First ten albums you owned
- Thread starter Joe Hutch
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Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
In no particular order...
Chris Farlowe Stormy Monday
Leonard Cohen Songs of
Incredible String Band The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
Roy Harper Folkjokeopus
Roy Harper Flat Baroque and Berserk
Strawbs Strawbs
Nick Drake 5 Leaves Left
Nick Drake Bryter Later
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Rolling Stones Let it Bleed
Chris Farlowe Stormy Monday
Leonard Cohen Songs of
Incredible String Band The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
Roy Harper Folkjokeopus
Roy Harper Flat Baroque and Berserk
Strawbs Strawbs
Nick Drake 5 Leaves Left
Nick Drake Bryter Later
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Rolling Stones Let it Bleed
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
Although I still rate 'em, I'm anticipating a kicking for Dexy's and Altered Images
Love Dexys!
Hazelberry
sister
Roxy Music - Avalon
Roxy Music - eponymous
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
The Clash - Give 'em Enough Rope
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
PiL - Second Edition
1st Roxy and Buildings and Food have never been out of fashion chez Durmbo.
Roxy Music - eponymous
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
The Clash - Give 'em Enough Rope
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
PiL - Second Edition
1st Roxy and Buildings and Food have never been out of fashion chez Durmbo.
blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
First ten, can just about remember the last ten.
All bought from 1967 onwards, artist only as cannot remember all the titles
Motown chartbusters
Aretha Franklin
Otis Redding
Wilson Pickett
John Jackson
James Brown
Prince Buster
Tighten-up
Johnny Cash
Small Faces or Pink Floyd
Bloss
All bought from 1967 onwards, artist only as cannot remember all the titles
Motown chartbusters
Aretha Franklin
Otis Redding
Wilson Pickett
John Jackson
James Brown
Prince Buster
Tighten-up
Johnny Cash
Small Faces or Pink Floyd
Bloss
You lot are all too cool for school.
My first 10 from memory:
1 - The Kids From Fame.
2 - Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier.
3 - Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming (I so wanted one of the replica Adam Ant jackets you could order from the back of Smash Hits).
4 - Altered Images - Happy Birthday.
5 - Ultravox - Vienna.
6 - Now That's What I Call Music 1.
7 - (jumps to...) Black Sabbath - Self titled (the time from about 8 to about 10 years old was more devoted to Action Man and playing football than music, hence the taste shift).
8 - Deep Purple - Made In Japan.
9 - Motorhead - self titled.
10 - Saxon - Wheels of Steel.
My first 10 from memory:
1 - The Kids From Fame.
2 - Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier.
3 - Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming (I so wanted one of the replica Adam Ant jackets you could order from the back of Smash Hits).
4 - Altered Images - Happy Birthday.
5 - Ultravox - Vienna.
6 - Now That's What I Call Music 1.
7 - (jumps to...) Black Sabbath - Self titled (the time from about 8 to about 10 years old was more devoted to Action Man and playing football than music, hence the taste shift).
8 - Deep Purple - Made In Japan.
9 - Motorhead - self titled.
10 - Saxon - Wheels of Steel.
All sounding a bit too cool there chaps.
I bought loads of singles as a kid, albums were too expensive. I can't remember the first ten though and they weren't proper albums more like compilations and taped copies of stuff.
I remember buying a T. REX compilation when they used 20th Century Boy for the Levis advert, I remember buying the tape of The Prodigy's first album and then loads of rave compilations around 91/92. I didn't buy them but I had both Rage Against The Machine's first album and Cypress Hill's - Black Sunday around the same time and on repeat a lot. Again I bought a John Lee Hooker tape compilation on the back of a jeans advert in about '92 I think.
To be honest I can't really remember when the switch got flicked and I started buying proper music in album format, a bit worrying really considering I'm not that old.
Edit: I can actually only really remember regularly buying albums when I got my first job and was earning money, so that would be aged 16/17 and around 1995/96.
