First music you bought

[UnrepentantLiberal]

The first album I bought was The Beatles Something New.

First metal album was Kiss Alive.

[bluedigger]

1. Simon and Garfunkel

I bought both Sounds of Silence and Bridge over Troubled Water at the same time. Third was Deep Purple Made in Japan. Memories get hazy after that...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

3. Yes, there are gaps in my memory as well.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Capital) and Introducing the Beatles (VeeJay)...

wish I had that VeeJay LP still - worth a lot of money now!

I think I was in the 1st grade!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

4. A lot!

http://www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/beatles/intro/intro.html

[Curmudgeoness]

31. Meet the Beatles was mine too.

I guess I am just a few years up on you, I was in about 5th grade.

Sorry you don't have your VeeJay now. Life is never fair....I have old dolls that are duds from my childhood, and none of the ones worth anything. Same for so many things----lunch boxes, toys, anything.

[Odin2005]

5. Hanson (I was only 11, please forgive me, LOL!!!)

[dana_b]

15. you are forgiven (to quote The Who!!)

My daughter loved Hanson too and still listens to them on occasion. She's 22 now. I took her to her first concert - Hanson - when she was 8 or 9.

[Systematic Chaos]

6. Yes' 90125, Genesis' eponymous album, and Duran Duran's Seven and the Ragged Tiger

All on cassette, which I played on some generic brand Walkman which had amazingly good sound for its roughly $25 price tag. It also had an AM/FM tuner. It was 1983 and I was 14.

[Shoe Horn]

7. RUN DMC 'Raising Hell'

I was embarrassed to say the title out loud to the record store clerk.
Next was Public Enemy "Takes a Nation of Millions..."

[Shadowflash]

8. With my own money.

The very first album I bought with money I had earned myself was Kiss Destroyer.

[sarge43]

9. First 45 Carl Perkins, Blue Suede Shoes

LP, not sure, either the sound track to Ben Hur or the Four Preps' 26 Miles

[OriginalGeek]

10. Trying hard to remember

I was at a disadvantage in the music buying world as I was raised in a very conservative, fundamentalist christian home and we weren't allowed to even listen to rock music (although accepted and approved country was OK). So since I couldn't listen to any good music I didn't pay much attention to any music until I started working and got out of the bubble and had to interact with the rest of the world where I discovered all kinds of things but couldn't bring any of it home.

This was in the late 70's and early 80's

I remember being looked at suspiciously but allowed to keep Kenny Rogers - The Gambler because it was a gift from my girlfriend for my 16th birthday.

I remember sneaking and buying 45s of The Marcels' cover of Blue Moon and Centerfold by the J. Geils Band but would only listen to them while my mom and stepfather were at work. (I am sure I had a few others but can't remember what they were)

After I finally left home and started listening to music in earnest I grabbed up every Led Zeppelin and Rush album I could find and then got on with the rest of the classic rock catalog and then veered off into metal.

[Swede]

11. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick

I was shortly thereafter turned on to Black Sabbath and metal. I still love Elton's older stuff.

[canoeist52]

12. first 45 Beatles -"When I Saw Her Standing There" but...

First album my sibs and I bought with our own money,

[frogmarch]

13. Love Me Tender - 45 rpm

by Elvis in 1956. I also bought two Elvis Presley lipsticks - Tender Pink and Hound Dog Orange. I was 13, and the Elvis lipsticks were my very first cosmetics.

[dana_b]

16. I like that...

not long after girls (and some guys) were buying Beatle wigs. I didn't know that Elvis had that stuff too.

[dana_b]

14. Heart - Dreamboat Annie

next were The Beatles - all of them.

[Populist_Prole]

17. KISS Destroyer

It was them that got me into album rock, and hard rock. It's far from their best, although I didn't realize it then. I was later to find out most their best stuff was their earlier 3 albums. 'Alive' captures them at their peak though IMO.

Hard rock is still my favorite genre today at 50.

[raccoon]

18. Tom Dooley by the Kingston Trio. nt

[blaze]

28. TY!

Was that a 45? or an Album...?

I hear Charlie on the MTA and others in my head

[raccoon]

29. It was a 45. nt

[Iggo]

19. First record I ever bought...

...was probably a Beatles single.

First album I ever bought with my own money was "Hair Of The Dog" by Nazareth...I think. It was a looooong time ago.

[MichaelMcGuire]

20. Iron Maiden - Killers (Album) nt

[kcass1954]

21. Rolling Stones - Got Live If You Want It

[RevStPatrick]

22. The Jackson 5 - Going Back to Indiana

I saw their TV special when I was 8 years old, and took my allowance and some gift money and went with Mom to the record store to buy the album...

(skip ahead to 4:00 for one of the greatest, funkiest tunes this 8 year-old ever heard!)

[backwoodsbob]

23. the alice cooper show

seminal theater rock album

[backwoodsbob]

24. Alice Cooper

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[pink-o]

25. 1st LP with my own money? The Supremes "Where did our Love Go?"

