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1st Album you Ever Owned?
I hope this topic stirs up some great memories and further sharing of good music.
What was the first vinyl "LP" album you ever owned?
Mine was "Maynard '64" (Maynard Furgeson). I was 10 and learning to play trumpet, and my dad bought this album for me. He worked a lot, so it was really cool that he took the time to chase it down.
I cherished it and still have it, but it didn't take long to learn there was much better jazz out there. In all fairness, I grew up listening to my parents playing Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey - a pretty decent start given the general lack of recognition in the white middle class as to how African culture had molded the music they loved.
Please share your first LP experience!
What was the first vinyl "LP" album you ever owned?
Mine was "Maynard '64" (Maynard Furgeson). I was 10 and learning to play trumpet, and my dad bought this album for me. He worked a lot, so it was really cool that he took the time to chase it down.
I cherished it and still have it, but it didn't take long to learn there was much better jazz out there. In all fairness, I grew up listening to my parents playing Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey - a pretty decent start given the general lack of recognition in the white middle class as to how African culture had molded the music they loved.
Please share your first LP experience!
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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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! |
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.... |
keegiam- 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 |
All great albums, many of which I still listen to now. First one I actually owned (jointly with my siblings) was Rubber Soul. For me this is still one of the greats. Parents hated it, couldn't work out why the Beatles had made such a 'screechy, horrible', album. Tried their best to get us to return it. We were adamant. |
I remember joining the Columbia Record Club and they had a deal where you can get 50 records for $50 as a sign-up bonus. I have no recollection of which one I picked first. All my other records prior to that had been hand me downs from parents or others. The first LP I actually bought at college I remember it was “Ziggy Stardust”. |
I have to join the growing "Meet the Beatles" crowd here. It was in the early 60's my Mom won a drawing at the Roosevelt Field shopping mall on Long Island. It entitled her to a selection of $35.00 worth of free records at the mall record store. That meant a lot of LP's, then so we had really hit the jackpot in my estimation... My sister and I both got to pick one for ourselves, which was exciting. I chose "Meet the Beatles" and I think my sister's choice was the Beach Boys first album, "Surfin' Safari". I know we ended up with both. I was maybe eleven or twelve at the time, my sister three years younger. Great post keegiam. Brought back a fond memory of a banner day. Mike |
The Beach Boys' "All Summer Long," in mono. I got in in stereo a year or two later. Some great tracks on this one. I was probably 12. Some filler tracks as well, but it mostly holds up for me today. I think this might have been their last stereo release before they started doing that "Duosonic" garbage. |