First Album I ever bought

ourmaninthenorth

ICBM said:

I had a couple of Deep Purple albums before the Status Quo one - 24 Carat and Burn - but they were presents so I didn't count them. And before even that was ABBA - Waterloo… the first album I ever owned, a birthday present when I was 9. It was quite a transition to go from ABBA to Purple probably, I think my parents were a bit shocked .

Although when I bought my first single a few years later, it was still ABBA - Summer Night City, so my lifetime's listening habits haven't really become any different from when I was still in short trousers! (Literally, it was an old-fashioned boarding school.)

Nowt wrong with ABBA...the blonde lady kept my full attention throughout my teenage years...and me 20's ...and 30's and ... you get the picture.. )

daveyh

Sex Pistols, The Great Rock n Roll Swindle.

Deadman

daveyh said:

Sex Pistols, The Great Rock n Roll Swindle.

Cool. I wish I could say the same.

XWulfhere

I bought now 17 with pocket money when I was 10, but due to my skills as top blagger of copied tapes or reciever of presents, it may well be the case that Kerplunk by Green Day was the first time I went into an actual record shop (mike Lloyd in Hanley) and bought an actual album. Aug 95 I think.

Reverend

Motor head - On Parole when I was 9.

not_the_dj

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StageStruck

This, I got it as an Xmas present from my granny in 1980. I was 5 years old at the time but still a Quo fan. I was and early starter when it came to listening to music, so it didn't go unnoticed by my music loving dad who encouraged my new found interest.

hobbio

For me, it was this:

EricTheWeary

Reverend said:

Motor head - On Parole when I was 9.

When I was about 15 I had a friend called James who came from a very posh and, I thought, stuck up family who had fallen on harder times ( hard enough to be living on the same estate in Wolverhampton as us). His older brother was a classical pianist who had reached the finals of BBC young musician of the year so they were all very 'serious' about music and the family tradition was that if anyone bought an album it got played for the whole family. Well, James bought On Parole as his first rock album and played it for the family. Apparently they were okay with the first couple of tracks but asked him to stop playing it during Vibrator. I don't think he had to play any subsequent purchases for the whole family. \m/

TonyR

This:

DLM

Mine's NSFW, I think. Their sampling of rock riffs got me into guitar, but the taboo language was what took me to the record store...

Clicky

Dominic

@jalapeno........Electric Warrior ..my first album too.........and wasn't it just fantastic -I actually wanted to be Marc Bolan so bad that I borrowed my mums shoes and grandma's feather boa .............my dad soon stopped that !

CHRISB50

I think the first album I ever bought with my own money was a cassette of this...

boogieman

Nice Enough to Eat. I bought it round 1970 because it was a sampler album and therefore cheap but it has some epic Island stuff on it : King Crimson, Free, Spooky Tooth, Jethro Tull, Traffic, Blodwyn Pig, Nick Drake. In fact there's hardly a dud track on there. I've still got it, it's scratched to buggery but I'd never part with it.

english_bob

boogieman said:

Nice Enough to Eat. I bought it round 1970 because it was a sampler album and therefore cheap but it has some epic Island stuff on it : King Crimson, Free, Spooky Tooth, Jethro Tull, Traffic, Blodwyn Pig, Nick Drake. In fact there's hardly a dud track on there. I've still got it, it's scratched to buggery but I'd never part with it.

My dad has that somewhere. Those old sampler records are brilliant.

I can't remember which album I bought first, but contenders include Led Zep 4 (which I remember finding oddly dark and creepy and not nearly as "hair metal" as I was expecting), King's X's Dogman and Extreme's Pornograffitti.

frank1985

Summer 2002. This absolutely BLEW my mind. 

DrJazzTap

First cassette album: appetite for destruction..I was 13 that's my defence.

First CD pulp different class....I was sixteen

First lp: texas flood and are you experienced
(late 90s

OilCityPickups

Bought this album from a junk shop just up the road from my folks house when I was about 13 ... I had bought loads of singles before ... all the usual stuff from the time, T Rex, Slade. but this just blew me away.

AxeWieldingBastard

First album i bought was Nevermind by Nirvana.

It marks the moment when i first began to venture outside of my dad's record collection and started developing my own taste in music.

As tired as Smells Like Teen Spirit sounds to me now, i can still remember the magic, adrenaline rush of those opening chords. Then Dave Grohl smashes that fill and boom! Instant teenager.

It took years and years to outgrow my obsession with Nirvana. Still haven't seen Montage of Heck, must get round to that.

Aidanspaghetti

vasselmeyer said:

An overlooked genius. Loves me some Mr K