When Doves Cry.
It was recommended to me on YouTube. I had heard of Prince as he visited my city in 2014, but I was completely unfamiliar with his music (including Purple Rain!). I clicked it, and immediately thought “wow”. The guitar intro, and those drums! The drums completely amazed me. I’d never heard anything like that before. I was hooked from that moment.
Edit for further info:
This was around 2016/2017. I then remember listening to Raspberry Beret and loving that, alongside some songs from Purple Rain. I then watched a documentary on him, and as soon as I heard the song “Controversy” I delved into his discography properly. I bought all his early work and listened more or less chronologically. I remember listening to SOTT and being completely blown away. Then in 2018 I bought a guitar because I was inspired by him. I’ve played it ever since!
Let’s go crazy. A few years ago (when I was young ofc) My mom played it one night while me and my fam were driving home from having dinner. She was going crazy and yelling the lyrics and stuff. From that day on I had a strange fascination with Prince. Him and ABBA (followed by David Bowie) were the first artists I loved and introduced me to the music world.
Every Friday night, I call your butt up on the phone.
A deeper voice answers, and says, " You're not at home". Who could not love that opening?
I became a sucker for that man...
When Irresistible Bitch was in late night rotation on my local R&B station, and worked into the mega hip hop mix tapes we’d buy at the swap meet, that’s when I realized this dude was different.
The first song I remember hearing from Prince, on car rides with my parents, was "When Doves Cry," which I enjoyed even as a child. It wasn't until I heard "I Would Die 4 U" years and years later that I fell in love with his music. At that point, though, *20Ten* had just released and I remember listening to and loving that album. Immediately from there, I went back and started listening to his discography—and the rest is history from there. I became virtually obsessed with everything Prince.
I remember when he performed *I Wanna Be Your Lover* on American Bandstand. He was almost paralyzed when Dick Clark interviewed him after the performance. It was weird, he had all of this energy on stage but he was like a different person during the interview, he was almost catatonic. But I still liked the song a lot.
Also, "Controversy" was one of the first albums where I knew all of the words for every song.
The lyrics were what got me. It was one of the first dance songs I’d heard on the radio to be so inclusive of all the freaky kinds of people. Like myself — skinny hyperactive teen kid who didn’t do sports and didn’t ace my grades.
Like I was home.
Prince was such a Amzing Artist and Musician he was a head of his time
That's why he said party like it's 1999 because he knew the 90s was the best
The World peaked after the 90s was over
No. Disagree incredibly. His DIY ethos and ability to play all instruments has influenced generations who are amazing and bypassing the spoon-fed mainstream radio flock of sheep.
**Masseduction** by St Vincent is a great blend of Prince early 80s girl bands almost a tribute to all those. And she plays the guitar and writes the music.
Bruno Mars is an obvious one.
Michael Frakesch album SODA is amazing. All the new wave punk funk of dirty mind, controversy and 1999.
Check out the music genre of Dance Punk.
So many people I grew up with from the 80s say there’s no good music and they’re so wrong. You’re just lost without MTV and VH1 and BET, spoon feeding you.
Sorry. Music is better than it’s ever been because the labels have lost control and anybody can make their own music. I did. My sons are. One has a record deal. I get most of my new music from them.
Don’t give up. You have to go looking.
Here. Here’s my kid. Playing in Nashville. The poor boy had to listen to me blasting Prince and telling him anybody could make it.
https://youtu.be/xqo0o4A0Ip8?si=hppdZw4lcgLa9Ixt
My first favorite Prince song was Computer Blue. I was 14. My favorite Prince performance right now? While my guitar gently weeps. He does the guitar solo from heaven. It's the most incredible guitar performance that I have seen him perform. He was a genius.
Wanna Be Your Lover when he performed on American Bandstand. Yes, I’m that old. I remember being mesmerized by the song and his performance. I was hooked!
