First 5 albums you owned/listened to and how old you were at the time
 

I'm sure this has been done before but if anyone wants to join in please do!

OK I will start, this was a while back so I don't know if I've got them in the correct order but here goes from the first album that I actually remember the name of and listened to properly:

Nirvana, Bleach (I was either 10 or just turned 11, not sure!)






Def FX, Surge EP (11)






Sonic Youth, Dirty (11)





Sonic Youth, Goo (12)

(I'm only allowed 4 images apparently but I'm sure everyone knows what this looks like!)



Tumbleweed, Sundial EP (13)

stuff my dad likes and made me like when i was a wee tike:

rolling stones-let it bleed
rolling stones-sticky fingers
miles davis-on the corner
ramones-rockets to russia
van morrison-astral weeks

its amazing, i still love all there records, to the point of feeling emotional when thinking about them...

and i was prolly 6 years old ish

I think they were all Beatles albums, except for a Smashmouth cd. Heh.

Six total because I can't be sure of the order.

OH! I also had this one. My best friends (twins) gave it to me on my birthday. That was a great day.

1. queen - greatest hits

about 9, i went to see wayne's world and loved it, my friends in school found out, through their older brothers, that the song they sang in the car was by them, so i asked my mom for it, she was surprised because it was one of her favorite bands.

2. guns n' roses - bootleg compilation.

about 9, after the queen tape*, i kept reading "guns n' roses" everywhere and found out they were a band, so i tracked down a pirate tape at a flea market with songs from appetite and the illusions (i think it had patience too), i played the hell out of that tape.

3. metallica - metallica (a.k.a. black album)

about 10, after a while, people kept telling me "if you like guns, you should try listening to metallica" so i finally folded and bought it (again, it was a pirate tape, but this time it was the actual album). the first time i listened to it, it was rewinded to side b (or maybe it was mislabelled) and for the longest time though the album opened with "through the never", great song.

4. bon jovi - keep the faith.

about ten, i think i had heard one of their songs ad thought they were good, so i bought it; it was good, i actually still like bon jovi, but more because it's funny/fun than because of the music. they were my first concert too and it was awesome!!!

5. iron maiden - a real live one

about 10 too, word on the playground (literally) was that maiden were satanic so i thought that was awesome, i remember, before i got into music, i would go to stores and see ads for maiden's fear of the dark and kinda being nervous (not scared but anxious, i guess) over the cover art, but actually heard their song "be quick or be dead" and thought it was cool, so i bought the one with "be quick or be dead", little did i know this was a live album, but it had some good songs. the next one i got from them was the maiden japan ep.

*all of these were bought on cassette, i still have them, actually.

**in the interim of 2 and 5, i also bought the guns n' roses discography, although i don't quite remember in what order in relationship with these others, i thought i just stick with different artists; i bough use your illusion I three time because the tape kept snapping.

michael jackson - bad, thriller & off the wall (aged about 8 or 9, i listened to nothing but MJ for 2 years solid, off the wall is still in probably my top 3 albums ever)
de la soul - 3 feet high and rising (aged 10)
public enemy - fear of a black planet (aged 10 or 11)

other than those from about the age of 10 until 12 i used to sit and listen to the top 40 countdown every week and tape all the rap tunes, so i had all these compilations with stuff like MC hammer, technotronic, NWA (100 miles and runnin' made the top 40), jungle brothers, MC Tunes, Rebel MC, overlord x, a tribe called quest, C&C Music Factory... sadly when i got into jungle a few years later i taped over all my old top 40 comps.

when i was 12 i got nevermind and pretty much stopped listening to hiphop over night and didn't listen to anything but "grunge" for about 3 years.

Hey that reminds me, I think I also had a Michael Jackson tape when I was 9 or something too but I can't remember which. My sister started surfing when I was 10 and so we started reading surf magazines and an free Aussie music paper called Drum Media. The surf magazines were where we first heard of most of the stuff we first got a hold of including Sonic Youth and I think I heard about local stuff like Tumbleweed in Drum Media. Then when I moved to Croatia I got more into grunge and also into punk since there's a rather strong but small punk scene where I was, but that was later on, like when I was 14/15.

My best friend in year 7 was obsessed with this!

i was obsessed with the britpop bands when i was young, so i asked my parents for a bunch of cassette tapes.

blur - parklife (i was about 5 when it was released)
radiohead - the bends (about 5 or 6 years old)
pulp - different class (5 or 6)
longpigs - the sun is often out (5 or 6)
ash - 1977 (5 or 6)

The first album I ever owned was Nirvana Nevermind, on cassette, and it was three or four weeks before my eighth birthday, perhaps then it was the year 1991, in fact perhaps that album was nearly new in release now that I think about it, I was obviously a little kid at the time, but I am going to pick first five compact discs because I can not recall my first collection of tapes, but I got my first CD player when I was ten and I had to replace everything from cassette to disc so here it goes to the best of my recollection:






























around this time I also purchased

Aerosmith- Get a Grip
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Nirvana - Bleach, Incesticide, Unplugged came out, eventually Wishkah some two year or two later,which was the first album I every bought the day it came out, 1000 leaves was the second to have that honor)
Lenny Kravitz- Circus
Blind Melon - Self Titled
some Nirvana bootlegs which were outrageous expensive at the time
it was not until 1997 that my disc collection expanded to include a more variety of ecclectic music.

