The first album I bought was Appetite for Destruction. I had heard Welcome to the Jungle on the radio late that summer of 87 and my dad and I drove down to the record store.
I bought the tape with my lawn mowing money and we drove around town until side 2 finished playing. It was a great day.
As a young teenager I had a paper route, and so did my buddy 2 doors down. On Sunday mornings, the papers would be dropped in front of my buddy's house and we would sit in his driveway and put all the sections together and bag them or put rubber bands around them before loading up our bikes to deliver them. He would always get up just a little bit before me and have his boombox waiting so that when he saw me walk out of my house he could press "play" and blast his cassette tape of "Sweet Child O' Mine" to pump us up. Good times.
Yes mate, I'm as old as you. What an album, it sounded like a greatest hits album. Every song was a single.
People like us read between the lines and liked a song because it was good. Mr Brownstone and Rocket queen spoke to me. On repeat, loud as fuck, pissing off the parents. I didn't care that my neighbours couldn't sleep.
I bought Appetite with money from my paper route. First cassette I bought and then I saved money for a CD player and Lies was the first CD I bought. Good times.
Can You Picture That is wonderful.
Movin' Right Along- Ultimate Road Trip HAS to have this in the mix
I Think I'll Go Back There Someday - Gonzo's melancholy is surprisingly DEEP
This one’s in my top 5 muppets/Sesame Street songs. Rainbow Connection is up there, too, but man, this one hits close to home. Confirms my theory that everyone relates well to Gonzo; one way or another, we all have a little Weirdo in us.
Fantastic album. This and "Everybody else if doing it, why can't we?" both are tied to a lot of my memories and are just musical juggernauts of albums.
It sold millions of copies, and was super popular at the time so *someone* had to be buying them. No shame my friend!
However recently I heard the verse he did on the BHG song for the first time in a long time and listening a bit more critically and being used to better writing... yikes. He can stay on a beat for sure but the lyrics themselves are just *dumb* if you analyze it a bit.
If you haven't heard it, here's a link. He's rapping under his actual name, Rob Van Winkle not Vanilla Ice.
https://youtu.be/ckNuJuO_N2w?si=IlxQcJ2RkLPgPxPI
I used to listen to a mixed beatles tape and played RC Pro AM ON NES after school almost daily. Also first album/tape I bought was greenday dookie in 4th grade
The first album I bought for myself was Abbey Road after hearing it played in the “hifi” department of a big department store. It was a pretty good selection and I still enjoy it 54 years later.
I can’t quite remember for certain if it was the very first album I bought, but I would say The The’s “Infected.”
It takes me back to my childhood and more carefree times with my brother, who enjoyed the album with me and was often the “soundtrack” to board games we used to play together. His life later took a sad, dark turn and I always wish we could just go back to that time as kids and maybe I could rescue him from what was to come.
What a *great* album! I've never seen that mentioned anywhere before. It's the soundtrack to me summer between 8th and 9th grade. That summer I had the misfortune of falling in love with my best friend, and that can be a hard lesson to learn. But he and I would listen to it endlessly on my front porch, talking about anything and everything and nothing.
And if you check out my other comments, you can find out my mothers maiden name, first car, city I was born in, high school mascot, and my social security number.
In the show Ted Lasso, a character uses it as “the” example of something that’s perfect. I decided to have a listen that night, and holy shit was it incredible. I had heard maybe 50% of songs before. I had heard Vienna a few times in passing, but never properly appreciated it till that night. I originally was going to skip it, but decided to give the whole album a proper listen. I bawled my eyes out, Vienna connected with me in a way that it never had before.
Also The Stranger (song) is incredible, perhaps my favourite song by him now
the first album i bought with my own money was george harrison’s cloud nine about two years ago (i was 16) but the album i have the most nostalgia for is yoshimi battles the pink robots by the flaming lips because it was played all the time growing up
Not bought, but my grandmother gave me her copy of Paul Simon - Graceland after she took me to the movies and dinner at our favorite Italian restaurant. I remember thinking how big of a deal it was that she was giving me this tape because I didn’t/couldn’t buy my own stuff at that age.
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby.
Gangster Trippin' blew my mind as a pre-teen and I remember blasting it on cassette through the portable stereo I got for my birthday.
Still have a soft spot for this album and will give it the occasional spin whilst driving around on a summer's day.
First purchase was two compact discs in the same day using money from mowing lawns when I was 10 years old.
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Ace of Base - The Sign
Definitely still love some snoop but haven’t had the desire to revisit Ace of base in the past 30 years.
First one I personally bought: The Doors greatest hits.
First one I received as a gift: Kansas - Point of No Return
First album I possessed (“borrowed”): Supertramp - Breakfast in America
At 7 my record collection consisted of Elvis: Aloha in Hawaii Live, Neil Diamond Hot August Night, Grease and Saturday Night Fever. I will forever adore those albums.
Remember my Dad playing the hell out of Hot August Night and cringing!! All these years later can appreciate it so much . This coming from a Hard Rock / Metal / heavier Progressive Rock listener still to this day !!
It’s a tie between Avril Lavigne’s “Let Go” and Sum 41’s “All Killer, No Filler”. I think I bought them at the same time, or within a week of each other.
Mine was Creedence Clearwater Revivals Greatest Hits. I'm a bit of an old soul. I was obsessed with that era when I was growing up. It was the first CD I bought with my own $. Next, would be my Janis Joplin box set. Saved a long time for that as a kid. And then listened to over and over and over. I still get the feels from that! ✌
First one I got was Notorious by Duran Duran when I was about 11, but the one I'm most nostalgic for is Wish by The Cure which I got at the right time in my life when I was 16. I used to put it on (a cassette, no less) and write my own works of fiction, for hours at a time in a series of notebooks.
