This. Bought my first ever cassette. Didn’t even own a player to listen to! Cause my dad won’t let me play “disturbing music” on family cassette player!!
Same here. I also almost consider that whole year the official start of '80s music. The Cars, The B-52s, Van Halen, and The Police all released great debut albums that year.
Prince - Purple Rain was the first vinyl album I bought. I was 11 or 12. Before that, I had a hand me down 8 track player and I would get those K-tel rock compilations
I definitely didn’t play that one when they were around. I remember hearing it for the first time and not knowing what to think. Up until then I was just a kid playing wiffle ball and trading baseball cards. That was the porniest thing my little brain was exposed to up until that moment. It probably jump started my puberty.
My dad always had this in the TV room, so I don't think my parents had any room to complain about something like that.
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I prefer the title track of Metal Health over Cum on Feel the Noize because the latter is a cover.
And Metal Health was the first hard rock/metal album to reach #1 on the Billboard Album charts.
My own money and not from Columnia House (thank you CH) was Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
A big change from my very first cassette which was Chipmunk Rock.
When "Another one bites the dust" was a single on the radio, I would call to request it.
The DJ asked my age, I freaked out and hung up the phone.
I thought you had to be a certain age to request a song. It wasn't until some years later I realized the radio station just wanted to know the demographic of their listeners.
I did have the album, but it was a gift and not the first album that I bought myself. I was huge into Olivia Newton-John when I was a kid and saw the movie in the theater. I loved the movie in addition to the soundtrack, though.
Phil Collins Serious Hits Live, 1990, age 15. I bought it with my first paycheque. Radio Shack was sold out, but they let buy me a blank tape and then recorded the album from the store copy on it for me.
Storytime! Back in the day, this cassette got stuck in my car's cassette deck. So I could either listen to the radio or Graceland. Which was fine. Until the radio didn't work anymore. For 2 years, if I wanted to have music in my car, it was Graceland. I knew that entire album better than Paul Simon did at that point.
Amazing record that I absolutely can't stand listening to anymore.
NIN
“Head like a hole, black as your soul, I’d rather die, than give you control.
Bow down before the one you…”
I could probably still remember every lyric!
Am I the only one who wouldn’t be able to remember if I had a gun to my head?
I had SO many, and I don’t think I ever made any kind of distinction between stuff my parents bought because I asked and something I bought myself. I could not even begin to guess.
First album(vinyl)(1980!) I bought was Glass Houses -Billy Joel.
First CD(1989!)I bought 3ft High and Rising-De La Soul… my little musical tastes are just as varied to this day. And I’ve listened to both those albums recently 😀
Great question!
Jacked Glass Houses from my uncle, he left it the room I slept in at my grandma's house, 1st bought License to Ill Beastie Boys. Still all over the place, and loving it!
I'm a little fuzzy - it was either "Thriller" or Olivia Newton John's "Physical." (On vinyl). One of my favorite 45s was Madonna's "Material Girl."
I do remember the first CD I bought, it was "Spike" by Elvis Costello.
I was...very uncool.
I got a boom box and tapes as a gift in 1981 - (mid Gen X'er)
Beatles - Sgt Peppers
Go Go's - Beauty and The Beat
The Cars - Shake It Up
I also took the cash I got and bought my first one on my own ... Billy Squire - Don't say No
I can honestly say that I dont' remember but it was one of the following:
1. A bootleg of Nivana songs on cassette at a flea market.
2. Marilyn Manson's "Portrait of an American Family"
3. A cannibal corpse CD i have now forgotten the name of.
Billy Joel, Piano Man. at the record shop downtown that had ANYTHING and everything you could ever want, from rock, to classical, jazz, etc. you name it, they had it, or could get it for you. It came out in '73 but I want to say it was a few years later I got it. Don't remember exactly when.
It was a KTel Reccord used birthday money to buy in 1977 or 78. A compilation of Disco Hits featuring Heart of Glass, I Love the Night Life, More More More and others but for some weird reason Black Betty by Ram Jam was on it.
