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In reply to Morbo the Annihilator • 11:59a, 8/8/25
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Morbo the Annihilator said:
My first album. Everyone I knew had one of these:



Ha.....we had that album too!!

Who else had this one?

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always remember your first:


I wanna see our defense pissed off, not confused, maybe a little murder in their hearts Reload12, 11/4/11
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Collective Soul - Hints Allegations and things left Unsaid
Offspring - Smash
Boyz II Men - II
Counting Crowes - August and Everything After
Bush - Sixteen Stone
KoRN - Self Titled
Green Day - Dookie
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
TLC - CrazySexyCool
Toadies - Rubberneck

These are just CDs, but I also had a cassette tape of Kris Kross - Totally Krossed Out
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I don't know all 10 but I do know this would have been one of them.
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I owned this version

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I assume cassette tapes count as albums. Had a few in high rotation as I tooled around the state in my Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Queen - Greatest Hits
Meatloaf - Bat Outta Hell
Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Eagles - Eagles Live
Led Zeppelin - III
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Jim Croche - Greatest Hits
The Cars - The Cars
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In reply to Hogties • 4:47p, 8/8/25
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Solid list
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I strongly remember my first album which was KISS Destroyer on 8 track. My dad brought it back for me from a flea market when i was about 9 years old. Still no idea why, but I always told him he helped get me hooked on heavy metal.

Then for Christmas 1983 Santa brought me a Toshiba boom box and cassette tapes of Quiet Riot's Metal Health and Billy Joel's An Innocent Man.

A few years later I saved up money from my first job to buy a big Kenwood component system with my first CD player. First CDs I bought- Dio, Dream Evil and Twisted Sister, Love is for Suckers.

I still love all of those albums, possibly with the exception of the TS album which was supposed to be a Dee Snider solo album apparently.
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Black Crowes- shake your moneymaker
Aerosmith- pump
Mc hammer- please hammer don't hurt em (?)

Shortly thereafter there was a bmg membership that blew it up.
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Besides an imported Japanese Pokemon CD (with none of the songs from the show or game, but we still tried to convince ourselves was good), the first CDs I remember buying were…

- Tool: AEnima, Lateralus and Undertow
- Lit, three albums
- Disturbed, whatever their breakout album was
- Alien Ant Farm?
- Tomahawk (who opened for Tool)
- Toadies, two albums


My brother already had all the essential rock, punk and grunge CDs so I was trying to figure out my own twist on what was left. Definitely some misses in there!
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 3:50p, 8/9/25
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Bruce Almighty said:
I owned this version

This may have been my first album ever at 6 or 7
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6:18p, 8/9/25
The first ones we got when we were young were a couple of Jackson 5 albums, the Partridge Family first album or two and the Monkey's greatest hits.

The first cassette I remember getting was the Hey Jude album by the Beatles.
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I started buying albums 60ish years ago, relying on my memory for my first ten is a bit sketchy. But here are some I had that were "likely" among my first ten while in grade school.

  • The Beach Boys - All Summer Long
  • The Beach Boys - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
  • Paul Revere and The Raiders - Here They Come
  • Paul Revere & the Raiders - Just Like Us!
  • Paul Revere & the Raiders - The Spirit of '67
  • The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons
  • The Monkees - The Monkees
  • Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
  • The Ventures - Golden Greats by The Ventures
  • Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream and Other Delights
I am not the Six Million Dollar Man, but I might need that surgery. "We have the technology, we can rebuild him!"
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11:28a, 8/10/25
Can't remember my first cassettes outside of Billy Joel - Storm Front and Harry Chapin - Greatest Stories Live.

But vividly remember my first CD's from the early 90's...







Was early 90's Prop Joe a terrible person? I kinda think he might have been.
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Long time ago, but this is more or less it. We didn't have a stereo until 1962 when I was 13 and I really didn't buy a lot of albums until about my junior year at A&M. I'm not counting the ones my sister and I bought together.

