What was the first album you bought?

[Centralscrutinizer]

Stetting Sons - The Jam.
Before that I had bought for me various versions of Top of The Pops - regular releases of very average cover versions of what was just in the charts. Parents used to buy them from Woolworths in Redcar

My Mam and Dad had a stack of those Top of the Pops albums. Great album covers

 

[Craggsy2]

Sounds Like Slade, 1973, couldn’t afford the original back in those days

 

[Mr Sheppey]

Silverbird- Leo Sayer

 

[feedthebear]

 

[SNEEKERS]

Just realised it's on Spotify. Just on the theme from the Battle of Britain

Or £2 from Barnardo

 

[SNEEKERS]

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Or £2 from Barnardo's

 

[Millbrook]

Might have been John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Or £2 from Barnardo

I've got the vinyl at home
Spotify has an expanded track list as well.

 

[since1970]

 

[Beverleyred]

My first purchased album was Bridge over Troubled Water by S&G.

 

[smoggs03]

Now 10 - quickly Followed by …. Now 11

 

[Old_Stocktonian]

Fireball by Deep Purple bought at Leslie Browns in Stockton. Anyone else remember the listening booths?

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

Soft Cell - Non-stop erotic cabaret. I was going to school and gave my Gran the money to buy it from HMV in Stockton. Got a shock when I saw the rear of the album cover.

 

[alanmoodysdog]

This was mine. I went down to buy Slayed by Slade, Id bought their 3 singles in 1971Get Down and Get With It, Coz I luv you, Look what You Dun, 1972 Take Me Bak Ome. I couldn't get Slayed as demand was huge apparently. So I bought Play it Loud.

Still my favourite album by them, I never tired of listening to it and 51 years since I bought it. always worth listening if you can be bothered.
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Just come back from 3 months in the UK. I live in Thailand and bought this at rpmdiscs in Wingate for £7 Cover tad grubby but record is in Excellent condition ...1970 2nd pressing with the Barn publishing on the label...Yet to play it yet so your above comments might get me to spin it tonight

 

[ferg]

 

[mercury_redstone7]

Just come back from 3 months in the UK. I live in Thailand and bought this at rpmdiscs in Wingate for £7 Cover tad grubby but record is in Excellent condition ...1970 2nd pressing with the Barn publishing on the label...Yet to play it yet so your above comments might get me to spin it tonight

The Original LP was on Polydor Super which was about 2mm thick and the same weight as a 78. I love the recording which I think is down to the sound engineer and that lives up to the producers expectations. You can hear the fingers slide down the strings on some tracks and has an almost live/ warm sound to majority of the tracks, and it doesn't sound overproduced.

I hope you enjoy it, its quite progressive and not pop that might suit your ear.

 

[mercury_redstone7]

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Fireball by Deep Purple bought at Leslie Browns in Stockton. Anyone else remember the listening booths?

I remember in Lesley Browns in Stockton High Street, you could go to the record counter and choose an album or single and they would put it on for you listen to in one of the 2 soundproof booths opposite the counter they had. Wasted half an hour sometimes waiting to go in the flicks

 

[atypical_boro]

Kylie's debut album. Then Jason Donovan's - Ten Good Reasons. Yes, I liked him when I was 6.

But I also 'acquired' the Beatles' 'Help', Phil's 'No Jacket Required' and MJ's 'Bad' via other means. They are the defining albums of my infancy.

The first one I 'bought' on CD with my own pocket money was Capella's 'U Got 2 Know'.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Please hammer don't hurt em I think

 

[Thing]