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

Oskar · Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 1751 Location: Norway

My first single: When i was 4-5 my dad was studying in town, so only came home weekends. Coming up to my fifth birthday, Jan 19 1965, he asked me what I wanted, and I promptly answered " A Beatles record!" so I got "I feel fine" and "Help!"

My first LP was probably Heman's hermits' "x15" bought at Sunndalsøra, Norway in 1969.

softfreak · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:46 am Post subject:

memedesigner · Joined: Feb 11, 2006 Posts: 59 Location: Berlin, Germany

U2 live album Under A Blood Red Sky, in 1983 or '84. Which I then, some years later, sold to a friend, and then bought again this spring - it is that good.

LP is such an alive media.

softfreak · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject:

Ponk · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:49 am Post subject:

So many not embarrassing first LPs and CDs! My parents never had a vinyl player so my first album was a CD in the early nineties. I can't remember what it was, and I wouldn't admit it even if I did. It must be something really crappy. The first ones include Alanis Morissette, Crash Test Dummies and a Finnish singer who makes music for middle-aged women who don't listen to any kind of music.

My first LP is "Tervehdys, Maan asukit" by Ahkerat Simpanssit that I got into the bargain when I bought an Absoluuttinen Nollapiste collection "Sortovuodet" a couple of years ago. (Absoluuttinen Nollapiste is a great Finnish prog band, you should probably check them out if you like lofi prog from the seventies. They aren't from the seventies, though, they just sound a bit like that. Ahkerat Simpanssit is a humour band with vaguely the same line-up with Absoluuttinen Nollapiste, you shouldn't probably check them out.)

opg · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:07 am Post subject:

I had a Disneyland March 45 when I was a kid. There was some drum cadence fills in there that I liked. There was also a 45 with humpback whale sounds. Then there was a Sesame Street LP. It was not until a few years ago that I bought a nice turntable to find good samples. My first LP after I bought it was "Fragile" by Yes. I had seen the movie Buffalo 66 and really liked the soundtrack.

bachus · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:

First LP purchased 1960,
RCA Living Stereo LP
Side 1: Grofé’s Grand Canyon Suite
Side 2: Beethoven’s Wellington's Victory

It was my first exposure to classical music. I was an instant convert.

Edit:
MORTON GOULD GROFE / GRAND CANYON SUITE, BEETHOVEN / WELLINGTON'S VICTORY RCA LSC-2433

Stanley Pain · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:35 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:38 am Post subject:

In the early eighties I had a vomit picture disc of Derrick & Clive's "Ad Nauseum"!! Shocked

Absolutely fowl, disgusting, (snigger) recording that only an eighties teenager would appreciate, but I bet it would be worth a bit now that they are both dead! Wink

cappy2112 · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

cappy2112 · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject:

I don't remember the actual first album I had, but all of these I remember buying during my high school years, I just don't remember the order

George Harrison's "Electronic Sound" (painfull to listen to), but I still own it.
or

The Beatles White Album, or Sgt. Pepper
or
Venus and Mars by Paul McCartney & Wings

The first CD I bought was definitely Dark Side of The Moon

seraph · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:12 am Post subject:

cappy2112 · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:28 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

I was about 6 when Australian radio stations went "Popcorn" crazy. We were on a long road trip holiday. It was on at least twice a day every day for weeks, across 3 states. Never new it was actually Jean Michel Jarre! I s'pose if you took some sounds from Oxygene and pushed them a bit more Poppy and slightly Corny then, well,.... yeah, it all makes sense now. Laughing

cappy2112 · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:57 pm Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject:

That's even more inspiring!
If you can write a poppy melody which shifts around keys and you keep writing, and your Dad writes film scores, then one day you might end up writing something as classy as Oxygene!

cappy2112 · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject:

cappy2112 · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject:

Oskar · Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 1751 Location: Norway

cappy2112 · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:17 am Post subject:

>>I tried to play it a couple of times for my parents, but each time our cat >>just went ballistic, literally attacking first my mum, and then me.

Try Equinoxe instead.

I first heard Oxygene when I was in the Navy. One of the guys in the barracks was playing it. I kept waiting for the guitar solo to come in. Never happened. That was the same year the first Van Halen came out. Needless to say, JMJ took a back seat to Eddies guitar- then. Now it's the other way round Smile

David Vesel · Joined: Jul 31, 2006 Posts: 16 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA

1st LP: Pieces of Eight by Styx
1st cassette: The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel
1st CD: Better Than Heaven by Stacey Q

jksuperstar · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:03 am Post subject:

1st LP: Yours truly playing trumpet in the the 6th grade county band. I specifically remember a song called Captain xxx (don't remember what xxx was though). As 6th graders, we had to sync to a tape track that had all the electronic sound effects. I remember being off by 2 or 3 beats by the end of it. I didn't know what the hell the music was from, but it sounded like a TV show or from a B movie. Anyway, they cut that to disc, which surprised the hell out of me.

1st Purchased LP: The Beatles Revolution.

By the time I was old enough to buy them myself, it was all tapes and CD's. Though when young, my brother and I had matching tape recorders (I bet parents with more than one kid are laughing right now). We used to record something and bounce it back & forth after we figured out how to slow the tape mechanism down by holding the REW button halfway while recording. Sorry if that's OT, but I just remembered it.

orczy · Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 161 Location: Australia

First LP I remeber is Bo hansson "Lord of the Rings"
First LP I bought was Duran Duran "Rio" (82)
First CD....Sigue Sigue Sputnik "Flaunt it". It had ads inbetween songs. (86)

I can't remeber the first single, but I guess it was Duran Duran. They were my first real musical love.