What was the first record you bought????

[sactochris]

It was the 45 for Shambala, by Three Dog Night. It was so long ago that It was when I still lived in Illinois. I was 4 or 5 years old.

[revkelsey]

Elton John's Greatest Hits. I like "I'm Still Standing," a lot for a 6 year old.

[212margarita]

MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

[essbee]

First LP: A Hard Day's Night

First 45: Y.M.C.A.

[theblondette]

I'm always amazed when people were buying records aged 6 or whatever! The only music I had back then was stuff like multiplication tables set to music...!

The first album I remember acquiring was Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette. It came out a couple of months before my 12th birthday. All the tweenage girls had it, I think! Or at least the ones who were a bit more indie than the Take That fans.

[brian1766]

The first record I remember going into a store and saying I want that was Billy Joel "Glass Houses" at 8 years old.

[stringer]

guys, this should probably be in the confessions thread...


*SHAME*

[gushingblood]

CD: Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
LP:Bruce Springsteen - The River (I think, I really can't remember)
45:The Cribs - Men's Needs

[missalabamanobody]

My grandfather bought me the Beatles IV when I about four years old.

Then he told me rock and roll was going to die a horrible, horrible death.

[oldestfan]

Two friends and I bought the first three Bob Dylan albums so we could exchange them. I bought "Bob Dylan", his first album. $2.98.

[Sapphire]

Well, to be honest, when I was about 10 years old, I inherited a bunch of 45s from my mom. Growing up in my house was a mixed bag, musically. I was exposed to R&B, Gospel, Disco (shiver), Salsa music (I'm Puerto Rican) and Rock. So, 1970s music is a strong element in my upbringing (born 1973) and I compare just about everything to that time period. Fleetwood Mac, Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Smokey Robinson, Teddy Pendergrass, Jackson 5, Journey, ABBA awesomeness, Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Celia Cruz, Simon & Garfunkel, Gloria Gaynor, Pink Floyd, and my life changed forever when I heard the Ramones! OMGosh, I could go on and on! I remember hearing Blondie, Ike & Tina Turner, Commodores, Rolling Stones, Tito Puente, Willie Colon, Fania All Stars.....yeah,.....I was blessed.

By the time I was a teenager in the 80s, I truly felt some kind of schism and could not really connect with most of the music. Odd feeling. I felt so displaced for a long time and for someone who understood the language of music early on, it was tough for me to find my place in the world, as strange as that might sound. ("today's music ain't got the same soul").

I would listen to music on the radio and watch it on MTV, but I didn't buy a thing.

Anyhoo, all those 45s I inherited heavily influenced my likes and dislikes. It wasn't until I was a teenager, almost out of school in the 90s, that I started to feel something for music again; this was the decade I actually purchased a record w/my own money. First album was Danzig's Lucifuge (1990). {I immediately bought Danzig, the album, at the cute record clerk's insistence ;D}

[stringer]

Jun 8, 2009 15:01:39 GMT -5 Sapphire said:

Well, to be honest, when I was about 10 years old, I inherited a bunch of 45s from my mom. Growing up in my house was a mixed bag, musically. I was exposed to R&B, Gospel, Disco (shiver), Salsa music (I'm Puerto Rican) and Rock. So, 1970s music is a strong element in my upbringing (born 1973) and I compare just about everything to that time period. Fleetwood Mac, Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Smokey Robinson, Teddy Pendergrass, Jackson 5, Journey, ABBA awesomeness, Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Celia Cruz, Simon & Garfunkel, Gloria Gaynor, Pink Floyd, and my life changed forever when I heard the Ramones! OMGosh, I could go on and on! I remember hearing Blondie, Ike & Tina Turner, Commodores, Rolling Stones, Tito Puente, Willie Colon, Fania All Stars.....yeah,.....I was blessed.

By the time I was a teenager in the 80s, I truly felt some kind of schism and could not really connect with most of the music. Odd feeling. I felt so displaced for a long time and for someone who understood the language of music early on, it was tough for me to find my place in the world, as strange as that might sound. ("today's music ain't got the same soul").

