What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it?
My record collection is my passion. I started buying albums when I was in 9th grade. I was hooked. I don;t think I missed a weekend visit to the local record shop in the mall from the time I was 16 until I graduated college. I still own those albums that I took so much care to choose..Just wondering if anyone else holds such memories dear and are sentimentally holding on to their old albums. I still play them and enjoy them every bit as much as I did back in the day. And my first album was Elton John...Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Sometimes I look at the covers and think, I have listened to these so much, I am jaded. But I put them on and enjoy them as much as I ever did.
Decembers Children (MONO) - Rolling Stones (purchased Dec. 1965 - paid $2.79)Still my favorite Stones album along with "Aftermath" and "Out of Our Heads".Stopped buying Stones albums after Brian Jones death.Check out Brian Jones pic on the cover of "Between The Buttons" - totally wasted!
You are all so young. I have to reference a 78 recording of Vaughn Monroe singing Ghost Riders in the Sky. I must have been 6 or 7 years old. Wish I still had it. The other day at a ranch campfire when some folks were singing western songs someone in their 30s actually referenced that recording. It is a true classic.
Great first album, tostadosunidos! All Summer Long was the first album I truly loved, my favorite of 1964. I wasn't yet sold on The Beatles, and gave my ticket to their '64 Cow Palace show to my mom, who went with my sisters. That summer I went to my first live show, The Beach Boys at The San Jose Civic Auditorium.
Only one year later Dylan played there, backed by The Hawks (later The Band, of course). You KNOW I wish I had gone to that show! I later made music with two guys who had gone, mighty hip for a 15 year old and a 13 year old (he was put ahead two grades in school. Smartest guy I have ever known. Great songwriter, too. He's dead now, but I have the tapes we recorded in 74-5, one of my prized possessions).
My first I actually had five first albums, bought at a McCrory’s in York, PA back on 1965. I only still have one, the 4 Seasons’ Dawn album, and it still sounds as clean as it did back during it’s first play.
Some really great albums listed above, folks - Animals, Iron Butterfly, Pink Floyd, Goldfinger soundtrack, Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass!!
For me, the first LP I purchased (as opposed to inherited from my father upon his early passing) was the DCC pressing of Eagles Hotel California, which is still a reference LP for me.
I really have enjoyed reading these posts. I spent some time this evening flipping through my older albums and listened to a few. Amazing how I can still remember where I bought some of them, how old I was, etc. Great music therapy memories!!!
In reading these posts and seeing so many who like I, saved their first albums, I wondered...what else did I save? What other objects held such esteem? I have a handful of old toys, a few books, but music holds a special place in my heart.
First album was the Byrds' Turn, Turn, Turn when I was 12 as it had just come out and I finally had talked my dad into letting me play rock 'n' roll on the record player.
"No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun...."
10 years old, and the panic begins....
Had been listening to Sabbath Paranoid since age 6-7. War Pigs, was probably my favorite song along with Iron Man, since I was into comics. Being 7.... Iron Man was, honestly, the bigger deal. Oh yeah, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison was a lot of fun too, even at age 7.
Like Jim said "This is the strangest life I've ever known". Not quite, but warming up to it... Perhaps I'd better flip it, cook it on the other side a bit.... Do that too often, though, and it remains uncooked and frozen in the middle.
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