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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:24 PM Sep 2012

Can you remember the first five albums (any format) that you bought?

Mine are this:

Electric Light Orchestra 'Out of the Blue'
Supertramp 'Breakfast in America'
Clash 'Combat Rock'
Def Leppard 'Pyromania'
XTC 'English Settlement'

In fact ELO's 'Out of the Blue was my first vinyl, first cassette and first CD ever bought.

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Can you remember the first five albums (any format) that you bought? (Original Post) LynneSin Sep 2012 OP
Eh... no. But I remember the first one. Curtland1015 Sep 2012 #1
The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy dawg Sep 2012 #2
Wow Rambis Sep 2012 #3
Not that I bought OriginalGeek Sep 2012 #4
LOL--wow: KENNY ROGERS was too close to rock? TwilightGardener Sep 2012 #6
Ha! If I had even said the words "Black Sabbath" OriginalGeek Sep 2012 #18
My mom used to cringe when we played TwilightGardener Sep 2012 #21
lol, if I had known that then OriginalGeek Sep 2012 #23
"December's Children" was the first rock album I ever bought. nt raccoon Sep 2012 #5
Devo-Freedom, Styx-Pieces of 8, The Who-Greatest Hits, Rush-Moving Pics, Judas Priest-British Steel aikoaiko Sep 2012 #7
These are the ones I remember sadbear Sep 2012 #8
1.AC/DC - The Razors Edge darkangel218 Sep 2012 #9
yes, very well Enrique Sep 2012 #10
I like/know the last 4, but who is Joe Jackson? darkangel218 Sep 2012 #11
OMG Joe Jackson was HUGE in the 80s LynneSin Sep 2012 #13
I was too lil in the 80's :) darkangel218 Sep 2012 #15
The first 5 Beatle albums released in the USA. First was 'Meet the Beatles'. sinkingfeeling Sep 2012 #12
mine was similar, but a couple years later rurallib Sep 2012 #33
. Jamaal510 Sep 2012 #14
Why yes... Yes I do! It was the early 70's, and I was like 10 years old... RevStPatrick Sep 2012 #16
Some I bought, Some I asked for gifts benld74 Sep 2012 #17
First album I bought with my own money that I earned myself was: Iggo Sep 2012 #19
hmm, Broken_Hero Sep 2012 #20
"Rubber Soul," Hair, the Broadway Musical, Cat Stevens "Tea 4 the Tillerman," "Elton John," and CSNY librechik Sep 2012 #22
No taterguy Sep 2012 #24
ELP, Pink Floyd and John Tropea TrogL Sep 2012 #25
Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy, Pink Floyd-Dark Side ArnoldLayne Sep 2012 #26
"Rumours" (because our class voted it best album, and I thought since applegrove Sep 2012 #27
Yup. bluedigger Sep 2012 #28
Only the first one, "Electric Warrior" by T. Rex begin_within Sep 2012 #29
Back in the early 60's, I was a weird kid aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #30
I remember the first 3. They were 8 track tapes. greendog Sep 2012 #31
Three that I can remember Ptah Sep 2012 #32
This would be starting around 1977-78 All LP Populist_Prole Sep 2012 #34
I remember the first two - Green Day's "Dookie" and Pearl Jam's "Vitalogy". Initech Sep 2012 #35
Zenyattą Mondatta by the Police DearHeart Sep 2012 #36

dawg

(10,610 posts)
2. The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:31 PM
Sep 2012

Men at Work - Business as Usual
Men at Work - Cargo
Def Leppard - Pyromania (Probably)
The Police - Synchronicity (Probably)

Rambis

(7,774 posts)
3. Wow
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:35 PM
Sep 2012

CSNY Deja Vu
Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman
Grateful Dead Europe 72
Traffic John Barleycorn Must Die
Who Kids Are Alright

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
4. Not that I bought
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:41 PM
Sep 2012

but the first vinyl LP I ever got was Kenny Rogers "The Gambler". My high school girlfriend gave it to me for my 16th birthday. My mother and step-father only let me keep it because it was a gift and it wasn't rock (although it was too close to rock for their comfort).

Not long after that I bought 45s of the J Geils Band "Centerfold" (b/w Freeze Frame) and The Marcells "Blue Moon" (Don't remember the b side on that.) I had to hide those and only listen when folks were at work. Rock music is the devil.

After that I didn't buy any records until I moved out of the house. at 17. To get away from the lunatics.

I lived in various crash pads and apartments for a while until I met a guy that would become my best friend for the next 5 years. We got an apartment and he had a shit-ton of albums already but we went on buying sprees at local used record shops and bought Zeppelin, Rush, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Aerosmith, Judas Priest, Accept...all the usual stuff...until we were at a friends house and heard a record with a song called "Whiplash" and so began my thrash metal phase which quickly morphed into Death Metal and that's about all I've bought in the last nearly 30 years...

I do remember holding off getting a CD player for a long time and I think I finally broke down and got one around '89 or '90 and the first CDs I bought were Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness, Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul...For Me Your Flesh, and Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
6. LOL--wow: KENNY ROGERS was too close to rock?
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:52 PM
Sep 2012

My mom was ever-so-slightly uneasy about Black Sabbath, Ozzy, and Iron Maiden, but their albums still ended up under the Christmas tree when my brothers wanted them--I can see why you'd want to get away.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
18. Ha! If I had even said the words "Black Sabbath"
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 04:29 PM
Sep 2012

I would have been shipped off to one of Lester Roloff's re-indoctrination camps before my ass cooled down from the beating.

eta: I once got grounded for getting caught going to a Beach Boys concert. That was my first concert. I moved out not long after that. My next concert was Tom Petty's Long After Dark tour and was my first concert after having discovered the joy of weed.

