# First album you bought for yourself? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342 "2007-05-09T02:06:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/101 "2007-05-10T01:57:57Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] _The Thin Red Line_ by Glass Tiger, and it was a red cassette. Probably nobody outside of Canada knows who they are. It would have been 1986. [/QUOTE] I had that album. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/102 "2007-05-10T02:02:13Z")
REO Speedwagon: _Hi-Infidelity_ My mom was not impressed with the cover art. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/103 "2007-05-10T02:31:19Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] You’re selling yourself short.. that album’s a classic. [/QUOTE] That’s what I was thinking, too. I think a lot of the folks who **WhyNot** is labeling as “cooler” than her are actually just “older” than her, and the music that was popular when they were buying their first albums has held up better over time than some of the stuff from the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/104 "2007-05-10T02:34:11Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] REO Speedwagon: _Hi-Infidelity_ My mom was not impressed with the cover art. [/QUOTE] I was reminiscing about REO last night, because Kevin Cronin threw out the first pitch and sang the 7th inning stretch at the Cubs game. He was talking to the guys in the booth, and he seemed like such a nice guy. They were playing old REO songs as their bumper music all night. The stuff seems kind of lame now, but man I sure did like it back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/105 "2007-05-10T02:36:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] [QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] You’re selling yourself short.. that album’s a classic. [/QUOTE] That’s what I was thinking, too. I think a lot of the folks who **WhyNot** is labeling as “cooler” than her are actually just “older” than her, and the music that was popular when they were buying their first albums has held up better over time than some of the stuff from the 80s. [/QUOTE] 😃 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/106 "2007-05-10T02:37:11Z")
Wow. So long ago. We had a lot of 45’s since I can remember but I don’t know which of these were first. We had **Beatles, Rolling Stones, Monkees, Beach Boys** , and _Party Girl_ by the **Hullabaloos** (sp?) My first album, IIRC, was the **Black Sabbath** _Paranoid_ album followed soon by **Led Zeppelin II**. Hitch-hiked into downtown Orlando to a record store, thumbed home, threw it on Dad’s big Stereo Console cabinet, cranked the volume, bass and treble to the max and made the mirror rattle on the paneled wall behind the unit. It only took a couple of seconds for Dad to appear from the bedroom door with mix of a confusion and disbelief and a “What the hell is that? Turn that crap OFF!”. What a drag. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/107 "2007-05-10T02:37:55Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Y’all are either way cooler than I was as a kid, or there’s some selective editing going on here! Mine was Michael Jackson, **Thriller**. The LP cover that opened up into the “sexy” pic of Michael wearing all white and lounging with wildlife. Tigers, I think it was. :smack: [/QUOTE] I bought that album for my son. I still love all those songs. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/108 "2007-05-10T02:41:11Z")
I think I’m going with the “way cooler” one. 😃 **Whynot** knows I kid. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/109 "2007-05-10T02:41:45Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] 😃 🆒 [/QUOTE] Hey, I had to defend our generation (actually, I think I’m a bit older than you, but I’m about at the right age to have bought some really, really lame albums in the late 70s & early 80s. Shaun Cassidy, anyone?) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/110 "2007-05-10T02:45:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] Hey, I had to defend our generation (actually, I think I’m a bit older than you, but I’m about at the right age to have bought some really, really lame albums in the late 70s & early 80s. Shaun Cassidy, anyone?) [/QUOTE] I chased down Rick Springfield at Woodfield Mall and got his album and an autograph and thumbtacked the album cover to my wall. How’s THAT for lame? ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/111 "2007-05-10T02:48:44Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I chased down Rick Springfield at Woodfield Mall and got his album and an autograph and thumbtacked the album cover to my wall. How’s THAT for lame? [/QUOTE] Don’t feel bad. I have a friend (my age) who still is a member of his fan club, and e-mails her circle of friends with updates on what he’s been doing. Cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/112 "2007-05-10T02:58:17Z")
