Posted April 14th, 2010 09:38 PM IPI don't want to blow my own trumpet, but mine was Pet Sounds at the Kyneton music shop - I was ten, there were two bonus tracks, I didn't like the album."Nick is the Mode guy. Jon is the Duran guy."
Beckner One Motherfucker Posts: 19221 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 14th, 2010 09:39 PM IPRed Album on CD
Summ-a-Briz Charles Nelson Reilly's SHORTS! Posts: 6789 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 14th, 2010 09:46 PM IPPac Man Fever 45. Sat on it and broke it on the way home. Cried. Sister made fun of me for years, still does.
Jon The Bubblegum Supremacist Posts: 9213 Registered: Sep 2007
Styx, "Kilroy Was Here"
The Police, "Synchronicity"
Thompson Twins, "Here's To Future Days."
Prior to this my folks bought me some ******* albums, Monkees stuff off the TV and every Kiss album, but this was the first stuff I bought on my own.I don't know why I ever believed the Chipmunks had the lowdown on punk.
Jon The Bubblegum Supremacist Posts: 9213 Registered: Sep 2007
Posted April 14th, 2010 10:03 PM IPOh yeah, and of those, I still like TWO.I don't know why I ever believed the Chipmunks had the lowdown on punk.
ts president of the Chuck Norris fan club Posts: 1788 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 14th, 2010 10:05 PM IPI joined the Columbia House Record Club for 10 cents and got the following records mailed to me in one box:
Santana Abraxas
Carole King Tapestry
The Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago II
James Taylor Fire and Rain
Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Trouble Water
Blood, Sweat & Tears ST
Blood, Sweat & Tears Child Is Father to the ManHistory Is Made At Night
IanWagner The Rustic Bumfiddler Posts: 47918 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 14th, 2010 10:21 PM IPOwn money as in money I earned or own money as in allowence? I spent my allowance on KISS each week. Bought a Jermaine Jackson 45 one time at Woolworths.
Jon The Bubblegum Supremacist Posts: 9213 Registered: Sep 2007
Posted April 14th, 2010 10:30 PM IPI meant to say "foda" albums, of course.I don't know why I ever believed the Chipmunks had the lowdown on punk.
PapaNez23 Benetar's attitude Posts: 313 Registered: Jan 2010
Posted April 15th, 2010 12:23 AM IPCourtesy of a summer job being an umpire for Little League baseball at the age of 14, the first album I bought with my own money was Green Day's 'Insomniac' on October 10th 1996.
I'm a simple man. I like pretty, dark-haired women and breakfast food.
Joel Charles Nelson Reilly's SHORTS! Posts: 908 Registered: Nov 2008
Posted April 15th, 2010 02:07 AM IPStray Cats "Built for Speed" - I was in the Second Grade. Still have it.
Thus my continued irrational enjoyment of Brian Setzer.
MoogDroog Michael Bolton's mullet Posts: 8501 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 15th, 2010 02:14 AM IPErasure - Pop! 20 Hits or the Pet Shop Boys greatest hits. Or maybe Appetite For Destruction? It was around 89 when i was 9ish"The other thing is that the quality of the mp3's I listen to varies especially as some of the music from the likes of Led Zeppelin is old, even with re-mastering still isnt up to the quality of the likes of Def Leppard."
cubist in the sky with diamonds Posts: 1074 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 15th, 2010 04:39 AM IPTubular Bells when it came out. I was 13 or so. I suspect that KTels 20 All Time Greats of the 50's may possibly have beem a bit before, not sure!: http://myspace.com/disposablemanband
Wi-Fi does something horrible to your brain, like eating your fondest memories and replacing them with drawings of cross-eyed bats and a strong smell of puke. - Charlie Brooker
Posted April 15th, 2010 05:05 AM IPSecond Annual Report.
(Kidding!)
Sgt. Pepper, summer of '75, I was 14. Before that I was an AM radio kid, had around 200 singles. I remember around that time, though, a friend playing me Zep's fourth album and sensing the writing on the wall that my AM days were coming to a close. It was exciting and dangerous. You weren't gonna hear "Black Dog" coming out of "Afternoon Delight" on WABC. By next summer, I had Destroyer, and that was that. It was all FM and albums.
Posted April 15th, 2010 05:22 AM IP"Abbey Road" at the Apex record store the first or second week it was out. Lawn mowing and paper route money well spent.
First on my own as an independent chooser of music. I was 11.
picassosson The ABC After School Special Posts: 596 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 15th, 2010 07:38 AM IPCan't quite remember how old I was - but I got this for my birthday:
And I quickly went out and bought this, my first CD:
My Dad also gave me these with the boombox, from his own collection:
Why those two, I have no idea - it was pretty random... but I played them to death. I remember at the time it was a big deal to have my own CD player.
"this next song was found on a tablet in a field in Hawthorne, California..."
zelilgirlI1ncenu Hasselhoff's Speedo Posts: 2081 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 15th, 2010 07:48 AM IPLove it to Death - Alice Cooper.zelilgirli1ncenu.blogspot.com
Andy B Hasselhoff's Speedo Posts: 2097 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 15th, 2010 08:22 AM IPI think the first album i bought was Hysteria by Def Leppard. This was on cassette tape. Still have it somewhere. Great band!! First CD was a Kinks greatest hits when i was about 13 or so. Still have that as well. Used to play Victoria all the time to a girl who also happened to be called Victoria! Didn't get me very far........
Posted April 15th, 2010 09:46 AM IPquite possibly communique by dire straits, though it may have been a U2 album. either way, they're cool purchases yes?
seymour Tiger Beat Centerfold Posts: 2114 Registered: Aug 2007
Posted April 15th, 2010 11:38 AM IPKiss Alive. I still remember seeing the display in the store in Detroit. They call me Dr. Beep.
bungfungus has Beach Boy blood in their veins Posts: 1396 Registered: Aug 2007
Quote: picassosson wrote:
Can't quite remember how old I was - but I got this for my birthday:
I had that exact same one. I bought it in the early 90's, I think, to take to the beach. I remember it used up c cell batteries like they were going out of style....
