What was the first album you bought?

[Kenbo Slice]

Do you remember the first album you bought? What special significance does it hold for you? What fond memories do you have of it?

For me it was Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance. I was about ready to turn 13 when the album came out. I was in middle school at the time and I remember seeing the music video for I'm Not Okay on Fuse. I begged my mom to take me to the record store so I could buy it. I would always jam that album when playing Tony Hawk's Underground. I had other albums on my Xbox. But for some reason, I would just listen to that on repeat.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Some Limp Bizkit album my mother got me when I was a kid, I believe. Eh, I think so in any case. Anyway, I haven't listened to that horrible band in many years, and hope never to do so again. God it's shitty. On the plus side, listening to it as a kid got me into heavy music, which I have progressed in over the years and now have a solid love of metal, so it served its purpose ultimately.

 

[Silvanus]

I think it was Gorillaz' first album. If not, it was Franz Ferdinand's first album.

I still love both of those albums. I didn't listen to much music at all back then, but it was good stuff.

 

[Barbas]

If memory serves correctly[footnote]65% chance.[/footnote], it was the soundtrack to Conan The Barbarian. Quite the thrilling film, that one was, with a powerful score by the late Basil Poledouris.


I was taken aback many years ago by how unapologetically bloody the story was. Quite a lot of severed limbs and broken bones. The piece 'Riders Of Doom' that played during the opening attack is particularly memorable for its sheer power and scale.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

The first album given to me as a gift was either "Eponymous" by R.E.M. or "Dookie" by Green Day.

The first album I actually bought for myself was the first album by Boston (it's self-titled).

 

[WWmelb]

First album i ever received i can't remember. First album i saved pocket money and birthday money to buy was GNR Appetite for Destruction. Bought in 1989... i was 7. Had heard/seen Sweet Child o' Mine on radio and video hits on the old television box. Something about that guitar riff resonated with my little brain.

Second was Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast. Bought on a whim because i was young and thought Eddie on the cover of the cassette looked awesome. Went on to love that album completely, and still do to this day.

Well, still love BOTH those albums to this day

 

[Elfgore]

I think mine was Crooked X's first and only CD. If anyone can recall they had the song Nightmare on Rockband, which led to them getting a record deal. The album didn't do so hot and two of the original band members left, leading to the bands eventually breakup. I have no fond memories of it, only bad because they ruined Nightmare.

I still have the Cd, but it just gathers dust in my collection. I never listen to it. Hell, it's not even on my iTunes.

 

[FPLOON]

Well, soundtrack-wise, that honor go towards the Spongebob Squarepants Movie soundtrack... although, a LOT of the songs on that album either barely made it in the movie itself (except for Goofy Goober Rock, which is still my favorite of the songs in the movie by the way) or were just there to... uh... "be there", I guess... However, some of the songs I know weren't in the movie AT ALL (like Just a Kid or Prince Paul's Bubble Party) were still fun to listen to, nonetheless...

Artist-wise, that honor will always go towards Gorillaz and the day I bought all of their main CD releases in 2005, from their first album to Demon Days... It's still one of the best days I can remember by heart of me spending money on something I still cherish to this very day... (Thank you, Fry's Electronics!!) Also, that same day, my mother purposefully turned a blind eye on the fact that both the first Gorillaz album and G-Sides had that "Parental Advisory" label on it, since she knew how much I loved the Gorillaz beforehand... (It was like the time I listened to my dad's rap collection[footnote]only I was, like, around 5 when I was listening to that...[/footnote], which was filled with basically any rap artist that were REALLY big back in their time...)

Still, my favorite album that I bought, that wasn't Gorillaz-related, has to be the music-inspired Narnia soundtrack to The Lion, The Which, and The Wardrobe... It got me out of a English project jam in high school involving Julius Ceaser... (Not a long story, mind you, but I digress...)

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I have no idea but chances are it was some tasteless gift I gave my mom or dad.

