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first album you bought

lephtylephty Posts: 770
edited November 2006 in Other Music
the queen thread made me think of this. so now i am curious, what was the first album that you owned? i dont mean those books on records from my little pony or winnie the pooh. i mean the first piece of music!

mine is Queen Classic. i was about 11 or 12 and loved Wayne's World. the scene with Bohemian Rhapsody did it for me. still on of my all time favorite songs.

not long after that, a young obsessed pearl jam fan was made.
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  • aspoonfulweighsatonaspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,039
    Well, I can't remember the first tape or album, but when I got my first CD player around 1990, I'm not ashamed to admit that I went to the mall and picked up "Time's Up" by Living Colour and "Heartbreak Station" by Cinderella.

    Yup. Cinderella.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Paul McCartney and Wings "Wings over America" a disc(vinyl, baby!) live set with a neat fold out and a cool poster.....bought it a K-Mart that no longer exists....this was back in the mid 1970's. I still own it.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    I first heard The Beatles when I was seven. My brother gave me the following of his old albums:

    A Hard Day's Night (German imprint)
    Revolver (original Parlophone mono)
    A Collection of Beatles Oldies (original Parlophone stereo)
    Sgt. Pepper (Parlophone stereo)
    The Beatles (original Apple stereo)
    Abbey Road (original French Apple imprint)
    John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (original Apple - white Apple label)
    Ram (original Apple)
    Imagine (original Apple)
    Beatles 1967-70 (original Apple)
    Band On The Run (original, was it Apple?)
    Mind Games (original Apple)
    Living in the Material World (original Apple)
    Walls and Bridges (original Apple)

    That was in about March 1980. For my eighth birthday, in July 1980, I got a French reissue Apple version of Let It Be, and McCartney II. Funnily enough, a few days later, my mum found an original Apple copy of Let It Be at a jumble sale and brought it home for me.
  • transplanttransplant Posts: 1,088
    Heart - Magazine

    Queen - News of the World was my second.
  • luxpjamerluxpjamer Posts: 837
    my first album was from marillion, a blue one can't remember the name. My uncle always listened to Genesis and Marillion with us... Genesis was the first group i listen to I was about 10, listen to my uncle's 70 tapes which I found in his youth room in my grand-mothers house. Man, I loved genesis, I was singing some stuff that sounded English for me :)
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    First 45 - "Still the One" - Orleans
    First LP - "Grease" - Original Soundtrack
    First Cassette - "Escape" - Journey
    First CD - "Hand to Mouth" - General Public
  • lamperti77lamperti77 Posts: 365
    first cd = AC/DC Razor's Edge - still love Money Talks
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  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    U2 - Boy
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  • keyser_sozekeyser_soze Posts: 205
    blur by blur was the first album i got.

    on cassette. in 1997.

    i then got into smashing pumpkins, nirvana and pearl jam.

    good times
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  • redsfan1redsfan1 Posts: 26
    first tape about age 7 or 8 i got Bon Jovi's Slippery when wet and GnR's Appetite for Christmas.

    First Cd was Green Day's Dookie

    Pearl Jam's Ten was my second
  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Posts: 7,265
    I bought Simon & Garfunkel's "Greatest Hits" at the same time I bought the Cars' "Shake it Up." I was 15.
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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Oingo Boingo - Good For Your Soul
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  • disconnecteddisconnected Posts: 2,875
    It was an Neil Young album, I can't remember anymore which one.......
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    When I was a young kid my parents bought me lots of movie soundtracks and crap like that, just because I liked the movie. but around the age of 11 or 12 I started to get into real music. My best friend's older brother had a huge record collection and we used to steal them from his room and listen to stuff for hours at a time. If I remember correctly, the first albums I bought were:

