What was the first record/cd you bought?
I was listening to Joe Walsh’s Life’s been good the other day and it made me wonder what the first cd or(if you are as old as me), record, you bought was.
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If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God by The Pogues. My mom hid it from me because it had cussing in it. It took me forever to find it again.
@shpadoinkle_sue Outstanding first record !
Mine was Fleet Mac tango in the night, but If I’m honest the first one I paid for myself was a single cassette of Faith by George Michael. :(
Actually I was dancing to the Eagles whilst still in diapers, so I guess if we didn’t already own it that would have been my first record.( I’m still rocking to it at 33)
@sea turtle, Fleetwood Mac are brilliant and Rumours is one of my all time favourite albums but I like some of George Michael’s stuff. I used to have a Franki Valley and the Four Seasons album too. Not sure what I was thinking when I bought that one…
@SeaTurtle Coincidently and according to Wikipedia… (yes of course it’s true then) Stevie Nicks has said Joe Walsh was the love of her life….
If memory serves me, it was the Album “Let there be rock” by AC/DC, not long after it came out in the UK, then I was hooked…. :-/ still am.
The first single I bought was, “It’s Only Make Believe” by Conway Twitty (you can haff yaw little laugh, but there were only about 5 guys making music in 1958 ;-p).
The first album I bought was Out Of Our Heads, by the Rolling Stones in 1965.
So things got radically better then Brian :-)
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap, Big balls, The JACK was my first single, again AC/DC.. :-/
My very first album was Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel
“I Will Follow HIm” by Little Mary Wells was the first 45 I bought.
Meet the Beatles was the first album.
The first album was Glad All Over by the Dave Clark Five. I bought the single of I Get Around by the Beach Boys the same day.
@zenvelo
Could it be that we bought our first albums in the same year- 1965?
@janbb
“I Will Follow HIm”
Is that the same one that was done by Peggy March in 1963?
I assume so; I may be wrong about the Mary Wells; 1963 is about the right year. One of the stupidest songs ever recorded!
@Mz_Lizzy
“Stevie Nicks has said Joe Walsh was the love of her life….”
Interesting- my guess would have been Lindsey Buckingham.
I think it was Madonna or the soundtrack for Grease. I remember being a preteen and singing and dancing in my room to both of these.
My first purchase was the Chronic Town EP by R.E.M. on cassette, and someone in my 7th grade class gave me a copy of the first Duran Duran album on cassette at around the same time. Had to hide both of them from my fundy guardian, who was anti-secular music. I would’ve been 12.
My first CD was Dead Letter Office, R.E.M.‘s outtakes and B-sides compilation from 1987, which includes Chronic Town. I got that one when I was 18. Cost me $20.
Neil Diamond Hot August Nights. Early 70’s.
Icicles and Popsicles way back in the 60s.
I don’t remember my first record – actually, it’s very possible that I never personally bought one, since tapes were taking over by the time I actually had money to buy things like that in the late 80s. The first tape I remember buying was Guns ‘N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction. The first CD I remember buying was Vanilla Ice.
The Best of Jimmy Buffett.
Once, my Mom bought me a Close-N-Play record player for Christmas. One of my older brothers selected two albums for her to give with the record player. They were a Linda Ronstadt album and Jesus Christ Superstar.
I think the first album I bought on my own was Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd).
The first two that I received, with my amazing new portable CD player were CD’s by REM and Primus. My mom took them both and hid them. In my dad’s underwear drawer. Where I found them not too long after, because she made me fold their laundry. I had to touch my dad’s undies to get my CD’s back. Eewww, the trauma!
The first one that I purchased with my own money was a Cranberries CD.
I never really had my own money growing up, so the first one I received from my parents was a “Pavarotti: Showstoppers” CD that included several of the most famous dramatic showstopping scenes in opera. It’s responsible for my interest in classical music today. Not long after that I received compilations of Beethoven, Mozart, and opera pieces.
My first record was a single (45) of Rod Stewart.
Wow, such a diverse range of music and some quite unexpected. @seelix, Vanilla Ice…Ice, ice baby… :-)
I too was given music before I bought my own and standouts are The Doors LA Woman album and Carole King’s Tapastry. Both of which I still love. My sister bought me a Rod Stewart album which never left the sleeve. Ugh! Strangely, a few years later, under pressure from friends, I went to see Rod Stewart in concert. It was okay. 2001 A Space Oddessy, that’s a different one. I wanted Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. I got Tubular Bells by the Royal Philamonic…. hmmm, still in mint condition in sleeve. And yes @SeaTurtle Joe Walsh. Apparently they each enabled the other’s addictions though and broke up. Oooh just noticed @cori28‘s first record was a Rod Stewart number… sorry :-D
@Mz_Lizzy The first concert I ever went to was Rod Stewart and Faces, Rod Stewart’s “Every Picture Tells a Story” is a great album. But that was all pre-disco.
@zenvelo one of my favorite albums. Bring back summer memories of long ago.
Hi @zenvelo. I was probably being very judgemental in terms of the album I was bought. It was probably a classic but i looked at it, went “Rod Stewart!!!” and shoved it in the album pile. I did enjoy his concert. With hindsight, Rod is okay! Went to see the Doobie Bros the other night. Wow, they still ROCK!!!
First cassette was Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet. First CD I bought was NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo.
@Mz_Lizzy I saw the Doobie Brothers summer before last, they were as good then as when I saw them at Day on the Green at Oakland Coliseum in 1975. The “Captain and Me” album was on heavy rotation on my stereo in 1974.
One Foot In The Grave – Beck.
It came out on my birthdate, so I guess it was pretty old by the time I picked it up. But I wanted to start with the first Beck album so I did it anyway.
My first album- Thriller by Michael Jackson
My first cassette- Girls Just Want To Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper
My first CD- Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses
This is kind of embarrassing: “Shaq Fu” by Shaquille O’Neal. haha
@Scooby. I had no idea what “the Jack” was for a long time.
@Bellatrix
We’re old friends unfortunately!! Lol. :-/
All that tight leather…............
:-| What do you think ‘The Jack’ is? In Australia it is… urm slang for Gonorrhea. Are we on the same page here?
@Bellatrix
Yeah :-/
unfortunately in my younger less guarded days me & jack had a bit of run in… I blamed the tight leather pants I used to wear,, as they were what seemed to attract the girls at the time.. I’m talking 85–86, the height of my concert going days when nothing seemed to matter, especially unprotected sex :-/
Ya live & learn….
lol okay… I just had to check! I am sure you do :-D
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