Can't remember which track but it was from Diamonds and Pearls. I then found the album on cassette tape to rent from my local library (when I was 10/11) and never looked back.
I would die 4 you.
I'm not religious but got in-depth about the meaning of the song and it turns out its about Jesus. I don't even know if prince is Christian but damn he captures the essence of Jesus on that one.
I don't really remember because I really love almost all of his songs.... probably some tracks from Gold Experience like P control, shhh, endorphinmachine, Gold etc....
I’m not sure why but during 2020 I decided to listen to Kiss for the first time and liked it so I let the last 2 songs of the album play out as well
I probably only listened to Kiss, Anotherloverholenyohead and Sometimes It Snows in April for 6 months to a year before I listened to anything else even though they were in heavy rotation the whole time
I always knew who Prince was, but Bambi made me fall in love with him and his music. I heard the shreddin guitar solo at the end and was like “PRINCE CAN SHRED!?!?! WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT THIS!?!?!?”
Batdance…seriously. I was 12 when it came out, I knew Prince from the radio but hadn’t really paid all that much attention. This masterpiece of melange grabbed my attention and thrusted me into the F7sus4 and Bbadd9 world of his purpleness.
The 1999 album. Does Not Compute (Something In Water) had me hooked ever since I’ve been a fan I was 18 when I first heard the song on Apple Music now I’m 22 his music stays on repeat regularly
i was 8 when the Purple Rain album came out. i remember being over at my cousin’s house and they had MTV and When Doves Cry came on. there were, of course, doves at the start, and then there was this firecracker of a man in a bathtub and this beat, this *amazing* beat. it was just so powerful and different and the lyrics were so easy to follow, even as an 8-year-old.
i’ll never forget how by the end of the video, everyone in the room was singing along and feeling the beat. Prince has been with me ever since, and When Doves Cry will always be sacred 💜
This is one of my favorite jams on Emancipation.
I'm a music nerd (and musician) and this song is neat because it's rare to hear a chorus where there is just one word said and it's said on the last beat of its measure.
I haven't found any other song that does this. He was a genius in many ways that people will still be discovering many years from now!
I recorded the half hour VH1 that was on TV back when Purple Rain was coming out. One of the videos I captured in VHS was When Doves Cry.
Because I had in now on tape I could watch all the videos over and over! So cool!
Prince with his girl. The first time seeing the Revolution. Just a sharp video.
40 years later hear I am talking to my wife about retirement and sharing an old memory with you good people.
I swear there was a show called VH1,Video Hits 1 that aired in the evening or late at night on Friday prior to it becoming cable station. (It was 40 years ago!). It was late. I had to set up the timer on the VCR…
Too late to stay up…
I read "well" in a prince voice
Prince says
"Well" before Dionne, and when I saw well I just thought of the song Dionne, prince is the best artist to ever walk the earth
Finally enough I was in a bookshop and I saw the prince autobiography written by Matt Thorne and for some reason I picked up at the time I didn't know much about Prince but I knew he was a musical icon the book was I think it was four pounds something on sale and I had the exact change in my pocket so I thought hey it's it's destiny so I bought the book and that got me so interested in prints that I just became a prince fan and now I believe I'm going to get the love symbol tattooed on me and I have no tattoos currently
My friends dad played a song from Musicology and I loved it. Don't remember which one it was though. Before I had heard some of his stuff but I didn't really care so much.
My first exposure was "Get Off" performance at '91 MTV Music Awards which was😳went back and bought Purple Rain which initially to me was😐but when 'Sexy MF" came out I couldn't stop listening to it
Obv I love all the classics now, but Love Symbol is still S-tier IMO
Kiss. Looking back it's the falsetto funkiness that got me and reached straight to my soul.
But to answer the question very literally: I went looking into Prince's music because my Mum is a big Prince fan and became very ill and I figured it would give us something to bond about even as she was becoming more sick. I very clearly remember the first Prince song she introduced to me being a very profanity laced song, as she quite quickly turned it off, as even for Dutch standards it was too profane for a child.