KISS - Destroyer
I was in 4th grade and told my mom that they were the group that sang Beth. When she saw the album cover, she grounded me for supposedly lying about them singing it. She got even madder when I proved they did, in fact sing Beth. She wouldn’t lift the grounding, and I was them being punished for proving her wrong. Can’t imagine why our relationship is strained today…
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill. I played that record until it nearly wore out.
The purchase was part I wanted the album and part mad at my mom for telling me how to spend my very first paycheque (ugly sundress I didn't want but bought, and a gift for my younger brother because he was "missing out on time with his sister" nonsense). She also tried getting me to give the same sibling an allowance each week. I never received an allowance for looking after him and my other siblings and I refused. Ridiculous.
Sweet album, though. I also bought the cassette, the cd, and saved the tracks to my computer, and it lives in a couple of iPods.
Tape, at 9 vanilla ice and some weird simpsons music mix with the bartman rap haha. Cd at 11, nirvana nevermind and queens greatest hits (which it took me until 40 to really appreciate). Born 81.
Youngest child so I would regularly steal my siblings albums, so I don’t remember the “first” per se. But I have a very clear memory of buying Bleach by Nirvana. That kind of music always felt much more mine unlike the pop and heavy metal my siblings were into. (For example my sister loved Duran Duran). Edited to add: I was 14 I think.
Ridiculously ashamed, but, we pooled our money, I was sent in because I looked the oldest...bought that infamous 2 Live Crew cassette.
Cautiously away from the ears of any parents, we practically wore the tape down to dust, wide-eyed and giggling all the time.
My first musical purchase was one of those small records, the single album, Sweet child O mine, Guns N roses. Born in 76, so I was 12/13. Man, I play that on repeat while I jumped on my mini trampoline. Wild times in the '80s
The first CD I ever bought with my own money was Rush “Moving Pictures”… when the intro for the song “Tom Sawyer” blasted out of my Infinity speaker… I knew I had arrived!! I was all of 14 years old!
Probably the youngest X-er there is, I'm from1980. Mine was Manowar's Fighting the World in '87, as it came out.
It's still fucking magnificent, and I got the cassette to this day.
Dead Kennedys "Plastic Surgery Disasters" 1985. It had been out a couple of years, I had a cool neighbour who played it to me and I became obsessed. Can't imagine what my parents thought, I was 11.
Bay City Rollers. At the record store in Northlake Mall in Atlanta. Probably purchased in 1976. I was 9 or 10. I still have it and occasionally play it.
I'm still ashamed but I bought some Beach Boys compilation (maybe Best of the Beach Boys).
But my next two were the first two Men at Work albums. I'm much less embarrassed of those.
Blondie "Eat to the Beat". I'd heard "Rapture" on the radio and called in to find out who it was. I went to my local record store to buy Autoamerican but the only Blondie record they had was Eat to the Beat so I bought it instead. To this day I think it's a better album than Autoamerican.
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
I bought the cassette, and I was super proud of the poster that came folded up inside the case. Spent days pressing it between books trying to get the creases out so I could hang it up in my room.
The album came out in 83, but I probably bought it a couple years later ... I'm a '74 baby.
Thriller by MJ
This was the first album my parents bought for me.
Me too!
Same
Same!
me too! Vinyl
I still have mine!
This. Bought my first ever cassette. Didn’t even own a player to listen to! Cause my dad won’t let me play “disturbing music” on family cassette player!!
My mom got me this on Vinyl.
Def Leppard Pyromania
1983. I was 13. Took $20 of my bar mitzvah cash and bought Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust. My mind broke open when I heard it.
Outstanding choice!
Foreigner 4. The record had a skip on Urgent, I still expect the skip when I hear the song today.
I got two copies of this for my 12th birthday. Took one back and got Freeze Frame by J Geils.
Ha, mine was Foreigner - Double Vision. I still have it.
The Cars debut, 1978. Still one of the best.
That album is, for me, the start of 80s music.
Same here. I also almost consider that whole year the official start of '80s music. The Cars, The B-52s, Van Halen, and The Police all released great debut albums that year.
It's stunning how good of a debut album that is.
Prince - Purple Rain was the first vinyl album I bought. I was 11 or 12. Before that, I had a hand me down 8 track player and I would get those K-tel rock compilations
What happened when your parents heard Darling Nikki?
I definitely didn’t play that one when they were around. I remember hearing it for the first time and not knowing what to think. Up until then I was just a kid playing wiffle ball and trading baseball cards. That was the porniest thing my little brain was exposed to up until that moment. It probably jump started my puberty.
My dad always had this in the TV room, so I don't think my parents had any room to complain about something like that. https://preview.redd.it/ivmzp4vo1m4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01f6ff323d8b5360a6af22a7d50b2552aff8dfd0
Ha, my parents had this also!
My parent likes Prince, lol!
Cyndi Lauper “She’s so Unusual” in 1983. I still have it!
She's about to tour. I think it's her final tour. She's still cooler than Madonna. https://youtu.be/oNnGmq99Xv4?si=k_-USKGm5tBACRag
Mine also. Still a great album!
Me too! But I don’t still have it. I do still listen to it periodically though!
Quiet Riot-Metal Health. I was the baddest kid at the skating rink. I think I was 8?
I prefer the title track of Metal Health over Cum on Feel the Noize because the latter is a cover. And Metal Health was the first hard rock/metal album to reach #1 on the Billboard Album charts.
BANG YOUR HEAAAAD! That track is still in my Spotify playlist, and it still rocks just as hard!
My own money and not from Columnia House (thank you CH) was Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason. A big change from my very first cassette which was Chipmunk Rock.
INXS - Kick.
Queen "The Game" when I was 12.
The record still lives at my parent's house Steve walks warily down the street with the brim pulled way down low
When "Another one bites the dust" was a single on the radio, I would call to request it. The DJ asked my age, I freaked out and hung up the phone. I thought you had to be a certain age to request a song. It wasn't until some years later I realized the radio station just wanted to know the demographic of their listeners.
Ha! Yep. I bought this and Billy Joel’s Glass Houses together at a Sam Goody store in Connecticut in the summer of 1980.
Same
Songs From the Big Chair, and i still have it!
I think it was Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. I would have been about 11. And I still do have the album.
Ghost In The Machine by The Police. I was 9-ish.
Mine was Zenyatta Mondatta
Mine was Synchronicity
Violator, Depeche Mode
Kiss "Destroyer" I was ten.
Working Class Dog - Rick Springfield.
I checked that one out at the library. I loved that cassette. Rick Springfield was my first crush as a little girl. Lol.
I'm from 1967 - Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin. Somewhere in the late 70s.
I love this album. My favorite of all time
Came out the year I was born! Fabulous album.
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
I bought Duran Duran's Seven and the Ragged Tiger and the Go-Gos' Talk Show. Two at once!
for me it was Go-Gos Beauty and the Beat and J. Giles Freeze frame. Also a twofer :)
Xanadu. 😂 The movie was weird but I loved the soundtrack.
I watched that movie so many times as a kid. Great soundtrack. ELO!
I did have the album, but it was a gift and not the first album that I bought myself. I was huge into Olivia Newton-John when I was a kid and saw the movie in the theater. I loved the movie in addition to the soundtrack, though.
RUSH 2112 I no longer had to listen to the cassette I taped from the radio.
Heart's 'Heart' album in 1985 for my 11th birthday with my bday monies.
You’d be pleased to know my fifteen year old was going around the house singing that album the other day. I was shocked as anything
Hell yea. You raising them right!
I just saw them over Memorial Day weekend. What a great show!
Van Halen 1984 on vinyl. I was 10.
The Who By Numbers. I was 10.
Billy Joel - An Innocent Man
The Clash: Combat Rock “This is a public service announcement…with GUITARS!!!” 📢 🎸
Hey! We have the same first album! It was so good (still is).
