What was the first album you bought with your own money?

Queen - A Kind Of Magic (LP). Summer of 1986 in Heidelberg (Germany), what a wonderful time. Pet Shop Boys - Please (LP) a few days later.

 

This bad boy right here:

 

I was 10 going on 11 when this came out. Shame it wasn't the edition of the series featuring Metal Guru and Rick Wakeman's missus on the front cover as it would have added an extra layer of irony to the fact that just a year and a bit later Yes were my favourite band.



This is the first record I bought with the wages of a working man in a full time job. Farringdon Records in Chancery Lane IIRC. June 1979.

 

AC/DC - Dirty Deed Done Dirt Cheap

 

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morisette, must have been late 1995 or early 1996 when I was about 11. Impressed some girls in my class who also liked her. Not really sure it was the right impression though.

Followed shortly thereafter by Spice Girls.

Rest assured, both are no longer part of my music collection, Be Here Now by Oasis, which I bought around 1998, still is.

Back then MTV was still a big thing and I just loved All Around the World.

 

Let it Be LP by the Beatles on release.

Dad had just bought our first stereo; he bought some of the standard classical 'demonstration' favourites (Swan Lake, 1812 Overture etc.).

I went Beatles and was devastated when they split up not long after.

 

Apparently I was the only kid out there not initially that interested in Beatles or Kiss records

 

The first time I bought albums to begin a collection I purchased three.


James Taylor – Sweet Baby James
Label: Audio Fidelity ‎– AFZ 118
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Remastered, 24K + Gold
Country: US
Released: Sep 2011



Santana ‎– Abraxas
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab ‎– UDCD 775
Series: Original Master Recording –
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, 24kt Gold
Country: US
Released: 2008



Jimi Hendrix ‎– The Cry Of Love
Label: Reprise Records ‎– 2034-2
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: US
Released: Dec 1987

These are the current versions of these albums I have

 

Rush: A Farewell To Kings

 

Really hard to say.... I think either Kiss Alive II or The Beatles Red Album

 

With my own money it was Sparks - 'Kimono My House' on cassette in late May 1974 (I had received a cassette player for my birthday a few weeks earlier).

 

Beatles-"Hard Day's Night", at its release while living in France.

 

This must have been one of, if not the first.........a double album with booklet no less......

 

week of release I bought KISS "Rock and Roll Over"... I was 8...

 

3 at the same time: Best of the Lovin' Spoonful, Best of the Animals and the Pickwick re-issue of some early recordings by Tom & Jerry/S&G with them next to a plane on the cover IIRC - for a total of about $5-$6... c. early 1967.

 

Still like The Animals too - recently acquired several releases of live recordings from '64-'66 or so on rhythmandbluesrecords...

 

The Animals was one of my first LPs as well but it was a hand-me-down in the late '70s... still love it!

 

At the time, all of their catalog (on MGM) but The Best of LP was in the sub-$1 cutout bins.

 

Electric warrior

 

Yeah, SD is scorching and great. So are Gish and Mellon Collie.
But their masterpiece? Siamese Dream takes it for me.

A little side-trivia: IMHO, Billy's best guitar solo is during "Mayonaise". "Drown" is a close 2nd. Even the 'alternate feedback' version of "Drown" on Gish (2011 remaster) is stunning.
Which of Billy's guitar solo(s) do you love? This question is for any Smashing Pumpkins fans here.

 

We're An American Band, yes, the record was gold. Also came with stickers. It was either this or Billion Dollar Babies

 

In 1970, with my very own money, Let It Be was my first LP purchase as well from Leopold's in Berkeley. I can't imagine it being bootlegged! It's so common and has been reissued over and over!

 

Do you recall what drew you to Sparks?

 

Father Abraham in Smurfland. Still got it.

 

Rush - A Show Of Hands, April 1989

LP, still have it with hype sticker and price scan thingy.