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aquablue
26th Nov 2007, 17:51
Post the first 8-track (:oops:), album, cassette, or CD you ever purchased, ever. This is my first one (released in 1977):
http://www.iem.ac.ru/EC/images/slowhand.gif
The next was a George Harrison album- I forget the title.
Stewart
26th Nov 2007, 18:15
The Chicken Song, Spitting Image
Colyngbourne
26th Nov 2007, 18:27
Moods - a 1977 David Soul LP with the classics, Silver Lady and Don't Give Up On Me.
Edit: actually this compilation (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-David-Soul/dp/B0000082BT/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1196101711&sr=1-1) seems to have most of the tracks on, so it was clearly his best (or almost only) album.
Black and Blue - Rolling Stones, still near and dear, especially Fool to Cry and Memory Motel
beer good
26th Nov 2007, 21:23
High Fidelity by The Boppers - a 50s revival band. Yes, I was a greaser when I was 8.
http://www.boppers.se/bilder/omslag/high.jpg
ETA: Youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tfWbqAg7uRs). They sounded much better in my memory.
Daveybot
26th Nov 2007, 22:03
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/99182355_e9fac70b21.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davemorris/99182355/)
I'd previously taped Paid In Full (and lots of other stuff) from a friend, but this is the first record I actually bought with money I'd saved up and everything.
Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader (http://www.last.fm/music/Eric%2BB.%2B%2526%2BRakim/Follow+the+Leader)
...and in my defence, it's still a great album, even if 9-year-old white boys from the cotswolds probably weren't the target market for this one! The title track and Microphone Fiend stand out, of course, but I'm still a big fan of Lyrics Of Fury, too.
Some Youtube links:
Paid In Full (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElWBsoyvUo) (previous album, really, but it's one of the best raps ever)
Follow The Leader (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-rEpM6OhQ)
Microphone Fiend (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oracJP6kIWY)
...and in my defence, it's still a great album, even if 9-year-old white boys from the cotswolds probably weren't the target market for this one!
You're right about the former... never been exactly convinced about the lattter. They made it for you! :-)
My first album was this thing:
http://bilder.vgb.no/12500/img_4680696a2d2fd.jpg
Ummagumma by Pink Floyd.
Are you guys and gals all telling the truth, or is this the first album you bought which you are not ashamed of? My eldest son first had SClub7 but wouldn't admit to that now and he's only 14! My first album must have been Donny Osmond, Pupply Love or something like that. I wish it were something more cool though.
amarie
27th Nov 2007, 8:59
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3105FDEXASL._AA115_.jpg
A shared purchase with my older sister.
Are you guys and gals all telling the truth, or is this the first album you bought which you are not ashamed of? My eldest son first had SClub7 but wouldn't admit to that now and he's only 14! My first album must have been Donny Osmond, Pupply Love or something like that. I wish it were something more cool though.
Gospel truth on my part. I'm not sure that Ummagumma is more cool though.
But I must have bought that in the early 70s, when an album represented a major investment... so I couldn't afford to buy it until I was about 13. If I'd started earlier, gawd knows what my first album taste would have looked like.
kirsty
27th Nov 2007, 9:25
My very first single was Sybil's When I'm Good and Ready on cassette. A fine example of early 90's dancey pop gloriousness. I probably should be ashamed but I am most definitely not. It's on my iPod now.
My first album purchase was Adrenalize by Def Leppard, also on cassette. I should be ashamed of that too probably, but frankly I HEART Def Leppard.
amarie
27th Nov 2007, 9:29
My first album purchase was Adrenalize by Def Leppard, also on cassette. I should be ashamed of that too probably, but frankly I HEART Def Leppard.
Me too! Me too! Or at least I did - I haven't listened to them in years...
I started buying music late, when I was 15-16. Earlier I listened to my cousin's collection and still earlier, didn't care. The first bought album was Soul Cages, Sting.
kirsty
27th Nov 2007, 9:32
Me too! Me too! Or at least I did - I haven't listened to them in years...
I was listening to them only yesterday. Boyfriend was not amused.
*sigh* Philistine.
Colyngbourne
27th Nov 2007, 9:44
Are you guys and gals all telling the truth, or is this the first album you bought which you are not ashamed of? My eldest son first had SClub7 but wouldn't admit to that now and he's only 14! My first album must have been Donny Osmond, Pupply Love or something like that. I wish it were something more cool though.
I guess we are naming our first boughten albums. I had others given me (mostly listed in this Top Ten thread (http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2438)) but mine was the first I bought with my own money: I got it from my parents for passing a 'cello exam.
John Self
27th Nov 2007, 9:54
Well I'm not going to be accused of trying to sound cool on this thread.
My first single, a joint purchase with my sister, was The Land of Make Believe by Bucks Fizz. Oh yes.
My first album was Hunting High and Low by a-ha. Probably not as bad as it sounds - I don't have it any more, but their best of Headlines and Deadlines is still the first album cover that pops up alphabetically when I'm selecting music on my iPod. And they produced a couple of great albums in the late 1990s - Memorial Beach and Minor Earth Major Sky.
