Adorecream said:

dodger said:

aaroncanderson said: Quite similar to me. I was 15 and saw the Gett Off video. Loved it; the women, him ripping off Diamond/Pearls dress, the lyrics. I spoke to a girl in school about it and she copied D&P on cassette for me and I haven't looked back since.

Amazed how that did not rope me in like Cream did. Gett Off is awesome and I love that video, and the video collection where Diamond and Pearl have to "audition" for the New Power Generation.

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I guess it is because Cream was a bigger hit here (#5, 11 weeks) compared to #21 and 3 weeks for Gett Off. But Gett Off was the second song I bought, I loved it, but was put off that Horny Pony was also the Bside and then Q in Doubt was B side on Diamonds and Pearls. I thought straight away, this was one dude who made awesome singles and albums but could not give a toss about Bsides, as a lot of 90s tracks had album tracks, instrumentals, rap mixes and shit like Q in Doubt and 2whom it may concern. Little did I know about the rich bside legacy of the 80s!

I was 14 and, as always, was spending my wages from my after school job on music (mainly rap at that point, I was big into The Beastie Boys). I was well known at the local record store. I bought the 12" of 'U got the Look' which I had first seen/heard on MTV and loved. It was when I played the B-side that I knew this guy was something else. No record that I had ever bought before had a B-side that I thought was better than the A-side. I think every penny of my wages for some time went on Prince after that to the point where the record store would save me all their display stuff and they would find me rarities that they thought would interest me. I miss that place a lot.

RJOrion said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

All I can remember is, I was about 10 years old and it was a hot summer night. I was at my brother's house, which was an upper flat on Detroit's west side. And I was on a sleeping bag on the upper porch because it was too damn hot inside the house and I needed some air. I was laying on my back. lookinig up at the stars, listening to Detroit's ONE and ONLY Electrifying MOJO doing his thing and he played THIS:

We've been together for quite some time
I'd think by now you'd know
It would take forever to get you off my mind
If ever you decide to go
I guess I got a little insecurity when it's concerning you
I guess I'm just afraid that if you ever leave
I'd be in a messed-up state of blue
And I'd be so lonely

Without you loving me
I know it's gonna be lonely
Without you giving me everylittlesinglething that I need, lonely

Whatever's in your kiss, it really turns me on
'til I go right out of my mind
And who could ever resist your accent from gay Paree
It gets me every time
I betcha thatcha never knew that in my dreams you are the star
The only bummer is that you always want to leave
Who do you think you are

Don't you know it's gonna be lonely
Without you loving me
I know it's gonna be lonely
Without you giving me everylittlesinglething that I need, lonely

It's gonna be lonely

Without you loving me
Giving me everything that I need
Oh pretty baby, can't you see
It's gonna be lonely

Without you loving me
I know, I know it's gonna be lonely
Oh, whatever's in your kiss
I never could resist
Oh, baby don't go!

We've been together for quite some time
It'd take forever to get you off my mind
Oh, girl!

Without you loving me
I know it's gonna be lonely
Without you by my side
Don't you know that I could die, baby

Without you loving me
Can't you see
It's gonna be lonely

It's gonna be lonely, baby
So lonely, baby

Music videos weren't exactly the shit...yet. But I crystal fucking clearly imagined the video for that song, right then and there. I was a Prince fan from that moment on! Yaaasss!

definitely one of Prince most underrated songs....

nice! I really really like It's Gonna Be Lonely

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

All I can remember is, I was about 10 years old and it was a hot summer night. I was at my brother's house, which was an upper flat on Detroit's west side. And I was on a sleeping bag on the upper porch because it was too damn hot inside the house and I needed some air. I was laying on my back. lookinig up at the stars, listening to Detroit's ONE and ONLY Electrifying MOJO doing his thing and he played THIS:

We've been together for quite some time
I'd think by now you'd know
It would take forever to get you off my mind
If ever you decide to go
I guess I got a little insecurity when it's concerning you
I guess I'm just afraid that if you ever leave
I'd be in a messed-up state of blue
And I'd be so lonely

Without you loving me
I know it's gonna be lonely
Without you giving me everylittlesinglething that I need, lonely

Whatever's in your kiss, it really turns me on
'til I go right out of my mind
And who could ever resist your accent from gay Paree
It gets me every time
I betcha thatcha never knew that in my dreams you are the star
The only bummer is that you always want to leave
Who do you think you are

Don't you know it's gonna be lonely
Without you loving me
I know it's gonna be lonely
Without you giving me everylittlesinglething that I need, lonely

It's gonna be lonely

Without you loving me
Giving me everything that I need
Oh pretty baby, can't you see
It's gonna be lonely

Without you loving me
I know, I know it's gonna be lonely
Oh, whatever's in your kiss
I never could resist
Oh, baby don't go!

