What's the very first album you ever bought?

I had a very large poster of Marc Bolan in my bedroom too.

I am very old! :)

* = I am pretty sure this was a Hanukkah present.

Damn, Google amazes me sometimes.

then i got 'achtung baby' which i loved. there may have been a '100% hits' in there somewhere too. i used to buy them for my friends as birthday presents but before i wrapped it up nicely and gave it to them i'd tape a copy for myself.

The first album I got was....Supergrass-In It For the Money. Then I forget after that. First single I got was like this year! Underworld-Two Months Off, but I've bought Cosmos-Take Me With You and Colorsound-Fly With Me since then.

£4.29 on tape from woolies in tewkesbury, 1984.

andy

I think it was poison - open up & say...ahh!

I will now die of shame.

liscense to ill, natch.

(speaking of this topic: all you motherfuckers who owe me something for my zine better get in touch or you're outta the family.)

Let's see -- with my own money? Duran Duran's Rio, I think.

-- Josh (kortbein@e...), October 18th, 2002.

This explains so much.

So I bought Thriller and Purple Rain with my Christmas money, and I think New Edition was next.

!!!

but really, its a nice rec when you're 13.

my spelling is pretty bad but remember that this is the spell checker age so ha!

Haven't heard debut but I have heard the soundtrack to 'Dancer in the dark' which i enjoy and I heard vespertine (as part of 102 beats that, i have sent the review and it should go up someday on freaky trigger, which i didn't think much of).

''b) You're only two years older than I?''

I am 23. you seem surprised. how old did you think i was?

''d) Debut>Definitely Maybe''

correction: Gordon Mumma ('live electronic music' on Tzadik)>Bjork+Oasis.

I'm not posh! AAAAAGGGH. Fucksake, my mum frosts her hair, my little sister hasn't been without blue eye makeup (never quite removed) since 1985 and my dad used to watch Hee Haw and WWF!

I am 23. you seem surprised. how old did you think i was?
Then you couldn't have been thirteen when you bought Definitely Maybe. Fourteen at the youngest, if your birthday is late in the year. Anyway, you just seemed like you had to be older than older to be so irritable all the time. I'll be nineteen next week.

yeah, i think its 14.

Interesting that you didn't like the soundtrack. i thought it had some nice industrial type stuff amongst the strings and Thom yorke's voice (haven't heard that in a long long time so I'll have to pull it out again to tell you why else i did enjoy it).

''Anyway, you just seemed like you had to be older than older to be so irritable all the time. I'll be nineteen next week.''

if you tell me the day i shall do a (hopefully for you) not so irritable birthday thread. if you don't then happy birthday.

if you tell me the day i shall do a (hopefully for you) not so irritable birthday thread. if you don't then happy birthday.
October 27th.

I'm surprised to see so many people not getting their 'first album' until, like, they were not really young anymore.

martin- I do not known much 'contemporary' jazz (no david s ware or matthew shipp) (only a joe morris solo guitar alb). all free jazz i have is reissues (abt 15-20). I'm still 'stuck' in the european improv thingy.

I do not own any jazz apart from 'out to lunch' by eric dolphy actually. nothing before the 50s.

i like rock and some 20th century classical too but you never know what is around the corner do ya (i started listening to some flamenco as well)?

''yeah, get a room you too. jesus christ.''

not until you and ethan and nate have a threesome OK. with some undie rap as the soundtrack of course.

OK i culdn't pull it out and listen to it because I never bought the thing. the copy was borrowed off the record library. so I'll have to borrow it again. I'm not wild abt it but its a fine rec.

I could not pronounce it in English, and the track was instrumental, so I pronounced it phonetically in dutch, till I got to highschool and found out how. I'm dutch sooooooooooooo.

The first record I owned was a Disney songalbum lalalala

Still proud it was Rio.

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At garage sale:

Jethro Tull- Songs From The Wood

At retail:

J. Geils Band- Freeze Frame

First 7" single:

Xanadu/Drum Dreams (Olivia Newton John/ELO)

I am always skeptical of people who bought some unbelievably hip thing.

For me, it was three cassettes on the same trip to K-Mart: Weird Al's Greatest Hits, Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy", and the Ghostbusters II soundtrack.

My parents had bought me Thriller and some Jackson 5 albums when I was a small tyke.

