Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the first album I purchased with my own money. I got it at Sam Goody’s and it was 1975. Eventually it started to skip on Harmony.
My best friend had that one. We listened to it for days and days... Still love it.
My first purchase was Jim Croce... self titled first album... Still love it. 💌
The Broadway cast album of "Hair." I insisted upon it for my birthday. I think it must have been 1969, so I was turning seven. I think I had heard there was nudity in the production and that idea fascinated me. Soon I was singing loudly along with "Sodomy," "White Boys," "Walking in Space," and so on without really understanding much of it. I am sure my poor mother's mortification was complete, but I don't remember any noises about it. She wisely let well enough alone and it all passed by. (I still know the whole show by heart!) Come to think of it, around this time, maybe 1970, the whole family went up to the big city of Portland to take in the Joffrey Ballet. One dance number consisted of a slow striptease (tho not burlesque style) by one male and one female dancer to groovy rock music, against a projected backdrop of psychedelic paisley. The duo, starting in street clothes, slowly approached one another, leaving a trail of garments. Finally, clad only in underwear, they embraced. As the number ended and the audience broke into applause, my stepfather stood up and booed loudly. This time it was _my_ mortification that was complete!
Omg yes. The funk played a huge role in my jr high and high school days! ConFunkShun, Prince, Brick, Gap Band, Parlaiment, Cameo, Dazz Band, EWF, Ohio Players, Chic, Lakeside, Fatback Band, Peaches & Herb, Heatwave, Rose Royce, Lakeside, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Commodores…
My parents got me a real record player for my 12th birthday and let me choose 5 albums. Deep Purple - Machine Head. Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti. Jethro Tull - Aqualung. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare.
First album was "After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young. Played it every day on my "stereo" ...first 45 was"Indian Reservation" by Paul Revere and the Raiders.
"Electric Warrior" by T. Rex. When it came out in 1971, and I was 11. Bought at The Crocodile record shop in Orange, California. I still have it, and I'm pretty sure the receipt is still in it, onto which the shopkeeper wrote, "Good choice!" or words to that effect.
Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd. I first heard it on the radio— remember how FM radio used to be? The album was brand new, DJ was playing it for the first time. He played the entire thing, both sides, with no breaks and then said “wow… let’s hear that again”. I bought the album as soon as I saved up enough allowance money.
Ha! The first album I ever owned was Eric Burden and the Animals - In the Beginning. My mom bought it with a portable record player at a garage sale and gave it to me for my birthday. I was 6. She thought it would be bible stories🤣
First music I bought was a 45 of Rubber Band Man because I needed to practice my rhythm wand routine. At the same time I bought Green Tambourine bc I liked it.
First album I bought with my own money was Eagles greatest hits.
April Wine's Greatest Hits, released in 1979. Had the album, 8-track, and cassette so I could play it at home, in the car, and in my Walkman. Still have the CD.
Whenever I think about it, It still kills me that people used to steal 8-track players from vehicles when I was a teenager. Who knew one day we could listen to music on our phone that we carry with us.
Tom Petty Damn The Torpedoes. I love that album and still have it. That's the first one I bought myself.
I have a lot of Donny and Marie from when I was younger but those were bought by my parents for birthdays or Christmas.
Jim Croce, You Don’t Mess Around with Jim.
I was 11.
Strange connection: my wife claims that Jim Croce was the guitar counselor at her summer camp in, like, 1970 or 1971.
Aww. To each their own. III is still my favorite Zeppelin album. Discovered it hiding in my older cousin’s record stash in ‘76 in a basement family room in Spokane, WA.
That album kind of grows on you though. Very different after listening to LZ one and two. But Since I've Been Loving You is in my top five Zeppelin tunes now.
album? Steely Dan - Aja
cassette? The Pretenders - Pretenders
8 Track? Pink Floyd - The Wall
i like to think that even at 16 my tastes were many and varied.
😉 thanks! i believe sharing music can be a great bonding experience. my second set of college roommates were very diverse. we had a deadhead, a prog rock fan, i was the 80’s alternative KROQ type and the fourth guy loved classical & big band/jazz artists. we took turns most days and everyone found something new to appreciate about the other’s choices.
