[OVER 18's ONLY] Do you remember your first vinyl?

[NoJo]

1st Single: Iko Iko, Dixie cups
2nd Single: Black Girl, by <??? -- nope, it's gone>
3rd Single: Satisfaction, The Stones

1st Album: Donovan, Fairy Tale
2nd Album: Pink Floyd, Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3rd Album: Cream, Disraeli Gears

 

[neonlyte]

1st single - Take Five - Dave Brubeck

1st album - Nucleous - Ian Carr
ELP/Pink Floyd were there or their abouts

Just bought Dark Side of the Moon again this week. In fact I'm going to put it on!

 

[logophile]

My very first ever?

We were pretty into music so I started getting vinyl at an early age.
My first two came together with a little kid's turntable. They were a Seasame Street compilation album (Rubber Ducky, It's Not Easy Being Green, et al) and Alice In Wonderland.

My first *real* album? I think it was Rick Springfield, Tiger by the Tail. Or maybe Cyndi Lauper's first album.

But I had my older sister's record collection long before that. Elton John's Yellow Brick Road, Adam Ant, Wang Chung, Journey, Boston, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin.

Also, my mom's collection of George Carlin's standup, Woodstock, Jesus Christ Superstar, Buffy Saint Marie.

We had a lot of music. All different genres. It was good!

 

[rgraham666]

First single? I can't remember.

First album? Not sure. It was either Black Sabbath's Paranoid or Jethro Tull, Thick As A Brick

(Humming)

So you ride yourself over the fields.
And you make all your animal deals.
And your wise men don't know how it feels,
to be thick,
as a brick.

 

[TheEarl]

I'm over 18. What's a vinyl?

The Earl

I am kidding btw.

 

[matriarch]

*cringe*.....Frank Ifield. And I can't remember what it was called.
First album: The Beatles, Please Please me.

I was......15 I think.

 

[scheherazade_79]

I'm over 18. What's a vinyl?

The Earl

I am kidding btw.

Earl, I'm shocked!

I used to call them "records" - not sure if that's a Welsh thing, or a British thing in general.

My first was Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

 

[Colleen Thomas]

first single: yackety sax: boots randolph
first album: I love a rainy night, eddie rabbit

 

[OhMissScarlett]

First album: It was either The Grease Soundtrack or Heart's Dreamboat Annie

First single: "Take A Chance On Me' by Abba

 

[Guest]

Oh my, what an embarrassing thread.

Ok, it was the 80's when I began buying my own music, so please take that into account.

First single: Everytime You Go Away, by Paul Young (He once sang that to me, and me alone, at one of his concerts.)

First album: Bridge of Spies, by T'Pau (I remember saving my pocket money up for that, then cycling to the record store to get it. Loved that album. I thought I could sing like Carol Decker.)

And, very soon after that, my first CD: Brothers in Arms, by Dire Straights (I had a MASSIVE CD player, and when I first heard this album on CD, it blew me away.)

 

[eric shawn listo]

When I was six I found this little post card in my weekly reader that offered 12 albums for a penny. Well, quicker than spit, I taped my copper coin to the card and picked out my dozen platters. For some reason, my mum kept the records and continued the membership for some time. My dad had to buy her a stereo.

Can't remember them all but Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Dark and Dean Martin's Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime were there. And The Beach Boys, can't remember which one.

 

[Alex De Kok]

Damned if I can remember - it's a l-o-o-n-g time ago! I still have some Beatles singles lying around somewhere.

Alex

 

[Evil Alpaca]

C.W. McCall's Greatest hits I think, at least for first album.

I think Men at Work Down Under was the first vinyl single I had.

 

[Liar]

Like Lou, I'm a product of the 80's, but I didn't actually buty any music until the turn of the decade, when I got hold of my uncle's record player. First thing I did was go to the store and get

J.M Jarre - Concerts In China
Duran Duran - Decade
An Emotional Fish - self titled
and
U2 - Achtung Baby


They are to this day still among the best records I own.

 

[cloudy]

Jeez, this is so going to show my age...

It was "Dark Side of the Moon." and it was one of the gifts I had been specific about wanting for my thirteenth birthday.

 

[curious2c]

Oh man...the way back machine in full operation today...heh heh...

Lets see...I think it was...yes...I'm sure of it...An album was my first and it was the Beatles, Abbey Road. A single was next...we called them 45's...heh...doh...anyway...It was The Turtles...can't remember the song at the moment though. *sigh* I remember agonizing over the album...I wanted so many and could only afford one...I passed on Led Zepplin as I didn't know them...yet...later I was very sad that I hadn't went that way...oh well...still it was for the most part, all good music.

 

[Guest]

 

[gauchecritic]

Wondering Star - Lee Marvin
Then Ride a White Swan - T-Rex and every single in order after that.

Prophets Sears and Sages the Angel of the Ages - Tyrannasaurus Rex

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My parents worked for the Capitol records plant where vinyl was first tested, so basically I grew up with it...I think my teething ring was a 45.

 

[Guest]

My parents worked for the Capitol records plant where vinyl was first tested, so basically I grew up with it...I think my teething ring was a 45.

Ok, that was a much more cool answer than I expected.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Ok, that was a much more cool answer than I expected.

I have my moments.

 

[curious2c]

Wondering Star - Lee Marvin
Then Ride a White Swan - T-Rex and every single in order after that.

Prophets Sears and Sages the Angel of the Ages - Tyrannasaurus Rex

OMG...Ihad that Lee Marvin single...came off the movie...western...Gentlemen Paint your wagons I think. It was funny. God...whoever told him he could sing anyway? Well...actually, his voice kind of grew on ya though.

 

[CharleyH]

Well, there was always vinyl in the house. My dad was into Elton John and Fleetwood Mac, and my mom was into, well, Lady Marmalade was a fave of hers, as was Hues Corporation's Rock the boat. My step-dad was into, gulp, classical and, further gulp, Zamfir.

As for myself? They used to buy me k-tel albums - YES K-TEL! Then I think the first album I ever bought with my own money was Blondie's Parallel Lines, and after that it was the eighties, and I can't believe I spent so much god damn money on CRAP, well, except for the Cars, Nina Hagan, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Bauhaus and The Clash.

Fun to say I am the embarrassed owner of a Samantha Fox album. I think it's the only one that survived the musty cellar. Surely, I cannot be the only one!

Proudly, I am not an owner of anything Michael Jackson!

 

[lil_elvis]

Well, here goes nothing

1st single - I think it was Elvis' "Jailhouse Rock"

1st album - Meet The Beatles

Oy! I suddnely feel old after reading all the other replies.

 

[BlackShanglan]

"Friend or Foe" - Adam Ant