In my room.

robertgeorgeakabob said:

Fonkyman said:

jacket tied round your waist, sweating your dish off like a true raver

first time i heard it was on some radio station well before it came out, and it was the house version. i remember the "n i'm the big dipper" line and thought YES!!! prince the hornbag is on his way back, he's seen the error of graffiti wank.

i was so disappointed with d+p album after this treat, still to this day think it's dull and formulaic. got back on track with the symbol album, a mad fucking glorious mess. much like prince was at the time.

Busted. Never took a jacket though. Just took everything else.

I thought he'd 'woken up' too when I heard Gett Off. D&P was doo doo. Symbol wasn't any better for me.

Amiga 1200 and a Mega Drive round these parts btw.

I was driving in my car, it wasn't quite a Jaguar.

Never heard it on radio. "Cream" and "D&P" were the big radio hits in my area.

The first time I ever saw the video was when MTV aired it for the 1st time.

Way before the single was actually released there was a nightly thing on one of the radio stations

where they'd put 2 new songs against each other and have ppl call in and vote which was better.

The winner would go on to be put up against a new song the next night.

And one night they had the new Prince song (can't remember what the other song was, but

Gett Off won allowing me to cassette record it when they replayed the winner).

This was the advance version which was mixed differently, more stripped down and didn't have the

"cub mix" vocal at the begining. This was the version I listened to for months before the single came

out.

When it was finally released I remember popping it into my car tape deck right after buying it and

being surprised by the changes in the mix and how lame I thought it sounded hearing Prince doing

the monotone "club mix" vocal! I liked it better without it.

I was 19 at the time and so I thought the video was awsome & my girlfriend found it fun to dress up

like Diamond/Pearl! I didn't mind at all

paisleysoul said:

On Tv when he performed on some awards show wearing the assless pants.He blew my mind, so bold,crazy & erotic!

1991 VMA's

I heard it on the radio on Prince's birthday (June 7,1991) but I didn't know that it would be his new single.I assumed it was just a special Bday song that he released for the occasion.

Someone mentioned the Natural Selection song "Do Anything",which came out around the same time.My sister heard it on the radio and called me into the room,screaming "I'm listening to the new Prince song!" I can't believe how many people thought it was Prince

I heard that Prince released this song & delivered it to dj's himself even going as far as creating & drawing the cover art, unbeknownst to The WB. Because they didn't want him releasing new material. Anywho the song ended up catching on as a club hit. Which forced them to do a "official" release which lead to the 5 times platinum D&P album...

Actually, it was one of the first times that I didn't hear a new Prince song on the radio first. I was fresh out of the closet for only year back then and I was partying every night in the gay clubs which were playing some of the best house music of the entire house era. When I turned on R&B radio which had already gone to the dogs and was full of adult contemporary and very few jams, compared to what I was hearing in the clubs, I couldn't even stand to listen to the radio anymore so I listened to very little of it. When I first heard "Gett Off", I had just come home from a club at 3 or 4 in the morning, turned on the TV, and saw the video on MTV. I have no idea how long it had been on the radio since I barely listened to it anymore.

Central Coast, heard it on the local FM station of the era "Sea FM"??? It was the radio edit where the beat comes in during the opening scream and the "Everything about you just screams of a real sexy affair"... verse and no guitar solo and various other differences. Loved it instantly and is still to this day one of my all time favourite jams. It received a lot of radio airplay before D&P was released from memory. There are a lot of differences in the radio edit versus the album version. Was this the last track to receive so many remixes and edits?

I do actually remember the first time I heard this song.

I was at my girlfriend's (now wife) house with another friend of mine and his girlfirend. I am / was the Prince fan so I made sure to watch the video premeir.

The vid came on and Prince is at the bottom of a pig-pile screaming ---- We watched the vid and at the end they all turned and looked at me. I said, "Yup. He's finnaly lost it." But I loved it all the same. I love how he keeps changing.

chewymusic said:

Way before the single was actually released there was a nightly thing on one of the radio stations

where they'd put 2 new songs against each other and have ppl call in and vote which was better.

The winner would go on to be put up against a new song the next night.

And one night they had the new Prince song (can't remember what the other song was, but

Gett Off won allowing me to cassette record it when they replayed the winner).

This was the advance version which was mixed differently, more stripped down and didn't have the

"cub mix" vocal at the begining. This was the version I listened to for months before the single came

out.

When it was finally released I remember popping it into my car tape deck right after buying it and

being surprised by the changes in the mix and how lame I thought it sounded hearing Prince doing

the monotone "club mix" vocal! I liked it better without it.

I was 19 at the time and so I thought the video was awsome & my girlfriend found it fun to dress up

like Diamond/Pearl! I didn't mind at all

i've had the maxi since the day it was released and i still can't really figure out which

one is the one i like the most. i think the video version is the one. but i'm not sure.

i can't tell you when i'm listening which is which. those gett off remixes are freaking

me out.

hamsterhuey recently made me a great mix though with all the best elements in it,

all the lyrics etc. that's a great one.

I heard Do Anything on the radio for the first time. Ran to the music store 20 mins later to get the new Prince song. There it was "Get Off" right in the front row. Huh, why did he title it Get Off? Thought it was Do Anything? ..Oh well.

Got to my car, threw in the tape and.....Huh???? wait???. This isn't his new song. So I went BACK into the music store to look for his OTHER new song. Wasn't there. It took 2 days for me to find out the other "new" song wasn't Prince at all......

Ahh, the days before the internet.

I heard Gettoff on my drive in to work. Donnie Simpson was huge here in DC and he played a version of the song that was slightly different than the one that was eventually released. He in fact continued to play this version even as the released version was played on other stations here in DC

The version I am referring to can be heard in the Cream video as the train is approaching the station

Its was even grittier than the released version.. a bit slower and funkier

IstenSzek said:

hamsterhuey recently made me a great mix though with all the best elements in it,

all the lyrics etc. that's a great one.

Heh. Thanks. I had not even put it on my regular playlist yet (had the Single Remix listed), so now I have it listed and am playing it loudly.

The Single Remix irked me always cuz it does not have all the lyrics and the Extended irked me cuz of all them instrumental bitties. It took the flow out. So my mix is basically the Single Remix mashed with the Extended Remix, with all the lyrics, but without the instrumental 'extra' bits, so the song just flows and does not dither.

And I had not listened to it ever since mixing it, so now I've played it I can't hear anything wrong with it, so I know it's right. (grin)

I first heard this in the record store I worked at that time; I heard everything first there from 89 to 98, unless it leaked, like Chaos & Disorder and most of Emancipation. And TGE, Come, etc. LoL

Alexandernvrmind said: