# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/21 "2000-05-04T15:39:21Z")
_Thriller_. I was eight. I was walking through K-Mart with my dad, I pointed out that I liked some songs on it, and he picked it up and bought it for me. On vinyl, dammit. > [@](#): > > Lies! “Pour Some Sugar On Me” was by far their best song ever. A very, very close second, and _Hysteria_ was one of those defining high school albums for me. However, for a single song, I’ll have to go with “Rock of Ages”. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/22 "2000-05-04T16:06:49Z")
I was around 7 or 8. _Chipmunk Punk_, by Alvin and the Chipmunks. What a killer album that was! ---
**Author:** ![ATTGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@ATTGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ATTGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/23 "2000-05-04T16:22:44Z")
It was The Cure’s “Mixed Up”. The first album I ever bought was a CD. I’ve never owned a tape or record. How weird. ---
**Author:** ![Bobort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bobort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobort)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/24 "2000-05-04T16:27:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Extra credit question: Whatever happened to Walter Carlos You mean Wendy? 🙂 I think the first album I bought was the soundtrack to _A Clockwork Orange_. ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/25 "2000-05-04T16:28:42Z")
**vinyl** : michael jackson, _thriller_ **cd** : mc hammer, _please hammer don’t hurt 'em_ ---
**Author:** ![jayron\_32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jayron\_32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayron_32)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/26 "2000-05-04T16:29:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Metal Health - Quiet Riot. Weird, MY first album ever was Metal Health by Quiet Riot. My little brother and I sued to play Monopoly all night and listen to the album back to back for hours. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/27 "2000-05-04T16:36:03Z")
First vinyl album: Electric Light Orchestra, _OLÉ ELO_ First CD: Donald Fagen, _The Nightfly_ ---
**Author:** ![right\_said\_fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@right\_said\_fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/right_said_fred)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/28 "2000-05-04T16:48:07Z")
Ted Nugent’s “Cat Scratch Fever.” And I continued to buy a new copy every several years 'cause I’d wear out the grooves. Now I have a copy on CD. Needles to say, a good portion of my music collection is rather loud. I played some vinyl last week for the first time in ten years (Godzilla, Blue Oyster Cult). Boy, did it sound like shit. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/29 "2000-05-04T16:51:27Z")
Lets see…it was about 1972; I was about 14. Too Much Too Soon by the NewYorkDolls. Too cool. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/30 "2000-05-04T16:58:41Z")
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. Still one of my all time favourites! ---
**Author:** ![Treycal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Treycal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treycal)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/31 "2000-05-04T17:05:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > My first album purchase was Kiss’s ‘Alive’. > God, I’m getting old. > \*\* Spooje, I’m with ya there. Although my first was Kiss “Love Gun”. I was about 7 or 8 staying at my grandmother’s place for a week during the summer. They thought it was a total waste of my money. Looking back on it, I have to agree with them. The coolest part of the whole thing was this cardboard cut-out gun that came with. I think I had more fun with that than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/32 "2000-05-04T17:06:50Z")
Queen _News of the World_ on 8-track! Elelle – very impressed with your first album. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/33 "2000-05-04T17:08:35Z")
Johnny Cash at San Quintin. On reel-to-reel. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/34 "2000-05-04T17:14:41Z")
First vinyl album: 1963, Meet the Beatles. My parents were shocked and sure I would go straight to heck, listening to that trash. First cee dee: 1999 (I was a late convert–just borrowed my kids’cds before last year): Jimmy Buffet, “Songs You Know by Heart” and (same day) Little Feat, “Waiting for Columbus.” ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/35 "2000-05-04T17:31:10Z")
My first LP: The Beatles 1962-1966 (the red “greatest hits” album.) My first CD (actually I bought two at the first time): Talking Heads, “Little Creatures”, and an album from a german woodwind quintet playing Handel. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/36 "2000-05-04T17:34:42Z")
Cassettes: Cyndi Lauper, True Colors, and Cheap Trick, on the same day. Don’t remember the CT album, but it had “Don’t Be Cruel” and “The Flame” on it, and I would make up dance routines in my bedroom. CD: I bought Please Hammer Don’t Hurt 'Em, eeek, and I got a Michael Bolton CD around the same time as a b-day gift. I never listened to it, I swear!! OK, I did. And I liked it. Ewwwww. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/37 "2000-05-04T18:32:08Z")
((showing my age - be kind)) “13” - the Doors first greatest hits was the 1st album I bought. There were some second hand copies of the Monkee’s albums around as well. Lots of singles, and I think the 1st was “Mony Mony” by Tommy James & the Shondells. Hard to be sure about CD’s, but I think it was something by John Hiatt. ---
**Author:** ![Nen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Nen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nen)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/38 "2000-05-04T18:36:08Z")
Yellow’s single LP ::drumroll:: “Oh Yeah!” ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/39 "2000-05-04T18:41:16Z")
The Monkees. And I paid for it in quarters. I think the second album I bought myself was John Denver and the Muppets Christmas Album. I wish I still had that one too. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536/40 "2000-05-04T18:49:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > 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! > \*\* I find yellow snow a blast now as an adult, and it’s even in 7 to make it more interesting. You were a much cooler 11 yo than I was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-1st-album-you-bought/18536.md?page=3)