What were the first records that you bought?

Happy record store day!!!! :cheers2:

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For funz I thought it would be funz to start a thread. What were the first records/cassettes/7" singles you bought when you were young?

Mine are a little bit embarrassing :2thumbsup:

I think the first record I owned was Abba Greatest Hits. My mum was big Abba fan and that is what I was exposed to as a child and well, they weren't a bad band. I still like some of their songs. After that it was Super Trouper by Abba, but technically these were bought for me so I didn't actually buy them. Still would rather say my first record was Hawkwind or something like that...

After that I think I bought the theme music to Fraggle Rock, then a Captain Sensbile 7" and then Hotwater by Level 42.

My first cassette was Human Racing by Nik Kershaw and then Like a Virgin by Madonna. I bought it from John Menzies, and was quite embarrassed about asking for it at the counter.

Now your turn. No lying!

 

i remember distinctly

cradle of filth - midian
kittie - spit
green day - nimrod
korn - korn

 

i never really listened to music until about 5th grade, when my parents invested in our first CD player. first CD i bought was green day-dookie. i don't remember what came after that. most of my early music was crap.

 

I absolutely remember this - - The 1st time I bought any music and that yellow plastic filler for the center so you could play it- was A Hard Day's Night / & I Should Have Known Better - (on a 45)-This was in 1965, even though I think they recorded and released it a yr or 2 before. -maybe I couldnt dig up the 89 cts it cost back then for a 45 with 2 tunes- -haha

The 1st LP ?- I would have to guess at this- I wanna say it was one of Dylan's first or 2 nd LP,s - 3.19$$ > or maybe Simon and Garfunkel's "Bookends(with Mrs Robinson)- It was a life time ago - -
-But I really cant remember.

I started spending what little $$ a made doing odd jobs in the Bronx- and taking the train into Manhattan on Saturdays
Not that there werent record shops up in the Bronx, it was just more hip to go into the city.
- - You older folks will remember , there were no Sam Ash or even a Crazy Eddies back then- -There were shops like "14th St record shop"- or "Midtown discounts records"- - Mom & Pop stores , that eventually got wiped out when the Harmony Huts of the world saw the industry was moving beyond Elvis and the 50,s sounds,( never mind Sinatra and the 40,s)

It was a exciting time- :2thumbsup:
That was interrupted by 13 months of horrible shit that no-one should ever have to experience:army:
But the early music of the times in NY was definitely different from the early music scene on the west coat--

Again nice memory post for me-
jj

 

Dookie-Green Day was the first Album I bought in the 6th grade.

I still really like the song 'Time Of Your Life'

 

Hah!

When I was real young I liked Dire Straights and Culture Club.

 

Britney Spears. I think.

 

The first ones I ever bought were on vinyl as that was all there was other than reel to reel.

Led Zeppelin l, ll, lll and lV and Janis Joplin Pearl.

Still have them.

 

I have Led Zep 1 on vinyl I bought it in the great vinyl clear out of the mid 90's for £1!

 

I still love to pull out vinyl and play them. Perhaps it is the nostalgia.

 

The first vinyl albums I bought were;

Neil Young - After the Goldrush

ZZ Top - Afterburner

Frank Zappa - Tinseltown Rebellion

Big Country - The Crossing

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

Aerosmith - Rocks

A Glenn Miller album

 

The first CDs I bought were the Chili Pepper's Californiacation and Outkast's Stankonia back in middle school. The first vinyls I bought years later were Abbey Road and The Velvet Underground & Nico. Oh how my music taste changed

 

The first full length album I bought was Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses.

Although the first records I ever bought were vinyl singles of the Monkey Magic theme, and Pinocchio/There's No One Quite Like Grandma. lol

 

I can still recall the first 4 singles I bought, circa 1972 or 73 [before then we didn't have a record player].

1 - Thin Lizzy - Whisky In The Jar

2 - The Faces - Cindy Incidentally

3 - Status Quo - Mean Girl

4 - Roxy Music - Pyjamarama

They all stand up reasonably well to the march of time.


Dont know about albums... dont think I really started buying them until after I left school and started work.

Likewise cassettes - they were for taping other peoples vinyl or off the radio - not buying pre-recorded !

Does anyone recall the racks of ex-jukebox singles you used to find in news agents and the like ? Usually without centres, but cheap - around 3 for a pound, I think.

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The first cd's I remember having were Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" and the Space Jam soundtrack. haha

 

Here's a nice short documentary about record sellers and collectors in London.

Its embedding has been disabled, so you'll have to follow the link to view it, but its worth it.

Look out for the amazing Decca Dave...

https://www.youtube.com/user/markwindows#p/u/22/7bTzubV_Ny8



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I can't remember exactly what was my first tape...it was definitely country, though, because that's what I was raised on. My first (and only) vinyl was George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, but I still don't have a record player. My first CD was Backstreet Boys, haha.

 

Early 50s stuff-Ray Charles-Otis williams and the Charms,ect at Lightening Records in Fresno,before black music was allowed on just about all radio stations. Among them was "Work with me Annie" which had an obvious meaning and was one of the ones the record execs had Pat Boone "clean up" and was turned into "Dance with me Henry". Dumb.

 

The first CD I owned was a promo copy of Alone by Heart that I won in a competition. I thought I was entering a competition to win a CD player. It wasn't until later when I bought a CD player that I was able to play it. The first CD I bought was ...And Justice For All by Metallica. I still have it.

 

I always found the concept of segregated airwaves pretty weird. How about buying records - did you have to go to a "black" record shop to buy "black" records ?


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