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