First record U bought!

Stained Class · 15-04-2011 12:31am #1

It seems that going into a record shop to buy music is set to become a thing of the past.

For me, as a kid music was a huge part of my life.

Top of the Pops was a real highlight of the week for me & countless others too.

Anyhoo......When I was 13, I went into Rainbow Records in Carlow & bought Joan of Arc by OMD.

I think 45's were about £1.30ish then....(1981 prices!)

What was your first?:)

K.Flyer · 15-04-2011 12:42am

Many many years ago

First Single was "The Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies, for the princely sum of 10p
First Album was "Relics" by Pink Floyd, I think it was 4.00pounds

merlie · 15-04-2011 1:03am

The Tourists - I only wanna be with you! in Dolphin Discs in Talbot Street.

K.Flyer · 15-04-2011 1:06am

merlie wrote: »

The Tourists - I only wanna be with you! in Dolphin Discs in Talbot Street.

That where I bought my first Album *snap*

Rented Mule · 15-04-2011 1:06am

Springsteen's Born to Run just after Christmas '75.

mike65 · 15-04-2011 10:12am

Oulwans 'n' Oulfellas do not use U as shorthand. We say "ye"

stovelid · 15-04-2011 2:53pm

First Single; What You're Proposing - Status Quo

First LP: Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam and the Ants.

Both were in 1980 and played to death on my ma's radiogram: those long wooden things on four legs with a lid that you ilfted up to reveal a radio, turntable and handy record storage space.

Think I bought them both in Golden Discs in the Crumlin Shopping Centre.

Stained Class · 15-04-2011 6:40pm

mike65 wrote: »

Oulwans 'n' Oulfellas do not use U as shorthand. We say "ye"

Sorry Mike.

I was well into the second bottle at the time.:D

sgb · 15-04-2011 7:23pm

Melting Pot by Blue Mink

Oryx · 15-04-2011 7:37pm

Super trooper by Abba. For shame

cml387 · 15-04-2011 9:45pm

We used to "download" music from the radio,i.e. the top twenty on BBC Radio 2 at six o'clock on a Sunday recorded onto a Sanyo cassette tape recorder.

Until we got a new record player in 1975.I think the first record was "Go your own way" by Fleetwood Mac.

Oh yes just to namecheck Graham's music store in Mullingar (long gone).

Oryx · 15-04-2011 10:47pm

Everyone I know used to tape stuff off the radio.* And you had to time it just right to stop it before the dj opened his gob and ruined it. So we didnt buy too many singles, which is my excuse for buying such a cr@p first one.

Woolworths was the place to get them, all racked up in top 20 order.

*Course then a few of us got into weird stuff and started recording white noise to see if we would hear spooky voices in it. Its no accident that I mod paranormal

rednik · 15-04-2011 10:53pm

Thin Lizzy, Jailbreak in 77. Have it still, in the attic since I bought the CD.

cml387 · 15-04-2011 10:58pm

Oryx wrote: »

*Course then a few of us got into weird stuff and started recording white noise to see if we would hear spooky voices in it. Its no accident that I mod paranormal

Friend of ours (Hi Bob) once listened to an hour of static on the radio swearing that it was Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed.

sgb · 15-04-2011 11:15pm

*Course then a few of us got into weird stuff and started recording white noise to see if we would hear spooky voices in it. Its no accident that I mod paranormal

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Slightly off thread but we used to play Albratross by Fleetwood Mac at 33 instead of 45 that was weird but it never turned me into a mod

mike65 · 15-04-2011 11:36pm

First 45 rpm record was Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody.

I'd like to take this opportunity to appolgise, if I and about 1,000,000 others hadn't bought that song in 1973 we'd not all be so tired of it now!

Interesting to see the radiogram get a mention, we had a new fangled £70 Amstrad Hi Fi seperates system bought from Debenhams in 1972, the speakers are still in use sitting a few feet from me as I type.

chughes · 17-04-2011 9:17am

First single I bought was Sugar Sugar by the Archies.

When I was in my first job about 6 months I got a loan to buy my first proper stereo system. The first album (which I bought the same day as the stereo) I played on this system was Hotel California. I've never forgotten the magical aural experience of listening to that album in glorious quality stereo for the first time.

Rubecula · 17-04-2011 2:45pm

Just for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGL4btEIoTo

Bearhunter · 17-04-2011 10:19pm

It is with shame and teeth-clenching embarrassment I admit to my first record purchase being Mull of Kintyre back in 1977-ish for the huge amount of about 65p. FIrst album was Horslips' Man Who Built America, which is marginally more respectable!

anewme · 18-04-2011 12:56am

First single - Japenese Boy by Anneka 1981

Oh the shame!