The first albums they bought for me on a trip to the record store were Dare to Be Stupid and Songs From the Big Chair. Dare To Be Stupid was confiscated a week later due to the inclusion of "Relax" in the polka medley. I didn’t understand.

They bought me the Ghostbusters soundtrack as compensation.

The first album I bought with small change saved up over a long period of time was Shout at the Devil.

If you don't include kiddie records, I think the first album I bought was some dance hits compilation, on cassette. I bought a lot of those type of comps before moving to proper albums. I think the first proper album I bought on cassette was The Freddie Mercury Album.

The first CD I ever bought was The Bangles' Greatest Hits. The first non-compilation CD was Music for the Jilted Generation by The Prodigy.

J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame

― Jon Lewis

Same here, along with One On One, Back In Black, The Age of Plastic, El Loco, Cultosaurus Erectus and Songs from the Elder. Don't know which was actually first first. Think J. Geils, but it might have been Cheap Trick?

Same here, along with One On One, Back In Black, The Age of Plastic, El Loco, Cultosaurus Erectus and Songs from the Elder

Talk about being able to pin down the year you started buying records!

i think it might have been introducing the beatles. maybe. sounds about right. i bought that in nyc in the 70's. though i did buy stuff at yard sales pretty early on. i know for a fact that bad bad leroy brown was the first 45 i bought. cuz i'm an old school rap fan. bought that in danbury at a place where you had to give them the top 40 number and they would get the record from a shelf behind the counter.

First non-kid album I was ever GIVEN: Men at Work - Cargo
First album I picked out for myself: Van Halen - 1984
First album I actually bought myself: Not sure. Possibly Living Colour - Vivid

not sure which was first as they were all 1986, but was one of

bon jovi- slippery when wet
run dmc- raising hell
top gun soundtrack

I get confused because the same year I started buying records I inherited my sisters CDs and tapes (incl. Life After Death, Share My World, All Eyez on Me, 12 Play, The Score, Brown Sugar and Urban Hang Suite) as she went globetrotting for a year. I think it was either Da Real World by Missy, Wonder No. 8 by Honeyz or the first All Saints album. I assume as the All Saints album came out first it must be that, but those three were the first three albums I bought with my own money. That and a double R&B tape on it with a load of RKelly and Blackstreet etc.

xpost hahaha Freeze Frame represent!!! Wasn't 'River Blindness' a bizarre song?

Miles Davis - Tutu. Bought it because I'd heard excerpts from Birth of the Cool on the radio, and decided I liked Miles Davis. Also, the cover looked impossibly cool to me, a good enough rationale for buying an album to a 13 year old. Turned out the music inside didn't sound much like what I head on the radio, but I liked it anyways. Still do.

Grand Funk Railroad Live Album , summer of '71. LOLOLD!

Return of the Jedi soundtrack!

mine was Men Without Hats - Rhythm of Youth

either Purple Rain or Born in the USA

Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle.

the second album I ever bought was The Jets' self-titled album, lol

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My Aim is True. I think I had just seen Elvis Costello on SNL. My little brother, a more precocious album buyer, couldn't be persuaded to spring for that one.

Led Zeppelin - II (aka The Brown Bomber) and Black Sabbath - Paranoid on same day together and both on LP some time in 1975 aged 12. debuted em on great headphones (main way I listened to them thereafter). added heavy riff darkness to my burgeoning Beatles fascination. Roxy/punk artiness, radio MOR swoon and funk's spiky otherness was still round the corner for me.

Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden, which I bought off my father after he didn't like it.

I bought Thriller with the money I got for my first communion.
My older brother had Rio and that was the first album I ever LOVED.

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because

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doesn't count imo

that should be

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on my 13th birthday, 14th july 1976 i got: kiss - destroyer. i think it was my 1st album, not 100% sure though. stuff which i bought or got slightly later: manfred mann's the roaring silence and nightingales & bombers, supertramp's crime of the century, pink floyd's wish you were here, genesis a trick of the tail.

Queen, Jazz. Sadly, the fat bottomed girls bicycling poster didn't get through Chinese customs

First album I was given: it was either the vinyl Olivia Newton John greatest hits (with her dressed in white with her arm over her head)...or Grease soundtrack double album. PRIZE possessions, lemme tell ya.

