First album you ever bought

I was bored today, since all of exams are over and i'm waiting around to go home, and I began to think about my CD/tape collection. Obviously out of boredom. And I was thinking about the first album I bought for myself, not something that someone else bought for me or something my parents listened to that I liked. And, actually, the first album I bought for myself was Red Hot Chili Peppers' One Hot Minute, come to think of it. :o So, what album - not JD or NO necessarily - did everyone buy first and why? I can bet this thread has been done before. Oh well. I remember buying that album in '96 or '95 after hearing "Aeroplane" at a roller skating rink. I think that song might have been a minor hit in '96, but it wasn't too bad, and since I just got a boom box for my birthday, but no CDs or tapes, I wanted that CD. Back then, I just familiar with stuff in the US, with the exception of Oasis, which I thought was kind of lame. But, then, before the whole pop and rap explosion, I remember, from reading Rolling Stone, that American mainstream music wasn't that bad. Of course, aside from the Smashing Pumpkins, now I realize I was wrong and that NO, PSB, and the Cure, with several other British bands I've heard, are far better than what's and what was over here.

i believe the first album i ever bought was Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" when i was six.

ace thread, by the way!

My first buy was an Elvis Presley tape - Rock is back, must've been approx 1978. No accounting for taste when you're 10, but I bought it for the song "Baby I don't care" and especially that bit where he goes all mumbly and Elvis cool and keeps going "Baby, I don't care, care, care, care, I don't care..." and then the drums crash in and I'm in front of the mirror going off, skinny as a rake with a big boof afro, but in my head I'm a dead cert for the King.

The 'Empire Records' and 'Dangerous Minds' soundtracks, and maybe a TLC album were mine. Thank God those only lasted about a year. I feel filthy just thinking about them.

My first album that I purchased was Duran Duran...the Duran Duran album. I know, but I was 12.

My first CD purchase was better also....The Cure - Standing on the Beach.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III Soundtrack.

Jackson 5ive - Going Back to Indiana back about 1970 or '71. I'd seen the special and just HAD to have the album. Michael was SOOOOOOOOO CUTE when he was black.

Originally posted by Subsy of Greater Rochester Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III Soundtrack.

Wow and I thought mine was bad!

first lp i bought was number of the beast by iron maiden. hey i was young.

first 7" either whole of the moon by waterboys or reward by teardrop explodes - cant remember which came first

first cd was technique - before i had a cd player fist dat technique - still dont have a dat first dvd new order 316 - before i had a dvd player

Originally posted by Pretty in Pink > Originally posted by Subsy of Greater Rochester> Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III Soundtrack.

Wow and I thought mine was bad!

Yes, I know.

Hey, it did have a track produced my our very good friend Mr. Sumner though! Here, scroll down to the producing/mixing credits

White Light White Heat by The Velvet Underground, aged 5 in 1971. I always was a step ahead.

The The's Soul mining in 1984. I was (sweet) sixteen.

It must have been NewOrder.... ;)

First LP was a Madness compilation, back in the early 80s. Until then I'd been surviving on tapes and borrowings (Adam and the Ants, Back in Black, Ace of Spades, etc).

First CD was Spacemen 3's Recurring, cos of all the cool bonus tracks. Didn't even have a CD player, so promptly went round to a friend and taped it!

FRAGILE and CLOSE TO THE EDGE by YES.:D

Well I started with a tape recorder and the first cassette album I bought was "Prince Charming" by Adam & the Ants, swiftly followed by "Upstairs at Erics" by Yazoo and "The Hurting" by Tears For Fears. A couple of years later I got my first proper mini-hifi with a record player and the first 12 inch single I bought was "Welcome To The PleasureDome" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, soon followed by "Blue Monday". The first vinyl album I bought was "Low-Life" (straight up!).

Happy days. So innocent, so young.......

First album i ever bought was "'?' The best of New Order" in 1994 on CD for the stereo i got for my birthday.

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes White Light White Heat by The Velvet Underground, aged 5 in 1971. I always was a step ahead.

