My first album was ____________ by ______________ ...
Yup, this week were talking about the first album you ever purchased. Now lets make a couple of key distinctions.
This is NOT...
This IS...
So with that said heres mine, and its a two-fer.
But first, a bit of history...
My earliest memories of music that I really liked was my oldest brothers Monkees and Tommy James and Shondells Greatest Hits record. Totally dug everything about those.
Then my other brother got into heavier stuff, he listened to stuff like The Beatles White Album, Grand Funk, Uriah Heep, Ted Nugent and Amboy Dukes, Styx (real early stuff too), Skynyrd, Kansas, etc...
And finally my sister who I thought owned two 8-tracks total, Little River Bands self-titled american debut and the follow-up Diamantina Cocktail. Turns out she owned more, but thats all she listened to, go figure.
All foundational to me. But these two albums were my first because of two songs. Monday Morning and Mainstreet. Both of which struck me in a new way and thats where I started my collection, with a dual purchase of Fleetwood Mac and Bob Segers Night Moves. Not a bad start if I don't say so myself!
Now its your turn, listen, and repsond with your first album...
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I think My first album was the soundtrack to "The Spy Who Loved Me" by Marvin Hamlisch with Carly Simon singing the title track.
The first two that I remember purchasing were Van Halen II and Destroyer. The first two I remember playing often that belonged to my sister were Bad Company's Run With The Pack and BTO's BTO II.
So you got your first albums in 1979
I got "Destroyer" for my birthday (12 years old, 9th of April 1977). I had been a "fan" since January, and had already posters of the band including a blodspitting Gene on my wall. I remember seeing "Destroyer" and "Rock'n'roll Over" at the local record-shop in January, not really knowing, that the latter was brand-new. But "Destroyer" is certainly the album, that started it all.
I remember my oldest sister, having Hendrix on her wall, and my parents talking about, that he had just died.
Sweet's "Fanny Adams" was the first album, I heard, that was kind of Heavy Rock, and that I really liked. My other sister got that in 1974, I think. Around that time, BTO's "Not Fragile" and maybe a year after "A Night At The Opera" also got played a lot around the house.
The first "rocksongs", that comes to my mind, that I really liked and noticed were probably Beatles "Hello And Goodbye" and Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime" around 1970.
I remember being around 5, reading my new Donald Duck-comicbook, looking at an add for the new Beatles-album "Let It Be", thinking something like "What are these old bearded dudes doing in my comic-book?".
In the US that Sweet release was titled Desolation Boulevard. And I remember my friends brother playing it very loudly the first time I heard it. Loved it!!
Mine was "With The Beatles"....which was it's title in Europe, I believe. I think in America it was called "Meet The Beatles". Other early albums included The Monkees, Paul Revere and The Raiders, and The Standells. And then a little later, CCR's "Cosmos Factory", "Green River", and "Willy And The Poor Boys".
I listened to these four songs. Just thought you should know.
I think THE album that started me down the path was "The Wall". Even though I had another rock album or two, that's the album that pushed me over the edge. Don't know why, but glad it did or else I wouldn't have met all you fine folks would probably be listening to country music still.
Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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