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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...

  • the first single or 45 record you ever bought (though that would be a fun playlist)
  • the first K-Tel compilation you owned (or other crappy top 40 compilation sold off the TV)
  • the first kids album you had - this is a Chipmunks free zone...

This IS...

  • about the very first album you seriously bought
  • the one that started the colleciton you have today!

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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Bob Seger
Night Moves
1976

1 - Sunspot Baby
2 - Come to Poppa

Popular music critic Robert Christgau feels that the riffs on Night Moves are classic rock and roll riffs, like those performed by Chuck Berry or the Rolling Stones, and feels that the album is about rock and roll for those who are no longer in their teens, like the song "Rock and Roll Never Forgets". The Rolling Stone review of the album by Kit Rachlis stated that the album is one of the best to come out of 1976-77, that Seger sounds like Rod Stewart and writes lyrics like Bruce Springsteen, and that album is classic rock and roll. The only problem that Rachlis had with the album was the production not being strong enough. A later review of the album by Stephen Thomas Erlewine for Allmusic says that the album was very similar to Beautiful Loser, but Night Moves is harder than Beautiful Loser. Erlewine also feels that the album has a wide range of styles and has not lost any of its influence years later.

Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
1975

The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 over a year after entering the chart, spent 37 weeks within the top 10, and more than fifteen months within the top 40. It launched three top twenty singles: "Over My Head", "Rhiannon" and "Say You Love Me", the last two falling just short of the top ten, both at No. 11. In 1976, it was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA representing shipments of five million units.

Until the release of this album, Fleetwood Mac's albums generally sold around 300,000 – 350,000 copies apiece. This album helped launch them as musical superstars with an almost constant radio presence (which would be continued with their even more popular follow-up, Rumours). In 2003, the album was ranked No. 182 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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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.

I should've known better...  

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!! 

It wasn't exactly the same, was it? I think some of the tracks was replaced with a few single-hits, not appearing on SFA. Kind of like, that Magical Mystery Tour wasn't an album including Penny Lane, Stawberry Fields and All You Need Is Love. But the main thing is, that you loved DB:-)
1ST ALBUM HEARD KISS ALIVE!
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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.

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