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.
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
I was around 7 or 8. Chipmunk Punk, by Alvin and the Chipmunks. What a killer album that was!
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.
You mean Wendy? 
I think the first album I bought was the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange.
vinyl: michael jackson, thriller
cd: mc hammer, please hammer don’t hurt 'em
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.
First vinyl album: Electric Light Orchestra, OLÉ ELO
First CD: Donald Fagen, The Nightfly
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.
Lets see…it was about 1972; I was about 14.
Too Much Too Soon by the NewYorkDolls.
Too cool.
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. Still one of my all time favourites!
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.
Queen News of the World on 8-track!
Elelle – very impressed with your first album.
Johnny Cash at San Quintin. On reel-to-reel.
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.”
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.
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.
((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.
Yellow’s single LP
::drumroll::
“Oh Yeah!”
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.
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.