1st LP you ever bought was....

[priestofnothing]

in 1979 after receiving a boom box for my 13th birthday and copies of
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Gerry Rafferty - City to City

And here I am now.

Thanks, Dad.

[Miss Vicky]

The Beavis and Butthead Experience.



I was, like, 12.

[Blue Lamp 64]

Originally Posted by Betsy

As for KISS (BlueLamp64) I love your little headbanger or whatever that little animated dude is. My brother was big, big, big into KISS. He even tried to do the makeup. His favorite was the cat.

You guys have brought up so many good memories for me today....

Your welcome Betsy
The little animated dude is a smiley as a headbanging guy your right in the first place
Witch I use the image (Banging guy)from the BLESSED DEATH forum Im a Administrator on

About a year latter (In 1975)after I got the KISS LP I receved a demo of WICKED LESTER(Pre KISS) from a brother I know back in the day on cassett I rarely play it any more because it's problity cost alot of cash now days..About five years ago I had the tape convert on a CD so I can play and headbang as many times I want without wearing out the old cassett tape

[Stew_Matthews]

There can't really be an excuse for buying this but it was 1990 and I was 11 years old.

Vanilla Ice - To the Extreme



Worse still I actually had my hair cut like him. What a treat I must have looked!

[Beachwood Mac]

Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues. It was the first album I bought on my own. We always had records when I was growing up. Both my parents were big music fans and I have all their LP's, 45's and 78's in my music room along with two jukeboxes - one that plays 45's and the other plays 78 rpm records.

[Betsy]

This is the best Friday, I've had a long time!

Seeing so many records, reminds me of my long gone teaching days. I taught high school English, German and Spanish in various towns in Nebraska. I was the pep club sponsor (nobody today knows what one of those is) and had to ride the pep club bus to the games and sit with the pep club.

Luckily, the school bus had a cassette tape player and the driver was kind enough to let the kids bring tapes. I heard a lot of

John Cougar Mellencamp (a little ditty 'bout Jack and Diiiaaaane)

REO Speedwagon (Heard it from a friend, who, heard it from a friend who,...)

38 Special (So Caught up in you, little girl...)

Brady Bunch (Something about Sunshine Day...we had this nerdy little girl and she'd always bring it. I had to work hard at not letting the other girls kill her.)

Alice Cooper (Schools Out and Generation Landslide - This girl was a Goth before they became mainstream..)

Pink Floyd (All in all you're just a (pause) nother Brick in the Wall...)

Van Halen (Jump -- the girls were hot for David Lee Roth, but I liked Eddie...)

Bruce Springsteen - Born....in the U S A

Exile - I want to Kiss you All Over...

The Police - Every Breath You Take...

U2 - And I still, haven't found, what I'm looking for...

Garth Brooks, I spent last night in the arms of a girl from Louisiana....

Those were great road trips, if you ignored the bratty, self-centered cheerleaders...)

Thanks for humoring an old broad this afternoon...

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by Beachwood Mac

Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues. It was the first album I bought on my own. We always had records when I was growing up. Both my parents were big music fans and I have all their LP's, 45's and 78's in my music room along with two jukeboxes - one that plays 45's and the other plays 78 rpm records.

Oh, if we're talking about 45's...

Donna Summer's "Macarthur Park" b/w "Once Upon a Time (Live)". Bought it at Korvettes in Times Square. Unfortunately it was in one of those generic paper 45 sleeves (I always hated that- such a cop out), but I do recall that it had the Casablanca Records graphics in which the image of a camel morphs into a movie camera. I would like to think that I still have it packed away somewhere along with all of my other vinyl.

[Villavic]

I think Grease was a gift from grandma, aunt or my parents. I'm not sure I bought it with my own money. What I have really a good memory is the moment I bought Donna Summer's LIVE AND MORE. I wasn't sure if buying this or BAD GIRLS (both were double albums). But at the end I chose L&M. I remember that day at the store, I was 12 I think.

I think my election was right. I enjoyed Live and More a lot!. and the "more" means side B of disc 2: the MACARTHUR PARK SUITE. MacArthur park is a great song but the experience of listening its long version is superb.

I think and feel that was the moment I bought an LP for my very first time.

[Betsy]

Honorable Mentions:

Saturday Night Fever



Did someone say Donna Summer?



And Gerry Rafferty?



And Casablanca Records?


And as for Beavis and Butthead....

[gretchen]

First LP I actually bought with allowance money was:



MIRAGE!!!!!!!

