Your First Albums????

polarbelly

this should be fun

i'll give my first 3 ... i started off well but quickly ventured into the realms of the classics

1. thin lizzy - dedication
2. jive bunny and the mastermixers- c'mon everybody(oh hell yeah)
3. mc hammer- u cant touch this

stop!

hammertime

polarbelly dances around like a mad possessed eeeeegit with shiny baggy pants

u cant touch this!

knobbles

i was a big duran duran head when i was a wee lad,
also wacko jackson....still like their early 80's stuff.

first album i bought(after years of saving)
Def Leppard - Hysteria,
cringe? maybe but it was a classic

Raggamuffin

prodigy - Fat of the Land
Smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and infinite sadness
Radiohead - the bends

oh i got pablo honey off my cousin for free

acquiescefc

1st Album I bought was TOTP1978 i think, David Soul - Silver Lady, Telephone man song,Boomtown Rats - Mary of the fourth form and other such strangedom, oh yeah and the soundtrack to Close Encounters....why god only knows

1st singles I bought were a bit more worthy, maybe

Union City Blue - Blondie
Adam and the Ants - Kings of the wild frontier
Abba - Does your mother know ( it rocked (a little bit))

Ill get me coat

polarbelly

Originally posted by Raggamuffin
prodigy - Fat of the Land
Smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and infinite sadness
Radiohead - the bends

oh i got pablo honey off my cousin for free

you must be young are ya? the bends was the first album i actually paid for myself... but the above were pressies still gotta count them first

Raggamuffin

if iw as yto count my dad's record collection and my mum's then you'd have to include cat stevens, led zepplin - physical graffiti and sesame st. - live
and neil young after the gold rush,
beatles white album

i'd love an old django reinhardt record though.....

Sir

Queen - A night at the opera
REM - Out of time
Crystal Gayle - Shadows

Sinister Pete

Hmmm..

First records I paid for myself...

1. Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits (The first one )
2. Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
3. Alice Cooper - Killer

Cozpyro

The first records I would have spent money on were

Run DMC - Run DMC
Prince - Purple Rain
Duran Duran - Duran Duran

Deckchair

First 3 Albums

The Housemartins- The people who grinned themselves to death
INXS-Kick
The Violent Femmes-The Violent Femmes

A weird mix!

Singles bought include 'Erasure- Crackers International'!!!!

I'm okay now.

Morn

The first albums I bought are less than cool

Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang!
The Beautiful South - Carry on up the Charts


I've never really been a singles buyer - I am happy to admit that the first single I bought was Juniper - Weatherman - anyone else miss the Juniper sound?

Cherry

First albums I bought were:

Jeff Buckley -- Grace
Texas -- White On Blonde
Ash -- 1977

I was given:

Hanson -- Middle Of Nowhere (I was 11!)
Nirvana -- Nevermind (at the ripe old age of 12)
Radiohead -- The Bends

Kali

First CD I bought was Tricky - Maxinquaye a few months after its release..
First tape was probably either the prodigy - experience
First vinyl was a single.. The Firm - Star Trekkin'

sodiumlightbaby

The Cure - The Top
Soft cell - Non stop Erotic Caberet
The The - Soul Mining

First song I ever taped on the radio on an old BASF orange tape(remember them?) which was about 10 years old to begin with was...Native New Yorker...can't remember who sang it....it was on an old Ferguson 3 n 1...stereo system...none of yer fancy CD thingumys in the early 80's you know !

Tara

My very first record - and it was viynl (showing my age) - was Thriller! Played it so many times that you can some of the grooves have gone wrong.

rapture_queen

I think i got

Radiohead : Ok Computer
Greenday : Dookie
and one of those compilation cds with "indie bands" on it.

in fact i probably had pop compilations before that i just cant remember.I think it had stuff like that early 90s ****.i cant remember or perhaps i just dont want to.

Space Coyote

Think the first album i actually bought meself was Guns-n-Roses Lies i think. Had Appetite taped already, oh naughty.
I think i got The Saw Doctors or something shocking like that next, can't really remember, or have i blocked it from my memory!

Best album i ever bought : Nirvana, Nevermind

Worst album I ever bought : Presidents of the United States of America! (2nd hand)

THE BEGTETS

I don't know which order these came in but........



The Simpsons sing the blues

Queen... the works.


can't think of another album. I bought them when i was thirteen!!

Bateman

First was Automatic For the People, never get tired of listening to it either.

startled_frog

Michael Jackson - Bad
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Michael Jackson - Thriller

I was a big Michael Jackson fan.

polarbelly

woh...everyone must be about the same age here....

someone metioned the simpsons, i defo had that

i had a saw doctors tape too

also my first single was defo sweet child of mine on tape (still have it upstairs)

i had michael jackson - off the wall... but that was a pressie so i'm not sure when i got that

i also had a roxette album, probably joyride

and

beautiful south - carry on up the charts


god i am pathetic

Graemo

With the exception of acuiesefc, your all children.

The first record I owned was "Grease" the sountrack. Followed by "Elvis' greatest hits" the one with pink vynal.
But the first record I ever bought was AC/DC "Powe age" to this day is still one of my fav. records.

polarbelly

i had 'grease' too

mad

Arch

First album I bought was 'The Good, The Bad & The Ugly' soundtrack, but the first record I owned was the single 'Rainbow Connection' by Kermit the Frog (complete with transparent green vinyl).

It was from 'The Muppet Movie'. Didn't quite live on in people's hearts, did it?

Come to think of it, that was the first film I saw in the cinema too.

the66electric

Lou Diamond Sutherland - Beep, here you! Experiment 8.1

Bulb Malwap - A saxophone interpretation of 'Total Recall'

The Bobby Pegg Suggestion - Try catch shoulder explosions




Classics...

bandit

For x-mas when i was about 12 i got a gettoblaster and a tape {which i begged for} called 'Love at the movies' a compilation full off all these slow songs from well the movies obviously like the theme from arther, that roxette song from pretty woman, the song from dirty dancing etc!!!!!
Others include now 20 , Big ones by Aerosmith and the immaculate collection by madonna :eek:

The first album i remember going into a shop and buying properly was definetly maybe by oasis {a classic}

lamda

Originally posted by rapture_queen
I think i got

Radiohead : Ok Computer
Greenday : Dookie
and one of those compilation cds with "indie bands" on it.

in fact i probably had pop compilations before that i just cant remember.I think it had stuff like that early 90s ****.i cant remember or perhaps i just dont want to.

Haha oh you lie!! It was so Boyzone or something to that effect!!!:D
Mine was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat Original Cast Recording on vinyl which i still have its bloody brilliant - the campest thing ever. CD wise it was probably Chers Greatest Hits. Including such hits as Gypsies Tramps and Thieves and If we could turn back time. Thats good listenin!!!

thedrowner

ah, i cant remember...ill have a stab, with ones i bought coz i dont think anyone ever gave me cd's/records when i was small

anyway:
now 42 (or somehting like that, coudlntve been now 32)
aerosmith-big ones
boysone-said and done

mumblin deaf ro

First album I ever listened to/loved/learned off by heart was London:0 Hull: 4 by the Housemartins - but that was ages after it's release - first purchase was welcome to the beautiful south; second was spartacus by the Farm.

Jamie D

1: Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers (still a classic)

2: Paula Abdul 'Straight up now tell me'

3: 'Use Your Illusion 1' G n'R

acquiescefc

I remember buyin Now6 i think it was, played it to death, had some great stuff on it....not Scritti politti, Power station, Old U2(i dont mean zooropa kids) and Axel F, remember turnin volume up on that and annoyin ma/pa