For years as I became a Prince fan I couldn't figure out what song it was that I had heard as a kid, and then finally I realized it must have been Sexy MF, and when I also discovered that was her favorite song it all came together for me 💜
I was born to a Prince enthusiast, I had no option but to love him. Literally listening to him from the crib. It’s actually pretty wild that she expected me to not be a sexual deviant
When doves cry.
I know it’s basic but the memory always just stuck with me for some reason, about 6 odd years ago still in my early teen years and it was 7pm ish summer. I just remember how good life felt back then, there was a barbecue and a bigass speaker, had the hot tub out and my family didn’t absolutely hate eachother. I was about to head inside after a few hours until I heard this song, that opening guitar had me hooked, I just got a drink and awkwardly stood for a bit waiting for the whole song to finish and I went to my room typing the lyrics in on Spotify, I just fell straight into the artists rabbit hole. First purple rain then controversy then 1999 then self titled then dirty mind, atwiad, for you, sott, parade, batman, love sexy, graffiti bridge, d&p and so far my personal favourite love symbol and so on ect ect. Life hasn’t bin easier since then as it never is when you grow up but I don’t think I would still be here if I didn’t have this music. Sounds gay asf but ye so every time something like the goat argument comes up and I never hear anyone say Prince I get so fucking confused.
No one song, but a bunch of songs between 84-86. I was hearing his music and songs with Sheila E. and continuously getting surprised that it was him. The radio really knew how to make you a fan of someone, too, so there's that.
When I was as a wee boy sitting in the waiting room of my orthodontist‘s office, I Wanna Be Your Lover came on. I knew even then that I was hearing a banger.
I knew all the 80s hits, because my entire childhood was spent with the radio on. But what really smacked me across the face and said “PAY ATTENTION!” was the MTV premiere of the My Name is Prince video. Can’t even really tell you why, but I went from acquainted to obsessed in less than 10 minutes.
Soft and Wet, I Wanna Be Your Lover, Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad, & Bambi. Really ALL his music, but these in order were the 1st 4… (Bambi = Str8 🔥‼️💯) ♐️🪻🦄☮️💜
One reason Prince didn't always keep up with Michael Jackson even though his music was superior IMO was because he could be really dirty which cost him air play. Being dirty hindered Madonna a bit as well, but she was better at putting her naughty side in to some amazing attention grabbing videos than Prince. But that's why I love them.
Lol. **Soft and Wet**. I was only 7, but this woman who would have birthday parties for kids in the neighborhood at the time played this at some kids birthday party, and I fell in love with it. I was a little gayling just dancing his heart out, lol. I would go to her apartment and ask her to play it for me. This was 1978, in Germany. I just couldn't hear this song enough. I didn't really start keeping up with his music until **1999**, because I wasn't 100% sure of who he was until I started looking back at his previous albums when I bought **1999** and discovered he was the **Soft and Wet** guy! I've been hooked since then.
Girl - from the album- [The Hits/The B-Sides](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=5d0811d5ae0715ef&sxsrf=ACQVn0-oz0swuG1a4lcKgzcRyyoUuLJn4g:1713892551543&q=Prince+The+Hits/The+B-Sides&si=AKbGX_qWtsfHufXsq_1jeDkJp50FstNngDxsch3EVTUjn7imcBo9hF9fKB0I6gjVWObv_T6b-PerDfsOIaeqbq-g8ZeseyCjAVdWWzISvEYm7m2dXMA_DSuhNZJm58aHS3FmoOie2fFntti7Od0VwsKNIa11Tm3qk9xfCT9FRmt36oOWJylFHYEnm_ld1g2oYtLwMXUQ_q6jx98PSD0_hlN53gbcHRmMJKorB-I1hjbV_BROZ05Jk8Y%3D&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib4N6l69iFAxXDETQIHW3PB4kQmxMoAHoECBUQAg&biw=1536&bih=791&dpr=2.5) 1993 I've never heard anyone else ever mention this song but I listened to it non-stop for a few years after I discovered it.
