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tiktok
07/12/2004, 11:28 AM
As we have a music forum!

Just curious what was the first Album (be it LP, Casette or CD) you went out and bought yourself. Compilations (Now 16 etc.) and presents (The Muppet Show 3 etc.) excluded...

On my thirtienth birthday I took the birthday card proceeds, went out and bought both;
U2 - The Joshua tree
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4

James
07/12/2004, 11:34 AM
pretty sure tis either
U2 joshua tree or Bad by Mickie Jackson on cassette

fosterdollar
07/12/2004, 11:37 AM
i taped a lot of my brothers' albums when i started off so it was a while before i got round to buying LPs. I think the first tape i made was Lemonheads on one side and RATM on the other. Figure that one out if you can. The first tape I bought was Talking Heads Stop Making Sense. The first CD I bought would have been Oasis Definitely Maybe. First minidisc created had Stone Roses, New Order and Unkel on it. Havent paid for a download yet.

green goblin
07/12/2004, 11:43 AM
First I owned was Chitty Chitty bang Bang.
First pop record was Give 'em enough Rope, by The Clash.
My wife's first was Fraggle Rock. First she pop album she bought was an Undertones greatest hits.

Risteard
07/12/2004, 11:48 AM
Mammy bought me Morning Glory with my cd player and i went out and bought Second Coming and The Complete Stone Roses.
A veritable madchester bag of tricks.

carrickharp
07/12/2004, 11:53 AM
Bon Jovi - New Jersey

But I had bought all the usual tapes a few years before the first being Now 6 and Hits 3 :eek:

Macy
07/12/2004, 11:54 AM
I honestly can't remember the first proper album I got :eek:

First one I remember getting was a compilation (Hits or Now 7 - with dice on the front). Next one's I remember getting were the likes of New Order, the Mondays and 808 State off my next door neighbour on tape....

Longfordian
07/12/2004, 11:54 AM
First album I actually bought was probably either 'Doolittle' by the Pixies or Pavement 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain', I had mostly copies up til that

$Leon$
07/12/2004, 11:56 AM
mine was morning glory too same as risteard

Dotsy
07/12/2004, 12:00 PM
Used to listen/tape alot of my older brothers LP's before I went out and bought one myself. First one I bought was Never Mind the Boll*x - the Sex Pistols

galwaygirl
07/12/2004, 12:03 PM
Bad by Mickie Jackson on cassette

same as myself.... :o

Hibs4Ever
07/12/2004, 12:11 PM
A-ha - Hunting High and Low

eoinh
07/12/2004, 12:13 PM
My first album would have been by ELO (The Electric Light Orchestra) on vinyl. Not sure which album it was though. I know the first single i bought was "The Diary Of Horace Wimp" by the ELO.

I was mad into Queen when i was younger and had (have) all their albums on vinyl. Sheer heart Attack was their best album by a mile (1974).

Sheer Heart Attack (1974), Queen 1 (1973) and A Night at the Opera (1975) (to a lesser extent) are all class albums and not what you think Queen would sound like if you listen to Bohemian Rhapsody or their later stuff.

noby
07/12/2004, 12:14 PM
I went from listening to/copying my older brothers' stuff to buying singles to buying albums.

I'd like to say it was the Charlatans 'some friendly', but it was probably The Farm

Bluebeard
07/12/2004, 12:42 PM
I could be wrong, but I think I recall that the first album I paid for with money was Push by Bros - I swear to jaysus it was a birthday present for my sister (even at a young age I was vindictive).

The first one I got for myself was Queen II on cassette, which was subsequently swiped and disposed of by an equally vindictive and vengeful sister.

max power
07/12/2004, 12:49 PM
I honestly can't remember the first proper album I got :eek:

First one I remember getting was a compilation (Hits or Now 7 - with dice on the front). Next one's I remember getting were the likes of New Order, the Mondays and 808 State off my next door neighbour on tape....

the one with the dice on the front was hits 5 ........i still have it

my first was the greatest hits of 86.....first track was billy ocean, when the goin get tough.......

fosterdollar
07/12/2004, 12:52 PM
those hits albums with the dice on the front bring back memories. But was the dice on the front not a running thing through all the Hits numbers? Then there was the Hits Hits Hits albums. Three times as sh!te as I remember.

