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Thread started 04/23/20 11:12pm

ForeverPaisley

What was your gateway drug to Prince?

As we honour, love and remember Prince during #PrinceWeek, what was your gateway drug to Prince? Was it a song or a moment, or a gradual build?

The first song I can remember liking of Prince' is Raspberry Beret. But I was about five, so music didn't quite hit as deep. I liked it, but I didn't know a thing about him back then. Just that I loved listening to Raspberry Beret.

Flash forward to when Diamonds and Pearls was released. That song captured my ears and the video captured my full attention! love love2 I literally went from barely knowing him aside from the hits on the radio, to being a Full ON must hear and have EVERYTHING Fan. I had all his albums that were released at that time within weeks and they were my prized possessions. Truly. I would on headphones on and lay down listening to every lyric. (That collection was later stolen and I STILL haven't gotten OVER it). Anyways, Diamonds and Pearls will always have such a special place in my heart because it brought me to the Party πŸ’œ My Gateway Drug, so to speak 😍πŸ₯°

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Reply #1 posted 04/24/20 7:00am

luv4u

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I like the Diamonds and Pearls album biggrin

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Reply #2 posted 04/24/20 7:19am

jdcxc

Dirty Mind.

A friend snuck the cassette into our grade school classroom and I’ve been hooked ever since.
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Reply #3 posted 04/24/20 8:10am

soladeo1

1999
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Reply #4 posted 04/24/20 8:50am

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1999
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Reply #5 posted 04/24/20 8:52am

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TMBGITW.

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Reply #6 posted 04/24/20 9:31am

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I don't know about a "gateway drug" (unfortunate phrase) but the first Prince song that I got into was "I Wanna Be Your Lover" which I heard on the radio.

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

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Reply #7 posted 04/24/20 9:39am

jjam

Crack.

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Reply #8 posted 04/24/20 10:50am

funkaholic1972

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1999 was my first joint, When Doves Cry was the smack that got me hooked!

RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time...
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Reply #9 posted 04/24/20 10:57am

Farfunknugin

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Purple & gold... nah..

I knew someone who was into him around controversy, I didn't latch on until Purple Rain, it was & still is like nothing i'd ever heard before. I knew from then on he was going to be a legend.

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Reply #10 posted 04/24/20 12:00pm

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funkaholic1972 said:

1999 was my first joint, When Doves Cry was the smack that got me hooked!

Same!

"I like to watch."
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Reply #11 posted 04/24/20 12:02pm

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Typical early teen fangirl stuff, heard song on radio loved it thought he was cute, and that for some reason never faded when the next new thing came along it just kept growing.
Time keeps on slipping into the future...


This moment is all there is...
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Reply #12 posted 04/24/20 12:53pm

ludwig

Lovesexy - the whole album. The first time I felt the funk was while listening to Alphabet Street.

[Edited 4/24/20 12:53pm]

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Reply #13 posted 04/24/20 1:30pm

jazzz

I stepped in in 1984 with the PR album and started buying some of the older LPs that winter. It was the song "when you were mine" that made me become a fan!
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Reply #14 posted 04/24/20 1:49pm

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"I want to Be Your Lover", 1979, on the late-night Midnight Express TV show.

Good morning children...take a look out your window, the world is falling...
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Reply #15 posted 04/24/20 2:15pm

heymistermusic

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Paisley! hug

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Reply #16 posted 04/24/20 2:28pm

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First song was Alphabet st..

First album was D&P
Hard to believe I've been on the org for over 25 years now!
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Reply #17 posted 04/24/20 2:38pm

emesem

Sly and the Family Stone

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Reply #18 posted 04/24/20 2:48pm

looby

I remember falling in love with Prince's voice and the song International Lover, that I used to hear being played loudly by the local neighborhood bars, and on the radio. I was a teen back then. I think the first time that I saw what he looked like was on the For You album, when he had the afro, and I instantly fell in love, and stayed in love with the man ever since! biggrin

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Reply #19 posted 04/24/20 2:50pm

sovembol

MTV

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Reply #20 posted 04/24/20 3:26pm

kingricefan

Sly & The Family Stone, Isaac Hayes, Barry White, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rick James, Parliament, Stevie Wonder. First Prince song would be Controversy- dancing to it at the clubs.

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Reply #21 posted 04/24/20 4:46pm

eyewishuheaven

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The Purple Rain film.

I'd been enjoying the album for a few weeks, but it all came together when I saw those songs brought to life up on screen, in the context of the story.

PRINCE: the only man who could wear high heels and makeup and STILL steal your woman!
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Reply #22 posted 04/24/20 8:13pm

khill95

listening to a radio broadcast the night he died of music he wrote and performed. realizing how much this man wrote and produced by himself. it was like a whole world opened up

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Reply #23 posted 04/24/20 8:20pm

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jjam said:

Crack.


lol I was gonna say marijuana, but hmm lol. Girl 6 believe it or not πŸ˜€
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Reply #24 posted 04/24/20 9:31pm

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You'll take note of the middle of side one. I still have two copies of this record, too. I bought my original at a very Minneapolis store, Target. (K-Tel was Minneapolis based, too.)

"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 #25 posted 04/24/20 9:40pm

farnorth

1999

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Reply #26 posted 04/24/20 11:05pm

Sydney

Purple Rain the film.

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Reply #27 posted 04/25/20 12:09am

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Summer of 1984. I was 12. I sent away to get one of those 8 records for a penny things, and I got 1999. Sides 3 and 4 reallly blew my mind. Automatic, Something in the Water, Lady Cab Driver, All the Critics Love U in New York. I had no idea where the ideas for that music came from or how it was created. The drum machine on Critics sounded so hard. The gated guitar solo and break down at the end of Automatic, the screaming... I was so stuck by the originality of everything and just kind of became of obsessed wtih it. Purple had alrady been out for a few months, but I hadn't even heard it yet.

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Reply #28 posted 04/25/20 1:29am

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funkaholic1972 said:

1999 was my first joint, When Doves Cry was the smack that got me hooked!

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same same

but with a different mind

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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)
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Reply #29 posted 04/25/20 5:41am

SuzyHomemaker

I remember liking 1999 and Little Red Corvette when they would come on MTV. It was popular, but I was only like 10 or 11, so didn't have any strong feelings at that point.

Then whenI was in 7th grade, Purple Rain came out. To be a kid in the mid-80s was awesome! Every school dance and roller skating party was basically the Purple Rain soundtrack. I would say it was around this time that Prince took over my main music obsession.

Growing up South of Detroit, I was lucky enough to have The Electrifying Mojo on the radio, so that just solidified my love of Prince.

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