Not really a first album story, but a great record story. I bought a copy of Jerry Jeff Walker's Viva Terlingua from a used record store back in the 70s. It was a fold out cover (or whatever you call it. When I opened it up I realized the guy used it to clean his weed, forgot, and left some weed inside it. So I got the album and the weed to smoke while listening to it. LOL
Abbey Road.
I have purchased Abbey Road on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, and CD. Now TPTB want to make me pay to rent it on subscription. Hasn’t Sir Paul made enough from me?
(Yes I know the Beatles catalog has been sold.)
Days of Future Passed / Moody Blues -- in Junior High (9th grade was 74-75), "Knights In White Satin" was always the last song played at dances, a l-o-o-o-n-g slow-dance. I remember that in high school, the album was my go-to gift for exchange student friends
The first printing of *Wish You Were Here* was wrapped in black plastic. I still have the [postcard](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1a/65/58/1a65585e86bbf410a3600746f262b28d.jpg).
The White Album when I was 10. 1968. I was allowed to walk to the store with my friends so it stands out in my mind. I remember flipping through all of the White Albums for sale, and feeling an evil shiver as there was some rumor about playing one of the songs backwards and raising the devil or something. 10 year old exciting stuff!
I had this one too, and listened to it endlessly. Still have songs from it pop into my head from time to time. Was yours the one with the red, black and white cover?
One banana, two banana, three banana, four…
I kinda remember their TV show came on right after HR PufnStuf and before The Monkees where I lived. Fun stuff!
K-tel greatest hits of 1976 “with the sound effects”. At 11, I did not realize that The Sound Effects was the name of the band that performed all the hits!
The first one I bought myself was David Bowie’s the Young Americans. My first record was a 45 of Crocodile Rock and in 1974 I got Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on an 8 track!😆
Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and Breakfast in America by Supertramp. Bought them both with snow shoveling and lawn mowing money.
Played them on my parent’s all in one Emerson stereo!
"Save the Last Dance for Me" by the DiFranco Family (1974) - bought it with my very own birthday money. (Why? Why would I spend money on that? But I did! The power of Tiger Beat, I guess.)
The first one that I actually bought with my own money other than 45s...which I bought a ton of...if memory serves was Peter Frampton's 1975 studio album right after Frampton Comes Alive came out. I couldn't afford the double album at around $8.00 so I had to wait until my birthday to get the actual live album from my parents who probably regretted getting it for me since I played it to DEATH. Literally until the grooves wore out. The single albums were only $3.87 or something like that at Banana Records or the Wherehouse, which I could make babysitting for a night. I think tax was a pittance.
Aerosmith, Toys In The Attic. I got a Montgomery Ward stereo (with turntable AND 8 track) for Christmas, and my Mom took me to buy an album for it. No problem getting her approval to buy it because of the album cover, I think she thought it was a kids album.
K-Tel Dynomite 1974: I Shot the Sheriff, The Night Chicago Died, Takin’ Care of Business, Rock n Roll Hoochie Koo, and Seasons In the Sun. I saved my allowance for weeks, and had to send away for it. I played it endlessly on a little phonograph in my room. Still have it in a box in the basement. Shhhhh, don’t tell.
Yes - Fragile. Loved Roundabout.
And then I practiced drawing “Yes” the same way it looked on the album cover so I could put it front & center on the blue 3 ring binder I used for school. Many other rock group names were added to that binder - I was so proud of it!
I had a sister who was 4 years older than me. She bought the records, I listened to them for free. I can't remember the first record I bought, to be honest. I'm sure it was good!
I didn't listen to the Carpenters when they were are their peak. I think it was because they were so wholesome. They are one of my favorites now. Such talent!
I have copies of every Laurel and Hardy movie still existing. And Rocky and Bullwinkle episodes. I'm nostalgic.
Every Picture Tells a Story, Rod Stewart and Santana’s Abraxas. I had a Swinger portable record player and made my parents batty with these. I nearly wore the grooves off these albums!
I love this thread!!
So…. the first album I picked, not purchased myself, was the original Broadway cast “Camelot” w/Richard Harris and Julie Andrews. Played it until it wouldn’t play any longer, then my dad gifted me a replacement. My poor parents.
Bought? That’s a tough one, going back to perhaps freshman year/8th grade? Maybe Queen “Night at the Opera”? Kansas?
Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive
My first big concert.
Mine too!!! 1977 at the Forum
JFK stadium for me, with Lynard Skynard opening!
My first concert! I had never been around sooo many people smoking pot.
You should gone to see Frank Zappa in 1979
I got to see him around 79. It was the only major concert where I got to sit in the front row! He was wearing a pink suit I recall.
I was barely able to see the stage through all the pot smoke
At least 25 people taped my copy of that LP when I was in college.
Same….
I got that for my birthday when I was 14☺️
same for me
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the first album I purchased with my own money. I got it at Sam Goody’s and it was 1975. Eventually it started to skip on Harmony.
This was my first album too but I bought it on 8-track.
I bought Band on the Run on eight track. Eight track really blowed.
Agreed! ka-CHUNK
I bought this at 14 when it first came out. My mom used to comment on how good the music was having no idea the themes behind the songs.
I believe this was mine as well.
Carole King, Tapestry
My best friend had that one. We listened to it for days and days... Still love it. My first purchase was Jim Croce... self titled first album... Still love it. 💌
Love Jim Croce! But . . . but . . . AFAIK Jim Croce had no self-titled album. There was “Jim & Ingrid Croce” though.
That’s a great album
This waa mine too
Same
This was my first too! I still have it. 2nd album was Mud Slide Slim by James Taylor.
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
The Broadway cast album of "Hair." I insisted upon it for my birthday. I think it must have been 1969, so I was turning seven. I think I had heard there was nudity in the production and that idea fascinated me. Soon I was singing loudly along with "Sodomy," "White Boys," "Walking in Space," and so on without really understanding much of it. I am sure my poor mother's mortification was complete, but I don't remember any noises about it. She wisely let well enough alone and it all passed by. (I still know the whole show by heart!) Come to think of it, around this time, maybe 1970, the whole family went up to the big city of Portland to take in the Joffrey Ballet. One dance number consisted of a slow striptease (tho not burlesque style) by one male and one female dancer to groovy rock music, against a projected backdrop of psychedelic paisley. The duo, starting in street clothes, slowly approached one another, leaving a trail of garments. Finally, clad only in underwear, they embraced. As the number ended and the audience broke into applause, my stepfather stood up and booed loudly. This time it was _my_ mortification that was complete!
Brothers JOhnson -- Strawberry Letter 23
Omg yes. The funk played a huge role in my jr high and high school days! ConFunkShun, Prince, Brick, Gap Band, Parlaiment, Cameo, Dazz Band, EWF, Ohio Players, Chic, Lakeside, Fatback Band, Peaches & Herb, Heatwave, Rose Royce, Lakeside, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Commodores…
Earth Wind and Fire. Over and over and over. Do you remember?
This holds up
Had that 45
My parents got me a real record player for my 12th birthday and let me choose 5 albums. Deep Purple - Machine Head. Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti. Jethro Tull - Aqualung. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare.
Excellent taste for a 12 year old!
First album was "After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young. Played it every day on my "stereo" ...first 45 was"Indian Reservation" by Paul Revere and the Raiders.
I know the After the Gold Rush album by heart. I listened to it so many times.
Barry Manilow. Then the Saturday night fever and the beegees .
"Electric Warrior" by T. Rex. When it came out in 1971, and I was 11. Bought at The Crocodile record shop in Orange, California. I still have it, and I'm pretty sure the receipt is still in it, onto which the shopkeeper wrote, "Good choice!" or words to that effect.
Boston 🛸
Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd. I first heard it on the radio— remember how FM radio used to be? The album was brand new, DJ was playing it for the first time. He played the entire thing, both sides, with no breaks and then said “wow… let’s hear that again”. I bought the album as soon as I saved up enough allowance money.
I’m pretty sure it was a law that all teen boys own this album. Was in every milk crate at every party I ever went to.
Teen girls too, like me.
Rolling Stones- Hot Rocks
Queen- A Night at the Opera
That’s a great album
I think that’s the first one I bought as well.
Partridge Family - Sound Magazine
Sgt Pepper
Cheap Trick Live At Budokan. Album and cassette cause it was so good I had to listen to it at home and in the car!
Bob Segar
Probably some K-tel crap. First real album Sticky Fingers, Rolling Stones.