I bought loads of singles as a kid, albums were too expensive. I can't remember the first ten though and they weren't proper albums more like compilations and taped copies of stuff.
I remember buying a T. REX compilation when they used 20th Century Boy for the Levis advert, I remember buying the tape of The Prodigy's first album and then loads of rave compilations around 91/92. I didn't buy them but I had both Rage Against The Machine's first album and Cypress Hill's - Black Sunday around the same time and on repeat a lot. Again I bought a John Lee Hooker tape compilation on the back of a jeans advert in about '92 I think.
To be honest I can't really remember when the switch got flicked and I started buying proper music in album format, a bit worrying really considering I'm not that old.
Edit: I can actually only really remember regularly buying albums when I got my first job and was earning money, so that would be aged 16/17 and around 1995/96.
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
Because we were a relatively poor family, we pooled our musical resources, so my brother bought Sgt Pepper and various Creedence albums, while my sister had Simon & Garfunkel and Carole King covered. My brother and I had a major falling-out over which of had bought a Move compilation album, and which had bought a Procul Harum compilation. Both were bought on the same day, in the same shop, and cost exactly the same. He's got both now, and my sister has my copy of the White Album. The copy of the White Album here originally belonged to my wife's sister, and still has her name written inside. Whether she gave it away, or it was silently snaffled by my wife, remains unclear.
Rockmeister
pfm Member
I can't remember!
But roughly as I remember.
Beatles 'Please please me'
The Hollies 'Hollies'
John Mayall 'Blues breakers, with Clapton'
Simon and Garfunkel 'Parsley sage....'
The Doors 'the doors'
Beatles 'Sgt Pepper' (ofc..this was '67)
Incredible String band 'layers of the Onion'
Floyd 'Piper at the gates of Dawn'
Traffic 'Mr fantasy'
and for '68 I think it must have been the best
Van Morrison...'Astral Weeks'
But roughly as I remember.
Beatles 'Please please me'
The Hollies 'Hollies'
John Mayall 'Blues breakers, with Clapton'
Simon and Garfunkel 'Parsley sage....'
The Doors 'the doors'
Beatles 'Sgt Pepper' (ofc..this was '67)
Incredible String band 'layers of the Onion'
Floyd 'Piper at the gates of Dawn'
Traffic 'Mr fantasy'
and for '68 I think it must have been the best
Van Morrison...'Astral Weeks'
Fuller
pfm Member
Can only recall the first six.
T. Rex Electric Warrior - February 1972 aged 11. Saved up my pocket money for ages.
Big gap then as I borrowed my older sister's records which included Led Zep 2 and Neil Young Harvest amongst others.
No money for LP's until early 1975 and then bought Queen Sheer Heart Attack and Elton John Greatest Hits. A few months later Queen 1 & 2. Then Bachman Turner Overdrive Not Fragile.
Another big gap then when my serious record buying started early 1978 aged 17 when I got a part time evening job shelf stacking at Tesco, £8 a week and it all went on a proper HiFi and records. That period then was one of the best of times for me.
And to think I've now probably got a choice of over 2,500 records and CD's to choose from.
It's been a brilliant journey though.
T. Rex Electric Warrior - February 1972 aged 11. Saved up my pocket money for ages.
Big gap then as I borrowed my older sister's records which included Led Zep 2 and Neil Young Harvest amongst others.
No money for LP's until early 1975 and then bought Queen Sheer Heart Attack and Elton John Greatest Hits. A few months later Queen 1 & 2. Then Bachman Turner Overdrive Not Fragile.
Another big gap then when my serious record buying started early 1978 aged 17 when I got a part time evening job shelf stacking at Tesco, £8 a week and it all went on a proper HiFi and records. That period then was one of the best of times for me.
And to think I've now probably got a choice of over 2,500 records and CD's to choose from.
It's been a brilliant journey though.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
I think
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Madness - One Step Beyond
Bad Manners - Gosh Its...
