1991-ish, a new Columbia House membership, so I actually had 8 first albums.
<leaves my pride at the door, begins typing>
U2, Achtung Baby
Nelson, After the Rain
Arrested Development, 3 Years 5 months and…
Michael W Smith, Change Your World
Winger, In the Heart of the Young
Toad the Wet Sprocket, Fear
…After careful thought, I’ve either forgotten or blocked from my mind the final two.
U2 and Arrested Development are the two that I’m proud to have owned. Well, Toad the Wet Sprocket was good also.
My memory is fuzzy, having bought my first album at age 13 (1983), but it was one of these three:
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[li]The Police- Synchronicity[/li][li]Quiet Riot- Metal Health[/li][li]ZZ Top- Eliminator[/li][/ul]
While I’m at it, my first CD purchase (1986) was Cinderella’s “Night Songs”.
My baby sister had a big-ass poster of Bobby Sherman thumbtacked to the wall. The urge to throw things at it was overwhelming at times. I love to remind her of that.
The first album that I bought was ‘A Night At The Opera’ by Queen. Still brilliant to this day.
I was 11 or 12. I remember listening on headphones because the opening track ‘Death on Two Legs’ includes the lyric “and now you can kiss my ass goodbye”.
I thought my parents may not approve lol.
I think the second purchase was ELO’s ‘A New World Record’.
The first CD I bought was Don Henly’s End of The Innocence in about 1990. 4 great songs, 6 bad ones. I was a vinyl hold-out (my turntable was quite expensive) and I still have about 350 ‘albums’.
I bought Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions. I was 12 years old. After hearing a dub of a dub of it on cassette tape, I just had to spring for the album.
You were thinking, “Wow! What an awesome record!” Dirty Deeds, Problem Child, Ride On, Big Balls! Three classic rockers and one that still makes me laugh!
Mine wasn’t so big, I think it was the picture from Teen or Tiger Beat. Along with the one of Leonard Whiting, who was cuter, although from what I remember now, he was quite the ‘pretty boy’. Really the one (short-lived) concession I made to what everybody else was doing.
First album? The first one I owned was Gold, by Neil Diamond, which was a birthday present from my sister. Oh, I was happy!
The first one I bought was Good Morning Starshine, by Oliver. Three dollars and eighty seven cents at Woolworth. And the collection doesn’t get much cooler after that. Oh, well, cool was never one of those things I was destined to be.
Man, I really need to get some of these transferred from vinyl to CD.
I was 11. Summer of 1962, Claude King’s only hit, “Wolverton Mountain.” I bought the album “Meet Claude King” just to hear that one song over and over and over again. I have no idea what it was that I loved so much about that song – maybe it was the tragic romance of a lad so smitten that he ignores warnings of almost certain death to claim the girl he loves.
I am not sure. I think it was Freedom of Choice (Devo), but it may have been The Pleasure Principle (Gary Numan). Those are my first two, and I honestly cannot recall the order. I’m a huge fan of both, and have seen both perform live within the past year… Devo at the Oneida Bingo Casino in Green Bay (which KICKED ASS) and Numan at The Fine Line here in Minneapolis.
I believe that might have been the album “Our Finest Flowers” by the Residents. I was sixteen, had just got my first paycheck, was just starting to understand there was music in the world that I could enjoy, and so decided to go find something at the music store that I liked that I had never heard of. (“Never heard of” was of course a very broad category.)
Shuffling through the "R"s (a randomly chosen letter) I came across an album whose cover art I liked or something. (I don’t really know why I picked it. To be honest, it just seemed to “call to me.” I know that’s silly.)
This was back when a lot of music stores would let you listen to their CDs at little kiosks (do any still do this?) so I took it over, thought the music odd but potentially intriguing. So I bought the CD.
And it has been one of my absolute favorite CDs, by one of my absolute favorite groups, during the entire thirteen years* ever since.
Blibby bloop blooby, nibby nabba nooby la la la lo lo
sabba sooby sabba dooby abba dabba hey hey lo lo
Chabba woobie dabba doobie abba dabba early mornin’ singin’ song.