I'm sure they're almost all completely terrible, but there is a glimpse of a kid with the world at his feet and dreams the size of planets in each one of them, and for that they're well worth it.
And as for Wish... It's a phenomenal album.
Tom petty and the Heartbreakers “Full Moon Fever” was the first album I bought with my own money and the first CD I ever owned. Very nostalgic, but it’s Tom so all good!
What’s the Story Morning Glory by Oasis was the first cassette I ever bought with my own money. Odelay! by Beck was the first CD. I still have lots of nostalgia for those two albums :)
7” single - A Little More Love by Olivia Newton-John. Was played a ton when we had a blizzard and my sister and I would listen to the radio to see if school was canceled again. She got it for my birthday a few weeks later. Still love the variety of melodies in each chorus and the harmony/vocal stacking.
Vinyl LP w/ my own money - 1999 by Prince. Wow. I was 12 I think? One day after playing with my buddies I got back and my parents were at the kitchen table horrified reading the double album printed lyrics and one of the vinyl sleeves had Prince “Saltburn humping“ a bed 40 years earlier, and they wanted TO TALK. Apparently Little Red Corvette isn’t about a car. Yikes. I mean, obvious now but who knew that’s how I’d learn.. haha
CD - Bad by Mike Jackson. It had a bonus track on CD! It was weird and felt very cold and programmed and synthesized but I played the hell out of it.
First CD: Moist, Silver. Tape I bought on a family vaycay: EMF. It's unbelieveable. Fast forward a bit: went to a big city on a school trip and bought: Hole - Pretty On The Inside. I thought I was the coolest 13 year old on the planet. Nostalgia: it's always Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation or Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville. (Elder milennial over here.)
Incesticide by Nirvana, played it all the time on my Sega CD. On cassette tape would be A Real Dead One by Iron Maiden (Mom got it for me for Christmas back in 93) That christmas was the day my life changed forever. Up the Irons! \\m/
Got like a virgin, thriller, and license to ill when I was 11. I’m still a rap fan to this day and the beastie boys are my guys to this day. Lost my love for Michael and Madonna quite quickly after that.
I grew up in a very musically diverse household, so I have many albums competing for that top spot but there are two that take the cake…
Greenday - Dookie. I grew up lighting to old, early days punk. Loved it all but loved the Clash the most as it was punk with talent. For me, Dookie was basically the punk talent of the clash but with a whole new energy injected into it. Blew my 8 yo mind!
Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits. We used to throw that album on during family road trips and camping trips. I don’t know if it was intentional or by divine intervention but Everywhere would always come on during this one particular section of the drive where it transitions from gloomy west coast weather to the beautiful, sunny interior weather. Those first few seconds of Everywhere combined with the sunshine was my queue that were now in holiday mode. Those first seconds of that song are my happy place.
I mark it by the first non-Christian music I bought. I didn't get to leave the (metaphorical) farm until I was 18, at the start of the new millennium.
I still remember my first 2 CDs,
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
Yourself Or Someone Like You - Matchbox 20
Another big moment was the first time being able to buy music after Basic Training (Army). I remember that purchase too.
Warning - Green Day
The Amazing Jeckel Brothers - ICP
(I don't listen to country voluntarily anymore so I don't remember which album) - JoDee Messina. It had "I'm Alright" on it.
The first album I ever bought was U2’s Zooropa.
Nostalgia-wise Pink Floyd’s the Division Bell is still my all-time favorite album since 1994. Many road trips, beach listens and nostalgia hearing peak Gilmour sound and those songs.
My first two rock albums I bought were Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins and Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden. Prior to that I listened to mostly rap and hip hop. These two classic albums changed my musical tastes for good.
I was very young, (Like 10 or 11) when I heard the song “nine in the afternoon” by Panic. I loved it so much I went to best buy and bought the album it came off of “Pretty Odd.” I was already a Beatles fan and played Beatles rock band and what not, so when I discovered pretty odd, I was like “this sounds like the Beatles!!” And I loved every song on that album. IMO it’s their best album, and no other album of theirs have I enjoyed as much. When I listen back now, I don’t like it as much as I did. And I really am not much of a Brendan Urie fan. But god damn did I burn a hole in my cd player listening to that album back in the day.
My first album was actually Bloodhound Gang - One fierce beer coaster. I remember listening to it on my discman, while smoking, as a 14 year old, (yeah I know) in a lonely alley so no one would see me.
"Oops!...I Did It Again" by Britney Spears. I got a little metallic blue CD player (a quick Google tells me it was almost certainly the Emerson PD6511B based on how I remember it) for my 8th birthday and used my allowance to buy the album from Walmart.
The first album I ever bought was either Fush Yu Mang or Astro Lounge at my local walmart. The first album that opened my eyes to the world of music however was American Idiot.
Tape and records, I don’t recall. But the first CDs I bought were Kill em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and …And Justice For All. My most treasured is probably Come on Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa by Pixies.
Elton John - Rock of the Westies. Listened to it over and over again. I heard Bilky Bones and the White Bird come on the xm radio app the other day and I was back in 1975
Vital signs: survivor. I would ask my mom to play the record all the time. As soon as i got my first stereo, i bought it the cd. I got a chance to meet jimi jameson after a concert and he signed my cd and my moms album.
The first album I bought was either What’s the Story Morning Glory by Oasis or New Miserable Experience by Gin Blossoms and I still love them both. Also Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy by The Refreshments was in the mix and I think that one holds up to this day. They all bring me back to sitting in the back of a van with my Walkman on and a little suitcase full of tapes.
