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eelnekwah
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First record or cd

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After reading all the previous threads on here about best records,best opening tracks ,song of the day etc etc I thought it would be fun to know what record or cd you went out and bought with your own free will and money back when you were all younger.
The downside - we could all reveal our ages :shock: Heres mine

Jilted John - Jilted John (EMI 7") Still play this this occasionally
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The first album I bought was Big Willie Style by Will Smith in 97 (I think), which would have made me 10 or11.

A classic.
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First single was definitely Swamp Thing by The Grid (on cassette, no less!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQqLDKsnqwA

First album was probably Morning Glory. I was 13.
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Gary Glitter - I Love You Love Me Love 7"
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pink floyd- another brick in the wall
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The Who - Odds and Sods
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Kiss - Destroyer
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Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Vinyl as gift

Rush: Moving Pictures
Vinyl 1st bought.


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Image

Still a goodie after all these years. :D
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First cassette: soundtrack to PBS kids' show "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" (Incidentally, it's now a pricy collector's iterm)

First CD of the modern era: Dark Side of the Moon and OK Computer, purchased at the same time.
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Abbey Road -The Beatles at Mumford Music in Oak Park Michigan.
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first single: Don't you Want me baby- the Human League
first album: Luxury Gap - Heaven 17....
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Kiss - Rock & Roll Over
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first cd - new order hits
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Chuck Berry - my ding a ling on 7inch lol, seriously too
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I thought everyone lied when asked this question, obviously not! :D

Madness - One step Beyond 7" single bought from Our Price in Richmond.

First CD - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey also from Our Price in Richmond, still got it too.
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LP - Party Part by Black Lace
Single - Open Your Heart - Madonna

I was 10 years old. Don't have either of them now.
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Single - Star Trekkin' - The Firm

LP - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd

I have no idea why I bought the LP but now I do.
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eelnekwah wrote: what record or cd you went out and bought with your own free will and money back when you were all younger.
The downside - we could all reveal our ages :shock:
I had 10-15 tapes with full records before I owned a physical one, but I think my first "real" albums were with the beatles, beatles 1962–1966 and Survival by Marley&the wailers.
I remember the deaths of both bobby and johnny.. the 6 months between their deaths was when I started realising that music was my main interest so I was considerably more sad about marley than lennon.

I only bought perhaps 10 of my first 50 records with my own money, some of the records I bought 81-83 are seriously embarrassing: Can´t slow down by Lionel Horseface, Jump up by Disneyfaggot John and Glass houses by D.U.I Joel. :oops:

Goodbye yellow brick road was probably the very first record I paid for in a shop with my own money.. although I believe that some time earlier I chose Double fantasy in a shop and dad paid for it..never bought singles until Bowie´s absolute beginners.
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an elton john record i suspect, probably captain fantastic er now that i think of it a partridge family record
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ZZ Top - "Eliminator" and Tears For Fears - "Songs From The Big Chair", both on tape bought on the same day with my confirmation money.

