Do you remember the first 5 albums you bought?

frank1985

Sabbath - Best Of 
Metallica - The Black album
Metallica - Master of Puppets
System of A Down - Toxicity
Maiden - NOTB

Philly_Q

CHRISB50 said:

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

I sometimes contemplate casting a veil over my first 18 months of record buying.  

Thereafter it would've been Rainbow, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Whitesnake, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, UFO, Gillan, AC/DC, Robin Trower... although I guess many would consider those more embarrassing than Abba and ELO.  In retrospect I am a little ashamed of the Whitesnake albums...

Blueingreen

John Mayall - Blues From Laurel Canyon
Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads
V/A - The World of Blues Power

Pretty sure these are 4 of first 5 although I also had an uncle who made up reel to reel tapes for me and my brother, mainly hit singles, but also including a Beach Boys greatest hits album, and This Is Soul, an Atlantic/Stax sampler.

The irony looking back is that I started buying music at a time I was convinced my taste was "progressing". In retrospect much of the blues and early rock etc I got into in my teens failed the test of time while the "commercial" music I loved as a young kid, including the Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Motown and so on still sounds great.

fretmeister

Maynehead said:

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.

Jagged is a great album. Superb bass playing on it.

i choose not to comment on the rest! 

StageStruck

Status Quo - Just Supposin
Shakin Stevens - Shaky
Status Quo - Never Too Late
Beatles - With The Beatles
V/A - Chart Hits 82 (2 album set I think)

All bought between 1980-1982 when I was aged 5-7. My folks were very encouraging that I should  listen to music if I wished, even at that age. Not entirely sure if I bought them or was given some of them as gifts etc. The two Quo albums, I definitely bought with myself however. I mainly bought singles and recorded songs from the radio up until the mid 80s though.

Alnico

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in The Sky
The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

All on Vinyl around 1983/84 ish.

I was 11.