General Forum

Re: What was your First Album?

Eugene — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:45:21 GMT

The first album bought with my own money was Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles back in 71 or so. Dont have really any of my old albums.

My last LP I ever purchased was "The Wall" by Pink Floyd. I do still have that one. I think I bought it in 87 or 88.

Re: What was your First Album?

beobeo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:25:33 GMT

My first album was the original soundtrack from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly from Ennio Morricone. I can't believe I've got this one probably back in 1975, when I was 8.

My first rock was Dinasty from Kiss, 1979. I have them both, boxed back in my home country...

Re: What was your First Album?

George — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:10:47 GMT

First LP was by Iron Maiden ' Somewhere In Time' , the artistic work was quite something i have to say ( and the music as Iron Maiden used a lot of electronic music on this album and well back then it was quite something ..)

First CD was Pink Floyd ' The Wall' , still i reckon one of the best albums ever

First Tape was the Top Gun soundtrack !!!! LOL, those were the days !!!!

First DVD Alien

Re: What was your First Album?

vikinger — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:50:30 GMT

cooldude:

burantek:

beaker:
So, what was everyones first ever album purchase and do they still have it.

Ah, tough one!

As far as the first album that I actually went out and purchased myself...

I would have to guess: Blondie - Parallel Lines... I have no idea where it is!

LOL Guilty as charged ....first albums I bought were : Blondie - Parallel Lines and Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon ..I can't remember which one of the two I bought first though ...just tooooooo long ago.

I think my first album was the Modern Jazz Quartet 'Concorde'. I can remember buying Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and then, being so impressed by it, making the great mistake of buying a double album by Pink Floyd called 'A Nice Pair.' Unfortunately it wasn't a nice pair at all............. they had just done a compilation of all the total rubbish they'd produced earlier in their pre Dark Side careers.

Just thinking about the Pink Floyd con has been enough for me to change avatar to a more-like-I-feel image

Graham

Re: What was your First Album?

beowhit — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:27:43 GMT

beaker:
It just so happened to be the first album I ever bought. The Police, Reggata de Blanc. That may seem to be a cool album for a 6 year old in 1979 to buy but it was the fact that "Walking on the Moon" had space rockets in the video that made me buy it , that and imagining bouncing around the moon!

That was the first album I got as a present. The first one I purchased was Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants. I still have both albums, and copies are in the CD player in the car.

Re: What was your First Album?

andy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:22:59 GMT

not my first album but i did have reggate de blanc on double 10" album...lol...no idea why !, first album...hmmm.....probably an elton john one, "goodbye yellow brick road" maybe...

andy

Re: What was your First Album?

Kokomo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:03:52 GMT

I hope some will find this interesting as the question posed raises a point from my musical history.

When I first became interested in music, I was also fascinated by recording music and sounds. Accordingly I bought a cheap reel to reel recorder. This was in the early 1960s and at that time some albums were released simultaneously on vinyl and reel to reel tape. The latter came in boxes about 15cm square and had the same album front and rear covers as the larger vinyl albums. I built up quite a collection and I think my first was The Beatles 'Please Please Me' album although it just might have been The Shadows' first album of 1961.

A major drawback was trying to select a particular track to listen to as this required fast forwarding and rewinding the tape until the start of the track was found!

When I got my first 'stereo' record system, I moved on to vinyls of course and as most people now owned a record player of some type, the tapes were dropped and became unavailable. Remember in the very early 60s, the compact cassette had yet to be introduced.

Re: What was your First Album?

Zwets — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:37:07 GMT

Michael Jackson, Thriller on tape. Still have it in my Beocord 4500.

Re: What was your First Album?

alenvprekrsku — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:57:32 GMT

Djordje Balasevic & Rani mraz - "Pesma Titu"

I still have it!

Re: What was your First Album?

The_Beonic_Man — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:36:32 GMT

Queen - Greatest Hits (1981). Bought every album from then since including all picture records and still have them to this day! Queen and ABBA are my two favourite groups of all time and I have all singles and albums released by both groups!

Simon.

Re: What was your First Album?

Tom — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:22:27 GMT

beaker:

Ive just fired up my Beogram 1200 after a good while of inactivity and put on an album. It just so happened to be the first album I ever bought. The Police, Reggata de Blanc. That may seem to be a cool album for a 6 year old in 1979 to buy but it was the fact that "Walking on the Moon" had space rockets in the video that made me buy it , that and imagining bouncing around the moon!

So, what was everyones first ever album purchase and do they still have it.

Very interesting thread! Shouldn't it be moved to the "Music & Film" Forum?

Re: What was your First Album?

R Patton — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:40:14 GMT

David Bowie, Aladdin Sane. Should have seen the look on my dads face when I brought that one home! Still have it though most of my albums now share time in frames are and hung on a wall in our game room.

I really miss albums. So many of them were works of art as well as fun to read.

Re: What was your First Album?

Matthew — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:23:40 GMT

Madness here too. A 'best of' at the time (about '82-'83) "Complete Madness". Bought it for "House of Fun", of course not knowing what the lyrics were actually referring to as a 10 year old, but got to love all the other tracks including "One Step Beyond".

Matt

Re: What was your First Album?

wirralsimon — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:52:24 GMT

I bought Madness - One Step Beyond and Abba Greatest Hits Volume 2 on the same day in 1980 aged 15, it was singles only up until then.

Simon

Re: What was your First Album?

Stan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:39:52 GMT

Either Beatle's Abbey Road or Led Zeppelin II... sometime round '77 or '78... I was 13 or 14... I no longer have these... the Beatles LP was mis-cut, had a big lump on one side so it wasn't round, and I lost the LZ lp somewhere along the way... I did buy an "audiophile" version of LZ II a few years back and was surprized to see that the credits now show the R&B guys that "influenced" some of the songs (Howling Wolf and Willie Dixon according to Wikipeidia - unfortunately, my LP is packed away in a box right now.).

Stan