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Originally posted by Dazz:

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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

Really?

Should I start to get annoyed at this?

I didn't mean that line as an attack on you, hk

I meant that as a generalization of people who's 'first album I bought' is actually quite credible.

But then, some kids do have good taste.

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Originally posted by Camus:
Well, I knew what I liked when I was 10 and bought Magical Mystery Tour

You were 10 in 1987, making you 31 years old right now? Is that right Joe? I always assumed you were an oldster like me.

The first album I bought was 'Another Side of Bob Dylan'. I still love his early stuff so I was pleased to get a copy of the Byrdhouse disc with Crowded House performing Mr Tambourine Man with Roger McGuinn. I still prefer the Dylan version as it includes my favourite verse:

'Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.'

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You were 10 in 1987, making you 31 years old right now? Is that right Joe? I always assumed you were an oldster like me.

Yep. I'm an oldster on the inside

i dont think you really want to know
but since im 11 when i was 5 boy bands were around
my first album was WESTLIFE
but my dad listened to split enz,neil finn etc:
so i adapted to that
i havent bought much of my own albums
the ones i listen to are my dads

I honestly cant remember the FIRST album I bought.I do remember the first 45 I bought....ahem "sweet home alabama"...SKYNYRD!!!!

The first album had to be either "billion dollar babies"(alice cooper) or "cant buy a thrill" (steely dan),I cant remember wich was first.

I grew up in a VERY musical family.My mother sang and danced,grandfather did a stint with Tommy Dorsey,sisters both sing ect....My mother loved anything with a great melody and I caught the bug early.the beatles,steely dan,Jim Croce,James Taylor,alice cooper/black sabbath(sisters influence),gilbert o'sullivan,ace,all manner of big bands,Crooners,50's musicals ect...man,ya'll got me thinkin back.

The first album I ever bought with my hard earned cash, was True Colours, by Split Enz LMAO in case you didn't know. Took awhile to save up for it, as I got the silver and gold cover. Frenzy was the next purchase.

First albums requested would have been Bay City Rollers, when I was 10, no idea which album, but didn't get it.

Abba's Arrival, didn't get it, got something with Nina Pretty Ballerina on it.

Saturday Night Fever, didn't get it, got the Bee Gees greatest hits of the 60's, but... THAT ONE is still a favourite.

I always ended up with compilation albums, Ripper 77, or Full Bore, great... an album with a pig on the cover. At least one of them introduced me to Roger Whittacker, ahhhhh what a whistler, eh!?
There's a ship, lies rigged and ready in the harbour.....tomorrow for old England she sails..

Full Boar is a fantastic album, I;ve got that. He's My Number One, Space Invaders, Fly Too High, The Pina Colada Song, Girls Talk, I Got You, Hot Town, it has so many good songs.

The first album I bought was Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume 1.

I was 9 in 1975 and Elton reigned supreme.

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Originally posted by Kelly Timtam:

I always ended up with compilation albums, Ripper 77, or Full Bore, great... an album with a pig on the cover. At least one of them introduced me to Roger Whittacker, ahhhhh what a whistler, eh!?
There's a ship, lies rigged and ready in the harbour.....tomorrow for old England she sails..


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I think that album with Roger Whitacher on it was SCREAMER, released in the second half of 1975. Track 1, Side 2. I'm not embarrassed I know that!

There was something about those 70s/80s compilations, something that the contemporary compilations NOW or So Fresh doesn't have (possibly good songs?). And I collected them all by going round second hand shops and building up a neat Top 40 70s library (didn't collect all the K-Tel ones though, they were well dodgy even at the time although Full Boar is a classic).

Onya Dazz! Couldn't remember the name of that one. I shall go looking. Can no find...yet.

Joe just sniffed at the tracklisting for Full Boar. Its amazing the things you find with a google search.

Red Alert, Hitwave 81,Hitwave 83 were some of the others.

I love Full Boar so much I downloaded all the songs so I could make a CD version of it. Top stuff. Girls Talk is a great song and by Elvis Costello too (though it's Dave Edmunds' more famous cover version on the record). What a cover though, a real pigs head with sunglasses and big chunky 70s headphones.... love it.

Wow Camus, you managed to get The Aliens for Full Boar CD? Yeah that was a cool album and it was fun to hear the sometimes dodgy edits and the way the album was sequenced to run continuously.

