Tell us about the first album you ever bought!

Posted by Rich in Music

What was the first album you ever bought? It's a common question among music fans, and always fun when someone who became a hardcore metalhead over two or three decades is forced to admit - if they have the courage - that they started out with Britney Spears's '...Baby One More Time'.

So let's have that conversation right here on JAMS. What was the first album you ever bought? What caught your eye about it at the time, and what are your feelings on it today? Have your tastes changed since?

Your nominated album can be by a single artist or it can be a compilation. Submissions can be in writing or video and of any length, but we will reject submissions that don't engage with the questions in the brief - don't just tell us your first album, but tell us a little about it!

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Created at 4:55pm, 1st August, 2024. Page last updated at 9:54am, 15th August, 2024.
Deadline at 11:00pm, 14th August, 2024.

Submissions (16)

Asim8/14/2024

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This is embarassing, I was 13, I had a massive crush on miley cyrus from hannah montana, dont ask why. I made my parents go to HMV and buy her first album which I believe was called 7 things, I still have the CD in my room somewhere! I played it on Itunes non stop

Lanah Tyra8/14/2024

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In 1997 my grandfather took me to the first modern shopping centre in Budapest. It opened the year before and I've never been there as we never really had too much spare money, so "going shopping" was never a pastime for me like it was for other teenagers. We went to the cinema there, as the old one we used to go to closed down (due to the new one opening in the shopping centre), but as we went upstairs I've spotted a huge music store.

I've never seen this many cassettes and CDs at one place before, and what I loved was that they were all organised by genre, and there was one labelled as film soundtracks. I didn't like the music my parents listened to in the radio, but I did love the soundtracks, and I had no idea you could listen to them without watching the movie! So I checked through them, and found the soundtrack of the Star Wars trilogy, one CD for each movie. I checked my pocket money but it was only enough for one of the CDs so sadly I put back the other two and just bought one. My grandfather bought the other one and said "we won't tell your mom" as it was not really custom to get such gifts apart from birthdays and Christmas.

The next day he went back to buy the third one and it was my birthday gift from him a month later.

Deadlywar8/14/2024

The first album I ever bought was oasis what’s the story morning glory it caught my eye since oasis was a band my dad always listened to and I gradually started to listen to them more and more until I bought the album to which I still listen to this day

FirestormGamingTeam8/14/2024

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The first album I ever brought was Chesire Cat by Blink 182.

"So "Cheshire Cat" is the band's first studio album. It was the first album they recorded in a studio setting."

The question in this bounty, or questions, at the end of the day, Blink 182, will and always be the best band in history to me, they were coming out when I started college at 15.

I love and will always love Blink 182.

Rixx Javix8/14/2024

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KISS DOUBLE PLATINUM

I love these bounties that make me feel a million years old. Thanks. But the first album I bought entirely with my own money was in 1978 KISS Double Platinum. I was so damn excited about this album, it was shiny sliver and had two LPs in it chock full of rocking songs. Yes, I was a full member of the KISS ARMY back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Platinum_(Kiss_album)

I was 12 so give me a break. I'm sure most of this was about scaring my parents with make-up wearing weirdoes playing hard rock music - but that's what happens when you are twelve and living in the before times.

I played the album so much all the silver wore off and my version was just white embossed on the outside. Luckily for me I turned 13 and found other music to listen to. But I will still, even today, often listen to a KISS song on YouTube and laugh at myself.