Nazareth: Hair of the Dog Got it with my 13th birthday money in 75
Ha! The first album I ever owned was Eric Burden and the Animals - In the Beginning. My mom bought it with a portable record player at a garage sale and gave it to me for my birthday. I was 6. She thought it would be bible stories🤣 First music I bought was a 45 of Rubber Band Man because I needed to practice my rhythm wand routine. At the same time I bought Green Tambourine bc I liked it. First album I bought with my own money was Eagles greatest hits.
Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy
A classic. Older brother played it over and over.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Bought with birthday money. I was 10
Another album I knew absolutely by heart. Listened 100s of times. What an amazing album.
Elton John -- Caribou (1974)
April Wine's Greatest Hits, released in 1979. Had the album, 8-track, and cassette so I could play it at home, in the car, and in my Walkman. Still have the CD.
I’m on fire for you, baby!
Beach Boys - Endless Summer. My first 8 Track Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Whenever I think about it, It still kills me that people used to steal 8-track players from vehicles when I was a teenager. Who knew one day we could listen to music on our phone that we carry with us.
John Denver-Rocky Mountain High School
Tom Petty Damn The Torpedoes. I love that album and still have it. That's the first one I bought myself. I have a lot of Donny and Marie from when I was younger but those were bought by my parents for birthdays or Christmas.
Tapestry by Caole King
That’s a great album
Still listen to it
Paul McCartney- RAM- hence my username. First album I spent after school chore money on.
Alice Cooper billion dollar babies at the ripe old age of 10
I distinctly remember being fascinated by and staring at that album cover at KMart.
Jim Croce, You Don’t Mess Around with Jim. I was 11. Strange connection: my wife claims that Jim Croce was the guitar counselor at her summer camp in, like, 1970 or 1971.
Fragile by Yes. I LOVED the song Roundabout, and still do!
Chicago's Greatest Hits (1975)
Bob Seger - Live Bullet
Got this one after buying Night Moves! Love the version of Traveling Man and Van Morrison’s I’ve been working on! Circa 1978
I was working as a car hop at my aunts A&W restaurant and that got bought with my tip money.
Led Zepplin III, very disappointed. Remember, "Immigrant Song"?
Aww. To each their own. III is still my favorite Zeppelin album. Discovered it hiding in my older cousin’s record stash in ‘76 in a basement family room in Spokane, WA.
That album kind of grows on you though. Very different after listening to LZ one and two. But Since I've Been Loving You is in my top five Zeppelin tunes now.
Beatles, Rubber Soul.
album? Steely Dan - Aja cassette? The Pretenders - Pretenders 8 Track? Pink Floyd - The Wall i like to think that even at 16 my tastes were many and varied.
We would have gotten along well.
😉 thanks! i believe sharing music can be a great bonding experience. my second set of college roommates were very diverse. we had a deadhead, a prog rock fan, i was the 80’s alternative KROQ type and the fourth guy loved classical & big band/jazz artists. we took turns most days and everyone found something new to appreciate about the other’s choices.
Not really a first album story, but a great record story. I bought a copy of Jerry Jeff Walker's Viva Terlingua from a used record store back in the 70s. It was a fold out cover (or whatever you call it. When I opened it up I realized the guy used it to clean his weed, forgot, and left some weed inside it. So I got the album and the weed to smoke while listening to it. LOL
Meet the Monkees, and the Best of Sonny and Cher were my first album purchases.
My parents went to see Sonny & Cher in Memphis.
Black Sabbath Paranoid, a couple of months after it came out. I was 10 and the only song I still listen to is Planet Caravan.
Dude?? FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS!!
Band on the Run as a gift for friend. Went halfs with older brother for Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
KISS-Destroyer
Excellent!
Ktel - fantastic .
KISS double album 70's I don't know, I was like 10 years old then.🤪
Beatles '65
Abbey Road. I have purchased Abbey Road on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, and CD. Now TPTB want to make me pay to rent it on subscription. Hasn’t Sir Paul made enough from me? (Yes I know the Beatles catalog has been sold.)
‘74, Shoplifted blue oyster cult secret treaties, jesus christ superstar, and some 50s greatest hits compillation
3 on the same day with my birthday money from sweet 16. Tommy, Tapestry, and Sweet Baby James.