this has been a serious journey down memory lane, wandering around through the archives of sound in my head... also this retrospection makes me realize I was hipper then I thought, I did not realize that I had Nirvana Nevermind around the time of its release, I also did not realize the same about most of the albums I listened to as a kid, it seemed to me that they had been out forever, but at looking at the release dates for them all of them were new at those times, very surprising, aside from the flood of memories, road trips gone by, school yard imaginings and daydreams out the window in elementary school, playing with girls in a world of true innocense, childhood is a trip to recall these days... they say that psychedelic mushroom eaters have an increased capacity to draw and elaborate on early and middle childhood memories, to the point of recapulation
i got my first reggae album in 1999, Bob Marley Natty Dread...

when I was a little kid in the eightes and early 90s my mother listened exclusively to Bon Jovi and Journey cassettes. The irony of today is that these cheesy popper then pop rock bands possessed genuine (campy as it is) talent and wrote thoughtful music with sincere lyrics. I would rather listen to these groups any day over Fall Out Boy or Good Charlotte

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at the end of the day, the wrote good songs, that's what matter.

oh yeah, and it is more psychedelic then Jerry Garcia that Bon Jovi is more popular and successful then even their height and peak of the late 1980s Young Guns era.... today they attract the middle aged women who always listened to them, their daughters, and sometimes even granddaughters, and that my friends, translates to a disgusting number of album and concert ticket sells... Bon Jovi into the 21st century, amazing, well even Hunter
Thompson made it that far...

they haven't written a good song in ten years now, though.

hey, its his life, now or never and he aint gonna live forever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnDztKxqfk

Glad I could have sparked off a journey down memory lane :) Yeah I didn't realise that I had most of the albums soon after their release too, my conception of time and view of the bigger picture was a bit warped then. One thing I do remember was that hearing Bleach was a total contrast to so much of the 80s stuff I had been surrounded with up until then.

hahahaha

I'm not entirely sure. Lemme guess:

Queen's Greatest Hits was definitely my first album. I was a little boy at the time.

All my Bowie stuff was my siblings.

Not quite sure after that. I liked Weird Al when I was 12, but I think my little brother was the one who actually owned the albums.

I can't remember the exact order that I got stuff in, but some of the first stuff I got:
all the Nirvana albums
Led Zeppelin 2, 4, and the boxed set
The Who's Greatest Hits
The Doors Greatest Hits
The Beatles: The White Album, Abbey Road, and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Pink Floyd: The Wall (my parents already had Dark Side)

Yeah. In high school I started on Classic Rock, then I dove into alternative/indie/punk using Nirvana as my reference point.

TUMBLEWEED! Fuck yeah. haha. Good call.

The first one I owned was Nevermind.



The second was The Sex Pistols



The third one I think this was in High School now was Britney Spears debut album.

The fourth one was Bikini Kill



And the last one was Dirty by Sonic Youth.

i wanna see the older crew on the board put theirs up if than can remember at all......... there was no indy cred to be had when i was 5 or so. these are ones i was allowed to by when i was a snapper of the whipper.....

elvis - a legendary performer volume 1

the bee gees - best of the bee gees

led zeppelin - led zeppelin 3

hank williams - the hits volume 1

neil diamond - sweet caroline

^ That's a pretty cool list.

I can say with certainty that my first two albums were Showaddywaddy's "Red Star" and "Greatest Hits", at the age of ten. After that the next ones I remember were Blondie's "Parallel Lines", "Plastic Letters" and "Eat To The Beat", which I guess were some time around the age of twelve or thirteen.

There was a BBC LP of ten episodes of The Magic Roundabout as well, around the age of six, but that's probably not that relevant to the context of the question.

hole - live through this (age 11)
still one of my favorite albums.

nirvana - nevermind (age 11)
not one of my favorites...

rolling stones - tattoo you (i was reeeeally young, maybe 4 or 5)
this one is because of my mom, i'm not so enthralled with this one anymore either

sonic youth - daydream nation (age 11)
this is also partly because of my mom, but when i remember really starting to get into music i listened to this album a lot

sex pistols - nevermind the bollocks (age 11)
i remember i used to cut up all my shirts and i cut off all my hair and i thought i was the coolest thing to ever walk the earth. HA!

around the same time i was also like, REALLY into bikini kill and feminist "rationale" and politics...what a fucking joke! 11 year olds crack me up.

To make it clear, the following ones are the ones that I bought for myself, not only heard. I had heard many albums before, since my brother had had a shitload of The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Kate Bush, Depeche Mode and the like.

