Idea lifted from Duane Swierczynski, then taken completely out of context:
The first music I spent my own money on:
The Band's Last Waltz on eight-track. I was knee high to a grass blade at the time.
Duane Swierczynski's:
The first music I spent my own money on:
The Band's Last Waltz on eight-track. I was knee high to a grass blade at the time.
Duane Swierczynski's:
It was the first album I ever purchased.
It was 1981; I was nine years old; sue me.
My mom's first album, purchased in 1954:
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Jen-4 fails to mention that we went halfsies on a Bee Gee record.
I bought the Last Waltz well before that. Yes, Dianne and I bought a Bee Gee's record and Styx. The first record ever given to me was "The Fonz's Favorites" which was just damn awful.
How often did you listen to The Band as compaired to Styx and the Bee Gees?
How often did we listen to Bad Company or Abba?
You know this gets embarrassing for you, dear.
I usually try to sound cool by saying my first album was TOMMY - THE WHO, but it was actually second.
My first was BEACH BOYS - Greatest Hits, Volume 1
(pause for snickering and moaning)
And, at the risk of being labeled a complete and total dweeb, I will say it -- I loved ABBA and still do.
I'm with you John, my first was The Beach Boys "I Get Around" and I still love the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, though "Smile" did kind of suck ass. But sadly, I didn't follow up with a cool album like you did, no, I went for pop gospel sensation Sandi Patti. What can I say? I was little boy in a Baptist school. The first really good album I ever bought was Robert Cray's "Strong Persuader"
The first single I ever bought with pocket money... "Rat Rapping" - Roland Rat. That's right. A fucking puppet. Scarred me, that one.
I'm not sure what's cooler: the fact that it was The Band, or the fact that you owned it on eight-track. Nice.
A double eight track, I hasten to add.
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