CRYSTALBALL said:

I also have that!! but i have parade in record version ( so i can't play it now ) but i LOVE the song moutains!!!

Batman. A bad point to enter. I'd worked my way through Dirty Mind - Lovesey in the previous few months though.

Paradisekiss03 said:

I love that song too. I wanted a hat like the one he had in the video

I knew nothing about him except he sang a song called 1999, I found "the very best of" for $17, I looked at my money then the album again, and I thought "alright I give Prince the go". Since that day I have been hooked.

My first Prince purchased Prince album was Around the World in a day.

The first album i actually owned was swiped from older brother. The album was Purple Rain and Ice Cream Castles by the Time. (Got my ass beat for it but I still have the Purple Rain LP.)

Well the very first ones I owned on CD were SOTT,Parade,And Around the world...".

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...because my mother used to play "7" like everyday...it was annoying yet cool. Then eventually as she realized I was getting more into him, she began playing his other joints: Prince, For You...yada yada...

CherrieMoonKisses said:

that's how i got my younger sister hooked to prince!! i played "Take me with you" like all the time!!!

I've always loved Prince. I remember hearing a lot of his music when I was little...and I mean little. I was about 2 when "Raspberry Beret" was popular, and 3 when "Kiss" came out. My parents actually owned the "Around The World In A Day" cassette (because of "Raspberry Beret"), but apparently our downstairs neighbors played "1999" a lot when I was a baby. (I was born in 1983.) So, I think the Prince pride's just been in me forever. However, I stole the ATWIAD album from my parents and played it to death when I started junior high. That was after taking my parents' "Diamonds and Pearls" cassette in 1991 (I was 8). The first cassette I bought was "The Hits 1," and then I got "The Hits 2," "Purple Rain," "1999"...yada, yada, yada. The first CDs I bought were "Controversy" and "Parade" in 1997, and then I bought all the albums on CD.

I inherited my mom's cassettes of 1999 and Purple Rain in 1984. A friend gave me ATWIAD in 6th grade because he said he didn't like it. He gave me the cassette in class and had the cassette sleeve in the case backwards so the weird sky and trees were showing instead of the actual cover. The first album I bought was Parade on cassette the day it was released. My dad drove me 30 minutes (one way) to the nearest record store that had it.

I can remember being especially depressed in 1989 when I bought my first CD player and realized that I really needed to buy all the albums over again. Took me about a year to save up the money to get them all up to '89.

is parade available in cd???

"Prince", my first secular music album I owned since that kind of stuff wasn't allowed in my family's house, kept it in hiding and played it on the sly, been hooked every since.

Purple Rain -
followed by - 1999

BTW, I was only 14 when PR came out

1999. i was 9 or 10.

Paradisekiss03 said:

Yes it is, I have it.

my first prince album was "Prince" but I was aware of him before that....my older cousins introduced me to the world of Prince along with Right On! mag.

AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY . the year was 1985 and i was 15 years old. i was already a big fan b/c 1999 and purple rain were all over the radio. WOW, those were the days for Prince. I didn't buy 1999 and purple rain until later on for two reasons A) at 11/12/13 years old , I didn't have the $$$ for albums yet and B) you could tape nearly all of his songs off the radio in those days. i mean, back then, P used to get play on straight up rock stations, top forty stations, dance stations, R&B stations , and college radio. he really brought people together and broke all musical barriers.

ps: after ATWIAD i have bought every P album the first day it came out. from parade on. : - )

1999 was mine. I got it as a birthday gift from my aunt. One listen 2 International Lover, and I swore I would purchase everything with his voice on it.

goat2004 said:

I was 12.
Man, I feel old when I see people saying that was their first Prince album.

chrisslope9 said:

now a days you don't see artists that get played all over like that. what has happened? we all have to admit that Prince is like one in a gazillian!!!

Actually, (revealing my young years), the first album ever bought was HITS 1 along with the Beautiful Experience EP when was 13. Of course, in the following months, proceeded 2 pick up everything the man had done since '78.

parade

The first one I heard was 1999 at a 5th grade birthday party back then when it first came out

I bought Purple Rain

Diamonds & Pearls... always loved his tunes but Gett Off hooked me and Cream talked me into buying this album.

Wow, Well my first one was 'Around The World In A Day' it was my mothers vynal and i was 3 - She put it on and i was hooked...ive loved him ever since.

I then got the album and went from there....to this day it still remains my all time fave album

the rainbow children and since listening to that i have grown a big obsession and have everything now

I was only about 7 or 8 when my Mum got me "Symbol" in late '92, thanx to killer singles "Sexy MF" and "My name is Prince", which had the video which had him wearing freaky clothes even by Prince standards! Damn that Prince is so different to the one now!

"Symbol" possibally has the best first 5 tracks ever in my opinion! "The max" ruled bigtime and "Morning papers" is a lovely song whilst "Love 2 the 9's" is an odd track with cool rap lyrics "Say how u gonna make that booty boom!" That line is still killer!
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LOVESEXY IS THE 1
I WAS 14