First Album you bought

**tiktok** · 07/12/2004, 10:28 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, 10:34 AM

pretty sure tis either
U2 joshua tree or Bad by Mickie Jackson on cassette

**fosterdollar** · 07/12/2004, 10:37 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, 10:43 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, 10:48 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, 10:53 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

**Macy** · 07/12/2004, 10:54 AM

I honestly can't remember the first proper album I got

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, 10:54 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, 10:56 AM

mine was morning glory too same as risteard

**Dotsy** · 07/12/2004, 11:00 AM

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, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by James

Bad by Mickie Jackson on cassette

same as myself....

**Hibs4Ever** · 07/12/2004, 11:11 AM

A-ha - Hunting High and Low

**eoinh** · 07/12/2004, 11:13 AM

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, 11:14 AM

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, 11:42 AM

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, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by Macy

I honestly can't remember the first proper album I got

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, 11:52 AM

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.