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

[Optimus Prime]

I also recall buying the Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Soundtrack. The double hologram CD they put out when they re-released the movies. That was pretty early in my CD days.

I had an eclectic mix.

mine wasa cassette of the empire strikes back score

 

[Cage1]

I believe I bought both beast of the Beatles 1962-66 and 1967-70 on cassette at the same time. First CD purchase was probably Paul McCartney Tripping the Live Fantasic highlights. Dang, I really was into the Beatles back then

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Bought it from Peaches Records in Gentilly when I was 15.

 

[jboss]

S.C.I.E.N.C.E. - Incubus

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

The first LP that was given to me was Dave Clark Five Return. Mom did a Columbia House gig and my sisters and I each got an LP. I was about 5 or six years old.


First album bought with my money I think was Beatles Abbey Road. I was 10 or 11 years old.

 

[Taurus]

I think it was an 8-track cassette of this album.

 

[Madmarsha]

I think it was an 8-track cassette of this album.

That is tragic.

 

[Taurus]

That is tragic.

I wore that thing out in my dad's '68 Ford pickup.
Johnny's a helluva singer.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

First CD purchase was probably Paul McCartney Tripping the Live Fantasic highlights. Dang, I really was into the Beatles back then

One of the first vinyl albums i ever owned (i think it was a gift ) was this one by Sir Paul.. Looking back, it wasnt one of his best efforts - it had the hit Take It Away which is kind of meh, as well as Ebony & Ivory with SW which looking back is also a little bit cringe... But at the time , it blew my mind that this guy who I’d listened to on my Beatles albums was *still* writing and recording music at the ancient age of 40 years old.




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[Madmarsha]

meh, as well as Ebony & Ivory with SW which looking back is also a little bit cringe..

It is but I have it on my playlist and I still sing along with it for some reason.

I loved Graceland, the album Paul Simon did with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and others. The only Paul Simon record I ever bought.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

It is but I have it on my playlist and I still sing along with it for some reason.

I love the SNL sketch with Piscopo as Sinatra and Eddie Murphy as Stevie , doing their version of Ebony & Ivory:

”You are black
And i am white
You are blind as a bat
And i have sight”

 

[bigdaddysaints]

Weird Al, when I was like 11 or 12.. what can I say, I was a dork.. (the one with Stop dragging my car around, my bologna, I love rocky road, hey Ricky, another.one rides the bus) it also has the best Happy Birthday song ever..

 

[saintmdterps]

First I bought with my money was Three Dog Night's Cyan. I had bought 45's previously.

The next albums were Cheech and Chong's first album, then Big Bambu. Next was George Carlin's Class Clown. In between my parents gave me a couple Johnny Cash albums.

When I was 10, I had 2 baseball gloves and as yet knew nothing about music. A buddy of mine wanted one of my gloves and said he'd give me three albums for it. Jeff knew even less than I about music but nonetheless he raided his brother's album collection and I wound up with:

Jethro Tull-Aqualung
CSN-4-way Street
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin III

I still have them and they actually play pretty well. Jeff's brother Gary knew a lot about music

 

[saintmdterps]

Cheap Trick another one of my "have to buy all their albums" bands. Those bands correspond to most of my live concerts, too, because I didn't spend the money if I didn't love them.


Anybody know the band "Kix"? A regional favorite in Baltimore and southern PA. Had a small hit with the ballad "Don't Close Your Eyes" which I hated. Loved them from the first time I heard them on local FM and went to see them almost every chance I got at Hammerjack's and other local clubs and opening for other bigger acts because they were/are a helluva live band!

One of my most favorite songs of theirs:

Saw Kix several times at the grungy-*** Sandbar in Glen Burnie. They went out on tour with Triumph in 1982 but got booted off the tour. Not sure why.

My favorite Kix is still Cold Blood

 

[saintmdterps]

Yep the first few years Iived in MD (1989 - 1993) a group of us went to see Zebra (I think Kix was on the bill also), Matthew Sweet and I think the Marshall Tucker Band....

that was a classic bad-arse hard rock venue where the people looked really tough but were, for the most part, actually very friendly....I miss that place, almost as much as the Bayou in DC.....

Hammerjacks, and all the Fell's Point bars! The Horse You Came In On, John Stevens, Ledbetters...Good times!

Side story, The Horse is one of the oldest bars in the USA to remain at the same location. Been a bar for 245 years, and stayed open through prohibition