What was the first album you ever bought?

Question

What was the experience like, listening to your first full album?

I'm not going to say mine... too painful :0)

Jakex :] : It was *N Sync.... I mean, BSB would have been less embarrassing! But I did enjoy it... at the time. First albums are very magical things.

Screamyour♥out: I think mine is worse... :0)

Isis: At least your spectrum never reached N Sync :0P

Chunga's Revenge: Awww, you poor thing! I can see myself doing something like that too....

Fonzie T: Don't make me feel more like a loser than I already do! :0P. It was *NSync's debut album, BSB's was my second.

Joe: Unfortunely for me, store weren't selling vinyls by the time I fell in love with music. Where have you been?

Darth Maul OS: Asia... wow, that's a pretty good one to start off with with :0)

rukrym : The big record stores don't anymore, they sell them in smaller stores but that requires digging through alot of dusty layers. I just recently began to find teh really good size of a dent in the wall stores that sell the good stuff. I do plan to get a record player, just when I'm in college cause my parents don't want me to get one.

Thanks Brian... now to get a record player :0P

Answer 1

Whenever I used to go grocery shopping with my Mom, the checkout counter had a rack of records, classical, muzac, pop. etc. I used to see this record called 'The Buggs'. I always bugged my Mom for it, but she'd never give in...it was a whole 99 cents or something!
Then about a year later I had a paper route, and saved my pennies. I walked into that 'Safeway' with head held high and bought my very first record (with out my Mom).
I remember hearing the Beatles on the radio all the time in around 1964, and I actually thought that this album was indeed the Beatles! It looked like them, and sounded like them. It even said 'The Liverpool sound - Recorded in England' on the cover, so by all accounts...it had to be! Sadly it wasn't, and for years I thought that this 'Beatles Knock Off' band were indeed from Liverpool.
I only found out recently that they were from Omaha Nebraska! And the record was recorded in Minneapolis!
So this is the very first album I ever bought (with out my Mom): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buggs

Answer 2

If I remember right, it was Wheatus' debut (I think it was self-titled). Pretty bad, I know, although for a 13 year old who knew nothing about music, it could have been worse. Anyway, it went in the bin a good few years ago, during a purging of all the terrible CDs I listened to during my youth :)

Incidentally, I just bought my first record player yesterday, and my first record today("New Magnetic Wonder" by The Apples In Stereo), which I'm just listening to now. I already have the album on download, but there's just something about listening to it on vinyl that's so much better. I think I'll try to buy everything on vinyl from now on.

Edit:
You said stores weren't selling vinyls anymore when you fell in love with music? They still sell them, or at least they do here anyway. I actually got two today, and they were both by current bands, and the shop (Tower) had loads of classic rock and old bands too. I'd definitely recommend investing in a record player, I'm really glad I did. My dad had a good few of his old vinyls stashed in the attic as well, stuff like Van Morrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, The Beatles etc, so I got those too!

Answer 3

The first CD I ever got was AC/DC's Back In Black, maybe 5 years ago or so for Christmas. I was so exited, I didn't stop listening to it all day.

I don't really remember the "first" record I bought since I got like 20 at once, but some things I can remember are AC/DCs Highway To Hell, Rolling Stones Hot Rocks, Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow, Dios Holy Diver, Dire Straits Brothers In Arms...and that's about all I can remember.

Edit for recordness:
I was up in Vermont a year ago, and I found this great record shop in Montpelier. Great quality stuff at a good price, and he ships anywhere in the US. Even got stuff like Blue Cheer and The New York Dolls.
http://riverwalkrecords.com/

Answer 4

"Sheer Heart Attack" by Queen. I was 7 years old(this was 1981..), and I had a cassette my parents had recorded of a "Top 100" chart from a London radio station(Capital) in 1975."Bohemian Rhapsody" was number 1. I'd listened to the cassette ad nauseum for a few months and while I was out shopping with my mother one day I saw "SHA". I nagged and nagged until she bought it for me. The experience of listening to it was pretty mindblowing because of the range of styles, and for some reason the operatic vocal overdubs really appealed to me at the time. I still have the record, and although "Brighton Rock", "Flick of the Wrist" and "Now I'm Here" still sound pretty good, the rest of it is pretty cringeworthy. There are worse places to start though, I suppose

Answer 5

I bought My first three at one time Sarah in 1983
Asia-Asia
Frontiers-Journey
Pyromania-Def Leppard
My Mom was a seriously devout Christian. And I didn't even get to start listening to Rock till I was 17 in 1983.
I bought all three albums because the videos for "Heat Of The Moment" "After The Fall" & "Rock Of Ages" were my three favorites on MTV at that time. All three were on Cassette. My first 8 tracks were
Tonight's The Night-Rod Stewart
High Voltage-AC/DC
Comes A Time-Neil Young
All bought at a Yard Sale.
My first CD was Boston-Boston, purchased for My first CD player in 1988
And the experience of listening to Asia all the way through was mind blowing. Didn't have one bad song on it and I still love the album to this day.

Answer 6

Air Supply 1982

Answer 7

Bad Company What You Hear Is What You Get (it's a live album). My reason for getting it, primarily, was for the song Shooting Star....but I ended up falling in love with every song on it. A great experience...

Edit: I'll add my first cassette and vinyl as well (too young for 8-track...too young for vinyls also, but oh well)...

Cassette: Elton John's Greatest Hits
Vinyl: George Jones Country Heart

...I find it funny because they're on completely different ends of the spectrum.

Answer 8

The experience was immense; I was being let in to a world I so desired. I wanted to know what the singer was thinking; what the players were composing; what was going on! AND . . . it was mine, all mine.

My first records were 45's, but my first vinyl album was Just Like Us! by Paul Revere & the Raiders back in '65.

Answer 9

Well, the firt time I actually went out and bought a CD by myself with my money, I bought Young, Loud, And Snotty by the Dead Boys and Singles Going Steady by the Buzzcocks. And to this day it remains one of the best purchases I've made.

I got all the more embarrassing stuff out of my system with requesting CDs for my birthday and such, so by the time I actually started buying my own I knew where it was at.

Answer 10

I was 13 years old when I purchased Bob Marley's "Natty Dread" from money I earned working at a carnival. I do still enjoy listening to that album.