beatriceau said:

Hi I'm quite new on here and was just curious to know more about you guys, what song or moment made you a fan? How long have you been a fan? Why you love prince? Have you ever wavered? You know kind of a summary of your prince journey so far!

A year ago (Im 16) I was browsing the Internet. I found When doves Cry. Nuff said xD

GIOShokadelica said:

beatriceau said:

Hi I'm quite new on here and was just curious to know more about you guys, what song or moment made you a fan? How long have you been a fan? Why you love prince? Have you ever wavered? You know kind of a summary of your prince journey so far!

A year ago (Im 16) I was browsing the Internet. I found When doves Cry. Nuff said xD

Diamonds and Pearls CD and video made me notice. Summer of 92, i was 16. I was aware of Prince before then, but not a fan. Me and a mate studied the D&P video and listened to the CD for months.

Love Symbol got me hooked!

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"My Name is Prince" - I had friends who loved him, but i just didn't get it... I was a massive Queen fan, and just couldn't get 'into' anything else in the same way.

Then one day i remember hearing on Radio 1 in my car the DJ (i forget exactly who) completely slating Prince for recording/releasing such a track, 'how dare he be so arrogant?!?' etc.. and i thought, you know what, that was actually a really great track, who the fuck are you?? It got me excited about hearing new music for the first time in years. My girlfriend of the time bought me the Symbol album, them i went to see him at Sheffield arena and i was completely hooked.

trite, but Purple Rain. And I heard this album at my friend's house ... you can hardly hear the songs of Prince on the radio in our area ..

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I had to be about 11 years and I was with my stepfather riding to the grocery store one Sunday afternoon. I stayed in the car while he went into the store and he left the radio playing Little Red Corvette. Now I knew I had heard this song before but I wasn't sure who it was by until I clicked the eject button and saw that it was disc 2 of The Hits album. At that time I was all into Snoop Dogg and Deathrow but I had always been exposed to a wide variety of music. So when I heard LRC something way back in my subconcious mind started bothering me....I had to remember where and when I had first heard this song and what other songs did Prince make that were as awesome as this one. My uncle was the real music man of the familiy considering he had almost every record ever released on vinyl and every bootleg and retail cassette tape that you could ever possibly imagine. This guy was the king, and if I was gonna find some more info on Prince he was the guy to go. So me being the curious child that I was at that time found my way to my uncle's cassette tape collection and managed to snag a tape that read "Controversy (bonus tracks)." It was the only one that said "Prince" that I was able to snag quickly and jet outta there before I got caught lol.

So I make it home that evening and it just so happened to be pouring down raining outside. I was a little down because this girl that I was crushing on basically told me that I was too nice to be her boyfriend and that she liked someone else. Broke my lil 11 year old heart man Anyway, I decide to chill and listen to some music so I grab my Sony walkman and headphones along with the cassette I snagged from my uncle and I crash on the couch during the thunderstorm. I pop in the tape and hit play then I turn over the case to read the tracklisting. Now everything was cool until I read the song title JACK U OFF... wtf?? You know what though? I'm gonna check this whole tape out from top to bottom because that song CANT be what I think its about...and I'm also interested in hearing what this song with the star next to it called 17 DAYS is about. So as I'm listening, nothing really catches my attention lyrically or musically because my mind is still on the situation that happened at school but something happened when I played the track Annie Christian. That sound was amazing, and he wasn't even singing on the track, he was chanting and he sounded pissed. I'm sitting there thinking, "Wow, this dude is for real." That feeling right there was really the spark to the flame that would ignite once I made it to the bonus track. I somehow make it through JACK U OFF, feeling like I had just listened to X-Rated circus music, and the final track starts playing a hypnotizing guitar loop that immediately draws you in. Then the bass...OMFG the bass slaps super hard and the beat comes in fluid. At this point I'm no longer laying down in the couch, I'm sitting up, eyes closed and ears at full attention. As the second measure ends I hear a showering crystal sound that instantly reminds me that it is pouring down crazy outside. Then the guitar slap that hits simultaneously with snare followed by the synth keyboard hits....MAN oh man. I was in this song. The beat and the melody were in perfect cohesion and now I'm prepared to listen to the lyrics. This had to be fate because the first line of the song brought me right back to the girl who rejected me just hours earlier that day.

"I called you yesterday

You didn't answer your phone..."

I was lost in the song.

"Here I sit in my lonely room, looking 4 my sunshine

All I got is 2 cigarettes and this broken heart of mine...

So let the rain come down

the rain come down

let the rain come down, down"

That was thee moments folks...I've been hooked ever since. Whenever I listen to 17 Days, I can go back to that exact moment and experience that feeling just like it was yesterday.

That's real music

It was "Let's pretend we're married". I had never heard anything like it.