1st Album you Ever Owned?

T-Rex, Electric Warrior.  Bought at Kresges. 5&10 in St. Pete, Florida with change from my piggy bank  - I THINK it was $1.25

The Supremes A Go-Go. Mono. Flawless record and jacket. Nope, just like it...not for sale.

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Very enjoyable post! Have to agree "Nilsson Schmilsson" has stood the test of time better than "Yellow Brick Road." At least you had them both early on.

BTW I recall hearing way back then that pressed cardboard egg containers made a pretty good acoustical treatment for walls.

This is bordering on "true confessions."

Thanks. At 14, Nilsson would belt out "can’t live" and it would rip my little hormone charged body and heart apart. At that tender age however I had not the slightest appreciation of The Moonbeam Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OTyuLj9RpY no idea the phenomenal acoustic art of Coconut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSuueEGQSM let alone the fascinating way Nilsson and everything is positioned center stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrUnYcPIvzM About the only other thing on there I couldn’t get enough of was the amazing drums of Jump Into the Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjNpgZ4C5Q Now in my 60’s I would put that up against any hard rock. Any. Its a masterpiece. Back then it was just an adrenaline kick. Today I can appreciate the full-on mastery of technique that makes this such a kick-ass rocker. And audiophile classic. All at once. Amazing.

Yes egg crates are exactly what I had. The ones a dozen per layer. In checkerboard pattern in areas on the walls. Started experimenting and learning about acoustics at 13. Necessity was the mother of invention. Even today. When you are willing at 13 to swipe mom’s old egg cartons (what was she saving them for anyway???!) its not much of a step to using Safeway rubber bands on your cable elevators. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367

The system today is a little bit better. So is the vinyl. The sound of the Nilsson I am talking about now is a White Hot Stamper. https://better-records.com/products/nilssschmi_2005?_pos=1&_sid=691c0889b&_ss=r

Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming when I was 8. 
I attended a fancy dress school Christmas disco the same year as Adam Ant circa Kings Of The Wild Frontier & a friend adopted the Prince Charming look & I was jealous. 

Cream, Disraeli Gears. I had an older brother and sister and had a big exposure to their Beatles and soul music albums prior to that lp.

Do The Twist With Ray Charles

Nice thread.  Pretty sure it was Cheap Trick Live at Budokan, probably 1979.  Had a cheap receiver/turntable combo, Phillips maybe?  Turned it up as loud as possible.  Must have sounded like crap! I'm sure it drove my parents crazy but I honestly don't remember a lot of screaming to turn it down.  lol  Thanks mom!

A quick side story about egg crates.  Our first band jammed in my buddies basement.  We were lucky enough to have a live poultry store right down the block.  They gave us as many crates as we wanted.  The roughly 1' x 1' paper type.  We spent a couple weeks covering almost the entire basement.  It didn't keep the sound from heading upstairs but IIRC it definitely did tame the cymbal crashes and mellow things out just a bit.  Or maybe it was the weed....  

Dang, wish I could say my first LP was some classic title by a classic artist...but being truthful, I think my first LP purchase was "Snowbird" by Anne Murray in 1970.  I loved the tune and also had myself a nice little crush on Anne. 

ELP Lucky Man.....at the grocery store.....long 

Can't really remember--so long ago--but it was probably Duane Eddy, Especially for You, 1959.

Loved the sweater he was wearing as well as the Gretsch, which I owned one just like it that I bought for $200 in 1968 and sold for $200 in 1971.  Today, it is worth about $5K.  Oh, well.  I still have the album, anyway.

Cheers!

I had just bought my first Hi-Fi system.
Garrard 401/Leak stereo 70/Goodman Magnum K's
Then I bought 
Abbey Road and 2001 a Space Odyssey -sound track 

All American Boy... Rick Derringer. $4.50 at Woolworth's in OH. Still have it too!

Montrose 
Eponymous
Warner Brothers Records
1973

 

The first record album that I bought was the Beatles, "Rubber Soul". I bought it when it first came out. I thought every song would be a hit and it made me a Beatles fan for life.

The Beatles -- A Hard Day's Night. My Dad joined the Columbia Record Club, and with his initiatory set of free records, he let me choose one. It was no contest. 

My second LP was a collection of hits offered by mega-radio station KOMA. I lived on a farm, and wanted the record sooo badly, but had no money. I asked my Dad if I could do something to earn the money. He told me if I would cut all the burdock (i.e. cocklebur) plants at the top of the big field, he would give me the money I needed. I still feel the full-body itching and discomfort from clothes full of cockleburs! It was awful, but the pain was well worth it when I first played I Get Around by the Beach Boys. I was in heaven. 

