[Closed] Your First Album

Wishbone Ash, Argus, released in 1972 so it was a few years after when I bought it! I was only 8 then!

Tears for Fears - songs from the big chair. '85.
Still listen to it now when the mood takes me, great album.

U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky - 1985

83 actually 🙂

Fair, surfer, but 1985 is when I bought it!

The Jam - In The City/This is The Modern World double pack - 1980.

Still have it.

I'll be the first to admit a pure riddy!

I was a very innocent 10 year old in 1988 with a walkman and no idea about music! 😆 I soon found my brothers record collection and the path to enlightenment!

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To be honest I didn't really start appreciating music till I was about 13/14(I picked up a guitar around the same time). Nirvana/The Beatles/ The Stones/Pink floyd/The Doors/Alex Chilton/The Pixies would have been some of my early musical influences. 🙂

New Order - Substance

Bad - Michael Jackson, 1987

81? Its more than stood the test of time...

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😀

the irony is your brother probably found the pictures of Kylie and therefore the true path to enlightenment

Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms, from some dodgy stall in Costa del Sol.

Fair, surfer, but 1985 is when I bought it!

I'll be the first to admit a pure riddy!

I was a very innocent 10 year old in 1988 with a walkman and no idea about music! I soon found my brothers record collection and the path to enlightenment!

Enlightenment will never mean a path away from Kylie! As it happens, think she was my first too - aged 7 though

First album I ever bought myself was A-ha'a 'Hunting High and Low, off the back of having my mind blown by the drawings-come-to-life effects in the video for Take On Me.

Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms

I saw them in Deeside leisure centre on the Brothers in arms tour 🙂

howsyourdad1 - Member
the irony is your brother probably found the pictures of Kylie and therefore the true path to enlightenment

This is very true, can still remember the posters on his wall vividly! 😆

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd bought it in 1973/4 probably.
Or
Led Zeppelin III

Can't remember which was the first, I'll have bought them within a couple of months of each other

Dunno - probably an Abba one sometime in the mid 70s.

legend - Member
Enlightenment will never mean a path away from Kylie!

The Who by Numbers - The Who in 1975

I think it was:

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George Harrison, cloud nine.

still reckon it's pretty good.

Ziggy Stardust still sounds amazing, Tubular Bells next then Kimono my house Sparks
Money was tight back then you listened to every track and read every bit of writing on the sleeve
Still have them although crackly and scratchy

[b]Faces..A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse[/b](1972)

I still know all the lyrics. 😉

Iron Maiden : Number Of The Beast. Cassette tape bought in Woolworths Castle Douglas when i was 10 years old, the only reason i bought it was due to Eddy on the cover.

Willing to admit to embarrassing s**t, 1977 The Darts 😳

Neneh Cherry, Raw Like Sushi....

Not sure on the year, perhaps around '87 or '88. EDIT - must have been '89 - the year it was released.
Still a good listen....

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Think it was this badboy...
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I have no regrets.

First album I bought was either (can't actually remember)...

Guns n Roses. Appetite For Destruction.
The The. Infected.
Sisters of Mercy. Floodland.

First album I remember listening to as entire piece was either Indiscreet by Sparks or Night At The Opera by Queen (both 'borrowed' from my step dad's collection).

Not 100% certain but think it was Roxette, "Look Sharp!" around the time it was released.

It was a small hop from there to Transvision Vamp and on to GnR, etc...

Yes Fragile, 1976 iIRC

Broadsword and the Beast by Jethro Tull, think I bought it around 1986 when I got my first YTS placement and had money to burn!

T'Pau - Bridge of Spies.

In Search of the Lost Chord Moody Blues

First I can remember owning:
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From Round Sounds which was across the road from Woolies but much, much cooler - circa 1981.

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Remember You're a Womble

Fairly sure my first album was Queen live at wembley, but it could also have been Michael Jackson's Bad.

I think both of them are pretty respectable.

First single was Brian May and Cozy Powell, not bad for someone from my generation, there was a lot of crap about

Discounting 'Cowboy favourites', it would have been Queen II.

First album I owned was squeeze sex master, released in 78 given to me by brother in law 80/81 when I got my first record player at 6 or 7 years old.

First I bought I could not tell you, would have been probably hip hop though.

First album length product would have been Queen's Greatest Hits.

If that doesn't meet the criteria then it was Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier.

