First Album You Ever Bought

[Purple Haze]

I think some people on this thread are lying about their first albums...

 

[JBCorbell]

Do you know who the "M" is in A & M (without looking it up, of course)?

Jerry Moss of course. They brought a huge number of artists to popularity.

 

[Luk]

Damn. You people are old.

Hybrid Theory / Linkin Park

http://angelsantos.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/hybrid-theory.jpg

Linkin Park Place for my Head Hybrid Theory

That should kill off a few of you dinosaurs.

Ahhhh, to be young and have shitty taste in music again.

 

[JBCorbell]

Ahhhh, to be young and have shitty taste in music again.

That's what your parents said about you, but in this case you're right.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Jerry Moss of course. They brought a huge number of artists to popularity.

Very good. I give HB1965 credit as well. I believe in that enthusiasm.

 

[Luk]

That's what your parents said about you, but in this case you're right.

Nope, I was Black Sabbath and DK. Hell, I got kicked out of 5th grade for writing on a goodbye banner at school for writing new wave sucks, Black Sabbath rules.

 

[Peregrinator]

Do you know who the "M" is in A & M (without looking it up, of course)?

Nope.

ETA: I see the answer above though, and I must have heard it, since I heard about ol' Herb in a story about him on NPR.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

I think some people on this thread are lying about their first albums...

I agree. Not enough shitty picks... like mine!

I believe this is the first album I bought for myself:

http://211.115.79.143/rockgendata/album/20081029164212_song_album.jpg

 

[never_event]

Ahhhh, to be young and have shitty taste in music again.

It's not like we had the Beetles to pick from.

 

[Peregrinator]

We had that record at our house. There's at least two game show themes on there if I remember right. Heh heh...

Yup (wiki): Singles taken from the album included "A Taste of Honey," "Whipped Cream" and "Lollipops and Roses". The latter two of these were eventually featured on the ABC-TV series The Dating Game: "Whipped Cream" as the intro to the bachelorette, and "Lollipops and Roses" as the theme used when the bachelor(ette) learned about the person chosen for the date. ("Spanish Flea", a song taken from the TJB's next album Going Places, was used as the theme for the bachelor.)


Track list:

Side 1
"A Taste of Honey" {Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow} – 2:43
"Green Peppers" {Sol Lake} – 1:31
"Tangerine" {Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger} – 2:46
"Bittersweet Samba" {Sol Lake} – 1:46
"Lemon Tree" {Will Holt} – 2:23
"Whipped Cream" {Naomi Neville} – 2:33


Side 2
"Love Potion No. 9" {Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller} – 3:02
"El Garbanzo" {Sol Lake} – 2:13
"Ladyfingers" {Toots Thielemans} – 2:43
"Butterball" {Mike Henderson} – 2:12
"Peanuts" {Luis Guerrero} – 2:09
"Lollipops and Roses" {Tony Velona} – 2:27


I can still hear a lot of them in my head, and I bet I can still play a few lines from some of them from memory on the trumpet.

 

[HB1965]

Very good. I give HB1965 credit as well. I believe in that enthusiasm.

Ok I have one for you. What labels besides Geffen Records is Dave Geffen responsible for?

 

[Little Tighty]

Shaun Cassidy, Under Wraps.

It was 1978, I was 10.

I still have it.

 

[stickwork]

I think some people on this thread are lying about their first albums...

My first was Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis. I played it over and over while brushing my hair and looking at the mirror next to my Farrah Fawcett poster.

 

[Peregrinator]

Shaun Cassidy, Under Wraps.

It was 1978, I was 10.

I still have it.

He was SO CUTE!

My first was Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis. I played it over and over while brushing my hair and looking at the mirror next to my Farrah Fawcett poster.

I still have that one on vinyl too. Great album.

 

[RunningJib]

Simon & Garfunkel

Bookends. I was in junior high. I played it to death

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/1b/62/604a4310fca015f1cd919010.L._AA240_.jpg

 

[RunningJib]

My first Jazz Album

Miles Davis' In a Silent Way.

Must have been good. A roommate stole it.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VukNnp7sL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

 

[HB1965]

Shaun Cassidy, Under Wraps.

It was 1978, I was 10.

I still have it.

I had one of his too. The first one. My sister gave it to me for my birthday because she knew I liked the Hardy Boys show. She didn't know that it was Parker Stevenson I had the crush on.

 

[Peregrinator]

Miles Davis' In a Silent Way.

Must have been good. A roommate stole it.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VukNnp7sL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Atmas stole my Tom Leheher record.

 

[HB1965]

Bookends. I was in junior high. I played it to death

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/1b/62/604a4310fca015f1cd919010.L._AA240_.jpg

Awesome album.

 

[RunningJib]

Nope, not me

I think some people on this thread are lying about their first albums...

I'm older than dirt.

My first albums were ten inch vinyl recordings. Not an 8-track, not a cassette and certainly not a CD. Good old fashion, 33 1/3 vinyl played upon my parent's RCA Hi-Fi

 

[Lady Reiha]

I was about Twelve when I bought this:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qMoeHYXfX7I/Rz586vckvNI/AAAAAAAAAKs/STkicwdQhmI/s400/df85f7.jpg

Still have it as well. And I am proud to admit, I will forever be a KoRn fan

 

[KRCummings]

Whatever was on these.

http://i33.tinypic.com/hwdfue.jpg

I had one of those. I don't remember what was on them either.

 

[RunningJib]

Yes it is

Awesome album.

Here's something to take you back: http://www.last.fm/music/Simon%2B%2526%2BGarfunkel/_/At+The+Zoo?autostart

 

[HB1965]

Here's something to take you back: http://www.last.fm/music/Simon%2B%2526%2BGarfunkel/_/At+The+Zoo?autostart

thank you

ETA: I love that line. "Orangutans are skeptical of change..."

 

[Lady Reiha]

I had one of those. I don't remember what was on them either.

I had one too. I think there was "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", "Old MacDonald," and a few other marvelous hits on there.


I think the Twinkle Twinkle one was on the purple disc.