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No lying to make yourself sound cooler than you are! What was your first proper* album, and in what year?
*Proper here means a full LP by a single artist. None of those pop mix type albums.
Mine:
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky - 1985
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!
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
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.
fair point! 😆legend - Member
Enlightenment will never mean a path away from Kylie!
The Who by Numbers - The Who in 1975
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 😳
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
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.






