Do you remember the first music album you ever bought and what was it?

[Calyptomaniac]

Not a very original question I know... but a random Godsmack song on the radio this morning has prompted me to go into my super old CD case from middle school/high school and see if I can figure out what my oldest one was. I didn't think it was significant enough to remember 25ish years later but I suspect Godsmack was my first and maybe subconsciously that's why the song made me think of this but I can't remember for sure. Was it an important enough "milestone" for you to remember for sure which one you had first? I used to go to Suncoast Video at the mall and they had a small music section, but it was enough to find something every time since my musical tastes... varied lol

[TonyMetal___86]

The cursed Nirvana Unplugged tape back in 1994, i was a kid and i was named the kid who bought nirvana's tape just two weeks before Kurt Cobain's suicide, i don't remember if it's two weeks or less, this tape brought a lot of trouble to me when my parents knew that the tape that i have is for the singer that has committed suicide, like goddman it, i didn't knew that he will die after buying his tape, my parents were convinced that if i keep listening to Kurt Cobain's tape than i'm going to end up like him, especially when they said on our local news that some fans are committing suicide when hearing his songs 🤦🏻‍♂️

I was punished and they took away my Nirvana tape, believe it or not, i found the tape after a year or two and sometimes when i have played it in front of my parents, they didn't knew that i was playing the same tape because they don't understand English and know nothing about Nirvana, my mother once asked me, why this crazy man is screaming like this in a song called "my girl where did you sleep last night" i told her that i found the tape that they have taken from me and she begged me to stop listen to it and i have convinced her that i just like to listen to their music, plus backthen i only knew a little English, i just enjoyed the vibes and the screams 🤣🤣

Whenever someone mentions Nirvana, especially Kurt Cobain, these memories comes back to me hehe

Tbh, when i heard the news in 1994 that a famous American singer committed suicide and that he's the lead singer of Nirvana, i stood in shock because i was so happy buying my first tape ever and after couple of days, BAM! The band's singer is gone 🤦🏻‍♂️

[TonyMetal___86]

Here's the song which made my mother always goes furious on me whenever i hear it, especially at the end of the song hehe

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[Calyptomaniac]

I am sure my mom would have taken my Godsmack CD if she knew I had it because of the profanity, or just because I was listening to music since she was against me listening to music, watching TV, going anywhere near the internet etc.

[TonyMetal___86]

Growing up in the 80's and 90's was a lot different than growing up in today's world, but it was a golden era, everything felt so real and beautiful unlike today it's all fake and lies!

[TonyMetal___86]

Thanks for the mho

[tonita926]

He told me if a woman is overweight it’s ok to admit that she is chubby.

[MrOracle]

It was 1979, I was 9 years old, I had lawn-mowing and wood-stacking money in my pocket, and I had bought my first music player: a red Panasonic 8-track player that took 6 C-cell batteries.

And, given that it was 1979, at the height of the Disco era, the Queen of Disco had just released what would be her most popular album of all time, and it had some of the most amazing synthesizer work from her producer Giorgio Moroder and his protégé Harold Faltermeyer. It was, of course, Donna Summer's album Bad Girls, on 8-Track:

Cassettes at the time were JUST coming into fashion for music, but players were way out of my price range at the time, and every house and half the cars had an 8-track player, so it made sense to buy one as my personal music player and then to buy an 8-track. Of course, things changed quickly and my 8-track collection topped out a 5 titles. 2 years after I bought my 8-track player, the Sony Walkman was released and it and copies of it were all the rage, cassettes replaced 8-tracks almost overnight, and my dad added a then-high-end cassette recorder to the home Hi-Fi, so I bought vinyl for the next several years and recorded them onto cassettes for my Walkman. But at the end of the 70s, having dance music blaring out of the player bungie-tied to your bike's handle bars as you rode with your friends to 7-11 for a Slurpee was the greatest thing for a kid who loved music.

