Great question! Wish I could remember! First one I can remember clearly and for sure - and still have that copy - was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Being a double album it was pretty expensive for a kid with a paper route and so I had to wait for Christmas. Then playing it in my room, trying to get away with as much volume as I could. I was already an audiophile with acoustic treatment, guess you could say my bedroom was my first listening room.
But I really think the first one I owned was Nilsson Schmilsson. At least I can remember playing Without You and Jump Into the Fire over and over again, my preferred technique being to lay on the floor with the speakers on either side like headphones. Dang I was a resourceful little audiophile!
Actually, this is as much deduction as memory, but that probably was the first. Nilsson Schmilsson came out in 1971, when I was in Jr High and right about the time I bought my first stereo, a receiver/turntable combo, speakers bought separately, from Radio Shack. My bedroom was my listening room, complete with (I kid you not) acoustic panels.
Great question because I still have and listen to both albums. Only now they are White Hot Stampers, and while I still enjoy Elton I now appreciate Nilsson way more than I ever did as a kid. Happy to say the same goes for a lot of my other music from my Jr High school days. DSOTM. So poor we were- and yet so rich.
Thanks for taking me back.
But I really think the first one I owned was Nilsson Schmilsson. At least I can remember playing Without You and Jump Into the Fire over and over again, my preferred technique being to lay on the floor with the speakers on either side like headphones. Dang I was a resourceful little audiophile!
Actually, this is as much deduction as memory, but that probably was the first. Nilsson Schmilsson came out in 1971, when I was in Jr High and right about the time I bought my first stereo, a receiver/turntable combo, speakers bought separately, from Radio Shack. My bedroom was my listening room, complete with (I kid you not) acoustic panels.
Great question because I still have and listen to both albums. Only now they are White Hot Stampers, and while I still enjoy Elton I now appreciate Nilsson way more than I ever did as a kid. Happy to say the same goes for a lot of my other music from my Jr High school days. DSOTM. So poor we were- and yet so rich.
Thanks for taking me back.