[Closed] Your First Album

First album bought with own money...

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First album owned (bought for me by my parents, I was about 5!)...

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ill see beej's red showaddywaddy album and raise it with the blue version that my mam and dad bought me.
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first one i actually went out and bought at around 13 was boomtown rats 1st LP.
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punk was just starting and at my tender age i thought the only place you could buy records was woolies and boots, hence the boomtown rats rather than pistols, damned etc. i remember a bit later asking a puzzled shop assistant for something by the stranglers. a bloke in the queue overheard me, asked if i knew where sanctuary records was, and bingo, a whole new world opened up for me with listening booths and the smell of all that lovely vinyl when you walked in.... ahhhhh memories 😀

Cannot actually remember which one but must be one of these ...

Bee Gees
Carpenters
ABBA
Blondie

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I forget which was first, but the first two genuine albums were

Blur:Parklife

Manic Street Preachers:Everything Must Go ()

Both pretty good today I'd say.

Michael Jackson - BAD, 12" vinyl naturally! Still a good record! Could be a lot worse, My tastes after were a bit eclectic (it was the mid 80's, looking back, it seems quality of music was a bit up and down 🙂 )

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1980, so I was 8.

Magical Mystery Tour, reckon 1969...

Was meant to be 'Sgt Pepper's' but cracked while I was saving up and got 'Nice Enough To Eat', a cheap Island sampler (14/6d). Sgt Pepper's was next

Electric Warrior. T Rex.

A long time ago.

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Tubular Bells. That dates me! Kinda sad that there's a whole generation coming along that wont ever have bought a "First Album". What was the first song you streamed, really isn't the same.

If we are discounting those top of the pops albums that were all covers, that you got in wollies then it was tonic for the troops the boomtown rats. If not it had crazy horses and my ding a ling on it.

Embarrased to say it was the Beatles Please Please Me along with all the other girls in 1963.

I didn't buy any more of theirs until Revolver and Rubber Soul then of course the Iconic Sgt Pepper which I still have.

It wasn't until 64 that I could establish my rad bad biker credentials with The Rolling Stones album.

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Embarrased to say it was the Beatles Please Please Me along with all the other girls in 1963.

Embarrassed! Bloody awesome decision!

My mate bought the B52's album in 1976 the day it came out. We were 15 and bunked off school to listen to it. Still awesome!

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Still listen to it regularly.

The police reggatta de blanc after seeing them at MK bowl in 1980.
I was 7 and my dad took me so we went out to B&A records in Bletchley to buy the album A few days later.

The first actual vinyl album I bought with my own (pocket) money, of which there wasn't much, was the OST of [i]Fistful of Dollars[/i], in 1967, then later on in 1970 it was [i]Bridge Over Troubled Water[/i] on cassette, then ELP [i]Pictures at an Exhibition [/i], also on cassette, and Tangerine Dream [i]Ziet[/i] on German import vinyl from Virgin Records in Bristol, around 1972.
First single was Fleetwood Mac [i]Albatross[/i].
Most of the early albums I had, like Zep 4 were cassettes taped from mates vinyl copies, made by holding the mic of my Philips N2204 portable recorder in front of the speaker of the family Bush record player!

Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Bought on a school trip to Tenby when i was 11 from Woolworths in 1988.

My first album was this K-tel classic:

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It was for my xmas, and I got another one which was, quite frankly, embarrassing.

I think the next album after these was possibly CRASS's Feeding of the 5,000 (on small wonder bought from their shop mail order.... 😆 )

Meatloaf. Bat out of hell . 1977 or thereabouts so would have been 8 years old . Dad bought it for me

Another T Rex Electric Warrior here. Still listen to it on occasion. It was a long time ago, but it still makes me smile.

graemecsl - embarrased to say it was the Beatles Please Please Me

As I posted on P2 this was my first LP too. Embarrassed? no!

However, like you I became a Stones fan in 1963 with 'Come On' & then bought 'The Rolling Stones' album in 1964

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bought in 1st year senior school so 1972/3
paid about £3.00 now up to £100 😯

Rio - Duran Duran, and still in my top ten listened to

I bought Licensed to Ill by the Beastie Boys on my 9th birthday to play on the Walkman (not Sony) I got on the same day - I think I paid for it with a £10 Boots voucher.

The first album I owned was one bought for me as a present...
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BoardinBob - Member

Bad - Michael Jackson, 1987

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Discounting something by, er, the Goodies and Geoff Love and His Orchestra Plays Bond Movie Themes, first was Blondie Parrallel Lines. Followed by Police Regatta de Blanc.

Good thread

Status Quo, 1982, in 1982.

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Thought I was being cool or something.

Britney, 2001, I think I was maybe 9.

I think the next album after these was possibly CRASS's Feeding of the 5,000

First was Michael Jackson - Bad, on cassette tape.

First Vinyl: New Kids on the Block.

