Your First Single, Album and Gig
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7" - Housemartins - Caravan Of Love. Album - New Order - Power Corruption & Lies. Gig - New Order (& The Mondays) NEC 89.
7" - Blondie - Denis (I think) LP - Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat Gig - Black Sabbath, Malvern Wintergardens
'Lily the Pink' - haven't a clue who sang it and my Mum bought it for me, so it doesn't really count 
Album was probably some compilation Top of the Pops thingy.
First Gig, was a Two-Tone concert at the Bingley Hall, Birmingham.
Single: Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive (1979) Album: Bee Gees - Greatest Hits (1980) Live Show: The Police in Melbourne (March. 84)
Not proud of the first two.
Single:1979 smashing pumpkins Album: Dangerous : Michael Jackson
Gig: Terrorvision (Halifax: 1995 or 96 can't remeber exactly)
Single: Adam & The Ants - Stand & Deliver (limited edition poster sleeve - 75p from Woolworths when it was #1 in the charts)
Album: Adam & The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier (with the Ant catalogue insert - my dad bought it for me when it was his turn to get an album for his work record swap club thing!)
Gig: Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming Revue @ The Brighton Centre, 28/12/1981 (went with my Dad's boss's daughter - she was about 14 or 15, I was 11...!!!)
Marvellous...!!!
Chris :D
Single: Stone Roses - Elephant Stone.
Album: Black&White Charlatans one.
Paying Gig: Ian Brown at the start of his solo carreer.
Before all that, I just scavanged off my sisters collection. And why not.
This will be embarassing.
7": Our House - Madness (1983) LP: Michael Jackson - Thriller (1984) Gig: The Bangles - outdoor show at the Montreal amusement park. (1986 I believe, or 1987)
single: snow white and the seven dwarves, 'whistle while you work.'
album: pete's dragon, original motion picture soundtrack.
gig: U2 at mc nichols arena in denver, colorado, november 1987. they were filming rattle and hum there.
Single - Wig Wam Bam by Sweet Album - Tommy by The Who Gig - Judas Priest - Wolves Civic - WHAT WAS I THINKING ?
Single: Devo, "Whip It"
Album: Men at Work "Business as Usual"
Gig: PIL/ NO / The Sugarcubes Parkwest Amphitheatre, June 21 1989
not sure about either but think its between; single - t rex or bowie album - sham 69 or stranglers gig - either futurama 81,leeds queens hall or bauhaus at lancaster uni
Holy crap, I don't remember! Album: Thriller, Michael Jackson (hey, at least I'm man enough to admit it!) Single: Every Day is Haloween, Ministry Gig: Prince
Single -Madness ,Tomorrows Just Another Day (1983)
Album - New Order ,Factus 8 81-82 EP (bought it in 83)
Gig - New Order ,Birmingham Tower Ballroom Oct 86 (first gig would and should have been their June 84 gig at Birmingham Powerhouse but i was refused entry for being under 18
)
Not wishing to give my age away or anything:
Single: 'I love you love me love (Part 1)' G:evil:ry Glitt:evil:r Album: 'Propaganda' Sparks (still going strong-ish) Gig: The Stranglers supported by The Skids at Bridlington Spa (1978 I think)
Single - Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side (slightly used) Album - The Best of Blondie Concert - Hall & Oates (groan), sometime around 83-84
Single-David Essex-Make you a Star.(don't remember asking for it,but someone saw fit to buy me it.Cracking Tune!) First single I bought myself,would be... Aztec Camera-Somewhere in my Heart Album-Complete Madness,Thompson Twins,Flock of Seaguls,The Jam,Dire Straits(which me Dad brought back from Saudi on Cassette all at the same time for me,along with a sparkling Sony Walkman,and one of those all the rage calculater watches) First Gig-Big Country at Bedcar Bowl in 86ish..
Single - Pop Music (don't remember who by but it was a 1980 single, and I was 5)
Album - Huey Lewis and the News - Fore!
Gig - The Cure - Wild Mood Swings Tour
EdelBrock wrote: Single - Pop Music (don't remember who by but it was a 1980 single, and I was 5)
Album - Huey Lewis and the News - Fore!
Gig - The Cure - Wild Mood Swings Tour
Pop Music was by 'M'. Everybody talk about....New York, London, Paris, Muchich, everybody talk about hmm ..Pop Music........
It was pretty crap actually.
Hard to remember...
Single : La pêche aux moules (mid-seventies)... stupid track... I do not know if it counts really as my father bought it to me. I cannot remember which is the one I could afford first with my own money...
Album : Radio activity on tape by the late seventies. Then again, my parents paid...
Concert : Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses tour.
Single? i think it was the Police-Dont Stand so Close to me Album- Kiss Alive! Gig-the Ramones at the ritz NYC '89, might have seen german metal band Kreator just before that though im not sure
Whew, this takes me back! 1st single I heard it through the grapevine Gladys Knight version
Monkees "Headquarters" around `67 I think
First Gig The Guess Who in 1969
abba take a chance on me
new order - low life
new order - brixton academy 1987
sorry i tell a lie mantornix 1984 astoria
Single = Blue Monday '95 (1995; technically I didn't buy it solely - it was attached to the Rest Of).
Album = Beatles (Help!) on tape. The real first vinyl record I bought was a Carl Perkins one, I think.
Gig = Auction (1991)
Overall, my story is very boring :(
fac10 wrote: Whew, this takes me back! 1st single I heard it through the grapevine Gladys Knight version
Monkees "Headquarters" around `67 I think
First Gig The Guess Who in 1969
Wow... you're the monster out here... 1967!!! Impressive!
Dog Eat Dog - Adam And The Ants Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam And The Ants Squeeze/A Flock Of Seagulls ( Royal Court 1981 )