Wow! I had a hard enough time wrapping my head around that album when I was 19! I can't imagine how it must've sounded at the tender age of 5 (though you probably didn't have any preconceptions about music at the time, so Sister Ray probably didn't sound wierd). One of my absolute faves, though; I was pissed off when reading the back page of Alternative Press and seeing that one and Dark Side of The Moon listed as "unessential albums"

Anyway, as for me, my first music purchase was a tape of the Fat Boys, a short-lived rap group (at least short-lived in my record collection). My first CD: The Best of The Animals, a top-notch collection which avoided all the hippy-dippy stuff of the "New" Animals and stuck with the classic Price-Chandler-Valentine-Steel-Burdon outfit

Originally posted by Major Tarantino First album i ever bought was "'?' The best of New Order" in 1994 on CD for the stereo i got for my birthday.

I've heard its quite listenable isnt it?, i saw it in Woolies the other day but didnt have enough money to buy that AND the cheeky girls latest release...

Originally posted by WenOrder > Originally posted by Subsy of Greater Rochester> > > > Originally posted by Pretty in Pink> > > > > > > Originally posted by Subsy of Greater Rochester> > > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III Soundtrack.> > >

Wow and I thought mine was bad!

Yes, I know.

Hey, it did have a track produced my our very good friend Mr. Sumner though! Here, scroll down to the producing/mixing credits

Tarzan Boy! I actually like the song for a long time. I still put it on from time to time....

Which track was produced by bernard? was it the technotronic song?

Yep, the last track (Remix).

Originally posted by DoN > Originally posted by Major Tarantino First album i ever bought was "'?' The best of New Order" in 1994 on CD for the stereo i got for my birthday.

I've heard its quite listenable isnt it?, i saw it in Woolies the other day but didnt have enough money to buy that AND the cheeky girls latest release...

The best track on it is the hidden one

Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" LP on vinyl - my local library were throwing it out - it cost me 50p - I was 9 years old.

Went home put it on my Dad's Garrard deck - settled down with the old headphones on and quite simply it blew my mind. Consider this was the 1970's - most of the other kids at school were listening to bloody Deep Purple ! I was forever labled as the kid who likes weird shit.

I immediately went out and bought everything vaguely "German". This approach lead to some great discoveries eg. Neu, Stockhausen, Popul Vuh etc and a few total disasters eg. Nena's 99 Red Balloons !!

T'was 1978 when, aged 13, I bought Outlandos d'Amour by The Police. Seems a bit naff now, but back then it was, like, hey, who are The Police, and what a great album it was. The only time my schoolmates ever considered me to be cool.

The Police were my favourite band until I got into The Jam in 1979, who lasted as #1 until early 1981 when I first heard Ceremony. The rest, as they say, is history.

Originally posted by Monsieur Round&Round The The's Soul mining in 1984. I was (sweet) sixteen.

fantastic debut album - one to be proud of!

oh- my first was crocodiles on vinyl- Echo and the Bunnymen-

Originally posted by phil oh- my first was crocodiles on vinyl- Echo and the Bunnymen-

Oh wow!!! I forgot about them...I loved Echo and the Bunnymen

Originally posted by Push My first buy was an Elvis Presley tape - Rock is back, must've been approx 1978. No accounting for taste when you're 10, but I bought it for the song "Baby I don't care" and especially that bit where he goes all mumbly and Elvis cool and keeps going "Baby, I don't care, care, care, care, I don't care..." and then the drums crash in and I'm in front of the mirror going off, skinny as a rake with a big boof afro, but in my head I'm a dead cert for the King.

Don't feel too bad about that. I thought "Pump up the volume" by Marrs was good music when I was younger.

My father bought me Greatest Hits of the Bangles when I was 3.....the cd I actually bought was Savage Garden's self-titled debut when I was 15. The first New Order cd I bought was Get Ready.

Originally posted by Monsieur Round&Round The The's Soul mining in 1984. I was (sweet) sixteen.

That was my first LP, by the way. Before that, I only had a tape recorder/player... So the REAL first piece of music I bought was The Police's "Zenyatta Mondatta" in 1980. I was 13 then and already had a fixation on a Mr. Sumner, albeit the wrong one

Electric Light Orchestra's TIME, since it was the only record I had back then (I must have been 9 years old at the time) I listened to it all the time. I can still sing along some of the songs

Hold on tight to your dreams....

Utter crap, brrrrr

Thank F... Blue Monday saved my live!

I'm not sure i remember which album i first bought, i think it was "Greatest Hits" by Abba (i split the cost of the album with my sister) or "Dynasty" by Kiss much to my mum's horrer (she confiscated it off me).

Bought Movement on the strength of Blue Monday in 1983 and never looked back.