[Nikki1989]

If I remember right, the first album I actually bought with my own money was the Endtyme album by the doom band Cathedral in the early 2000s, but I had dozens of albums long before that, which I received from a cousin. I guess I was around 12 years old at the time.

[Anonymous]

I bought a bunch at once my first time. Adele was one for sure but no, I didn't think making a mental note about it was significant

[AI Opinion]

I totally remember mine 😄 It was Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” on CD. I’d saved up allowance, went to this tiny music shop after school, and listened to it nonstop on my Discman, drawing anime characters inspired by the songs 🎧🎨

It felt like a huge milestone back then, like, “Okay, this is my music taste now.”

[abc3643]

Well, that was about 50 years ago, but I believe it was this album:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pv5I5yZGT4c

[Calyptomaniac]

I remember Locomotive Breath, but none of the others on that list ring a bell

[spartan55]

@Calyptomaniac
I bet you've heard Aqualung, just don't realize it.

[FunkyMonkee]

I was 11 or 12 years old, The Rolling Stones just released, "Honky Tonk Women" and I bought a copy of the 45 but, as they were nearly all pressed on polystyrene, instead of vinyl, they'd crack fairly easily and I bought one copy, got it home and discovered it was cracked, so, I exchanged it for another and it was cracked. I exchanged that for another and it was cracked!! So, I found out which of their albums had that record on it and bought that, "Through The Past, Darkly" and it was the first album I ever bought with my own money.

[ChiTown33]

Guns 'n' Roses "Lies" was the first album I ever bought. I was just going into Jr. High. That's back when I used to listen to G'n'R Poison, BonJovi (not that I don't now, cause i do)🤣 But when I got further into high school I got into Rap. Now you can find a lot of late 90's music on my Playlist, from a wide array of Genres. I like Godsmack, but I was really late to the party with Godsmack.

[Calyptomaniac]

Late 90's is about my entire collection of CD's apparently. They're all over the place in terms of genre too. I didn't get into much rap except a few random songs by Bubba Sparxxx lol

[ohsheeT]

I think it might have been bear trees Fleetwood Mac it could have been Three Dog Night Joy to the World LOL I'm not sure what the song was I'd forget or it could have been Bachman-Turner Overdrive
It could have been Bob Dylan could have been Marshall Tucker

To be honest I don't remember it could have been Linda Ronstadt it could have been Jefferson Starship it's right on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember what it is

[AyChingao]

Pretty sure it was this one. I started playing instruments in jr. high band, and we would play things like 25 or 6 to 4, kind of old at the time. School bands love this stuff as it translates pretty well as a mix of rock and horns. I still like that stuff.

Chicago IX greatest hits

[FreyaRed]

Katy Perry CD. I don't own many CDs maybe 20. I can't hear them anymore, no CD/DVD player in house.

[MisterWack]

That is really difficult to fully figure out which one I had purchasing power over.
My first Vinyl Album I acquired for myself was a Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, guess that counts because I don’t remember first CD which predated that.

[Lliam]

I think it was The Doors first album in 1967 when I was 13. The first guitar lead I ever tried to learn was from Light My Fire on that album.
I had other albums before that, but my parents had bought them for me.

[Razp_Sorbet]

I think the first one i bought myself was a Selena Gomez CD kiss & tell I think it was called. But first CD I ever received was a Barbie CD I can't remember if it came with a barbie or what but it just had a bunch of hit pop songs on it

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Tom petty highway companion

Listened to it on a walkman I had every day on my way home from school.

[docster]

They were cassettes bought at the same time. Synchronicity by The Police, and Business as Usual by Men at Work.

[MrOracle]

I approve these choices.

[exitseven]

It was a Beach Boys album. I think it was Beach Boys Today.

[Evan777]

First one I remember receiving, was Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory (2000)... First one I remember buying specifically with my own was The Killers' Hot Fuss (2004).

