I'm posting this after going through my collection of things, which always casues me to get sentimental. I put the Rainbow Children in again for the first time since 2002.
Oh wow! My last year of college! The nights listening to it while 2-waying my boyfriend and waiting for him to return from the club. (ahhh the life of minor celebrity-dom..we work for opposing radio stations...hee hee).

Nothing but good things come to my head...how about you all?

KatSkrizzle said:

LOVESEXY
1999
DirtyMind
PR

The Gold Experience. I was very young when this came out. P Control was the ultimate in naughty boy humour.

whenever I put Contorversy on it..it just takes it all back to a time before all the madness..when he was still in heels and trenchcoat doin his thang unabashedly

SOTT.

SOTT, Gold, and The Hits B Sides

The latter two hit me really hard when I was just getting into Prince in 94/95, and SOTT just bowled me away around that same time just because it was so powerful. I can remember what I was doing the first time I heard it, and how I had leave the house after listening to the first half to go to dinner and I had the melodies of Slow Love, Dorothy Parker, Starfish and Coffee, and Hot Thing running through my head throughout the whole meal. I couldn't wait to get back home and hear the rest of it!!

PARADE

The Gold Experience

COME in college my friends and i took e tabs and floated thru the frat house listening to it continuously..

space was the most memorable cut!

PRINCE (self title album). My friend & i use to play it all the time. We would blast it & crack jokes on the songs "I Wanna Be Your Lover" & "Bambi". PURPLE RAIN I always think about when we went to the concert. That was the first time we saw Prince live. :MUSIC:

Lovesexy My first Prince concert.

"Diamonds & Pearls". Came out when my wife and I got engaged.

Diamonds and Pearls. It was my first year of college and see there was this girl and she had this tape and I didn't know who it was, but Insatiable was on it and... then a little afterwards some then finally a good

Okay so maybe it was just me but I got the memories whenever I play that album.

Or maybe the best memories are when I was finally man enough to walk into a record store and buy Lovesexy without givin' a damn what a bunch of complete strangers thought-- as if they cared in the first place.

Nah, it was Parade. I was at my own short-lived but productive creative peak when I got into this album, Axis Bold as Love, and Stevie's Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants. I had quit my job to devote all of my time to painting (bad move) just holed up in my apartment lying around in front of my stereo staring at my paints. Three months, dozens of sketches, lots of great music and one painting (since discarded) later and all I could do is laugh at myself.
Now five years later and I'm back in school, go figure. Still I wouldn't trade it for the world. There's nothing like a creative high. It's addictive.

Parade & SOTT...I remember buying them the day they came out...it was springtime...and I loved both of them instantly. I played both albums constantly for years after. The minute it starts getting warm in the Spring I immediately want to hear both albums.

For You
Dirty Mind
Purple Rain
Around the World in a Day
Parade
Sign O the Times
Lovesexy...

Basically, most of his records from the 1980's. Those fond memories usually involve me listening to these at home or my experiences in elementary school.

1999---the lp is a classic and opened up the doors for Prince as a superstar.

Also created a bomb ass tour with the Time and Vanity 6.

Parade.

It was the soundtrack to my summer of '86. Probably the best time of my life.

The Gold Experience
or anything from this era like Interactive, Ripopgodazippa and Acknowledge me
Purely because this was the album that got me in2 Prince
i saw him live last year. i didn't even like him before i went, i just went with my dad. it was brilliant. so the next day i pulled this out and as they say, the rest is history

Fondest memory?

Lovesexy

Met so many wonderful people that year from the USA & Europe.

1999 & Parade 4 me

1999: because it was pretty much the dawning of my Prince era.


Parade: whenever I hear Life Can Be So Nice,I think of a girl in junior high school that I was madly in love with.
(she never even knew I was alive ) thanx 2 Otan 4 re-making it though,U brought new life 2 it

OK, can't believe I'm saying this but, it's NPS.

Whenever I hear that album (which is rarely!) it takes me right back to the Summer of 1998 and the concerts in London.

NWF said:

Same here, (I'd add Prince and probably stop at SOTT)'cept I was in college. . .

Purple Rain for my childhood.

Batman for my adolescence.

Diamonds and Pearls for high school.

Crystal Ball for college.

'1999'.It reminds me of alot of things.It was released at a time when my parents were separating,I was moving to a new neighborhood,starting a new school,and other changes,some of which were scary.That album was the soundtrack of that strange time for me.

Mine would have to be the Gold experience. Alot of fond memories from that time

Controversy - my first taste and adolescent awakening (I was 14)

Mind U 1999 and LRC still causes tears to well, but then so does La La La La La (means I love U) from Emancipation does it 2 me 2)

o+> album. I know I'll probably get slated for this!!! Its not his best album but its the one that brings back the best memories. I also love D&P just purely for Gett Off. Absolutely fab.

Sign 'O' The Times.

Always reminds me of the summer and being in France with my folks in the car. It was alway on and they were happy times. I remember always thinking If I was your girlfriend didnt make a whole lotta sense 4 obvious reasons cuz I was so young.

Adore reminds me of past loves and admittedly and cheesily Ive used lyrics from the song 2 impress girls! eheheh

Finally, its the very album that made me a fan in the 1st place.

SOTT-I graduated from hell(high school)and I got the album as a graduation present.

Lovesexy-That album made me so happy and when I listened to it over the weekend, it reminded me of a time where P thought God loved everyone and not a select few.

Purple Rain and Lovesexy