Digger
27th Nov 2007, 10:06
Me too on the a-ha front JS, and the very same album too, but that was probably also at the same time as I bought the Pet Shop Boys 'Actually', which I still love.
Colyngbourne
27th Nov 2007, 10:14
Well I'm not going to be accused of trying to sound cool on this thread.
My first single, a joint purchase with my sister, was The Land of Make Believe by Bucks Fizz. Oh yes.
I bought that too. It still brings a tear to my eye... ;-)
Daveybot
27th Nov 2007, 10:28
Me too on the a-ha front JS, and the very same album too, but that was probably also at the same time as I bought the Pet Shop Boys 'Actually', which I still love.
Not Wham's Make It Big, after all, then...?
I suspect that albums were cheaper in the USofA so I was able to buy at a younger age. I suppose my parents could have bought Puppy Love* for me though. Okay, so this thread is for those who can remember what was the first album they purchased! :-D
*Can't get the song out of my head now...
BeccaK
27th Nov 2007, 10:36
Hmmm. This is embarrassing. I bought this album on cassette jointly with my older brother:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/2141GMF90KL._AA160_.jpg (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B0000026KH/sr=8-2/qid=1196159530/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music&qid=1196159530&sr=8-2)
Martika - Martika, 1991.
I was 10. I know I definitely owned some albums (Kylie, Jason, etc.) before that date, but I can't remember how I got them.
I have a couple of Pandora stations seeded with tracks from my childhood. In fact, I'm listening to one now - it's called 'Songs I liked when I was 10' and it's playing Sonia - Listen to Your Heart, and just played a Paula Abdul song.
I'm going to hide in a corner now.
It's actually this (http://www.donny.com/album.pl?cmd=largergraphic&albumid=18) one I had and played over and over. I wonder if my mum still has it. No Puppy Love - that must have been a single.
How do you paste pictures into these posts though? I've never figured that out.
amarie
27th Nov 2007, 10:54
Actually, I think the first joint purchase my sister and I bought was not Slippery When Wet but Now 5 on double cassette featuring such treats as The Bangles if I remember rightly.
Colyngbourne
27th Nov 2007, 10:56
How do you paste pictures into these posts though? I've never figured that out.
You get the address of the picture (Right Click if you're not on a Mac, and properties) and paste it in the pop-up box that arrives when you click the little icon of a mountain with a yellow background above the Reply box. It's just the same as adding a URL to create a hyperlink, but you click three boxes to the right of the URL box.
beer good
27th Nov 2007, 11:07
Pet Shop Boys 'Actually'
Now THERE'S a great album.
John Self
27th Nov 2007, 11:09
Absolutely, as evidenced by the fact that I bought it on cassette and then replaced it with the CD. I knew it was going to get some serious wear... I still buy their albums but pretty much every one they've released in the last 15 years has been patchy, with only moments of greatness.
Colyngbourne
27th Nov 2007, 11:11
Yes, I still have it on LP but ought to get the CD one of these days. But there are too many of those - I need The Lexicon of Love on CD too!
Digger
27th Nov 2007, 12:21
Hmmm, it might have been Wham... curse you Daveybot!
It's actually this (http://www.donny.com/album.pl?cmd=largergraphic&albumid=18) one I had and played over and over. I wonder if my mum still has it.
You lucky thing, you! He's dreamy there, eh? I didn't buy until late in my teens as my allowance only covered penny candy needs.
Lucoid
27th Nov 2007, 13:24
The Stonk, the Comic Relief single. Victoria Wood provided the B-side. I can't remember what the first album I bought was (honestly!), but the first I owned was Jason Donovan's Ten Good Reasons.
Daveybot
27th Nov 2007, 14:02
The Stonk, the Comic Relief single. Victoria Wood provided the B-side. I can't remember what the first album I bought was (honestly!), but the first I owned was Jason Donovan's Ten Good Reasons.
Ahhhh, the Stonk.
...By Hale & Pace, wasn't it? Yup (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVIoCahD7yw)...
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf 7" single.
It was actually George Solti's Beethoven's Ninth- but I have to plead my parents' overbearing influence! I really wanted to buy Grandmaster Flash-The Message. Which, sadly, I've never owned.
Daveybot
28th Nov 2007, 9:18
...I really wanted to buy Grandmaster Flash-The Message. Which, sadly, I've never owned.
That was probably the first song I taped from someone else. Even now I can still reel off (most of) the lyrics to it, as well as Rappers Delight!
Lucoid
28th Nov 2007, 12:11
Ahhhh, the Stonk.
Indeed. I remember it well - my first year at secondary school; the whole form doing the dance in the form room. Those were the days. [Retreats into haze of reminiscences...]
Noumenon
28th Nov 2007, 18:02
In the words of David Bellamy (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/whats_on/listings/article679973.ece):
144-159 million years ago I once launched my very own pop record on Blue Peter and its public debut was, where else, but the steps of the Natural History Museum. It was called Brontosaurus Will You Wait For Me? and it even got into the charts. It was the second dino to be named — though it is now known as apatosaurus.
So yes, that was my first record, or at least the first purchased at my interest. The first I actually got money from my own pocket for, erm... either something by 808 State or The Beautiful South. Eeek.
T as well as Rappers Delight!
Excellent!
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