First record you ever bought ?

[mozo-pg]

Thread Killer. Thank-you, thank-you very much.

[prglvr]

I think mine was the Jackson 5 Greatest Hits back when I was about 11 or 12. I played that one to death for a while. However the album that really got me started regularly buying music was Cat Stevens' Teaser and the Firecat back in '72. I remember only wanting the Peace Train single but my mom kept insisting I buy the album since it was so good. She was rignt, and now I jokingly blame her (but in actuality thank her) for my current extremely large music collection and my life as a "music junky."

[NogbadTheBad]

Thread Killer. Thank-you, thank-you very much.

Don't you just hate it when that happens? "What the hell was wrong with my post?"

[mozo-pg]

Don't you just hate it when that happens? "What the hell was wrong with my post?"

I hear ya brotha! I have a current moral dilema, post again, and da,da,da,da.

[progeezer]

Elvis's s/t debut album (1955 at age 10)

[Casey]

#1: Sly & The Family Stone: "Stand"
#2: James Gang: "James Gang Rides Again"
#3: Pink Floyd: "Ummagumma"
#4: Grateful Dead: "American Beauty"

[JSS]

2-45's, The Close Encounters of the Third Kind Theme, and either Styx 'Come Sail Away' or Kansas 'Point of No Return'.
Caress of Steel was 1st LP album. It was a few years old at the time.
Los Lobos 'Kiko' was 1st CD. I was a late adopter for CD's.

[Yodelgoat]

45 was Whole lotta Love - Zeppelin

LP was Honkey Chateau

[Casey]

OK.

Led Zeppelin: "III"
The Who: "Live at Leeds"
Black Sabbath: "Paranoid"
Hair: musical soundtrack

[zombywoof]

I can't possibly remember, but the first album I ever owned was "Roots to Branches". My dad bought it for me, because we were going to see Tull. I was 3, I think.

I still have it, by the way. Along with the ticket stub in the inlay. :-)

[Deano]

both Queen for me

45 - 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'
LP - Live Killers

[happytheman]

I'm with several of you. We tended to buy singles (since they were cheaper) my first would have been Crimson & Clover, and yes we would sit around and try and sing that part in the middle..... (you know the part I'm talking about). Album wise my Dad bought me two Monkee records in '67 or '68 I forget Pieces etc. and The Birds and the Bees... so it was probably '68. First album I bought was Alice Coopers Billion Dollar Babies.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

First album I ever owned was Chicago - Carnegie Hall. But that was a Christmas present.

The one I first bought with my own $$ was Jesus Christ Superstar.

[Progmatic]

OK my first ones were Beatles "Oldies but Goldies" and "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich". I do not recall which came first

[willyswing]

1st 45-Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)
1st LP-Just Like Us (Paul Revere & The Raiders)

[philsunset]

My earliest record buying memory would be The Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler in 1962. I was 8

[bmooncd]

Snoopy vs the Red Baron by The Royal Guardsmen shortly followed by The Strawberry Alarm Clock's Incense and Peppermints. Both LPs, not singles.

[dgtlman]

First record was Hotlegs - Neanderthal Man on 45. First LP was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida I believe... either that or Hey Jude

[Fracktured]

They're coming to take me away ha-ha. Bought the 45 in a huge record store down around Washington DC back in oh I'd say 1966. Just don't ask.

Rick

[Chris Kemp]

Two 45's in late 1967. The Yardbirds' "Happening Ten Years Time Ago" and Keith's "98.6" providing the template for my evolving tastes, songs that push the envelope at one end, lightweight, but well-crafted pop at the other.

[Chris Kemp]

The Strawberry Alarm Clock's Incense and Peppermints. Both LPs, not singles.

I just picked up the anthology, "Stawberry's Mean Love." Very strong. This is an underrated BAND. Ed King's pre-Skynyrd psychedelic guitar work is pretty good.

[zutul]

Led Zeppelin II when i was 9 years old.

[llanwydd]

Band on the Run - Wngs. Still love it.