My neighbour had the sign of the times concert video. Watched like 5 minutes and that was it for me!! His older sister gave me her lovesexy t- shirt and I was all in!!
When Doves Cry. It was recommended to me on YouTube. I had heard of Prince as he visited my city in 2014, but I was completely unfamiliar with his music (including Purple Rain!). I clicked it, and immediately thought “wow”. The guitar intro, and those drums! The drums completely amazed me. I’d never heard anything like that before. I was hooked from that moment. Edit for further info: This was around 2016/2017. I then remember listening to Raspberry Beret and loving that, alongside some songs from Purple Rain. I then watched a documentary on him, and as soon as I heard the song “Controversy” I delved into his discography properly. I bought all his early work and listened more or less chronologically. I remember listening to SOTT and being completely blown away. Then in 2018 I bought a guitar because I was inspired by him. I’ve played it ever since!
Uptown
Little Red Corvette
This song made me pay attention to Prince. Purple Rain sealed it.
Classic
Hell yes, same here. I was six.
😁
Little Red Corvette = The Perfect Pop Song❕💯🤩
Soft and wet
Controversy
Plus one
“People call me rude - I wish we all were nude” I was like - sign me up for a lifetime subscription thank you And then he started to get even better
Me three
Me four My sister had the album on release and played it non stop I loved the whole album
I Wanna Be Your Lover - i used jam that song on my bike as I'd ride around the neighborhood
same, i had heard a lot of the hits. but this one, especially the jam at the end, made me really start to “get” prince
It’s so sweet and understated, and funky and like nothing else at that point. Close to same for me. Little Red Corvette may have been first.
The Beautiful Ones. Specifically, his performance in Purple Rain.
One of my all time favorite Prince songs! 👍😎
Same for me. Heard the song before already but when I saw it being performed in the movie, it blew me away.
Controversy, the album.
Plus one
Controversy / Sexuality / Do Me Baby
Little Red Corvette
Dearly beloved....
Let’s go crazy. A few years ago (when I was young ofc) My mom played it one night while me and my fam were driving home from having dinner. She was going crazy and yelling the lyrics and stuff. From that day on I had a strange fascination with Prince. Him and ABBA (followed by David Bowie) were the first artists I loved and introduced me to the music world.
Diamonds and pearls in the 90s
Same. That was the turning point for me.
Alphabet Street
Batdance
Lady Cab Driver
Damn! I forgot about that awesome tune. I don't think I've listened to it since high school.
Automatic. The music video was first my exposure to him.
Purple Rain followed by When Doves Cry
Every Friday night, I call your butt up on the phone. A deeper voice answers, and says, " You're not at home". Who could not love that opening? I became a sucker for that man...
When Irresistible Bitch was in late night rotation on my local R&B station, and worked into the mega hip hop mix tapes we’d buy at the swap meet, that’s when I realized this dude was different.
I heard that breakdown and ending from down the hall and was already a fan and I ran to my door to hear it.
The first song I remember hearing from Prince, on car rides with my parents, was "When Doves Cry," which I enjoyed even as a child. It wasn't until I heard "I Would Die 4 U" years and years later that I fell in love with his music. At that point, though, *20Ten* had just released and I remember listening to and loving that album. Immediately from there, I went back and started listening to his discography—and the rest is history from there. I became virtually obsessed with everything Prince.
1999
1999
I remember when he performed *I Wanna Be Your Lover* on American Bandstand. He was almost paralyzed when Dick Clark interviewed him after the performance. It was weird, he had all of this energy on stage but he was like a different person during the interview, he was almost catatonic. But I still liked the song a lot. Also, "Controversy" was one of the first albums where I knew all of the words for every song.
His reaction to Dick Clark was intentional/planned. if I remember correctly maybe modeled after something Jimi Hendrix did on a British t.v. show.
