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What was the first album you bought?

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  • #32
    sadie06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭sadie06


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


  • #33
    Green Giant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Green Giant


    Oasis - Be Here Now (1997)


  • #34
    JonSnuuu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭JonSnuuu


    S Club 7 - "7", on Casette.


    Oh the shame


  • #35
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #36
    Jimmy Two Times
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Jimmy Two Times


    Live and Dangerous - 1978


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  • #37
    pundy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭pundy


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


  • #38
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Embarrassed to say was either spice girls or boyzone! :o


  • #39
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #40
    Ace Attorney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭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


  • #41
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


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

    Used to let me older brother buy the albums tbh!


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  • #42
    Mink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,260 ✭✭✭Mink


    Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream.

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


  • #43
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


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


  • #44
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    siltirocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    R0ot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭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)


  • #47
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭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.


  • #49
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


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


  • #50
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


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


  • #51
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


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


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  • #52
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    siltirocker wrote: »
    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.


    Ironic that he was well into his 30s when he used that as his intro music :pac:


  • #53
    questionmark?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,090 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    The Prodigy, Fat of the Land.

    Mother wasn't impressed! :P


  • #54
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    Meant to Buy Moby's "Everything is Wrong" but ended up buying the remix version of it instead. I'd never even heard of a remix at that stage so couldn't tell the difference when i was in the shop. Was a bit disappointed that the few songs I knew sounded different-when i eventually realised my mistake I went and bought the original as well so it was my first and second album


  • #55
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    studiorat wrote: »
    By yourself, vinyl, CD or download and do you still have it?

    What do you have against the humble cassette tape?! To answer your question it was Innuendo by Queen.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innuendo_(album)


  • #56
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    anthrax- persistence of time


  • #57
    Kersh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭Kersh


    Pixies "Bossanova" on CD back in 1990. I was 14.

    still have it :)



    1st album ever, was a present, when I was 10, on tape, UB40 "Rat in the kitchen"


  • #58
    Real Life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭Real Life


    as far as i can remember it was the slim shady lp on cassette


  • #59
    Gehad_JoyRider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Gehad_JoyRider


    Bon Jovi slippery when wet

    great name for an album.


  • #60
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem


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  • #61
    SoapMcTavish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭SoapMcTavish


    HAH - just remembered, my first CD was Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms, it was the ONLY cd in the store, downstairs in Todds ( Golden Discs ). Just got a new 4in1 stereo system, and there were no cd's around.

    Soon after, went to a match in Dublin, visited the Virgin Megastore and they had about 30 discs, including Purple Rain !! Grabbed it.

    Same kinda thing happened when DVDs came in 1999. There was very limited selection around - but the web had been born so ... region hacks were the thing.


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