# First album. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296 "2014-04-03T22:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/41 "2014-04-04T12:01:50Z")
I used money I received for my 10th birthday to buy Meet The Beatles! the week it was released in January 1964. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/42 "2014-04-04T12:04:15Z")
The first album I ever OWNED was Simon and Garfunkel’s _ **Sounds of Silence.** _ My 2nd grade teacher was a young, hippie, folkie nun who played that album in class a lot. I liked it, so I asked my parents to get it for me on my 8th birthday, in 1969. But the first album I ever bought with my own money? Probably the debut album by Boston, in 1976. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/43 "2014-04-04T12:08:09Z")
**The Monkees** Greatest Hits, on the Colgems label, but I can’t find a picture of the cover online anywhere. It is blue with the band’s name in red letters, and also featured a stylized golden LP on the front. On the back it had a b&w picture of Jones, Nesmith and Dolenz. I’m pretty sure I still have it packed away in my boxes of LPs, but I’m positive it’s no longer in a condition to even be played. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/44 "2014-04-04T12:14:20Z")
Pink Floyd’s _The Wall_, followed by _Led Zeppelin IV_. ---
**Author:** ![Donegal\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Donegal\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donegal_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/45 "2014-04-04T12:30:41Z")
Cream - Disraeli Gears followed by Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/46 "2014-04-04T13:27:01Z")
[The Ventures Play Telstar, The Lonely Bull](http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-ventures-play-telstar-the-lonely-bull-mw0000456990) - early 1963. Like a million other 7th-graders, I sat in my room listening to that album playing along with it on the Silvertone guitar my parents had given me! ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/47 "2014-04-04T13:31:24Z")
_Appetite for Destruction_. I was 10. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/48 "2014-04-04T13:38:19Z")
_The Doors._ Still have it. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/49 "2014-04-04T13:41:02Z")
Queen - A night at the Opera ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/50 "2014-04-04T13:45:15Z")
It was one of those old K-Tel collections. I don’t remember its title but some of the songs on it were “Frankenstein” by the Edgar Winters Group, “Lola” by the Kinks, and “Mississippi Queen” by Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/51 "2014-04-04T13:56:43Z")
All my LP’s were children’s records played on a little kiddy record player so I’ll have to contribute my first cassette tapes: First tape I ever owned, parents bought it for my first tape player: The Thompson Twins “Into The Gap”. First tape purchased with my own money: Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual” Second tape purchased with my own money: Gowan’s “Strange Animal” (my mom refused to buy it for me because it has a song called “A Criminal Mind” on it, lol.) ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/52 "2014-04-04T17:31:12Z")
First album bought with my own money was a “as seen on TV” type album called “Certified Gold.” It had songs by .38 Special, Pat Benatar, and The Police. Pretty much all staples of what is now Classic Rock. I think it was about 1980. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/53 "2014-04-04T17:57:00Z")
My first “I bought it myself!” album was Sgt. Pepper. I had grown up listening to my mom’s Beatle albums but for some reason she didn’t have Pepper or Magical Mystery Tour. She got me MMT for Christmas. That would have been in 1982 or 1983. The next one was Eddie Murphy’s “Delirious.” I have eclectic tastes. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/54 "2014-04-04T19:31:35Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > Pink Floyd’s _The Wall_, followed by _Led Zeppelin IV_. I bought the 2 albums together. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/55 "2014-04-04T19:49:49Z")
> [@4d3fect](#): > > Baby. Or “Hawn-uh” ETA: (“In a gadda-da-vida, hawn-uh”) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/56 "2014-04-04T19:59:46Z")
First album I ever bought was “Introducing The Beatles”, Vee-Jay mono. Got it at J.C. Penney. January or February '64, at the ripe old age of 13. Second album IEB was “Meet The Beatles” Capitol mono, about a month later. Third: “Beatles Second Album” Capitol mono, when it was released. ---
**Author:** ![NiceGuyJack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/niceguyjack/32/3069_2.png) [@NiceGuyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NiceGuyJack)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/57 "2014-04-04T20:12:55Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > KISS’s **Destroyer** I’m pretty sure this was my first album too. But my memory on this is vague. It could have been AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. I just can’t remember which one I bought first. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/58 "2014-04-04T22:26:00Z")
**Blondie** , Autoamerican “Fab 5 Freddy told my everyone’s fly…” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/59 "2014-04-04T23:52:00Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > The first album I ever OWNED was Simon and Garfunkel’s _ **Sounds of Silence.** _ My 2nd grade teacher was a young, hippie, folkie nun who played that album in class a lot. I liked it, so I asked my parents to get it for me on my 8th birthday, in 1969. Are you me? Same album, same year, and there was a nun involved in my choice–my aunt, who had songs from the album recorded on a little reel-to-reel tape recorder. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/60 "2014-04-04T23:59:18Z")
It was one of these three, which I bought all around the same time: 1. Motels - All Four One 2. Def Leppard - Pyromania 3. Berlin - Pleasure Victim All were cassette tapes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296.md?page=4)