for me it has to be the I wish u heaven video,i remember seeing it when i was seven, Im now 22 and havent stoped collecting prince stuff since.My fav record has to be Gotta stop messing about 12inch record that i got for fifty pounds while out with my girl in camden.

parkin said:

Soft n Wet - and I have been there ever since

Batdance.

I knew who he was & liked 'When Doves Cry' but 'Batdance' was some whole new shit.

That's when he got me (I was 14).

I'm 25 & ever since I was born I've heard Prince. My mom is a superfan. She's been down since day one. Saw him in 81 & most of the tours after. So he's always been part of my family.


Nero

I heard the Soft & Wet single. It was funky but compared to everything else out at the time, it was sterile. I was hooked after picking up the self-titled LP. "With You" is probably one of the most beautiful songs ever.

Dug Purple Rain first...but when Sign O The Times hit...forget it...I was hooked.

the 1999 scenario got me "into" him

Kiss.

I had a passing interest in him but back in 1986, Kiss really made me a fan. It didn't sound like anything else on the radio at the time. Really freaky vibe...

So I bought Parade and then all the other earlier albums in this order:

Parade
Purple Rain
Around The World In A Day
Dirty Mind
Controversy
For You
Prince
1999

"I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad"

5 years old during Xmas 1980 chilling with my older cousin and listening to Dirty Mind (which she bought with Xmas $$$) she told me some the lyrics I might not understand...she was right and got in trouble later on for singing 'Head'...my parents were like 'Where did you hear that'...my ass got whooped that night...

I am still a Prince fan...23 years later...

if i was your girlfriend. that song made me want more.

well my dad played his songs since i was a baby.i remember that "When Doves Cry" was the 1st song i listened 2 in english(i was born into a latin family who all were fans of p)and it's been like that eva since...


oh well my way in2 prince...
When Doves Cry...

hands down win that.

Purple Rain, at the end of the movie when Prince sang that song, It got to me. That was what really got me into Prince and then i started to get more and more into his music. I really like "I wish you Heaven", It's the whole feel of the song




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Love God
Love Life
Lovesexy

"Song of the day: "I wish you Heaven" from the lovesexy album
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My mom thought that he was the devil. Need I say more?

The song "1999". Though it wasn't until the year 1999 that it hit me!. I'm a Miles Davis fan/collector and I read in his bio how much he loved Prince. So when there was a Prince video clip show on TV, I watched it mainly to see what Miles saw in him. When the clip for "1999" came on I was hooked! Never looked back either!!!

illimack said:

my mom hates him too. she doesn't even like it when I say his name.

parkin said:

he had me at purple rain (sdtrk)

So far you all seem to be fans since the mid/late-1980s,
Gett Off was the killer single that got me into Prince,
lines like "lemme show you baby I'm a talented boy " ,
the flute parts in a funk song , the way the song went into a sexrap in the final half ,it all really hooked me ,
and then I saw the video on TV , the moves , the women

moonshine said:

I like th e remix where he does that rap real fast..about "the fet in th e drawers, hanging on th e topwel rod" etc...dudley do no right if nell would just let him kick it..the summer that Gett Off came out was a scorcher and when I heard th e song on th e radio I knew it was him..I came onto the song after it started..and was blown away..

The first time I heard "When Doves Cry" on the radio--the opening electric guitar with the scream panning from right to left and the linn drum beat with that rimshot.

I had never even heard of prince till about 1991, I was hmm maybe 15 and my friend played me a tape which included among other things - alphabet st,

and then diamonds and pearls came out and that was it,

I was hooked

then my brother's friend told me about Redeye Records and I spent so much money I ended up working there lol

then I found bootlegs (haha sounds like THEN I FOUND JESUS)

oh man i could go on and on and on

The Batman album. His last solid record.

EvilWhiteMale said:

The first thing that got you into Prince was "Batman"?

NuPwrSoul said:

It sure was. I had no idea it would be all downhill from there.

my bro turned me on 2 him in "78" Soft & Wet...the young ultra talented wiz-kid genius~

a connection 2 his music was made and the rest is truly history~

parkin said:

I remember seeing the U Got the Look video air on MTV's top twenty back in 87, didn't like it at first, but it grew and grew on me. Well, i bought SOTT and that album slowly grew on me too, finally i went apeshit and bought anything Prince i could find...
I starting listening to Prince again back in 2001 and i rebuilt my collection..nothing too fancy, i would like to get the rare and out of print stuff now..
Prince is like an obsession, u gotta have em all!!!

Hearing "When Doves Cry" on the radio back in June of 1984.

A chick I thought was hot had it.

:COOL: Listening to the 1999 casettte over & over again.