We've been together for quite some time
It'd take forever to get you off my mind
Oh, girl!

Without you loving me
I know it's gonna be lonely
Without you by my side
Don't you know that I could die, baby

Without you loving me
Can't you see
It's gonna be lonely

It's gonna be lonely, baby
So lonely, baby

Music videos weren't exactly the shit...yet. But I crystal fucking clearly imagined the video for that song, right then and there. I was a Prince fan from that moment on! Yaaasss!

Damn Hatrina - well down indeed.

I can remember first being aware of prince around 10 or 11 y/o when the song 1999 was getting airplay.

I thought that was a great song. I was too young to get in to the whole Purple Rain thing

as that Prince guy was really taking off. I liked hearing When Doves Cry & Let's Go Crazy on the radio & MTV.

They sounded wild to my 12 y/o ears. I wasn't fond of the song Purple Rain or IWD4U though.

It wasn't until the MTV that I was of course always glued to had the exclusive new Prince single: Raspberry Beret.

The whole video with the costumes, extra funky extended intro, Wendy all done up, the cough, and that catchy-ass song really did it for me.

They did something like played it on the top of every hour for 2 days strait and I remember that after that I wanted to get Prince records.

So the song for me would have to be Raspberry Beret. I got the Raspberry Beret 7", and then ATWIAD as it has just come out.

By the time I had gotten each of the ATWIAD 12 inches as they came out I knew for sure Prince was the fuckin' shit!

So special mention has to go to those b-sides also. I found them all to be facsinating in that they were such cool songs connected to the album without actually being on it.

The Beautiful Ones, Adore, and She's Always in My Hair but I have genuinely always loved SILLY GAME. It doesn't get enough praise in the Prince community IMHO.

Liked 1999 and LRC as they were on heavy rotation on MTV in ninth grade. Then the release of When Doves Cry was an EVENT...people were talking about this Prince dude like crazy. ANd I was like wait "Prince" is his name? I thought it was the name of the band!...

Bought the PR album after hearing Lets Go Crazy....but the song that really did it???

DARLING NIKKI....so dirty so sexy OMG he said "MASTERBATING!"....the 14 year old I was then just couldnt process it....

Hooked ever since.

[Edited 6/20/15 9:11am]

Sometimes It Snows In April... I was 14 and a boy I had a soft spot for played it to me in our dorm and.. well, the rest was history!!

I loved 1999, Delirious, and Let's Go Crazy, and found Little Red Corvette very interesting. It was at a time when I was young and fascinated by Prince. It's a long story, but I think the time I realized this guy was fucking brilliant and an act I'd be obsessed with for years was when I heard When Doves Cry... from those bubblegum synthy keyboards to that sublime climax, I was hooked. I remember the first time I heard it, from a YouTube video (life in Princedom was easier in 2010/11), extremely low volume because I lost my headphones and everyone was alseep. Damn, good memories

Sexy Dancer Lyrics

from

• 1 Sexy Dancer
• 2 When We're Dancing Close And Slow
• 3 With You
• 4 Bambi
• 5 Still Waiting
• 6 It's Gonna Be Lonely

"Sexy Dancer" is track #1 on the album . It was written by

Sexy dancer, sexy dancer

Sexy dancer, you got my body screamin'
Sexy dancer, you got me just a creamin'
Sexy dancer, when you rub my body
Sexy dancer, it gets me so hot, hot

Sexy dancer, sexy dancer
Sexy dancer, sexy dancer

Sexy dancer, I want your body, want your body
Sexy dancer, dance
Sexy dancer, I want your body, want your body
Sexy dancer, dance

Sexy dancer, I want your body, want your body
Sexy dancer, dance
Sexy dancer, I want your body, want your body
Sexy dancer, dance

Sexy dancer, do that sexy dance
Sexy dancer

Sexy dancer, sexy dancer
Sexy dancer, sexy dancer
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Lyrics © NPG Music Publishing Group

Eye was 7V3N......

The Beautiful Ones piqued my interest in Prince but it was Pop Life that converted me into a fanatic. It was the first 12" I bought and I played it over and over and over.