The Ventures: The Ventures in Space
Peter, Paul and Mary: Peter, Paul and Mary
The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles: Beatles '65
The Beatles: Help!
The Beatles: Revolver
The Rolling Stones: High Tide and Green Grass
Simon and Garfunkel: The Sounds of Silence
Johnny Cash: All Aboard the Blue Train
Bee Gees: Best of Bee Gees
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In reply to Col. Steve Austin • 12:00p, 8/10/25
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Col. Steve Austin said:
I started buying albums 60ish years ago, relying on my memory for my first ten is a bit sketchy. But here are some I had that were "likely" among my first ten while in grade school.

  • Paul Revere & the Raiders - Just Like Us!
  • The Monkees - The Monkees
  • Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

I definitely had these but they were hand-me-downs from older cousins.
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I was born in 1972 so this is what I remember listening to earliest (that I owned):

Grease soundtrack
Olivia Newton-John Greatest Hits Vol 2
Xanadu soundtrack (see a pattern? Haha)
Shaun Cassidy self-titled album
KISS Destroyer
Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Hall & Oates - Big Bam Boom
Linda Ronstadt's Greatest Hits

Those are the only albums I remember having but I had a ton of 45s. It's so funny to see what I used to like. I still love to listen to Duran Duran and Hall & Oates.
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In reply to One Louder • 9:49a, 8/11/25
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One Louder said:
I was born in 1972 so this is what I remember listening to earliest (that I owned):

Grease soundtrack
Olivia Newton-John Greatest Hits Vol 2
Xanadu soundtrack (see a pattern? Haha)
Shaun Cassidy self-titled album
KISS Destroyer
Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Hall & Oates - Big Bam Boom
Linda Ronstadt's Greatest Hits

Those are the only albums I remember having but I had a ton of 45s. It's so funny to see what I used to like. I still love to listen to Duran Duran and Hall & Oates.

"Working Class Dog" was a great album of power pop. Did you know Sammy Hagar wrote "I've Done Everything for You?"

And you can never go wrong with Linda Ronstadt.
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In reply to EclipseAg • 10:56a, 8/11/25
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EclipseAg said:
One Louder said:
I was born in 1972 so this is what I remember listening to earliest (that I owned):

Grease soundtrack
Olivia Newton-John Greatest Hits Vol 2
Xanadu soundtrack (see a pattern? Haha)
Shaun Cassidy self-titled album
KISS Destroyer
Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Hall & Oates - Big Bam Boom
Linda Ronstadt's Greatest Hits

Those are the only albums I remember having but I had a ton of 45s. It's so funny to see what I used to like. I still love to listen to Duran Duran and Hall & Oates.

"Working Class Dog" was a great album of power pop. Did you know Sammy Hagar wrote "I've Done Everything for You?"

And you can never go wrong with Linda Ronstadt.


That list started out so bad really (apologies to Olivia but not to Shaun....) but man did it end strong. Way to at least right the ship after she was listing badly. The last 5 are solid pop albums.
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In reply to EclipseAg • 11:02a, 8/11/25
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Funny you should mention that...i'm a HUGE Sammy fan and have seen him in concert with VH as well as solo more times than I can count. One of those times was during his Vegas residency at the Strat when he had surprise special guests perform with him every night and on our night, it happened to be Rick so we got to hear all about it (even though I already knew about that song).
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Have a sister four years older than me. She bought a bunch of records that were popular at the time in the late 70s that i also listened to. My first album i actually purchased was the soundtrack to apocalypse now. This was after sneaking into the theater to watch it as an 11 year old.

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I loved that soundtrack/album!
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KISS Destroyer
KISS Alive!
KISS Dressed to Kill
KISS Rock and Roll Over
Cheap Trick Live at Budokan
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic
The Cars Candy-O
The Cars Panorama
Van Halen self-titled
Steve Martin A Wild and Crazy Guy

if you ran your fingers over my Rock and Roll Over album cover, it would feel like braille....i traced that thing so many times........now that i'm a bit older and a bit wiser, i'm more partial to that Candy-O album cover.......
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11:03a, 8/12/25
Man, this is a tough one.