Stained Class · 18-04-2011 1:06am

Bearhunter wrote: »

It is with shame and teeth-clenching embarrassment I admit to my first record purchase being Mull of Kintyre back in 1977-ish for the huge amount of about 65p. FIrst album was Horslips' Man Who Built America, which is marginally more respectable!

Ah, c'mon? I was Macca afterall. What's to be ashamed of?

The man wrote Yesterday & was a Beatle!:)

pslat · 18-04-2011 1:16am

Hmm, A lot of '77 first buyers on this thread..
Batouttahelll for me in 77. The only one I had for a few years. If I hear that effin song one more time...:rolleyes:

Bearhunter · 18-04-2011 2:23am

anewme wrote: »

First single - Japenese Boy by Anneka 1981

Oh the shame!

Heh, that makes me feel better.

And @ stained class: "Ah, c'mon? I was Macca afterall. What's to be ashamed of?"

He might have written Yesterday, but he also wrote The Frog Chorus...

Gary ITR · 18-04-2011 7:53am

stovelid wrote: »

Think I bought them both in Golden Discs in the Crumlin Shopping Centre.

I remember that shop well,bought a load of albums there when I was a nipper. That's one eerie shopping centre now

stovelid · 18-04-2011 9:34am

Onkle wrote: »

I remember that shop well,bought a load of albums there when I was a nipper. That's one eerie shopping centre now

Spot on!

Along with Northside, it seems to be one of the only old-school shopping centres still standing. I was passing by recently and went in for a look and was really sad to see that it's a shadow of its former self. When I was a kid (and even much later), it always seemed so busy but now there just seems to be a handful of shops hanging on.

Gary ITR · 18-04-2011 1:18pm

stovelid wrote: »

Spot on!

Along with Northside, it seems to be one of the only old-school shopping centres still standing. I was passing by recently and went in for a look and was really sad to see that it's a shadow of its former self. When I was a kid (and even much later), it always seemed so busy but now there just seems to be a handful of shops hanging on.

As coincidence would have it I was driving by there today and needed to use the toilet (is that a sign I'm getting old? Can't drive 4 miles without needing to pee?) so I stopped in, I remember going there as a kid with my Granny and it was always packed. Now it's filthy and run down

bubbaloo · 18-04-2011 4:06pm

Good God - I can't believe I'm going to put this in writing but here goes........
It was 1982 and my first records were (my mum bought me 3 together!)..

Bucks Fizz - Are you Ready (album)
Nicole - A Little Peace (single)
(Anybody notice a Eurovision theme going on here???

)
Duran Duran - Wild Boys (single)

I went home and spent weeks making up dance routines with my friends!
Ah, those were the days.

borderlinemeath · 19-04-2011 5:48pm

The shame of this -

Brendan Graces version of "I've got a brand new combine harvester" was my very first "single" to call my own.

Asiaprod · 20-04-2011 1:00pm

First single, Kate Bush - Withering Heights, also in in Dolphin Discs in Talbot Street
First Album, Jackson Brown - The Pretender also in the same place.

I was into tapes and had one of the first True Dolby tape decks in Ireland cause I worked in the place that imported them. Even remember staying up late at night cause there was only one Stereo radio broadcast once a week and I spent a fortune buying an Amstrad Stereo system. I lived to see that Stereo red light light up on the system.

ger vallely · 20-04-2011 1:10pm

I was given a one pound record voucher by the sister's bf. I skipped up to the Finglas record shop in the village and bought (hanging my head in shame)The J Giles Band- My Angel Is The Centrefold. My poor parents, their 10 year old daughter singing along to the delights of pin up girls!! Only dawned on me many years later what it was actually about! First album was ZZ Top, Eliminator.

cltt97 · 20-04-2011 9:04pm

Fine young cannibals! And then Duran Duran... GAS

slavetothegrind · 25-04-2011 3:50pm

mike65 wrote: »

First 45 rpm record was Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody.

I'd like to take this opportunity to appolgise, if I and about 1,000,000 others hadn't bought that song in 1973 we'd not all be so tired of it now!

