First Album You Bought With Your Own Money (5 Viewers)

[Eeyore]

It was either Love Gun, or Destroyer by Kiss. I was 7 in 1978 and both albums were very popular. I was too young to know the difference between what Kiss was doing and actual music.

For my birthday my Mom, and her second husband, got me tickets to see them on January 16, 1978 at the Chicago Stadium.

On that night, I learned "If you can't play well, play loud."

It didn't take me long to move on from them.

News of the world had been released by Queen, and Heroes by David Bowie, a few months before and The Wall was only a year away. It wasn't difficult to move on.

 

[Madmarsha]

I wish i had had such good taste back then.. I particularly like Dont Ask Me Why off of Glass Houses.. also, as big a fan of Billy Joel as i consider myself to be- i didnt realize until fairly recently that he sang ‘Sometimes a Fantasy’ from that album.. i dont know why i never put it together that it was him until a couple years ago.. although it’s entirely possible i knew way back when, but then went 30 years without hearing it and forgot.

Very much remember Glass Houses but each subsequent album he put out after The Stranger were comparative disappointments just because that album was one I would play over and over and over. And then after Turnstiles, 52nd Street, and Glass Houses, I was stuck in '70s Billy Joel.

Oh, I'd also drop coin on every Pat Benatar album and I still belt them out on my playlist.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Whenever I think of NYC-era GMR, this is what I think of.

15% that + 35% After Hours + 60 % new jack city
that might be a bit dramatic, but the 1st few years were spicy

its funny, I’m finally watching The Deuce and it looks like the series is probably going to end right before the time I got there - I dated someone who lived in Manhattan plaza (one of the big developments they talk about). I’d drop her off and walk back down 42nd to get to subway to go back to queens and that stretch was ROUGH (nothing a modern dancer couldn’t handle, but still)

 

[Madmarsha]

I used to think I was so cool when I stopped listening to AM stations and only listened to FM and knew what AOR programming meant.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I didn't buy them but I do remember listening to my sister's Janis Joplin "Pearl", James Taylor "Mud Slide Slim", and Carole King "Tapestry" albums.

Tapestry was a big one in our house due to my mother’s obsession with that album.. also, Judy Collins, Leo Oskar(?) and Linda Ronstadt (about whom there is an excellent documentary on CNN as we speak)... For my dad, it was Gordon Lightfoot (“Gord’s Gold”) and Steely Dan.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I wish i had had such good taste back then.. I particularly like Dont Ask Me Why off of Glass Houses.. also, as big a fan of Billy Joel as i consider myself to be- i didnt realize until fairly recently that he sang ‘Sometimes a Fantasy’ from that album.. i dont know why i never put it together that it was him until a couple years ago.. although it’s entirely possible i knew way back when, but then went 30 years without hearing it and forgot.

“back then”

 

[Eeyore]

Thriller.

When that was released you couldn't get away from it. Even my Dad had it on vinyl.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

As Reckless?

As Raising Hell
do you even read your own posts?

 

[Madmarsha]

Tapestry was a big one in our house due to my mother’s obsession with that album.. also, Judy Collins, Leo Oskar(?) and Linda Ronstadt (about whom there is an excellent documentary on CNN as we speak).

I love everything Linda Ronstadt ever did including all the standards she did with Nelson Riddle. So awful she can't sing anymore.

 

[swampdawg1969]

Queen - News of the world

 

[superchuck500]

My memory of 8-tracks was the kid across the street from me, for Christmas, probably 1980, got this little robot thing. It didn't really do much, it could move around but very poorly. But it did play 8-tracks. His sister had the Grease Soundtrack on 8-track and that's how we would play with this robot he got . . . by letting it play Grease for us. That's my predominant memory of 8-tracks.

The early 80s were weird.

 

[Paul]

Wait 1 damn second. Your profile shows you’re 44 which means you were born in 1976. “The Chronic” was released in 1992. You were 12 in 1988, 4 years before the albums release. You’re lying about how old you aren’t you?

No I am 44. Why I remember 12, I’m not sure but my apologies. I was 16. It was; however, the first album that I purchased on my own.

 

[superchuck500]

As Raising Hell
do you even read your own posts?

Not as poorly as you read them.

 

[efil4stnias]

Very much remember Glass Houses but each subsequent album he put out after The Stranger were comparative disappointments just because that album was one I would play over and over and over. And then after Turnstiles, 52nd Street, and Glass Houses, I was stuck in '70s Billy Joel.

Oh, I'd also drop coin on every Pat Benatar album and I still belt them out on my playlist.

Yep and I quickly grew out that.

Hello Human League, Depeche Mode, Smiths... Shoot anything with synth... New Order.

I was a product of my environment for sure... Ben Franklin. If you wanted to date a chick, listening to top 40 wasn't gonna cut it. Lol.

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Sadly, I cannot recall.

Think I have narrowed it down to:
Styx - Cornerstone (1979-ish, though it may have been a gift). I remember the album jacket and sleeve more than the music.
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1981-ish; may also have been a gift)
Ramones - "Ramones" (came out in '76, but I probably didn't buy it until late 70's/early 80's)
May have also been a KISS album in the mix, but I couldn't tell you which one. Hotter than Hell?

I was born in 1969.