Are there any Prince songs/albums that remind you of a particularly good or bad time in your life? Personally, Lovesexy always reminds me of a college trip around mainland Europe that I went on in November 1988. We were supposed to be learning about the EEC, but spent the whole time getting drunk and generally wasting a great opportunity. Lovesexy was constantly on my personal stereo and Glam Slam in particular makes me think of that amazing week.

Way too many to remember...and way too many memories to spew on the thread. But, I always date everything according to the Prince music that was out during that time. Like if someone mentions, 1981...I'm reminded of sitting in my bedroom, playing Controversy for the first time.

The 1999 album reminds me of a time when I took a family trip to Oregon aound 1995-96 when I was about 13 years old. I had recently bought the album and listened to it constantly on the trip. Now whenever I listen to it, it takes me back to those times looking at the fog coming in and onto the beach, and eating at one of those little Fish and Chip places.

'Lady Cab Driver' simply fucked up my plans to go to my first Prince show after convincing my mother (while we were parked in front of my Catholic school)to let me go--I was about 13 or 14. I had just got her to agree to let me go (around November,'82 or '83) after convincing her that Prince's songs were NOT sexually explicit (just misunderstood, you know) and that he really encouraged relationships with God. Well, WGIV am radio decided AT THAT POINT to play LCD. WTF was that about?!? Fucked up ALL my shit...

darling nikii:
it always reminds me of 7th grade and a friend of mine had the purple rain tape and we went to the back of the library and kept rewinding the song over and over..and laughing...

Okay, I always thought it was pretty cool that Prince and the Revolution recorded the Syracuse show on that date. And then Prince released Parade on March 31st and then the very next year he released Sign "O"the Times on March 30th 1987. So as a young fan back then that was pretty damn cool!

I never thought I would share this story because it's very embarrassing, but here it goes. I was around ten years old when 1999 came out and I used to WEAR that album out! My brother used to set his stereo up for me because he didn't want me to break it. So one day he went to work and I was really curious about this song on the 12" record called "Irresistible Bitch" so I put it on. And I thought I would be even cooler and tape it while I was listening to it. So I played this song for MONTHS and LOVED it, then I met this older kid who also LOVED Prince so I invited him over to jam with me afterschool. He said "Hey put on Irresistible Bitch", so I put on my tape, and I was JAMMING to it, and then he asks me "Why do have it on the wrong speed?". When I recorded it, I never moved the phonograph player to 45rpm, I left it at 33rpm, and he laughed his ass off at me, he actually still does. But come to think of it, I was hip to the Bob George voice before ANY of you were!

Every time eye hear the song Let's Go Crazy, it reminds me of the first time eye saw Purple Rain and how excited eye was.

Angela.

Crap! my first sentence to my post is missing!!

That should have started off as- "I used to think it was cool as a kid that Prince released some pretty amazing things on or around my birthday March 30th."

HAHA....hey, Everlasting, how'd that happen? Your first sentence getting cut off???? that's funny LOL

Graffiti Bridge carried me through the Gulf War.

There is really too many to count but 2 of them stand out in my mind more than others.. The first one is Supercute because I heard it for the first time last year at the celebration. My sista and me both bought the single that week and fell in Love with the song. After the celebration was over and still today we will be driving in the car and will pop the cd in. It just always makes us think of the crazy time we had that week. The second one which is The Holy River is a lot more personal . I had been going through what was a very, very hard time in my life and I had just been released from the hosbital. My mom told me a friend of hers who is really into Prince had heard of my troubles and told her to tell me to go home and listen to the words of that song. And that is exactly what I did. Though I never realised it before that song just fits what I was going through at that time to a T. So whenever I hear it played now I think of all my stupidity and am so thankful that I got a second chance.

LIL MAN was the most influential artist during my time in high school(1982-1987), so all the albums "1999", "Purple Rain, "Around The World In A Day", "Parade", And "Sign O' The Times" which came out a few months before I graduated in 1987 were tied in with some hip,crazy and wild times with people that have gone on to become good friends.

I remember guys during the "Purple Rain" time frame guys were wearing those laced eye mask P wore while performing "Computer Blue" to high school trying to get the attentions of girls and just trying to be hip in general. Have you ever noticed that only LIL MAN can wear the type of stuff he wears and get away with it???

Anyway, those slow jams by LIL MAN were so sensual. OH MY GOODNESS, I remember the sexiness and sensuality of "International Lover". I remember this nice lovely fine young girl during this time (late 1982) who I really wanted "get with". Man this girl was so fine!!!! Do anybody remember back in the 80's when Sassoon jeans, Gloria Vanderbilt jeans and Jordache jeans were in style??? Anyway this girl used to look so good in those jeans( I won't give her name) We would do a lot of flirting with each other. I would actually daydream about being intimate with this girl to P's song "International Lover" song. She liked the song too( great starting point..we had that in common). I remember one time I fantasize about being me and her "going at it" on the top of my school principal's car(I couldn't stand him...he was so unhip it was pitiful...while all the other high school marching bands were playing the latest R&B/pop songs including a lot of Prince tunes at football games ,our high school UNDER HIS DIRECTION were playing songs like Chubby Checker's "The Twist" because the songs in our day weren't "appropriate "according to him) I really felt she liked me too. However, I really couldn't muster up the nerve to approach her. We would talk but as far as trying to take it to that next level...I couldn't quite do it....Suppose she said NO, then I would be hurt. Like I said she would flirt. One day I was talking to a buddy of mine between classes about PRINCE.We were talking about the song DMSR. I was getting some books out of my locker to take to my next class when all of a sudden someone put their hands over my eyes from behind, nothing was said. But during this short time frame, I felt some soft breasts against my back..then she pressed her breasts up against my back harder, I turned around and it was her ... Man I got so turned on. I had an erection so intense I thought I was going to bust out my pants. She really knew how to get my "water boiling" All she did was smiled and said "HI with a coy smile". She knew just what she was doing.

Well anyway, she finallly graduated in 1985 and the thought of what could have been tortured me. During this time LIL MAN's album Around The World In A Day was getting great reviews and he was getting critical acclaim for his bold departure from the ideas presented on Purple Rain. I learn from Prince to be bold not be afraid to take chances, go after your goals with fierce detetmination. If I wouldn't have been so afraid to elevate the level of conversations with thos girl, who knows what could have happen. It was then, that I applied this philosophy not only to talkng to members of the opposite sex but to life in general. If you ask for something...that person can only say YES OR NO. If they say NO then I haven't really lost anything, at least I'll have peace at knowing that I pursued what I was after. But NOTHING is worst than thinking of what could have been if I had just asked. I apply this philosophy to goals that I set for myself in life as well

So in 1987, the same year LIL MAN made what many consider to be his boldest and greatest album "Sign O The Times"and many were amazed at how he had evolved, I graduated and was a better person. I wasn't as afraid to go after what I wanted in life. Prince had evolved as an artist and I had evolved as a human being.

Brother 9/15 aka CR3

sho' do gooey

Dancing to Erotic City at fraternity parties with the FINEST man I have ever been with. He is still as fine as ever, but not my man anymore...

Everytime i hear Take me with you i get a flash back of when i was little sitting in our old house watching Purple Rain. Pretending that Prince was my bf.

"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" I played it 4 a girlfriend one Valentine's Day, and afterwards, she hugged me and just started 2 cry. It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life.

Losing my love to Slow Love, Bopping to Sign o the times, jamming to kiss,

its all there.

I met my first love while Slow Love was playing, I danced all night after Sign o the times came on one time, & I jammed with my late uncle to kiss (guitar duel)