I think I got this one next:

[Chrislit18]

^^^^ [sorry i forgot who posted it....] but whoever had the Vanilla Ice 'to the extreme'...I officlaly love you. seriously.

Ice Ice Baby is one of the few rap songs I can tolerate. Love that wanskta!!
I cannot beleive I actually said that!

In Chrislit18's past one would find: Hit me Baby, one more time? or was it the CD with Brit looking through the beads??

you know what, It was Oops I did it Again. I never got Baby One More Time!!
[Thank god for those Now CDs!! That's the only song I liked on BOMT (the title track)...so I never bought it!]

But on the note of this thread and everyone here but me buying cool first CDs [although I have recently found myself back in the Backstreet Boy phase I was in when I was 9 or 10...]...Its just one more reason I wish I was born in the 70s than 92. I really think that music as a whole thing has gone down since the 80s...with a few jems here and there now.

Someday Ill have to ask my mom what her first LP was...who knows if she actually remembers, but she has a HUGE collection, with LedZep, the Doors, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, and a bunch of other Rock greats! [no FM though...but she does have an Eagles....go figure.]

[chiliD]

About 46 years ago, I bought the best sounding surf album of all-time! Surfbeat by the Challengers!




and at the same time The Little Old Lady From Pasadena by Jan & Dean:



"Put a Dodge in YOUR garage, honnnnnnnnnnNY!!"

EDIT: I should also mention that I bought both of those albums NEW, on sale, for $1.49 each. (and a big sacrifice not spending my allowance on baseball cards!!!!)

And, the first 45 I bought was "Ahab The Arab" by Ray Stevens (for a whopping 58 cents)

"...rings on her fingers and bells on her toes and a bone in her nose, oh no!!..."

[Betsy]

This is for Chrislit18!



You have some cool choices! There's no need to apologise.

As for the Vanilla Ice...I smiled when I saw that post. For years I argued with my Students that the guitar riff was from Queen's Under Pressure.

Didn't the news say recently that Vanilla Ice was serving time in the big house???

[Betsy]

This is for ChiliD --

I haven't thought of this in YEARS!
That song had some of the coolest lyrics!!

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by Betsy

This is for ChiliD --

I haven't thought of this in YEARS!
That song had some of the coolest lyrics!!

Let me tell you about Ahab the Arab
The sheik of the burning sand
He had emeralds and rubies just drippin' off 'a him
And a ring on every finger of his hand
He wore a big ol' turban wrapped around his head
And a scimitar by his side
And, every evenin', about midnight
He'd jump on his camel named Clyde, and ride

[Spoken] Silently through the night to the sultan's tent where he
would secretly meet up with Fatima of the Seven Veils,
swingingest grade "A" number one USDA choice dancer in
the sultan's whole harem, 'cause, heh, him and her had
a thing goin', you know, and they'd been carryin' on
for some time now behind the sultan's back and you
could hear him talk to his camel as he rode out across the
dunes, his voice would cut through the still night desert
air and he'd say (imitate Arabic speech and finish with "Sold! American)
which is Arabic for, "Stop, Clyde!" and Clyde'd say, (imitate camel
sound), which is camel for, "What the heck did he say anyway?"

Well, he brought that camel to a screechin' halt (verbal screeching sound)
In the rear of Fatima's tent
Jumped off Clyde, snuck around the corner
And into the tent he went.
There he saw Fatima layin' on a zebra skin rug
With
[Spoken in falsetto and possibly with female backups] "Rings on her fingers and
bells on her toes and a bone in her nose, ho ho."

[Spoken] There she was, friends, lyin' there in all her radiant
beauty, eating on a raisin, grape, apricot, pomegranate,
bowl of chittlin's, two bananas, three Hershey bars,
sipping on a RC co-cola listenin' to her transistor,
watchin' the Grand Ole Opry on the tube, readin' a Mad
magazine while she sung, "Does your chewing gum lose
it's flavor?" Yeah, Ahab walked up to her and he say,
(imitate Arabic speech), which is Arabic for "Let's twist
again like we did last summer, baby!" Ha, ha, ha!!
You know what I mean! Whew! She looked up at him from off the rug,
give him one of the sly looks,

She said (suggestive giggles, then outright laughter) "Crazy, crazy, crazy baby!"

('round and around and around and around, and around and around and around)

Yeah, and that's the story 'bout Ahab the Arab
The sheik of the burnin' sand
Ahab the Arab, the swingin' sheik of the burnin' sand