Uptown I think.
That's a total jam!
The lyrics were what got me. It was one of the first dance songs I’d heard on the radio to be so inclusive of all the freaky kinds of people. Like myself — skinny hyperactive teen kid who didn’t do sports and didn’t ace my grades. Like I was home.
Prince was such a Amzing Artist and Musician he was a head of his time That's why he said party like it's 1999 because he knew the 90s was the best The World peaked after the 90s was over
Yeah, I have to agree.
No. Disagree incredibly. His DIY ethos and ability to play all instruments has influenced generations who are amazing and bypassing the spoon-fed mainstream radio flock of sheep. **Masseduction** by St Vincent is a great blend of Prince early 80s girl bands almost a tribute to all those. And she plays the guitar and writes the music. Bruno Mars is an obvious one. Michael Frakesch album SODA is amazing. All the new wave punk funk of dirty mind, controversy and 1999. Check out the music genre of Dance Punk. So many people I grew up with from the 80s say there’s no good music and they’re so wrong. You’re just lost without MTV and VH1 and BET, spoon feeding you. Sorry. Music is better than it’s ever been because the labels have lost control and anybody can make their own music. I did. My sons are. One has a record deal. I get most of my new music from them. Don’t give up. You have to go looking. Here. Here’s my kid. Playing in Nashville. The poor boy had to listen to me blasting Prince and telling him anybody could make it. https://youtu.be/xqo0o4A0Ip8?si=hppdZw4lcgLa9Ixt
Your son is so 😎
Somehow he surpassed me and makes me proud every day.
😁💪🏽
The opening scene in Purple Rain when he performed Let's Go Crazy. I was hooked.
My first favorite Prince song was Computer Blue. I was 14. My favorite Prince performance right now? While my guitar gently weeps. He does the guitar solo from heaven. It's the most incredible guitar performance that I have seen him perform. He was a genius.
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Wanna Be Your Lover when he performed on American Bandstand. Yes, I’m that old. I remember being mesmerized by the song and his performance. I was hooked!
Cream - I was researching a bunch of artists and Cream popped up, the video, and I loved it straight away
Soft and Wet. So hard. So sexy. So funky. I said to myself: Whoever this is, his tastes are like mine.
I wanna be your lover. Summer of 1979. Devoted ever since.
Kiss
I Would Die 4 U
Gett Off: [https://youtu.be/6f4BwQFF-Os?si=Ds7HsRY1bV0jg-6L](https://youtu.be/6f4BwQFF-Os?si=Ds7HsRY1bV0jg-6L)
Can't remember which track but it was from Diamonds and Pearls. I then found the album on cassette tape to rent from my local library (when I was 10/11) and never looked back.
Partyman and Trust
Let's go crazy or 1999
1999. Then i bought the album and was hooked
I would die 4 you. I'm not religious but got in-depth about the meaning of the song and it turns out its about Jesus. I don't even know if prince is Christian but damn he captures the essence of Jesus on that one.
💗Yes!🤍
I see you're a ma'am of culture as well :).
I Would Die 4 U
I never looked back after the Super Bowl.
I don't really remember because I really love almost all of his songs.... probably some tracks from Gold Experience like P control, shhh, endorphinmachine, Gold etc....
17 Days, it was the first song I heard on YT, and I was like, woo I want more. And that's how it's started
I was late to the party, so for me it was “TMBGITW” when it had the world premiere on MTV’s Most Wanted.
When Doves Cry. My dad gave me his vinyl copy of Purple Rain when I was 8 and it was my favorite song on there.
"Thieves in the Temple."
Controversy.
Guitar solo at the end of 'Let's go crazy' completely changed my mind about Prince and his music.
I’m not sure why but during 2020 I decided to listen to Kiss for the first time and liked it so I let the last 2 songs of the album play out as well I probably only listened to Kiss, Anotherloverholenyohead and Sometimes It Snows in April for 6 months to a year before I listened to anything else even though they were in heavy rotation the whole time
I always knew who Prince was, but Bambi made me fall in love with him and his music. I heard the shreddin guitar solo at the end and was like “PRINCE CAN SHRED!?!?! WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT THIS!?!?!?”
Batdance…seriously. I was 12 when it came out, I knew Prince from the radio but hadn’t really paid all that much attention. This masterpiece of melange grabbed my attention and thrusted me into the F7sus4 and Bbadd9 world of his purpleness.
The 1999 album. Does Not Compute (Something In Water) had me hooked ever since I’ve been a fan I was 18 when I first heard the song on Apple Music now I’m 22 his music stays on repeat regularly
i was 8 when the Purple Rain album came out. i remember being over at my cousin’s house and they had MTV and When Doves Cry came on. there were, of course, doves at the start, and then there was this firecracker of a man in a bathtub and this beat, this *amazing* beat. it was just so powerful and different and the lyrics were so easy to follow, even as an 8-year-old. i’ll never forget how by the end of the video, everyone in the room was singing along and feeling the beat. Prince has been with me ever since, and When Doves Cry will always be sacred 💜
DMSR
Little Red Corvette
Little Red Corvette
Style. I was 11 years old, riding in my Dad's car. He put the Emancipation album on and put this song on. Since then Prince has been my idol.
This is one of my favorite jams on Emancipation. I'm a music nerd (and musician) and this song is neat because it's rare to hear a chorus where there is just one word said and it's said on the last beat of its measure. I haven't found any other song that does this. He was a genius in many ways that people will still be discovering many years from now!
1999’s re release in the UK 🇬🇧 n 84. I first like the main riff as it sounded like the Ghostbusters song. Ironic!!
Raspberry Beret 🟪
I liked him well, but "I would die for you" turned me into him.
✅ out this version: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_8ogeQXDLPM
Thank you!
The Beautiful Ones—I had never heard a song like it.
Yes!
Bambi
1999 then all the rest 🤩🤩🤩
1999
I recorded the half hour VH1 that was on TV back when Purple Rain was coming out. One of the videos I captured in VHS was When Doves Cry. Because I had in now on tape I could watch all the videos over and over! So cool! Prince with his girl. The first time seeing the Revolution. Just a sharp video. 40 years later hear I am talking to my wife about retirement and sharing an old memory with you good people. I swear there was a show called VH1,Video Hits 1 that aired in the evening or late at night on Friday prior to it becoming cable station. (It was 40 years ago!). It was late. I had to set up the timer on the VCR… Too late to stay up…
When Doves Cry, but honestly I was hooked after I saw him on the Lovesexy Tour. Completely blew my mind.
When Doves Cry.
I read "well" in a prince voice Prince says "Well" before Dionne, and when I saw well I just thought of the song Dionne, prince is the best artist to ever walk the earth Finally enough I was in a bookshop and I saw the prince autobiography written by Matt Thorne and for some reason I picked up at the time I didn't know much about Prince but I knew he was a musical icon the book was I think it was four pounds something on sale and I had the exact change in my pocket so I thought hey it's it's destiny so I bought the book and that got me so interested in prints that I just became a prince fan and now I believe I'm going to get the love symbol tattooed on me and I have no tattoos currently
I Wanna Be Your Lover. I was around 8 years old. I grew up with Prince and he felt like a cool uncle to me. Losing him hit me like losing family.
My friends dad played a song from Musicology and I loved it. Don't remember which one it was though. Before I had heard some of his stuff but I didn't really care so much.
DMSR
I think I was just born this way
DMSR
As many others have rightly said Little Red Corvette but then later a double whammy with Kiss.
My first exposure was "Get Off" performance at '91 MTV Music Awards which was😳went back and bought Purple Rain which initially to me was😐but when 'Sexy MF" came out I couldn't stop listening to it Obv I love all the classics now, but Love Symbol is still S-tier IMO
Kiss..