I am 99% sure my next concert after that was Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind tour and I have been a concert-going fool ever since.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
21. My mom used to cringe when we played
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 04:45 PM
Sep 2012

"Number of the Beast"--I think it would have given your folks seizures.

aikoaiko

(34,127 posts)
7. Devo-Freedom, Styx-Pieces of 8, The Who-Greatest Hits, Rush-Moving Pics, Judas Priest-British Steel
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:54 PM
Sep 2012

All on cassette.

sadbear

(4,340 posts)
8. These are the ones I remember
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 03:11 PM
Sep 2012

John Cougar -- Uh-huh
Foreigner -- Agent Provocateur
Huey Lewis and the News -- Sports
Eddie and the Cruisers Soundtrack
Cyndi Lauper -- She's So Unusual

(I was about 7-8)

 

darkangel218

(13,985 posts)
9. 1.AC/DC - The Razors Edge
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 03:14 PM
Sep 2012

2. Metallica - The Black Album

3. Metallica - And justice for All

4. Coroner - forgot name

5. Sepultura - Roots

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
10. yes, very well
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 03:17 PM
Sep 2012

my record collection was stuck at five for a good stretch

Joe Jackson, Night and Day
Led Zeppelin II
The Doors, LA Woman
Genesis, Trick of the Tail
Genesis, Selling England by the Pound

rurallib

(62,346 posts)
33. mine was similar, but a couple years later
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:32 PM
Sep 2012

I started with "Rubber Soul"
then "Revolver"
with the Stones "High Tide and Green Grass" (I think that was out that time)
then "Sargeant Pepper"
Then "The Monkees"

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
14. .
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 03:25 PM
Sep 2012

E-40: "My Ghetto Report Card"
David Banner: "Certified"
Beanie Sigel: "The B. Coming"
Young Jeezy: "Thug Motivation"
Kanye West: "Late Registration"

 

RevStPatrick

(2,208 posts)
16. Why yes... Yes I do! It was the early 70's, and I was like 10 years old...
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 04:01 PM
Sep 2012

...when I started buying albums with my own money.
Not necessarily (but possibly!) in order, because it was a long time ago:


The Jackson 5 - Goin' Back to Indiana
(this was definitely the first album I bought!)




Three Dog Night - Naturally



Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road



Nilsson - The Point



Chicago V


benld74

(9,889 posts)
17. Some I bought, Some I asked for gifts
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 04:24 PM
Sep 2012

11-17-70 - Elton John
One - Three Dog Night
Sticky Fingers – The Rolling Stones
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Steely Dan - Can’t Buy A Thrill

Iggo

(47,489 posts)
19. First album I bought with my own money that I earned myself was:
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 04:31 PM
Sep 2012


"Now you're messin' with a...
...a son of a bitch!"

My mom was not pleased.

Broken_Hero

(59,305 posts)
20. hmm,
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 04:35 PM
Sep 2012

Alvin and the Chipmunks Xmas on vinyl

Jan and Deans Greatest Hits on cassette

Ghostbusters Soundtrack on cassette

Europe the Final Countdown on cassette

Metallica Ride the Lightning on cassette

librechik

(30,663 posts)
22. "Rubber Soul," Hair, the Broadway Musical, Cat Stevens "Tea 4 the Tillerman," "Elton John," and CSNY
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 04:51 PM
Sep 2012

I also had Supertrammp --it rocked hard for 73, but that itch wasn't trully scratched until punk rock rose up and spat in all our faces.

TrogL

(32,818 posts)
25. ELP, Pink Floyd and John Tropea
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 06:05 PM
Sep 2012

Don't remember which albums in what order but Brain Salad Surgery, DSOTM, Ummagumma, Pictures and Tarkus were in there somewhere.

ArnoldLayne

(2,060 posts)
26. Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy, Pink Floyd-Dark Side
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 06:44 PM
Sep 2012

of the Moon, Alice Cooper-Schools Out, Queen-Queen 1 and ELP-Brain Salad Surgery.

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
27. "Rumours" (because our class voted it best album, and I thought since
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:14 PM
Sep 2012

I voted with everyone for it, I should buy it).

"Greece" because I saw the movie and loved the song "Summer Nights"

"Saturday Night Fever" as played by the Bay Ridge Band (yup, I bought a cover of Saturday Night Fever).

Can't remember any others.

bluedigger

(17,077 posts)
28. Yup.
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 09:32 PM
Sep 2012

Simon & Garfunkel "Sound of Silence" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

Ringo Starr "Ringo"

Deep Purple "Made in Japan"

Billy Joel "The Stranger"





 

begin_within

(21,551 posts)
29. Only the first one, "Electric Warrior" by T. Rex
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:11 PM
Sep 2012

that was the first album I bought, and I bought it when it first came out and "Bang a Gong" was a hit on the radio. I think 1971 or so.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
30. Back in the early 60's, I was a weird kid
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:15 PM
Sep 2012

I was into jazz, classical, and folk and I was trying to learn piano and guitar. I'd rush to the record store for a new Bill Evans album. It was a long time and a lot of purchases ago but these are first five albums I recall.


Bill Evans, Waltz For Debbie
Johnny Smith, Man With The Blue Guitar
Van Cliburn, My Favorite Chopin
Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Barney Kessel;, Bossa Nova

Ptah

(32,983 posts)
32. Three that I can remember
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:30 PM
Sep 2012

Roger Miller - Roger and Out

Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right!

Al Hirt - Cotton Candy

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
34. This would be starting around 1977-78 All LP
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 01:04 AM
Sep 2012

KISS: Destroyer
Frampton Comes Alive
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Led Zeppelin: IV ( I know, I know, the all-time cornball )
Queen: Jazz

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