Wanna Be Your Lover, but it took a friend making me listen to SEXUALITY before I realized this guy was the bomb. From there I got every record out at that time (pre-1999)

wel, the first Prince song that I ever heard was "dirty mind", my father had just brought home the "dirty ind" album and as soon as he got home he put it on, so naturally "dirty mind" was the first Prince song I ever heard, I liked it, but at my young ageI was like "whatever".
The song that got me hooked was "1999", it was a friday night, no school, so I could stay up late. So I was watchin' some late night video show (it might have been mtv...my memory isn't that great) and the "1999" video came on---I was hooked.
Consequently the next week either my dad or brother(like I said before my memory ain't that great) brought home the "1999" album.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

SNAP! with the song,and SNAP! with the age!

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Interactive when i bought the Interactive CD rom to my father.. I dint cared for the songs, until I heard get off and diamonds and pearls,
peach hold my attention too,

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the very first Prince song I ever heard was "soft and wet", on the radio, in 1978. I was about 5 or 6, and I had my own room, with a small radio in it. Used to have it on OK 100 FM all the time. I remember thinking it was a woman singing it. lol

It had to be "Little Red Corvette"...
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DigitalLisa said:

My wife luvy said she first heard prince when she was 12... and it was "I Wanna Be Your Lover"

I first heard Prince in 1982 when i was 12 on MTV. The video and on the radio. "Little Red Corvette"

stymie said:

Same here, I was 7

Little Red Corvette. It seemed to be playing non-stop for a year back in 1985. It was re-released in the UK as a double A Side with 1999.

I then bought Parade the year after and it blew my mind. I next bought Purple Rain, Dirty Mind and Controversy - I'm not sure why I didn't buy Around The World In A Day or 1999 until later. I think that when I saw the track-list for Controversy with titles like "Private Joy" and "Jack U Off" it swung it for me - as did the cover-photo of Dirty Mind. I was a hormonal 14 year old and I equated Prince with sex and that made him thrilling.

I think that's what makes his fans so defensive. How many of us had to play "Erotic City" in secret when our parents weren't around? Prince seemed like a guilty pleasure when I was a teenager.

I wanna be your Lover

I was a teenager, fresh license, 1st car (a brand new silver turismo with a sunroof)...blasting out Prince and Teena Marie while all my burnout AC/DC and Van Halen friends looked at me like I was nuts.

My Name Is Prince (club mix)!!!

LadyCabDriver said:

LMAO...OK 100...yep yep...lol...that was the station!!!...now, lets stretch the memory even further...what was the name of that DJ???
I know there were several of them...but this one guy in particular really stuck out...he was their prime DJ.
very deep voice...kinda like superfly man.
Ohhh Mannn...thats gonna bug me now...I used to call him up all the time...lol.
please remember LCD...lol...its really buggin me.

I would die 4 you, instantly addicted.

I wanna be your Lover.

My Girlfriend at the time was into Prince, I thought he was a Fag. She had a picture of him in her bed room, I said one day, Why do you have that Fag on your wall. She replied, "Fag" well he is on my wall and you are not! Lets say I saw things a little different after that. LOL

DigitalLisa said:

I got hooked on Prince...waaayyy back in the day...the very first song I heard was...It's Gonna Be Lonely...and to this very day...whenever I need to unwind or just feel good about something...I pop in the "Prince" cd and I start with that song, and my mood instantly improves.

in 1978 i was 20 years old and i heard soft and wet on the radio and went right out to buy it.

7IS4ME said:

finally someone older than me!
yes it was soft and wet and we thought it was about bubble gum, I was 13. I had a subscription to Right On magazine and when the one with him on the cover came I was like ooh look at those eyes! Hooked ever since..really liked the 1st record, hid the fact that I LOVED that he played guitar!

jazzy328is said:

To the Girlfriend

the very first time i turned on mtv. just as i turned to the channel the video for little red corvette started followed by grace jones's demolition man. i'd say after that life has never looked the same

I recall first hearing “Controversy” and “1999” around the same time. My sister used to listen to these constantly when I was a kid too young to care about popular music. I only remember thinking the guy was singing “count your blessings,” and 1999 really scared me. They were both memorable, but not captivating at age 10. I actually think I first saw Morris on TV and liked him because of the whole “black Charlie Chaplin” look. I had no idea Prince even existed until Purple Rain.

After Purple Rain hooked me to the whole Prince scene ("Let's Go Crazy" in the movie trailers netted me the very first time I heard it), it was really cool to discover the connection to Morris and that Prince, in fact, was the guy whose songs I remembered hearing as a kid.

thebumpsquad said:

wonderin why i'm bein snapped at...

"When Doves Cry" and I was immediately hooked

I knew who Prince was but I got on the ride to Alphabet St

geddit?

Little Red Corvette.

I tske that back! I Wanna Be Your Lover. I was in 2nd grade and I could have sworn it was The Emotions!

The first song i heard from Prince was Soft and Wet.
But the one that really got my attention was
I Wanna Be Your Lover. What a cool keyboard break and
the rhythm guitar was Cool,too.

Little Red Corvette. The keyboards in the beginning of the song still brings back fond memories.

LoveRain said:

Oh, I the sound of the intro, that part just takes me places, one of my favorites...

I seem to recall in 1984 (when I was 3), I first heard Prince on the video for "Let's Go Crazy".
I worried about Prince riding his motorcycle without a helmet on.