Browsing through and dusting off my old LPs last night, I came across the very first album I ever bought. It was 'Friends' by Shalamar.

Bought around the tail end of 1982, when I was 13 and about a year before I heard 1999 for the first time. It remains one of my favourite albums and I still play it to this day.

The hits aside (A Night To Remember, There It is, I Can Make You Feel Good), my favourite track is I Don't Wanna Be The Last To Know. Opening up the gatefold sleeve to see Jeffery Daniel's big still makes me smile today.

I was really into Shalamar (still am), and Friends still makes for essential 80's soul listening IMHO.

So orgers, anyone else care to share their first album experiences? Probably been done before, but I'm bored so humour me.

C'mon - everyone remembers their first.
Do you still play it? Did it suck? Do you cringe at your early taste in music?

Care to share?...

The Beatles 20 Greatest Hits. (1982)

I no longer play it b'cos I don't know where it is!!!

And I still think The Beatles rock. I had good taste from the start.

I got my first record in 1982.

Duran Duran - RIO and yes I do still play when I go visit my parents -they still have a record player...all my vinyls are up at their house...RIO has all the ORIGINAL LOOONG versions of the songs (6-minute "Hold Back the Rain," 5 or 6 minute "Hungry Like the wolf) whereas all the songs on the the CD are cut down.

I vaguely recall buying Madonna-Madonna and Stevie Nicks- Wild HEart after that.

My first album I ever got was DeBarge in 1983-All This Love, and hell no, I don't play it anymore. I still love and listen to El, who has one of the most underrated falsettos in the biz.

Shafty said:

By the way, I love that Shalamar album! I have it on CD and vinyl.

12 years old in 1977 I bought All N All by Earth, Wind & Fire. Before that I would just tape songs off the radio lol. But I was in Kmart and saw that album cover and just had to have it. I think I paid 3.99 or 4.99. And yes I still play it.

my first was off the wall and yup, i still play it. even when i was a little kid i was so careful with my music. it still sounds great and has no skips!

the first vinyl i ever had wuz when i wuz about 7 or 8...i think it wuz a fat albert record. unfortunately i still don't have it (wish i did!)...the first lp i bought once i got older and had a record player of my own to play it on wuz a copy of dionne warwick's dionne album, which has "deja vu" on it (the song my mom named me after, yay!)...the initial copy i bought, i got it for like 50 cents at the salvation army and it's probably still back at my dad's house, collectin dust in my closet.

when i moved here to mpls i found another copy of it and bought it, so it's all good.

Michael Jackson's "Bad"...of course i do!

the first vinyls i owned were 45s.
the first 45 my mom purchased for me was "black betty" by ram jam.

that was 1977 and i was 6 years old. i have been collecting vinly ever since. thank god for vinyl.

my first 45 was Taco- "Putting on the Ritz"

my first LP was Culture Club- Color By Numbers

Thank god you didn't ask what the second album we ever bought was

Chaka Khan's "Chaka", I was like 9 when I bought it and I still have it.

I remember buying Janet Jackson's debut album and Whitney's debut album along.

I still have 'em 2 this day in a good condition

First got the 45rpm of "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough". The next year I finally got the whole "Off the Wall" LP when I was 6. Even when "Thriller" came out I knew that "Off the Wall" was still a better album. Videos are what helped the "Thriller" album become the over-hyped sensation that it still is. But I still listen to BOTH!

Oh I just remembered..."Anthology", Jackson 5. I co-owned it with my two older sisters. I still bump this shit EVERYDAY! Still fucks me up, all the hits in one collection..."I Am Love" (preposturous!), "Get it Together" (stanky!), "Skywriter" (harmonious!), and "I Want You Back" (timeless).

ET-Michael Jackson; never played it, i consider it a 'collection piece'. I have a boot of it on cd, so.

I've never played a record... but I've got lots. My first was The Jacksons' Destiny.

I now have all Jackson 5 / Jacksons LPs and a ton of MJ import prints... Prince as well. That's it, though.

I bet Prince would do a good cover of Deja Vu.

I was a sophomore in High School when I made a trip to the Greenwich Village to go record shopping. So I got my hands on a copy of my favorite obsessions at the time. ABC's later albums, "Beauty Stab" and "How to Be a Zillionaire". And for cheap too.

Recieved Bill Withers, Lean On Me on 45 when I was seven. Thought at the time that it was the greatest song ever written. Obviously, I grew a spine. lol.

Billy Squire - Don't Say No
1981

I still have it but it doesn't make the play list too often

Teena Marie's "Robbery", in 1983, I was 12.
My first 45 was The Time's "jungle love" b/w "oh, baby"

I play these every now and then, "Robbery" is still in mint condition,
[This message was edited Thu Jul 17 0:41:34 PDT 2003 by lovebizzare]

NWF said:

ABC... That brings back memories of 82 as well.
I think their Lexicon Of Love LP was probably the 2nd LP I bought!

The first LP I ever bought was probably Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium, but I had plenty before then courtesy of my older siblings!

Shafty said:

I bought that album too! Back in 1982,that album was HOT and it was Number One on the R&B charts for several weeks.The first three songs are classics..."A Night To Remember"(probably their best single),"Don't Try To Change Me" (shoulda been a single) and the smooth slow jam "Help Me",which received alot of airplay in my area.That is,hands down,the best Shalamar album of all.

I think it was Cloud One's 12" "Disco Juice". I remember wanting to buy their hit "Atmosphere Strut" but it cost too much. For some weird reason I thought the 12" included "Atmosphere Strut."