My brother gave me a SOTT tape when I was 10. SOTT and Housequake did it for me.

chellemac said:

When I saw him on MTV signing Littl Red Corvette. I was in AWE

Listening to "Little Red Corvette" on vinyl with headphones. Playing it all over and again. I was a big MJ fan at the time and I remember thinking "this guy really is better than MJ, huh.".

Then when I heard what he did with the song when it was used between "Play In The Sunshine" and "Housequake" in the SOTT concert film and I was mesmerized.

I've been a fan since I was 14 (that was when he had just changed his name to the symbol). My interest in Prince got toned down somewhat around 2004-2006, but that's just because I was listening mostly to instrumental music then.

i love prince, i love him i love him i love him....whenever i see him, whenever i hear him...i just love him

flyorra said:

beatriceau said:

flyorra said:

i love prince, i love him i love him i love him....whenever i see him, whenever i hear him...i just love him

When did it start? How long ago?

1991 d&P i was just a kid, in love with the song Thunder, but also before that Thieves in The Temple was cool. and purple rain. and thorughout my life, america, nothing compares to u, and when doves cry, the beautiful ones, all been covered and i thought they were awesome original, then in 2003 i saw all of his videos from i wanna b ur lover to the same december on t.v. taped them all, and i was high as a kite from watching that marathon until day break and i loved let it go, when 2 r in love, mountains, betcha by golly wow. ...love love love all the time. i followed him, then when facebook got rollin i had too many friends who were started posting lopez tonight interview, i just said i need a break, so i had a break from prince, until the tour was gonna be announced rumors a couple of weeks before which turned out to be real...and here i am more in love than eva. after w2aus

Believe it or not, 2007 - Planet Earth made me a fan. The first 3 songs hooked me.

u all know i went to musicology downunder, i remember as i child i loved sexy motherfucker and my name is p[rince was striking too. when i gre up loved damn u, and news album, i even loved nps you have to really do what he says lay down put earphones in and listen to nps...funky. loved rave, not so much now. was hooked on come when i got it. mainly 90's stuff. i don't know all of his stuff, the ones i had on cassette were d7p, gb, love sexy, parade, and batman. i know

Him singing background in Chaka Khan's "Drama".

Was you getting buuuusy?

I was enamored by his quirky production/background singing. I also feel that album(Come 2 My House) was the starting point that made a fan of both Chaka and Prince.

Next day, copped "Rave" and loved it so much. Got the "Hits/B-Side" and the rest was history. But I gotta say when I joined this forum back in the "black & purple" days, the sheer of info fueled my interest more.

Harlepolis said:

Him singing background in Chaka Khan's "Drama".

Was you getting buuuusy?

I was enamored by his quirky production/background singing. I also feel that album(Come 2 My House) was the starting point that made a fan of both Chaka and Prince.

I think it's a good album, but that sounds like a really unusual way to having gotten into Prince's stuff.

novabrkr said:

Harlepolis said:

Him singing background in Chaka Khan's "Drama".

Was you getting buuuusy?

I was enamored by his quirky production/background singing. I also feel that album(Come 2 My House) was the starting point that made a fan of both Chaka and Prince.

I think it's a good album, but that sounds like a really unusual way to having gotten into Prince's stuff.

My mother had this album, and the cover fascinated me. But what fascinated me more is the production that wa laid beneath Chaka's voice.

Harlepolis said:

beatriceau said:

Harlepolis said:

Him singing background in Chaka Khan's "Drama".

Was you getting buuuusy?

I was enamored by his quirky production/background singing. I also feel that album(Come 2 My House) was the starting point that made a fan of both Chaka and Prince.

Next day, copped "Rave" and loved it so much. Got the "Hits/B-Side" and the rest was history. But I gotta say when I joined this forum back in the "black & purple" days, the sheer of info fueled my interest more.

I'm kind of at that stage of finding information and listening to all the stuff I haven't heard! Still haven't heard rave, crystal ball, or a couple of others from his more recent music!

Enjoy the ride I know I have, and still do.

The Gold Experience turned me from enjoying his music to wanting to find every guitar solo he'd ever played.

I was about 12 when Diamonds and Pearls was released and I liked Cream, Money Don't Matter 2 Night as well as the album title. I hadn't really thought much of Prince prior to that possibly just being too young to appreciate what his music was all about. I remember a few years earlier as a 9 year old watching the Grammys and Prince had been nominated for Sign O' the Times and I thought "that guys weird."

