Your 1st Album YOU purchased?

Pretenders “Extended Play” in 1981 (7th grade). I still own it but it is thoroughly trashed from years of being played on a Technics SL-B200 with a $22 AudioTechnica cartridge.

Pretenders was also my first concert in 1984 at the long departed Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Tx. Honeyman Scott and Pete Farndon were already deceased, but man that new lineup still rocked.

Saw them again in 2017, I think.

The United States of America by the United States of America.

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I bought this just after it was released in 1973. I was 11 years old…

Alice Cooper’s Billion dollar baby - 47 years ago when I was 14 years old.

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Early Moody Blues remains significant for me.

1st LP Elton John, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player 1973 I was 10 years old.

1st CD Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms

first 8 track was Elton John, Don’t Shoot Me.

First album I ever bought was Yes, Yessongs. My sister is about 5 years older than me and she had a boyfriend who listen to all sorts of great stuff. I was probably 13 or 14 years old. The triple album live set was a bargain. I still have it, although it’s pretty rough. The turntable we had at the time wasn’t much and I didn’t know about cleaning records then.

first “album” a 78 record: Nat King Cole, “Too Young” I was about 12 or 13 I think. Yes, I was in love and it was going to last forever! :innocent:

I Robot from the Alan Parsons Project was my first choice

Van Halen- 1984

VH84

El Gato Barbieri; Caliente
Mail ordered from Columbia Club. Lol! :wink:

Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John.

The Wall - Pink Floyd

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They were a New York area band that received a decent amount of air play at the time.
Still have it to this day. I enjoy spinning it once in a blue moon when feeling nostalgic; pops, clicks, hiss and all…

The United States of America.

Best of Otis Redding

I have the Rascals greatest hits on CD and really liked them when I was a teenager. I still listen to the CD every now and then. I saw them at a Cleveland rib burn off in the mid to late 80’s. They were originally known as the Young Rascals.

My first album was Just Like Us by Paul Revere and the Raiders.