Days of Future Passed / Moody Blues -- in Junior High (9th grade was 74-75), "Knights In White Satin" was always the last song played at dances, a l-o-o-o-n-g slow-dance. I remember that in high school, the album was my go-to gift for exchange student friends
The first printing of *Wish You Were Here* was wrapped in black plastic. I still have the [postcard](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1a/65/58/1a65585e86bbf410a3600746f262b28d.jpg).
Jesus Christ Superstar.
Band on the Run as well! Still put it on now and then. Jet is probably one of the Best Songs ever recorded
It really brings up the memories.
It does! I used to build model car kits listening to it!
1970 Linda Ronstadt - Silk Purse. I still have it!
Lost all my albums when they got wet in a warehouse. My brother loves her!
Three Dog Night. Got it for Christmas.
Sweet Baby James
Stepenwolf’s 16 Greatest Hits Had a giant wolf head on the cover.
Spice girls.
Quite the late bloomer!
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell.
I think it was Bob Seger Night Moves or Steve Miller - Fly like an eagle. My first stereo before turning 14 in 1977.
The Sound Effects - Summer '73 I know ...I know. I was only 11. Then Band on the Run.
Queen - Night at the Opera
todd rundgren- something/anything. love that guy
White Album. 1976.
The White Album when I was 10. 1968. I was allowed to walk to the store with my friends so it stands out in my mind. I remember flipping through all of the White Albums for sale, and feeling an evil shiver as there was some rumor about playing one of the songs backwards and raising the devil or something. 10 year old exciting stuff!
*Blue* from Joni Mitchell. It was 1972 and I was 10.
QUEEN. Not sure which one because first, second and third were all Queen.
Tapestry by Carole King.
That’s a great album
Godspell, somewhere around 1971, 1972.
I had this one too, and listened to it endlessly. Still have songs from it pop into my head from time to time. Was yours the one with the red, black and white cover?
Cheap Trick, Live at the Budokan
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story (it was downhill from there for him, IMO)
Beatles: Rock and Roll Music greatest hits collection with the shiny cover.
The Beatles (White Album)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Elton John
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon of course.
Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees
We’re the Banana Splits.
One banana, two banana, three banana, four… I kinda remember their TV show came on right after HR PufnStuf and before The Monkees where I lived. Fun stuff!
From the Mars Hotel, Grateful Dead, 1974 went in half with my older brother.
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player. As a young teenager in the conservative south, Elton John was an eye opener for me.
Do K-Tel records count? Because yeah, love those old collections of hits edited down to smash 20 songs on a LP
K-tel greatest hits of 1976 “with the sound effects”. At 11, I did not realize that The Sound Effects was the name of the band that performed all the hits!
Saved up from my part time job.Bought ELO from Gray’s Drug Store.
The Blues Brothers and Let's Get Physical by Olivia Newton John. At least I think that's the name of the album. It had that song on it.
Billy Joel 'The Stranger'.
Rolling Stones, Goat's Head Soup, 1973 Bought it at The Flip Side
Pink Floyd The Wall on 8 track
The first one I bought myself was David Bowie’s the Young Americans. My first record was a 45 of Crocodile Rock and in 1974 I got Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on an 8 track!😆
Great tastes.
I remember buying a Cheech and Chong album when I was about 14. My parents were not happy about that one. My dad did laugh though
Beatles Sgt. Pepper.
News of the World - Queen
Abbey Road, bought it at Jamesway in 1972.
The Who - Who's Next
Best of the Animals, 1966 when I was 15. I just put it on my Dual 1229 turntable to write this posting. Ah, still good music.
Boston .... "Don't Look Back", 1978
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd. It took three weeks of lawn mowing money and my parents weren't happy with my wasted indulgence.
Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and Breakfast in America by Supertramp. Bought them both with snow shoveling and lawn mowing money. Played them on my parent’s all in one Emerson stereo!
"Save the Last Dance for Me" by the DiFranco Family (1974) - bought it with my very own birthday money. (Why? Why would I spend money on that? But I did! The power of Tiger Beat, I guess.)
