I don't remember seeing much of his stuff b4 I was about 10 or 11 years old and at that time Batman was my favorite movie, so I had to get the soundtrack to the movie bcuz even at that time I was collecting comics and had to be a completist.

Once I had that album it was on. It was so playful and mostly upbeat, but I don't know which song clinched it at that point.

After that album me and my best friend just got into it like nobodies business and have never looked back.

Song: I feel for U
Tour: Lovesexy

Jughead made me a fan...No, not really...It was the PR album and SOTT made me an even bigger one

1999 album....1999 & Little Red Corvette

song Dianonds and pearls
album

1999

Little Red Corvette:"you must be a limousine!"

For me it was The Gold Experience that turned me from casual fan to where i am now. My friend was really hardcore into Prince and would play me stuff that i never heard before so i called him from a used record shop one day and asked him where i should start. I read him off the cd's that were there and when i said Gold Experience he said "Get that one!"

I took it home and once Shhhh started, IMMEDIATELY hooked. That was the song that started it all for me.

ashkenaz said:

When doves cry just seeing him in that bath

Bohemian67 said:

Me too.

violetjd said:

and crawling across the floor...

I can't remember. It was either Parade, Purple Rain, 1999, or The Hits/B-sides. Or maybe it was Sign O' The Times.


Seriously though, I think it was Purple Rain.

in 2007 I saw a big spread on Prince in a Q magazine that my neighbour gave me, I had heard of him before but never thought he was that big a deal because I'd never heard his songs on radio or saw him in any other magazines etc.

So I took the article's advice and baught "Purple Rain"
Upon first listen of this album I was very scepticle, I loved songs like "Let's Go Crazy" & "I Would Die 4 U" but songs like "Darline Nikki" & "The Beautiful Ones" where very overwhelming at first, with the screams and falsetto.

Then I got Sign o' The Times & my mind was changed forever, I was still slightly overhwelmed with the vocals on "Adore", but at least this time it was a positive thing he was singing about. I just thought it was the coolest most unusual music ever & then I fell in love & baught all his albums & listened to him every day every since

The first ever Prince song I heard was '1999' back in '83 when it was a hit in the Netherlands. I loved it, got the single with How come U don't call me anymore on the b-side and I loved that song even more. But it was actually Sheila E's 'The Glamorous life' what really got me into Prince.

I think I considered my self a fan by the time 'Parade' was released. The song 'Kiss' was unlike anything I've ever heard before and got me hooked and interested. I just loved the various hooks and drum patterns he used.

I'm only 16 so for most of my life what i knew of Prince was Purple Rain, 1999, Little Red Corvette, etc.

So a few years ago, I started digging in deeper into his catalog. When I heard Pop Life and Controversy, I was hooked.

If I was Your Girlfriend, And God Created Woman, Mountains, and Starfish and Coffee made me fall in love and gain more respect for Prince.

edit: When I first listened to "The Beautiful Ones", it was almost an outerbody, divine, spiritual kind of experience.
[Edited 10/4/09 14:52pm]

Little Red Corvette and 1999

Dave1992 said:

Oh My FUCKING God....u were THREE when Gold came out!!!!! Jesus Christo!!!!



how old r u NOW mate(I don't feel like math at the moment. U must be like 15 or 16 or summin like that. It's great to know the way Princes music transcends generations. You have GREAT taste, very mature taste, in music my little "youngling".

BobGeorge909 said:

I'm 17 now, and thank you!

Purple Rain, the movie. As a budding young rock guitarist Let's Go Crazy just blew me away. The whole package was just exceptional. And being a teenager with a desire to fuck everything and anything, well Prince just wrote the music for me. Sensual, sexual, spiritual, full of angst and passion... perfection at that age. Shame those days are gone for him. And me

I had noticed Prince on the radio and MTV for years, but I didn’t really start paying attention to him until the Diamonds and Pearls era. I remember the controversy that followed and grew after that album was released. When I saw the premier for the video “My Name Is Prince,” I realized he was something different than anything I had really seen or heard. By the time 7 was released I knew I would have to check out more of Prince’s stuff someday.

In the 8th grade my choice in music was strongly influenced by my friends, soon after I first took notice of Prince, I would forgot about him for a few years and moved towards hardcore rap and rock for a few years. In 1996 I feel in love with the music of Tori Amos when I saw her on MTV unplugged, I liked the fact that she didn’t sound like anything else I had heard up to that point in my life.

