The 1st LP that I ever owned was...

bigtex · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject:

When I was a kid, my parents had a small, but very odd record collection. My favorites at the time:

Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon
Silver Apples - Contact
National Geographic - Space Sounds
Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle

I was probably 5 or 6 when I started manhandling the records. My parents would always make me stop because they didn't want me to scratch the records or muss up the needle. I would slow them down (I liked how Steve Miller sounded slowed down) or speed them up or push the record back and forth. I even had a "simple science experiments" book that showed me how to make something like a Gramohpone with a sewing needle and a rolled up cone of paper.

My favorite parts on those records were the synth intro on Fly Like an Eagle, and the Space Sounds record, which also had a lot of crazy synth sounds on it. If only I had known at the time how much I'd want the Silver Apples and Subotnick records, I'd never have let them vanish at a garage sale D:

My first cassette was a dubbed copy of Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill that my cousin made for me. He also gave me his old walkman when he got a new one. Imagine being in 2nd grade and walking around the schoolyard listening to the Beastie Boys on a walkman. Talk about cool! (though I was never "cool" at school...) If my parents had known... that tape would have vanished off into the night!

The first CD I ever bought of my own volition was the White Album by the Beatles. I'd heard Bungalow Bill at a friends' house (I was like 13 or 14) and I had to have it for myself.

Years later I got re-introduced to the synth sounds and I've never gone back Very Happy

(sorry for the long, rambling post...)

phrozenlight · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:09 am Post subject:

My first LP was an sampler with some songs of the beatles, the stones and some other artist.

My first self bought LP was
Uriah Heep - VERY 'EAVY ... VERY 'UMBLE

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DrJustice · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:48 am Post subject:

kkissinger · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:14 am Post subject:

The first LP that I acquired was the incredible Switched-on Bach album by W. Carlos. I still own that LP and the performances on it have stood the test of time. Though Carlos' equipment was limited by today's standards, the album sounds fresh and exciting to this day.

My parents' LP collection was a combination of classical and showtunes.

One of my favorites was an album called Jungle Drums by Morton Gould. It has a cool album cover -- perhaps that's why I liked it. When Dad and Mom decided to part with their LP collection, I snapped the entire collection right up! Another favorite growing up was an album of the Ballet Folklorico from Mexico.

Did my parents have ANYTHING like Silver Apples of the Moon? No way!! When I purchased SOB and put it on the HiFi they thought I had gone off the deep end.

Another one of my early LP acquisitions is The Moog Strikes Bach performed by Hans Wurman. I never hear much said about it however the performances are very exciting. Wurman's LPs came out somewhere between Carlos' early recordings and Tomita's recordings and perhaps they were overshadowed at the time. He recorded on the RCA label -- not bad, huh?

Also have Dick Hyman's Electric Eclectics and it is another inspiring album of synthesizer music.

And, of course I own Everything you wanted to hear on the Moog... what a knee-slapping fun album! It still "wows" me to this day.

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject:

First LP - some Beethoven stuff played by Alfred Brendel. This was AFAIK one of Brendel´s early records for the VOX label.

One piece I wanted on vinyl was Pierrot Lunaire, but I guess my parents was worried about what the neighbors would think of that one.

First selfbought LP - Roxy Music - the debut album.

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

Re Gershon Kingsley, the guy who actually wrote Popcorn, try this one:
http://www.kingsleysound.com/Resources/MP3/childm.mp3
Then check out his website: http://www.kingsleysound.com

Why isn`t he a member here? Shocked

DrJustice · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject:

kkissinger · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject:

bigtex · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject:

DrJustice · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject:

ian-s · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject:

"Everything You Always Wanted to Hear on the Moog...". but were afraid to ask for?

Is that the one with Bolero? I had that on cassette. My first LP was 'Go Moog' by the electric coconut Embarassed

followed closely by "blues in e-lectronic flat"

DrJustice · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject:

cappy2112 · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject:

kkissinger · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject:

Dr. Justice,

Yes, indeed. Dan and I met over 40 years ago and have been best friends ever since. Last time I saw him was on a visit to California I made last spring and I am planning to visit him and his wife there in the fall.

Dan included a few bonus tracks on the the CD including a "Fughetta" that was written by yours truly (and performed on Casio CZ series synths).

Dan did a beautiful and painstaking job of restoring "Everything you always wanted to hear on the Moog" and it is amazing that the album has never been remixed to a CD.

----

Regarding "Hot Buttered Popcorn" -- yep, that was a popular tune back in my high school days. I played a Hammond Organ in our school's stage band and "Popcorn" was one of our numbers. I simply used the "Percussion" stop on the Hammond with no drawbars and played as staccato as I could.

An audience favorite! Smile

-- Kevin

v-un-v · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:01 am Post subject:

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The 1st LP that I ever owned was...

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Jean Michel Jarre - oxygene

was at this 1999/2000 new year show also! weeeee

Yorky · Joined: Feb 14, 2005 Posts: 244 Location: Boston, UK

"With the Beatles"

bought on its release day

Dovdimus Prime · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject:

Ahem. The first LP (cassette actually) I bought myself was 'Live In The Raw' by WASP. That would have been in the mid-80s and I still have the same cassette. I used to love heavy metal at that age. So I was pleased to see someone else mention heavy metal!!

I don't remember buying singles at all. My sister had 'New Song' by Howard Jones which came out in 1983. I still love that. It sounds naive to me, because, well, I was naive at the time then.

v-un-v · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:06 am Post subject:

As we are onto the first CD I ever owned, it was;

"Loveless" by My Bloody Valentine.

I've still got that one too.

Singles;

Now this is a hard one. It could have either have been;

JS Bach- 4 Brandenburg Concerto's (played at 33 1/3)

or

"Popcorn" by Hot Butter

or

"Bohemiem Rapsody" by Queen

or.....

Autobahn (7" cut) by Kraftwerk

or

"The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin

can't remember..... Shocked

(Lists- don't yer just hate em?)

Himer · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject: nice idea

Himer · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject:

....aah i forgot... to hold on to the thread topic:
My first 7" Klaus Doldinger "Das Boot"
My first 12" Nena "Nena"
My first CD Tori amos "Little earthquakes"
My first DVD "Koyaanisqatsi"

Wout Blommers · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

EdisonRex · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject:

My first album (other than kids stories from Disney or whatever we used to have in the 60s) was Ragnarok - Electronic Funk by Paul Beaver and Bernard Krause. Followed by Switched-On Bach. There are things that Beaver and Krause did back then that I still have never heard again, or reproduced. ("Amplified mice would be so nice, I've got a big mother Moog to blow") Wink

After a couple of years I discovered ELP and Yes, and then Genesis, and went the prog rock route. I did buy an album, around 1975, called "Walter Carlos - By Request" which I thought was excellent, and I've not seen it re-released on CD.

seraph · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject:

Walter or Wendy Question