What were your first albums and what do you think of them today?

[Chanur]

My first cassette tape was Bruce Springsteen -Born in the USA.

My first record was The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta.

First CD was Gwar - Hell-o!

I still love them all though I don't have them in that format anymore.

 

[AaronJ]

My 6th birthday in 1990, Aerosmith Classics Live. My parents got it for me along with a Walkman. Like many here it holds a special place in my heart. The first album I bought myself was Green Day Dookie a few years later.

 

[AaronJ]

My first cassette tape was Bruce Springsteen -Born in the USA.

My first record was The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta.

First CD was Gwar - Hell-o!

I still love them all though I don't have them in that format anymore.

 

[Chanur]

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Definitely! I remember leaving one of their shows at I think the Palladium and we were covered head to toe in green, red, and yellow from the stage blood. People would scream GWAR as they drove past us also covered in blood. An absolute blast.

 

[brunBar]

First album I had for myself was probably Michael Jackson Thriller. I got it for Christmas from my parents. I had then listened to my fathers MJ Bad album on LP and Dangerous on CD alot, also Bad on tape copy. I remember I did not believe it was an MJ album cause I had only known the "white" one lol.

As it goes, Thriller album is without doubt one of the most successful albums out there. And yes, despite MJ controversy I still love it.

 

[Chanur]

First album I had for myself was probably Michael Jackson Thriller. I got it for Christmas from my parents. I had then listened to my fathers MJ Bad album on LP and Dangerous on CD alot, also Bad on tape copy. I remember I did not believe it was an MJ album cause I had only known the "white" one lol.

As it goes, Thriller album is without doubt one of the most successful albums out there. And yes, despite MJ controversy I still love it.

I always try to separate entertainers from their work. Otherwise we would probably hate everyone and everything.

 

[SteveC]

The first album I bought for myself was the original The Monkees, in 1966. I was 9 years old. I still love The Monkees!

 

[101geo]

Got a summer job when I was 12 and with some birthday money went out and bought my first system, a used Technics amp and Castle Kendal speakers (Still have them and they are "decent"!) and a brand new Amstrad turntable (Should hang my head in shame but I doubt any system I've had since bought as much joy as this setup) With the money I had left I bought the first 4 Led Zep albums, Machine Head and In Rock from Deep Purple, Bridge over troubled waters by S&G and Sticky Fingers with the zip in the cover by the Stones. So many hours of happy listening and funnily enough they are amongst the most listened to albums to this day although the original vinyls which are still mint are safely in storage.

 

[wadude]

First albums?

The Shadows first album which dad bought, arguably because I jogged the record shop record player and scratched it (hey, I was only four years old...) -

The Shadows are go!

 

[Balle Clorin]

I cannot remember my first record purchase but the first girl that kissed me ( I was 11) had Led Zeppelin II I remember, from that day I was hooked on both kissing and the music.

The first pop music I was exposed to was from my friends older brother that played Beatles Lady Madonna and some Creedence records

 

[TLEDDY]

1958 Van Cliburn LP in mono after he won Gold in Moscow.
I had many 45 singles before, especially Elvis, but no LP’s

 

[Ste_S]

I think - probably Streetsounds Electro 5, and Footlose soundtrack on tape. Probably Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward was my first vinyl album.

 

[AA63]

Age 10 - Yes Fragile. Birthday money - $4.99 on sale

 

[EJ3]

Age 10 - Yes Fragile. Birthday money - $4.99 on sale

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Yes, of course! IMHO: a great first album and an inspiration to start getting great stereo gear.
Hopefully your parents had some pretty good gear for you to play it on.
My parents stuff was just OK. But not the bottom tier of things.

 

[Talisman]

Very first vinyl was Alan Parson's Eye In The Sky, I bought it a day before my parents bought me my first "stereo" (mainly to save theirs )
Very first cassette tape was Dire Straits Making movies, that came as a gift along my first Walkman.

Needless to say I know both inside out, lyrics, music, etc

well... not bad for a first album!

 

[AA63]

Yes, of course! IMHO: a great first album and an inspiration to start getting great stereo gear.
Hopefully your parents had some pretty good gear for you to play it on.
My parents stuff was just OK. But not the bottom tier of things.

It wasn't very good - LOL - some RCA turntable receiver thingy - the radio in the AMC Rambler didn't do much to add to the sonic experience. I didn't know much difference until I went to my uncles house who had a Sansui quadraphonic rig. That was my first exposure to the real home audio world.

 

[EJ3]

It wasn't very good - LOL - some RCA turntable receiver thingy - the radio in the AMC Rambler didn't do much to add to the sonic experience. I didn't know much difference until I went to my uncles house who had a Sansui quadraphonic rig. That was my first exposure to the real home audio world.

Sorry to go off track here: Nothing to do with stereo (except the exhaust)but since you mentioned AMC and Rambler:
Back in the day, my (in the 10 second 1/4 mile zone [4.44 optional rear end, E70 14 slicks rear tires and a blue printed factory 390 C.I. engine that put out well over 400 HP {VS the factory 315 HP rating]}) Rambler that I drove to high school in my Senior year (1974-75):

Yep, in stereo: dual exhaust:

The view most frequently seen by others ("Red, White and Blew your doors off"):

 

[Soundproof]

Got my first albums when I was 13 and on vacation. The family was visiting a neighbouring typical industrial town, and there was a record shop in a kind of worn down part of town. Paranoid and Sabotage. Never was a huge heavy rock (or punk for that matter) fan, probably because Kiss was a big thing for a couple of my friends, and I always saw them as commercial fake clowns - Abba in leather was my perspective then, and had the same perspecive on quite a few punk(ish) bands. Stooges yup, Ramones big no-no.

Anyway, still plays most of the tracks from Paranoid every now and then, like War Pigs, Planet Caravan, Iron Man, Electric Funeral, Hand of Doom and Jack the Stripper.

Sabotage on the other hand, never creeped in when I got it, and I never play it now.

 

[Soundproof]

LP's had some advantages. In retrospect you understand you had become REALLY interested in... when you purchased albums mainly (only) due to the covers. Yup, did that.

 

[fricc]

Talking Heads' Fear of Music was one of the first albums I bought (1979). It is good