Summer of 1975âŚ
I was 12âŚ
I went to visit my grandparents & my 19 year old uncle was the manager of a record store in Kansas City.
He took to work one day & I spent hours looking at records, pulling out quite a few for him to play & he sent me home with 3.
Elton Johnâs Madman across the Water,
John Denverâs Rocky Mountain High &
The Moody Bluesâ In search of the Lost Chord.
Years later, my wife & I didnât have a turntable & at the time they were very expensive - strapped for cash we sold our records, dozens of them. I remember getting about $5 or so per album, a great deal since most were old & had been purchased originally for less than that!!!
So many I wish we still hadâŚ
First purchased music was the single Riders in the Sky.
First full size album was Bob Dylanâs Blood on the Tracks.
And for fun, the first 8-track was the Rolling Stones Brown Sugar.
Donât remember for cassette tapes, as a guy who lived most of his life on the road, that was the bulk of my collection. Iâll never forget the look on the face of the habitat, restore check out fella when I gave him my entire collection! I knew that he would appreciate it.
I digitized what I couldnât find online moved on. Right or wrong, makes it easier to pack for a trip.
Great choices, Ian. I listened to Killer Queen just a couple of weeks ago. And what a superb bass line on Watching the Detectives! My earliest purchases were decidedly less cool.
I have kept about a third of my albums. I used to regularly sell the ones I wasnât listening to. I regret that now.
My first album was not characteristic: The Beatles Collection, 1967-1970, The Blue Album, second hand from someone in a pub, about 1976. I wasnât that interested; I bought it to fit in, because I thought that people with records were popular. Prior to that, my dad had bought one of the early cassette recorders about 1970, so I used to just tape music from the radio. In 1972, when he was working in Jakarta, we used to buy dozens of dirt cheap badly produced bootleg cassettes from stalls in the street markets. I remember being excited to find one of Middle Of The Road that included one of my favourite songs at the time, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. On the insert, the bandâs name was rendered Middee on the Raod.
I donât. I just play them on YouTube instead. I do still have a turntable.
I think you already asked this. Is this a senility test?
First song ever home-taped from the TV: ABBA - Waterloo
First tape casette purchased (that I recall): ABBA - Voulez Vous
First vinyl purchased: Queen - Night At the Opera
Second vinyl purchased (because it is SO good): Deep Purple - Made In Japan
All digital today, from ripping my CDs, iTunes, file-sharing. Played on an old iPod Classic. Not sure where the vinyls are, most of which are my parentâs and the small collection my brother and I accummulated in our high school years.
First vinyl album was either U2 Rattle and Hum or Melissa Etheridge (her debut album). Both came out in 1988, I was 15 and it took months to save up enough money to buy them.
I think they are still in a cardboard box in my mumâs garage.
My first was Devo New Traditionalist. I guess it was 1981 and I was 11 years old. I had some tapes all ready, but no LPs.
This is an internet grabbed photo of the LP. I wish I still had all my vinyl from my ascension into my own music but sadly I do not.
I really loved the new age stuff. Tom Tom Club, The Surf Punks,
You guys thay still have your original LPs are so lucky.
Devo was also the first concert I went to without any supervision. Basically a cool highschool girl let me tag along with her friends. I still have my ticket stub from that show at least.
Cool thread.
What a great story Tod. Pity you had to sell them. There are quite a few things I regret selling when I needed money as a student. My record collection was sacred though so it survived.
I have kept and use my vinyl since the 60âs. The first Elvis either heartbreak hotel or itâs now or never on 7inch . Also the Everlyâs walk right back. Followed Buddy Holly Lpâs which I unfortunately sold to feed a habit. I still have everything else in various condition, too many to count perhaps 400 or more.
Interesting thread! My first purchases were in the cassette tape era, I suspect my first purchase was blank tapes so I could record my own âplaylistsâ off radio or off friends tapes. (We would try to convince the one guy with a Nakamichi dual tape player to make us copies). The first album I remember buying on tape was Brothers In Arms.
My dad had a small vinyl collection. I have vivid memories of listening to jazz (Glenn Miller, Al Hirt), calypso (Belafonte at Carnegie Hall), musicals (Sound of music, My fair lady)âŚ
I did have some singles but canât remember all of them , see my baby jive and Californian man and rock and roll xmas all by wizard I lent them to a DJ and never got them back Iâm sure there were more, as for albums I still have the original out of the blue by ELO including the poster in side, I have a Eddie and the Falcons album which was Wizzard playing 1950s style music, Bachaman Turner overdrive album you ain`t seen nothing yet some top of the pops compilation albums not sure what year but 1970s and a 20 golden greats by the shadows. I think I also have a Glen Miller album as I did and still do like the 1940s swing bands probably due to my father being a pianist in our local dance band for a few years to supplement his income I know I have the planet suite by Holst somewhere not sure why I bought It. canât remember any more too long ago on the other hand my first CD was Ocean Drive by the lighthouse family. I also used to tape songs from Alan Freemans radio show canât remember what it was called though something like top of the pops he used to say hello pop pickers or something similar on Sunday nights (just found out it was called pick of the pops)
I donât remember what was first for me. The first album I remember having was the Adam and the Ants album with Prince Charming on but that almost certainly wasnât first.
I had a turntable very young and got a load of singles from my aunties who were teens in the 60s so they Beatles and stuff like that.
I no longer own any vinyl and am not into the Beatles so Iâm not sure what went wrong
The other significant album in my life was Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden. I was 16/17 at the time; it was my introduction to metal and Iâve remained on that path ever since
Actually I had loads of singles before that that I didnât buy or pay for. My parents ran pubs in the North of England in the 50s and 60s and in those days pubs had juke boxes.
Every few weeks a guy would turn up with 4 or 5 of the latest singles and take others off to replace them. Precocious me asked what he did with the ones he took off and he said he threw them away, so said Iâll have them !!
By 1965, when I actually bought my first records I already had a large box of singles.
But I do remember the first album I bought
It was in1996 , I was 14 years old , I had some pocket money and I went to the local supermarket to buy Older by George Michael
Still an amazing album to this day
that was my very first own choice
And my second album was Made in heaven by Queen
After that I bought the entire discography
one by one
In the 90âs , all teenagers were listening to boys bands like worlds apart or Take that
I was the real ugly duckling listening to such music
I listened to Made in heaven countless of times at break time when I was in middle school
