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Thread started 08/18/19 7:57pm

popgodazipa

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What Was THE Song That Brought You Here

Just listening to GB on vinyl and Glam Slam came on... I was reminded that this was THE track that took me from being a casual listner and into an official Prince NPGer or whatever you call the hard core amongst us. I tried to steal the cassette from my older cousin that summer but he shook me down before I left!

Curious what song did it for you?
1 over Jordan...the greatest since
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Reply #1 posted 08/18/19 10:46pm

TrivialPursuit

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popgodazipa said:

Just listening to GB on vinyl and Glam Slam came on... I was reminded that this was THE track that took me from being a casual listner and into an official Prince NPGer or whatever you call the hard core amongst us. I tried to steal the cassette from my older cousin that summer but he shook me down before I left! Curious what song did it for you?


"Glam Slam" is on Graffiti Bridge?

It wasn't a song that brought me to the Org. It was "I Wanna Be Your Lover" that brought me to Prince in 1979. I was but a wee lad at Target buying a K-Tel record.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #2 posted 08/19/19 3:26am

djdaffy1227

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I guess technically it was "Let's go crazy" since that was the first Prince record I ever owned.

Making love and music are the only things worth fighting for.
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Reply #3 posted 08/19/19 7:34am

onlyforaminute

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Its been a journey since Soft and Wet, not quite a straight line. But I'll say somewhere between controversy and 1999 I became tethered for life.
Time keeps on slipping into the future...


This moment is all there is...
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Reply #4 posted 08/19/19 8:19am

thedoorkeeper

Heard Little Red Corvette on the radio - stopped at the mall & bought the album & have been hooked ever since.
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Reply #5 posted 08/19/19 9:09am

GiggityGoo

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A friend sat me down in the summer of 1987 and made me listen - really listen - to most of "Sign 'O' The Times". And that night, I saw the purple light. I've been a fan ever since.

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Reply #6 posted 08/19/19 9:14am

TrivialPursuit

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GiggityGoo said:

A friend sat me down in the summer of 1987 and made me listen - really listen - to most of "Sign 'O' The Times". And that night, I saw the purple light. I've been a fan ever since.


That's a good friend to have.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #7 posted 08/19/19 9:28am

nayroo2002

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"HERE"

"WHERE?"

Prince.Org?

What?

There is an online site that loves Prince as much as me?

No way!

i like "D.M.S.R."

Anyone else?

Yeah!!???

Great Site!!!

"Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends"
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Reply #8 posted 08/19/19 9:42am

nayroo2002

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"What?"

"Prince.Org has crashed?"

...moving to Europe...

..."...can't keep original handel???"

OK

...add 2002 at the end...

Then it was "1+1+1=3"

No numeralogy.

Just Prince music.

"Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends"
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Reply #9 posted 08/19/19 10:07am

RJOrion

the first Prince song that i liked was "Sexy Dancer", but i wasnt a fan of Prince at all, yet..."1999" was the 1st Prince song (and album) that i loved, that made me go back and revisit his first 4 albums and fall in love with them as well...
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Reply #10 posted 08/19/19 12:43pm

TheFman

The closure of HQ razz

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Reply #11 posted 08/19/19 12:51pm

sulls

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WDC. Blew. Me. Away.

"I like to watch."
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Reply #12 posted 08/19/19 4:50pm

feeluupp

TheFman said:

The closure of HQ razz

lol lol

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Reply #13 posted 08/19/19 7:40pm

Mikado

Hearing Jughead on 1999 back in the late 70s converted me. Lifelong fan after that.
A certain kind of mellow.
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Reply #14 posted 08/19/19 7:55pm

kevinpnb

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I’ve been reader/lurker/occasional poster since the very early 2000s, and really don’t remember how I found the .org. I’m guessing maybe a link from AOL, which had a pretty active P community.
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Reply #15 posted 08/19/19 9:50pm

popgodazipa

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TrivialPursuit said:



popgodazipa said:


Just listening to GB on vinyl and Glam Slam came on... I was reminded that this was THE track that took me from being a casual listner and into an official Prince NPGer or whatever you call the hard core amongst us. I tried to steal the cassette from my older cousin that summer but he shook me down before I left! Curious what song did it for you?


