First album?

[DaveH]

What was the first album you ever bought?

For me (I was 13), it was this one:

[Submariner85]

I bought a used copy of Kiss Alive 2 at  a flea market for a few dollars of my own money.  I was probably in the 3rd or 4th grade.  

[Dave Scepter]

When I was young, I had a lot of albums that were given to me from various family members, but with my own money I purchased KISS Alive

[mathman]

11 year old kid and loved the look of this cover.  Sly and the Family Stone. There's a Riot going on.   Led to me like funk and bass.

Bought at a Ben Franklin Five and Dime store.

Edited Thursday at 04:36 PM by mathman

[veatch]

Great topic. I wish my answer was more cool like what's above...  : /

Mine was this.  Lots of lame on this thing, but it did have some gems - Long Cool Woman and All the Young Dudes if I recall. 

In my defense, my brother talked me into it. I was 5 at the time...

[hamerhead]

[seeker]

I honestly dont remember. My older brother had just gone off to college when I got the bug, so blew through his collection first.  Bands that had either broken up or died; Beatles then Jimi. If this wasn't the first, it would have been in the first five. Eventually saw him live with his original singer.

Edited 2 hours ago by seeker
Meant James Dewar, not his 1st drummer.

[topekatj]

LZ III got it for XMAS IN ‘69

[Disturber]

First album on cassette, recorded from LPs: A side - Rolling Stones Rolled Gold. B - side Beatles Sgt Pepper.   (long gone, wore it out)

First real album I got that was from the music store: cassette with Rod Stewart - Atlantic Crossing.    (still have it)

First LP I got for my birthday: ABBA - Greatest hits.   (still have it)

First album that I bought myself (actually my parents helped me buy it): KISS -  ALIVE   (still have it)

 

[RobB]

Either, “Jackson 5’s Greatest Hits”, or, “Elton John’s G/H.” Once I got Beatles, “Hey Jude” compilation, there was no turning back.

Edited Thursday at 08:34 PM by RobB

[RobB]

3 minutes ago, Disturber said:

Whoa! “Alive”, with the Euro Kiss logo! How cool is that?

[hamerhead]

2 hours ago, RobB said:

Whoa! “Alive”, with the Euro Kiss logo! How cool is that?

Never knew there was such a thing. Why?

[RobB]

13 minutes ago, hamerhead said:

Never knew there was such a thing. Why?

It was (or is) illegal in Germany to display NSDAP imagery. I don’t know if it is illegal in other countries.

The, “SS”, in the Kiss logo is verboten, so they had to use the other font. I can respect their decision on the imagery. I mean, you don’t want the kinder tying their shoes in little knot-zies, now do ya?

[hamerhead]

Understandable.

[svl]

First with my own coin, the fabulous K-Tel Fantastic 22!

[Travis]

As the youngest of 4, I spent all the years up to my preteens listening to my older siblings records and cassettes. This album came out in June 1991, 1 month before my 13th birthday and it was the first (CD) I ever bought. Still my favorite of the Sammy era. 

[Brooks]

I had a bunch a 8 tracks from Columbia House (Kiss, Frampton, BTO, etc) but the 1st album I actually paid for myself was this comp I found in the cut out bin, probably 5th or 6th grade;

 

Edited Friday at 12:23 PM by Brooks

[Disturber]

3 hours ago, Brooks said:

I had a bunch a 8 tracks from Columbia House (Kiss, Frampton, BTO, etc) but the 1st album I actually paid for myself was this comp I found in the cut out bin, probably 5th or 6th grade;

 

 

 

I had both Vol 1 and Vol 2 of those. Sold them when I collected the Sab catalogue.

[Willie G. Moseley]

Birds of a feather, different genres I may have bought Jones' greatest hits first. It was released in 1960 (when I was 10) but Homer & Jethro's anthology was a 1958 release.

[BoogieMKIIA]

This is not my first album but the most memorable from back in the day. 

[The Shark]

Beatles "Something New".

[tommy p]

This was the first one I ever picked out for myself and bought but coincidentally to OP, BTO - Not Fragile was THE album that got me into hard rock.  My brother is 7 years older than me and had left most of his 8-track collection behind when he went to college.  I worked my way through them and that was my first real "favorite album".

[Gabe]

[Gabe]

The above is still sort of a “guilty pleasure”

Gabe 😀

Edited 2 hours ago by Gabe

[RobB]

58 minutes ago, Gabe said:

The above is still sort of a “guilty pleasure”

Gabe 😀

Ain’t nothing guilty about liking ABBA, son. They freakin’ RULE!