What was the first album you bought?

studiorat

By yourself, vinyl, CD or download and do you still have it?

keano_afc

Bad, Michael Jackson, for my 8th birthday, on cassette. Loved it. I dont still have it unfortunately.

Footoo

Appetite for Destruction on tape with my communion money

CardBordWindow

Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. CD album.

Californication (the song) was the first mp3 I ever downloaded on Napster. After I bought the album, I deleted it!

salacious crumb

Not sure about first album, but the first 7" single I paid for with my own money was A-Ha's Take on me :pac:

SoapMcTavish

Single - Jona Lewie - Stop the cavalry
Album - Thompson Twins - Hold me now

Albums were too expensive back then - maybe as much as £5.99

Footoo

keano_afc wrote: »

Bad, Michael Jackson, for my 8th birthday, on cassette. Loved it. I dont still have it unfortunately.

LOL, thst was the second album I ever bought.

Peter Tosh , Legalise It. on Vinyl, still have it. love the album cover

am i bovvered

Madness.... Complete Madness

smacl

Replicas, Tubeway Army, cassette. Still have it somewhere, but nothing to play it on.

castletownman

The first two albums I ever owned were Nevermind by Nirvana and What's the Story Morning Glory by Oasis.

Back when music was decent and CD's meant something

Starscream25

Eminems LP album

MonstaMash

New Boots & Panties - Ian Dury & The Blockheads + Damned, Damned,Damned - The Damned (bit of a rarity, rear of the album cover had a picture of Slaughter & The Dogs & NOT The Damned on it...misprint)

Bought both LP's the same day in Woolworths, GPO arcade, Henry Street & yes I still have them

Kess73

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast


On vinyl back in 1982, and still have it.

lahalane

It was a cassette of cartoon theme tunes. Biker Mice from Mars was my favourite. There was also a brilliant version of No Limits sung by some cats, replacing the word 'no' with 'meow'. In fact all the lyrics were 'meow'. It was a kind of instru-meow-tal version. I do not still have it but I think about it every day.

3 of them at once, arranged in order of, er, lack of shame:

100% Columbian, Fun Lovin' Criminals

Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project

er, that AllyMcbealwanfrmVondaShepard *cough*

MBSnr

am i bovvered wrote: »

Madness.... Complete Madness

Same... released in 1982... Showing my age.....

The Backwards Man

'Out of Time' by REM probably. What year was that? Can't remember.

uch

Stray Cats - Gonna Ball

seachto7

G'n'R - LIES

MonstaMash

MonstaMash wrote: »

New Boots & Panties - Ian Dury & The Blockheads + Damned, Damned,Damned - The Damned

Bought both LP's the same day in Woolworths, GPO arcade, Henry Street & yes I still have them

new Boots and Panties, great album, hes is sorely missed in the music industry

donegal_road

The Clash

and this ac/dc album

bnt

90125 by Yes, on cassette.

BeerWolf

I can honestly say that I've never gone out to buy things music related... :pac:

Jordan 199

The Backwards Man wrote: »

'Out of Time' by REM probably. What year was that? Can't remember.

1991

studiorat

The Clash

Can remember hearing Janie Jones kicking in and never hearing anything like it before.

Still have it.

Lorenzo the Magnificent

The Razors Edge by AC/DC.

Cause it had Moneytalks on it.

dark crystal

Madonna: True Blue.

Gosub

Beatles 'Abbey Road' on 8 track tape. I don't have the tape but I do have the album on MP3.

Now see, you've gone and made me feel old again. :P

SimmerDean

on a primary school tour i borrowed money off my older brother to buy Steps-Step One on cassette. Tragedy is one word that comes to mind looking back at it now

Hoop66

Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols.

It's easy to look back on them as a bit of a joke now, especially compared their more long-lived contemporaries. But to an 11 year-old boy, it sounded like the end of the fucking world, and I loved it.

sadie06

First with my own money was The Communards Red, on vinyl. It's in my parent's house somewhere.

Green Giant

Oasis - Be Here Now (1997)

JonSnuuu

S Club 7 - "7", on Casette.


Oh the shame

Birneybau

"The Prodigy Experience" And "Boss Drum" by the Shamen, both bootleg tapes from the scraggly haired dude that used to have a stall on O' Connell Bridge.

First cd, "Elegant Slumming" by M People. Fuck Off!

Jimmy Two Times

Live and Dangerous - 1978

pundy

"Celebrity Skin" by Hole on CD. by far the best album of the 90s.

starlit

Embarrassed to say was either spice girls or boyzone!

anncoates

Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants on vinyl.

http://www.recordrevolution.com/sites/default/files/album_covers/adam%20and%20the%20ants.jpg

Ace Attorney

a zig and zag from dentv cassette tape with them signing song on it, I can only remember a few of the lines from it, something like throwing a dirty nappy and hitting the doctor in the snot

kfallon

First one I ever bought myself was Achtung Baby on cassette!

Used to let me older brother buy the albums tbh!

Mink

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream.

I remember playing it for my parents, trying to get them to understand how amazing it was

bonzodog2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ndOHPxYGQM

Rented Mule

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

I was seven or eight years old and just enjoyed the sounds of the album. Clarence Clemons on the saxophone was epic. The production for the time was incredible. Understanding the lyrics and stories didn't come until I got older.

I wouldn't be much into Springsteen these days, but those tracks take me back.

siltirocker

Very proud to say I got Nirvana's Nevermind in Zhivago's Galway on my tenth birthday from an uncle who slipped me 20 pound for the day that was in it.

I bought it because Teen Spirit was Diamond Dallas Page (the WCW wrestler)'s intro music.

. . . an awakening.

R0ot

Cassette and I think it was either Five or Spice Girls , neither of which I am particularly pleased about and both were left by accident in Spain with my walkman in the back of a rental car (at age 9 or 10)

Rented Mule

pundy wrote: »

"Celebrity Skin" by Hole on CD. by far the best album of the 90s.

It was a fine album, but I could probably come up with a dozen or so that I thought were better in the 90s. It's cool that this one means that much to you.

Rented Mule

Hoop66 wrote: »

Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols.

It's easy to look back on them as a bit of a joke now, especially compared their more long-lived contemporaries. But to an 11 year-old boy, it sounded like the end of the fucking world, and I loved it.

There is no reason to look upon them as a joke.

They were part of a movement that helped save Rock.

WilyCoyote

LP The Move by Roy Wood and The Move. Late 60s

caustic 1

When doves cry .. Prince
Brothers in Arms..Dire Straits

MJ23

Use your Illusion 1 on tape. Paid for with strawberry picking money.