VERY FIRST ALBUM/45
Don't think I've scene this post before but what was the very first album/45 (yeah, I know, I'm old) you picked out and purchased with your own money? Seen a lot of music posts recently and it got me thinking. Mine? The Wild Cherry album with 'Play That Funky Music (White Boy). I was in 8th grade and at the time it was a pretty cool song. It hadn't become the cliche/joke that it is now.
My first album purchase was Van Halen's 1984. I remember clearly that I thought the record was skipping when the intro to Hot for Teacher started.
I was a sophomore in high school, 1971, when a record shop opened in my hometown. Albums were $3.33 apiece (for 33 1/3). I bought 3. James Taylor / Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon, Jethro Tull / Aqualung and Jeff Beck / Truth. Money well spent.
Puff the magic dragon. My mom finally the it away while I was at school because she said she couldn't listen to it one more time, lol!
I have never bought a 45 or a single as we call them here.
First album I bought was Trilogy by ELP.
I'm pretty sure it was The Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager. It came out a year before Michael Jackson's Thriller did, but I remember my friend was really excited about Thriller and I was excited about Long Distance Voyager... I went to her house and we made each other listen to each other's whole album. I didn't like hers, she didn't like mine.
Sorry, I do like Moody Blues but I gotta go with your friend. Prefer Thriller.
@kmdskit3 Later, I came to like it too. But at the time (1982), I'd never heard much Michael Jackson, and with all the tremendous hype around the album, I thought it was overrated. I appreciate his work now.
Out of his entire solo career I think I like 'Off the Wall' best.
@kmdskit3 There are some songs of his that I like, and I appreciate him as an artist, but I never really became a fan. Didn't hate him, didn't love him.
Can't remember the first 45, but my first album was 'Tommy' by The Who. Was just thinking: Started listening to them when 'My Generation' was out in '65. I got 'Tommy' in 1969...and I saw The Who last August in South Lake Tahoe...so they've been causing my tinnitus for over 50yrs!
Perfect!
The Raiders (without Paul Revere): Indian Reservation. The next day I bought their album "Collage".
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan
It was a great pop album. Collage seemed to be something written and recorded after the band discovered acid, the change was so amazing. I still listen to both those albums every once in a while and they really hold up.
I was never into the new-fangled stuff. Pretty much 78s growing up.
Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" was my first 45. First album was Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors." Still have both (now all I need is a record player!).
1st 45 was "She Loves You", Beatles , 8th grade, with paper delivery job money.
With a love like that
You know you should be glad
Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla and Kiss - Kiss....I inherited a bunch of 45's when I was a tot...Elvis....
Which Elvis singles?
@kmdskit3 Return to sender is the only one I remember....my grandmother owned a bar, and when she sold it, she took her 45's out of the jukebox...they were stored in a basement that had serious mold and flooding issues, so they got tossed out years ago...
I think the 45s were the smaller ones, just one song on each side? I bought two at the same time. One was "Town without pity," by Gene Pitney. The other one was "drums of go-go," by Sandy Nelson. My aunt made me take "drums of go-go" off the record player before it finished. She said it was just noise.
My first album purhase was on cassette: Van Halen- "Diver Down"
I bought it as soon is I could and was disappointed.
Yeah, I was pretty much the only one in my high school group who wasn't into thud rock. I was listening to reggae, ska, Elvis Costello etc.
First album record I bought was "The Young Rascals". First time I took it off the house, slid off the sleeve and broke... I just couldn't play the first song on each side. "The Young Rascals" were my first live concert too... And was first band I saw live twice, second time they were just "The Rascals". First 45, may had been "Honky Tonk Woman" The Rolling Stones. I think... whatever 45 that has for a B side "You can't always get what you want".
Good Lovin' is still an amazing song!
@kmdskit3 Also in the Midnight Hour. They were from Boston... blue eyed soul brothers... gene cornish, dino danelli, felix cavaliere, eddie brigati. Later Groovin, How can I be sure and Sueno.