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Some singles before, but punk and new wave were more singles driven, and I didn't have any money until I got the paper round. My brother is older and he bought plenty until I started so I didn't miss out.

My sister gave me Wish You Were Here for my twelfth birthday in Jan 1976. The first one I bought was a few days later, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

I don't know what my first single was (never really bought them)
I don't know what my first album was (bought SO many)
Not sure what my first gig was

the actual point of creation and experience is fascinating, probably why I studied it at university and still keep on doing bits and pieces, maybe I never classed what was the first purchase as monumental as it's only a function to getting to something else to listen to... this isn't me trying to be so cool, I'm just wondering if in a minority not knowing the answer to these questions?

First bought for me as a requested christmas present was Prince Charming, Adam And The Ants. First I bought was Brothers In Arms on cassette, first CD The Stone Roses.

ABBA Greatest Hits Vol 2, closely followed by Super Trouper and The Visitors.

The first album I bought on CD was 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged (1993).

Mudrock here too. 74 ish?

I can't be sure but I think my first single artist album was Dare by the Human League.

My first non single artist album was the Saturday night Fever soundtrack, It was bought from Woolworths. I skipped over the BeeGees tracks, my favourite track on the album was Open Sesame by Kool and the Gang, I think I would have been 10 or 11.

First album ever bought by me was ABBA - Super trouper - 1980 😳

I was never into music until I was about fifteen (I got accused of lying in German class when we were doing basic "My favourite type of music is... , my favourite band is..." type stuff as I didn't have favourites. I learned the German for "I don't listen to music" instead. Apparently this wasn't normal 😕 ).

Anyway I soon made up for it by discovering decent music, and bought my first ever albums in about 1994 (bought at the same time so I get two 'first' albums):
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Still two of my favourite ever albums.

This was probably the first one bought for me (1975).

Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier 🙂

MJ - Thriller.
Later followed by Wet Wet Wet, Terrance Trent D'Arby, The Cristians etc.
Got bought Nick Kershaw 'The Riddle' as a single by a girl at the Christmas school disco. I bought her a Terry's Chocolate Orange the next day as a present. Took 4 chunks out on the way to school and ate them. Needless to say she wasn't impressed and I got dumped. My romance skills haven't improved since!

REM-Out of Time

First one I bought was Hawkwind by errr Hawkwind in 1976

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Licensed to ill for me, must have been 1987, still play it on occasion.

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I bought it about 84. Cried so much when my tape player ate it that my dad felt sorry for me and gave me a fiver to go buy a new copy. Can't remember him ever giving me a fiver another time, ever 😀

I honestly can't remember but I think it was either Celebrate the Bullet, The Selecter or More Specials, The Specials

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The first album I bought on CD was...

ooo, that's an interesting variation (for those of us whose previous answers were vinyl or tape)

I think mine was Queen - A Kind of Magic

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Pulp - Different Class (1995). I actually listened to it again over the weekend on spotify and there were still some cracking tracks on there

Spike Milligan - Bad Jelly The Witch
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I won a music voucher in school in about 78 or 79. Probably my oldest possession.

First album that I actually bought myself was Reload by Metallica.

Previously my music collection was recorded tapes from an uncle that consisted of the stuff like Metallica, Gun, the Cult, Bon Jovi, Little Angles, Maiden, Sisters of Mersey etc.

Once I started buying lots of CD's myself around '98 it started to get heavier and heavier. We also started trading music via MP3, using Winplayer to rip each other's CD's.

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Which I played on my Fidelity music centre.

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material, 1979 I think.

The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta on cassette. £3.95 from some wee shop next to the bus station in Dundee in late 1980 or early 81. Still like it!

Used my lunch money to buy Permanent Waves by Rush from Taste records in Peebles

Madness Absolutely 1980

I'm now thinking that a Led Zep album was probably my first pocket money purchase, Led Zep II or Houses of the Holy, probably Led Zep II would be the obvious one. Then there was a house party and a shift in 1981/82 at 14/15yo, at the party I listened to Honey Bane on Crass Records and/or Crass Penis Envy album where it all changed for me over night musically (the point where I let go of my big Sister's Heavy metal reins and found my own music feet, in Punk). I'd already been given Stranglers Raven album on cassette and liked, but this was the point it all fundamentally changed and bands like Led Zep were never played again (until maybe in my 30's).

Aladdin Sane and Dark Side of the Moon. Both in '73, one for my 13th birthday and one for Christmas, but I can't remember which way round.

In early 1982 as a 11 year old I bought my first album with my own pocket money - The Jam - The Gift.

Genesis - Invisible Touch. I was 9 and I loved it.

Iron Maiden, number of the beast 1982.

Graceland - Paul Simon. It was 1986 and I was 11. I loved the rhythms of the record and the storytelling in the lyrics. Started playing it again in the last couple of years and despite the production being pretty awful, the songs still stand up IMO, also gives me a bit of a nostalgic feeling...

Machine Head by Deep Purple '72