Mike Oldfield - Crises
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out
Edgar Froese - Solo
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Madness - One Step Beyond
Bad Manners - Gosh Its...
Mike Oldfield - Crises
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out
Edgar Froese - Solo
kjb
Proof reading not always a strength
I started off buying quite few compilations which, for 10 - 12 year old, were dead cheap
You Can All Join In ( Island)
Nice Enough to Eat ( Island)
Harvest - A breath of Fresh Air ( Harvest)
Happy to be a Part of the Industry of Human Happiness ( Immediate)
Tracks 5 - The Who one side, Hendrix the other
Alongside this, from memory, the first few include
Abbey Road - Beatles
Electric Warrior - T Rex
Split - Groundhogs
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin II
Those were pretty much all bought in the last year of primary school/ first year of secondary. I had a great group of friends, most with older brothers who bought tons of records. We had a couple of long haired trainee teachers in the last year of primary who played their Led Zeppelin records ( I and II) to me and may mate Duncan at lunchtimes.
At the bottom of our road, and literally next door to my primary school, in Potters Bar was a youth club which one night a week was the Farx Club. Their bill in 1970/72 was amazing -
http://www.pottersbar.org/elmcourt/farxclub/
Funny to think most of the people who went there must be pushing 70 now. We used to look at the posters outside the club and wish we could get in. All we went to was the Donkey Derby the day after one of the shows.
Kevin
You Can All Join In ( Island)
Nice Enough to Eat ( Island)
Harvest - A breath of Fresh Air ( Harvest)
Happy to be a Part of the Industry of Human Happiness ( Immediate)
Tracks 5 - The Who one side, Hendrix the other
Alongside this, from memory, the first few include
Abbey Road - Beatles
Electric Warrior - T Rex
Split - Groundhogs
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin II
Those were pretty much all bought in the last year of primary school/ first year of secondary. I had a great group of friends, most with older brothers who bought tons of records. We had a couple of long haired trainee teachers in the last year of primary who played their Led Zeppelin records ( I and II) to me and may mate Duncan at lunchtimes.
At the bottom of our road, and literally next door to my primary school, in Potters Bar was a youth club which one night a week was the Farx Club. Their bill in 1970/72 was amazing -
http://www.pottersbar.org/elmcourt/farxclub/
Funny to think most of the people who went there must be pushing 70 now. We used to look at the posters outside the club and wish we could get in. All we went to was the Donkey Derby the day after one of the shows.
Kevin
The Best of Cream - I had wanted to get Disraeli Gears but they had sold out.
ITCOTCK - King Crimson
ITWOP - King Crimson
The Yes Album - Yes
McDonald and Giles - Ian McDonald and Michael Giles
ELP - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
This Was - Jethro Tull
From the Witchwood - Strawbs
Led Zep 2 - Led Zeppelin
The Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band
ITCOTCK - King Crimson
ITWOP - King Crimson
The Yes Album - Yes
McDonald and Giles - Ian McDonald and Michael Giles
ELP - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
This Was - Jethro Tull
From the Witchwood - Strawbs
Led Zep 2 - Led Zeppelin
The Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band
Andrew C!
Been around a while....
Nice topic. Some really good choices too!
It was a long while ago, but something like:
Police - Regatta da Blanc
The Shadows - the one with Heart of Glass on it!
Duran Duran
DM - Speak and Spell,
ABBA - The Album
ABBA - Super Trouper
Ultravox - Vienna
OMD - Debut LP
I’ll have a think about the others...
My 1st 12” single was Only You/Situation by Yazoo
It was a long while ago, but something like:
Police - Regatta da Blanc
The Shadows - the one with Heart of Glass on it!
Duran Duran
DM - Speak and Spell,
ABBA - The Album
ABBA - Super Trouper
Ultravox - Vienna
OMD - Debut LP
I’ll have a think about the others...
My 1st 12” single was Only You/Situation by Yazoo
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