Wow that is a tough question. but I am 99% sure it was this
I was into David Bowie before moving on to my darker Heavy metal side 
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My first album was the second Chicago LP, given to me by my cousins for Christmas. The first album I bought with my own money was Pictures at an Exhibition by Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. I still listen to both these albums regularly (though on Spotify, lol).
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Miscellaneous section is one of the lamest parts of TB, if not the entire internet.
The Miscellaneous section is one of the lamest parts of TB, if not the entire internet.
Three milestones from early childhood that I remember:
The first albums I actually listened to with any regularity were in my parents' record collection:
- The Beatles Rubber Soul (no explanation necessary...and in hindsight, wow, what an awesome experience for a 5-year-old to grow up with!)
- The Liverpools I Want To Hold Your Hand (essentially a Beatles look-alike/sound-alike tribute/cover band...but my awareness of all The Beatles early mop-top hits came from these versions rather than the originals. Which seems almost criminal.)
- Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans Space Songs (the 1959 original album of science education via song, which included the original "The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas...", later performed by Sting on NBC's Night Music TV show, and even later covered by They Might Be Giants.)
The first album which was legitimately mine -- given to me as a birthday present -- was the soundtrack to Disney's animated The Jungle Book (Louis Prima's "I Wanna Be Like You" is killer!)
The first albums I actually spent my own money on, and the ones that were the real start of my eventually sizeable LP collection, were The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers, and Three Dog Night's Naturally.
The first albums I actually listened to with any regularity were in my parents' record collection:
- The Beatles Rubber Soul (no explanation necessary...and in hindsight, wow, what an awesome experience for a 5-year-old to grow up with!)
- The Liverpools I Want To Hold Your Hand (essentially a Beatles look-alike/sound-alike tribute/cover band...but my awareness of all The Beatles early mop-top hits came from these versions rather than the originals. Which seems almost criminal.)
- Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans Space Songs (the 1959 original album of science education via song, which included the original "The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas...", later performed by Sting on NBC's Night Music TV show, and even later covered by They Might Be Giants.)
The first album which was legitimately mine -- given to me as a birthday present -- was the soundtrack to Disney's animated The Jungle Book (Louis Prima's "I Wanna Be Like You" is killer!)
The first albums I actually spent my own money on, and the ones that were the real start of my eventually sizeable LP collection, were The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers, and Three Dog Night's Naturally.
I Get Around - Beach Boys and Can't You See That She is Mine - Dave Clark 5, a lot of good tunes out there in the mid to late sixties when I was a kid.
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just listened to some of it online. for an 8 year old at the time, i think i was a pretty hip kid.
The Ventures Play Telestar.
The first album I ever bought when I was 12 yrs old back in 1962. It was in mono and not stereo. I still have that very album that I bought even today! I loved instrumental surf music back then!
After 1962, I went the full spectrum of music. British rock, American rock, blues, hard rock, rock-a-billy, 50s rock n roll.........you name it! Nothing really gave me 100% satisfaction. And then, in the late 80s and early 90s, Dick Dale, Los Straitjackets, nearly all the original early 60s instro-surf and also 90s neo-instro surf.
Full circle! Back to instro-surf. It's my favorite music and will be 'til I die.
It all started with this album!
The first album I ever bought when I was 12 yrs old back in 1962. It was in mono and not stereo. I still have that very album that I bought even today! I loved instrumental surf music back then!
After 1962, I went the full spectrum of music. British rock, American rock, blues, hard rock, rock-a-billy, 50s rock n roll.........you name it! Nothing really gave me 100% satisfaction. And then, in the late 80s and early 90s, Dick Dale, Los Straitjackets, nearly all the original early 60s instro-surf and also 90s neo-instro surf.
Full circle! Back to instro-surf. It's my favorite music and will be 'til I die.
It all started with this album!
My first album was Led Zeppelin I. I was at my cousins house and after his parents heard the second song they made us turn it off.
"Amos Moses" by Jerry Reed & "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed(I liked the bass rif, go figure. Two for $1.00 at the 45 rack at the five and dime. I was eleven. I still have them. Then it was "Troglodyte" by The Jimmy Caster Bunch. I was a strange kid.
Jimi Hendrix greatest hits... actually a few hits and some B sides...... followed by live Cream and Zep 1.
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Yep, we had that 45 in our household. I was 7 when it came out, so I doubt I was the one who bought it.
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