What was the first record album you owned or bought?

[moxham123]

What was the first record album you owned or bought?

When I was very young, my dad bought a couple record albums for my brother and me and they were Herman's Hermits and The Beach Boys Surfin' U.S.A.

I started buying 45 records with my own money as a teenager and the first full length record album I bought myself was Rare Earth and shortly after that I bought Three Dog Night Captured Live At The Forum and The Guess Who American Woman. I currently have over 8,000 records, tapes, and CDs and I still have all those first albums in my collection.

[f.sciarrillo]

Pink Floyd - The Wall. I was 15 when I bought it.

[ToonaRockGuy]

My parents, misguided as most parents are, bought me the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever. There is some great funk on that, though.

First LP I bought with my own money was "Pieces Of Eight" by Styx when I was 12.

[Banned]

When I was 14 (spring 1968) and graduated for Catholic grade school after 8th grade, my mom got me a mono turntable/record player. My aunt gave me 2 albums, The Mommas and Pappas, California Dreaming and Neil Diamond, Kentucky Woman. Those were the first two.

Can't remember the order of the next few, but I remember, Led Zep I and II, Iron Butterfly, Three Dog Night, Chicago I, Sly and the Family Stone and the first Grand Funk Railroad.

Soon added Santana Abraxas and that with Led Zep II rarely left the truntable.

[313]

My first LP was Brownsville Station "School Punks" in about 1974, followed closely by Black Oak Arkansas Live.

[Banned]

When I got my first car, a 1967 Buick Skylark, cherry red with a 307 8- cylinder monster of an engine, my first couple of 8 track tapes were a few Rolling Stones and a few Beatles. Had to have those standards. Then I bought the James Gang Rides Again with Funk #49, probably wore that one out. Had some Grass Roots, Steppenwolf, Bread (for date nights), Buffalo Springfield, Beach Boys, Dylan and some Simon and Garfunkle.

[Jim Price]

The first album I ever owned was Slade's Slayed?, which I won off deejay Hap Ritchey on WVAM in 1972. Not long afterward, I also won Manfred Mann's Earth Band's Glorified Magnified off Hap and WVAM as well (I still have both albums, and both are still among my favorites!)

The first album I ever bought with my own money (with cash I received for my 12th birthday) was Led Zeppelin's fourth album (with "Stairway to Heaven"). My path to becoming a rock'n'roll junkie had begun...

[ZappasXWife]

My parents, misguided as most parents are, bought me the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever.

THAT is adorable.

My first 45s I bought downtown, maybe at Gables or McCrorys were probably bubblegum crap like the Partridge Family or something, but I vivdly remember my first 'Rock' LPs. One was CSNY Four Way Street and the other one was David Bowie Young Americans. Also the 2 double Greatest Hits Beatles records (one was blue and the other red).

[skipisode]

Led Zepplin - The Song Remains the Same soundtrack

[lonewolf]

"The Best Of The Beach Boys

Sometime in the mid 60s

I dragged it and another album around with me everywhere I moved and they are still in a box in the attic...their cover and playability gone decades ago.

[lynch1]

I bought Men At Work--Business As Usual. followed shortly by Van Halen---1984.

[kayla]

i do believe the first cd i ever bought was Korn - Follow the Leader.

[RobTheDrummer]

I'm pretty sure mine was Stone Temple Pilots- Core in 1992. I was 11.

[ToonaRockGuy]

I'm pretty sure mine was Stone Temple Pilots- Core in 1992. I was 11.

Good GOD, Rob, you are making me feel really old right now. Curse you.

[Banned]

Guns'N BlowJobs
-appetite for destruction


the intensity and genuineness of the music just blew me away.
no bullshit from those guys, that's all from the heart!
i was hooked ever since.

[sstuckey]

First vinyl was Twisted Sister "Stay Hungry"
First cassette was Beastie Boys "License to Ill"
First CD was Guns n Roses "Appetite for Destruction"

[autumnsky]

Wow man, I feel REALLY old! The first album that I ever bought was "The Rain The Park and Other Things", by The Cowsills. Fell in love with them the first time I heard "Indian Lake". Heard that song all the way across the U.S. on the family's summer trip back in the late 60's---I think!

[Banned]

Wow man, I feel REALLY old! The first album that I ever bought was "The Rain The Park and Other Things", by The Cowsills. Fell in love with them the first time I heard "Indian Lake". Heard that song all the way across the U.S. on the family's summer trip back in the late 60's---I think!

That song was played a lot on the radio, AM in those days. I remember a trip with my grandparents and all I can remember is Petula Clark's Downtown and What's New Pussycat by Tom Jones, played over and over.

edit: My memory is better than I thought, just looked it up and both songs were hits in the summer of '65, the time of that trip. I guess songs remembered on family trips do stay with you.

[autumnsky]

Oh, yeah, I remember those songs on air, too. Believe it or not, my Mom still has an original copy of "Mack The Knife"! Bizarre!!!

[Banned]

Oh, yeah, I remember those songs on air, too. Believe it or not, my Mom still has an original copy of "Mack The Knife"! Bizarre!!!

Now that is a cool song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7EA74MQ ... re=related

[autumnsky]

I have a cool Mom!!!

[VENTGtr]

I bought Men At Work--Business As Usual.

Kewl!


Got them the same evening. 45s of:


Bay City Rollers-Saturday & Money Honey

Beach Boys-Surfin' Safari & 409


Still have them. No way to play 'em...but they're here.

[whitedevilone]

Speak of the Devil.

[Don Hughes]

Rick Springfield - Living In Oz

[Bag]

Kiss Alive. I was about 10. I heard "Rock And Roll All Night" on the radio and wanted to buy the 45 but they didn't have it. I found the double album and bought it, and then about crapped my pants looking at the pictures and stuff in it.