O/T The First Album you Bought?

[phild]

I have always been into electronic music and it all started with me buying my first ever album by KRAFTWERK - The Autobahn

What was yours?

[Baggie smudge]

I have always been into electronic music and it all started with me buying my first ever album by KRAFTWERK - The Autobahn

What was yours?

Mine wasn’t quite as cool as that one!
I went out to buy STATUS QUO- IF YOU CAN’T STAND THE HEAT but they had no copies left in stock so bought QUO - BLUE FOR YOU instead.
Probably a better album as it turned out

Did go to see Wolfgang Flur last month at Hare and Hounds though. Really enjoyed that

[boinggazmic]

Mine wasn?’t quite as cool as that one!
I went out to buy STATUS QUO- IF YOU CAN?’T STAND THE HEAT but they had no copies left in stock so bought QUO - BLUE FOR YOU instead.
Probably a better album as it turned out

Did go to see Wolfgang Flur last month at Hare and Hounds though. Really enjoyed that

Sheer heart attack .played it to death.still have it .first album I ever had bought for me by mum and dad was sgt peppers..great memories.thanks for this thread. Now I’m here. Now I’m there.

[TipperaryBaggie]

First album that I remember buying was A Hard Days Night which I believe came out in 1964. Probably not their best but it was the first one that I could afford. Had to do extra after school grocery deliveries to raise the money to buy it and, even then, could only play it on Mum and Dad's radiogram! Took me a little while longer to get my first record player.

[Omegstrat6]

Don't know if this counts, but the first L.P. I bought was a kids Panda label Batman in 1966😁

After that I started buying singles at first (partly because they were cheaper of course! ) and then, once I was working part time jobs at school I started to save up for albums. Seem to remember I also used Tandy mail order to help build up my collection as well as perusing all those chain and indie record shops that we used to have back in the day. I now have hundreds of vinyl / CD/ tapes across lots of genres much to the better hall's annoyance given the small size of our bungalow 😁

Rick Beato makes a good point about the decreasing value we seem to place on music these days. In the past we used to have to save up to buy vinyl albums and you would listen to every track and pore over the liner notes and share your interest with mates. These days you have access to virtually every song ever released for about £10/ month on streaming platforms and can just select individual tracks that are generally only the best known. There is less effort to attain the music and less effort in consuming it and the result is probably a de-valuing of it as it becomes more disposable.

Plus, of course, whilst a decently mastered CD may be an improvement on how most vinyl is actually heard, holding a vinyl album is a vastly different physical thing and arguably more satisfying than holding a CD but both are surely better than streaming where you have no physical aspect and lower quality audio to boot. Then again, could just be my age showing...

[Prando]

Tubular Bells and Darkside of the Moon.
I did also have the Music from Ben Bur (1959 film) and recording of Tony Hancock’s Blood Donor and the Radio Ham.
Eclectic or what ? Maybe Eccentric

[baggieal]

Mine was the Beach Boys and still even now my favourite song is - God Only Knows.

[Q165]

Kinks - The Kinks.

[phild]

Mine was the Beach Boys and still even now my favourite song is - God Only Knows.

Work of genius that one AL as is the album PET SOUNDS

[baggieal]

Work of genius that one AL as is the album PET SOUNDS

Your certainly right there Phil

[stargazer_1962]

Back to Front

[Omegstrat6]

Work of genius that one AL as is the album PET SOUNDS

1966 wasn't a bad year for albums was it? Aside my aforementioned Batman TV themed LP 😀 and Pet Sounds, other favourite classics from that year include The Beatles Revolver, Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and The "Beano" album from John Mayalls Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton.

[Grand Wazoo]

With The Beatles was the first LP I ever owned but that was bought for me. The first LP I actually went out and bought myself was the first Procol Harum album. My dad had given me some money to get some new school shoes and on the way to the shop I saw the LP in the window of the local record shop on Soho Road. So I bought the cheapest pair of shoes I could get and with the remainder I bought the LP and told my dad I would pay him back with pocket money over the weeks. He actually let me off paying it back which was a shock as I expected a back hander for being cheeky.

[kettering_baggie]

I hesitate to admit my first album purchase, it was such a long time ago but I think it was ‘Me and my Shadows’! Actually, he wasn’t too bad when he first began but went downhill quite quickly! I also bought ‘With The Beatles’ and my first Bob Dylan album was ‘The Freewheeling Bob Dylan’, the album cover had a picture of Bob and Suze Rotolo. Interesting memory for me, that last one, I first heard that Dylan album in a girls bedroom but I can’t remember her name! How sad is that? Anyway, I still have every record that I ever bought, 45’s, LP’s and CD’s, even a few very old 78’s! That ages me, doesn’t it?

[Q165]

As with Wazoo the first album I ever owned was With The Beatles. It must have been bought for me as I have never been a fan. At that time the Stones, Animals and Kinks were my favourites. Kettering, I think you mentioning that you owned 78’s is brave of you. I had masses of 45’s, a lot of LP’s and a few EP’s. When I moved down here all of them were left behind. Mom used to go on at me to take them but I never did. When she died I was left with the decision what to do. I left all my 45’s and a lot of LP’s behind (including a lot of Stax and Tamla). I kept my EP’s. I have subsequently regenerated my collection with vinyl, CD’s etc. Shame I have nothing to play them on. An album I had from 1966 was Road Runner by Junior Walker and The All Stars.