And I still do, it's one of my fave tracks.

Little Red Corvette.

I was 14 and just had to admit to myself that I had started liking him more than MJ.

When Doves Cry--or actually, probably 17 Days is what made me a fan. I knew and enjoyed all the 1999 singles (I knew D.M.S.R., too, but that's as far as the people who owned the tape ever played it during school trips. Maybe they didn't like the other songs?), and the summer of '84 I constantly heard When Doves Cry from other people's radios. I was visiting my sister for a few weeks when the thing hit, and I never actually heard the artist's name, and didn't recognize it as Prince. I saw the 45 of Re-Flex's "Hurt" somewhere, and thought maybe that was the song I kept hearing--but I didn't buy it based on that supposition. When I found out it was Prince, I bought it and when I flipped it over discovered a fantastic song on the back, too!!! Then I got the album, saw the movie, found out about the earlier albums and associated artists, got caught up and stayed on the train as it kept moving. Unlike many of you, Around the World in a Day probably solidified my fandom rather than challenged it. If he was willing and able to go that far from what had just worked so well, then I knew things were going to stay interesting.

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Just as an added comment--"Hurt" is really not very interesting. I'm not sure I ever heard it until just now, when I decided to check Youtube. Terrible robots in the video. "The Politics of Dancing" still sounds good, though.

the song "Dirty Mind".I was aware of Prince because my mother had his second album ("Still Waiting" was her favorite song),but it was the song "Dirty Mind" that turned me into a big fan.

The beautiful ones. Love it.

It was rather a gradual and inevitable process. Hits like Purple Rain made me a listener and songs like Come, West, Get Blue, Pink Cashmere made me a fan and then the soundcheck, rehearsals and bootlegs made me become a big fan =)

Back in 1992 I just wanted a copy of the song Purple Rain on cassette. My friend, a long time Prince fan, copied the entire album and the rest is history... Next thing I knew I had the whole catalog and some boots...

Averett said:

Controversy.... Rude Boy for life

My first vynil was "I wanna be your lover", but the first time Controversy played on the radio I was Prince fool / fan!

chewymusic said:

I can remember first being aware of prince around 10 or 11 y/o when the song 1999 was getting airplay.

I thought that was a great song. I was too young to get in to the whole Purple Rain thing

as that Prince guy was really taking off. I liked hearing When Doves Cry & Let's Go Crazy on the radio & MTV.

They sounded wild to my 12 y/o ears. I wasn't fond of the song Purple Rain or IWD4U though.

It wasn't until the MTV that I was of course always glued to had the exclusive new Prince single: Raspberry Beret.

The whole video with the costumes, extra funky extended intro, Wendy all done up, the cough, and that catchy-ass song really did it for me.

They did something like played it on the top of every hour for 2 days strait and I remember that after that I wanted to get Prince records.

So the song for me would have to be Raspberry Beret. I got the Raspberry Beret 7", and then ATWIAD as it has just come out.

By the time I had gotten each of the ATWIAD 12 inches as they came out I knew for sure Prince was the fuckin' shit!

So special mention has to go to those b-sides also. I found them all to be facsinating in that they were such cool songs connected to the album without actually being on it.

Love the "cough". I remember you walking down Irondequoit and thinking who the hell is playing "my" music....never thinking it would be our's

Gett Off and Horny Pony combined as a cassette single. I kept wearing out that single. Ended up buying it three times before the album came out. Been a fan ever since

I asked for Purple Rain for my birthday because I loved WDC and Let's Go Crazy. BUT! When I heard the ending of Darling Nikki that was it. I was 10 years old and had just started taking drum lessons and those drums and the energy of the whole thing. I WAS SOOOOO HOOKED!

I'd hit rewind on my boom box and replay that song till I could play it perfectly.

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

I don't remember in which order these things happened but I either saw the videos to LRC and 1999 or read about him in Actuel, a trendy French mag of the time. I proceeded to immerse myself in 1999, then bought Dirty Mind and Controversy --then Purple Rain came out and now you're stuck with me.

Call My Name, in 2008 that was the first and Diamonds And Pearls the second i saw the video of CMN that somebody posted in a Michael Jackson forum, and i listened to it and i loved that song and the video, i still do, but it takes a while to listen to his albums, but i just have listened to some of his album no all of them.

For reasons unknown, when my brother first made me a copy of the Hits1&2, I used to play Diamonds & Pearls in my Discman incessantly, and that kinda started my fandom