"Glam Slam" is on Graffiti Bridge?

It wasn't a song that brought me to the Org. It was "I Wanna Be Your Lover" that brought me to Prince in 1979. I was but a wee lad at Target buying a K-Tel record.


Respec' man! Too many wines before I posted...
1 over Jordan...the greatest since
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Reply #16 posted 08/20/19 8:51am

TrivialPursuit

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popgodazipa said:

TrivialPursuit said:


"Glam Slam" is on Graffiti Bridge?

It wasn't a song that brought me to the Org. It was "I Wanna Be Your Lover" that brought me to Prince in 1979. I was but a wee lad at Target buying a K-Tel record.

Respec' man! Too many wines before I posted...


Never drink and Org. lol lol lol

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #17 posted 08/20/19 12:21pm

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Mikado said:

Hearing Jughead on 1999 back in the late 70s converted me. Lifelong fan after that.


lol

Me, I’m not sure there was any one Prince song that made me a fan or a member here. Seeing TMBGITW on VH-1’s Pop-up Video in circa 2001 is my earliest clear Prince memory, though.

Then, in the 2010s, a friend passed copies to me of the Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6 albums and basically Prince’s whole catalogue up to 20Ten, and I eventually got hooked off that.
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Reply #18 posted 08/20/19 12:25pm

POOK

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NOT SONG WHAT BROUGHT POOK TO ORG

CAUSE PPML NOT SONG

P o o |/,
P o o |\
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Reply #19 posted 08/20/19 12:39pm

Empress

POOK said:

NOT SONG WHAT BROUGHT POOK TO ORG CAUSE PPML NOT SONG

You are correct Pook! thumbs up!

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Reply #20 posted 08/22/19 3:31pm

Transformed1

I was 12, almost 13 yrs old when Little Red Corvette & 1999 were being played on TV and radio. I liked those songs and particularly the Little Red Corvette video. Through the end of 1983 early 1984 there was a lot of gossip about Prince being in a movie that might get a X-rating (gasp!). When the video for When Doves Cry played on TV I was hooked. Great song, great video, and here were clips of this mysterious movie we had heard about. I don't remember which single came out first, When Doves Cry or Lets Go Crazy, but I saw and heard When Doves Cry for the first time when the video aired, soon after that I heard Lets Go Crazy on the radio and video, and the Purple Rain hype went into full speed.

Summary:

Little Red Corvette got me mildly interested

When Doves Cry solidified my fandom.

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Reply #21 posted 08/25/19 7:37pm

Nonamesfan

Anna Stesia

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Reply #22 posted 08/25/19 7:49pm

PurpleMusic768
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I believe it was "I Wanna Be Your Lover" that started it all for me... All I can remember is thinking "Who's that girl singing?", I was young, give me a break...
usually known as "Leaped7689"
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Reply #23 posted 08/27/19 12:53pm

Roby78

It was 1986 when I saw the video Kiss, I was 8 years old, and from that moment I became a fan of his to the point of going around looking for his old records... cool

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Reply #24 posted 08/27/19 8:47pm

Goddess4Real

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Purple Music music

Keep Calm & Listen To Prince
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Reply #25 posted 08/27/19 9:06pm

rdhull

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Schindler's List

"Climb in my fur."
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Reply #26 posted 08/27/19 9:49pm

Pellwormer

Shouldn't the question be: What was the song that made you a fan.....because..I was a fan...years before internet was there and available for me...and I noticed there is a fan page...

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Reply #27 posted 08/27/19 9:54pm

onlyforaminute

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It wasn't a song it was Yahoo or whatever was the Google of the mid-90s. AOL probably.
Time keeps on slipping into the future...


This moment is all there is...
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Reply #28 posted 08/27/19 10:24pm

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rdhull said:

Schindler's List

eek

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #29 posted 08/28/19 4:00am

Harps

I was 16 in 1991. Not from a musical family or upbringing in the slightest, therefore no prior influences.

Then I heard Cream on the radio. Then I saw the video. I’d never seen anyone so cool in my whole life.

Literally a life changing moment for me. Game over!
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