Interesting to see the radiogram get a mention, we had a new fangled £70 Amstrad Hi Fi seperates system bought from Debenhams in 1972, the speakers are still in use sitting a few feet from me as I type.

mike, change the speakers they are doing your music no favours:)

my first purchase was a tape of judas priest's british steel in woolworths in Bray.
played it in my first tape player, the walthams portable recorder, the one with the red record button.
the parents bought me this along with Abba super trouper and elvis us mail, somewhat missing the mark they were:p

CrowdedHouse · 25-04-2011 9:01pm

My first record was....The Unicorn by the Bachelors

I can clearly remember getting 7 shillings out of my money box to give to my ma to buy it..according to Wikipedia this was released in 1968 so I would have been 7 or 8 years old.
There was always a record player at home,my mother had loads of records.

On a side note I was kind of shocked a couple of years ago when my 10/11 year old nephew asked me 'what's that ?' as I was putting on an LP to play(my sister and her husband probably don't have any at home)

mike65 · 26-04-2011 10:49am

slavetothegrind wrote: »

mike, change the speakers they are doing your music no favours:)

The room acoustics are much bigger issue than 40 year old speakers! I like their warm tone.

slavetothegrind · 27-04-2011 11:20pm

mike if you were any closer to me i would drive over and lend you some decent speakers just to convince you!

Dub Ste · 28-04-2011 1:22pm

Oh dear,my first 45,was "The show must go on" by Leo Sayer,can't remember the LP that I bought,but the first one that was bought for me a present was "Regatta De Blanc" by The Police...

nesbitt · 03-05-2011 3:34pm

Abba Arrival album...

magnumlady · 03-05-2011 9:55pm

First single That's All - Genesis
First Album Ed Stewpots Pop Party.

bimlico · 04-05-2011 11:26am

Dub Ste wrote: »

Oh dear,my first 45,was "The show must go on" by Leo Sayer,can't remember the LP that I bought,but the first one that was bought for me a present was "Regatta De Blanc" by The Police...

My first one was "Lily the Pink" by the Scaffold and the second was "Something" by the Beatles.

Jeez how old am I???

RichT · 04-05-2011 11:36am

10 year old RichT strolled into Brixton market to buy....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FYTL8ydERw

mike65 · 04-05-2011 11:42am

Had to google the above!

Rubecula · 04-05-2011 4:57pm

No laughing at me here if you please, but the first album I got (bought for me by my mum, bless her) was Tchaikovsky "Piano Concerto Number One in B Flat Minor" by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. I still have it, but not played it in years.

bimlico · 05-05-2011 12:58pm

Rubecula wrote: »

No laughing at me here if you please, but the first album I got (bought for me by my mum, bless her) was Tchaikovsky "Piano Concerto Number One in B Flat Minor" by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. I still have it, but not played it in years.

Ha ha ha

the anser · 05-05-2011 1:12pm

First record I wanted was 'A Thing Called Love' by Johnny Cash.......could'nt find the single anywhere so had to buy a K Tel compilation which had it. Bought in Superquins record shop in Walkinstown, Dublin- 1973 I think.....and played to death on a Bush Radiogram. I remember you could disengage the playing arm which meant the record kept on playing! Happy days............

Rick Deckard · 05-05-2011 1:23pm

GNR-You Could Be Mine on 7", w/ Civil War on B side

OldGoat · 05-05-2011 2:16pm

peatcass wrote: »

GNR-You Could Be Mine on 7", w/ Civil War on B side

Released in Apr 2006. That would make you about 12 years old. :eek:

Rick Deckard · 05-05-2011 4:01pm

OldGoat wrote: »

Released in Apr 2006. That would make you about 12 years old. :eek:

I was about 12 when I bought it, but it was way back in 1990 or 91..

Beruthiel · 05-05-2011 4:20pm

My first record was Thin Lizzy's Black Rose with the Jim Fitzpatrick painting of a rose on the front.

OldGoat · 05-05-2011 6:18pm

peatcass wrote: »

I was about 12 when I bought it, but it was way back in 1990 or 91..

You are right and I'm an idiot. I just looked at a date on Google and made an erronous assumption. Mia Culpa.

Yer still a youngster though.

ADDON · 13-05-2011 4:56pm

I was dragged to Galway to see the Pope in 1979 :rolleyes: and as a consolation, my mother gave me some spending money when we went into the city centre later that evening. I bought a single which was made in a deep green colour and it was "Message in a Bottle" by The Police. I loved that record :cool:

Rick Deckard · 13-05-2011 5:50pm

ADDON wrote: »

I was dragged to Galway to see the Pope in 1979 :rolleyes: and as a consolation, my mother gave me some spending money when we went into the city centre later that evening. I bought a single which was made in a deep green colour and it was "Message in a Bottle" by The Police. I loved that record :cool:

Shame to say Zivagos closed down!!
Effing torrents

First record U bought!

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