First record was Madness - Driving In My Car 7" picture disc. Can't remember if this was a present from my sister or if i bought it, didn't have a record player at the time though!
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The first album that was bought for me was a Bay City Rollers album :D
The first album I bought for myself was The Police Regatta De Blanc, I got it not long after it came out I would've been 7 years old
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i get a bunch of good loopholes on this one-
first record (i never bought an lp until i was 18)- the glove- 'blue sunshine'
first cd- not real sure what it was because i didn't even have a cd player until i was 11 or 12- it's actually possible that it was nirvana- 'nevermind.' i was pissed because it didn't have the hidden track and everyone else i knew had it.
now the first album i ever actually bought was a cassette of bon jovi- 'new jersey.' it was 1987 and my parents screened all of the music i listened to. i wanted to buy 'appetite for destruction' because i'd heard it, but i knew it would be confiscated, so i went with bon jovi instead. i had to make cassette copies of all of my friends' cds until i was in high school- my parents even took away my green jello cd. that's what it's like when your mom is from rural kansas.
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shalloboi wrote: it was 1987 and my parents screened all of the music i listened to.
my problem was sort of the opposite.. when parents say they like what you buy at 13 then those records kind of lose some of their value.. at 14 or 15 I finally succeded with ministry´s the land of rape and honey. They hated it. :D
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Ash - 1977 (Tape)
Blur - Parklife (CD)
Mars Volta - Tremulant (Vinyl)
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you do have to consider that i'm coming from another planet. i mean back in the soviet union days if some relative or friend got an LP lets say from Finland or whatever, there was only one way and that was making dubs on a tape recorder with those huge tapes. can't remember what they are called or maybes it's just my english... and that -lish has much to get improved. i have told it before, i did learn english in school. for the sake of east-germany i learned german. scheisse.
anyway.... my "knowledge" and my "taste" was making some shape (it's hard to struggle through the jazz influenced variety, polish freaked out jazz, or russian bossanova and occasional pink floyd) and i hit the jackpot for - the first CD purchase was Spacemen 3 "taking drugs to make music to take drugs to". all friends were shocked about the disc and i mean more about the title. but that really did not trigger me, the title clicked and only later i found more info about other releases. maybe if the info was sooner available for me, maybe i had choosen another one. but that disc still bites me.... if this has not been weird enough, then it was the Bomb release. really... could have been some totally other things. but thats the way it goes and the gates are open since then.
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What a great "first" purchase Veiko
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Seeing as it was many, many years ago now (1980ish I reckon), I can't quite remember if Kings of The Wild Frontier by Adam & The Ants or Loonee Tunes by Bad Manners were my first musical purchase. I remember owning both of these on tape though. I believe my first vinyl purchase was the 7" single Feed The World by Band Aid. Obviously I'm not quite as cool as Veiko, but then who is?
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my first cd was madcap laughs by syd barrett but by then I already had all the floyd lp:s (including the horrible momentary lapse) and the two solo waters
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first lp:

rolling stones - tattoo you

think it has still some nice tunes on it


That was also one of early ones. I still enjoy a few tunes on it also.


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single : Wham! - Last Christmas
LP : Rockapella - i don't remember

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Baby Love - The Supremes

Shaved Fish - John Lennon.
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AC/DC - Powerage. It was a bootleg copy bought in a flea market in Barcelona when I was 13.
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My first was some Weird Al record when i was probably 9.

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My first single I bought myself was.....

Got my mind set on you by George Harrison on 7" from Woolies.

I think my first LP was The La's but in late 91-92 but I could be wrong. :roll:
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Brown Sauce - Do You Wanna Be A Winner

(Swap Shop)

Edmonds, Chegwin, Philbin... Oh dear!
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First record was "Magical Mystery Tour". It had that great booklet inside (which I was dleighted to find reproduced in the recent Beatles re-issues), but it would take me over 25 years to finally see the movie! As a kid, I thought it had to be fantastic, but when seeing it as an adult I was let down. Ah well, good memories.

First cd purchased was The Jam "Setting Sons". I can't recall why it took me so long to get a cd player, I think that was 1987. It was one of the first portable ones, and had a monstrous battery compartment. I still have that cd. My second cd was "Psychocandy" which had the bonus title track (well, bonus as compared to the US vinyl release). I still recall searching around the house for loose change to have nough money ot buy that, I think it was well over $20, being a UK import. After that I have no clue, the collection grows on a daily basis.

and to add just a bit more, I saw Devo when I was 12, and that changed my life forever.
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First 7": Stutter Rap - Morris Minor & The Majors
First LP: Rocky IV Soundtrack or Hits 6 (can't remember)

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first record I purchased with me own few bob

The Chameleons: Strange Times.

I still love it to bits.
The single "Swamp Thing" released at the time and played (a lot) on the local radio station got me hooked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrbSTm3hdw0



first record given to me, for xmas 77 I think...Village People: YMCA......but lets not go there.
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Nice one Hedspace
Don't often hear of people speaking of The Chameleons
In a previous thread I offered up Mad Jack as one of the best openers on any of the albums I had listened to over my years
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