OT - What Was Your First Album You Bought/Received?

WeberWho

I grew up on Phil Collins/Genesis being my mom's favorite artist. So I put that on while cleaning this morning. Through recommendations of songs through YouTube I ended up in 90's rock. Temple of the Dog, Blind Melon, Alice In Chains, Blues Traveler, etc. (What a great decade of music) Through all the recommendations, it landed on the Spin Doctors. Which made me laugh as it was my first album I owned. Followed by a Spin Doctors Live album. I probably wore those CD's out as a kid. 



Which made me wonder what other peoples first album might be? So what was your first album you owned?

saluki2007

I don't remember which one came first, but I know my first two albums where The Lion King Soundtrack and Kris Kross's  Da Domb.  I was a pretty cool 3rd grader...

builderdawg

lkapigian

It's A Gas from Mad Magazine ..was on the back page ....still have the copy 

https://youtu.be/ktSWQ9Ki7TY

nlovold

For my 7th birthday...
 

ColbyLang

First was Vanilla Ice. Grew up with a dad who lived for classic rock and still does. My dad definitely introduced my brothers and me to an epic genre of music we all still listen to today. But cmon man, who didn’t like Ice Ice Baby?

Botch

 
(I'm not gonna include anything by the Partridge Family.... )   

BigreenGreg

When it first came out. Great day, listened to every track with my best friend.

dbCooper

Still have it, hasn't been played in a long time, may have to give it a spin next time I'm in a vinyl mood.

Gulfcoastguy

The soundtrack to the original Batman television show. It was 1965 I believe and I must have begged incessantly. I can’t remember the actual first one that I bought. It might have been Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle but when I left for university my Mom said that was hers and I couldn’t take it. Another artist who died way to young.

fishlessman

blow your face out on cassette

SGH

JethroBodeen

Elvis- Pure Gold

keener75

buzd504

womaus

1968, 12th birthday, big sister got me this. Pretty much influenced my formative years.

womaus

dbCooper said:

Still have it, hasn't been played in a long time, may have to give it a spin next time I'm in a vinyl mood.

I've always been a big fan of Al Kooper, the guy that "discovered" Lynyrd Skynyrd, producing their first 2 or 3 albums.

First album I purchased with my own $$$ was I Stand Alone.

HeavyG

It was either a Herman's Hermits or a Beatles album in 1966. Don't recall which one. 

Legume

1voyager

My parents gave me a Meet the Beatles! album for my birthday.

Big mistake. My sister and I drove our parents crazy by playing the album over and over and over again.

Doglegdave

Grand Funk Railroad - We’re An American Band.  Becky Crowder gave it to me.

Ozzie_Isaac

House of Pain - Fine Malt Lyrics
On a cassette tape.

xfire_ATX

In that format

frazzdaddy

Led Zepplin #4 FTW

bubbajack

I guess, I will have to check on my 45 collection.....yet to be determined

gabriegger

David Bowie Pinups.  Began a life long fascination with The Thin White Duke

thetrim

I think it was this one....

JohnEggGio

First for myself, Little Feat - “Feets don’t fail me now”, but for my older sister, birthdays, Christmas...I gave her LedZep Phyisical Graffiti & Houses of the Holy, PF’s Dark Side of the Moon, and maybe a Bowie album.  I was quite the transparent stinker.

ColtsFan

mEGG_My_Day

Showing my age - on cassette 



And I still have it in the glove box of my wife’s old Mercedes sl that is equipped with a cassette player 

JohnInCarolina

I was 11.  Cassette.