I'm sure this would have been covered but I'm too lazy to scroll through pages and pages and pages of All I Ask so I'll start it again - or for the first time.

Simple question; What was the first album you bought? And if possible, why and any memories of actually purchasing it. Just for fun and the curious.

The first album I ever bought was Back To The Egg by Wings in 1979.

I was nine years old and I think it was some birthday money I got from my grandparents that I used to get it. It was in a discount department store, like Target or Woolworths or something like that. Why did I buy that? I was a Beatle fan even then and so I guess it had to be Beatle related. Why I didn't buy a Beatle album is a good question. Perhaps because Dad already had plenty of them!

It was/is a good album too. I remember being transfixed by the egg labels on the disc. Thought that was the coolest thing. I still have that actual record and it's still playable. It was some 15 years ago I got around to replacing it on CD. It wasn't the same though. For one, no 'egg' label!

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour in 1987

Still one of my favourite albums, and I still have that CD.

Okay, I came to the store with enough green to score two simultaneously. So I did:

AC/DC's High Voltage
Peter Gabriel's So

The circumstances remain hazy.

First cassingle: Fall at Your Feet with Whispers and Moans as the additional track.

First 7 inch vinyl single: Roxette: Listen to Your Heart

First CD: TOLM and Crowded House.

First cassette: Walt Disney Hits.

The Simpsons Sing The Blues, 1990
Enough said! I'm still a Simpsons fan though!

You guys are all too young!

Paranoid by Black Sabbath

I was probably about 13 when I bought it... the circumstances are doubtlessly hazy!

Someone had given me a gift of In-a-Gadda-da-Vida when I was about 9 - I think it was a neighbor who gave it away because they didn't want it. So I didn't buy it, but it was the first album I ever owned. And I believe I requested Who's Next for Christmas when I was 11.

Ha, put me in the "not so young" category too, Double H.

The first album I ever bought on my own was On the Third Day by the Electric Light Orchestra. It was 1973 and I was eleven.

I can also remember having been given Close to You, by the Carpenters and Band on the Run, by Wings, prior to that. Oh, and April Wine Live.

Linkin Park - Reanimation. 2003 I was 12.

I lent some that album and they never gave it back.

Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother. Still remember the actual purchase of it. I wish I still had it, probably worth a bit, mind I played it to death. Had a cow on the cover I think.

Yes AHM had a cow on the cover hk, and it is a good album, though I haven't played it in a while.

Anyways, the first albums I ever bought (not including those hits compilations/CDs parents got 4 me) were D-12's Devil's Night and Roxy Music's Flesh and Blood. Guess which one had more impact on me. I was 14 at the time btw.

The Beatles, Pink Floyd?? Either you were music savvy at such a tender age or there's a bit of fibbing going on!

1st 7" single - Nicole - A little peace (German Eurovision winner! ) - I was 6 years old though

1st album (tape) - The Hits Tape 6 - I was 12.
Cannot for the life remember what proper album I bought but it was some pop thing like Madonna or something. [Edit] Had a look and it was Michael Jackson's Bad. Ha! I was such a pop-head back in the day! Smooth Criminal still rocks though

1st CD - Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Actually when I bought this I didnt own a CD player but thought CDs were the way of the future! 1994 was a long time ago

I honestly can't remember the first album I bought, but one of the first was Heaven on Earth by Belinda Carlisle. The first song I bought I think was 'You came' by Kim Wilde

It's a toss up between "Elvis Is Back" - First cassette I bought with my own money, or "Zooropa" by U2, which was the first album I went out and specifically purchased.

Of course, I'd been borrowing, been given, and home taped a few before then.

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Originally posted by cinnamon:
The Beatles, Pink Floyd?? Either you were music savvy at such a tender age or there's a bit of fibbing going on!

I'll own up to being into the teen music of the day... but we're talking ancient history... My sister and I had quite the collection of 45's by the time we ever started buying albums. We dearly loved The Monkees; and even The Beatles fell into that category at one time. We also were big into Motown -- The Temptations, The Jackson 5, Diana Ross and the Supremes...

Well, I knew what I liked when I was 10 and bought Magical Mystery Tour

First album given to me was Beethoven's 5th Symphony, which I still have, it was a good recording and performance. At the same time as buying Magical Mystery Tour I also bought Dvorak's Slavonic Dances and Mussorgsky's original Night on Bare Mountain with Pictures at an Exhibition. Must have been birthday money. First single I bought was Doctorin' the TARDIS by KLF in 1988 on 7", so I bought an album a year before I bought a single. Never really been into buying singles, too short.

The first album I ever bought with my own money was Spike Milligan's "Bad Jelly the Witch" in 1977/78 when I was seven or eight years old. However, I started getting records for birthdays when I was three, so the first album I ever owned was the double "50 Favourite Children's Songs" with a rather large annoying bunny on the front cover. My daughter now listens to both those albums occasionally.

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Originally posted by double-H:

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Originally posted by cinnamon:
The Beatles, Pink Floyd?? Either you were music savvy at such a tender age or there's a bit of fibbing going on!

I'll own up to being into the teen music of the day... but we're talking ancient history... My sister and I had quite the collection of 45's by the time we ever started buying albums. We dearly loved The Monkees; and even The Beatles fell into that category at one time. We also were big into Motown -- The Temptations, The Jackson 5, Diana Ross and the Supremes...

Yep, I liked all the teeny bopper stuff too - loved the Monkees, Mickey Dolenz broke my heart - but it was played so much on radio that you didn't need to buy the singles or albums as far as I was concerned.

Albums were so expensive relative to Saturday job wages for teens that you had to buy the good stuff really.

I don't think it was being particularly musically savvy, just that there was so much good music going around then, record companies were not so marketing focussed as now, that chances were an album would be good.

Floyd were fairly mainstream. Beatles were everywhere - you'd have been hard pressed to find a household without a Beatles album!

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Originally posted by cinnamon:
The Beatles, Pink Floyd?? Either you were music savvy at such a tender age or there's a bit of fibbing going on!

I understand your cynicism

Growing up in such a musical household, I didn't have much say at all what went was played on the stereo and it just so happened that Dad played The Beatles a lot. Plus the Magical Mystery Tour EP (in glorious mono too) had a real cool comic book inside the cover. That'll always suck a young boy in.

I should mention that I was given a lot of records too. I'm not sure if it was a birthday or Xmas gift but when I was 6 I was given a small record player and obviously some of Dad's old records to play (my collection back then consisted of a Patsy Biscoe nursery rhyme record! ). I was given the My Generation album by The Who and some old 60s garage punk records from bands like The Seeds. These are very dangerous weapons in the hands of a six year kid hence the music tragic that I am today. Could I have been anything else?

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Originally posted by cinnamon:
Had a look and it was Michael Jackson's Bad. Ha! I was such a pop-head back in the day! Smooth Criminal still rocks though

That was the first music recording I ever owned. My parents gave me it on tape for my 8th birthday in 1988...and yes, cinnamon, 'Smooth Criminal' still rocks!

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Originally posted by Dazz:
Growing up in such a musical household, I didn't have much say at all what went was played on the stereo and it just so happened that Dad played The Beatles a lot.

Ah yes, the joys of a musical household! Reminds me of my upbringing, except for The Beatles, substitute Mom's Neil Sedaka records and Dad's Dr. Hook.

They were big rock singers. They had golden fingers.