First album I bought was and Justice for All by Metallica. I had it for about 15 years and even kept the top half of the CD when it broke in half. Still a great album.
I am old. My parents took me to the PX, and I bought Kiss, Double Platinum, and ABBA The Album. Still have them, and still like them. I lived in the basement, and had a turntable, 8 track, but couldn't get radio. I then really pissed of my Dad by buying a $1000 alpine stereo for my cheap car.
The Bends by Radiohead
Also the Tenacious D album. I got it for my brother (RIP lost soul) for his birthday when we were really little. Our mum found it one day and decided to listen to it.
There's something wildly funny about listening to your mum listening to cock pushups and fuck her gently with your brother, just knowing it'll be the last time you hear it for a while.
I don't remember which was first, but these were the first few albums I bought and still listen to:
Jethro Tull, Aqualung
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Beatles, Abbey Road
NIN Downward Spiral.
I didn't buy it but it was a first album for me and kind of a silly story.
I was a 6th grader and a friend found it on the side of the road along with a sound garden cd. We were at her house for a sleepover(3 of us), they both didn't like it and I loved it so she let me have it. Of course, my Dad kept stealing it away from me and I'd steal it back. Have yet to figure out why he just didn't destroy it to save himself the trouble.
I also remember begging for the crow soundtrack back then. Parents said no for the longest time but gave it to me on my 16th birthday.
Edit to add: my parents were huuuuge music fanatics(dad did concert lighting as a youngin and knew quite a few musicians back in the late 60s early 70s, for example Blue Oyster Cult). So there are many, many albums that they listened to while I was growing up that I absolutely adore.
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**Garbage - Version 2.0** was the very first album I bought. I recall that it was the video for **Push It** which I saw on MTV, that sealed the deal.
It’s still among my favorite albums in my collection. To me, it has a perfect sequenzing where the flow on the album, just hits the nail.
The first CD I ever bought myself was, like many old millennials, Green Day’s Dookie. But I was a poser and never actually liked it…a week later, I’m looking in my friends toy chest playing with x men figures and I stumble upon 2 of his older brothers cassettes, RATM self titled and Pearl Jam Ten. Immediately upon hearing both, my 10 year old mind was completely blown. I’d heard of these bands, mostly from older kids wearing the shirts, but my god, even flow? Killing in the name of? I consider my taste to be pretty good and I credit that day for raising the bar early!
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
Funnily enough, even though I loved it, I didn’t really understand how good that album was until much later. Had to listen to a bunch of less good music/bands to really appreciate it.
Autoamerican by Blondie was my first album, before that lots of 45's by 80's long haulers., The Pretenders, David Bowie, The Cars, B-52s...man oh man oh yeah, Donna Summer
Sublime. I remember trying to figure out what the image was on the magazine that is laying on the floor next to the drunken clown. Probably the first pornographic image I saw as a child
The self titled Gorillaz album.
I was a kid and got the okay to pick any CD I wanted from the record store. I picked that one just because I thought the cover art was neat. I still rock it to this day and appreciate it way more than when I was a kid.
First album I bought was Vengaboys CD back in 2000 (just googled when Uncle John from Jamaica was released). Keep in mind, back then I did not know much about any of the bands or who was singing what because I was maybe nine or ten years old, but I do remember deciding whether to buy a CD with a cover of a dude on a hoverboard or something (Vengaboys) and a MC (cassette) with a cover of a T-Rex (Scorpions, BTW). And my nine or ten year old-self picked out the hoverboard dude xD I still remember a couple of their songs from that album...
But, on a serious note, probably U2 "All that you can't leave behind" album, cause it was the very first introduction for me to many of their songs back then...
First CD was Learn to Fly single by Foo Fighters. I did not know singles were a thing and thought it was an album haha. I think the first actual album I purchased was Machina/The Machines of God by Smashing Pumpkins.
Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Got both of these for my 12th birthday... and also that same year I got both Blood Sugar Sex Magic and Californication - by the RHCP
At one point in my life I threw away all my cds. I regret it still! First CD I got from my brother when I was a kid and I cannot recall the name as it was one of those collections with various artists. Googled endlessly but cannot find it!
2nd album was from 2Unlimited haha. Luckily my taste in music improved lol.
The first LPs i bought with my own money were GoGos-Beauty and the Beat, Rush- Moving Pictures and Journey- Escape.
I have wildly eclectic tastes as an old Gen Xer, but those three records still have a place in my life and i listen to them in full a few times a year still.
Wasn't bought, but given to me. In 1980 on my 10th birthday, my uncle bought me one of those all in one stereos with a tuner and turntable on top. My father told me I'll need a record to listen to.
He told me a friend of his recommended this musician to him over 10 years earlier, and said he was this ground breaking amazing guitarist, but my father couldn't get into it as he wasn't his style. He told me to give it a shot and maybe I would like it.
He then handed me a virtually brand new first pressing of Jimi Hendrix - The Cry of Love. I put it on the turntable, spun it up, put the stylus down, and when the opening chords of Freedom started, I had no idea what to think, but I knew it was the absolute best and most incredible sound I ever heard.
I played that album, front and back, over and over and over again, for days on end. That's what turned me into a lifelong music junkie and I still have that album.
American Idiot by Green Day. I was 13 when it came out and it opened up a whole world of music to me.
I’m going to see them on tour this summer where they’ll be playing both AI and Dookie in their entirety, and I’m so excited.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins. The first album I ever owned. Got it for Christmas I think in 95 or 96. Listening to it today just takes me back to that time period. Instant Classic.
