First album or single you bought.

Philly_Q · April 2023

Nearly all of you have more cred than me.

EricTheWeary · April 2023

EricTheWeary said:

My mate's dad sold ex jukebox singles and I bought They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Haa! by Napoleon XIV. Probably my favourite B side ever (it's the A side played backwards). First current chart one was probably Lucky Number by Lena Lovich.

I decided to share the joy, this kept me amused for hours. The record label did indeed look like that.

https://youtu.be/4gbvcEkuFFI

DonnyMac · April 2023

The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom from the local Woolies, I remember my sister getting me Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants but the first record I went and bought was the soundtrack to film Dance Craze.

darthed1981 · April 2023

What's the Story? (Morning Glory)...

The second was the first Spice Girls album, but let's not discuss that...

Danny1969 · April 2023

There was a bloke on the market who sold ex juke box records ... these had no normal centre hole, just a massive one but that didn't matter as you could use one centre for all of them.

Torch by Soft Cell was the first record I ever brought, still love the song today.

Jonathangus · April 2023

Single: 99 Red Balloons.

Album: Brothers in Arms.

thing · April 2023

Single: I Feel Fine: Beatles

LP Sound track to 2001: Space Odyssey

Open_G · April 2023

First single was absolutely nothing I can claim as cool. It was Orville’s Song (I wish I could fly) when I was 5.

Think my first album was a bit better- Michael Jackson’s Bad when I was 10/11.

Tannin · April 2023

Beatles, Revolver & Jethro Tull - Aqualung, both in 71 or 72. I still have that copy of Aqualung. I have never bought a single.

Toms_Dad · April 2023

You are all way too cool. My first single was ( looks around to check no one is listening in) My coo ca choo by Alvin Stardust….there I’ve said it and feel much better…

Nitefly · April 2023

With The Beatles, with my Christmas money, Christmas 1963.

Cranky · April 2023

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BillDL · April 2023

Toms_Dad said:

You are all way too cool. My first single was ( looks around to check no one is listening in) My coo ca choo by Alvin Stardust….there I’ve said it and feel much better…

No need to look around to see who heard you. I liked that at the time also. I think my 3rd single was Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting, with Gamblin' Man on the B side (1974)

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I don't think I've heard the B side song for about 40 years.

horse · April 2023

I think the first single I bought myself might have been Tarzan Boy by Baltimora!

Or it might have been Lean on Me by Red Box, which I still think is a good track.

octatonic · April 2023

With my own money it was this:

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Shrews · April 2023

First single with my own money, bought with my own hands was Chic - Le Freak. Not some birthday money that I gave my mum to buy Long Haired Lover from Liverpool - Little Jimmy Osmond - when I was 5.

I cringed a few months after when I got fully into the post punk/new wave/mod/ska era. I knew at the time I shouldn't have bought it, but it was catchy and I kept singing it. I got it on the way home from school as there was a record shop I'd pass by and on this day I wasn't with any schoolmates. I swear the assistant scoffed at my uncoolness as he put it in the bag. I don't think I've ever admitted it until now.

Actually it might have been YMCA?

Definitely the first album was Outlandos D'Amour - The Police.

One important bit of wisdom we should all give our kids when buying music nowadays (does that happen?) is to choose your first purchase wisely. In middle-age years a thread on a messageboard will appear where you will feel obliged to admit it

(I actually like and appreciate that Chic song now and all things Nile Rodgers. But at the time it was so uncool).

RocknRollDave · April 2023

Singles (bought at same time:
Kraftwerk - The Model
XTC - Senses Working Overtime

Album:
Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier

Not too shabby…it got a LOT worse before it got (in my opinion) better!

I did have Shawaddywaddy and Shakin’ Stevens tapes given to me at Christmas before this, but these are my ‘with my own money’ ones.

Dav275 · April 2023

Single(s) - a couple by Creedence Clearwater Revival bought for pennies at a jumble sale. (Didn't know who/what I had, I just wanted something to try on my recently acquired record player).

Album - On the Level, Quo. (Definitely knew what I wanted by then).

JezWynd · April 2023

First single...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_7Bnxblo4

First LP

RandallFlagg · April 2023

Apart from some Disney singles as a young kid, I still have my first proper vinyl single, bought from Bayes Recordium in King's Lynn in 1978 aged 11: The Clash - Tommy Gun.

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