Actually I may have bought some "Now" albums prior to that. People who were young in the late 80s would have had parents who had better music collections, and LPs were relatively cheaper and so I assume you would start owning your records at an earlier age. By the 70s I think LPs cost about 30/- or 1.50 pounds and that took about 3 or 4 hours of washing up to pay for. I think it cost 19/11 in 1963, which is 1 pound. The first album I owned was 'Please, Please Me' by the Beatles because someone in the playground told me it was the latest thing at the age of 6 or 7, and I asked for it for Christmas (Christmas 1963 I suppose that would have been). As my father had neither, and I couldn't afford to buy LPs until I was 14-15 it meant that I skipped buying anything until a relatively hip Velvet Underground LP when I was 15. If he had have had a good music system and a decent record collection I might have been influenced by that. My father had a rubbish record deck in a Grundig radiogram with a ceramic cartridge. In the 60s and 70s LPs were relatively more expensive you couldn't afford to buy records until you got your first part time job, like washing up in a restaurant in my case at about the age of 14. The staff of Championship Vinyl were pussies in comparison. Incidentally, although I can't argue with the joint evils of Amazon, Tesco and Apple, some of the guys that worked in the old school record shops were monsters! It took real courage to take your choices up to them to pay - they'd just laugh in your face at your pathetic lack of cool. I guess everybody's developing musical taste depends on so many different things - parents, older siblings, radio. In fact I'm surprised that nobody else has copped to buying a Now compilation (or equivalent) as their first purchase, or "Bubbles sing the hits of Abba" or some other hideous clone album that got hawked dirt cheap in the supermarkets. When you buy your first Neil Young (and like it!) you'll know deep down that you've made the step. Us superior beings just instantly blossomed into music buyers with fully formed mature and sophisticated musical taste But I'm sure that if you keep trying, young Jedi, you too will learn the true path. I really feel in awe of these people who remember exactly what they bought as their first album - either their memories are infinitely superior to mine or they bought their first album much later. Drove aunt and uncle crazy playing it over and over on their living room console stereo in the evenings. I took it with me to work for my uncle running cable TV wiring between telephone poles the following summer. I can't remember the first complete album I bought with my own disposable resources, but a fairly early one was Woodstock - the 3 album set circa 1970. Re-reading the original OP's question - the first album you bought - I should correct my original response. Many of the albums being listed here, especially in the pop / rock genres, are in the collections of my brother or self. This thread is really making me nostalgic. I'm tempted to get a 78 capable tt and cart to enjoy them again. These are still in the basement at mom's house. I guess I was too busy being rebellious and wanting to listen to what my friends were listening to. Could have had some great times with my dad listening to these if I'd been more open to it at the time. My dad had a number of 78s of the big bands and a pretty decent Heathkit mono rig, but I didn't pay much attention at the time. Ironic that jazz seems to have always had a greater following in Europe than in the US, even though we claim it as our own here in the US. At the time they had a great jazz on vinyl collection with many of the classic Blue Note recordings and many others. I didn't start discovering jazz until college in the '70s when the University radio station was a low power student operated station with friends who DJ'ed on it. I am still looking for a digital version of this swinging tactile well recorded album. It was 1980, I was 14 and my first was a live jazz album.Īnd I couldn't give a toss what anybody else thought!
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