OT: What was your first album?

[njperry]

The first I remember receiving was the Dobbie Brother's Greatest Hits as a Christmas gift.

Like others here, I bought Grease early on; might have been the first I bought.

I also had the Star Wars soundtrack as well as a Star Wars record with much of the movie audio on it.

Then a recall my short lived KISS phase including the solo Paul Stanley LP.

I also remember getting the single for Meatloaf's End of Time (if that is the title) but no really processing it was about sex.

[conroy]

I think the first single I ever remember asking my mom to buy for me was "Cowboy" by Eddie Arnold. I don't quite remember what was my first album purchase, but Michael Jackson's "Up Against the Wall" is up there along with "Get the Knack" by the Knack. I also had a bunch of comic book related records featuring Superman and Spider-Man and the like.

[icpalma]

We had lots of music in my house growing up but the first music I ever went out and bought with my very own money was a CD - Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. I suspect I am not the only one for whom that was first!

[Rusty James]

Summer 1977
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
It got warped in the sun in the back of my grandma's car

Summer 1978
Kiss Alive II
I remember it well - spent all my birthday money on it
Two LP's with fold-out cover
The rub-on tattoos were pretty damned cool, too

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Ha! This seems to be a thread with quite a bit of universal appeal. Let's keep it going.

The first CD I ever bought? 'Green' by REM. I still have it, of course. Remember the novelty of buying 'em in those long cardboard boxes? That didn't last long.

Ya know, I remember developing quite an affection for the Clancy Brothers when I was *really* young...somebody gave me an old 45 of 'Beer Beer Beer,' of all songs! I had one of those little-kid record players and I'd play that and 'Wildfire' by Michael Martin Murphey over and over and over. Yeesh. Youth...

[YUMIKO]

[quote="DirtyMartini"]

Hi!! DM!!
How are you?

Oh...
My first album was "New Best" of Bay City Rollers.
Awwww...I was 12 years old.
My second album was...Kiss Alive II & "At Budokan" of Cheap Trick.

[Larissa]

The first album I bought with my own money (not pocket money/birthday money, money I'd earned with a real actual job ) was The Wall. I remember it distinctly. I spent the rest of that first paycheque on a denim jacket I'd been coveting for months. Gimme a break, it was 1986.

[ltwoman]

Oh, why does this seem like a trick question? The first album I remember having was The Singing Nun. But my first "real" album was Meet The Beatles, in '64, and that I still have (okay, so I think I kept The Singing Nun for posterity's sake.)
The first 45 I recall was I Fought The Law ( and I can't remember who did it, but I guess I was working on a Police theme even back then...) I kept all my 45s.
My first CD was Donald Fagan's Nightfly (was that the name? Still have that one, but even my CD collection has has been thinned down with each move).

DM, great thread. I like these "what are you reading", "what are you listening to", etc. Thought provoking. It stretches us and we learn more about each other too!

[Shangeris]

Oh, well. My first vinyl LP was U2's Under A Blood Red Sky or Man Machine by Kraftwerk

[mairinpgh]

(it wasn't bad enough that I admitted my 1st concert was Peaches N Herb, 1979, back on an earlier post ??) A fun - albeit slightly humiliating - topic:

SIGH. I was fortunate to inherit my mom's old Elvis & Beatles records (plus some regrettable Ricky Nelson). My father refused to acknowledge rock N roll, being a jazz junkie. But my 1st very own "real album", purchased with my own hard earned $$, was Deep Purple, Donnie & Marie, about 1977 or so, followed shortly by Shadow Dancing, Andy Gibb, 1978?. I was obviously brainwashed by disco trash, and it was entirely my next door neighbor's fault (all the boys adored her & she wore a lot of shiny short-shorts, etc. God the 70s sucked). But then in 1980 I got Zenyatta Mondatta, and my soul was "saved"...(it took a few years for Police tunes to hit the boonies in rural PA)

[Johnny O]

First album I ever bought with my own money was Regatta de Blanc on tape.
First CD I ever bought was Ghost In The Machine.

The first real album anyone ever bought me was the soundtrack to The Muppet Movie. I DEFY anyone from naming a song that kicks more collective ass than 'The Rainbow Connection'!!!!

[policefan]

It must have been the soundtrack for the West Side Story or the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[Mrs. Gradenko]

Backstreet Boys- Backstreet's Back

[smax]

i bought what i remember being a huge stack of records with money from my 7th birthday in 1981. From Boots in Epsom. Upstairs round to the left. erm..... , I seem to remember the "Grey Day" single by Madness (still got it) and Zenyatta Mondatta, and lots of other waaaay less cool in retrospect stuff, i'm sure (like the Kid Creole and the Coconuts, shakin' stevens singles or bucks fizz albums)....

I can't remember first CD, but it was very late, like this millenia, and was a present from someone with a portible CD player. So i guess the first thing i would have bought myself would either have been dance music, probably the chemical brothers or massive attack, or something old like the small faces or ver ooo...

nice thread.

[luddite lady]

Like Rusty James, my first album was Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. For the Christmas when I was 12, my sister (the one who accompanied me to The Police in Saratoga) took me to our local Sam the Record Man and told me to pick out any one album. She then took me to Jean Machine and bought me my first pair of real jeans (Levis). In one afternoon, I went from being a major nerd wearing cheap generic denim pants with elastic in the waist band to being the coolest chic in my grade.
I don't think I ever bought a 45. My brother had a huge collection and would run out and buy everything I liked before I had a chance to save the money. My favourite of his collection was definitely American Pie even though you had to turn it over half way through the song.
My first CD was Bob Marley's Legend.