What was your first record?

The Who - Live at Leeds

I think Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?, but it also could have been Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman (I'm ashamed of that).

@roxy54...I love that album!  I almost wore out my MOFI UHQR copy from being played so many times.

I was 13 years old.... I sold newspapers each day morning and collected payment... We were poor my mother keep the pay... I kept the tips... 😊

I ask my mother giving my economy to her if she could pay the balance we would buy a stereo turntable furniture with 2 speakers inside...

She accepted...

With the stereo came a vinyl of Amercan military marchs...😁 Not awful but not to my taste...

I am too ashamed to write about anyway the first unknown french band not even a rock band i bought from the pharmacist who was selling few vinyl and few books...Awful...

I bought there my first costly book too : Napoleon by Castelot with a skinvertex binding...10.00 dollars in 1964 and i read it in fascination...

I am too ashamed to describe and name till this day the first vinyl i listen to one first time...😁 Anyway i did not like much the second: Rolling stones... And I prefer the third one "Ironbutterfly"...But not by much...This was not music for my soul so to speak...Am i a snob? No it was boring save for the rythm for few listenings... I was not in the rebel mode more in the study mode...

The first vinyl i really love was a poetry french singer Leo Ferré singing Baudelaire and his own poems ...Top music top poetry...

And after that my first Bach album...With Bach and chorus music i was in heaven...

I never look back and i discovered jazz at 35 years old only when i realized that all composers were first musicians anyway and music of any style is played by genius or not so much genius but always gifted musicians anyway... I look now for musicians more than for a genre or style...

I think my love for music came from choral listening classical and folk music at the radio at noon when i was as young as 4 or 5 years old... all my life choral music play a great healing role...Not opera ...

Now i enjoy jazz a lot because of some specific musician playings...Or persian or Indian or turkisch or even African music...

My only regrets in life is not being talented in music...There is only two jobs which fascinated me music and mathematics... i stumble down for philosophy as a worst case because i could related to both ideals from this field perspective...

my best album of all time is Goldberg Variation or the art of the Fugue by Bach...I cannot decide especially between these two and the Brandenboug concertos...If i add cello sonatas or violins sonatas by Bach, how could i just pick one ?

The motets and masses of Bach and passions make any choices impossible...Add to that all the harpsichord works on piano or harpsichord or the organ works ..

Bach is God the father coming on earth incognito after his son not so well reception.... The spirit is evidently manifested in his music... Dont tell anyone it is God secret revealed to me...

Bach is the only music reminding us of infinity in a so gentle and direct manner... Bach for me is Euclidean geometry and Beethoven add projective geometry to Euclid and Scriabin with many modern composers investigate non commutative geometry and fractals...😊

Like you, my first purchase was Meet the Beatles.