Fast forward to 1992 or 1993 and I heard Sexy MF and My Name is Prince and I decided to buy the Love Symbol album on cassette. I dont remember if it was because the only album I had but i used to listen to it every day on my way to and from school. Absolutely loved it.

Cream, I saw the video when I was 15 and just mesmerized, he held me in sway, the song, the dancing, the video just blew my mind. I just realised how good he was and just thought I have to hear more of him, I was aware of his music from Alphabet Street onwards, but it was only watching Cream I became a fan. In the space of a week I had the singles of Cream, Gett Off, the Diamonds and Pearls album and a copy of Purple Rain. I was set. The date was sometime in November 1991.

I heard Partyman on a hits cassette tape and loved it as it sounded different than everything else and sooo funky!

Got Grafitti Bridge for my birthday and played it all the time, I didn't like every track (mostly the other people) but I was surprised by his sheer range of styles and fell in love with the title track and still would stand all time etc. Then Diamonds and Pearls came out which blew me away

Goodbye MJ!

my mom introduced me to Prince 2years ago just before the 2010 album came out I've always been bought up on black musicians (James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye etc) and music has always been so important to me, she was like take a listen to this, and started playing The Beautiful Ones and it blew me away I was inlove with his music from that moment I went out the next day and bought the Purple Rain album and my mom gave it me on vinyl so I could play it on my record player & I loved it I then listened to parade and fell in love with that album too, my dad gave me the Gett Off cd single and I then started hunting round for extended versions of his songs and his albums I guess I love Prince because of the way he performs his songs so brilliantly and the amount of work he has put into his career being so prolific as he is, I cant see my self not loving his music

I heard Purple Rain on the radio in the car and my Dad said it's a Prince song, then I heard Little Red Corvette at the grocery store and thought WTF is that song! Sure enough it was Prince too. I kind of liked those two songs and then found Musicology (his latest album at the time.) in the News Agents. and I bought it (first album I ever bought too)

Was made aware of him with "I Wanna Be Your Lover"

Liked what I heard with "Controversy" (the song), "1999" (the song), and "Little Red Corvette" (was big into MJ, KISS, Ozzy, Donna Summer, DuranDuran at the time)

Once I went to see Purple Rain (on my birthday, no less - July 29, 1984), that was the end.

Started buying all albums, bootlegs, etc. after that.

First audio contact : "love song" . I was like/

First "visio" contact : IwouldDFU on TV, PurpleRain Tour-Syracuse

First comercial transaction: I bought The Graffiti Bridge album.It was the one selling then (i was 15or16).And became a "fan"

beatriceau said:

Why you love prince? Have you ever wavered?

I overlooked this..

#1 Because he's a great composer and instrumentalist.

#2 Yes.

17 days. I had been a lukewarm Prince fan when I was in middle school, but since I knew my peers wouldn't understand, I sort of kept it to myself. This was around the time the "Gold" album came out and I absolutely loved "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"...but fast forward to my college days. I was in the computer lab, bored and decided to check out the NPG Music Club site. I eventually joined and there was a part where they would play snippets of P's music. This is when I first discovered and heard "17 days" and I was sold. I became an official Prince fan and started running around to different record stores trying to buy as many of his albums that I could find. It got to the point where the only thing I would play in my car was Prince. I couldn't function without at least listening to one Prince song a day.

I loved Purple Rain, Cream, 7, Thieves and all those - but did not quite get into following him, although loved those songs.

I was more into Madonna then - and other artists too of course -

then I drifted from being a big Madonna fan (but still buy her albums just coz I always have and I am a completist - wanting to keep all the albums) - then got into visiting the Queen catalogue then got into Freddie Mercury - (that voice.......) & also Michael Jackson.

Then a marriage breakup kind of put the brakes on my Queen fad (no idea why????) but I started to look for something else - then I stumbled on Princes video Black Sweat - and loved it - so stylish and the music so hauntingly funky. So that began my search for more videos & music - so I ended up buying all the official stuff at a rapid rate and now dig for the harder to find items.

I have not stopped loving him since - but there are some times I listen to him more than others - but the tour has just made me more obsessive and my daughter is about to kill me if I keep mentioning him everyday as I am !!!!!

I think I shall always follow him the rest of my/his life now - because it is such an interesting ride........

I was a big MJ fan up until 1982-83, I knew from the first time I saw P in the LRC video that "there was something about this dude".....Then when PR dropped, it was over...I remember getting his entire back catalogue from For You thru Controversey on the same day and spent a whole summer listening/learning/being baptized into the purple world....

gollygirl said: