1st Album & Single you ever bought

[Clackers]

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My 1st album was the 2001 A Space Odyssey Soundtrack. 1st Single was Seaside Shuffle by Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs in 1972!

[maxmix]

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I feel sorry for the current generation. I can't see a "What was the first track you downloaded" thread having much mileage.

Right, first things first first , (sorry to hijack this thread) secondly,

Just goes to show you, I was talking with a (older) colleague at work the other day, and I mentioned that "nowadays", first thing I do with a C.D. is rip it to the computer, to put onto my I pod, never to be played again, remember the days when you used to get a Vinyl Single, and you used to play it to death.... over and over, again and again, endlessly, happy memories.........

[bullet]

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ashes to ashes, david bowie

[branny]

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I feel sorry for the current generation. I can't see a "What was the first track you downloaded" thread having much mileage.

[maxmix]

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Single - Hey You The Rocksteady Crew - The Rocksteady crew
Album - Thriller - Michael Jackson

[JM28Cardiff]

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Single - Fat Boys and the Beach Boys - Wipe Out
Album - Suede by Suede

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Single: MC Sar & The Real McCoy - Run Away
Album: Culture Beat - Whatever the heck the Culture Beat album was called

Needless to say, I revise history to claim that I never purchased singles and my first album was 'Parklife' by Blur (hey, it almost was).

[tonyblue]

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Single was Kings of the wild frontier- Adam and the ants 1980
Album again Kings of the wild frontier 1980.

Had heard there was a band going by the name of Adam and the ants and it stuck in my mind as a stupid name for a band. Then on the muti coloured swap shop i saw the video to Ant music and was mesmerised by his look and the catchiness of the tune. Didn't have a clue what it was called though.
Took my hard earned 75p pocket money off to the record shop where they had all the top 40 singles displayed in a perspex frame numbered 1-40.
Being not so tall in those days I started my search at number 40. Got up to about 33 and found Kings of the wild frontier. Bought it thinking i'd hear Antmusic when i got home. The opening drum sequence blew my mind and i was hooked forever............... it took me 10 years of sale bins searching before i got Antmusic.

[must get a bigger shed]

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the first single I ever bought (or did my parents buy it) was MY DING A LING by Chuck Berry I think it was from Berkheads In Walton-on-Thames Allas the store is no more Can anybody remember the store?

[Finnthedude]

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I don't remember my first single because I never really bought singles. If I heard a song I liked I'd usually buy the album. I honestly can't remember ever going into a shop and buying a 7 inch. I think my folks bought me songs on 7 inch I liked when I was a kid, but that's about as far as it went.

I do remember my first album that I actually went into a shop myself and bought - it was "Heaven and Hell" by Black Sabbath. I'd already got a couple of rock albums that had been bought for me but this one was the first I'd ever gone into a shop and purchased myself.

I don't have it on vinyl anymore due to a stupid era in my life when I sold most of my record collection, but I've got it on CD and it's still a very special album to me, even if it's not one of Sabbath's greatest.

Cheers,
Finnthedude.

[battyrat]

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First album,Magnetic fields,Jean michel Jarre.
First single...............?????....I think it was Northern lights by Renaissance with the b side,Opening out.I always thought that albums were better value for money compared to the price of a single most of the time.

[emma.c]

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Rick Astley.. never gonna give you up !!!! haha

[britishbaby]

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first thing I bought was a compilation called 'Now Thats What I call Music vol 4'.

[shilton dipper]

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first album i bought was black sabbath greatest album after my weird music teacher played us warpigs instead of beethoven's summat-or-other...........i was totally inspired.....

........the next album i bought several months later was the osmonds......we wont go into that

[Roxxy]

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The first single I ever bought myself- Moonlight Shadow by Mike Oldfield with Maggie Reilly (1983)
First album- Rio by Duran Duran (though on cassette, not vinyl, as I didn't have a record player until I was 18)

My mum did buy me a few 45's when I was little though, including one by The Wombles, and 'The Bucket Of Water Song' from 'Tiswas'. I also had 'The Smurfs All Star Show' album as a 12th birthday present.