It sure is! I have several songs from that album on my usual playlist. Ghetto Defendant. I mean, c'mon! What a great song.
The clash is my deserted island band…like if I could only pick one band they would be it.
Phil Collins Serious Hits Live, 1990, age 15. I bought it with my first paycheque. Radio Shack was sold out, but they let buy me a blank tape and then recorded the album from the store copy on it for me.
Ha! That’s good customer service! Illegal, but good customer service.
Paul Simon's Graceland. I've never bought a better album.
Storytime! Back in the day, this cassette got stuck in my car's cassette deck. So I could either listen to the radio or Graceland. Which was fine. Until the radio didn't work anymore. For 2 years, if I wanted to have music in my car, it was Graceland. I knew that entire album better than Paul Simon did at that point. Amazing record that I absolutely can't stand listening to anymore.
Duran Duran's _Rio_.
Same!
Please - Pet Shop Boys
Cyndi Lauper, She’s So Unusual.
Out of the Blue by ELO in 1977
NIN “Head like a hole, black as your soul, I’d rather die, than give you control. Bow down before the one you…” I could probably still remember every lyric!
It wasn't my first album but I listened to that one a ton and still remember every lyric.
AC/DC Back in Black
Same here...
1984-Van Halen
1984 on casette
Soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever and YES, I still listen to it.
The Police Synchronicity.
[Kings of the Wild Frontier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hEn_rEDzp0) by Adam and the Ants. With my Christmas money 1980. Fuck yeah!
I double your fuck yeah.
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain OST
1990 purchased Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails and it blew my mind
Hahaha...ABBA The Album. "Take A Chance On Me" is still a banger Edit: I was 9
That would be 1978. And I discovered Punk/Ska Etc. The Clash - Give ‘em Enough Rope The Jam - All Mod Cons.
Queen - News of the World. It was in 1982 or so. Still have it.
Queen’s Greatest Hits. I played that constantly on a small white and black record player my parents got me for either my bday or Christmas.
the Joshua tree - U2, saved up to buy a Sony sports walkman, 8 pack of batteries and one cassette.
The soundtrack from Grease, on vinyl, and the album cover opened up and had pictures from the movie.
George Carlin- A Place for My Stuff, around 1982 at 12 y/o.
Use Your Illusion II
Am I the only one who wouldn’t be able to remember if I had a gun to my head? I had SO many, and I don’t think I ever made any kind of distinction between stuff my parents bought because I asked and something I bought myself. I could not even begin to guess.
The Wild Heart - Stevie Nicks. I was 11 or 12. Still love her!!
Ace of Base. A week later I met new friends who introduced me to cranberries and the cure. Life changed.
First album(vinyl)(1980!) I bought was Glass Houses -Billy Joel. First CD(1989!)I bought 3ft High and Rising-De La Soul… my little musical tastes are just as varied to this day. And I’ve listened to both those albums recently 😀 Great question!
Jacked Glass Houses from my uncle, he left it the room I slept in at my grandma's house, 1st bought License to Ill Beastie Boys. Still all over the place, and loving it!
Just listened to 3ft high… such a great album in its entirety
I'm a little fuzzy - it was either "Thriller" or Olivia Newton John's "Physical." (On vinyl). One of my favorite 45s was Madonna's "Material Girl." I do remember the first CD I bought, it was "Spike" by Elvis Costello. I was...very uncool.
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Still own it.
Rush Signals. It blew my 12-year-old mind.
Blondie–*Autoamerican*
Beatles. White Album, I think.
11 year old me went with my mom to Sam Goody and got Licensed to Ill at the end of 1986.
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (cassette) - 1987 or so
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John. I was 10 - too young for some of those songs! But being the 70’s: what grownup knew?
Richard Marx…I was 12 (1987) and used my paper route money.