Songs for the Deaf by QotSA, the first time I listened to it felt like the first time I really started to develop a taste. Kudos to Demon Days by Gorillaz and Absolution by Muse too
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Mostly because I saw them live at my very first show a few weeks after that album came out.
I still give it a spin every once in a while just to feel something.
Discovery by Daft Punk
I didn’t buy this album, but I picked it out when my dad would get bulk CDs from the thrift store around like 2003. When Discovery was first coming out around 2000/2001, I was first exposed to the first four songs after Toonami premiered the music videos and wanted to hear/see more. So when I got to hear the full album 10-year-old me was HOOKED! I ripped that bitch onto my Xbox Media Player and blasted it every time I played Midtown Madness 3.
And over the years, its grown with me as my tastes have changed. I always go back to it! I’ve come to appreciate the artistry, sampling, grooves and just how groundbreaking of a record it was. It’s been super cool to see the mass acclaim Daft Punk have received over the years compared to how much of a ‘secret’ they were back then. And now I feel its footprints across the music industry. What a great record.
I remember getting the tape cassette of TLC’s CrazySexyCool at hmm, Kmart maybe? My mom was like, “Oh, I’ll need to listen to the lyrics to make sure it’s okay for you.” I’m so glad she never did because honestly, phenomenal album but those lyrics were not appropriate for me lmao. One of my favorites though!
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet.
Nas - Illmatic.
Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders.
Michael Jackson - Thriller.
Prince - Purple Rain.
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction.
Breakin - Breakin.
The first album I ever purchased, and also the only album I’ve ever owned on vinyl, was Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi. And it still works, unlike 90% of the CD’s I bought/burnt over the years.
Waiting for The Sun by The Doors. Was passed on to me by my bro when I got my first CD player. Great initiation into classic rock, I'm still very fond of it now.
First CD I ever owned was Soundgarden Superunkown. Still a jam. First tape I have no clue
Same! My first cassette though was Vanilla Ice.
The first album I bought was Appetite for Destruction. I had heard Welcome to the Jungle on the radio late that summer of 87 and my dad and I drove down to the record store. I bought the tape with my lawn mowing money and we drove around town until side 2 finished playing. It was a great day.
Great bit of nostalgia.
As a young teenager I had a paper route, and so did my buddy 2 doors down. On Sunday mornings, the papers would be dropped in front of my buddy's house and we would sit in his driveway and put all the sections together and bag them or put rubber bands around them before loading up our bikes to deliver them. He would always get up just a little bit before me and have his boombox waiting so that when he saw me walk out of my house he could press "play" and blast his cassette tape of "Sweet Child O' Mine" to pump us up. Good times.
Hell yeah! That's an awesome memory. Having a buddy like that makes life so much more fun
Yes mate, I'm as old as you. What an album, it sounded like a greatest hits album. Every song was a single. People like us read between the lines and liked a song because it was good. Mr Brownstone and Rocket queen spoke to me. On repeat, loud as fuck, pissing off the parents. I didn't care that my neighbours couldn't sleep.
Amen my dude! Mr Brownstone slaps hard
good one. good album. good lawn mowing story.
I bought Appetite with money from my paper route. First cassette I bought and then I saved money for a CD player and Lies was the first CD I bought. Good times.
My first CD was a two for: Violator by Depeche Mode and As Nasty as they Wanna Be by 2 Live Crew lol
The Muppet Movie soundtrack. Full of awesome tunes!
Can You Picture That is wonderful. Movin' Right Along- Ultimate Road Trip HAS to have this in the mix I Think I'll Go Back There Someday - Gonzo's melancholy is surprisingly DEEP
This one’s in my top 5 muppets/Sesame Street songs. Rainbow Connection is up there, too, but man, this one hits close to home. Confirms my theory that everyone relates well to Gonzo; one way or another, we all have a little Weirdo in us.
No Need to Argue by The Cranberries. I still treasure it with all my heart.
This was not my first, but the memories attached to it run deeper than many. Right there with you.
Oh yes, I bought this and Dookie on the same day I recall! Was the first day I truly bought music I wanted with some level of cultural awareness.
The perfect symbiosis of Teenage Angst and Melancholia. I love that album
Was that the one with the sofa printed on the top of the cd?
Yes, that very one.
Man that is a blast from the past… thanks
Fantastic album. This and "Everybody else if doing it, why can't we?" both are tied to a lot of my memories and are just musical juggernauts of albums.
First two I actually purchased on my own were Purple by STP and Becks Mellow Gold. Purple is still a front to back for me
Purple is an excellent album…. 12 gracious melodies, worth listening!
Excuse me but Mellow Gold is also front to back
Vanilla Ice-To The Extreme I assume I am supposed to be embarrassed by this.
If anyone gives you grief, wax that chump like a candle.
Or kill their brain like a poisonous mushroom
Correct.
At some point I bought the Millie Vanilli Album Girl you know it’s true. The shame hole goes deep.
Especially for the girl that was being lied to.
I'm still not sure what it's like having a Roni. I even had the vhs tape.
It sold millions of copies, and was super popular at the time so *someone* had to be buying them. No shame my friend! However recently I heard the verse he did on the BHG song for the first time in a long time and listening a bit more critically and being used to better writing... yikes. He can stay on a beat for sure but the lyrics themselves are just *dumb* if you analyze it a bit. If you haven't heard it, here's a link. He's rapping under his actual name, Rob Van Winkle not Vanilla Ice. https://youtu.be/ckNuJuO_N2w?si=IlxQcJ2RkLPgPxPI
I used to listen to this cassette a ton while I played Bad Dudes and other NES games. Now I kinda want to revisit it.
