Don McLean American Pie first. Then second Deep Purple Made in Japan. After that the flood gate was open and I can't be sure.
What was your first record?
The first record I ever owned: ‘At the Hop’ by Danny and the Juniors ( just listened to it, and it made me get up and dance!)
The first record I ever bought myself: ‘Meet the Beatles’
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When I was 13, ('68) the local corner store had a spinning record rack that held 20 LPs. I bought the original cast release of HAIR. It was the album cover that attracted me. Showed it my mother when I got home and she made me take it back. I can still hear her saying "I won't have that filth in this house". Traded it at the store for some band I didn't know. LP called My Generation. Thanks mom. Just celebrated her 98th birthday on Tues. Hope I die before I get old. 🤣 |
I remember playing a 45rpm of Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Over and over... I think my folks were initially relieved when my paper route allowed me to then invest in a 45 of The Rolling Stones HonkyTonk Woman, and Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man- which I believe the flip side of was Atlantis. So now I played them, Over and over.... |
@jasonbourne71 Goldfinger is a great record ! |
Let me explain a little more. I was introduced to the record by a couple of girls that I was close friends with in high school. I really liked the record. As some years passed, I started to think that the songs were a little trite, and that the lyrics didn’t hold up very well over time. It seemed dated to me. I really started to dislike him after he had made a fortune and decided that he was a devout Muslim and started speaking out against gay people. At that point I realized that he was indeed a phony. I hope that clarifies things. |
@roxy54 LOL. Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman is one of my most listened to albums of all time. It was part of the fabric growing up. If you're ashamed of that album, I guess I need to kill myself for my first purchase. |
I was 13 years old.... I sold newspapers each day morning and collected payment... We were poor my mother keep the pay... I kept the tips... 😊 I ask my mother giving my economy to her if she could pay the balance we would buy a stereo turntable furniture with 2 speakers inside... She accepted... With the stereo came a vinyl of Amercan military marchs...😁 Not awful but not to my taste... I am too ashamed to write about anyway the first unknown french band not even a rock band i bought from the pharmacist who was selling few vinyl and few books...Awful... I bought there my first costly book too : Napoleon by Castelot with a skinvertex binding...10.00 dollars in 1964 and i read it in fascination... I am too ashamed to describe and name till this day the first vinyl i listen to one first time...😁 Anyway i did not like much the second: Rolling stones... And I prefer the third one "Ironbutterfly"...But not by much...This was not music for my soul so to speak...Am i a snob? No it was boring save for the rythm for few listenings... I was not in the rebel mode more in the study mode... The first vinyl i really love was a poetry french singer Leo Ferré singing Baudelaire and his own poems ...Top music top poetry... And after that my first Bach album...With Bach and chorus music i was in heaven... I never look back and i discovered jazz at 35 years old only when i realized that all composers were first musicians anyway and music of any style is played by genius or not so much genius but always gifted musicians anyway... I look now for musicians more than for a genre or style... I think my love for music came from choral listening classical and folk music at the radio at noon when i was as young as 4 or 5 years old... all my life choral music play a great healing role...Not opera ... Now i enjoy jazz a lot because of some specific musician playings...Or persian or Indian or turkisch or even African music... My only regrets in life is not being talented in music...There is only two jobs which fascinated me music and mathematics... i stumble down for philosophy as a worst case because i could related to both ideals from this field perspective... my best album of all time is Goldberg Variation or the art of the Fugue by Bach...I cannot decide especially between these two and the Brandenboug concertos...If i add cello sonatas or violins sonatas by Bach, how could i just pick one ? The motets and masses of Bach and passions make any choices impossible...Add to that all the harpsichord works on piano or harpsichord or the organ works .. Bach is God the father coming on earth incognito after his son not so well reception.... The spirit is evidently manifested in his music... Dont tell anyone it is God secret revealed to me... Bach is the only music reminding us of infinity in a so gentle and direct manner... Bach for me is Euclidean geometry and Beethoven add projective geometry to Euclid and Scriabin with many modern composers investigate non commutative geometry and fractals...😊 |
@roxy54...I love that album! I almost wore out my MOFI UHQR copy from being played so many times.
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The first “adult” record I can remember was “Montego Bay” by Bobby Bloom and “Moon Shadow” by Cat Stevens. Before that it was children’s records on my Close And Play. My dad worked for a distributor ship that supplied jukeboxes, and brought home a couple of t we’re about to be trashed. I must have been about 6 years old. |
Diana Ross and the Supremes, "Merry Christmas." I got that album when I was 12 years old on Christmas morning along with a new turntable. Still have it today. No scratches! Also got on 45, "Get Me to the Church on Time," with flip side, "Down the Street where You Live." Both from the movie, "My Fair Lady." |
@coltrane1 yes, those were the days. During my bi-weekly listening sessions, after I've turned on my system on Thursday night to be all warmed up, Kind of Blue is in that rotation. Enjoy the Music my brotha...
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@gumbedamit, I resemble your remarks! Your taking me back to my Philly days. I actually met Kenny Gamble and Billy Paul on Broad Street in ‘75 during the heyday of Philadelphia International’s run at the top of Souls food chain. Those were the days my brutha! |
while I had purchased many 45s, as a young child, I don’t really count them. My first two LPs were bought on the same day when I was about 13 years old. I purchased Santana Abraxas and the Beatles hard days night at a little record store in my great aunts community. I was staying with her for the weekend. |
I appreciate this thread. Thank you to the OP. I was just wondering though, as I read all these great responses, and remember all the great albums I’ve purchased over the years… What will people who are budding music lovers “now” be reminiscing about (in regards to their music) 30, 40, 50+ years from now…? First download? First streaming service? I feel fortunate to have been able to participate in this event. To be able to think back and remember exactly when I bought a particular album, one that I can still pull out and play today. Remember being a kid and saving every penny, then walking to the record store and buying ONE album, because that’s all I had the money for, and spending hours picking “the one”. Then do it all again the next time I saved a couple bucks. |