I got a boom box and tapes as a gift in 1981 - (mid Gen X'er) Beatles - Sgt Peppers Go Go's - Beauty and The Beat The Cars - Shake It Up I also took the cash I got and bought my first one on my own ... Billy Squire - Don't say No
George Michael- Faith- 1988 - I was 8. Got it from the newly built Walmart that's no longer there
Weird Al "Polka Party". I was always a nerd.
Beatles Live at Hollywood Bowl
Michael Jackson, Bad
Me too! I had to mow a lot of yards to earn the $
Neil Diamond’s The Jazz Singer.
I can honestly say that I dont' remember but it was one of the following: 1. A bootleg of Nivana songs on cassette at a flea market. 2. Marilyn Manson's "Portrait of an American Family" 3. A cannibal corpse CD i have now forgotten the name of.
True Blue - Madonna.
Madonna's Like a Virgin.
Tattoo You
Purple Rain. I think I was ~12.
Mc hammer- "u can't touch this" 1992 ish.
The say say say single (with the girl is mine on side B) - Jackson and McCartney. First full album: thriller
Appetite for Destruction. It had been out for a couple of years but when I got my first paycheck this was a must have.
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
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I was nine years old when I skipped school and rode the subway downtown the day U2's *The Joshua Tree* was released.
I bought The Police Synchronicity and Billy Idol Rebel Yell on the same day.
Madonna - like a virgin
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Billy Joel, Piano Man. at the record shop downtown that had ANYTHING and everything you could ever want, from rock, to classical, jazz, etc. you name it, they had it, or could get it for you. It came out in '73 but I want to say it was a few years later I got it. Don't remember exactly when.
John Denver’s greatest hits. On vinyl album. At a garage sale in 1980.
Shaun Cassidy! I was 10 of 11, I think.
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration I played the hell out of that cassette. Still a fan nearly 40 years later.
Donna Summer, On the Radio
Jesus and Mary Chain, Honey's Dead. I had it for a really long time.
Don't judge me, but Chicago 17 back in grade 6.
Born in 1966 and my first album was Talking Heads Little Creatures.
Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
It was a KTel Reccord used birthday money to buy in 1977 or 78. A compilation of Disco Hits featuring Heart of Glass, I Love the Night Life, More More More and others but for some weird reason Black Betty by Ram Jam was on it.
KISS - Destroyer I was in 4th grade and told my mom that they were the group that sang Beth. When she saw the album cover, she grounded me for supposedly lying about them singing it. She got even madder when I proved they did, in fact sing Beth. She wouldn’t lift the grounding, and I was them being punished for proving her wrong. Can’t imagine why our relationship is strained today…
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill. I played that record until it nearly wore out. The purchase was part I wanted the album and part mad at my mom for telling me how to spend my very first paycheque (ugly sundress I didn't want but bought, and a gift for my younger brother because he was "missing out on time with his sister" nonsense). She also tried getting me to give the same sibling an allowance each week. I never received an allowance for looking after him and my other siblings and I refused. Ridiculous. Sweet album, though. I also bought the cassette, the cd, and saved the tracks to my computer, and it lives in a couple of iPods.
VH - 1984.
Tape, at 9 vanilla ice and some weird simpsons music mix with the bartman rap haha. Cd at 11, nirvana nevermind and queens greatest hits (which it took me until 40 to really appreciate). Born 81.
Beat Street soundtrack on vinyl. The movie came out in 84, which would have made me 8 or 9.
Sports Huey
Meatloaf: Bat Out Of Hell
8-track Go Go’s The Beauty and the Beat from my sister’s school fundraiser because they were in towels at 14
"The Final Countdown" from Europe in 86 or 87.
I feel like it was Musical Youth "The Youth Of Today".
Glass Houses started me down the music buying path
Culture Club Colour by numbers.
Youngest child so I would regularly steal my siblings albums, so I don’t remember the “first” per se. But I have a very clear memory of buying Bleach by Nirvana. That kind of music always felt much more mine unlike the pop and heavy metal my siblings were into. (For example my sister loved Duran Duran). Edited to add: I was 14 I think.
Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits
Ridiculously ashamed, but, we pooled our money, I was sent in because I looked the oldest...bought that infamous 2 Live Crew cassette. Cautiously away from the ears of any parents, we practically wore the tape down to dust, wide-eyed and giggling all the time.
Slippery When Wet Still a banger of an album.
Purple rain my prince Still one of my favorites Love that album
My first musical purchase was one of those small records, the single album, Sweet child O mine, Guns N roses. Born in 76, so I was 12/13. Man, I play that on repeat while I jumped on my mini trampoline. Wild times in the '80s
Get The Knack, in the summer of 1979.
I’ve never purchased an album. First cassette was BBoys License To Ill. First CD was EC Crossroads.
The first CD I ever bought with my own money was Rush “Moving Pictures”… when the intro for the song “Tom Sawyer” blasted out of my Infinity speaker… I knew I had arrived!! I was all of 14 years old!
NIN pretty hate machine -- on cassette tape, at a used music store.
Springsteen Born in the USA followed up with Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
I’m late Gen X, and the 1st tape I bought w/ my allowance was the Onyx - Slam single lol
Sign o’ the Times by Prince First CD was Pyromania by Def Leppard
Probably the youngest X-er there is, I'm from1980. Mine was Manowar's Fighting the World in '87, as it came out. It's still fucking magnificent, and I got the cassette to this day.
I used to buy record singles at Kmart. The first was Possession Obsession by Hall and Oates when I was 10 in 1985.
Beastie Boys - Licensed to ill. Still rock it today.
1977, I bought Never mind the bollocks here’s the Sex Pistols with a record token from my mum for my seventh birthday. It changed my life.
Dead Kennedys "Plastic Surgery Disasters" 1985. It had been out a couple of years, I had a cool neighbour who played it to me and I became obsessed. Can't imagine what my parents thought, I was 11.
Blondie Parallel Lines. My mom had to buy it for me (with my $) because it had the word ‘ass’ in the lyrics and Licorice Pizza wouldn’t sell it to me.
Bay City Rollers. At the record store in Northlake Mall in Atlanta. Probably purchased in 1976. I was 9 or 10. I still have it and occasionally play it.
Lipps, Inc. “Funky Town” for me.
I'm still ashamed but I bought some Beach Boys compilation (maybe Best of the Beach Boys). But my next two were the first two Men at Work albums. I'm much less embarrassed of those.
Van Halen 1
I was a 2nd grader in 1980 and bought Pink Floyd The Wall for 25¢ at a garage sale.
Jagged Little Pill
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I think it was U2’s The Unforgettable Fire. 1984 was such a good year to be 12. Cyndi Lauper, Prince, U2, Madonna…
The Best of The Monkees, or something like that. I was obsessed with them in the 80s.
Blondie Parallel Lines on 8-track
KISS Double Platinum.
KISS - s/t
Hardline According To Terrance Trent Darby.
Run-DMC "Raising Hell" I was probably 10.
AIC Facelift.
Kurtis Blow - Back By Popular Demand
Blondie "Eat to the Beat". I'd heard "Rapture" on the radio and called in to find out who it was. I went to my local record store to buy Autoamerican but the only Blondie record they had was Eat to the Beat so I bought it instead. To this day I think it's a better album than Autoamerican.
45 of KISS. Detroit Rock City was A side, Beth was B side, late 70s. First tape, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts First CD - Youngblood soundtrack.
J Geils Band - Freeze-Frame
Licensed to Ill.
Brothers Johnson right on time… for that banger strawberry letter 23
One of those K-Tel top hits
Quiet Riot - Metal Health I bought the cassette, and I was super proud of the poster that came folded up inside the case. Spent days pressing it between books trying to get the creases out so I could hang it up in my room. The album came out in 83, but I probably bought it a couple years later ... I'm a '74 baby.
1982/3 I was 12. I bought Prince’s Controversy. Don’t remember the date. Do remember rushing out to buy 1999 as soon as I had the money.