i bought the 1999 double album when it came out. and then purple rain. and then the around the world in a day tape. then the kiss single. then lovesexy tape. batman cd. then when the gett off single came out i ended up buying everything i could find of his.

I'd say early 90's.. so around the time of the symbol album/D&P

thats when it alll started clicking:)

It started with this album definitely.Went back & got into the earlier albums,all of the 80s, some of the 90s &00s.So it's 80s era for me.

Passing admiration since Purple Rain era... Full-blown affair during Parade era... Drifted apart at the Diamonds & Pearls era... Reconciled briefly for the Emancipation era... Bitter-and-twisted ex by the time of the Rave era... Friends again after hearing One Nite Alone... Estranged yet again after N.E.W.S.

I am into every era - from For You to the present!!

I fell in love with 1999 and Little Red Corvette the first time I heard them, but Purple Rain was the first Prince album I bought. Then I went backwards and bought: 1999, Controversy, Dirty Mind and For You,while keeping up with the rest of his 80's albums. I have a few of the 90's and nothing beyond that. I love him but his newer sound is taking me a lot longer to get used to so I don't devote a lot of time to get to know his newer stuff.
...bad Prince fan

Graffiti Bridge era more seriously Parade Era

Dirty Mind was the first album I heard and I quite liked it but wasn't mad mad mad about it. 1999 album got me hooked followed up by Purple Rain and then there was no going back.

andykeen said:

andy no offense mate but ure 16!
how the hell can u be a Purple Rainer???

First heard him in 1999 era but really got into him in a big way around SOTT/Lovesxy

Discoverd Prince's music from the very beginning! Bought every album he put out til around the early nineties. For You, Prince, Dirty Mind, and Controversy are still the heaviest in rotation for me, but his new stuff (and for me, good old father time) are changing that!

I discovered his music early on around the 1999 era,
I was a kid and remember humming to the tunes of 1999 and LRC from radio play. But I only recognised Prince from the PR era.

When I came to Australia KISS was absolutely huge here, all over the radio and Saturday TV, I was kind of put off from Prince at that stage -it took me a long time to understand that song, then again I was only a kid back then...

I begun to apreciate Prince during the Thieves In Thn Temple (GB era). From then on its been an amazing rollercoaster ride.

1999 had me immediately hooked.

The Gold Experience/ C&D era.

Spookymuffin said:

lol i was 6 when emancipation came out


i was born in the year of graffitti bridge
but i luv the dirty-controversy era an PR



those ruffles r sexy

an what woman doesn't like a male stripper

The summer of '92. Diamonds & Pearls was still in the UK top 20 some ten months after its release. A mate of mine played Cream and I thought it was a cool track so I bought the album.

Lovesexy. I loved the singles (especially Alphabet St.) and purchased the album. The album blew me away and I bought Purple Rain, 1999, Parade, SOTT... I was hooked!

Musicology era



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DIRTY MIND
Morning,noon & nite ill give u head!!

Dirty Mind-Sign O'The Times.This was the man at his musical and lyrical best.Even if I didn't like a particular track,there was no way to deny it was unique in his own quirky way.It's too bad the same can't be said for his 90's/today stuff.

r1ghteousone said:

It started of with "Raspberry Beret" & "Paisley Park", but I'm hooked with P's Music since the "Sign Of The Times" album/ era (released in Holland on my birthday!!! best present ever)

well the first time I heard was in the 5th Grade (1982)

I was at my first girlfriend's birthday party and her parents had the 1999 record.. WE played that thing to death that night!

so I guess I am from the 1999 Era

**The exact moment I became a ONLY Prince Fan!!

* Hearing Erotic City on a b-side ( I never heard the "F word" in a song!)

But the moment was:

#1 ** American Music Awards when Prince won everything & was acting lets say odd with his speach "Thank You very much" & taking his bodyguard on stage then blowing the crowd away with a live version on Purple Rain & mostly NOT showing up for the "we are the world" song afterwards

I became a fan during the 1999/PR era. 1983 to be exact

I'm probably from the D&P/symbol era. The first album I bought was Batman but it was Gett Off that really started the love affair.

r1ghteousone said:

Me too!! We were listening to Nasty Girl in the car the other day, and my husband says he used to hear that down at the disco, along with Erotic City, Sex Shooter, Jungle Love. I was not old enough to go to nightclubs back then like he was. I am SOO jealous! but I am also 5 years younger now, ha ha.

I had a strange relationship with Prince in the beginning. When I was young I was very into "the pale one", that was my mistake, and some time I even thought that Prince was MJ's brother, Jeremy or something. Really !
And by that time - that was Lovesexy tour in Oslo and I thought then that Prince looked ugly. But then I saw him in the "Partyman" video and I fell in love. It was like ...God, who's that man?! I could sit for hours staring at him in that way. By chance I found "Parade" cassette at home, and so that was it. The hysteria! But I love him mostly from, let's say...Controversy-1999-Puple Rain...or maybe earlier...At least, Prince-era...4U...He was so wild then and very sexy (well, still is..).

I can't really chose. But I have to say the 90's even though i really respect the 80's such as the lovesexy era, the purple rain era, and SOTT. I love all of his music in the 90's, Come on ya'll it was fonky! I really can't chose peeps! One side of me is saying 80's and the other is saying 90's. But like i said, I respect and love the 80's because i love 80's music. When i first saw purple Rain and when "When doves cry" came on, I instantly melted. I was like, That is a beautiful song, Just like the beautiful ones.

Another song that hit me hard was "Little Red Corvette"
Little red corvette, Baby ya much too fast (yes you are)
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My name is Michele, Just call me Fonky!

Purple Rain era.

"Controversy" introduced me to him. I remember spying the LP in my older cousin's record stack and thinking Prince was the WEIRDEST-looking thing I'd ever seen...

Then came "Little Red Corvette," whose airplay was a nice accompaniment to my days in summer camp. Then I began to take notice with the MTV rotation for that video and for "1999." By the time "Delirious" came out, and I was hearing it everywhere -- I mean, everywhere, even at swimming class, piped in over the loudspeakers. from WKYS-FM broadcasts -- I was becoming a Prince fan at a pretty early age.

Early enough to worry a cousin of mine who didn't realize that 90% of P's dirty lyrics flew right by me... LOL.

A good 10% of them still do, :LOL: some 20 years later. Sheesh...