James
07/12/2004, 1:08 PM
remember the tapes u used to get free with 8 tokens from weetbix
the job like ..pure 80's boy

Dublin12
07/12/2004, 1:20 PM
The first album I bought was on LP as thats all there was at that time :D :p ,anyway going to show my age here :eek:
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ;)
and it still stands the test of time,an absolute classic

Gary
07/12/2004, 1:26 PM
U2 - Joshua Tree, and some Salt n Pepa one, which I have lost :(

KR's Post
07/12/2004, 1:31 PM
Bought Aslan- Made in Dublin and Oasis- Morning Glory the same day!!! ;)

Kingdom
07/12/2004, 2:11 PM
Music was ****e in our house. Never used to hear any good music and was 14 before I think I realised what an album was. I had a funky next door neighbour who used to have laods of cool tunes banging out her room. She gave me a compilation with the Stone Roses Blur Oasis CHemical Brothers Suede and The Charlatans, oh and some Joy Division as well. Promptly went out and bought The Stone Roses and Exit Planet Dust.
:cool:

drummerboy
07/12/2004, 3:22 PM
Schools Out by Alice Cooper, I know showing my age here. The LP was wrapped in a pair of panties.

Rovers Fellow!
07/12/2004, 3:39 PM
U2-Achtung Baby!

Flea
07/12/2004, 4:18 PM
I cant remember the name of it but it was something by the Shamen :o

carrickharp
07/12/2004, 4:29 PM
I got one of those collections by collecting Twix wrappers, late 80's me thinks.

CollegeTillIDie
07/12/2004, 8:10 PM
The first album I bought was on LP as thats all there was at that time :D :p ,anyway going to show my age here :eek:
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ;)
and it still stands the test of time,an absolute classic

almost as old as you. First album "Mud's Greatest Hits" :p

pineapple stu
08/12/2004, 12:35 AM
Didn't read through the thread - are "bought" and "copied" the same thing?! :p

First copied - Sex Pistols - "Never Mind The ********"
First bought - REM - "Automatic for the People". Which I've since given away...

Though I do remember that late 80s Kylie album ("I Should Be So Lucky", "Locomotion", "Je Ne Se Pas Pourquios" (I never learnt French...)) lying around our house and being listened to... :o ;)

Risteard
08/12/2004, 12:05 PM
Did you score with her?

wws
08/12/2004, 12:13 PM
A-ha - Hunting High and Low


a classic of its time - member the 'take me on' scribbley cartoon video?

Kingdom
08/12/2004, 12:28 PM
Did you score with her?

A very peculiar situation...... got stoned for the first time with this girl at 14 or so, and over the course of the next two years scored with both of her sisters, alas she herslef wsa that bit too far ahead. And lookin back now , twas probably for the best- she's a minger now.

:D

gustavo
08/12/2004, 11:50 PM
first album i bought was oasis whats the story morning glory. havent heard anything better since to be honest.

Macy
09/12/2004, 8:13 AM
first album i bought was oasis whats the story morning glory. havent heard anything better since to be honest.
You should've tried their first album for starters...

gustavo
09/12/2004, 2:05 PM
I'm one of those rare breed that think wtsmg is better than dm :)

Risteard
09/12/2004, 11:33 PM
Morning Glory is the masterpiece.
Much more accomplished album.
Thought that was the general consensus though.

gustavo
10/12/2004, 12:01 AM
would have been the general concenus till around 3 4 years ago . not helped by the fact that noel has said that dm was by far the better album .

the 12 th man
10/12/2004, 8:04 AM
. First one I bought was Never Mind the Boll*x - the Sex Pistols


same one for me.i still have it and it still plays ok :)

noby
10/12/2004, 9:04 AM
Morning Glory is the masterpiece.
Much more accomplished album.
Thought that was the general consensus though.


I only own one Oasis album, and it's DM. I'm sure morning glory is more accomplished, but that's not the attraction with the first album. It's more about the arrogance (which I know still exists in bucketloads), the rawness, and at a time when it came out, the place wasn't awash with britpop.

I lost a lot of respect for them when they sacked the drummer for his lack of technical ability. I mean, the rest of them were hardly Pink Floyd, and his 'style' suited the simplicity of their songs (lots of strumming of barre chords, in time with banging of drum)

sadloserkid
10/12/2004, 1:05 PM
First CD was Duran Duran's epoymous album (1993 I think was the original release date) and I suspect that like James my first cassette (and by extension my first album ever) was 'Bad' by Michael Jackson.

thecorner
11/12/2004, 12:59 PM
first album----u2/boy
first single-nik kershaw-wouldnt it be good :o

JoeSemi
11/12/2004, 10:29 PM
The 1st I personally bought for myself was The Devlins-Waiting when I was about 12. Still sounds good.

Pablo
12/12/2004, 12:28 AM
Bon Jovi- slippery when wet

still rocks like it did when i was 9!

finlma
13/12/2004, 2:02 AM
Sadly - it was MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.

Hammer Time.

CollegeTillIDie
13/12/2004, 8:30 PM
Sadly - it was MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.

Hammer Time.

Tenuous sporting link...... Hammer was bat boy for the Oakland A's baseball team ... which was his first proper job. :p