1st - Beatles 65 (Beatles for Sale)
2nd - Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads

$2.95 mono or $3.95 stereo at Wolworth's Department Store.

Stravinsky Conducts Rite of Spring, Columbia Masterworks.
I was 12 years old, and this recording changed my life. Opened up a whole new world of music to me, made me get into record collecting and audio, and start composing and finally started digging playing in my school orchestra.

In 68, I  rode my bike to the record store in August heat and bought Jefferson Airplane's: "Crown of Creation".
The next year.. Led Zeppelin's "Led Zeppelin", P Floyd's "Ummagumma", King Crimson's Court of the Crimson King".
I never got into Ummagumma...but I still have and listen to the others, except C of C, which was played on my first, crude turntable and got worn badly, the LP was replaced a few years later. Bought a Dual 1219 with lawn mowing money after hearing C of C get worn out.

Hotel California. 
I remember my sisters, whom were 10 years older than me,  listening to it and became obsessed with it and could not listen when they left the house so I saved up my allowance for months and my mom took me to buy it on my own. Wore that album out and still have it!  
A few years later the next album that got me into music full time was Styx Pieces of Eight which launched a life long obsession with music and stereo hifi at the age of 8.  

Steve Miller - Brave New World

A little late responding.
Dolores Gray   "Warm Brandy"  LP   Still have it

Sting, "The Dream Of The Blue Turtles." 
I was 10. I still have it.

Meddle, Pink Floyd. On my 11th birthday, in 1972.

When I finally upgraded my RCA 45 rpm record changer powering jukebox innards to a Magnavox suitcase portable, a Roger Williams LP was on the turntable. I made the salesman give it to me.

Great subject!

 I started buying 45's after seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. The first album that I bought was The Guess Who's "Greatest Hits." The first proper album I bought was "If I Could Only Remember My Name" by David Crosby.

“Alvin & The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles”.  Don’t judge. Bought it at Sears.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
I bought it at Korvettes (officially E.J. Korvette) for $2.94. Obviously it made an impression if I remember that level of detail.

Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix 8 Track version - first stereo was in a car

I believe mine was Deep Purple - Machine Head

CHANGESONEBOWIE

America:Horse with no name.Was into the first part of the journey!!!

My parents bought me a Philco casette player for my 15th birthday. They also included Moody Blues, Every good boy deserves favour.  On casette, if that counts. Fourty something years later and I recently found a copy on vinyl. Good old memories...

Simon and Garfunkel- greatest hits

It was Jimi Hendrix "Are You Experienced".  I was 9 years old then and listened to it on a console stereo my parents had.  I think my parents were very worried for my well being after they heard it at the time. 

@puppyt

“Alvin & The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles”.  

One of my favorites among many enjoyable posts.  Wow some of these memories crack me up.  I don't remember any of the Chipmunks other than Xmas songs.

Meet the Beatles.

@keegium

My mother was disturbed about the things John Lennon said about the Beatles being bigger than God or something to that effect (obviously misunderstood) so she wouldn’t let me buy a Beatles album. I must have been about 10 years old at the time. My workaround was to buy Alvin & the Chipmunks cover version. I thought I was pretty clever.

First album I asked for and recieved from my parents was Olivia Netwon John - Physical.

First album I purchased with my own money was Parkening Plays Bach.

Call me a polymath I guess.

BTO (Bachman Turner Overdrive) - Not Fragile

45s (remember those?):  The Ventures Hawaii 5-0 (a) and Soul Breeze (b) on Liberty and Johnny Rivers Secret Agent Man (a) and You Dig (b) on Venture.  Long gone both, sadly.  I think I was 7 years old.

LPs:  Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over Troubled Water and Chicago III.  Still have those.  S&G is played out, but Side 4 of III is still a solid listen.  I was 10 and had inherited my sister's GE compact all-in-one record changer and speaker set.

Bought with my own money, High Tide and Green Grass with all the photos.  Still have it.

dark side of the moon. a pioneer 35 watt per channel [true spec unlike what they get away with today] amp and dual TT and decent shure elliptical cart, radio shack nova 6 speakers which were enough to produce decent sound for the day [early 70s]. i still have the speakers and they still work just as they did back in the day. 

They're givin' you a number and takin' 'way your name

Bachman Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile (1974). Played it ’til it wore out on my rockin’ Pioneer Centrex system (with built in 8-track player, by the way). @pokey77 - let’s go!

Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy. 

Although not original vinyl, still have the original jacket and inserts including one page to join his fan club.

Eagles Greatest Hits. Purchased when I was 12 or 13. Still own it but it’s scratched up due to poor handling in my youth. 

"The Best of Bread" - Bread. Loved so many of the songs and their sound. Started playing guitar so I could impress a girl by playing "If" and "Make it with You" & "Guitar Man".