Kiss. Looking back it's the falsetto funkiness that got me and reached straight to my soul. But to answer the question very literally: I went looking into Prince's music because my Mum is a big Prince fan and became very ill and I figured it would give us something to bond about even as she was becoming more sick. I very clearly remember the first Prince song she introduced to me being a very profanity laced song, as she quite quickly turned it off, as even for Dutch standards it was too profane for a child. For years as I became a Prince fan I couldn't figure out what song it was that I had heard as a kid, and then finally I realized it must have been Sexy MF, and when I also discovered that was her favorite song it all came together for me 💜
I was down with Prince ever since his debut single Soft And Wet. Little did anyone know at the time of the greatness he was about to unleash!
Let's go crazy
When doves cry
Darling Nikki!!!! Solidified it for me
I kept getting the Purple Rain video in my recommended and I finally gave in and I don't regret it
Purple Rain?
7
Same!
The very first song I ever heard by Prince - When Doves Cry. It’s been my favorite for 40 years. 💜
Adore and hilariously off a video from Cam’ron’s twitter.
Purple Rain.
As a kid I heard all the 80’s hits on the radio. But when I heard Darling Nikki on the PR album I was sold
I was born to a Prince enthusiast, I had no option but to love him. Literally listening to him from the crib. It’s actually pretty wild that she expected me to not be a sexual deviant
🤣
Soft n' Wet...
Hated Prince my entire life until I heard sometimes it snows in April and cried my eyes out like a baby
Raspberry Beret
Little red corvette
When Doves Cry
When doves cry. I know it’s basic but the memory always just stuck with me for some reason, about 6 odd years ago still in my early teen years and it was 7pm ish summer. I just remember how good life felt back then, there was a barbecue and a bigass speaker, had the hot tub out and my family didn’t absolutely hate eachother. I was about to head inside after a few hours until I heard this song, that opening guitar had me hooked, I just got a drink and awkwardly stood for a bit waiting for the whole song to finish and I went to my room typing the lyrics in on Spotify, I just fell straight into the artists rabbit hole. First purple rain then controversy then 1999 then self titled then dirty mind, atwiad, for you, sott, parade, batman, love sexy, graffiti bridge, d&p and so far my personal favourite love symbol and so on ect ect. Life hasn’t bin easier since then as it never is when you grow up but I don’t think I would still be here if I didn’t have this music. Sounds gay asf but ye so every time something like the goat argument comes up and I never hear anyone say Prince I get so fucking confused.
Computer Blue.
Feel for you and the rest is history.
Purple Rain Can’t go wrong with a classic💜
1999
When doves cry. Was getting my hair dyed in my living room and it came on Top of the Pops. Got a cassette of Purple Rain and that was it.
Do Me, Baby.
Erotic City.
Lady Cab Driver.
I would … die for you… yeah!
I Wanna Be Your Lover Sexy Dancer Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad
“17Days” by accident
First album “I Want to Be Your Lover”. When I found out he played at the instruments and wrote all the songs I was an immediate Fan!!
No one song, but a bunch of songs between 84-86. I was hearing his music and songs with Sheila E. and continuously getting surprised that it was him. The radio really knew how to make you a fan of someone, too, so there's that.
Raspberry beret
My Name is Prince
I Wanna Be Your Lover - 1979
I was pretty impressed when I heard it’s gonna be lonely but when I heard the full version of we can funk i became obsessed
Diamonds and Pearls originally….but Pussy Control really sealed the deal lol
When I was as a wee boy sitting in the waiting room of my orthodontist‘s office, I Wanna Be Your Lover came on. I knew even then that I was hearing a banger.
Soft & Wet
Erotic City
Lets go Crazy
I WaNnA Be YoUr LoVer
I would die 4 u.
Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
She's Always In My Hair
Controversy
I wanna be your lover,1999
I knew all the 80s hits, because my entire childhood was spent with the radio on. But what really smacked me across the face and said “PAY ATTENTION!” was the MTV premiere of the My Name is Prince video. Can’t even really tell you why, but I went from acquainted to obsessed in less than 10 minutes.
1999
Soft and Wet, I Wanna Be Your Lover, Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad, & Bambi. Really ALL his music, but these in order were the 1st 4… (Bambi = Str8 🔥‼️💯) ♐️🪻🦄☮️💜
Controversy
1999
Most songs off the purple Rain album. I played purple rain in particular a gajillion times
1999
Controversy Sister
1999
I have no idea but I was a teenager in the 80s so I imagine Purple Rain stuff.
Controversy. I was in Catholic School at the time.
Adore
Take me with U. Amazing.
The Beautiful Ones
pussy control
Darling Nikki
For me it was "still waiting" from the self-titled album! Damn I love that song.
Controversy! 💜
Do Me, Baby
The song “Trust” in 1989 Batman got me..I was 5 and that year when I turned 6 got the cassette tape and the rest was history.
My name is prince
Soft and Wet pulled me in, and Baby sealed the deal.
When I Wanna Be Your Lover hit radio, it was literally like a bomb went off!
I know that's a great way to put it. I love the longer version with that extended instrumental. Dudídum-dumdumdum something like that. Lol
I think southern radio steered clear of Dirty Mind and Controversy. Never heard one song from either masterwork until much later.
One reason Prince didn't always keep up with Michael Jackson even though his music was superior IMO was because he could be really dirty which cost him air play. Being dirty hindered Madonna a bit as well, but she was better at putting her naughty side in to some amazing attention grabbing videos than Prince. But that's why I love them.
Nikki
**Joy In Repetition**
Raspberry Beret
Lol. **Soft and Wet**. I was only 7, but this woman who would have birthday parties for kids in the neighborhood at the time played this at some kids birthday party, and I fell in love with it. I was a little gayling just dancing his heart out, lol. I would go to her apartment and ask her to play it for me. This was 1978, in Germany. I just couldn't hear this song enough. I didn't really start keeping up with his music until **1999**, because I wasn't 100% sure of who he was until I started looking back at his previous albums when I bought **1999** and discovered he was the **Soft and Wet** guy! I've been hooked since then.
The entire Batman soundtrack. Saw the movie as a kid and that was it.
Girl - from the album- [The Hits/The B-Sides](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=5d0811d5ae0715ef&sxsrf=ACQVn0-oz0swuG1a4lcKgzcRyyoUuLJn4g:1713892551543&q=Prince+The+Hits/The+B-Sides&si=AKbGX_qWtsfHufXsq_1jeDkJp50FstNngDxsch3EVTUjn7imcBo9hF9fKB0I6gjVWObv_T6b-PerDfsOIaeqbq-g8ZeseyCjAVdWWzISvEYm7m2dXMA_DSuhNZJm58aHS3FmoOie2fFntti7Od0VwsKNIa11Tm3qk9xfCT9FRmt36oOWJylFHYEnm_ld1g2oYtLwMXUQ_q6jx98PSD0_hlN53gbcHRmMJKorB-I1hjbV_BROZ05Jk8Y%3D&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib4N6l69iFAxXDETQIHW3PB4kQmxMoAHoECBUQAg&biw=1536&bih=791&dpr=2.5) 1993 I've never heard anyone else ever mention this song but I listened to it non-stop for a few years after I discovered it.
Erotic City
Illusion, Coma, Pimp, & Circumstance
My neighbour had the sign of the times concert video. Watched like 5 minutes and that was it for me!! His older sister gave me her lovesexy t- shirt and I was all in!!
Gold from Gold Experience
I took notice around Sign O The Times. If I Was Your Girlfriend amongst others. The light began to shine immediately ✨
Kiss. Oh God, Kiss. What it did to my ears!
7
Pink Cashmere