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Been helping to sort stuff with my Dad's move and came across some the old records I bought as a kid.
Was nice to find the first ever single and album that I bought...

First Single - Are friends electric – Tubeway Army/ Gary Numan

First Album – Highway to 'ell – ACDC

Remember I was after Back in Black at the time. It had just come out though and had sold out locally, so bought Highway instead, £3.49 I think. At a quid a week almost a month’s pocket money!
My haven’t things changed – vinyl to CD to MP3s ... IMO (unscratched) vinyl will always sound ‘warmer’... Like valve amps...

Single: Into the Valley by The Skids
Album: Incredible Shinking Dickies by The Dickies

Are Friends Electric is a good one to kick off with!

I think first one I bought was one of the Monkees albums. Maybe The Monkees Headquarters.

Meet the Beatles

Fugazi - 13 Songs



It changed my life (of course I was only 15 years old)

A little 12 bar thing sung by Ernest Evans, called "The Twist"

A nice little 45rpm by Gene Simmons (no, not of KISS) called " Haunted House.......drank hot coffee from the coffee pot and said...don't be here when the morning comes....................this was about the time of the purple people eater song.

Single- 'Crimson and Clover', Tommy James and the Shondells

Album- 'The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees', The Monkees....sorry to say. Hey, I was 10!!

Single - Hersham Boys - Sham 69
Album - News of the world - Queen

Single - Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Album - Then Play On - Fleetwood Mac

Single - Hide and Go Seek PT. 1 & 2 - Bunker Hill

Album - No idea.... too many. Possibly England's Newest Hitmakers - The Rolling Stones

1976 "Boston" debut album. Split it with my brother. I stil have it, but it's well-worn. Sticker was $2.99/Kresge's (old dime store)

"Big Girls Don't Cry" by Frankie and the 4 Seasons .
It's NOT funny , my mean sister made me do it .

Super single: Prince and The Revolution- Purple Rain
(13+ minute ext. version) Limited Edition... on purple vinyl.




Album: AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Singles.....bahahahahaaha

First album I purchased, that I can recall Idlewild South. ABB

I'm thinking somethin' off the Sun Record label by the "Man in Black", very

jh

Wish it would rain, the Temptations.
Roy Orbison In Dreams

I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles

Album, not sure, might have been a Trini Lopez (!) album.

Sure is easy to tell someones age by these posts!

First album was Rush Moving Pictures, Never bought any singles. And Yes I am old enough I owned 8 tracks also.

I still have a bunch of 8 tracks and a sterio with an 8 track as well as a couple 8 track players for cars. I also still have my album collection and all my 45s.

The first single I bought was vinyl, the Star Wars Disco theme by Meco.

Hey, I was 10 years old. Sue me.

Somehow, it fits...

First single: Chicago 25 or 6 to 4. It was such a letdown to discover that the album version had been butchered to fit on the 45rpm that I never bought another.

First album: Mancini '67

My first single was ....errrrr Dancing Queen - Abba

But that was a present for my mum because she was always singing it around the house.

But my first album was Rainbow Rising.

1975, A Night at the Opera - Queen.

Ah nice, I still enjoy old Rainbow. Saw them once in the 70's from the 2nd row. Ritchie Blackmore just played, staring into the crowd unmoving, weird guy.

Quote:

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But my first album was Rainbow Rising.

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oh you are all so old!!!

my first single and album were both a-ha.... yep, an 80's kid.

First Single - Suzi Quatro (Devil Gate Drive)
First Album - AC/DC (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap)

single, Up on cripple creek / the Band, Album, Overnite sensation / Zappa

First album was the self titled Bob Dylan. Back in '63.
Never brought a single.

My first single I think was a song about Nam, all I can remember is the line "black pajamas are everywhere" I'll have to look through them and see if I can find it for the name.

EDIT: I don't have to look I just remembered, it was called Routine Patrol.

It just dawned on me that I have also never purchased a single. I get the AOR radio influence must have worked! Sadly, those days are long gone on terrestrial radio.

45 rpm single: either "409", "Little Deuce Coupe" or "Shut Down" by the Beach Boys...I'm too foggy to remember which came first.
33 1/3 rpm LP: The Beatles "Something New" which I'm not certain was ever released in the US.

What a bunch of SNK's. My first lp was Duane Eddy "The Twangs the Thang"

single. gudby t jane. slade
album.sabbath bloody sabbath.black sabbath
neva banged me ead agin a brick wall.just loadsa air guitar

Eric Burdon & The Animals.

Am I really this old?

My first single - Imagine /John Lennon
First LP - Ziggy Stardust /David Bowie

First single: Boogy Chillun by Woody Herman.

First album (still have that): Glen Miller Carnegy Hall Concert recorded in 1939.