 

[Ratty]

First one I can remember picking out for myself was "Elvis' Golden Records" first one I definitely remember buying with my own money is Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast".

Didn't spend a lot of money on music growing up, mostly just listened to the folk/new wave/country/(pop) punk others in the family bought and the oldies (50s - 70s) station on the radio. Today I love Ska and power metal, in addition to things from all the above mentioned genres.

If memory serves correctly, it was the soundtrack to Conan The Barbarian. Quite the thrilling film, that one was, with a powerful score by the late Basil Poledouris.


I was taken aback many years ago by how unapologetically bloody the story was. Quite a lot of severed limbs and broken bones. The piece 'Riders Of Doom' that played during the opening attack is particularly memorable for its sheer power and scale.

Looking forward to the new Arnold Conan movie or dreading it? I'm cautiously optimistic myself. But then I thought Conan the Destroyer and Red Sonja were a lot of fun.

 

[Illesdan]

I bought Bon Jovi's 'Slippery When Wet' and Dokken's 'Back for the Attack' back in '87. Great times. Sometimes, I swear metal hit its plateau in the 80s and just got stripped down and commercialized from there.

 

[Johnny Impact]

It was either Pearl Jam's Ten album or Phish's Rift (don't judge me too harshly, I just experimented with Phish in high school, okay?).

Pretty sure I bought Pearl Jam first because that was the one cassette I owned before switching to CDs. I had other tapes but they all started as blanks.

I wish I could take 100 or so of my CDs back in time and give them to my twelve-year old self. For a long time I had every problem getting into music. At thirteen I was: A) hating most popular music, B) being unaware of/unable to access the music I would later come to love, C) blowing all my money on Magic cards, D) being raised in a podunk town, ten miles from the nearest record store, where they thought Billboard Top 40 was "a great selection," E) living with parents who strongly disapproved of all music (my mother is weird) or merely disapproved of anything recorded after 1975 (that would be Dad), F) most of the music I like hadn't been recorded in 1990.

 

[mysecondlife]

It was Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park.

I kind of outgrew it. If I could refund it and get something else today, it would be: The Hurry and The Harm by City and Colour.

 

[Something Amyss]

Something by New Kids on the Block. I was young and not particularly discriminating in my tastes. But I don't remember which one it was.

 

[putowtin]

Revolver The Beatles, I was helping me ma with the shopping one cold saturday morning and we were passing a charity shop, there it was in the window, I thought it was a drawing and asked if I could have it for my bedroom, she explained that it was a record but bought me it any way.

Good taste even at 8!
(Favourite track, For No One)

 

[Casual Shinji]

The first album I ever got was Radiohead's OK Computer for my birthday, along with my very first CD player. The first album I bought myself was I think Daft Punk's Homework.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I'm ALMOST certain. I know I had it, and I was quite young at the time.

 

[Summerstorm]

Well... first one i BOUGHT:

Lake of Tears "Forever Autumn"

I still regard it as a "Perfect Album" - I love every single song on it. Also "So fell Autumn Rain" is on it, one of my all-time favourite songs (Listened to it thousands of times - had it on a mixed tape,CD, MP3-USB in my cars for like the last 12 years or so *g*).

 

[Scarim Coral]

My was Discovery by Daft Punk as I was so awe stuck by One More Time I had to get the album!

 

[SirPigglesworth]

It's taken me a while to actually buy an album because I could not find any bands that I loved, I could listen to the top 40 for a few years but then it all started sounding the same. I gave up on that for a few more years and didn't really listen to anything for a while. From about the age of 14-17 I didn't listen to anything in particular. But one day I got bored saw some band names I hadn't heard of before and decided to Google them, using this method I stumbled into The National, The Heavy, and The Black Keys. Then I found my favorite band, Elbow.
So the first (full) album I bought was Elbow's "Leaders of The Free World". It's been a while and they are still my favorite band, and I can't wait for their new album.