lovesexy06 said:

PurpleLove7 said:

Some of you all just said the first album, you did not say what you liked or dis-liked about it, that's cool, thanks for answering ... [img:$uid]http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif[/img:$uid]

Hey yeah! I got lost in the memories of when i received Purple Rain!!!! At the age i was I doubt i appreciated it like i did as i grew up & started 2 understand the music .There isn't a song on this album that i don't like in fact i put the song Purple Rain on the songlist at my mothers funeral when she passed away in '88 at age 34,she 2 liked Prince & so this song will always have special meaning 2 me. However this album put me on the path & has kept me on the path of Prince 2 the point that 2day I ALMOST have his entire collection except 4 a few U.S only releases. So i guess this album has everything 2 do with my love 4 Prince. I have been a fan of his 4 so long now that i couldn't imagine life without him & his music!

Thank you mum 4 starting it all !!!!!!!!!

Now 'that's' what I'm talkin' about ... I would've never thought to play 'Purple Rain' at a funeral or wake but, it does seem to fit.

Batman Soundtrack. I loved it. Then I got Graffiti Bridge and I semi-liked it. And then I went backwards and got all the early stuff...

The cassette of Purple Rain.

I was a chubby 12 year old in Puerto Rico who'd never heard anything like it before.
I got my mom to take me to the movie and here I am 26 years later.

my 1st album was planet earth but of course i was familiar with his earlier chart stuff.

the album didn't make me a prince fan, but i guess it did it's job, it roped me in2 the '21 nights' hysteria & i ain't looked back.

i think that within a couple of weeks i listened & spazed out on his whole (official) catalogue.

toejam said:

Always love reading these threads - so many different stories, and so many people getting into him at different eras.

Technically, the first album I got was Batman back in 1989. I was only 7 and my Dad bought the album thinking it was the Danny Elfman soundtrack . We were both angry that we were duped and took it back the next day (this is back in the days when you could return albums ). But yeah, it wasn't until 1998 or so when I started to get into his music properly. I think I had mentioned that I liked the song "1999" after watching a video special and someone bought me The Hits Vol.1 for Christmas. And then of course it just snowballed from there. By 2000 I was pretty much hooked.

gawd!

My first officiall owned Prince album was Purple Rain:Prince & the Revolution

Purple Rain was and still is electric, the sounds were so full but not overproduced, layers that felt like you just visited a city. Purple Rain felt like a world and that's why I had to get the protege music

next to Purple Rain the Glamorous Life to me was the only protege album of 84 that was cohesive. I still love it. There was an intensity to Purple Rain which is way it's still his biggest, can't take that away from it.

That's not when I was a fan, it came before. But that was the age I was able to start having my own music. Other than that I had to get my Maxwell tape and ready to tape what came on.

Once I was bathed in the Purple Rain the Glamorous Life pulled me in, I got all the Singles/Bsides and other protege music, then as I got my allowance I bought a previous Prince album/protege/single every week

When I bought Dirty Mind I remember hiding it under my pillow, like a porn mag. lol

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PDogz said:

The first Prince album I ever purchased was "For You", the same week it was released.

When I walked into the record store that week, I heard "Soft And Wet" playing on the stores' system. I asked the guy at the counter "Who's that?!?", and he said "Oh, it's this new group called Prince". I purchased the entire album on the spot without hearing another note. I thought it sounded unlike anything I had ever heard, the music was so fresh and the rhythm was so tight.

I knew it was the start of a whole new musical direction.

nice story.

wasn't youth great when all we were concerned about was having enough cash to buy a favourite tune?

i'm the computer itunes generation kinda girl. i just downloaded a bunch of songs and virtual cds first..but then i started going to record stores and found a few of his cds preowned..and target had mplssound and lotusflower...so i dont remember really what real actual cd was first

My first album was digital, I bought 'Come' on itunes. loved everything (but orgasm was a bit much)

my first hardcopy album was LOTUSFLOW3R, haha it was only $5 at Target

Then The Rainbow Children, which is interesting, then Emancipation, which i absolutely love, and most recently I got Crystal Ball (with The Truth but not Kamasutra)

just1lousydime said:

My first album was digital, I bought 'Come' on itunes. loved everything (but orgasm was a bit much)

my first hardcopy album was LOTUSFLOW3R, haha it was only $5 at Target

Then The Rainbow Children, which is interesting, then Emancipation, which i absolutely love, and most recently I got Crystal Ball (with The Truth but not Kamasutra)

If you haven't got Sign O The Times yet - that needs to be your next purchase - pronto.