I remember:

ZZ Top - Eliminator
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock
Conway Twitty - Mr. T
Oak Ridge Boys - Fancy Free
Van Halen - 1984
Star Wars - Soundtrack (Can't remember which one)

It's all a blur after that...
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I owned this next one for about 45 minutes until my mom saw it in my room and threw it in the trash.













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Great question. My list is going to look dramatically different from everyone else's.

  • Snoopy vs The Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen: This is the first record I can clearly remember having as a kid. My brother and I wore out that little 33 1/3 single. I don't recall ever listening to the B-side.
  • Piano Concerto in A-minor, Op. 16, Edvard Grieg - Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, piano Hiroko Nakamura: This was side A of the demo cassette tape that came with the 1st gen Sony Walkman I received for Christmas.
  • Beethoven Symphionen 5 & 6 - Berlin Philharmonic Orchesta, Herbert von Karajan
  • Brandenburg Concertos, J.S. Bach: I can't recall which recording I had, but it was probably Karajan's with the Berlin Philharmonic of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd released in 1965.
  • Diamonds are Forever, soundtrack, John Barry
Then I "discovered" rock and roll. LOL.

  • Heavy Metal, soundtrack - various artists
  • Boston
  • Point of Know Return - Kansas
  • Audio-Visions - Kansas
  • Moving Pictures - Rush
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In reply to Col. Steve Austin • 6:33a, 8/13/25
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Col. Steve Austin said:
I started buying albums 60ish years ago, relying on my memory for my first ten is a bit sketchy. But here are some I had that were "likely" among my first ten while in grade school.

  • The Beach Boys - All Summer Long
  • The Beach Boys - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
  • Paul Revere and The Raiders - Here They Come
  • Paul Revere & the Raiders - Just Like Us!
  • Paul Revere & the Raiders - The Spirit of '67
  • The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons
  • The Monkees - The Monkees
  • Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
  • The Ventures - Golden Greats by The Ventures
  • Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

We still have my Dad's copy of Whipped Cream and Other Delights!
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Rex Racer said:
Col. Steve Austin said:
I started buying albums 60ish years ago, relying on my memory for my first ten is a bit sketchy. But here are some I had that were "likely" among my first ten while in grade school.

  • The Beach Boys - All Summer Long
  • The Beach Boys - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
  • Paul Revere and The Raiders - Here They Come
  • Paul Revere & the Raiders - Just Like Us!
  • Paul Revere & the Raiders - The Spirit of '67
  • The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons
  • The Monkees - The Monkees
  • Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
  • The Ventures - Golden Greats by The Ventures
  • Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

We still have my Dad's copy of Whipped Cream and Other Delights!


Crazy period in 1965-1966 in the best selling albums....Herb Alpert and The Beatles were alternately dominating the top spot. I stumbled upon this in my recent deep dive of Beatles releases in the US by Capitol Records.


In 1965 The Beatles had 3 consecutive albums at #1 in the US for almost half of the year combined:
Beatles '65 - 9 weeks
Beatles VI - 6 weeks
Help! - 9 weeks

Otherwise the biggest album that year was Mary Poppins soundtrack #1 for 14 weeks while The Sound of Music Soundtrack was #1 for 2 weeks.

The Beatles took their longest time in the studio (to that point) for their next album Rubber Soul which was not released until December of 1965 almost 4 months after Help!

In November of 1965 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass took over #1 just before the Beatles released Rubber Soul. But Herb kept the top spot from November into January of 1966. It took a full month for Rubber Soul to get to #1 and then by mid February Herb was back in the top spot. So it went

Herb Alpert: Whipped Cream and Other Delights - 6 weeks
the Beatles: Rubber Soul - 6 weeks
Herb Alpert: Whipped Cream and Other Delights - 2 weeks

Over the next few months Herb dominated with his next 2 albums at #1

Herb Alpert: Going Places - 6 weeks
Herb Alpert: What Now My Love - 8 weeks

Only The Mamas and the Papas and Frank Sinatra got to #1 in that interim period each for 1 week.

