listened to all of them yet, but Purple Rain sure holds a very special place in my heart and it always will!

3121
July 2008
CD
I read a pretty bad review about the album so i decided to make my own opinion about it...

Darwintheorgangrinder said:

You live in Ithaca, NY?

1. Prince was my first album.
2. After I listened to "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on a K-Tel album called Soundwaves
3. LP
4. Everyone's 1st Prince album has special meaning probably, however, the K-Tel album is more special to me. I actually have two copies of it on LP still today.

1. Diamonds & Pearls
2. 1992?
3. CD
4. No

1. The Symbol album was mine
2. I got it in 1992
3. On tape (still have it despite much wear and tear)
4. It has VERY special meaning to me. This was the album that started it all and it reminds me of literally falling in love with Prince! I know it has some terrible tracks (My Name is Prince, The Flow, The Max), but is has some of favorites too - Sexy MF, The Morning Papers, 7. Love it.

Purple rain on cassette and then cd a few years later.

I was a casual radio fan, until I purchased Sign of the Times on cassette in 1987. Once I truly listened to it, I was hooked by his freedom of expression on so many taboo topics... He just seemed so comfortable in his own skin with topics like sex and God and love... And then there were awesome tracks that just seemed to say, 'yeah, things are jacked up, but fuck it, lets dance like there will be no tomorrow!'

After Lovesexy, I was hooked like a crack whore.

My first album was SOTT I got it on cassette a few weeks after it came out having already bought the 7" of the title track.

It took me a while to appreciate it it was more challenging than the stuff I'd heard before but once I'd got into it I was hooked and started collecting all his albums and singles looking out for non album Bsides in particular. I was SO excited when I found the 12" of Little Red Corvette with Horny Toad on the flip side for like 80p!! Happy times!

Darwintheorgangrinder said:[quote]I am interested in what people had as their first Prince album. I would like to know other info as well:
1. What was your first album?
2. When did you get it?
3. What format (tape, cd, record, electronic)?
4. Does the album have special meaning to you?


Prince.
November 1979
Vinyl album
The album has no special meaning.
'I Wanna Be Your Lover' made me a Prince fan with the help of a girl who rejected me.
[Edited 9/11/09 9:47am]

The first album I own was Purple Rain. I somebody gave me the cassette originally as a child and I later brought it again. This had 2 be early 90's when I brought it but, I got my original cassette in tha late 80's. That's my first album I brought and own. Tha album is special 2 me and the movie as well, of course. My mother had the LP while I was growning up, so the album was always around me. I remember even spinning the record backwards 2 find out what was being said at the end of 'Darling Nikki'. LOL! CLASSIC!

1999 then I bought every one before 1999 and everything after it The LRC video was so visually stunning

Batman (I loved the comics, so i had to have the album!)
1989 (as it came out)
cassette
loved it so much. nuff said.

then got ATWIAD (tape) it was cheap? I think £4.99 from Our Price.
PR (vinyl)
LOVESEXY (vinyl)
1999(vinyl)
SOTT (vinyl disk 1 only!)
SOTT (tape) swopped it for something or other.

then GB about 6 months after it came out.
the hits 1 & 2 (on crappy bootleg cassette - hey, I was a student)

then Prince, Dirtymind

then Symbol (a few months after it came out)

Controversy & For you (on a trip to Madrid with college)

finally D&P way after it came out!?

then every album as it came out after that... starting with Come (ironically the last Prince album proper)

1. What was your first album?
Dirty mind
2. When did you get it?
2004
3. What format (tape, cd, record, electronic)?
vinyle
4. Does the album have special meaning to you?
yes

I have been a prince fan all of my life...but dirty mind opened my eyes

The first record I bought was the Hits 1+2/B-sides along with the Purple Rain DVD. I didn't know much Prince other than the usual ones u hear on the radio, such as PR, RB and WDC. But I had always wanted to hear more. I got the 3 disc set in HMV. It was reduced from £24.99 to £9.99 so talk about a bargain! After a few listens I couldn't believe the diversity of his work. It really blew my mind. And of course the fact that the songs kicked serious ass! The first song I fell in love with was I Would Die 4 U. Beautiful! The B-sides disc got the most plays though. Theres some gems in that. I also was intriged at his tounge in cheek lyrics. When I looked at the back and seen the song "I Love U in Me" I expected to hear a real funky, groovy sleazefest and then when I hear it, it's a beautiful keyboard/vocals based track. Then watching the Purple Rain DVD sealed the deal. Prince fan for life! Before Prince, I only listened to hard rock/metal. Thank u Prince!

You live in Ithaca, NY?

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For the time being. I will be leaving in less than a year, but for now I am still Ithaca's number 1 Prince fan. I have yet to be challenged.

1. What was your first album?
Chaos & Disorder
2. When did you get it?
2005
3. What format (tape, cd, record, electronic)?
CD
4. Does the album have special meaning to you?
it showed me Prince's non hit music was very good too.

1. PRINCE
2. Early 1980
3. 8 Track
4. Yes Very Much So!

1999
1982
cassette
no

batman o.s.t
cd (2004)
because i loved the batman film and really dug partyman scandalous.
definately as it was a bizarre start into my, now passion and also remember being somewhat too embarrassed to admit to friends that i had it....but believe you me since then a lot has changed....It was almost like having my audible cherry popped

"Dirty Mind". I had the "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "Uptown" 45s before it but "Dirty Mind" was my first Prince album.



1980



Vinyl. And I still have all my vinyl today.



No, not really.

fisrt album planet earth
why it was free with the paper

kaching baby!

Musicology
2004
It came with my ticket to the concert
I collected quite a few having attended a few performances.
The whole CD means so very much to me...I had so much fun at those concerts!

Dirty Mind
early 80's
vinyl
I went to the record store looking for "prince",because sexy dancer was my jam.But "dirty mind" was also there and I didn't even know it was out.So I bought that instead and the songs blew me away.It's still a sentimental favorite.

Prince

Sometime in 1979

Vinyl...I won the album from the radio station...Yes it has special meaning...I've loved Prince will all my heart ever since.

1. What was your first album?
Purple Rain
2. When did you get it?
1984- 2 days after seeing the movie
3. What format (tape, cd, record, electronic)?
Vinyl
4. Does the album have special meaning to you?
Yes, it a comforting effect, like connecting with a long lost friend.

1. Diamonds and Pearls
2. December 1991 (I spent a music voucher I got given for a Christmas present)
3. Cassette Tape, plain cover (Still have it, but replaced it with a holographic cover cd in 2006)
4. Quite a bit, the memories of songs like Cream and Diamonds and Pearls, more than mediocre filler like Jughead and Walk don't walk

Huggiebear said:

Cream was in the charts when i started dating my husband.
we used Diamonds and pearls in our wedding dance

1. What was your first album? Purple Rain
2. When did you get it? Sometime in the summer of '84
3. What format (tape, cd, record, electronic)? Vinyl LP
4. Does the album have special meaning to you? Yes...this album officially made me a fan. Although I had heard the "1999" singles on the radio and loved them, "Purple Rain" took my fandom to a whole other level! I was 4 years old.

1999 on vinyl was my first Prince album, I bought it in my local record shop Pladepusheren in feb. 1983.

Unfortunately I gave it away to a girlfriend in 1987, in a try to convert her to Prince music.

I don't own it no more.
[Edited 9/13/09 3:18am]