What was the first album you bought?

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I think, it’s a while ago, Mott, Drive on, this was before they were called Mott the Hoople. One of the first tracks I played on guitar was apologies from side 2 - all 60 seconds of it.
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That one was after they were Mott the Hoople, post Ian Hunter.

My first lp was a 1977 k-tel compilation called Disco Fever. I suspect it was heavily advertised on the telly.
 
13 years old in 1970 and armed with a EMI Record Voucher for my birthday I got on the brown and cream GB bus to Hartlepool and made my way to the Record Shop above Rumbelows in the town centre, Not really having much of a clue what to buy I went for this obscurish LP .... Crystal production and great sounding chunky guitar work. 3 soft ballad tunes using tom toms as main back line .Unique fusion of native Indian and rock guitars Loved every song and still got the same vinyl LP I bought that day

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This gives a flavour of the LP , Live version of one track maggie with nifty guitar work

 
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Didn't buy it, but got In The City, by the Jam from HMV in Stockton a couple of days after it was released. Just checked and that was May 20, 1977, so I would have been 11.
 
Adam ant still proud if it now...went to see him at boro Town hall couple of years ago do the whole album...my life circle was complete.
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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 :)
 
Not the first album I bought but the first one I can remember being bought for me was The Gift by the Jam. I was really annoyed at my mam as I wanted Complete Madness by Madness.

Imagine being annoyed at being bought such a great album eh 🤷

First Album I bought on CD was the War Child Album.
 
sparkins said:
Snap! That was the first one I bought with my own money.

The first album I owned was this - came from Father Christmas - I have no idea why 'he' thought I would like it!
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I bought another couple of Smith's albums the same year and some of the tunes on The World Won't Listen were on them. Sixteen, clumsy and shy I thought that was a bit tight until I realised....
 
KiwiBoro said:
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 :)
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Used to buy “X Chart Records” From Boyes as they were advertised… 49p or something… a new single was just over a pound
 
I'm pretty sure it was an album of Beatles covers - not very good ones at that! The first proper one was High Tide and Green Grass.
 
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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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 (y)
 
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