[Closed] Your First Album

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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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

😆

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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