album: Jethro Tull : living in the past (I think!)

Single: Underworld: Born Slippy – I never really bought any singles as a kid.

Gary Glitter – leader of the pack! I shit you not!
“do ya wanna be in my gang?”
No! I’m only 3 you **** nonce!

Single Deep Purple/Black Night
Album Stray/Stray

I know the first record I owned was

But dunno if I bought it with my pocket money, or was bought for me.
Same with the single (which I’ve still got!)

Definitely bought:

and

in those formative teenage years.

rightplacerighttime – Member
Long Haired Lover from Liverpool by Little Jimmy Osmond,

I knew I couldn’t have been the only one……….. 8)

Ooo, I’ve got that 999 single stashed away somewhere. Got loads of old punk/new wave 7 and 12″ singles, from back when Chippenham actually had a proper record shop run by someone with a clue.
*Sigh*, those were the days… 😥

Spicegirls and aqua came free with the stereo my mum bought me when I was younger! No shame!

But the first 2 I bought were Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory and Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavoured Water 😀

2 for £10 at HMV!

Never really done singles, but my first album was Demon Days by the Gorillaz.

I’ve got that 999 single stashed away somewhere

I haven’t! Back then I used to have to sell stuff to buy new records, so all my 999 stuff went 🙁 Still got the Iggy album though. Dunno where Mud Rock went – I fancy a quick shoulder stomp! 😀

My Ding a ling by Chuck Berry

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First Single I bought..
5IN – Nine Inch Nails
First album: Something by EZ-E… album art was blue, can’t remmeber the name.

Album- Queen, A Day at the Races or A Night At The Opera, not sure which
Single- Guns’n’Roses, November Rain.

Single; Abba – One of us
Album; Adam And The Ants – Prince Charming
CD: Jesus Jones – Liquidizer

Single- Stray Cats , Runaway Boys
Album- The Thompson Twins ?

Album – Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
Single – Either something by the Wurzels or the Baron Knights probably
CD – Alloy, Eliminate

I was more into albums than singles. I do have lots of 12″ EPs from the mid/late 80s tho.
First album I went out and bought with my own money was about 1980 and I was 13ish

first single (not available on an album) was much later 1982

Single was Reet Petit by Jackie Wilson
Album Stone Roses by Stone Roses

I had other guff bought as presents etc but they’re the first I parted with my hard earned (read pocket money) for.

Single would have been Ultravox, Vienna.
First album I remember buying was Dazzleships, by OMD. Still got it, scratched to hell.

1st single – Rat Trap – Boomtown Rats
1st album – not quite sure but I think it was Parallel Lines by Blondie

Having said that I’m pretty sure I also bought, earlier, the Yingtong Song by the Goons and was also given a copy of Merry Christmas by Slade.

Single was Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen on 7″ vinyl.

Think first LP was Sisters of Mercy – Floodland on vinyl (was a short attention span singles only buyer and listener for a few years before I bought my first album).

slainte 😀 rob

You’re all so cool.

Right, I’m not proud of this but I grew up in a small town and we weren’t down the hip kids and that.

My first single was Combine Harvestor by the Wurzels.
My first Album was Magnetic Fields by Jean Michel Jarre

Yep, I have no idea either.

Album was Bat Out of Hell -Meatloaf and single was Cool For Cats by Squeeze,on pink vinyl I remember !

Brilliant single that Honey Bane one! Think I’ve still got it 🙂

Can’t remember my first single but think it was dinosaur jr. First album was Now 13

My first single was T Rex – Truck On (Tyke) which I also still have! That proves that there are at least two copies still in existence !

Album – The Sweet, Desolation Boulevard…. Not only do I still have it. I still like it………. only 37 years later 🙁

Album – Flaming Star, Elvis Presley
Single – Tom Hark, The Piranhas

Single: You can’t hurry love, Phil Collins

Album: The Crossing, Big Country

Album was Bat Out of Hell -Meatloaf and single was Cool For Cats by Squeeze,on pink vinyl I remember !

I’m sure I’ve got that pink vinyl Squeeze single as well. A sucker for ltd. edition coloured singles, me. It helped that the guy who owned the record shop had been a rep for WEA records, so had lots of contacts. I’ve got a Frankie Goes To Hollywood 12″ white label, a version of War, IIRC, that was not listed in the catalogue, with Gary Moore on guitar, I believe, and I had white labels of Tom Waits’ Small Change, and Neil Young’s Decade, that he pulled for 18 months because he wasn’t happy about something. I think I got them for about a quid.
Oh happy days.

Single – Ghostbusters by Ray Downey Jr

Album – Bauhaus 1979-1983

Clearly, I lack a certain amount of continuity.

Single-Bought two at once ex -jukebox with no middles from my local papershopfor 25p back in 1972.
Alice Cooper -Schools Out(still got this!) and Michael Jackson-Rockin Robin’
Album-Jackson 5-Lookin through the windows

yunki – Member
Album – Flaming Star, Elvis Presley

I’m pretty sure I owned that as a 8yo kid and his 40 greatest hits, but courtesy of me parents, not my own first purchase.

DebZ, Honey Bane should be congratulated as an artist who was earmarked for pop stardom by the big music bizz, but just walked away from it all. She was expected to become the next Toyah Wilcox/Hazel O’Connor, but chose not to go down that path and ended her contract with EMI (or whoever) and recorded with Crass records, choosing to do what she wanted to do rather than what the big music execs wanted her to do. I wasn’t aware of that at the time, 30 years ago.

I’ve got that 999 single stashed away somewhere

Yeah, me too & the Nasty Nasty/No Pity one – Which I still think are two of the finest punk records ever made…..

First singe was this

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First album was Depeche Mode-Speak and Spell

First single was either Black Knight/Deep Purple (snap TijuanaTaxi!) or Paranoid/Black Sabbath.
First Album was either Age of Atlantic/Various or Disraeli Gears/Cream.
(Can’t remember which came first – it was a longggg time ago 8)

Boney M – rivers of Babylon/Brown girl in the ring

Album – Prince Charming adam and the ants

First single was ‘Shaddap You Face’ by Joe Dolce in Feb 81, aged 9.

First album was ‘Prince Charming’ by Adam & The Ants in Nov 81, aged 10.

Trying to remember the first CD I bought.

Album – was either Pet Shop Boys’ Introspective or Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet. OK, neither cover me in glory.

Single – really can’t remember. Could well have been something much later.

First single was Star Trekkin by The Firm. Can’t remember the first album – it might have been Billy Joel…

First single was Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas, but it may have been an asked for prezzie.
First album was Rocking all Over the World by the mighty Status Quo.
Still listen to the Quo now and again, love ’em!

Bomber