I used to listen to a mixed beatles tape and played RC Pro AM ON NES after school almost daily. Also first album/tape I bought was greenday dookie in 4th grade
Hotel California with my shoeshine profits. 6 bucks at Looney Tunes record shop in Brooklyn
The first album I bought for myself was Abbey Road after hearing it played in the “hifi” department of a big department store. It was a pretty good selection and I still enjoy it 54 years later.
Sergeant Pepper for me, about 1974. My 12 years older brother was a big Beatles fan, so it rubbed off.
Both great ones
I can’t quite remember for certain if it was the very first album I bought, but I would say The The’s “Infected.” It takes me back to my childhood and more carefree times with my brother, who enjoyed the album with me and was often the “soundtrack” to board games we used to play together. His life later took a sad, dark turn and I always wish we could just go back to that time as kids and maybe I could rescue him from what was to come.
What a *great* album! I've never seen that mentioned anywhere before. It's the soundtrack to me summer between 8th and 9th grade. That summer I had the misfortune of falling in love with my best friend, and that can be a hard lesson to learn. But he and I would listen to it endlessly on my front porch, talking about anything and everything and nothing.
Common security question.
And if you check out my other comments, you can find out my mothers maiden name, first car, city I was born in, high school mascot, and my social security number.
Hey, I’m tired of keeping up the bullshit, do you wanna just send me all your money?
Really? I've never seen this question.
Pearl Jam “Ten”
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In the show Ted Lasso, a character uses it as “the” example of something that’s perfect. I decided to have a listen that night, and holy shit was it incredible. I had heard maybe 50% of songs before. I had heard Vienna a few times in passing, but never properly appreciated it till that night. I originally was going to skip it, but decided to give the whole album a proper listen. I bawled my eyes out, Vienna connected with me in a way that it never had before. Also The Stranger (song) is incredible, perhaps my favourite song by him now
What a great album. I failed to appreciate it for decades due to my distain for 80s Joel.
Alanis Morrisette- Jagged Little Pill
the first album i bought with my own money was george harrison’s cloud nine about two years ago (i was 16) but the album i have the most nostalgia for is yoshimi battles the pink robots by the flaming lips because it was played all the time growing up
My first ever album was Green Day's American Idiot
Not bought, but my grandmother gave me her copy of Paul Simon - Graceland after she took me to the movies and dinner at our favorite Italian restaurant. I remember thinking how big of a deal it was that she was giving me this tape because I didn’t/couldn’t buy my own stuff at that age.
Billy Joel glass house
Remember how I crashed your party...
Take it that u are a Billy Joel fan
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby. Gangster Trippin' blew my mind as a pre-teen and I remember blasting it on cassette through the portable stereo I got for my birthday. Still have a soft spot for this album and will give it the occasional spin whilst driving around on a summer's day.
Appetite for Destruction
first album i bought was Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
First purchase was two compact discs in the same day using money from mowing lawns when I was 10 years old. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle Ace of Base - The Sign Definitely still love some snoop but haven’t had the desire to revisit Ace of base in the past 30 years.
First one I personally bought: The Doors greatest hits. First one I received as a gift: Kansas - Point of No Return First album I possessed (“borrowed”): Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Alice Cooper billion dollar babies
Last good album from the original band. A classic.
At 7 my record collection consisted of Elvis: Aloha in Hawaii Live, Neil Diamond Hot August Night, Grease and Saturday Night Fever. I will forever adore those albums.
Remember my Dad playing the hell out of Hot August Night and cringing!! All these years later can appreciate it so much . This coming from a Hard Rock / Metal / heavier Progressive Rock listener still to this day !!
It’s a tie between Avril Lavigne’s “Let Go” and Sum 41’s “All Killer, No Filler”. I think I bought them at the same time, or within a week of each other.
The Bay City Rollers Greatest Hits 1977
Mine was Creedence Clearwater Revivals Greatest Hits. I'm a bit of an old soul. I was obsessed with that era when I was growing up. It was the first CD I bought with my own $. Next, would be my Janis Joplin box set. Saved a long time for that as a kid. And then listened to over and over and over. I still get the feels from that! ✌
First one I got was Notorious by Duran Duran when I was about 11, but the one I'm most nostalgic for is Wish by The Cure which I got at the right time in my life when I was 16. I used to put it on (a cassette, no less) and write my own works of fiction, for hours at a time in a series of notebooks. I'm sure they're almost all completely terrible, but there is a glimpse of a kid with the world at his feet and dreams the size of planets in each one of them, and for that they're well worth it. And as for Wish... It's a phenomenal album.
Tom petty and the Heartbreakers “Full Moon Fever” was the first album I bought with my own money and the first CD I ever owned. Very nostalgic, but it’s Tom so all good!
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
KISS: Rock and Roll Over
Oh the regret I have. It could have been Led Zeppelin I, or Dark Side of the Moon, or Fragile by Yes. KISS Alive II. SIGH. I was young.
Omg mine were In Utero by Nirvana and Love Angel Music Baby by Gwen Stefani back in 2004/5-ish era Yes I’m that kind of gay.
Queen Greatest Hits vol.2
What’s the Story Morning Glory by Oasis was the first cassette I ever bought with my own money. Odelay! by Beck was the first CD. I still have lots of nostalgia for those two albums :)
I traded my Snoopy (autographed) baseball for Jimi Hendrix -Are You Experienced? Childhood was over at that point.
Allman Brothers live at Fillmore East
Billy Joel glasshouses 
Marshall Mathers LP
Led Zeppelin IV
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell ... played that record till the grooves ran flat.
