Either “Close to the Edge,” by Yes or “A Day At the Races,” by Queen
I still have both of them, but they are in pretty sorry shape.
K-Tel, baby – Wings Of Sound.
I’m straining my brain at the moment, but the only artists I can remember appearing on it were Blondie, Rupert Holmes and ABBA.
The first album I remember buying was George Carlin’s FM & AM.
The first album I ever owned was a Christmas gift from my aunt. It was either Baby I’m-a Want You by Bread or The Partridge Family Album
I’d bought the Carlin LP because I’d seen his act on television variety shows and really thought that his Hippy Dippy Weather man was funny. I had NO IDEA :eek: what I was purchasing. So I dropped the needle and was immediately convulsed in laughter over “Shoot” [GC] "I was fired in Las Vegas for saying “shit.” In a town where the big game is called “crap.”[/GC]
Meanwhile, my father in the other room is hearing nothing but a steady stream of profanity coming from his speakers. He didn’t understand at all why I was on the floor laughing.
A Night At The Opera - Queen
Although I don’t listen to much Queen any more, this was an amazing album at the time. My current tastes find it to be way over-produced, but it’s still nice to reminisce.
Spice Girls - Spiceworld.
I still don’t know why I bought it. I’d never heard a song by them before (I didn’t listen to the radio/watch TV), but all of my friends were totally obsessed.
If it’s any consolation, my taste in music has improved quite a bit since then.
Begged my parents for: Songbird, one of those K-Tel compilations. The song I wanted was Somebody’s Knockin’ by Terry Gibbs, but it also had Poco, Ambrosia, Leo Sayer, etc. I still have and still like it.
Bought myself: Like a Virgin, by Madonna. Still have it and still like it.
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I think the first album I owned was Def Leppard’s Pyromania. It’s still one of my favorite albums. Now you’re gonna make me listen to it.
My first three were:
1.Magical Mystery Tour
2.Sgt.Peppers
3.Too-Rye-Ay by Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Pride by White Lion. Rock On!
What can I say… I was young, it was the Eighties, and my older brother was into the hair bands.
I don’t think I’ve actually even listened to that album since the late Eighties, but I think it might still be laying around somewhere. Maybe I need to go dig through some boxes and find that tonight…
I went to buy Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik and they wouldn’t let me because of the parental advisory sticker. My mom had to come back to the mall with me to buy it. I can’t believe they even enforced that!
This was the first album I bought for myself, too. I remembered the picture on the cover and I had to search Amazon to see which album it was. Good grief, 1982.
A couple of Santana’s - Moonflower and Abraxas. Vinyl, used. This would have been right around 1980, when I first got my own turntable.
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The Beatles, Revolver, on vinyl. Since this was selected by Rolling Stone as the greatest album of all time, one could say that my music collection started at the top and went downhill.
First recording came a few months earlier: the Byrds, Eight Mile High, on 45.
Second album: The Doors, Strange Days.
I’m clearly WAY younger than you guys. >_>
The first album I bought for myself was on cassette. The soundtrack to the first Ninja Turtles movie. >_>
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Jim Croce - “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim”
Pretty cool for an 8 yo, I always thought.
Emerson Lake & Palmer’s “Brain Salad Surgery” on vinyl in 1974.
Um, how about the Monkees? I’d have been 8 or 9. I still enjoy most of the songs on that album.
Did you know that the sand dune parts of their opening credits were filmed at Hyperion (LA’s main sewage* treatment plant)?
*now a Waste Water treatment because the word sewage has been determined to have negative connotations. ((don’t get me started about biosolids))