First album I bought with my pocket money: Like A Virgin on cassette for AU$13 in 1985. And I think a compilation cassette called 'H'its Huge 84' (because Wham! was on it)

Pretty sure the first LP I ever bought for myself with my own money was Rebel Yell. I was buying a lot of singles before that and as good as "Eyes Without a Face" was, I need more...

Cassette: Tiffany, Tiffany
CD: P.M. Dawn, Of the Heart, of the Soul, and of the Cross

x-post 'Jazz' was my first album too!

Styx- Killroy Was Here

first record would have been Now something, 10 maybe, not sure. First proper album was pills'n'thrills and bellyaches

Madness - Absolutely (aged 7), followed shortly after by The Jam - Sound Affects, bought with my own pocket money, which at that time (due to a bizarre attempt by my Dad to help his kids gain top maths skills) was 49p a week (7x7=49).

First album bought for me: "Mickey Mouse Disco"
First album I bought with my own money: either No Jacket Required or Make It Big!

my mother never gave me money to buy records but i remember taping things off the radio for years. lots of Tool, NIN, and late night techno mixes. i think the first record i actually bought for myself was 1 by The Beatles. followed very closely by the first Prodigy album.

carlos santana / buddy miles - live

metallica - black album

i stared at the Kill 'Em All cover for a good while before deciding that i'd be better off just going with the one with enter sandman

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1966

Not counting Now comps (Now 6 was the first one I bought iirc)

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1986

I got a stereo for my 15th birthday in 1980 and that day I went to Rhino Records in Claremont and bought Dark Side Of The Moon and London Calling.

queens greatest hits when I was 14

On cassette I think it was some chart hits compilation from the tail end of the 70s, I remember "Ladies Night" and "Rappers Delight" being on it.

On vinyl it was def Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

On CD it was a dance compilation for the Big Issue with Orbital, System 7, Black Dog, Underworld and a bunch of other stuff.

first one with my own money, after getting a couple of 'hits' and 'now' compilations as gifts... sigue sigue sputnik's 'flaunt it'.

not exactly a classic, but could have been worse, I suppose.

The Beatles 1967-70, double vinyl, summer 1973. Which makes "Strawberry Fields Forever" Side One, Track One of my whole collection. I like that.

Given to me: Madness - Complete Madness, about 1983?

Bought by me: Beatmasters - Anywayawanna, 1989

can't remember exactly. prob steve reich, 18 musicians, maybe sonic youth evol. tho it could've been agharta + tago mago, i bought those around the same time

lol j/k

tbh it was disc 2 from zeppelin's song remains the same, ha, i bought that shit off my older brother for like $10. just disc 2. he was a dick then and totally knew he was ripping me off. he did that shit all the time. i think i bought a copy of 'achtung baby' for like $12 from him, but it was a copy that he stole from the library and had all the security and call number stickers still on it

Elton John's Honky Chateau and Greatest Hits Vol.II on the same day.

Still trying to think of the first album I bought, as opposed to was given.

hm, i've nevah posted on this thread? well, the first record bought was t.rex - electric warrior lp
sometime in '75 or '76, i think; the price, which was all black market 'n shit, was 'xactly 40 roubles.

so gazza's post way way upthread (The Slider- T Rex. I had a very large poster of Marc Bolan in my bedroom too. I am very old! :) ― gazza, reede, 18. Oktoober 2002)was kinda heart warming to read, too.

.. I'm thinking it was Wizzard Brew by Wizzard.

DeBarge - Rhythm of the Night, in '85.

Think it might have been the Beatles' "blue" (67-70).

Janet Jackson - control

Still trying to think of the first album I bought, as opposed to was given.

You're all so young.

Dressed to Kill by Kiss.

bah, 1977 for me! Rock 'n' Roll Over by Kiss. also 13th birthday (thanks, sis). also would have bought on my own anyway.

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Songs In the Key of Life, unless the actual physical task of standing in line and giving money to the clerk is the decisive literal requirement, in which case it's the Grease soundtrack (making it's third appearance on this thread.)

As a kid I remember jointly owning some tapes with my younger brother--MC Hammer, Kris Kross, Weird Al Yankovic. The first thing I recall pursuing on my own was the old 12-for-a-penny Columbia House deal. Do not remember it all, but included were:
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
Eazy E - EAZY-DUZ-IT
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Wreckx-N-Effect - Hard Or Smooth

So wish I could remember the rest.

^^Eazy might have been later, tbh I dunno.

