Do you remember the first 5 albums you bought?

BloodEagle

Queen - Greatest Hits
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Hardcore Holocaust - Peel Sessions

artinski

M. Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Triumvirat - Pompeii
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Queen - News of the World
Grobschnitt - Solar Music (Live)

axisus

OK, so I have early onset dementia. Can't believe I only remember two!

guitars4you

I think I know - I still have all my LP's - can't recall which came first but suspect  Queen and Bad Company

Killer Queen - Queen
Bad Company - straight shooter
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Who - Quadrophenia
Santana - moonflower

Deadman

The first ones were all bought for me.

Muppet Show
Smurfs Christmas album
Hedgehog sandwich (Not the nine o clock news)
Regatta de blanc (Police)
In the city (The Jam)

When spending power came to fruition it went:

The Gift (The Jam, I was a big fan but simply nicked the rest from my sister)
Then it was all (and I do mean all) Damned albums. I spent everything I had on them.

mudslide73

Chart Hits 83
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran
Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears
Running in the Family - Level 42

No fibs there either. 

Philly_Q

I'm not 100% sure this is right, but:

Abba - The Album
ELO - Out of the Blue
The Moody Blues - Octave
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Foreigner - Double Vision

There might have actually been another ELO album - or two - in the first five, they were the first band I properly got into.  But only for a year or two.  The most significant purchase was Rainbow's Down to Earth, which got me started on hard rock and metal (or what we called metal in those days).

DarnWeight

Had a hard time teasing out the ones I definitely bought from the ones that I had taped copies of, but this is about the best stab I've got...

Scritti Politti - Cupid And Psyche '85
Midge Ure - The Gift
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Talking Heads - Little Creatures

Mixed bag, I'll admit.  Slightly earlier, copied stuff from family/mates would definitely have included Vienna, Welcome To The Pleasuredome, Misplaced Childhood and Brothers In Arms.

Octahedron

You know, this thread kills me a little bit because I really want to be able to say that I remember the first 5 albums I actually bought but I can't! 

I'm not even that old. 

mike_l

Iron Maiden - Number of the beast*
Megadeth - Rust in piece*
Metallica - Metallica
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son*
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden*
Iron Maiden - Killers*
*purchased together

CHRISB50

I think there are some looking back through rose tinted spectacles in this thread.

fretmeister

Queen - Hot Space
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt it
AC/DC - Highway to hell
Iron Maiden - Live after death

I specifically remember them - I got my first record player in 1986 and bought these over the next year.

I bought a load of singles too - most notably "Addicted to Love" so I could look at the ladies on the cover!

Nitefly

With my own money?  The very first was "With The Beatles", saved up enough from my paper round money in November 1963 - I would have been 14.

The next one I remember was in 1968, "The Rock Machine Turns You On", which was the first of the samplers from Columbia Records - what an eclectic collection that was!  One song each from people like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Taj Mahal, Spirit, Moby Grape, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy (yes, really), The Byrds, Blood Sweat and Tears, and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - 15 tracks in all.

I also had Hendrix' "Electric Ladyland", and the very first album by Yes - not "The Yes Album", but the one with Pete Banks on guitar.  It had a back cover, with a red and blue comic-balloon of the word "Yes".  All I can remember is they did covers of The Beatles' "Every Little Thing", and The Byrds' "I See You" - very trippy...

Strat54

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
  UFO - Mechanix
   Kiss - Double Platinum
    AC/DC - Back In Black
    Rainbow - Rising

Early 80's, early teens....patches on jacket, bought Kerrang issue 1 when it was launched!  

Reverend

Octahedron said:

You know, this thread kills me a little bit because I really want to be able to say that I remember the first 5 albums I actually bought but I can't! 

I'm not even that old. 

Mine were all bought in 1982

EricTheWeary

Strat54 said:

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
  UFO - Mechanix
   Kiss - Double Platinum
    AC/DC - Back In Black
    Rainbow - Rising

Early 80's, early teens....patches on jacket, bought Kerrang issue 1 when it was launched!  

I had that Kerrang, just supposed to be a one off I think. I got a few more issues but I parted ways with it quite early on. 

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

Strat54 said:

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
  UFO - Mechanix
   Kiss - Double Platinum
    AC/DC - Back In Black
    Rainbow - Rising

Early 80's, early teens....patches on jacket, bought Kerrang issue 1 when it was launched!  

I had that Kerrang, just supposed to be a one off I think. I got a few more issues but I parted ways with it quite early on. 

I've still got those early issues.  I bought it for many years, until it got to the point where they stopped featuring metal bands and devoted the whole magazine to pop-punk and dreary shite like The Gaslight Anthem.  I still look at the cover occasionally, it doesn't seem to have changed much since.

RocknRollDave

CHRISB50 said:

I think there are some looking back through rose tinted spectacles in this thread.

My LP purchases paint a much less embarrassing picture than my singles collection does, I can assure you of that!

axisus

Strat54 said:

Early 80's, early teens....patches on jacket, bought Kerrang issue 1 when it was launched!  

Yay! I loved Kerrang. I still have at least the first 100 issues in the loft somewhere.

Maynehead

1. Best Of The Nineties... So Far
2. Sacred Spirit: Chants and Dances of the Native Americans
3. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
4. The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
5. Alisha's Attic - Alisha Rules The World

...and as a disclaimer, I think album number 6 was Fear Factory - Obsolete, and from then on the list gets a lot better.