what was the VERY first album that you ever bought? ( with your OWN money) :smth023
I'm quite intersted in what inspired the music in our souls.. and influences of our *ahem* youth..
no rules here.. because i guess some albums ( not C.D.'s) may be of The Cure...
so.. tell me .. and why???
Dont know if it was the first, but I remember buying "Apetit for destruction" from Guns n Roses back in 1990/1991 8)
Cheap Trick -- Live at Budokan , when I was 13 years old.
Haven't thought of that one in a long time! Boy, did I love the track Surrender...
Well, what about you, Scatcat?
Quote from: dsanchez on April 10, 2008, 21:02:25
Dont know if it was the first, but I remember buying "Apetit for destruction" from Guns n Roses back in 1990/1991 8)
Very good choice!!!!!! :smth023
I love that album..imo the best one from guns!!!!! :smth049 :smth049 :smth049
I can't remember the first album I bought, but I suppose it was one from an italian artist... :)
FEAR OF THE DARK
BY IRON MAIDEN
PS
MAYBE THERE WAS SOMETHING BEFORE THAT, BUT THIS WAS A REAL OCCASION...
Slade - Play it Loud
Oh, forgot - because they were the first group I ever saw live.
The soundtrack for The Lost Boys way back in 1987--on vinyl! Still have it too.:-D
Now this is a real memory tester!! I'm pretty sure I bought a T-REX album. Can't remember the name of of it at the moment, but how I loved Marc Bolan! I was around 13 years old ( a whole lifetime ago!) and my standard dress code was black cord levis, black bubble blouse ( remember them!!), black eyeliner. I'm sure my parents thought "Why can't she like Johnny Farnham, as her friends do??"... but somehow, Sadie The Cleaning Lady just didn't "do" it for for me!! I had a huge poster of Marc Bolan on my wall, with his huge mop of hair, makeup and alluring eyes!! How I cried when he was killed in a car accident. wow, so many memories of so long ago..
"I'm just a vampire for your lo-ah-oh-love, and I'm gunna SUCK ya"...
found that line oddly thrilling... I was only 13 remember!!
" You're my woman of gold and you're not very old ah-ha-ha"...
was, of course, sung for me!!
BTW..if you're thinking "why not the Cure"?... Robert was 11 years old at the time... :shock:
I think its in 1996..
I bought Nirvana Unplugged in New York album. My elder cousin influence me on this.
In my place specifically said, Malaysia..its too hard to find great exposure on international music at that time. Internet was not being used. Thus, to know The Cure or other U K's band at that time is somehow impossible. Thats what i really regret. :cry:
:-D okay, here is mine.. after checking my record collection... from 1980..
adam and the ants -kings of the wild frontier.!! ;)
.. i thought it was hoodoo gurus , but stonage romeos came out in 1984, same year i bought my first Cure album- Concert!! :smth023
1984 i had started my first part-time job, while still at school, so my money went on music from there... and has never stopped. :lol:
haha.. again upon checking my record collection.. i discovered an album from 1979..
michael jackson - off the wall ( when he was still black :-D)
BUT i am sure I did NOT but this myself... :smth011
just veering off topic for a mo... last night, I saw in the tv book that on abc2, there was T-Rex, Born to Boogie concert at 10.30pm. WELL!! Was I excited!
Now, I don't wish to speak ill of the dead BUT it is fair to say that Marc Bolan sounded hideous live. Abysmal, Weak and pathetic. I couldn't believe my ears.
Goes to show how much a studio can improve and embellish certain artists!!
*PPpFFtTTt* my bubble was burst.... :smth088
My first was Plastic Letters by Blondie.
I think my dad let me buy it as he prolly had a thing for Debbie Harry.
Still, I absolutely adored Presence Dear & the rest of the album was just as good, if not better.
Quote from: scatcat on April 11, 2008, 05:53:51
adam and the ants -kings of the wild frontier.!! ;)
:smth017 Must have missed that one.
Although I have a vague recollection of a pretty cute guy singing "don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do? Goodie two shoes..." who I think was called Adam Ant... any relation?
Led Zeppelin III ... or Aerosmith's "Toys in the Attic"
SEEMS LIKE THE AGE OF 12 IS THE TIME TO START BUYING YOUR OWN ALBUMS...
:?
Hahah this is funny, I bought my first record, well, single it was, when I was only 10 or something, and you see, I was into shortsighted pop, my musical taste was not so defined yet ahaha, the single was
Alicia Kease - I keep on falling
(I don't even know if I write her name well XD)
I feel like such a stupid, you guys all bought great records right away, with me it took a year or 2 :p
The difference between a 10 year old and a 12-13 year old is quite enormous. At 10, you are still a kid, at 12-13 you (think) you are quite the grown-up, as you are entering those wonderful teen years! I can't remember what I listened to at 10, hurts my brain to try and think about 40 years ago!! I can guarantee you though, it wouldn't have been any sort of "pop" music! So frog_s, don't feel silly, it was quite a "sophisticated" choice for a 10 year old!!
Quote from: melly on April 14, 2008, 04:49:41
The difference between a 10 year old and a 12-13 year old is quite enormous. At 10, you are still a kid, at 12-13 you (think) you are quite the grown-up, as you are entering those wonderful teen years! I can't remember what I listened to at 10, hurts my brain to try and think about 40 years ago!! I can guarantee you though, it wouldn't have been any sort of "pop" music! So frog_s, don't feel silly, it was quite a "sophisticated" choice for a 10 year old!!
