Remember When You Were Young....

First single was House of the Rising Sun by The Animals with birthday money from my gran. I was only 7.

First 45 was Wig Wam Bam by the Sweet , it had a big hole in the middle for use on juke boxes I think , you had to get a small plastic insert that clipped in the middle so you could play it on normal record players , like the one I had where you could stack the 45,s one on top of another and it automatically played them one after another .. I think he limit was about 5 then it started to slip .. The Sweet were brilliant went on to be pretty decent adult type rockers with Desolation Boulevard , Sweet FA and Oxygen .. 

first LP Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart , proper grown up music , still listen to it today , we both had a feather type hair cut , Rod obviously went on to have Britt Ekland as a girlfriend and a playboy life style - I got a Job as a messenger post boy on a youth opportunity program at ICI at £18.50 a week , but apart from that we were much the same person ! Saw him live at Olympia and Earls Court , I used to have a picture disc of Blondes have more fun , not sure what happened to that .. All the early Rod Stewart stuff is spot on , lost interest a bit after Body Wishes though .. Roy

...First ALBUM you bought that you still listen to today....The album part is important imv.  G

Trilogy by ELP

I think my first album (LP) was Rolling Stones first it has gone missing in the interim Stones 2 is still hear, but they (Stones) don't get played  these days.

First singles, Little White Bull - Tommy Steele and Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price the first xmas after my mum and dad got a stereo record player.

Moody Blues Question of Balance. Hadn't listened to it in years until I bought it as a cheap cd a few years ago. I was amazed how good it still sounded and I listen to it quite regularly now.

It reminds me of those early post puberty days when I was starting to change from being a total nerd into a slightly older total nerd.

I can't remember which was first, but I clearly remember when the only 3 albums I had were Santana "Abraxas", "Best of Traffic", and Jefferson Starship "Blows Against the Empire"...I think the last was my first, and wondered if my mother would let me keep it because of the image of flying breasts on the back:

Magical Mystery Tour in synthetic stereo (US release).  Appropriately, but unwittingly, I played it on a mono TT (plastic-bodied, folding, portable; it was baby blue).  Still have the LP.  Fortunately, the TT is long gone.

It's all kind of a blur. First Compact Cassette was Bay City Rollers Greatest Hits.

The first album I remember taking the bus downtown to Tower Records to buy with my money and taking the plastic off was "All the World's a Stage" by Rush. The purchase being spurred by having heard "The Spirit of Radio" on the radio some short time before. Not sure why I didn't buy that album. Maybe I thought the double live album was a better value. Or Christmas was coming and I had already asked my mom to buy it for me? not sure. A blur. Was 10 years old.

Don't play "All the World's a Stage" too often but my original "Permanent Waves" is still the best sounding version I have of it out of 5, including a Holland Philips pressing and a Mobile Fidelity issue. 

Brilliant!

By coincidence Tom I played that album last night. A very good recording indeed. It's the first play for a number of years.

Steve

this has just brought me back with nice memories, i recall having Richie Blackmores rainbow rising, great head banging sessions

I must have been a "rich kid" as my parents bought me records.  They bought me the 45's of She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand, A Hard Days Night, and Light My Fire (obviously a few years later).  And plenty of cheesy 45's not worth mentioning.

Then they bought me a few LP's. I got Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall for Chanukah one year; I remember really wanting that!  And the soundtrack to Hair.

The first LP I bought with my own earned money was this I think. I don't even remember why I bought it! Of course I still listen to it (well, the cd; my lp's are long lost to the trash bin )

The concerns of a 12 year old - lol!  (I remember having the same concern about the much more obvious display of the woman on the cover of Abraxas.)  But Mo (our nickname for her) never said a thing...and of course I played those 3 albums till the grooves wore off them!

....and then I heard it and the rest is a very expensive history!  G

Superb choice .... if you are still a fan try the extraordinary Blackmore's Night ... very different, very Ritchie, very good 

thanks, will have a look

Just as well you didn't buy Electric Ladyland then!