Meanwhile The Beatles (or Capitol Records in the US actually) released a compilation album with some hit singles and some new stuff which went #1 for 5 weeks only to be supplanted again by Herb Alpert as Revolver was released which would give The Beatles their third #1 of 1966.

The Beatles: Yesterday and Today - 5 weeks at #1
Herb Alpert: What Now My Love - 1 week at #1
The Beatles: Revolver - 6 weeks at #1


In total in less than a year they had the #1 albums for 40 out of 47 weeks:
Herb Alpert had 3 #1 albums for a total of 23 weeks
alternating with
The Beatles 3 #1 albums for a total of 17 weeks

Absolutely incredible that really Herb Alpert outperformed the Beatles in that run on the album chart.





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In total in less than a year they had the #1 albums for 40 out of 47 weeks:
Herb Alpert had 3 #1 albums for a total of 23 weeks
alternating with
The Beatles 3 #1 albums for a total of 17 weeks

Absolutely incredible that really Herb Alpert outperformed the Beatles in that run on the album chart.






I knew Herb Alpert was big -- my parents loved him and I still listen to his music today -- but that's pretty incredible.

As I said with Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" success -- imagine a trumpet player having hit records in the year 2025, let alone a No. 1. What a different world it is.
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In reply to EclipseAg • 9:21a, 8/13/25
EclipseAg said:
Zombie Jon Snow said:

In total in less than a year they had the #1 albums for 40 out of 47 weeks:
Herb Alpert had 3 #1 albums for a total of 23 weeks
alternating with
The Beatles 3 #1 albums for a total of 17 weeks

Absolutely incredible that really Herb Alpert outperformed the Beatles in that run on the album chart.






I knew Herb Alpert was big -- my parents loved him and I still listen to his music today -- but that's pretty incredible.

As I said with Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" success -- imagine a trumpet player having hit records in the year 2025, let alone a No. 1. What a different world it is.


Fluglehorn!!

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That's me - I do that crap all the time to people.....

I play all of the music for poker nights at my lodge twice a week - random shuffles of various playlists and people will often ask the artist, title, album, year etc.... and I can rattle off 99% of them from memory. Occasionally someone new will challenge me to a rock trivia contest they almost never stump me. And some other genres too but I excel at anything late 70s through early 90s.

Now they actually like to taunt me by purposefully saying the wrong band (usually Goo Goo Dolls is their goto generic answer for anything 90s) just so I will reply in an exasperated way with the right band/album.

Sometimes I mix in other things like cover songs and 70s and 80s soundtracks. That led to one particular discussion with a woman that was adamant that "I Will Always Love You" was a Whitney original and Dolly did a cover version. lol. I was genuinely frustrated and assured her Dolly recorded her version almost 20 years earlier. I was right 1973 vs 1992.
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maroon barchetta said:
EclipseAg said:
Zombie Jon Snow said:

In total in less than a year they had the #1 albums for 40 out of 47 weeks:
Herb Alpert had 3 #1 albums for a total of 23 weeks
alternating with
The Beatles 3 #1 albums for a total of 17 weeks

Absolutely incredible that really Herb Alpert outperformed the Beatles in that run on the album chart.






I knew Herb Alpert was big -- my parents loved him and I still listen to his music today -- but that's pretty incredible.

As I said with Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" success -- imagine a trumpet player having hit records in the year 2025, let alone a No. 1. What a different world it is.


Fluglehorn!!


Right .. but I was referring to Alpert here so I used trumpet.

ETA: I actually played flugelhorn from time to time in our HS jazz band!
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Some of my first albums, which I still have:

















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Add a third Travolta film and get Urban Cowboy on there.
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Similar to many and all on cassette:

Metal Health - Quiet Riot
VOA - Sammy Hagar
Tour de Force - .38 Special
Pyromania - Def Leppard
Eliminator - ZZ Top
1984 - Van Halen
Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
K-Tel's Masters of Metal
Out of the Cellar - Ratt
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