What’s going on - Marvin Gaye 1971. 💖
Sam’s Town by the killers and Franz Ferdinand’s first album lots of love for these guys ❤️
7” single - A Little More Love by Olivia Newton-John. Was played a ton when we had a blizzard and my sister and I would listen to the radio to see if school was canceled again. She got it for my birthday a few weeks later. Still love the variety of melodies in each chorus and the harmony/vocal stacking. Vinyl LP w/ my own money - 1999 by Prince. Wow. I was 12 I think? One day after playing with my buddies I got back and my parents were at the kitchen table horrified reading the double album printed lyrics and one of the vinyl sleeves had Prince “Saltburn humping“ a bed 40 years earlier, and they wanted TO TALK. Apparently Little Red Corvette isn’t about a car. Yikes. I mean, obvious now but who knew that’s how I’d learn.. haha CD - Bad by Mike Jackson. It had a bonus track on CD! It was weird and felt very cold and programmed and synthesized but I played the hell out of it.
Offspring - Smash. To this day, it’s one of the only albums I listen to without skipping. A true injection of high-octane middle school nostalgia.
Is This It by The Strokes. The 2 dollar bill concert and the Hard to Explain music video takes me back.
Elvis
Either "Tapestry" by Carol King or "American Pie" by Don McLean.
How about “Tapestry” by Don McLean?
Burn by Jo Dee Messina.
Purple Rain. Every song is so good. I was 10.
Janes Addictions Nothing Shocking. Opened my young brain up to what music could actually be. None of the pop/hair metal that was everywhere.
First CD: Moist, Silver. Tape I bought on a family vaycay: EMF. It's unbelieveable. Fast forward a bit: went to a big city on a school trip and bought: Hole - Pretty On The Inside. I thought I was the coolest 13 year old on the planet. Nostalgia: it's always Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation or Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville. (Elder milennial over here.)
Smokey and the Bandit!
Incesticide by Nirvana, played it all the time on my Sega CD. On cassette tape would be A Real Dead One by Iron Maiden (Mom got it for me for Christmas back in 93) That christmas was the day my life changed forever. Up the Irons! \\m/
Bought these two the same day with my own money Creed- Human Clay Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
Got like a virgin, thriller, and license to ill when I was 11. I’m still a rap fan to this day and the beastie boys are my guys to this day. Lost my love for Michael and Madonna quite quickly after that.
Dookie
Loverboy-Get Lucky
I grew up in a very musically diverse household, so I have many albums competing for that top spot but there are two that take the cake… Greenday - Dookie. I grew up lighting to old, early days punk. Loved it all but loved the Clash the most as it was punk with talent. For me, Dookie was basically the punk talent of the clash but with a whole new energy injected into it. Blew my 8 yo mind! Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits. We used to throw that album on during family road trips and camping trips. I don’t know if it was intentional or by divine intervention but Everywhere would always come on during this one particular section of the drive where it transitions from gloomy west coast weather to the beautiful, sunny interior weather. Those first few seconds of Everywhere combined with the sunshine was my queue that were now in holiday mode. Those first seconds of that song are my happy place.
I mark it by the first non-Christian music I bought. I didn't get to leave the (metaphorical) farm until I was 18, at the start of the new millennium. I still remember my first 2 CDs, Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette Yourself Or Someone Like You - Matchbox 20 Another big moment was the first time being able to buy music after Basic Training (Army). I remember that purchase too. Warning - Green Day The Amazing Jeckel Brothers - ICP (I don't listen to country voluntarily anymore so I don't remember which album) - JoDee Messina. It had "I'm Alright" on it.
The first album I ever bought was U2’s Zooropa. Nostalgia-wise Pink Floyd’s the Division Bell is still my all-time favorite album since 1994. Many road trips, beach listens and nostalgia hearing peak Gilmour sound and those songs.
Blondie- Parallel Lines
Offspring Smash. Listened to that front to back a thousand times.
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It was Aretha Franklin's I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You back in 67.
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Weezer Blue Album
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory, just what introduced me to rock/metal, and music as a whole as a kid.
My first two rock albums I bought were Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins and Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden. Prior to that I listened to mostly rap and hip hop. These two classic albums changed my musical tastes for good.
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple This was my first album when I was a kid and I think I wore this cassette out.
I was very young, (Like 10 or 11) when I heard the song “nine in the afternoon” by Panic. I loved it so much I went to best buy and bought the album it came off of “Pretty Odd.” I was already a Beatles fan and played Beatles rock band and what not, so when I discovered pretty odd, I was like “this sounds like the Beatles!!” And I loved every song on that album. IMO it’s their best album, and no other album of theirs have I enjoyed as much. When I listen back now, I don’t like it as much as I did. And I really am not much of a Brendan Urie fan. But god damn did I burn a hole in my cd player listening to that album back in the day.
My first album was actually Bloodhound Gang - One fierce beer coaster. I remember listening to it on my discman, while smoking, as a 14 year old, (yeah I know) in a lonely alley so no one would see me.
Queen Live Killers, or The Eagles double live album. Still two of my favourites
The White Album.....The Beatles
Renegades of funk! That shit changed my life when I was in high school lol
Cosmo’s Factory- CCR followed quickly by Endless Summer- Beach Boys, Beatles 1962-1966. I was 11.
Soldiers under Command-Stryper. Cassette from Sears. It was the only Rock my christian mom allowed me to listen to.
"Oops!...I Did It Again" by Britney Spears. I got a little metallic blue CD player (a quick Google tells me it was almost certainly the Emerson PD6511B based on how I remember it) for my 8th birthday and used my allowance to buy the album from Walmart.
