What's the first album you ever bought (not bought for you)?

[gcgang]

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The Kinks Greatest Hits

 

[scrinch]

Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens, probably 1972

 

[panacea]

AC/DC Back in Black. About 35 years later and now it's my ringtone!

 

[Alan]

Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

 

[Gumby]

I did not have a stereo until after college. I believe the first album I bought was the Beatles White Album, but it may have been Sergeant Pepper's.

 

[Kimo]

Meet The Beatles for me also, interesting that in such a small sampling this album comes up as many times at it did....but then again, it is was The Beatles.....

 

[Alan]

I did not have a stereo until after college. I believe the first album I bought was the Beatles White Album, but it may have been Sergeant Pepper's.

Ditto. I only had my parent's old gramophone player when I lived at home, then only a tape deck I bought from a 2nd hand shop up after until a few months after we'd graduated college and started work.

 

[fishnfool]

Rush 2112

 

[fishnfool]

I also got tricked into the old Columbia records deal where you got a album for a penny but they billed the crap out of you for the other 11...lol

 

[harley]

My first single was I Got You (I Feel Good) by James Brown, and my first album was Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells. Got both of them in '69 when I was 13. I think my second single was Wipeout!.

 

[photoguy]

I think the first album (vinyl) I had was the Top Gun soundtrack. I can't remember buying it but I suppose I must have done so.

 

[Rosie]

Err, the first album I ever bought was with christmas money in the early 70's, I must have been 11 or so.

Bobby Sherman.

 

[Rambler]

STYX Grand Illusion. I think it was spring of 1978. Vinyl. First 8-track album shortly thereafter was Van Halen...don't remember the title, but it had "runnin' with the devil" on it. Parents hated it. Age 16.

Haven't bought music, albums or singles, CDs, even MP3s, in years.

R

 

[6miths]

'Photographs and Memories'. Jim Croce's Greatest Hits album in the fall of 1974 for 99 cents at the opening of the Sam the Record Man store, Pen Centre, St Catharines, Ontario.

Also bought Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' and Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits in the same week at the same price.

 

[HFWR]

Probably the Beatles "Yesterday and Today".

Should probably be in the Beatles thread, but I was surfing wiki yesterday, brushing up on my Beatles history. I knew that Y&T originally had the "butcher" cover. Mine has the travel trunk version. But what had escaped me all these years is that Capitol had pasted the new cover over the old one on some number, to save money. Just checked; my version is a paste over! Not in any sort of collectable condition though.

 

[marko]

"Deja VU" Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

First 45: (remember those?) "Incense and Peppermint" Strawberry Alarm Clock.
Still remember the day: Rode up on my motorcycle wearing soft sole moccasins (yeah, I know...idiot), striped bell bottoms, see through flowered shirt...put the record on the back of the bike strap. Groovy.

 

[WestLake]

Albums were too expensive. First single (45) I remember buying (and playing over and over on the console "Hi-Fi") was "One" (is the loneliest number that you'll ever do) by Three Dog Night.

I guess that is my theme song for life!

 

[ER Eddie]

I bought three of them: Foghat's first, Aerosmith's "Toys in the Attic," and Jethro Tull's "War Child." Over time, I became a big fan of Jethro Tull.

 

[ShokWaveRider]

"Cat's Foot Iron Claw, Nero Surgeons SCREAM for more, Paranoias Poisoned Door, 21st. Century Schizoid Man"

 

[golfnut]

It was 1965 ad I was 10 yrs. old. First album was Herman's Hermit's on Tour. Funny thing about this record-there was not a single live song.

Shortly follow-upped this purchase with the Beach Boys Live and Help (Beatles).

 

[drb391]

Beatles also, but Beatles '65

 

[timeasterday]

Either Led Zeppelin IV or something from Frank Zappa. Can't remember now.

 

[ER Eddie]

"Cat's Foot Iron Claw, Nero Surgeons SCREAM for more, Paranoias Poisoned Door, 21st. Century Schizoid Man"

I remember that one. Fripp et al. Quite a way to start off. It took me a few years before I got into that territory, myself. Bent my brain a little, but it's all good. What is youth without a little alienation.

 

[HFWR]

"Cat's Foot Iron Claw, Nero Surgeons SCREAM for more, Paranoias Poisoned Door, 21st. Century Schizoid Man"

Still have this on vinyl, though I've digitized it for modern use.

 

[Willers]

"Cat's Foot Iron Claw, Nero Surgeons SCREAM for more, Paranoias Poisoned Door, 21st. Century Schizoid Man"

Loved that one and still have the vinyl version. Had to grow into that one though. You sure started outside the mainstream.