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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCan 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.
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)Credence Clearwater Revival's Greatest Hits.
dawg
(10,610 posts)Men at Work - Business as Usual
Men at Work - Cargo
Def Leppard - Pyromania (Probably)
The Police - Synchronicity (Probably)
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)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)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)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)"Number of the Beast"--I think it would have given your folks seizures.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I might have tried it....If not on my mom, at least on my step-father.
raccoon
(31,091 posts)aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)All on cassette.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)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)2. Metallica - The Black Album
3. Metallica - And justice for All
4. Coroner - forgot name
5. Sepultura - Roots
Enrique
(27,461 posts)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
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)must google now
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)'Is She Really Going Out With Him'
Steppin' Out
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)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)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)...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)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 - Cant Buy A Thrill
Iggo
(47,489 posts)"Now you're messin' with a...
...a son of a bitch!"
My mom was not pleased.
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)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)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.
taterguy
(29,582 posts)TrogL
(32,818 posts)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)of the Moon, Alice Cooper-Schools Out, Queen-Queen 1 and ELP-Brain Salad Surgery.
applegrove
(118,022 posts)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)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)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)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
greendog
(3,127 posts)Tubular Bells.
Physical Graphiti.
Yessongs.
Ptah
(32,983 posts)Roger Miller - Roger and Out
Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right!
Al Hirt - Cotton Candy
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)KISS: Destroyer
Frampton Comes Alive
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Led Zeppelin: IV ( I know, I know, the all-time cornball )
Queen: Jazz