Your First 'Five' Albums

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  1. CCrider92

    CCrider92 Senior Member

    Location:
    Cape Cod, MA
    I started when I was a high school freshman:
    Kingston Trio:
    Stereo Concert
    The Kingston Trio
    Here We Go Again
    At Large
    hungry i
     
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  2. zen

    zen Senior Member

    Please Please Me
    With the Beatles
    A Hard Day's Night
    Beatles For Sale
    Help

    ...my grandmother (from the UK) gave my brother & I the real albums (in mono, starting early '64); and did this with every Beatles album up to the "White Album"
    also in mono.
     
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  3. Centralscrutinizer

    Centralscrutinizer Forum Resident

    I'm fairly sure I had these when I started buying vinyl, will have been 1980 I think.

    Rainbow - Down to Earth
    Girl - Sheer Greed
    Pink Floyd - Relics
    Led Zep - III

    I distinctly remember having those 4 first, not sure what came next. Meanwhile I was listening to more Zep and Floyd taped off a friends records.
     
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  4. Terrapin Station

    Terrapin Station Master Guns

    Location:
    NYC Man/Joy-Z City
    Just answering because I don't know if my experience is unusual in that it's basically impossible for me to answer this question.

    I come from a family of music lovers. My parents, my older sister, my maternal grandfather, and a couple uncles and aunts who were often around all collected music and regularly played music at home. So I was surrounded by music from the time I was a baby. We had a family stereo and my dad also collected (and still collects) jukeboxes.

    Music was pooled at home. We had a communal cache of LPs and 45s (and later 8 tracks, cassettes, etc.). My aunts and uncles would / regularly bring over music to check out, and they'd often let us borrow something (and vice versa). My grandfather would often let me borrow records too (I was the most interested in the stuff he loved).

    My parents would kinda buy us music or at least buy music on us kids' suggestions (eventually including my younger sister, too), but it all went into the same family pile of records, and the idea of particular records belonging to particular family members was pretty blurry.

    Everyone had a very open mind about music--my family was/is basically a hippie family. Different people had different favorites, but we'd take turns picking out what to listen to, and everyone would try to appreciate other folks' choices.

    I can remember some of the first albums I bought with my own money, but it doesn't really make sense to say that those were my "first albums"
     
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  5. barking spider

    barking spider Forum Resident

    Location:
    the netherlands
    I don't know if it is accurate but something like:

    Uriah Heep Live
    Don McLean - American Pie
    Pink Floyd - Atom heart mother
    Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe
    and a cassette tape of Made in Japan
     
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  6. vivatones

    vivatones Forum Resident

    “Do You Believe In Magic” - Lovin’ Spoonful
    “Decade of Golden Hits” - The Platters
    “White Album” - The Chaplains

    Can’t remember the others....
     
  7. Keith V

    Keith V Forum Resident

    Location:
    Secaucus, NJ
    I’ll skip to age 12 when I got a cassette player/ radio. 1982.
    The Who- Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
    The Cars-Shake it Up
    Beatles- Red Album
    Beatles- Blue Album
    The Kinks- State of Confusion
     
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  8. wdiv

    wdiv Forum Resident

    Location:
    Maryland
    My 1987 cassette collection started with

    Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
    Def Leppard - Hysteria
    Guns N Roses - Appetite
    Weird Al - In 3-D
     
  9. Rfreeman

    Rfreeman Senior Member

    Location:
    Lawrenceville, NJ
    Yellow Submarine
    Yesterday and Today
    Meet the Beatles
    The Beatles Second Album
    Something New

    Got them all between age 3 and 6, in that order. Yellow Sub was brand new when I got it right after seeing the film.
     
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  10. Sanguinus

    Sanguinus Forum Resident

    Location:
    Glendale
    Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy
    Rush - Farewell to Kings
    Deep Purple - Fireball
    Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
    Rainbow - Rising

    This is when I was about 6 or 7. Honestly, I didn't get into The Beatles or anything like that until years later.
     