DoffieParker said:

PDogz said:

The first Prince album I ever purchased was "For You", the same week it was released.

When I walked into the record store that week, I heard "Soft And Wet" playing on the stores' system. I asked the guy at the counter "Who's that?!?", and he said "Oh, it's this new group called Prince". I purchased the entire album on the spot without hearing another note. I thought it sounded unlike anything I had ever heard, the music was so fresh and the rhythm was so tight.

I knew it was the start of a whole new musical direction.

nice story.

wasn't youth great when all we were concerned about was having enough cash to buy a favourite tune?

You said it!

Ultimate Prince, just a couple of months ago...

I'm a new fan - though I'm totally crazy about Prince - and the first album I bought was 3121. And I have to say I was very, very impressed!

purplemookiebut said:

i'm the computer itunes generation kinda girl. i just downloaded a bunch of songs and virtual cds first..but then i started going to record stores and found a few of his cds preowned..and target had mplssound and lotusflower...so i dont remember really what real actual cd was first

I must say there is something special about owning an album.

I've bought songs off the internet vs going to a store and having bought actual Prince albums that had lyrics and credits pictures / posters etc etc

I wouldn't trade that record store experience for anything

Lovesexy

not just the first prince album but the first album i ever bought, period.

i'd been listening to a bit of music, but not much and i didn't know that

much about popular music anyway.

we could borrow cd's from a video store in our town and i'd borrowed a

few albums by eurythmics and pet shop boys, which i'd transferred to a

cassette at home. i liked those and i still do.

a year or so earlier a friend had tried to convince me of the amazingly

brilliant quality of the "1999" album but when i sat in his home and had

a listen to it, i hated everything i heard.

i remember saying something like "this prince guy is horrible, how can u

listen to these shit songs? they sound stupid"

then one day in 1988 i was waiting at the chinese restaurant with my dad

for some take out and they had a tv in there with a music show running.

on came the video for "i wish u heaven" and i was hypnotised by the song.

next weekend i dragged my parents into town and got the lovesexy album

with my pocket money.

loved it, strat to finish. must have listened to it 500 times, about 3 times a

day, lol.

the beauty of finding out about prince so late is that there was such a huge

wealth of back catalogue material.

took me a few years to get all the official albums up to Lovesexy, and in the

meantime new albums were released (batman, graffity bridge etc).

finally getting my own copy of 1999 and totally falling in love with it this time,

lol. and hearing the "purple rain" album for the first time. sigh.

i think the last back catalogue album i got was "parade" in 1991 and that is my

fav prince album of all time now.

that was a good time.

sometimes i wish there were still a few albums i'd never heard until now, so

that i could feel that excitement again of listening to it, being amazed and

just hitting "repeat" over and over again.

[Edited 11/19/10 5:40am]

OldFriends4Sale said:

purplemookiebut said:

i'm the computer itunes generation kinda girl. i just downloaded a bunch of songs and virtual cds first..but then i started going to record stores and found a few of his cds preowned..and target had mplssound and lotusflower...so i dont remember really what real actual cd was first

I must say there is something special about owning an album.

I've bought songs off the internet vs going to a store and having bought actual Prince albums that had lyrics and credits pictures / posters etc etc

I wouldn't trade that record store experience for anything

True ... True ... I love the feeling of going to a 'wreca stow' and buying a new album, even though some people call em CDs now but, same thing. I hope we have the opportunity to get a future album from P at the stores. Oh and if there is a 20Ten Deluxe that's going to be only available at the concerts or eBay (perhaps).

