[Closed] What was the first single you ever bought?

Down Under - Men at Work.

Vibes in Bury for about 90p

The Clash - should I stay yaddah yaddah 2nd time round though!

Album twas Transvision Vamp Velveteen

Vanilla Ice on cassete.

HA 😀

Mine was Do the Bartman on cassette too!

Blur - Parklife.

Flash by queen.... Straight after I watched the film. Still got it

Not sure which I bought first,it's a long time ago,but the first 3 records I bought were;
Tears of a Clown Smokey Robinson (reissue)
Rat Trap Boomtown Rats
Best Friends Girlfriend Cars.
I notice vinyl album's are coming back these days,not seen any new 7" singles though.

DP, soz.

Kung Foo Fighting.
My cousin actually bought it, but I annoyed her so much she gave it to me.
🙂

Wild Side of Life by the mighty Quo was the first with my own money, I think.

Melanie - Brand new key (to a combine apparently)

Rock me Amadeus by Falco and Why can't this be love by Van Halen

Both 12 inchers 😉

First albums-
Now that's what I call music 4 and the Hits volume 1.

This from Talking Heads - and I still enjoy the song as much today. When first heard it playing on the radio my Aunt (who worked in local Woolworth's Record Dept) put a copy aside for me when they came in. It was treasured object on account of catchy and surreal awesomeness. Also, did you know David Byrne is also a cyclist and wrote a book about it? I only discovered this in recent years. Yeah!

Cool For Cats by Squeeze.

Pink vinyl too, as was the rage back then

some great songs coming, earworms almost every one. I've still got a ton of old 7 and 12" records in the loft somewhere, will have to get them down and go through them one day!

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I'll get my coat..........

😆

Shaddap you face- joe dolce!

Ernie, by Benny Hill 😳

no more heroes by the stranglers. pretty sure i can still remember the price, 79p i think.

ask me what i did yesterday tho and er.......

In my defence I was 6 at most and it came out of the bargain basket at Arnotts Department Store (on George St if you can remember that far back). Might have been the princely sum, of 10p or such much.

Having listened to it for the first time in probably over 40 years I'm impressed with my taste at such an early age.

However the single I should've bought was Silver Machine by Hawkwind. Man I loved that one....

Or something by Slade.

I always tended to buy albums, but I think the first singles I bought were Soundgarden's Spoonman, and Pantera's Walk (two different versions with differing b-sides). I was about 13 and on holiday with a friend's family in Wales. I also bought a range of beaded bracelets...

van halen jump

My Old Man's a Dustman by Lonnie Donegan, 1960. I was 4.

Possibly
Wham - Club Tropicana
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
(both 1983)

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Paula Abdul-Opposites Attract, from Aberystwyth Co-op

Young,Gifted and Black, by Bob and Marcia.

Milk and Alcohol by Dr Feelgood

7" of pure wonderfulness purchased from Our Price.

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Golden Brown - The Stranglers

Peaches - The Stranglers

Superwomble by the Wombles.

Stranglers - Guildford's moment of street cred (apart from Cathedral used in the Omen)

Jamba derailed by the Wombles 😆

And saved by a ninja edit!

I was gonna say Who Made Who by AC/DC. But the proximity of this thread to the SPitting Image one reminded me it might have actually been the Chicken Song.

First album was Flick of the Switch on cassette.

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I was 6 so more like first single I asked for and my mum bought for me. First I remember buying myself was Tom's Dinner, Suzanne Vega

Whigfield - Saturday Night, for my crimes.

First 7in was 'Start' by The Jam - though that was preceded by the maxi-single(?) four track 33 1/3 7in of Night Boat to Cairo by Madness. Not too embarrassing there, I reckon.

"Schools out" by Alice Cooper(which I've still got) and "Rockin Robin" by Michael Jackson.Both bought at the same time for 25p each from my local newsagents "Ex juke box" rack with no middles in 1972.

Breaking the law by Judas Priest 1980. Those were the day's ?

East 17, Stay Another Day. Not proud of it.

Lick my love pump by spinal tap

Another one for 'Don't Like Mondays' - 1979

That was the first I spent my pocket money on, but I had loads before that because my Nan and Grandad had a pub with a jukebox, and when the man changed over records he'd put some aside for the grandchildren to have (although we had to buy our own plastic inserts for the middle). The two that were most played out of the ones I liberated were 'Way Down' by the man himself, and 'Seasons in the Sun' by Terry Jacks. Not obvious choices for an eight year old......

Watching the detectives by Elvis

Nena, 99 Red Balloons

And then 16 years later I found myself collecting Nena from a hotel in deepest central Germany to take her to the farm I worked on to do a presentation to some kids who had won a nationwide competition. Of course I asked her to sign my old single that I just happened to have with me in the minibus 🙂

PS like Kylie, she is tiny.