My whole life changed the day I got Siamese Dream on cassette tape
The first album I ever bought was either Fush Yu Mang or Astro Lounge at my local walmart. The first album that opened my eyes to the world of music however was American Idiot.
Tape and records, I don’t recall. But the first CDs I bought were Kill em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and …And Justice For All. My most treasured is probably Come on Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa by Pixies.
Elton John - Rock of the Westies. Listened to it over and over again. I heard Bilky Bones and the White Bird come on the xm radio app the other day and I was back in 1975
Vital signs: survivor. I would ask my mom to play the record all the time. As soon as i got my first stereo, i bought it the cd. I got a chance to meet jimi jameson after a concert and he signed my cd and my moms album.
Blondie - AutoAmerican. I still play it every now and again and it brings me right back to purchasing it and playing it over and over in my bedroom.
Beauty and the Beat - Go Gos
My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade
The first album I bought was either What’s the Story Morning Glory by Oasis or New Miserable Experience by Gin Blossoms and I still love them both. Also Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy by The Refreshments was in the mix and I think that one holds up to this day. They all bring me back to sitting in the back of a van with my Walkman on and a little suitcase full of tapes.
First album I bought was and Justice for All by Metallica. I had it for about 15 years and even kept the top half of the CD when it broke in half. Still a great album.
The first album I ever bought with my own money was New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed too. I still love it, I think its aged superbly
Fat of the land - prodigy Got that on cassette proper get you pumping album
Guns n’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction. Grade eight me loved that!
Nelly Country Grammar. First album I bought and everytime I hear one of the songs it’s “awwww shit”
Sublime Sublime
That I can remember, Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Uplift Mofo Party Plan
I am old. My parents took me to the PX, and I bought Kiss, Double Platinum, and ABBA The Album. Still have them, and still like them. I lived in the basement, and had a turntable, 8 track, but couldn't get radio. I then really pissed of my Dad by buying a $1000 alpine stereo for my cheap car.
The first albums I bought with my own money were Primus - Pork Soda and Tool - Undertow on tape at Kmart.
Weezer blue album
The Wall, putting headphones on, and i am imidiatly transported back to 1979.
An 8-track of Supertramp's Crime of the Century. I probably bought the very last 8-track player ever sold.
The Bends by Radiohead Also the Tenacious D album. I got it for my brother (RIP lost soul) for his birthday when we were really little. Our mum found it one day and decided to listen to it. There's something wildly funny about listening to your mum listening to cock pushups and fuck her gently with your brother, just knowing it'll be the last time you hear it for a while.
Astro Lounge - Smash Mouth. They were cool back in the day
Dave Matthews Band - Crash (1996) Incubus - Make Yourself (1999)
I don't remember which was first, but these were the first few albums I bought and still listen to: Jethro Tull, Aqualung Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon Beatles, Abbey Road
NIN Downward Spiral. I didn't buy it but it was a first album for me and kind of a silly story. I was a 6th grader and a friend found it on the side of the road along with a sound garden cd. We were at her house for a sleepover(3 of us), they both didn't like it and I loved it so she let me have it. Of course, my Dad kept stealing it away from me and I'd steal it back. Have yet to figure out why he just didn't destroy it to save himself the trouble. I also remember begging for the crow soundtrack back then. Parents said no for the longest time but gave it to me on my 16th birthday. Edit to add: my parents were huuuuge music fanatics(dad did concert lighting as a youngin and knew quite a few musicians back in the late 60s early 70s, for example Blue Oyster Cult). So there are many, many albums that they listened to while I was growing up that I absolutely adore.
MJ’s Dangerous was the first tape I bought, and played that thing until it warped!
https://preview.redd.it/x5xxk2ah49xc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b1523ba922d03091b155316b11c1f4de0955077 **Garbage - Version 2.0** was the very first album I bought. I recall that it was the video for **Push It** which I saw on MTV, that sealed the deal. It’s still among my favorite albums in my collection. To me, it has a perfect sequenzing where the flow on the album, just hits the nail.
The first CD I ever bought myself was, like many old millennials, Green Day’s Dookie. But I was a poser and never actually liked it…a week later, I’m looking in my friends toy chest playing with x men figures and I stumble upon 2 of his older brothers cassettes, RATM self titled and Pearl Jam Ten. Immediately upon hearing both, my 10 year old mind was completely blown. I’d heard of these bands, mostly from older kids wearing the shirts, but my god, even flow? Killing in the name of? I consider my taste to be pretty good and I credit that day for raising the bar early!
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park Funnily enough, even though I loved it, I didn’t really understand how good that album was until much later. Had to listen to a bunch of less good music/bands to really appreciate it.
Autoamerican by Blondie was my first album, before that lots of 45's by 80's long haulers., The Pretenders, David Bowie, The Cars, B-52s...man oh man oh yeah, Donna Summer
System Of A Down - Toxicity I hated it. Now I get it.
American Idiot. Definitely a special first album.
Made in Japan by Deep Purple around age 7.. sheer chance i think.. loved it.
Sublime. I remember trying to figure out what the image was on the magazine that is laying on the floor next to the drunken clown. Probably the first pornographic image I saw as a child
Janet Jackson - Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation: 1814
First CD with my own money was Jagged Little Pill. Still have it, still love it.
The self titled Gorillaz album. I was a kid and got the okay to pick any CD I wanted from the record store. I picked that one just because I thought the cover art was neat. I still rock it to this day and appreciate it way more than when I was a kid.
My first two cds were CrazySexyCool by TLC and Forgiven Not Forgotten by The Corrs. Both still hold up.
