What was your first album?

[artringwald]

Right now I'm listening to Ian and Sylvia's album In The Early Morning Rain. It was a present to me about 60 years ago. BTW, it's the mono version.

I'm listening to it on this equipment which is only about 50 years old, and still working nicely.

What's the first album you owned? Do you still own the album? Do you still own equipment that can play the media for that album?

 

[Sandy VDH]

I had older siblings, so I could listen to their albums so didn't need to buy any myself for a while.

I purchased Billy Joel's The Stranger when it came out, apparently that didn't fall into my older siblings taste range. But a darn good album, none the less.

But also love Gordon Lightfoot, who wrote Early Morning Rain. With the above mentioned I&S and Gordon, I guess I got my Canadian content on this American Thanksgiving Day.

 

[artringwald]

I had older siblings, so I could listen to their albums so didn't need to buy any myself for a while.

I purchased Billy Joel's The Stranger when it came out, apparently that didn't fall into my older siblings taste range. But a darn good album, none the less.

But also love Gordon Lightfoot, who wrote Early Morning Rain. With the above mentioned I&S and Gordon, I guess I got my Canadian content on this American Thanksgiving Day.

So many great tracks on The Stranger album!

 

[1Kflyerguy]

I also listened to my older sisters albums alot. I am pretty sure the 1st album is bought with my own money was But seriously folks, by Joe Walsh

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Smoke on the Water / Deep Purple

I am not sure that this was " the first" album - but it certainly was played until the grooves were worn down .

 

[vacationtime1]

Right now I'm listening to Ian and Sylvia's album In The Early Morning Rain. It was a present to me about 60 years ago. BTW, it's the mono version.
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I'm listening to it on this equipment which is only about 50 years old, and still working nicely.

What's the first album you owned? Do you still own the album? Do you still own equipment that can play the media for that album?

omg -- I had the same stereo equipment, a Dual 1019 changer and a Marantz 2215 receiver. Except the walnut case for my Dual was trapezoidal shaped.

 

[Elan]

I honestly can't remember which came first, but first 3 were:

Dreamboat Annie -- Heart
The Wall -- Pink Floyd
Breakfast in America -- Supertramp

Still have my Pioneer turntable (pl-514), huge 125w/ch Technics receiver (sa-800) and Teac auto-reverse cassette player (a601r) And Magnepan speakers (mg1). I don't use any of them, but they all still work, I think. Don't ask me how (or why) I remember the model numbers. I can barely remember what I had for breakfast...

 

[slip]

Mine was Black Sabbath Paranoid. I had the stereo I played it on up until we moved to Hawaii over five years ago. That stereo was great, it even had a 8-trac recorder.

No stereo equipment here now but I did upgrade my Shortwave Radio.

 

[Luanne]

I know it was Peter, Paul and Mary but I don't remember which album. A guy I had a crush on recommended it.

P.S. Saw them in concert years later on one of their reunion tours.

 

[Passepartout]

I don't remember my first album, but my first 45 was 'Michael Row(ed) The Boat Ashore'. Maybe 1960ish.

 

[clifffaith]

I think Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers. I remember yelling at my younger brother for unzipping the zipper. But I know my younger sister had multiple Monkees and Beatles albums before that, and I’m thinking those were supposed to have been for all of us. Stones were my first concert, maybe in 1972.

 

[artringwald]

omg -- I had the same stereo equipment, a Dual 1019 changer and a Marantz 2215 receiver. Except the walnut case for my Dual was trapezoidal shaped.

I used to have a Dual 1019 changer, but it was stolen in 1972. They also stole the Heathkit Tuner and Dynaco Amp that I built from kits. I replaced the Dual with a model 502 which is the one in the picture. I've had a variety of receivers since then. In 1972 I was working at an electronics store that sold Marantz receivers. Oh how I yearned for one of them, but for me, they were a budget buster. I didn't get the 2230 until earlier this year. It recently had been cleaned and restored. If I was stinking rich I would have bought a restored Marantz 4400. That was a 4 channel monster that had a built in oscilloscope for tuning FM stations and watching audio waveforms. Even the 2215 was built with excellence in design and performance. They just don't make them like they used to.

 

[artringwald]

I honestly can't remember which came first, but first 3 were:

Dreamboat Annie -- Heart
The Wall -- Pink Floyd
Breakfast in America -- Supertramp

Still have my Pioneer turntable (pl-514), huge 200w/ch Technics receiver (sa-800) and Teac auto-reverse cassette player (a601r) And Magnepan speakers (mg1). I don't use any of them, but they all still work, I think. Don't ask me how (or why) I remember the model numbers. I can barely remember what I had for breakfast...