Black Saint & the Sinner Lady, Charlie Mingus. I had spent an evening with one of my friends, lying on the floor by her parents’ gramophone listening to this. The whole album was like a trip, an out-of-body experience, life-changing. As soon as I could scrounge up some money, I ordered it for myself through her parents’ record club subscription. I still have it. It’s over 40 years old now. When it came out on CD, I bought it in order to save my LP, but I still take it out once in a while. There’s something about the LP vinyl that feels more “live”, in spite of the slight scratchiness. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/113 "2007-05-10T03:06:25Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] Hey, I had to defend our generation (actually, I think I’m a bit older than you, but I’m about at the right age to have bought some really, really lame albums in the late 70s & early 80s. Shaun Cassidy, anyone?) [/QUOTE] Seriously. Did you happen to notice what my first albums were? To refresh your memories, they were: Vinyl: Tony Basil Tape: Tone Loc CD: Steve Miller (not that bad, but it was the weakest of his greatest hits albums) So compared to mine, Michael Jackson looks like friggin’ Hendrix. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/114 "2007-05-10T03:07:45Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] Seriously. Did you happen to notice what my first albums were? To refresh your memories, they were: Vinyl: Tony Basil Tape: Tone Loc CD: Steve Miller (not that bad, but it was the weakest of his greatest hits albums) So compared to mine, Michael Jackson looks like friggin’ Hendrix. [/QUOTE] Well, I didn’t want to mock anyone in particular! 😃 I have an extended remix of Funky Cold Medina on vinyl. So who am I to talk, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/115 "2007-05-10T03:09:42Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] I think I love you. I just watched the new “Making Of Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation” DVD last night. [/QUOTE] Umm, yep, I found myself to be the only chick who loved Zappa in my Southern NC high school in the 70’s, at that time, a Freak points off label in them preppy daze. But, it led to the same appreciation of like orchestrations by George Clinton and P-Funk, which led to many other music avenues, which led to a pretty good damn time. It was the fate of finding that Zappa record in a dime store, lovely! Love you, too, then, Biffy… I am not so apt with modern stuff, and thanks for the DVD heads up. Will try to get it to watch. I sure wish Zappa was still around to give a take on the current world. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/116 "2007-05-10T03:27:10Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] Hey, I had to defend our generation (actually, I think I’m a bit older than you, but I’m about at the right age to have bought some really, really lame albums in the late 70s & early 80s. Shaun Cassidy, anyone?) [/QUOTE] My younger sister was bringing home Andy Gibb albums ☹ Then she fell in love with an older boy, and it so happened that they were listening to Journey’s “Escape” album. So naturally, that became “their album”, and she bought herself a copy, and played it on the family stereo over and over and over and over and over. Well, actually she just played the track “Open Arms” over and over and over and over and over. _blegh_ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/117 "2007-05-10T03:39:34Z")
After re-visiting this thread, upon further consideration, and a couple of vodka-on-the-rocks, I must disclaim my earlier _“Beatles '65”_ post. I know that I owned _“Why Is There Air”_ and the soundtrack for _“Mary Poppins”_ before that. Come to think of it, I had the soundtrack to _“Victory at Sea”_, too… ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/118 "2007-05-10T14:54:11Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Y’all are either way cooler than I was as a kid, or there’s some selective editing going on here! Mine was Michael Jackson, **Thriller**. The LP cover that opened up into the “sexy” pic of Michael wearing all white and lounging with wildlife. Tigers, I think it was. :smack: [/QUOTE] Nah, I’m not cool (really; ask anyone). It’s just that I have four older sisters, and they bought all the lame stuff before I could (they had some pretty cool stuff, too, but please, _12 In a Roe by Tommy Roe_? :smack: ) Between the five of us, you’d best be believin’ we had some pretty lame-ass music floatin’ around the house! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/119 "2007-05-10T15:09:03Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] Umm, yep, I found myself to be the only chick who loved Zappa in my Southern NC high school in the 70’s, at that time, a Freak points off label in them preppy daze. But, it led to the same appreciation of like orchestrations by George Clinton and P-Funk, which led to many other music avenues, which led to a pretty good damn time. It was the fate of finding that Zappa record in a dime store, lovely! Love you, too, then, Biffy… I am not so apt with modern stuff, and thanks for the DVD heads up. Will try to get it to watch. I sure wish Zappa was still around to give a take on the current world. [/QUOTE] Somehow, despite hanging around in HS with the sort of people who you’d think would have played Zappa occasionally, I don’t think I actually heard anything by Zappa until one morning in 1978, while waiting for my carpool rider, the station I was listening to played “Montana,” and I totally fell in love with that song. Then it took me years, back in that pre-Internet era, to figure out who sang it. I just knew it was absolutely crazy, and absolutely wonderful. ---
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