what’s the first album or cd that you ever got?
and the story behind it if you want to write it…
DEVO- Q:Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO
circa 1979
I was elevenish years old and had just spent $700 on a stereo.
I wasn’t big into music at the time, but wanted to get a C.D… Since I didn’t know what bands or artists I liked, I bought Paula Abdul’s “Spellbound” because it had the song my dance class was currently working with.
The end.
side note: I just coughed and my gum when flying across the room.
Photograph by Def Leppard.
My mom had a kitten, I was only like 11.
7 by Madness. The tragic thing is they were the best thing about the 80s.
Metal Health - Quiet Riot.
Talk about a band that hit the skids? I saw somethin about them on TV the other day. I guess the only gig they were able to get during the filming of this rockumentary was at a nudist’s colony.
No, they performed clothed.
What is it about 11? I was 11 when I bought my first record. “Apostrophe” by Frank Zappa.
“Yellow Snow” is a blast when you’re 11!
My first album purchase was Kiss’s ‘Alive’.
God, I’m getting old.
The Knack, Get The Knack, when I was ten years old in 1979.
The first album I ever bought was by a New Zealand band called Satellite Spies. This, as it turned out, was a mistake. But no surprise, as I have eclectic music tastes.
I don’t know if I really want to admit this but…the first album I bought was ‘Disco Duck’.
I was only 8 though, and I bought it with birthday money.
“Photograph” by Def Lepard was the best song they ever did,
but I digress.
The Breakfast Club self titled. They had one hit way back in the day called “Back on Track” . . . or maybe it was “Right on Track”. Damn. I will investigate. In any case it was the first LP I bought. Mine was the last generation to own any vinyl. Pretty random huh ?
Yet it was the beginning of a life long love affair.
Alice Cooper…Killer…I was 12 years old and was making a dollar a day cooking for my family, 5 bucks a week. The album cost 5.00 back then, it was 1970. My stepfather thought it was to expensive but when I came home with it he let me play it on his stereo. You know the big console kind in the wooden cabinet.
Needs
I was around 8 and I got Debbie Gibson—Electric Youth!
It was awesome and an actual record too not a CD. =)
The Mamas and Papas “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears.” In mono, I’ll have you know.
I think I was eight or nine, and I got the tape of Falco 3 'cause it had “Rock me Amadeus” on it, which, at the time, I thought was the coolest thing I’d ever heard.
Lies! “Pour Some Sugar On Me” was by far their best song ever.
REO Speedwagon “Hi Infidelity.”
I was a big 45 single-buyer up till that point. Some of the lamest stuff of the late '70s-early '80s. (Think Rupert Holmes “Pina Colada Song.”)
Then I spent a summer downstate with my cousins, heard “Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet and “Communication Breakdown” by Led Zeppelin for the first time, and was forever changed …
(That was back when Detroit had several kick-ass rock radio stations - WRIF, WLLZ, WABX)
Iron Maiden’s “Live After Death”.
I’m not proud of this…
Crap, time to date myself.
Album: Switched On Bach
Circa: 1967
Artist: Walter Carlos
Reason: At that time the Moog Synthesizer was very new and the concept of Bach electronicized was amazing.
Factoid: The original sythesizers could produce only one tone at a time so a Bach cantata could take as many as twenty tracks to record.
Extra credit question: Whatever happened to Walter Carlos
Neil Diamond’s “Love at the Greek.”
1st 45: “Blinded by the Light” by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band