Naw you're right. Based on the demographics of this board, To the Extreme, Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, or Jagged Little Pill should have been mentioned by now.
Unrelated, but your comment reminded me of one of my favorite songs <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/EhVLiHPUOIM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
As the world's biggest Queen fan -- I've owned Brian May's Guild guitar since 1994 and spent an entire paycheck on Smile bootlegs back in high school -- lay off. He was just making a joke about the Family Guy episode. First album (as a gift, from my parents) was 'Thriller,' followed by a Squeeze greatest hits LP (I had good taste in my pre-kindergarten years. First tape that I bought with allowance money was 'Magical Mystery Tour,' because it was the only Beatles tape available at that Musicland that my parents didn't have a good copy of on LP. First CD with allowance money was Paul McCartney's 'All the Best' greatest hits disc. First tapes/CDs bought with my illegal dishwashin' money in 1992? Too many to recall, I took that cash and went right to Musicland. Queen, Geto Boys, Replacements, Body Count (cassette single, not the whole album), Shakespeare's Sister, Tin Machine, ChangesBowie and the one Sex Pistols album were all in that haul. EDIT: Like an above poster said, I'm shocked that there aren't more embarrassing picks or more Michael Jackson references here. Like, my third album (again, as a gift when I was a tiny lad) was a Culture Club LP. Which I still have and listened to recently and ... OK, it's not great.
This thread really has me reminiscing about what an incredibly immersive experience it used to be to get a new long play record and listen to it for the first time. I haven't thought about it in a while, but I suddenly miss it. After tearing the plastic off, you'd pull that record out, look it over to make sure it was clean and unblemished, then gently set it on the turntable. You'd have to very gently lift the lever to raise the arm, position the needle over the beginning and just as gently drop it. No such thing as fast forward, so you'd hear that little crackle at the beginning and listen to the entire first side before flipping it and doing it all again for the B side - no ADHD skipping around allowed. And while this listening was happening, you'd sit and look through the album cover. There were always all kinds of notes, lyrics, etc. Even on CD's where they try to keep that alive, the packaging is so small you can't see it - like the difference between watching TV and seeing a movie in the theater. There were often inserts, like posters. The art was a really big deal - tons of money sunk into art or photographs. The packaging was integral to the experience. In the cool albums there were hidden things, like Led Zeppelin IV, where you hold it against a mirror and the old man on the mountain turns into a devil head. Now, when you buy new music, its like the background soundtrack while you are running around doing other stuff. Back then it was like an entire ritual about the music. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you don't know what you missed. Good times.
Bought it as soon as it came out. I was 14/15 at the time. Loved every song, especially "Never Gonna Stop".
Was this really your first album bought? What age were you when you bought it if you don't mind me asking? I can't imagine a kid hearing robert miles and buying an album as their first one. <br> Mine was:
I think it was Scarface the World is Yours, whatever crap Eazy-E feud album he made before he died and then that summer Midnight Marauders by Tribe Called Quest. I think I stopped regularly following music for a decade after that until Kazaa/I-Tunes, then it was just tame stuff I heard on soft-rock in the car, like King Harvest or Supertramp.
:grin: Okay, now we're talking. N'Sync. Creed. Space Jam. Neil Diamond is actually both awesome and believable as a first album though. Respek.
This is a fun thread...brings back lots of good memories. I clearly remember the first two albums I ever bought. First one was U2 - Zooropa. Second one was Duran Duran (self-titled album with the wedding photo cover)