Originally posted by Budvar Huber Electric Light Orchestra's TIME, since it was the only record I had back then (I must have been 9 years old at the time) I listened to it all the time. I can still sing along some of the songs

Hold on tight to your dreams....

Utter crap, brrrrr

Thank F... Blue Monday saved my live!

Out Of The Blue, complete with cardboard space ship model.

Mr Blue Sky please tell us why...

now you just look like one!

I did wonder who that was in Shug's avator. He does look younger than my 15 year old. So whats the secret of eternal adolescence then?

Originally posted by a very small boy I did wonder who that was in Shug's avator. He does look younger than my 15 year old. So whats the secret of eternal adolescence then?

I dunno? Alcohol? Extra estrogen? New Order? I'm 19 years old, and by that pic taken in February in my NOOL profile, according to several people, I barely look like I'm 15.. Hmm.. so if Barney didn't age that much - he can't even grow a mustache - can we call this symptom of not aging bernard sumner syndrome?

Originally posted by Pretty in Pink > Originally posted by phil> oh- my first was crocodiles on vinyl- Echo and the Bunnymen-

Oh wow!!! I forgot about them...I loved Echo and the Bunnymen

me too!

The first album I ever bought was Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

The very first album I bought was one of my brother's Led Zeppelin albums which I 'accidentally' wrecked and I can still feel the bruises on my arm as my mother dragged me to shop to get him a new one. I must have been about 10. The irony of it being that once he left the house, I spent a forture on the entire Led Zeppelin collection (and later Robert Plant solo)... and I still love it.

The first voluntary purchase was, dare I say it, Peter Frampton's I'm in You in '77 :o. Luckily the Cure and Joy Division followed shortly after that.

First album bought was Prince Charming by Adam & The Ants. I was 12. (That's just pointing out a fact; not making an excuse, although if it's an acceptable excuse, then that's fine with me!)

First NO album was Substance.

Originally posted by ShugZV©
> Originally posted by a very small boy> I did wonder who that was in Shug's avator. He does look younger than my 15 year old. So whats the secret of eternal adolescence then?

Drinking far too much alcohol and smoking like a chimney...... it's not done me any harm:D

yeah but you'd be 6 foot 9 if you hadnt...

Originally posted by Tristan Jayol The first album I ever bought was Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

I bought that when I was 13, when I still thought RHCP was cool, after hearing only one hot minute. I know a lot of people liked this album, but it majorly dissapointed me, with the exception of about 2 songs.

I do not remember what the first tape or album I bought was...but I do remember that the first CD I purchased (before I even had a CD player) Was the Pleasure Victum album by Berlin. I was in love with the dual colored hair of Terri Nunn and like my efforts to meet the NO crew...I was successful in meeting the band. I pretended to be a reporter for our school news paper and went to the interview that was the day before the concert...it was cool to meet and have John Crawford sign the two tapes I had (so I had purchased music before...nothing sticks out like that first CD though), but the princess of my heart, Terri was not there...she was ill. She had a history of being ill and did not sound all that great during the concert. I still liked her though. Berlin has a web at :

http://www.terrinunn.com

The first album I ever purchased was Blondie's Parallel Lines back in the late seventies. I had an unhealthy obsession with Debbie Harry at the time.

First album I ever bought was 'The Clash' - and it still gets the odd play even now...(well the latterly purchased cd of it does!)

Substance... and what a choice. i'm sure the majority of this website will agree...

Sheer Heart Attack by Queen, cause the local store didn't have any New York Dolls or Roxy Music back then.

Originally posted by Thieves Like Us > Originally posted by facseven> The first album I ever purchased was Blondie's Parallel Lines back in the late seventies. I had an unhealthy obsession with Debbie Harry at the time.

nothing wrong with that back in the day...now if you still had an obsession with her...I'd be worried!!!

I still have an obsesseion w/ debbie harry; every time I see an old clip or her singing Heart of glass, my heart melts

Originally posted by Liam Core Substance... and what a choice. i'm sure the majority of this website will agree...

First NO album I ever received, Christmas of '99 Too bad I didn't become an H-Core fan until Get Ready-era, sooo many wasted nights. :( Not enough nights being wasted though ;)

my first album was 'the joshua tree' when i was six or seven...

and on the blondie discussion: DH is hot but Toni (from curve) was hotter. i was in this club i was playing in, and they were projecting videos on the wall above the stage. they had this one curve video and, in a couple shots, toni looked like DH with jet-black hair. ((melt))

The Dickies The incredible shrinking