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First ten albums you owned

Ac/DC Highway to Hell
Judas Priest Killing Machine
AC/DC Let there be Rock
Saxon Power and the Glory
Saxon first album
Saxon Wheels of Steel
Saxon The eagle has landed
Tygers of Pan Tang Crazy Nights
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance
Rose Tattoo Assault and Battery

Or something like that. I was 11, I can’t quite remember.
 
My very first LP came as part of the Xmas present with my Dansette and it was a Hallmark(?) TOTP selection on which none of the songs were by original artists (it became a frisbee later).
Electric Ladyland
This Was
Stand Up
Are You Experienced (but as a mono Backtrack)
Axis Bold As Love (as a Backtrack)
Best of Cream
Beck-Ola
ITCOTCK
Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys (I spotted on the cover it had a Hendrix production credit). Not great, probably played 3-4 times in 50 years.
 
I know that Cream - Fresh Cream was my first purchase. After that things get a bit blurry but it was probably something like:
Jeff Beck - Truth
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
The Doors - Strange Days
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (US Import)
John Mayall - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
Love - Forever Changes
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
 
Joe Hutch said:
Because we were a relatively poor family, we pooled our musical resources ...
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Purchasing power is important context.
I did similar a pooling scheme with a couple of pals using cassette tapes.
My 1st 10 owned would've looked very different with more dosh.
 
Rockmeister said:
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'
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Great taste! All those (apart from the Hollies) were in the first 20-30 albums I bought.

My first 10 (ish) were
All Dylan albums from Freewheelin to Blonde on Blonde
All Beatles from Please Please Me to Revolver
Beach Boys Pet Sounds
Byrds Younger Than Yesterday
 
foxwelljsly said:
Yeah, oddly enough Bowie, Nick Drake and Beefheart were not as high on my pre teen playlist as they appear to have been on others!
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Pre-teen we didn't even have a record player! The only playlist back then was whatever made it on to Pick of the Pops. My parents bought a secondhand Dansette after being nagged by my older sister who wanted to buy and play Beatles' singles.
 
I'm not sure, something like this...

The Muppet Show (The first one)
Geoff Love and his Orchestra - Star Wars and Other Space Themes
BBC Sound Effects No. 13 - Death and Horror
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinox
Mike Oldfield - Crises
Mike Oldfield - Incantations
Clannad - Robin of Sherwood (Soundtrack)
Prince - Purple Rain
Jean Michel Jarre - Concerts in China
Orff - Carmina Burana

The first three cover about the first 10 years of my life.
By the time I had bought that lot I's also have about 50 C90s of all my mates stuff (as they had taped mine).
 
Pretty sure my first single was Long Haired Lover From Liverpool by Little Jimmy Osmond.
 
Hard to recall exactly, but here is what I remember.

The Specials 1st L.P.

M - The Official Secrets Act

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express

Kraftwerk- Computer Love

Various artists on Some Bizarre label - 'Some Bizzare Album' (The The, Depeche Mode, B-Movie, Soft Cell etc.)

Various synth/new wave artists on Virgin - Methods Of Dance (Devo D.A.F. Magazine, Japan, B.E.F. etc)

The Human League - Reproduction and Travelogue

Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement

All these records I still have, and play regularly. I was about 14 -15 years old when I purchased them.

Some others that are close to that first ten include:

Japan - Quiet Life
Kate Bush - first 3 albums
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
The Specials - More Specials
Bill Nelson - Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam
Rip Rig & Panic - I Am Cold
Fad Gadget - Incontinent
Tubeway Army - Replicas
Michael Jackson - Thriller
 
Whilst going through the rack yesterday I found what was my first LP purchase which I had totally forgotten about.

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
 
Joe Hutch said:
Pre-teen we didn't even have a record player! The only playlist back then was whatever made it on to Pick of the Pops. My parents bought a secondhand Dansette after being nagged by my older sister who wanted to buy and play Beatles' singles.
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:) These would have been played on the stereo 20, connoisseur deck and Kef Concertos in the front room.
 
Strange how a Gary Glitter post was followed immediately by Rolf Harris :confused:

I must admit my first single ( bought for me ) was also Gary Glitter, took it's turn on a Fidelity all-in-one, automatic, multiple, record player thingy wotnot.
Dems were da days...

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Swamp Thing said:
I'm not sure, something like this...

The Muppet Show (The first one)
Geoff Love and his Orchestra - Star Wars and Other Space Themes
BBC Sound Effects No. 13 - Death and Horror
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinox
Mike Oldfield - Crises
Mike Oldfield - Incantations
Clannad - Robin of Sherwood (Soundtrack)
Prince - Purple Rain
Jean Michel Jarre - Concerts in China
Orff - Carmina Burana

The first three cover about the first 10 years of my life.
By the time I had bought that lot I's also have about 50 C90s of all my mates stuff (as they had taped mine).
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Ah yes the Geoff Love LP!! Think I've still got that - will have to have a look - was an early buy for me too.
 
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