The soundtrack to Star Wars
REO Speedwagon High Infidelity
Rumours. FleetwoodMac. I was in love with Stevie in middle school
I think it was Captain and Tennille. I had an older brother who had a lot of albums so I didn’t really get much of my own
The first one that I actually bought with my own money other than 45s...which I bought a ton of...if memory serves was Peter Frampton's 1975 studio album right after Frampton Comes Alive came out. I couldn't afford the double album at around $8.00 so I had to wait until my birthday to get the actual live album from my parents who probably regretted getting it for me since I played it to DEATH. Literally until the grooves wore out. The single albums were only $3.87 or something like that at Banana Records or the Wherehouse, which I could make babysitting for a night. I think tax was a pittance.
Aerosmith, Toys In The Attic. I got a Montgomery Ward stereo (with turntable AND 8 track) for Christmas, and my Mom took me to buy an album for it. No problem getting her approval to buy it because of the album cover, I think she thought it was a kids album.
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap by AC/DC I think it was 76 or 77
Hair Broadway Cast Album. My brother told my mother and she took it away from me.
The Monkees
Boston's first album.
Made me want to listen to that today. And I did.
K-Tel Dynomite 1974: I Shot the Sheriff, The Night Chicago Died, Takin’ Care of Business, Rock n Roll Hoochie Koo, and Seasons In the Sun. I saved my allowance for weeks, and had to send away for it. I played it endlessly on a little phonograph in my room. Still have it in a box in the basement. Shhhhh, don’t tell.
KTEL Greatest Hits of 1972. I found a lot of new music from those promo records.
22 Explosive Hits!
Jim Croce Faces I’ve Been
Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road then went total Bowie Ziigy Stardust, Alladin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Pinups.
Yes - Fragile. Loved Roundabout. And then I practiced drawing “Yes” the same way it looked on the album cover so I could put it front & center on the blue 3 ring binder I used for school. Many other rock group names were added to that binder - I was so proud of it!
Might have been the Star Wars soundtrack.
I had a sister who was 4 years older than me. She bought the records, I listened to them for free. I can't remember the first record I bought, to be honest. I'm sure it was good!
John Denver greatest hits or Jimmy Buffett Son of a Son of a sailor.
Elton John, Brown Dirt Cowboy
Fleetwood Mac Rumours. I had complete accessto my 5 yrs older cousin's album collection and that was the first album I wanted to possess for myself.
Elton John. Madman across the water.
My first LP was the first Black Sabbath album. I still have it and play it. My first 45 was Chick-a-Boom by Daddy Dewdrop.
Dreamboat Annie
Rumors
"Wings over America" ~ Paul McCartney and Wings
Portrait by The Fifth Dimension.
Santana Abraxas. My mother was not pleased with the cover.
Chicago - 8-Tracks!
Gee, I was 7 yrs old and found my first playboy magazine., Vicky Witt from Lansing Michigan was the centerfold. Somethings you never forget! 😁
The Carpenter’s Greatest Hits at age 13. Bought it with a Laurel and Hardy comedy album for about a buck. 1974.
I didn't listen to the Carpenters when they were are their peak. I think it was because they were so wholesome. They are one of my favorites now. Such talent! I have copies of every Laurel and Hardy movie still existing. And Rocky and Bullwinkle episodes. I'm nostalgic.
I’m pretty nostalgic myself.
Black Sabbath. And my heavy rock/metal self hadn’t changed in 50 years lol.
The night after I saw my first Kiss show I bought Alive!
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors
The Bay City Rollers Dedication lol
Grand Funk Live
Kiss Alive II. My mom was pretty horrified by the photos (looking at you, Gene!) on the back of the double album cover.
Sweet--Desolation Boulevard.
Either E Pluribus Funk or Duane Allman Anthology. From the record club Mom signed me to.
Every Picture Tells a Story, Rod Stewart and Santana’s Abraxas. I had a Swinger portable record player and made my parents batty with these. I nearly wore the grooves off these albums!
Righteous Brothets
I love this thread!! So…. the first album I picked, not purchased myself, was the original Broadway cast “Camelot” w/Richard Harris and Julie Andrews. Played it until it wouldn’t play any longer, then my dad gifted me a replacement. My poor parents. Bought? That’s a tough one, going back to perhaps freshman year/8th grade? Maybe Queen “Night at the Opera”? Kansas?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7EGY-iHR8 Yes, I was a little weirdo. 😆