    The Police- Synchronicity
    U2- The Unforgettable Fire
    The Clash- London Calling
    Men at Work- Business as Usual
    Midnight Oil- 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,1
    AC/DC- Back in Black
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  • ledhed43ledhed43 Posts: 114
    when i was 11 or 12 i bought pearl jam ten with some b-day money. that was the first album i personally bought. my mom bought me red hot chili peppers "blood sugar sex magic" cause it had the parental advisory sticker and i was too young. i remember trying to buy it and being rejected and my going to get my mom. she asked the dude if the under the bridge song was on the album because the only reason i was getting it was cause she liked that song. after that i got into zeppelin and floyd and stole my parents cds.
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  • toddiet123toddiet123 Posts: 271
    Bee Gees - Spirits Having Flown
    2nd - Kiss - Love Gun
  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Luckily my parents had good taste in music, so I grew up on a steady diet of Zeppelin, Hendrix, Neil Young, etc. When I was 10 or 11, I asked my Dad to get me a Zeppelin album. He took me to the record store and bought me Led Zeppelin II on cassette.
  • dimitriherremandimitriherreman Posts: 115
    I bought my first 2 cd's at the same time : - nirvana : nevermind
    - RHCP : blood sugar sex magik

    ( I don't know if its right or wrong , but if theres a label with "parental advisory" , you can't buy the cd under 16 ?? , Here in Belgium they really don't care , for example , you can buy an album of Green day with a label if youre 5 years old)
  • LizardLizard Posts: 12,091
    My First:

    Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman. Still have it!!
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  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    I think this was Aersomith's get a grip... or maybe ill communication from beastie boys...
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  • MojopinMojopin Posts: 216
    I was like 9 back in 1975, and bought Kiss' "Rock and Roll Over" on vinyl.

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  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    first cd i ever bought with my own money was no code,i was 10 years old
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  • pearljam_addictionpearljam_addiction Posts: 668
    STP-Core -1992- cassette
    "I Will Scream my Lungs out 'til it fills this Room "

    " I Will Feel Alive as Long as I am Free"

    "Are We Getting SomeThing Out Of this All Encompassing Trip? Makes Much More Sense To Live In The Present Tense"

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  • off_the_recordoff_the_record Posts: 843
    1st cassette - appetite for destruction
    Cheat the odds that made you
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  • LizardLizard Posts: 12,091
    An album = record = vinyl, right? just wonderin.....;)
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
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  • alobaralobar Posts: 310
    pearljam_addiction wrote:
    STP-Core -1992- cassette

    STP- Core- CD
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  • ledhed43ledhed43 Posts: 114
    chiefojibwa wrote:
    fuck, don't hate me....

    motley crue, shout at the devil

    ouch!


    i would run around and sing van halen's "jump" complete with guitar imitation. that and i doubt i ever had the album but according to relatives i was really into night ranger as a young child.

    YOURE MOTORIN....oh i have to laugh at myself at age 5 trying to sing that song, i am sure those are the only words i knew and repeated ad nauseum.
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    Knowledge is not wisdom.
    Wisdom is not truth.
    Truth is not beauty.
    Beauty is not love.
    Love is not music.
    Music is the best.

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  • gregkitefangregkitefan Posts: 1,115
    chiefojibwa wrote:
    fuck, don't hate me....

    motley crue, shout at the devil

    ouch!


    I love that album.

    Mine.

    Cheap Trick - One On One
    AC-DC - For Those About To Rock

    1981 or 1982
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  • ruberryruberry Posts: 15
    I think it was the spice girls, whatever their big hit was. I was about seven or eight, and was so delusional I wanted to be in the spice girls when the one girl quit.
  • The Waiting Trophy ManThe Waiting Trophy Man Posts: 12,158
    the first cd i ever owned was abbey road. one of the first cassette tapes i ever owned was appetite for destruction. i was never a big music buyer until that album came out. but the first album i was ever into obsessively was michael jackson thriller. my parents had it on vinyl and i listened to it all the time when i was 7/8 years old. actually now that i think of it, michael jackson 'bad' was one of the first cassette tapes i owned, about a year before 'appettite' came out, when i became a wanna-be headbanger.
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