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Maybe a Beatles 45 but my big sister usually had that duty. I did have a copy of "Great Balls of Fire" on 45 that my mother finally just tossed out the window because I played it so much but that came out when I was five, I think so I probably didn't buy that one myself.

Snap! - World power.
I was 8.

First album bought for me: "Mickey Mouse Disco"

Heh, Mickey Mouse Disco! Detroit's Channel 50 used to run that advert 74 times a day back around '79-80. Watch out for Goofy!

(Not laughing at Alfred's ownership, mind, just the very existence of the album itself. My own dozen-or-so children's LPs were less hip than that one.)

Oh, I can still hum "Welcome to Rio" and "Macho Duck" for you.

I remember "Macho Duck".

They really didn't understand the Village People, did they?

ysi?

chicago's greatest hits. i was 8 or 9

Either Boyz II Men "Cooleyhighharmony" or MC Hammer "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'em"... First cassingle was I think Bad English "When I See You Smile".....

First LP owned: Hans Christian Anderson's stories (1981) - green vinyl!

First cassette bought with own money: Now That's What I Call Music 7 (1986)

First 7" bought with own money: Ferry Aid - 'Let It Be' (1987)

First CD - The Cure - 17 Seconds (1989) - still my favourite album ever, very deliberately chosen so I could always say it in situations like this :-)

first album i ever asked for, but was never given because my dad read the lyrics: RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

first album i ever asked for and actually got (thanks to my mom, a year later): Nirvana - In Utero

i don't remember the first album i ever bought because i already had a ton of CDs that i got for free from my mom's CD warehouse catalog things

first 7": "only sixteen" -dr. hook (my next door neighbor for the past dozen years or so coincidentally played lead guitar with them then (Rik Elswit, very nice egg)

first album purchase: Trying to get the feeling - Barry Manilow (guess i was a cheese fan early on)
i normally claim Kiss' rock'n'roll over, my second purchase, as being my actual first....

I think it was the first Steve Martin album, but I can't remember for sure.

I think 'Boston' was the first that I asked for but the first I bought with my own money was 'Parallel Lines'.

YAH! KISS fanboys (and gurls) reprazent! btw, i think my sister may have had that Barry Manilow record.

I think it was Green Day - Dookie. I believe I actually tossed both of my Green Day albums in the trash one day.

Van Halen "1984". I need to get "Hot For Teacher" back in my life, actually.

The very first LP (or at least the very first LP purchased with my own allowance) was Styx's "Kilroy Was Here." While not a Styx fan, I had an enormous crush on this girl in my Grade 6 class who had made it very clear that "Kilroy" was her favourite album. After being invited to her birthday party, I begged my mom to take me to the local Sam the Record Man (a now-defunct chain of Canadian record stores) so I could buy the album. I spent the next few days memorizing every single lyric, thinking I could impress her - and win her heart - through my deep knowledge of "Kilroy." While the album was played at the party - and I mouthed every single word - she didn't give me a second look.

If memory serves it would be The Cars debut on vinyl. Before that I owned a Jim Croce 45 and The Beatles 67-70 on 8 track. Can't really recall any other early titles.

Throbbing Gristle, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, when I was 8

ok, it was A-ha, Stay on These Roads

Let me guess: you surreptitiously slipped the TG album under your coat when the cashier was ringing up the A-ha?

Throbbing Gristle, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, when I was 8

When did Bobby Gillespie start posting on ILM?

Bobby wouldn't need to have bought that album as I believe he plays the marimba on it.

Binjominia's tale of woe deserves to be a concept album in it's own right.

Bobby wouldn't need to have bought that album as I believe he plays the marimba on it.

"Naw, it wisnae a marimba, it wis wan 'o thae wee glockenspiel things, I swapped some cunt it in nursery school fer some Play-Doh"

Bought at my bequest, it was the Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack. Bought with my own money but by a parent, it was Licensed to Ill. Actually bought by myself it was Appetite for Destruction.

Kiss Alive!at a local chain called 1812 Overture around 1978

the good feeling music of the big chill generation

First album I bought for myself was Steppenwolf - Second (with "Magic Carpet Ride", my gateway drug, along with "Mrs. Robinson"). I had previously been given Sgt. Pepper and The Doors - Waiting For The Sun for consecutive birthdays, and I had appropriated my parents' copy of Bookends. Shortly thereafter, I bought Beggar's Banquet and The Doors.

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