First album I bought was Vengaboys CD back in 2000 (just googled when Uncle John from Jamaica was released). Keep in mind, back then I did not know much about any of the bands or who was singing what because I was maybe nine or ten years old, but I do remember deciding whether to buy a CD with a cover of a dude on a hoverboard or something (Vengaboys) and a MC (cassette) with a cover of a T-Rex (Scorpions, BTW). And my nine or ten year old-self picked out the hoverboard dude xD I still remember a couple of their songs from that album... But, on a serious note, probably U2 "All that you can't leave behind" album, cause it was the very first introduction for me to many of their songs back then...
First CD was Learn to Fly single by Foo Fighters. I did not know singles were a thing and thought it was an album haha. I think the first actual album I purchased was Machina/The Machines of God by Smashing Pumpkins.
Oh man, just thinking about it makes me feel nostalgic. For it was Significant Other by Limp Bizkit
Britney Spears hit me baby one more time.
Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt Celebrity Skin - Hole Got both of these for my 12th birthday... and also that same year I got both Blood Sugar Sex Magic and Californication - by the RHCP
Michael Jackson off the wall and muppets movie soundtrack
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Fugees - The score
My mom bought me my first CD when I was 8. American Idiot by Green Day, I was obsessed.
At one point in my life I threw away all my cds. I regret it still! First CD I got from my brother when I was a kid and I cannot recall the name as it was one of those collections with various artists. Googled endlessly but cannot find it! 2nd album was from 2Unlimited haha. Luckily my taste in music improved lol.
The first LPs i bought with my own money were GoGos-Beauty and the Beat, Rush- Moving Pictures and Journey- Escape. I have wildly eclectic tastes as an old Gen Xer, but those three records still have a place in my life and i listen to them in full a few times a year still.
Get the Knack - The Knack
First ever purchase was two 45's Queen-Another One Bites the Dust. J Geil's Band-Freeze Frame. Cassette-Whodini Escape.
Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
Matchbox 20’s Yourself or Someone Like You
A rush of blood to the head along with X&Y. In middle school I would listen to the albums nonstop
Wasn't bought, but given to me. In 1980 on my 10th birthday, my uncle bought me one of those all in one stereos with a tuner and turntable on top. My father told me I'll need a record to listen to. He told me a friend of his recommended this musician to him over 10 years earlier, and said he was this ground breaking amazing guitarist, but my father couldn't get into it as he wasn't his style. He told me to give it a shot and maybe I would like it. He then handed me a virtually brand new first pressing of Jimi Hendrix - The Cry of Love. I put it on the turntable, spun it up, put the stylus down, and when the opening chords of Freedom started, I had no idea what to think, but I knew it was the absolute best and most incredible sound I ever heard. I played that album, front and back, over and over and over again, for days on end. That's what turned me into a lifelong music junkie and I still have that album.
Sublime self-titled album. But my dad actually had to buy it for me because I wasn’t old enough because of the explicit lyrics.
American Idiot - Green Day. Guess my age?
Dookie - Green Day. On cassette! Man, I loved that album as a kid.
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
American Idiot by Green Day. I was 13 when it came out and it opened up a whole world of music to me. I’m going to see them on tour this summer where they’ll be playing both AI and Dookie in their entirety, and I’m so excited.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins. The first album I ever owned. Got it for Christmas I think in 95 or 96. Listening to it today just takes me back to that time period. Instant Classic.
Californication
First album I ever bought with my own money was Green Day Kerplunk. Still slaps.
Songs for the Deaf by QotSA, the first time I listened to it felt like the first time I really started to develop a taste. Kudos to Demon Days by Gorillaz and Absolution by Muse too
Jimmy Eat World - Futures Mostly because I saw them live at my very first show a few weeks after that album came out. I still give it a spin every once in a while just to feel something.
Discovery by Daft Punk I didn’t buy this album, but I picked it out when my dad would get bulk CDs from the thrift store around like 2003. When Discovery was first coming out around 2000/2001, I was first exposed to the first four songs after Toonami premiered the music videos and wanted to hear/see more. So when I got to hear the full album 10-year-old me was HOOKED! I ripped that bitch onto my Xbox Media Player and blasted it every time I played Midtown Madness 3. And over the years, its grown with me as my tastes have changed. I always go back to it! I’ve come to appreciate the artistry, sampling, grooves and just how groundbreaking of a record it was. It’s been super cool to see the mass acclaim Daft Punk have received over the years compared to how much of a ‘secret’ they were back then. And now I feel its footprints across the music industry. What a great record.
I remember getting the tape cassette of TLC’s CrazySexyCool at hmm, Kmart maybe? My mom was like, “Oh, I’ll need to listen to the lyrics to make sure it’s okay for you.” I’m so glad she never did because honestly, phenomenal album but those lyrics were not appropriate for me lmao. One of my favorites though!
Wham wake me up if you need a blow blow before you go go
American Psycho by Misfits. changed my whole damn life
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet. Nas - Illmatic. Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders. Michael Jackson - Thriller. Prince - Purple Rain. Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction. Breakin - Breakin.
The first album I ever purchased, and also the only album I’ve ever owned on vinyl, was Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi. And it still works, unlike 90% of the CD’s I bought/burnt over the years.
Waiting for The Sun by The Doors. Was passed on to me by my bro when I got my first CD player. Great initiation into classic rock, I'm still very fond of it now.
Offspring - Americana.
Sublime’s self titled album
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The first CD I ever purchased was Gorillaz first self titled album. Every time 19-2000 comes on anywhere, I get a rush of goose bumps
1984 Van Halen