OT: First Album You Ever Bought With Your Own Money
So, what was your first album you ever bought with cash you earned all by yourself? Mine was Led Zeppelin's first album. I bought it at a local record store when I was 15 years old and had my first job. My dad always talked about how great they were, so I found out myself. As it turns out, my dad was right, and I love to get the led out to this day.
Stone cold rhymin
April 27th, 2016 at 12:06 AM ^
Love that piano sample...
In the Hall of the Crimson King / King Crimson and Tarkus/ELP...bought the same day.
April 27th, 2016 at 11:39 AM ^
How very Prog of you!
I have to go with 45s, as I'd bought probably a few dozen before ever buying an album. Spent some of my 5th birthday gift cash (kids today would be aghast at how little that was) on "She Loves You (Yeah Yeah Yeah) b/w "I Saw Her Standing There", and bought myself numerous more 45s by the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, the under-appreciated Tommy James, Young Rascals, and I know I'm forgetting some...
Our favorite thing to do was take a random stack and put them on without looking at which they were, so you'd never know what was coming next. Kinda create your own radio (or Pandora) station as the discs spun one after the next.
First album I recall buying was the first Santana. My parents were "hip" - a M prof and an A2 public school art teacher, so we had all the albums - all Beatles, all Stones, Hendrix, Dylan, Joe Cocker, Sly & the Family Stone, Cream, CSN... But after they took us to see the Woodstock movie we discovered an artist they didn't have - Santana was ours!
I also had a box full of 45s before I stepped up to albums. And I think my first 45 purchase also was the Beatles -- but later vintage, I'm thinking "The Long and Winding Road"? I can't remember which album I bought first -- King Crimson, Yes, and ELP undoubtedly were early additions to my collection, but the first was probably something pop-ier, maybe Elton John?
Are you experienced? The Jimi Hendrix Experience
That was mine too (at least I think so, that was a long time ago). I got started listening to the Band of Gypsies lp, and was hooked from there.
Wonder What's Next by Chevelle
Tremendous
Judy In Disguise. John Fred and His Playboy Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWaQBxc0aI
A burlesque of the Beatles' Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, knocked the Beatles Hello Goodbye out of the #1 spot nationally.
Watch to the end and you can actually see the 45, which I purchased at the Collingswood Auction in Wall, NJ. May have been my birthday. I had on a paisley shirt, suede running shoes, and a blue fake-leather jacket.
April 27th, 2016 at 12:17 AM ^
Good choice
Weird Al Yankovic's The Food Album
Seriously.
Heh. Mine might have been Running With Scissors. It was either that or DMB's Under the Table and Dreaming
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Thriller
License to ill, 1986
Love that album
Same here. Then a week later bought Bon Jovi "Slippery When Wet." Long term, my musical tastes gravitated much more toward the Beastie Boys. For some reason as I was writing this post my inner voice sounded like the narrater from The Wonder Years.
Same here! Still love it!
Bought it with first communion money. Thanks Jesus.
3MTA3
This was the soundtrack to my freshman year of high school. I probably listened to that album four times a week.
Green Day - Dookie
That was the first album I ever got a burned copy of from a friend.
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Green Day - Dookie
Add a 4th for Dookie
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American Pie - Don McLean. Still one of my all time favorite albums. Second was Limp Bizkit's Three Dollar Bill, Y'all. Still non idea how I convinced my parents to let me buy that. Probably because I held my thumb over the tiny parental advisory warning. I had varied tastes in my younger years.
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American Pie was too long to fit on one side of the 45 -- you had to turn it over to listen to the rest of the song. Side two started with the "helter skelter" verse, IIRC . . . .
Dr. Dre- The Chronic (1992)
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I didn't think I ever bought an album with my own money, but then I realized I bought a wiz khlaifia album after his concert.
Pretty Hate Machine. Still love it!
Sports (cassette tape).
At first they were a little to new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in 83', I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.
Well done
Hey Stu, if you wouldn't mind, could you tell me where you got your profile pic from. It's driving me crazy.
From The League. Kluneberg painting that Andre bought and the group spent most of a show making fun of it.
eat it.
American Psycho reference... if I was on my phone I would up vote you...
Is that a raincoat you're wearing?
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April 27th, 2016 at 12:45 AM ^
Same! Are we the same age? It was a selection from my membership in the Columbia Record Club.
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Queen's greatest hits, 8th grade, 2003.
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
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Kris Kross - Totally Krossed Out
Good choices
Great choice. I had the cassette. The song "Shame" was my favorite. I'm going to have to pull that up now and see what I think 20-some years later.
That is worthy of the ban hammer
Too late. Statute of limitations has passed.
But I'm keeping an eye on you