I still have my Magnepan speakers. I bought them direct from the factory which is only 10 miles from our house. DW wasn't to happy with having such big speakers in the family room. They still looked much better than the black particle board speakers that I built.

 

[artringwald]

I know it was Peter, Paul and Mary but I don't remember which album. A guy I had a crush on recommended it.

P.S. Saw them in concert years later on one of their reunion tours.

Peter Yarrow did a concert at my granddaughter's high school 10 years ago. She got to go up on stage with him to sing Puff the Magic Dragon.

 

[AwayWeGo]

First 45rpm single = Rock Around The Clock.

First 45rpm album (multiple 7-inch extended play records) = Victory At Sea.

First 33+1/3rpm LP album = Pictures At An Exhibition.

First stereo cassette tape album = John Denver's Greatest Hits.

First CD = Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[artringwald]

First 45rpm single = Rock Around The Clock.

First 45rpm album (multiple 7-inch extended play records) = Victory At Sea.

First 33+1/3rpm LP album = Pictures At An Exhibition.

First stereo cassette tape album = John Denver's Greatest Hits.

First CD = Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

Impressive memory! How about your first MP3 purchase?

 

[simpsontruckdriver]

My first album was a feat in music back in the mid-50s by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but I was given it and played it on a Marantz 2230 like the one above in the late 1970s! I was in elementary school then, and I have loved listening to and performing Classical Music ever since.

TS

 

[b2bailey]

Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones -- first albums of each -- don't remember which came first -- bought with money saved up from babysitting.

 

[Talent312]

First Album: Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - "Going Places"

Second Album:

 

[Dori]

My first album purchase was Chuck Berry. I don’t remember the title, but I played it about a zillion times!

Dori

 

[jp10558]

Gosh, I don't remember my first album. I usually made my own cassette recordings from the radio, and my parents had a lot of records. I guess it might have been a kids sing-along cassette of public domain or cheaply licensed songs sung by some unknown chorus, I think when my grandmother got me my first "boom box" in I want to say 1986 or so. I was never that into music, mostly used it to fall asleep. I might have bought my first CDs from one of those music clubs, and it was a bunch of like Garth Brooks, CCR, Alan Jackson etc circa 1999. TBH, I basically stopped buying music once Napster hit in 2000ish? My dial up could still get one song in 40 minutes or so? And college and the T3s were "instant". Now with youtube having uploads of pretty much every song and music video I just go there.

I guess I must have bought Kid Rock, Nickelback and The Offspring also around 2000ish on CD, but I really never bought too many, and the only CD player I have anymore is I guess technically a DVD Player in the living room or my DVD Rom on my tower computer. I had a Creative Zen player back in 2004ish with the 30GB hard drive, and I recall listening to ZenCasts (before the iPod existed so pre-podcasts).

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

How about something off the wall?

Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself

 

[rickandcindy23]

More of the Monkees. Listened to it at my friend Julie's house and bought it as soon as I could get to the store.

 

[artringwald]

Gosh, I don't remember my first album. I usually made my own cassette recordings from the radio, and my parents had a lot of records. I guess it might have been a kids sing-along cassette of public domain or cheaply licensed songs sung by some unknown chorus, I think when my grandmother got me my first "boom box" in I want to say 1986 or so. I was never that into music, mostly used it to fall asleep. I might have bought my first CDs from one of those music clubs, and it was a bunch of like Garth Brooks, CCR, Alan Jackson etc circa 1999. TBH, I basically stopped buying music once Napster hit in 2000ish? My dial up could still get one song in 40 minutes or so? And college and the T3s were "instant". Now with youtube having uploads of pretty much every song and music video I just go there.

I guess I must have bought Kid Rock, Nickelback and The Offspring also around 2000ish on CD, but I really never bought too many, and the only CD player I have anymore is I guess technically a DVD Player in the living room or my DVD Rom on my tower computer. I had a Creative Zen player back in 2004ish with the 30GB hard drive, and I recall listening to ZenCasts (before the iPod existed so pre-podcasts).

I forgot about the record clubs. I think I joined a couple of times to get the free albums and then quit as soon as I did the minimum required purchases.

 

[dougp26364]

Wings - Venus and Mars