What was your first Prince album (you bought or were given) and what did you think of it?

My first Prince album I bought was the 'Come' album, then , then The Gold Experience ... I actually wasn't ready for Prince and his lyrical style or music on the 'Come' album. I was like 'What the Fucc' and I listening to ... LoL

Most of P's music has to grow on me and then there are rare moments where I love the album like 20Ten, MPLSoUND and or TGE 'instantly' ...

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MY first prince album was 4 u and i didn't like it very much after I played it but I kept it anyways!

Dirty Mind. What did I think of it? Controversy was released a couple months after I heard Dirty Mind and I was first in line to buy it. I even remember the record store. The Wax Museum on Lake Street .

1999

2 record set .... putting the needle down on that record and putting on some big ass ear phones !!!

it changed my life !!!

Purple Rain....It was like nothing i had ever heard before...that was the start to the soundtrack of my life...

First actual hardcopy of an album was MPL Sound/ Lotus Flow3r. It was cool. Played it loud through the house & whole family listened to it. Like all of his records, I had to listen to it more than once to understand, but I fell in love with Dreamer, Old Skool Company, & Colonized Mind.

My first Prince album was "Dirty Mind". I already had the 45s "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "Uptown" and then I heard "Head" on our local "Soul Train" type television dance show called "Black Gold" and loved it. Then it started being played on all three local R&B stations regularly and I loved it even more. I looked for a 45 of it (kids are always looking for a 45, they don't understand that not everything on the radio is from a 45). When I was told there was no 45 of it, then I bought the album.

I loved every track on it and bought "Prince" (the 1979 album) a few weeks later to replace my 45. When the 45 "Controversy" was released, I bought it and then bought the album "Controversy" as soon as it was released.

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The first actual Prince album I bought was a cassette of Purple Rain (Even tho I had singles of Gett Off and Cream, Both November 1991), I didn't actually buy Diamonds and Pearls until March 1992 whereas I bought the Purple Rain tape in December 1991, in the interim I added the singles of Diamonds and Pearls and one of my rarest a cassette single of Insatiable/I Love u in me in January 1992. By the end of 1995 I had all the Warners albums up to Gold Experience and a couple of Bootlegs on Vinyl or Tape, by 1998 I had CD copies of everything official, now virtually all of my Prince music is on the Ipod. And my Prince vinyl has been in a vault for years.

1999. I was only thirteen and I remember listening to Let's Pretend Were Married over and over again. I guess it was the nastiness of it.

My first was 1999, I was 17 in in feb. 1983.. I heard the songs 1999 and Little Red Corvette... and I was sold...

unfortunately I gave the double-LP vinyl away to a former girlfriend. I have regret this many times.

Too bad I don't own my first Prince album anymore.

I had the 45s of 1999 and Little Red Corvette, but the first album was Purple Rain. My thoughts...pretty much the same as everyone else's...WOW!

1999

It was Purple Rain, I was 19 and in the midst of a Hendrix fixation when I came across it low priced in my local record store one summer. I wasn't taken in by it as a whole initally, thought the songwriting was generic and songs like Computer Blue and The Beautiful Ones seemed oddly to harken back to Michael Jackson, which was a style I felt I'd moved on from. Dug it out late one night a couple years later on a comedown from E and was awed from start to finish, it was on repeat all that night and next morning as I smoked copious amonts of weed, and was still going when I emerged from sleep late in the afternoon. Thereafter began a quest for Prince's albums, which started chronologically with For You and came to an abrupt halt when I heard Come(been discerning with his work after that point).

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madison said:

1999

2 record set .... putting the needle down on that record and putting on some big ass ear phones !!!

it changed my life !!!

I heard Prince on the radio before I bought any of his records...but the first one I bought was 1999...and then I rushed out to buy what I had been missing!

Controversy - I was 8 and bought it on cassette.

From there it was 1999, Purple Rain, Around the World in A Day (and then I went back to the first few releases I had missed).

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.

1999 and controversy

I was young and it was Purple Rain, followed by 1999, Controversy,Dirty Mind,Prince, and For you.

gold experience

then chaos and disorder

then emancipation

but the greatest of these is chaos and disorder (still have the poster, somewhere)

Cx

Diamonds & Pearls

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.

Thats great, 32 years you must be proud, but what made me laugh was the guy at the counter saying "Oh, its this new group called Prince" when what he and most of the world didn't know was that it wasn't a group called Prince, but just one guy called Prince making all of the sounds, even then his genius was wowing people.

Good that you trusted your first instinct, about buying the album and realising that Prince was not just going to be another late 70s flash in the pan act, but going on to being the defining artist of the 80s and enduring musical legend he has become to this day.

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Purple Rain : In 84/85 not sure exactly I was eleven or twelve & my mum monitored what i listened 2( i wasn't allowed 2 listen 2 Darling Nikki LOL!!!!) Couldn't really jump around & dance back then records didn't like it!!!!! 1999 was the next album i got once again it was played under supervision! Im still a huge Prince fan 26 yrs later! Peace & Be Wild!!!!

Huggiebear 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.

Thats great, 32 years you must be proud, but what made me laugh was the guy at the counter saying "Oh, its this new group called Prince" when what he and most of the world didn't know was that it wasn't a group called Prince, but just one guy called Prince making all of the sounds, even then his genius was wowing people.

Good that you trusted your first instinct, about buying the album and realising that Prince was not just going to be another late 70s flash in the pan act, but going on to being the defining artist of the 80s and enduring musical legend he has become to this day.

Right place at the right time in history I guess. I imagine the folks that were around when the world first heard of that new kid named ELVIS felt pretty special too, lol.

...and sooner or later, there'll be another one... (right now they're probably still in daycare, but wait until the world gets a load of him/her, lol)

Purple Rain. I only llistened to heavy metal at the time, so half of it took a while to click. I definetely liked it, and bought Sign O The Times afterwards, but it was the Superbowl that made me a nut.

My first album was Controversy. I was 19 years old and I saw him on the Dutch television in a music program in 1981 doing his song Controversy and I hurried to the record store to buy the album. After I listened to it again and again, it didn't take me long to discover his previous album Dirty Mind and buying it.

First album I bought: my own copy of Purple Rain (my big sisters had all his albums from the 80-95 years, but PP was the first album I bought on my own)

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.

That's hard core.

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My first Prince ablum that I bought myself was Emancipation!!! My mom owned Prince, Purple Rain, and Parade...so I got to hear those alot, but never owned any of my own until I got older and I just had to have Emancipation...of course that was a few years after if came out!!

My next ablums I bought was Musicology, Sign of The Times, and Diamonds and Pearls at the same time. After those 3, I went on a shopping spree and bought all the cds that came out prior to 1995, and I have all the latest ones too. It's a few of the more expensive ones that I don't own yet. (CB, TBA, ONA)

The first album I bought was Planet Earth. I had heard the Guitar song on some commercial for a phone or something (?) Anyways, at the time I only really liked that song and Chelsea Rodgers. Luckily I found some greatest hits cds, purple rain (and the movie!) and the symbol album laying around the house (my dads) otherwise I may have never bought a Prince cd after that. I didnt much care for planet earth then, but now I think its pretty good.