# What is the 1st album you bought? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536 "2000-05-04T06:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/1 "2000-05-04T06:37:04Z")
what’s the first album or cd that you ever got? and the story behind it if you want to write it… ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/2 "2000-05-04T06:42:38Z")
DEVO- Q:Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO circa 1979 ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/3 "2000-05-04T06:43:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/4 "2000-05-04T06:44:00Z")
Photograph by Def Leppard. My mom had a kitten, I was only like 11. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/5 "2000-05-04T06:50:46Z")
_7_ by Madness. The tragic thing is they _were_ the best thing about the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/6 "2000-05-04T06:57:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/7 "2000-05-04T07:17:32Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/8 "2000-05-04T07:59:33Z")
My first album purchase was Kiss’s ‘Alive’. God, I’m getting old. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/9 "2000-05-04T10:26:23Z")
The Knack, _Get The Knack_, when I was ten years old in 1979. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/10 "2000-05-04T11:57:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/11 "2000-05-04T12:06:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/12 "2000-05-04T12:08:17Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![Needs2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Needs2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Needs2know)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/13 "2000-05-04T13:16:04Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![brittainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brittainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittainy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/14 "2000-05-04T14:07:06Z")
I was around 8 and I got Debbie Gibson—Electric Youth! It was awesome and an actual record too not a CD. =) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/15 "2000-05-04T14:11:01Z")
The Mamas and Papas “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears.” In mono, I’ll have you know. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/16 "2000-05-04T14:13:03Z")
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. > [@](#): > > “Photograph” by Def Lepard was the best song they ever did, Lies! “Pour Some Sugar On Me” was by far their best song ever. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/17 "2000-05-04T14:14:52Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/18 "2000-05-04T14:50:02Z")
Iron Maiden’s “Live After Death”. I’m not proud of this… ---
**Author:** ![Germ\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Germ\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Germ_Boy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/19 "2000-05-04T15:07:49Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/20 "2000-05-04T15:24:26Z")
Neil Diamond’s “Love at the Greek.” 1st 45: “Blinded by the Light” by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536.md?page=2)