What Were Your First/Earliest Albums?
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I got a lot of hand-me-downs. And, I was always more interested in the generation before me- the music that was popular when I was born (1968).
I used to listen to a lot of my parent's albums. And, these were the three I remember most:
I used to listen to a lot of my parent's albums. And, these were the three I remember most:
"Pearl" was a great album...I got a lot of hand-me-downs. And, I was always more interested in the generation before me- the music that was popular when I was born (1968).
I used to listen to a lot of my parent's albums. And, these were the three I remember most:
I was 17 and this was the bomb.
IMO the best album of the 1960s hands down.
Mom cut me loose with the Credit Card. Wings over America, The BeeGees Main Course, The Beetles, Abby Road.
Lone Clone emailed me that his first album
was by Abe & Mary Lincoln. It was entitled:
"Living On Borrowed Time"
was by Abe & Mary Lincoln. It was entitled:
"Living On Borrowed Time"
My first two were I Got A Name, Jim Croce & Seven Separate Fools, Three Dog Night.
I was more of a “best of” guy......
Sgt. Pepper’s was pretty amazing, tho...
Sgt. Pepper’s was pretty amazing, tho...
First album (cassette) I bought on my own:
First and possibly only album my mother ever bought for me (religious parents, rock = bad):
I listened to a ton of my older brothers albums in the late 70s early 80s - really shaped my musical tastes.
Eagles/Boston/Jackson Browne/Head East/AC-DC/BTO/ELO/Bob Seger/Frampton/Journey/etc....all the classics from that era
First and possibly only album my mother ever bought for me (religious parents, rock = bad):
I listened to a ton of my older brothers albums in the late 70s early 80s - really shaped my musical tastes.
Eagles/Boston/Jackson Browne/Head East/AC-DC/BTO/ELO/Bob Seger/Frampton/Journey/etc....all the classics from that era
Well as a small kid I remember having these
Before upgrading to one of these
Where I mainly had the little books with associated records like these...
I definitely had all of the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars books with records as a little kid, plus some Transformers and Atari property versions as well.
After I was a little kid, I did have a typical 80s boom box as a preteen and early teen but I don’t remember any cassettes in particular. I’m sure the typical 80s rock
In high school, I did get a brand new CD player as a Christmas gift along with three cds that I remember to this day.
Spin Doctors: Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Red Hot Chili Peppers: What Hits!
Temple of the Dog: Selftitled
Before upgrading to one of these
Where I mainly had the little books with associated records like these...
I definitely had all of the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars books with records as a little kid, plus some Transformers and Atari property versions as well.
After I was a little kid, I did have a typical 80s boom box as a preteen and early teen but I don’t remember any cassettes in particular. I’m sure the typical 80s rock
In high school, I did get a brand new CD player as a Christmas gift along with three cds that I remember to this day.
Spin Doctors: Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Red Hot Chili Peppers: What Hits!
Temple of the Dog: Selftitled
Didn't expect to see anyone else with that on here. That was my first cassette I remember owning. Followed by Soundgarden Badmotorfinger and Metallica Black Album.
Aqualung by Jethro Tull
Tea For the Tillerman by Cat Stevens
Woodstock
Live at Fillmore East by the Allman Brothers
All vinyl
Tea For the Tillerman by Cat Stevens
Woodstock
Live at Fillmore East by the Allman Brothers
All vinyl
Everybody did...
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I actually had a buddy who bought three or four extra copies of Big Bambu just to get the very large rolling paper that was included...
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The original big spleef. Back then, it was probably just Mexican “dirt weed” so kind of a waste of good paper. Colombian at that time, however...
That is what some people were saying.
My first "Lid" was $15. Inflation hit hard. By the time I was out of HS it was going for $35-$40 for really good Panama Red or Columbian Gold.
Very similar price point in my experience. Nickel bag for $5, dime bag for $10, etc...
The price jump tracked with it no longer being just the users involved in distribution (I knew folks who only sold enough to get their cut for consumption). It was mostly friendly folks passing along fun at just above cost.
The early organized crime/cartel influence was showing up by the time you noted the price jump. It was also then that “the war on drugs” was in its. infancy. CSB.
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