I could never forget this because it was not only the first Prince album I bought but the very first album from anyone with my own allowance money. Controversy was the first. The title track was burning up the R & B stations in DC and I had heard a few other tracks so saved my pennies. I was quickly hooked and jonesing for more. I remember that it felt like such a long time between Controversy and 1999. Had to roll up on some Time to get me through

IstenSzek said:

Lovesexy

not just the first prince album but the first album i ever bought, period.

i'd been listening to a bit of music, but not much and i didn't know that

much about popular music anyway.

we could borrow cd's from a video store in our town and i'd borrowed a

few albums by eurythmics and pet shop boys, which i'd transferred to a

cassette at home. i liked those and i still do.

a year or so earlier a friend had tried to convince me of the amazingly

brilliant quality of the "1999" album but when i sat in his home and had

a listen to it, i hated everything i heard.

i remember saying something like "this prince guy is horrible, how can u

listen to these shit songs? they sound stupid"

then one day in 1988 i was waiting at the chinese restaurant with my dad

for some take out and they had a tv in there with a music show running.

on came the video for "i wish u heaven" and i was hypnotised by the song.

next weekend i dragged my parents into town and got the lovesexy album

with my pocket money.

loved it, strat to finish. must have listened to it 500 times, about 3 times a

day, lol.

the beauty of finding out about prince so late is that there was such a huge

wealth of back catalogue material.

took me a few years to get all the official albums up to Lovesexy, and in the

meantime new albums were released (batman, graffity bridge etc).

finally getting my own copy of 1999 and totally falling in love with it this time,

lol. and hearing the "purple rain" album for the first time. sigh.

i think the last back catalogue album i got was "parade" in 1991 and that is my

fav prince album of all time now.

that was a good time.

sometimes i wish there were still a few albums i'd never heard until now, so

that i could feel that excitement again of listening to it, being amazed and

just hitting "repeat" over and over again.

[Edited 11/19/10 5:40am]

What a great album to start with. And I know what you mean - the thrill of finding some album you missed - I guess that's what we bring to future releases.

Well shit, boys and girls, my story begins in 1983. I had heard Controversy and 1999 and LRC on the radio and was starting to become hooked beyond belief on the lil purple guy. But for some reason, my 12 year-old brain didn't put two and two together to realize that you could go to the record store and use your allowance to buy albums that you heard on the radio( I blame my family, lol. they never taught me nothing 'bout the real world, being the "baby" and all.) Anywhoo, cut to the summer of 1984, and When doves cry/let's go crazy/purple rain is burning up the charts. The PR movie is number 1 at the box office, and, as I'm 12, my moms won't let me go to an R-rated movie. Horror of Horrors, right? Not to worry, help was "just around the corner". My older brother(saint that he was) had seen it, and knew about my growing luv for tha guy. He was of age, had seen PR in the theater, and took pity on me. For Christmas, not only did he give me the vinyl version of the Purple Rain soundtrack, but For U, Prince, Controversy, and 1999!! Needless to say, I was in heaven. At this time, I had begun the practice of taping songs of the radio. I didn't limit myself to just RnB or funk but Newromantic, classic rock and the standard pop hits of the day. There was something in the music of Prince, however that struck a momentous chord with me. Pretty ironic considering that I was a scrawny white kid living in suburban Orange County. When I put the needle down on the chorus of Purple Rain, and heard the gospell sound of the Revolution singing that refrain, I can say without hyperbole, that my life had instantly changed. Being white and non-baptist, I had never known that music could be quite that trancendent. I devoured that soundtrack, studied it and the other albums I had received that holiday season. Some months later, that same brother came home for spring break from college and to my surprise, had aquired a VHS version of Purple Rain. The rest is His/my/story....

My first album was TGE. I was about 11 years old when that album came out. I was always intrigued by him and decided to buy the album.

I remember listening to P Control in my room and having to press pause on my stereo everytime I heard my mum coming up the stairs. One day she came in and said "What are you pausing it for? I heard what he's saying!"

Needless to say, I've since converted my mum.

The first one was Purple rain on cassette at first. I think I was 17 or 18.

I know it inside out, every sound every lyric. What an album, just one flow from start to finish!

"The Gold Experience"