For interest sake and complete trivia here's the list of those 'greatest hits' compilations that I have collected. Some may ring a few nostalgia bells:

THE 70s:
20 Explosive Hits (1970)
20 Happening Hits (1970)
20 Explosive Hits 71
Explosive Hits 73 (apparently there was no 72 edition)
Explosive Hits 74
Explosive Hits 75
Ripper
Screamer
Whopper
Bumper
Ripper 76
Explosive Hits 76
Scorcher
Devastator (gotta love these titles, huh?)
Ripper 77
Blockbuster 77
Explosive Hits 77
Supa Hits
Choc-o-Block
Explosive Radio Hits 1978
Hitwave (on green vinyl!!)
Explosive Hits 78
Knockout
Countdown Chartbusters Vol.1 (there was no Vol.2)
Bullseye
Drivetime

...and a honorary mention for K-Tel's near-legend Full Boar (complete with poster)

THE 80s
1980...The Music
Red Alert (on red vinyl, natch...)
1980 The Summer
1981 The Sound
Hitwave 81
1981 Rocks On
1981 Over The Top
1982 In The Sun
Hitwave 82
1982 With A Bullet
Rocktrip 82
1982 Out Of The Blue
The Winners 1982
1982 Up In Lights
Go For It 1983
1983 The Hot Ones
The Breakers 83
Keep On Dancing
Thru The Roof 83
1983 Summer Breaks
1984 Shakin'
Throbbin' 84 (The titles weren't getting much better...)
1984 The Beat
H'its Huge 84
1984 The Music
H'its Hot 84
Choose 1985
1985 Comes Alive
1985 Let's Go
Heaps Of Hits 85
1985 On Fire
Turn it Up 85
1985 Hottest On record
Just Hits 85-86
1986 Out Now
All The Hits Vol.1 (Once again, there was no Vol.2)
1986 Way To Go
H'its Awesome 86
1986 Just For Kicks
Summer 87
1987 Let's Party
87 Hits Out
1987 In The Groove
87 Right On Track
12 (So named because it cost 12 bucks for 12 tracks)
87 Hots Up
Hit City 1987
Summer 88
Celebrate 88
Pump It Up 88
Hit Pix 88
88 Kix On
Hit Pix 88 Vol.2
88 The Winners
1988 What's Hot
Summer 89
Hits Of 89 Volumes 1 2 & 3
Hits Now 89 Volumes 1 & 2
1989 The Right Stuff
Hits Of 1990 Vol.1 (actually contained hits from late 1989!)
Let's Do It


So there you go. Lotsa compilations back then and every one has at least one gem on it.

That's the Australian ones anyway. The poms may claim to invent the genre with their Now That's What I Call Music series in 1983 but as you can see us Aussies had a handle on it years before that

First ones I bought with my own $

Crowdies ~Woodface (the shop did'nt have TA)
Darryl Braithwaite~ Rise
The Pretenders (a best of)

I had just gotten my first real job and needed cds for a cd player I had won..... goes without saying I loved my Crowdies but had'nt been able to own/buy Woodface.

Loved the song Goodbye Blue Sky off Rise... I wish I knew what happened to that cd

First albums (records)I owned were True Colours and Beatles For Sale

I had always thought the first album I'd bought was one of those compliations but my older sister insists it was Rollin' by The Bay City Rollers. I also had a Donny Osmond LP as well around that time (74ish) but can't remember the title.
I'll never forget the first single I was allowed to buy with my own money which was Lily The Pink (in 1969, I think! ). Can't remember the name of the group but I think Paul McCartney's brother was in it.

The Irish Rovers had a version of Lily The Pink, Kazzah,Neil,Nick and myself had a sing-a-long of it and The Unicorn Song at the Enough Rope taping last year

I may be the only one (or one of the few) who assumes album=collection of music not dependant on format (vinyl, cassette, CD, digital, etc).

My first cassette and vinyl record were both the same thing:

Welcome to the Real World by Mr. Mister.

I got the cassette first and the record some time later just because. It was 1986 and both formats were still being used. I remember hearing the song "Broken Wings" and it was a clincher for me, but I didn't have enough money to get it until February of 1986. It was a grey, dreary day and I took my long-saved money (hard to come by for an 11 year old) and walked a few miles to get to the music store that was in the old downtown near the train station. I got my cassette for about $10 and walked out of the store one extremely happy camper.


It's funny when I think back on it now that a song that featured bass so prominently was what grabbed my ear and demanded attention. I didn't become a bass player until almost exactly 20 years later (only off by a few months).

But that album is what made me a music consumer, and as it stands, I now have over 700 items in various formats. Sure, there are larger, but I think that's pretty good considering all the moving I've done in my life and that I"ve still managed to keep my things.

Dazz think I sent you some links a couple of weeks ago, have a look for the 80's tapes blogspot. Its a ripper alright.

Always love singing along to Janis Ian, so easy the flow from those lips. Gilbert Becaud? was it too? on Screamer, 'the importance of your love', how can you not sing along to that one.


Kazzie, going to have to do a search for the BCR's and see why I was so in love with them, when I was 10. My mother wouldn't even let me go to City Hall to see them wave at the fans!! LOL

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I'll never forget the first single I was allowed to buy with my own money which was Lily The Pink (in 1969, I think! Eeker). Can't remember the name of the group but I think Paul McCartney's brother was in it.

The band was called Scaffold.

And Daryl Braithwaite's Rise album is still an excellent listen. Many people describe it as a "guilty pleasure" but I have never felt guilt at all for enjoying what was one of the better Australian albums of the 90s IMO.