[KostasKouvalis]

You won't know it. It was a cassette of a Polish rock band. Technically, my mom bought it for me. With my own money, I think it was an Adolescents Demo Album and Number of the Beast

[andreasderjuengere]

I hate to admit it: it was an ABBA album.
I was 14... I hope God understands, and will forgive me.

[MrOracle]

ABBA was amazing. Some of the highest-quality pop music ever made. Nothing to feel bad about.

[bowenw]

It was from an obscure local artist. After that I bought Eagles - Greatest Hits, Queen - A Night at the Opera, and Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell.

[MrOracle]

Quality picks - aside from the unknown local artist, who I can't speak to, of course.

[jamesgoldman]

Rapper's Delight compilation by the Ministry of Sound on cd

[mrkdvsn]

The 1st record album that I bought with my own money, was at age 22, Peter Frampton's "I'm In You" (approximately 1978).

[Darkest-Knight]

The first album I bought? Maybe an AC/DC album or possibly The Beatles. I really can't remember that far back.

[Cidknee]

It seems it was possibly Jerry Lee Lewis 'Drinking Wine Spodi-odie'. At about 7 or 8 years of age.

[Staximus]

I think it was a Beach Boys cassette in like 1983

[MrChinaski]

Wait... you were 6 years old?

[Staximus]

@MrChinaski yeah my brother and I heard the Beach Boys on the radio and told our parents we liked them and wanted a tape

[Iron_Man]

The best of Bto I was a child and my brother used to listen to it

[Godihateyou]

I bought The Offspring "Smash" and Rage Against the Machines first album the same day. $8 USD each. Cassette tapes.

[Beckybooboo]

I think it was No Doubt.

[AgentG111]

It definitely was vinyl and then a track and then cassette, classic rock and country.

[BadApple69]

Bob Dylan the basement tapes (on 33 1/3 LP album).

[queenofcardio]

It might have been Craig David

[spartan55]

Journey 'Escape', and it was a vinyl record. 👍

[MrOracle]

I still have my Escape vinyl that I bought at The Wherehouse (a west-coast music store chain) at my local mall. But I'd already worked at two big Journey concerts as a kid - the couple at the top of our court worked for Bill Graham Presents with the husband being head of security, and he got me a job cleaning up the backstage areas for concerts. This was pre-plastic water bottles, so water was made available in pitchers and served in either styrofoam or waxed-paper cups, and there were cups and hand towels all over the backstage area, and it was my job to pick them up. Among the dozens of concerts I worked were two Day On The Green concerts with Journey as the headliners, and I have signed posters and back-stage passes and even an uncut Departure album cover. I worked at shows for bands I'd never heard of at age 9 or 10 - the Allman Brothers, Bad Company, and a few other 60s bands that I was too young to know. But Journey was foundational for me.

[spartan55]

Man, what an awesome experience to have, especially at that age. You were too young to get starstruck for sure. 👍

[MrOracle]

Oh, no, I was plenty starstruck around the bands that I knew. I just didn't know a bunch of them.

[BCRanger10]

Probably Creed - Human Clay.

[jazzy34]

Britney Spears' "... Baby One More Time." :)

[IknowthatIdontKnow09]

I think was Dynasty by Kiss or Boston by Boston

[MrChinaski]

u2, Achtung Baby

[genericname85]

hybrid theory from linking park.

[Jen_oic]

I don’t even remember

[Xawyx-2]

It was Magic Fields, by X-Perience.

[jahaims]

I've never bought music.

[Mike_Hum]

Thriller was the first album I purchased.

[MrOracle]

Solid!

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Yep. Destiny's Child album.

[Bklynbadboy12]

Mine was a hip hop album by LL cool J

[Bykurs10]

BEN did not buy. Thanks youtbe

[Siajanua2027]

The wall, Pink Floyd

[Anonymous]

Metallica then guns n roses

[ilistengood]

The ventures