It also had "Baby Love" and "Come see about Me" on it. I think it cost a whole 3 dollars, which when I was 9 in 1964 seemed a veritable fortune.

After that, I scrimped and did chores to earn money for "Rubber Soul" and "Aftermath", not to mention the 45s that sucked up all my allowance. I grew up on Motown and Brit Invasions, taking for granted music would always be awesome.

I still love it in my dotage: I'm happy when a new musical movement freaks out the established genre, like Punk in the 70s and Grunge in the 90s. I also love 80s Hip Hop, that stuff was amazing! But nothing matches the first feelings of bliss when I was a child and discovered the radio!

[RebelOne]

26. Bill Haley and the Comets. That shows my age.

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[pokerfan]

27. Let It Bleed

My sister was a Beatles nut which pretty much drove me to the Stones.

[wyldwolf]

30. Pat Benatar "Heat of the Night.'

[femmocrat]

32. I think I still have this somewhere: (Elvis)

[denbot]

33. Beetles "I am the Walrus" 45rpm..

I'm pretty sure it was the mono. The record player I shared with my sisters was one of those suitecase portables. I don't think my parents would have sprung for a stereo version for us.

My first album was "The Monkee's"..

[mia]

34. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

[Ron Obvious]

35. Don't remember the first album

But the first 45 I bought with my own money was 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie....

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"Ground Control to Major Tom... Can you hear me, Major Tom..."

On edit: added picture.

[alphafemale]

48. I had a friend....In the 90's! Who tried to argue with me that it was Major Tongue

I was like...."That doesn't even make any sense!" "Who in the hell would be named Tongue?"

To settle the question we called a DJ at a radio station. I don't think he inhaled for two minutes...laughing too hard.

She didn't believe him either.

[becca da bakkah]

36. "Handy Man". An Old 45 RPM by Jimmy Jones

"Hey girls, gather 'round
Cuz a what I'm putting down
Ooooh baby I'm your Handyman!

I think I was in the Sixth Grade. I actually still have it. A relic from my Teen-Queen days.

[WCGreen]

37. first Single....

I should have known Better...

First Album, Rubber Soul...

[GReedDiamond]

38. First record I ever bought was a 7" 45, by The Trashmen, "Surfin' Bird"...

...in 1963, when I was 8.

Another cool single I bought was "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV. The B side was the same tune, mastered in reverse.

You can hear portions of both versions here: http://www.45cat.com/record/wb5831

I bought singles cuz that's what I'd hear on the AM radio all of the time (on WLS and WCFL, Chicago).

I didn't buy an album until I was 12 y.o., and that was "Surrealistic Pillow" by Jefferson Airplane.

[denbot]

45. Hey I had "Their Coming to Take me Away" on 45.

That may be my first record instead of "I am the Walrus". I also had the Supremes "You Keep Me Hanging On". Both debuted in '66 when I was eight.

[siligut]

39. The Doors' first album.

Titled The Doors.

[NYC_SKP]

40. Possibly Rod Stewart, but an 8-track, IIRC.

[abbeyco]

41. 45 was The Raspberries - Go All the Way

and album, sorry to admit, was one of The Partridge Family albums - I still have 4 or 5 of them

[Arkansas Granny]

42. The first music I bought was on 45's.

One was "Ramblin' Rose" by Nat King Cole, the other was "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.

The first album I bought was "That Happy Feeling" by Bert Kaempfert.

[BrendaBrick]

43. 45 The Temptations: Runaway Child (Running Wild)

[kaitcat]

44. Pink Floyd -- The Wall

Fleetwood Mac -- Rumors
Meatloaf -- Bat out of Hell
Pat Benatar -- In the Heat of the Night

I think I was 14. All albums from Columbia House.

[mikeytherat]

46. Earth, Wind and Fire "Spirit"

mikey_the_rat

[alphafemale]

47. Remember that company that would send you 6 alblums for a penny?

And then you had to watch the mailbox and select NO for years. lol

That was later.

First music paid for with my own money was a 45 KC and the Sunshine Band. "Get Down Tonight"

[6000eliot]

49. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Band on the Run, and Ringo.

My first 45 was a couple years earlier, "One Man Band" by Three Dog Night.

[Chan790]

50. Mine:

Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Metallica-Metallica
Queen-Greatest Hits
Nirvana-Nevermind

I had a gift certificate to a local music chain...ironically, I was the non-fan of music then and now among my siblings. I think my parents forget sometimes that I'm HoH.

[marmar]

51. ........

[begin_within]

52. First album, "Electric Warrior" by T. Rex.

First single, not sure... the oldest 45 RPM I have is the song to "it's a small world" bought at Disneyland but I can't remember if I bought it or my family bought it.

[LynneSin]

53. ELO's "Out of the Blue"

It was my first vinyl
It was my first casette
It was my first CD
It was the first CD I uploaded to digital

[Brother Buzz]

54. Whipped Cream (and other delights)

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass