STICK YOUR INDIE CREDENTIALS UP YOUR ARSE. Tell us whats the first album you bought!!

oldscoil

I'll go first.

First single: "I need love" by LL Cool J. 1987 Age 11.

First album: "Bullet from a Gun" by Derek B. 1988. Age 12.

Sinfonia

I'm pretty sure it was Michael Jackson, not sure which one though...

Pighead

First Single: Suss the Fuss (for the people in need)-Can't remember who sang it. Pete St John maybe?

First Album: If this is rock and roll I want my old job back- The Saw Doctors.

Xavi6

Album - Michael Jackson - Dangerous (1991, aged 6)

Single - Bryan Adams - Everything I Do (I Do It For You) (1991, aged 6)

nyarlothothep

Ice T-Rhyme Pays 1995, age 10
Mission Impossible Theme Song

Still listen to them now and again

oldscoil

HO HO.

Xavi, you started young , but you started terribly!!!
I love it.

Keep 'em coming folks.

zorkmundsson

Now That's What I Call Music! 23

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That%27s_What_I_Call_Music%21_23_%28U.K._series%29

good grief.

Xavi6

oldscoil wrote: »

HO HO.

Xavi, you started young , but you started terribly!!!
I love it.

Keep 'em coming folks.

What's wrong with Michael Jackson?!

zorkmundsson wrote: »

Now That's What I Call Music! 23

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That%27s_What_I_Call_Music%21_23_%28U.K._series%29

good grief.

That was my first 'Now' as well!

Some serious classics on that!!!

Tasmin Archer, John Secada, Go West, Simple Minds, Richard Marx, INXS, Crowded House, Erasure, East 17, The Shamen!!! All super tunes.

sink

I can't remember which I got first

Metallica - Master of Puppets

or

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

My Uncle brought me to a Iron Maiden gig in the point shortly after I was about 9. Still remember the Giant Eddie that came up from the stage, it was ace. There was a lot of booing when Bruce brought out the Union Jack. I was a little headbanger.

oldscoil

Jesus Xavi, I thought it would have been obvious it WASN'T the Jacko I was referring too

zorkmundsson

Xavi6 wrote: »

That was my first 'Now' as well!

Some serious classics on that!!!

Tasmin Archer, John Secada, Go West, Simple Minds, Richard Marx, INXS, Crowded House, Erasure, East 17, The Shamen!!! All super tunes.

currently youtubing my way through it. awful. "jesus he knows me" by genesis is the single worst song of all time.

Xavi6

oldscoil wrote: »

Jesus Xavi, I thought it would have been obvious it WASN'T the Jacko I was referring too

Lol I knew that

zorkmundsson wrote: »

currently youtubing my way through it. awful. "jesus he knows me" by genesis is the single worst song of all time.

Yeah it isn't a patch on 'Tetris' or Supermarioland'!

zorkmundsson

Xavi6 wrote: »

Lol I knew that



Yeah it isn't a patch on 'Tetris' or Supermarioland'!

i have "Tetris" on as we speak...
"I know...you're going to dig this."
amazing.

Dudess

Jacko - Bad, '88, aged 10. Who born in 78/79's first album wasn't Bad by Michael Jackson?

Xavi6 wrote: »

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do (I Do It For You) (1991, aged 6)

So YOU were one of those *****?! :mad:

Xavi6 wrote: »

That was my first 'Now' as well!

Some serious classics on that!!!

Tasmin Archer, John Secada, Go West, Simple Minds, Richard Marx, INXS, Crowded House, Erasure, East 17, The Shamen!!! All super tunes.

Oh yeah! I felt too "cool" to buy Now! albums at that stage but I still borrowed that particular one from my next-door neighbour for ages and ages. Horrible horrible stuff tbh. The 90s sucked for pop music, the 80s was miles better...

Wreck

Dudess wrote: »

Jacko - Bad, '88, aged 10. Who born in 78/79's first album wasn't Bad by Michael Jackson?

Same for me, why did that album appeal to us all so much? Can't remember what the first single was, probably zig and zag or something.

I also had Now 23, I think its the only one I ever bought, remember listening to it incessantly on holidays with my folks. My poor parents, I actually feel liking ringing them up to apologise for putting them through it.

redcrew

Having millions of older siblings I didn't buy an album til Urban Hymns by The Verve


how cool am I?? :P

the answer is not very!!

mental07

Mine was 'Parklife' by Blur, aged 12! Think I'd gotten a couple of Dustin albums as presents :P

Dudess

I didn't start buying singles til I got into indie. It would have been an EP by some shoegazing band.

Creature

Technically it was Do The Bartman by Bart Simpson in 1990, but I don't think that counts because firstly I was only 6 or 7 and hardly had a taste for music at that age. Secondly I bought it not for it's musical merits but for the fact that it was Bart Simpson singing...


The first real album I bought was one of those Now.. albums. It would've been about 1993 or so. It featured Gabrielle and 2Unlimited. Rock on.

Tommy the Cat

The Cult: Electric...Think I was 14 or 15.

Creamy Goodness

Nirvana - In Utero (1993 i think it was) i was 8.

Ekels

Best of U2 1990-2000. I was 11.
I probably had bought one or two singles by some travesty of a pop act previous to that, but I can't remember whom.

crowdcontrol

Def Leppard - Hysteria ....... ouch!:o Followed quickly by Appetite for Destruction - GNR..... Why couldn't that be my first! Both on tape age 10.....F**k, cant believe Appetite was 87, god I'm getting old....

JaneyMc

First record I bought was the Simpsons, it had do the Bartman on it. It was also on Vinyl. Apparently I saved for weeks for it with my pocket money. I think my parents just bought it for me though considering I only got like 20p a week.

The first cd I bought, well I bought 3 together, TLC - Crazy, Sexy, Cool , Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill and some Tony Fenton crap...

Earthhorse

Dudess wrote: »

Jacko - Bad, '88, aged 10. Who born in 78/79's first album wasn't Bad by Michael Jackson?

*nervously raises hand*

First album bought for me: Soundgarden - Superunknown

First album I bought: Nirvana - In Utero

First single I bought: Prodigy - No Good (or whatever it was called)

At least I think that's right, don't know why people remember the first album they bought.

ClarenceOveur

lol first ep was do the Bartman also. I didn't know how to work my dad's record player, so it was a t the slow speed and I couldn't figure out why Bart wasn't singing it right!

Also, Bad by Jacko on tape!

Howard the Duck

First album i bought was "Boss Drum" By the Shamen... i had to check when it came out it was 92 so i was 10... i thought i was about 14 when i bought it.

KrazeeEyezKilla

First album was Foo Fighters debut in June 1998 when I was 12. Luckily I had an older brother so I didn't have to buy much until I was about 16.

Dudess

Actually Earthhorse makes a good point:

The first album bought for me was Bad by Michael Jackson
The first album bought by me (for me) was Some Friendly by The Charlatans (in 1991).

TestTransmission

First album bought for me (thanks mammy) was Morning Glory - Oasis

I then proceeded to buy definitely maybe.
I would of been 11 in 1995

kerash

I doubt anyone will beat this bit of cheese...
First Album Kylie by Kylie!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie_(album)

I do remember that 'it's no secret' was my fav single...

Also my first concert was when she came to Dublin around 1990!

Dudess

That was the second album I got - a Christmas pressie in '88. Fuppin' loved it... Got To Be Certain: absolute quality!

BurnsCarpenter

Single: Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

Album: Europe - the one with Final Countdown on it.

estariol

1st Album 1986 aged 11....Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
2nd Jesus and Mary Chain 1988 Barbed wire kisses

in between was blessed with tons of tapes copies from friends siblings, blank casettes were cheaper than records!!!

1st Audio Casette -Joy Divison - Substance

1st CD The Mission - Carved in Sand (......shameful)

Dudess

Wow, your taste in music takes me back to my brothers' bedrooms in the 80s. And they managed to convert me so I was listening to The Smiths, Pixies and The Cure at 11 (while also liking Kylie).

estariol

yep audio casettes were the mp3's of the 80's.....

el_tiddlero

first album - Def Leppard's Adrenalize on cassette for a tenner, in whatever year it came out.. i think i was 9 or 10......

first single - three little pigs by Green Jelly on 7-inch pink vinyl......

Wreck

estariol wrote: »

yep audio casettes were the mp3's of the 80's.....

Mix tapes ftw!

Dudess

el_tiddlero wrote: »

first album - Def Leppard's Adrenalize on cassette for a tenner, in whatever year it came out.. i think i was 9 or 10......

first single - three little pigs by Green Jelly on 7-inch pink vinyl......

Oh that post just screams 1992!

el_tiddlero

Dudess wrote: »

Oh that post just screams 1992!

it was a fine year....

Glassheart

2 Unlimited - No Limits (The album)

smackbunnybaby

Michael Jackson Bad when i was 5. not only that i bought a black market copy, showing pirate tendancies from an early age.

cant remember my first single i generally went for albums

Placid_Casual

First album I bought was Automatic For The People by REM when I was about 12. Was a big REM fan in my teens, I think at one stage I had more albums by them (most of their back catalogue) than albums by other bands put together. Still my favourite band ever.

Think my first single was a single Zig & Zag had one Christmas. Was it called Christmas No.1 or something? Misplaced it years ago.

Howard the Duck

First album bought For me was the "grease original soundtrack". I still have it but i think it's scratched...probably from over play

Dudess

Placid_Casual wrote: »

Think my first single was a single Zig & Zag had one Christmas. Was it called Christmas No.1 or something? Misplaced it years ago.

Yep, 1990. It was quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYV6GWxVoqY

On second thoughts, maybe not...

Wow, Dustin's voice is way deeper and younger. It's way funnier now that it's a lot more grating.

The part that went "Oh what fun it is to ride on a one-horse open TOILET" always had me in hysterics...

Earthhorse

Dudess wrote: »

The part that went "Oh what fun it is to ride on a one-horse open TOILET" always had me in hysterics...

Not much has changed these last eighteen years.

Placid_Casual

Dudess wrote: »

Yep, 1990. It was quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYV6GWxVoqY

Wow, I haven't heard that in years! I think it sounded better when I was 10 though :P. Love that they could get away with calling somebody a twat on a children's record. Innocent times.

11811

ac/dc - razors edge, on cassette of course...

Captain Darling

Dudess wrote: »

Wow, your taste in music takes me back to my brothers' bedrooms in the 80s. And they managed to convert me so I was listening to The Smiths, Pixies and The Cure at 11 (while also liking Kylie).

Kind of the same thing with me and my sisters in the eighties. They had me listening to the Cure, Bowie, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin etc when i was 10/11..

Best thing that ever happened to me.

mr_angry

I bought Monster Hits on casette as my first ever purchase, but it was followed shortly by the following questionable album:

Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

allybhoy

I have a feeling the first tape I bought was Shaking Stevens or some crap. The first Cd single was cotton eye joe! Jees, what was I thinking