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What were the first 10 vinyl LPs that you purchased and when....

Tony L said:
That’s An Ideal For Living and is worth a fortune if you have a nice original copy.
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I do still have it, they're probably one of my very favourite bands the record is mint though the covers well worn , just shelf wear , not abused, i still have all the other titles listed too.
I had a t-shirt with it on too and got a bollocking from my uncle who explained what 'Joy Division ' actually meant.
 
Purchased... Well I got Beatles - Sergeant Pepper as Christmas present in 1967. Still have it, minus the rock dock thing.
Number two must be an LP with steam trains, also as Christmas present. I'm a certified train spotter, but even I got bored after playing the first side once ;)
Number three and four... Two now forgotten Swedish acts.
Number 5 was Hendrix - Electric Ladyland!
Then I don't remember. I'm getting old.
 
Joy Division, Hendrix, Dead Kennedys....

You lot are all far hipper than me. This was my first ell-pee purchase.

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First album I bought was Highway to Hell by AC/DC on New Year’s Eve 1983 with a record token I got for Xmas when I was 11.

I think this was followed by Let There Be Rock and Killing Machine by Judas Priest and then an assortment of AC/DC, Judas Priest, Rose Tattoo and NWOBHM albums. Curiously, none of them were by Iron Maiden, none of whose albums have I ever owned and I have never really cared for, even when I was 11.
 
We are in 1978, I am 14. Pocket money is tight.

The Beatles red compilation (does that count for two?)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Solti)
Boney M Take the Heat of Me
Toccata & Fugue (Cochereau at Notre Dame)
Hotel California
Girl From Ipanema
French singers: Lavilliers, Higelin (several albums)
Then I don’t know.
 
Well of course, I taped many songs from FM radios before even buying my first record (Bee Gees 45 EP, How Deep Is your Love). Fourteen again, my first crush, Brigitte. ❤️ She’s 62 now.
I had forgotten about her. See what those down-memory-lane threads do? 😉
 
I definitely recall my first two.. I didn't buy the Beatles etc.. because everybody had them, so I tended to go for other stuff which interested me.. but which most of my pop obsessed friends just found weird.

R&B from the Marquee. Alexis Korner's Blues Inc. 23 shillings on Decca Ace of Clubs 1962 I was 13.
The Duke in Harlem. Duke Ellington recordings from 1926-1930/ Decca Ace of Hearts. Later the same year I think.
I still have both.

Later, I added...

Ray Charles Story Vol's 1 and 2.
Time Further Out. Brubeck
New World Symphony, Dvorak and Bach Brandenburg's, both on cheap eastern European labels. Nottm Co-op used to pack out their annual 'Sale' with such stuff. Still have the Bach..
One LP of Glen Miller and another of Django Reinhardt. I can't remember exactly which..
Progress was slow whilst still at school.. but after 1965 I acquired:
'There You Go'. Dorris Henderson and John Renbourn.
'Five Live Yardbirds'
.and an early, now sought after.. 'Motown Memories'..
 
Would they not have been considered pretty 'hip' at the time ? @paulfromcamden I can remember them on TOTP quite alot when I was a kid.
FWIW I'm quite sure my choice in music was not considered hip by most people I knew, maybe weird.
Most of the girls at school liked Duran Duran and Wham, the locals Madness and Bad Manners and my older brother and his mates were all rocker/bikers .
 
Starting in 1970, and all bought in around 2/3 years.
  • Wishbone Ash – Wishbone Ash
  • Yes – The Yes Album
  • Free – Live
  • Jethro Tull – Living in the Past
  • Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
  • Jimi Hendrix – Isle of Wight
  • Wishbone Ash – Pilgrimage
  • Neil Young – Harvest
  • Yes – Fragile
  • Deep Purple - Fireball
 
RJohan said:
Don't tell anyone here, but I actually liked Boney M (In a away it led me to discover real American soul music). Quite certain the girl on that cover didn't sing on the record...
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I'm still fond of Boney M.

Apart from the tunes I don't think anyone from Boney M had any involvement in this record - it was from the time when you could buy cheaper versions of hit songs sung by someone else.
 
Darren L said:
Would they not have been considered pretty 'hip' at the time ? @paulfromcamden I can remember them on TOTP quite alot when I was a kid.
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I'm not sure they were ever quite as hip as Hendrix and Bowie but I was too young to know really.

It was kept next to my treasured copy of Superwombling I'd been given for Xmas and a bunch of my Mum's old 7"s including my absolute fave In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans.
 
Nigel said:
Easy. I have kept a written record of every album I have ever bought. Where from and how much it cost. Yep, sad but there you go.

First 10 with my own money, all 1977. Had a few Queen LP's previously, Xmas presents from family.

The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
Santana - Moonflower
Baker Gurvitz Army - Baker Gurvitz Army
Deep Purple - In Rock
Queen - News of the World
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
ELP - Works Volume 1
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same.

Used to swap records with friends and school chums a lot in those days, so only the two ELPs are still in my collection today.
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No sad at all, wish I had done the same.
 
Unlike Nigel I sadly never kept a log, but I will hazard a guess based on what I can remember owning early on (and still have luckily).

Blondie - Plastic Letters
Bowie - Ziggy and Aladdin Sane
The Clash - London Calling
Kate Bush - Kick Inside
Peter Gabriel - I
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Squeeze - Squeeze
 
I can remember the first. I was 11 and asked for Jonny Cash at San Quentin for my birthday. One of my favourite songs was 'Down Injun Canyon'. I was in my 50s before I heard it on the radio and realised it was actually 'Darling Companion'. Still got it and It would be in my desert island discs.
 
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