THATS RIGHT!
WHEN YOU'RE A KID, YOU'LL LISTEN ANYTHING THAT COMES YOUR WAY ON TV, RADIO,...
Quote from: melly on April 14, 2008, 04:49:41
The difference between a 10 year old and a 12-13 year old is quite enormous. At 10, you are still a kid, at 12-13 you (think) you are quite the grown-up, as you are entering those wonderful teen years! I can't remember what I listened to at 10, hurts my brain to try and think about 40 years ago!! I can guarantee you though, it wouldn't have been any sort of "pop" music! So frog_s, don't feel silly, it was quite a "sophisticated" choice for a 10 year old!!
otherwise fully agreed, but personally i'd leave out the word "wonderful".
being 13 was utterly miserable and genuinely nothing but sheer torment, in six (=dozens!) of different ways. and i'd never ever want to re-live that time again. :x
Quote from: japanesebaby on April 14, 2008, 19:40:04
in six of different ways.
:smth023
1) ACNE
2) ALWAYS GREASY HAIR
3) NEVER FITTING CLOTHES
4) LOVE FAILURES
5) SCHOOL TROUBLES
6) CRUMBLING FRIENDISHIPS AND BULLYS
:D
Well, on the topic of kiddie music...my son's first album when he was 8 (ok, he didn't buy it with his own money because he didn't have any, but he specifically requested it as a birthday present) was Californication , Red Hot Chili Peppers. And I got to hear it constantly, several times a day, for at least three months. :roll:
(I must say I wouldn't have let him have it if he'd spoken English.....some of those lyrics...! :shock:)
Quote from: Janko on April 14, 2008, 21:38:23
Quote from: japanesebaby on April 14, 2008, 19:40:04
in six of different ways.
:smth023
1) ACNE
2) ALWAYS GREASY HAIR
3) NEVER FITTING CLOTHES
4) LOVE FAILURES
5) SCHOOL TROUBLES
6) CRUMBLING FRIENDISHIPS AND BULLYS
:D
I should have put "wonderful" in inverted commas, I was being a little sarcastic. Although, looking at Jankos list above, I think I came out of those years pretty well. None of the above related to me. A charmed life I must have lead!!
ScCCRREEECChhHHhhh....veering off topic again...sorry...
@Robiola..what a groovy little guy, wanting the Chillies!!
Ah...my first album that I purchased was on my 12th birthday in 1982. Judas Priest, Screaming for Vengeance.
I think that was followed by The Cars, Candy-O
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on cassette.....and my goff life started :-D
Quote from: robiola on April 12, 2008, 23:32:00
Quote from: scatcat on April 11, 2008, 05:53:51
adam and the ants -kings of the wild frontier.!! ;)
:smth017 Must have missed that one.
Although I have a vague recollection of a pretty cute guy singing "don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do? Goodie two shoes..." who I think was called Adam Ant... any relation?
yes.. the exact same one and only ( McLaren-formulated I'm sure) Adam Ant.. ( tried his hand at a serious actor decades later, , but bummed!)
Surely you mean "bombed"???
Bummed tends to mean....er....something rather different. :shock:
i've tried to think but i honestly can't remember.
i can very clearly remember almost all the stuff i had on cassettes back then in the beginning of time... i remember that very detailedly, all those silly "compilations tapes" that i used to do etc. but i think all my stuff was cassette copies made from friends' casettes, not originals. **) for the longest time i had all my music like this. i guess i never had any money to really buy anything myself(?). and/or i was also living in the middle of nowhere when i was a kid, far enough from all record stores so i didn't even have much possibilities to buy anything first hand. :? :oops:
**) ah all those lovely multigenerational cassette copies... :oops: i do remember how i had gotten so used to the generated sound on some tapes that i thought the albums were supposed to sound like that - and then later on i bought the original and it was a real disappointment to me, to listen to it and notice that it didn't sound anything at all like i recalled. i remember being annoyed and angry about that - even though i actually should have been happy that i actually got a rather huge upgrade there. :-P
Quote from: scatcat on April 17, 2008, 17:29:12
adam and the ants -kings of the wild frontier.!! ;)
Adam Ant.. ( tried his hand at a serious actor decades later, , but bummed!)
I LOVED THE SONG
KILLER IN THE HOME ITS AWESOME!!!
BY THE WAY, ADAM WENT (LITERALLY) MAD IN THE EARLY 90'S, CHECK HIS BIO...
:?
Quote from: Steve on April 17, 2008, 20:13:51
Surely you mean "bombed"???
Bummed tends to mean....er....something rather different. :shock:
:smth043 :smth046
yes, you got me there.. i did mean "bombed'.. :smth047
I don't really remember but i think it must have been the Spice Girls in 1996 :oops: Oh the shame!
Quote from: Hero on April 18, 2008, 20:02:29
I don't really remember but i think it must have been the Spice Girls in 1996 :oops: Oh the shame!
it's not shame to love some other very different kind of music :D
Quote from: Hero on April 18, 2008, 20:02:29
I don't really remember but i think it must have been the Spice Girls in 1996 :oops: Oh the shame!
Hahaha I loved the spice girls tooo :D
Haha thinking back of it I get all nostalgic, it was the time BEFORE all the acne, bullying and not fitting cloths stuff haha. I was so young and happy and innocent :smth083