I would listen to music on the radio and watch it on MTV, but I didn't buy a thing.

Anyhoo, all those 45s I inherited heavily influenced my likes and dislikes. It wasn't until I was a teenager, almost out of school in the 90s, that I started to feel something for music again; this was the decade I actually purchased a record w/my own money. First album was Danzig's Lucifuge (1990). {I immediately bought Danzig, the album, at the cute record clerk's insistence ;D}

Yeah, I've also always had a lot of music surrounding me, and learned a lot from my mum's bitchin' collection.
And then I hit that kinda teen angst shit, skipped right past the typical Nevermind balls that my friends were into, and hit the hard stuff: nu-metal. Oh yes, very cool.
Except, not.

[Sapphire]

Hi, Stringer,

What music did you grow up with? Which bands do you remember most fondly?

[stringer]

Wow. Well, loads of stuff that was around when I was a kid, like Simply Red and UB40 - not necessarily amazing bands, but Simply Red do have some incredible vocals, which has influenced my musical tastes, and the way I sing etc. There's the difference between pre-divorce and post-divorce, though. Because Simply Red and UB40 were kind of days down to the coast as a family. Most memorable stuff is probably from my mum, though. Eddi Reader's self titled album and Alanis Morrissette's Jagged Little Pill are among my most memorable, I guess. Clapton, Bowie, George Michael (who I don't care if no one else likes!) as well. There's been so many moments where albums have been on in the background and I remember them, for some reason. A lot of country and western reminds me of times with my grandfather, too. He used to come down to my house on Sunday mornings at 7am sometimes and help me on my paper round, and we had this country and western compilation tape we used to play and sing along to - where I discovered Johnny Cash. Then he'd take me to his house, where my gran had made a Sunday breakfast, and we'd listen to the radio, so loads of kick ass old timey stuff which I don't even know the name of. The only thing I miss about my paper round.
Found The Who, and Free through my dad. As well as Prince and the New Power Generation.
A few years ago, I went through a box of his tapes, and just tested out loads. He liked some absolute shit. The Miami Vice soundtrack!?

[stringer]

Hope that was a good enough answer! Haha :S
It certainly doesn't answer why on earth I bought Limp Bizkit.

[Jersey]

Huey Lewis and The News- Sports
On cassette.

And I still have it.

Probably 84? I remember saving my allowance for a few weeks and going down the street and meekly asking the smoky old man behind the counter if they had it. I was eight.

Seven years later, I was working in that record store.

And twenty years after that, here I am today.

Don't fuck with Huey.

[Five Alive]

Van Halen (self-titled) on vinyl... I must've been about 8 yrs old.

[red]

Revolver. I believe I was eight.

[terry]

CD barenaked ladies- gordon
record - Milo goes to College- Descendants

[john k]

7" - jam : down in a tubestation at midnight
lp - elvis costello and the attractions : armed forces

i was 12 yrs old in 1979 and these are the records that changed my musical tastes forever.

[theblondette]

stringer- I like your story, especially the bit about your grandfather.

[roywalker]

First I ever bought with my own money Be Here Now by Oasis on cassette, I only had WHTSMG which I stole from my bro. I remember it came out on the same day as my mums birthday and I bought it for myself instead of getting her a present (which in retrospect I do not feel bad about because she was soon to turn out to be a terrible person) I thought it was the fucking best thing ever at the time and played it over and over on this like £7 walkman that I had saved my pocket money to buy from Argos.

[mattjs]

I still have it on vinyl!

[wealdstone]

First record I owned was Little White Bull by Tommy Steele, a gift as I recall. The first I bought would be a soundtrack album, either Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday or A Hard Days Night

[motörben]

I begged my mum for the soundtrack cassette at the merch table of the Buddy Holly Story in the Liverpool Empire when I was about 8. I listened to that for about five years then decided to buy The Colour and The Shape by the Foo Fighters.