1. 2 Unlimited - No Limit (10) - yes, it's true :)





2. Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses (13)

3. Radiohead - The Bends (15)

4. Radiohead - My Iron Lung (15)

5. Carter the Unstobbable Sex Machine - Straw Donkey (15)

1) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River. (11) A mis-labeled Xmas present from my Dad to my Mum. My favourite track, unsurprisingly, was Bad Moon Rising

2) The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - (13)The first album I bought with my own money

3) Alice Cooper - Schools Out (14)

4) T.Rex - Ride a White Swan (14)

5) David Bowie - Alladin Sane (15)

The first 5 I remember hearing:
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Suicidal Tendencies - Lights, Camera, Revolution
Candlebox - Candlebox
Warrant - [the one with Cherry Pie on it]
Misfits - Walk Among Us [casette]
Yep.

First 5 I bought?
Nirvana - In Utero
Metallica - Master of Puppets
KoRn - KoRn
Metallica - Black album
Misfits - Walk Among Us [cd]

First vinyl:
Guns 'n' Roses - You Could Be Mine 7"
Bob Dylan - Desire 12"
Inspector Gadget 12"
A cool 12" with hits on it from the earlu 90s or maybe even late 80s my mum bought me when I was little. It was awesome.

First Cassettes:
Kris Kross - Totally Krossed Out
Kris Kross - Da Bomb
Silverchair - Frogstomp
Michael Jackson - Dangerous

First CDs:
Silverchair - Freakshow
Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix - Live at Montreal
Bob Dylan - Best of



Among others. I was like from 8 to 14 years of age.

When i was really young

B52's - Cosmic Thing
B52's - Good Stuff

When i was old enough to buy my own tapes or maybe cd's i bought Backstreet Boys everything, they were my favourite when i was 8 and 9.

Man, I am much older than many of you.

My first albums


Def leppard - On Through The Night
I was around 9 years old and my da took me and my brother to go buy some cassettes, our first music to choose for ourselves. I had heard def leppard on the MTV (photograph and rock of ages) and I wanted that but I got this instead. Being just 9 years old I did not get the right one. either way, I listened to this album endlessly, as only small children can enjoy an album. My brother got Twisted Sister STAY HUNGRY, which had a much cooler cover.


Def leppard - PYROMANIA
After a few weeks I went to the K marty (they used to sell vinyl records at K Mart, hell, they used to sell them EVERYWHERE) with my mom and got this album, which i would play endlessly on my dad's stereo. My favorite album for about three months until....


Quiet Riot - METAL HEALTH
Being a child of the MTV, I bought this around age 9 or 10, and it was fucking AWESOME. I loved this album so much. Quiet Riot were my favorite band for a few years. I liked the bombast!


Van Halen - 1984
In music class in 5th grade on fridays we could bring in records to listen to and a kid brought in his older bro's vinyl of this and we listened to a bit before the teacher decided it was too much for young kids, which of course made me want to go get it and absorb it and love it. I fucking wore this album out!!!!

Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Another one my 5th grade music teacher would not play. I bought this and loved the satan stuff. LOVED the satan stuff and their crazy ass look.

1 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 14, 1969 - purchased in my town's Woolworth's for around 3 bucks.

2 The Beatles (White Album) - 14, 1969 - purchased while on Christmas vacation break visiting my grandparents, from the record section in Montgomery Wards for around 8 bucks. A numbered edition. Thick vinyl on Apple. We were on our way out of town, I had a little cash from my grandparents, and my parents needed to stop for something at the store. They weren't happy I was blowing all my cash in one place--for some reason, that's a problem for adults who grew up in the Depression.

3 Abbey Road
4 Let It Be
5 John Lennon Plastic Ono Band

Last three around this same time period (age 14-15)

The first rock record that I remember hearing since I was a 4 year old is Neil Young's 'After The Goldrush', to this day one my favourite records. My brothers and my sisters used to play me anything from Lou Reed to Donna Summer as a kid, so I got to know all of them by the time I was 10/11 (Patti Smith, Kraftwerk etc). The first record that I had bought myself was George Michael's 'A Different Corner', perhaps in an act of rebellion because that's one his worst singles. The first album that I bought myself was Terence Trent D'Arby's first album. The first record that turned me on to noisier stuff is JAMC's 'Psychocandy'.

I don't know why...but as a kid I was never much of a rock fan. I mean I liked some songs here and there, but I didn't even own a rock album until I was about 13 or 14. Something about it turned me off. It didn't seem fun enough. I always liked pop music much, much more. Never went through a Nirvana phase. I'm kind of surprised by people's responses. I had expected a lot of Nirvana responses, but not this many.

Tombstone Shadow? Bro.

Oh, and the first piece of music I ever bought was:



Because I really liked the music video. The song itself is alright as well. I was about 9 or 10 when I got it. First album I ever bought was Gorillaz eponymous debut album.

It isn't that surprising if you think that this is mainly a rock forum, but yeah, it is a bit shocking that not many people listened to much pop music or even dance music. Even when I started buying my own Bowie records it was in his poppiest phase (i.e. 'Never Let Me Down').

sonic youth is the anti-pop.
most fans are just in that vein, where the pop is like listening to children's nursery rhymes.

there's also a lot of younger fans here, and nirvana blew the door open for a lot of them.