# Your very first album

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-very-first-album/64289>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 4, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-very-first-album/64289 "2001-05-04T00:57:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-very-first-album/64289/61 "2001-05-16T23:19:23Z")

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My first 3: Beatles Revolver, Doors Strange Days, Beatles Sgt Pepper (in mono–why buy stereo when you have a mono record player? typical far-sighted thinking).

Lest you think I was a 13-year-old with great taste, #4 was by Paul Revere & the Raiders.

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**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-very-first-album/64289/62 "2001-05-16T23:42:52Z")

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I was given a twenty-dollar bill to spend at the local record store on my fourteenth birthday, and I bought _Rumours_ by Fleetwood Mac, _Morning Dance_ by Spyro Gyra, and _Switched on Bach_.

[sub] I even had enough change left to buy some strawberry-flavored rolling papers while I was there—they were quite nasty, as I recall.[/sub]😛

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**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-very-first-album/64289/63 "2001-05-17T10:52:06Z")

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‘Star Wars’ soundtrack.

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**Author:** ![domina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@domina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/domina)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-very-first-album/64289/64 "2001-05-18T00:41:33Z")

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The first album I got for myself was U2’s _The Unforgettable Fire_. Great album, I still have it. On the same trip I picked up _Under a Blood Red Sky_ and a couple of singles by Duran Duran and Billy Idol. (It was 1985, can you tell?) My family was about to go on a trip to England, so I taped them to listen to on the journey. My memories of England all have a U2 soundtrack.

The first CD I bought was Simple Minds’ _Real Life._ A good one, though it never really hit on this side of the pond.

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