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  11. audiotom

    audiotom I can not hear a single sound as you scream

    Location:
    New Orleans La USA
    12 year old
    Alice Cooper - Love it to Death
    Beatles Blue 67-70
    Stones - Goats Head Soup
    Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
    Beatles - US Revolver

    Also recorded Fm broadcasts of Beatles weekend from the radio then over the air (had to be quiet) to a portable cassette recorder
     
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  12. oxegen

    oxegen Forum Resident

    Location:
    Dublin, Ireland
    The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's
    Cream - Wheels of Fire
    The Beatles. - The White Album
    The Beatles - Rubber Soul
    The Rolling Stones - Flowers
     
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  13. ccbarr

    ccbarr Forum Resident

    Location:
    Iowa, USA
    Paul McCartney:
    Driving Rain
    McCartney
    Band On The Run
    Tug Of War


    Michael Jackson - Thriller

    Sort of an odd mix, I still remember buying Driving Rain new, not knowing it was Paul's new studio album. I loved the album, the bass, the mood of the album. I think that is why I'm so fond of Driving Rain still today.
     
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  14. bobc

    bobc Bluesman

    Location:
    France
    Rolling Stones
    Pretty Things
    Five Live Yardbirds
    My Generation
    Rolling Stones II
     
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  15. malcolm reynolds

    malcolm reynolds Handsome, Humble, Genius

    Location:
    Oklahoma
    Metallica - Kill Em All
    Metallica - Ride The Lightning
    Metallica - Master Of Puppets
    Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time


    I bought these all on the same day based on the album covers. First albums I bought. My 11 year old mind was blown. I remember my next purchases being from Columbia House where you got 12 cassettes for a dollar or something. I remember getting all of the then released Motley Crue albums with some other hair metal mixed in. Good times.
     
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  16. Derek Slazenger

    Derek Slazenger Specs, rugs & rock n roll

    Queen - A Night At The Opera
    The Sweet's Biggest Hits
    Mud - Mud Rock
    Deep Purple - Machine Head
    Bowie - Pin Ups

    About 6 or 7 probably.
     
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  17. ghostdwg

    ghostdwg Senior Member

    Location:
    New Milford, CT
    The Beatles-Let It Be
    The Concert For Bangla Desh
    Rolling Stones-Hot Rocks 1964-1971
    Sly & The Family Stone-Greatest Hits
    Neil Young-Harvest
     
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  18. IanM007

    IanM007 CDs, please!

    Location:
    Shrewsbury, UK
    Please Please Me - The Beatles
    With The Beatles - The Beatles
    Debut - Rolling Stones
    Blue Hawaii - Elvis
    G I Blues - Elvis
     
  19. gillcup

    gillcup Senior Member

    Location:
    Raleigh, NC, USA
    I bought five albums in 1967, the first very early in Jan or Feb.

    1. The Monkees - More of the Monkees
    2. The Monkees - Headquarters
    3. The Monkees - The Monkees
    4. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
    5. The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd
    That was all my purchases in 1967. I'm pretty sure the next purchase was Magical Mystery Tour. After that, it becomes hard to remember.
     
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  20. scoutbb

    scoutbb Senior Member

    Location:
    LA
    First album I ever bought was Thick as a Brick.
    Then I picked up:
    Days of Future Passed
    After the Gold Rush
    Harvest
    Sgt Peppers
     
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  21. timind

    timind phorum rezident

    Magical Mystery Tour
    American Woman
    The Soft Parade
    Electric Ladyland
    Chicago Transit Authority
    White Album
     
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  22. aroney

    aroney Who really gives a...?

    AC/DC - Back in Black
    Aerosmith - Night in the Ruts
    Kiss - Double Platinum
    Led Zeppelin - IV
    Rush - Permanent Waves
     
  23. Synthfreek

    Synthfreek I’m a ray of sunshine & bastion of positivity

    I was a rocker from a very early age. I had access to my mom's collection and devoured it all by 1st grade. The five earliest ones I can remember wearing out were T. Rex - The Slider, Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Midnight Express soundtrack, Led Zeppelin - III and my own Winnie The Pooh And Tigger Too that I think I got from a grocery store as part of some promotion where we'd get a record when a certain amount of groceries were bought.

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  24. keyXVII

    keyXVII Forum Resident

    Location:
    Iowa City IA
    Simon & Garfunkel- Sounds of Silence
    Meet the Beatles
    The Monkees
    The Supremes- I Hear a Symphony
    Dusty Springfield- Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be With You
     
  25. Rockstar2112

    Rockstar2112 Forum Resident

    Queen News Of The World
    Kiss Alive II
    Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door
    Pink Floyd The Wall
    AC/DC Highway To Hell
     
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