Wish You Were Here in 1979. 4 times I went into Boots, they had a duff pressing with a crack in track 1 all of the albums in the rack!!

The local independent shop had Dark Side of the Moon so I bought that instead.

Either vaguely respectable, Pulp - Different Class.
Or Somewhat less respectable, Roxette - Greatest Hits.

Unless you count Now That's What I Call Music vol 18, featuring Tommy Mallett and The Beautiful South which I received at Christmas 1990, the first proper original album I actually owned was New Order's Technique.

MudRock as a pressie

First I bought - sheer heart attack queen

Same as Perchy!

And just to be pedantic,

To be honest I didn't really start appreciating music till I was about 13/14(I picked up a guitar around the same time). Nirvana/The Beatles/ The Stones/Pink floyd/The Doors/Alex Chilton/The Pixies would have been some of my early musical influences

You didn't appreciate them enough to know that it's Pixies, not 'the' Pixies.

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theotherjonv - Member
You didn't appreciate them enough to know that it's Pixies, not 'the' Pixies.

Looking forward to seeing them at the bandstand in a few months.

Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

In tape format as below

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One lonely Beastie I be
All by myself without nobody
The sun is beating down on my baseball hat
The air is gettin' hot the beer is getting flat

I've know idea why those lyrics have stuck... but found them going through my head as I was out on a run last week in the hot weather.

If you don't count Geoff Love and his orchestra - Great War Movie Themes it was Rainbow - Down to Earth.

Please Please Me - The Beatles 1963

First album: Money For Nothing by Dire Straits on tape.

First vinyl album: Something metal. Could have been The Real Thing by FNM or Master of Puppets by Metallica.

First CD album: Grassroots by 311.

Bought in that order too.

I think mine was either Nimrod - Green Day or Nevermind - Nirvana.

Sergeant Pepper - 1967.

Ah crap, it was Phil Collins, Face Value. 😳

Redeemed only by the first record I bought which was the theme music to Monkey. 8)

Michael Jackson - Ain't No Sunshine (compilation album), 1982ish

First album i bought with my own money, Nirvana Nevermind.

First single I bought with my own money, Stiltskin Inside 😳

Another for St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but a bit later than Slowoldman at Christmas 1971 with a token my grandmother gave me. She didn't approve.

No Parlez by Paul Young. "That's my home"

Sgt Pepper was No. 1 the week I was born.

Transvision Vamp - Velveteen twas 88/89 I think?!?!

This. I was 7 or 8.

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Def Leopard - Hysteria. Not sure the year I actually bought it though, maybe 89 ish. A girl down the road called Emma Gumby, who was a couple of years older than me and well fit, lent me the LP and I bought it on tape later. I liked Emma Gumby....

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seems a bit of an odd choice for 9 yr old me, but from what I can remember Prince was the choice of the cool kids at school, i was obviously keen to be one of them

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First Album 'Brothers in Arms' by Dire Straits around 85/86?

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Had quite a few bought for xmas and birthdays, probably about 1974 at approx 7 yo.
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Tears for Fears - songs from the big chair. '85.

Me too. I remember going into town with my dad with birthday/xmas money and having to decide between that album and an oxford pencil case tin which we had planned for me to buy. I remember my dad's face when I went for the album - it was like the realisation of an end of an era. I think the next week I went in on my own and got the hair cut I wanted and the slow slip from butter wouldn't melt child to a uncontrollable teen began.

B.A.Nana - Member
Had quite a few bought for xmas and birthdays

Still got that on double vinyl, musta borrowed it off me dad 😆

Steppenwolf 1969

Believe it was titled

Born to be wild

ELO. 'Out of the Blue' and Blondie 'Parallel Lines'. 1977 xmas presents

This thread is quite revealing as to the average age of the STW fraternity!

Small Faces 'Small Faces' 1967. Still worth a listen.

U2 - The unforgettable fire (1984iirc)

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Queen- A Day At The Races. No regrets, amazing album

(then a couple of weeks later in one HMV visit- A Kind of Magic, and also 3 Sides To Every Story by Extreme, August and Everything After by the Counting Crows, Troublegum by Therapy?, and Chaos AD by Sepultura, talk about escalating quickly)

First single, on the other hand, was I Will Always Love You, on tape. Not so good really, otoh it was a slipcase, I love tape slipcases

If 'Star Wars and other space Themes' by Geoff Love and his orchestra is disqualified, it is probably:

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