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.
Actually the FIRST ever was a Shadows 78rpm Geronimo, Apache or Beautiful Land, in 1961/2... I had of course no music system of my own then, and played it (a lot) on the beautiful to behold Schaub Lorenz 'Musiktruhe' of my guardians, when visiting there on weekends!
This was just the other day it feels to me now! M. 🇿🇦
I think mine was a Paul Revere and the Raiders album. Later on when I got a job I would head out almost weekly to buy a new record of all places, 3D store, about all we had at the time. I was into jazz at the time and liked Billy Cobham and bought the "Stratus" album but when I got it home and opened it, it was Aretha Franklin inside. Took it back to exchange it but the lady behind sort of acted like I was pulling something over but reluctantly agreed.
They had one other copy so I got it, took it back up to her and decided to open it right there in front of her to make sure I was getting the right album. Another A.F. The look on her face was priceless.
A family heirloom from when I was a newborn; my grandmothers (soprano) graduation recital from Cincinnati College of Music, 7 inch 45’s of lieder by Brahms, Schumann and Schubert.
A micro groove compilation LP which I believe was a Columbia, red, 6 eye of popular hits from the mid 1960’s. Songs from Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark, etc...
The sound track to Goldfinger! 1964! I was twelve and had recently seen the movie. Loved the title song sung by Shirley Bassey! What a great spy movie! My parents were in King's Department Store in Stamford, CT and I asked my folks if I could get the Goldfinger LP. They said yes! I was overjoyed! $3.24! Taken home to be played on the GE stereo console in the living room! My second LP purchase shortly after was the Dr.No sound track. Again, after seeing the movie! How about Ursula Andress walking out of the water wearing that white bikini! Wow!
TheInternational P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation R Radical Records.. great introduction to punk/HC . 60 bands & 70 page booklet.. I didn’t understand most of it , but the energy was infectious to a 6th grader. The summer before that someone gave me a cassette called Drunk Injuns-My Dad Butch Totally changed my life, bought a bass guitar and within 25 years I was a heroin addict;)
Went to Tower of Records, {the one in Sacramento} bought Dark Side of the Moon, The Captain and Me, and Bad Co. Sad thing is all those albums I had bought over the years were stolen on 1984, sad day to say the least. Soon i will be getting a new Rega Planar 3 and i will begin again the vinyl journey.
I was a kid in 1970s South Africa. Records were extremely expensive. The first disc I purchased was a used copy of the Slade album called Sladest: mind blown...
The Monkees - The Monkees Still have it. Listened to it repeatedly on my parents’ console; my mom would cue it up as that console wasn’t for us kids to use. It’s a rather thick slab of vinyl that is somehow in great condition. Looking forward to Run Out Groove’s 180g Vinyl 2LP expanded edition.
The Beatles Something New album.I loved it,man does that bring back memories.Over 50 years ago!Think I paid like a $1.89 for it on sale.I remember 45's were 69 cents.And the junk bin of 45's 39 cents.So an LP for 2 bucks a good deal.
Electric Ladyland is certainly a worthy first album. I still listen to it on a regular basis, and it always sounds fresh and amazing. It creates it's own world as you listen.
Kiss Alive...he he I was in first grade don't judge. Stole Sgt. Pepper from my Dad shortly after, found all things Zepplin and my musical journey began...
first two albums I acquired were the Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers and the Who's Next. probably late September of 1971. Just cashed in on some Bar Mitzvah checks and begged one of my folks to drive me to the record store..... Led Zep ii was soon after. I still own them and will need to check if the Whos next is an early pressing :)
You can almost guess the age of the posters here by the name of the first album they ever owned. If they can’t remember the name...well, that speaks for itself. I’ll reiterate that my first album was "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles. Although not my first album, I recognize nearly every one above and probably owned them at one time or another. I do clearly remember buying "Something New" by the Beatles, and still own both original UK copies today.
It was some Ricky Nelson album with a huge picture of Ricky's head on the cover. I must have been something like 10 y.o. at that time. For some reason it's no longer in my collection.
Damn good start. Both important rock classics. I had quite a few albums by the time LZ2 came along, but was knocked out when I later picked up LZ1 and heard the more raw, basic blues I really connected with.
I will never forget the day that my older friend gave the Elton John album to me. I was probably 11. He was like that, generous. Why the hell don't I still have it? That is the bad part.
I loved the song 'Paint It Black', so the first rock album I ever got as a young'un was 'Aftermath' by the Rolling Stones, back in 1966 or so. When I saw that the last song, 'Going Home', was listed at over 10 minutes, I thought that that had to have been a misprint on the cover, because songs don't last that long! Found out that some did!
larsman -- my faulty memory tells me it was Light My Fire that was the first rock/pop hit that pushed rock songs beyond AM radio's Three-and-a-half minute limit. So what happened was that AM radio stations would play a version of the tune that chopped out the lengthy instrumental in the middle. Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone was similarly hacked up. In any event, it wasn't long before any rock band worth its salt would include one super-long album cut.
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