By 1998 I was a bit obsessed with the music of Tori Amos, and when I purchased tickets to see her in concert during the Plugged 98’ tour, I sought out all of her music I didn’t own prior to that point because I didn’t want there to be a song played that I didn’t know the words to. I listened to all of the songs I could find by her nonstop from the day tickets went on sale in April until about July I finally realized I need to give Tori a break for a bit before the concert so I didn’t burn my self out on her music.

I picked up a cassette tape of the Prince album “” I had barrowed from a friend and started listening to it nonstop in my car until that friend demanded I return her Prince tape because I had it for months. I love that Prince album, from the beginning to the end. I loved the mystery of it, how it changed styles from hip-hop, to smooth soul and R&B to hardcore Rap and even to Rock Opera. The broken story it told through music and verse fascinated me. “Damn U, you’re so fine…” “I got seven hours baby, so what you wanna do? ...”

The day after my friend demanded her copy of back, I picked myself up a copy of it at the music store where I worked at the time. I noticed at that time that Prince had a huge catalog of material. I had so much fun in the past hunting down the complete works of Nine Inch Nails and Tori Amos, part of the reason I loved Prince from that first album of his I purchased, was the fact that there is almost always going to be more out there to discover.

Since I started listening to Prince in late 1998, I quickly became a fan. I admit I prefer The NPG era over the Revolution era. My favorite albums include: Parade, , Come, Chaos & Disorder, The Truth, New Power Soul (NPG album), The Rainbow Children, The Chocolate Invasion, The Slaughterhouse, and 3121. Without the mystique that is the album , I’m not sure if I would have fallen in love with Prince’s music on my own since a lot of my favorite works of his had been released during times where I would not have been exposed to him if I wasn’t already a fan.

My only complaint about being a Prince fan without fellow Prince fan friends is I have no one else to share my love his music. I get so excited when I get new Prince music, and no one really cares around me. All anyone I know wants to hear by Prince is Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette, When Doves Cry, and Kiss. I keep telling them he has so much better music than that stuff, but my words fall on deaf ears.

The song that initially made me sit up and take notice was When Doves Cry when I was 12yrs old.I fell in love with it instantly and it's still my all time favourite to this day.
As for album; I count myself lucky that the first album of Prince's that I bought was Sign o the Times. Had it been something a bit more 'challenging' for a 15yr old, such as ATWIAD or Parade I may not have persevered, but it was like nothing I,d ever heard before and from that moment on I was hooked.
The really great thing about becoming a lover of Prince's music at that time was that there was already such a massive back catalogue of work to discover and enjoy even by 1987. Aswell as the work presented under his own name, you had albums covering The Time, Sheila E, Vanity & Appolonia. It really was like uncovering buried treasure!
Also, you had the enigma, the image, the mystery. It was ALL good!

"Soft and Wet" - I was too young to know what he was singing about, but I knew it had to be something important the way my older brothers and sisters and cousins were crooning to it. I was amazed with the beat.

I first heard 1999 when I was little( back in 1982) I was riding with my father and step mom to her relatives that was miles away. We had to stay overnight there ( the adults was up playing cards and doing adult things lol) But her relatives radio station was on a station that played the song 1999 ALL NIGHT LONG AFTER EVERY 3-4 SONGS!!!!!

I had that song memorized by the time I left and I knew then I was hooked to it. But I couldnt for the life of me remember WHO sang it(being a kid does that to ya at times lol), all i remember was a womans voice starting it(Lisa's voice) then I saw the video O yeah I was then HOOKED line and sinker for this band.

Sorry for the long story just to get a point in

"The Beautiful Ones", while I was watching "Purple Rain" around 1998. I was 13 yrs. old at the time.

For me it was Dirty Mind..I was cool with him on the previous two albums,but when that song/album came out,I was blown away.It was so different than his previous work.The drum and bass thumping in the beginning of that song had me locked.When he started singing, I was right there with him..as a teenage horndog, he was speaking my language..lol..

chewymusic said:

"diamonds and pearls" (i was 7 years old @ the time and have been a fan ever since)

cinnamongal said:

God, that explains SO much. NOW I know.

1979
The Prince album with, ~I Wanna be Your Lover..."For You," was soon after.