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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 Tyra 8/14/2024, 9:18:35 PM

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.

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Deadlywar 8/14/2024, 7:42:17 PM

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

FirestormGamingTeam 8/14/2024, 7:19:10 PM

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 Javix 8/14/2024, 3:34:53 PM

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.

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SpecialEffectLiam 8/14/2024, 6:03:09 AM

I know this is going to sound awful on a music board but I don’t think I’ve ever bought an album! So I’m going to have to answer with the first one I ever asked for and received as a present and it’s a doozy..

Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera

I can honestly say I have no idea why I wanted this, I saw an advert one day on television as a kid and decided this was what I wanted. I don’t think I even owned a CD player so I probably just expected to listen in my parents car or my siblings bedrooms. It was probably Genie In A Bottle that drew my attention to Miss Christina and truthfully, it still slaps.. as does What A Girl Wants. Obviously my tastes have changed slightly but this is the one that started it all 😂

Gaypengwing 🔜 Ren Faire Uk 8/12/2024, 9:25:03 PM

My first album that I bought with my own money was American Idiot by Green day. I remember sitting down so many days and just listening to the album straight through, no skipping of songs or doing something on my phone (which I don’t find I can do with many albums in my life) and taking that time for myself and the music.

I was in my peak emo stage (which I’ve never truly left) and going through so much change and learning in my teenage years. It can be such an overwhelming time and this album allowed me to belt out its lyrics and along with them, the stress and worries that I couldn’t find another outlet to access.

It’s a very powerful album which still speaks very bluntly about the world we live in today and how it can affect people and I believe it will always be current. A timeless album which can be recognised by people from different backgrounds, ages, races ect. That’s what music should be and what I will always love about American Idiot.

Shovel 8/12/2024, 6:19:09 PM

Oh wow! This is a throwback.

So I was super old when I got my first CD. It was in 2011 and I must’ve been about 16 and in college. I used to get SLC which was £20 a week to help with the cost of supplies. Anyway, I saw this album in the shop and was saving up to buy it. (I know £15 may not seem much but at the time it was!)

Anyway. Turns out I didn’t even have to buy it! I actually won it through a website called Swapit, and basically it was like JustAbout, you’d complete bounties and take part in games and challenges to win swapbucks (so no real money was involved), and then with the currency you could bid on items to win.

They had a Big Time Rush album up for grabs and I won it!

Big Time Rush was a TV show on Nickelodeon, and it was about 4 friends becoming a boy band, moving to LA from Minnesota and living their dream. For the show, they recorded real music, it’s your typical Nickelodeon pop, and eventually went on tour and released a couple of albums.

But yea, I loved the show so I had to grab the album! It was my entire personality in 2011, tbh listening to it now - it’s not bad! It’s aged well, the music is still a vibe. I’m not even ashamed to say that it’s stuff I would still listen to now!

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Josh B 8/12/2024, 11:42:28 AM

Now 43, bought at the age of 8 😂

At the time, this had some absolute bangers and it was a must purchase. Some of my personal highlights at the time were:

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom Vengaboys. Still an absolute tune and has gone from cheesy 90s pop to a timeless classic cheesy pop song!

I Want It That Way Backstreet Boys. Another great cheesy boy band song, that now just reminds me of Brooklyn 99 and Andy Sambergs hilarious ID parade scene.

Sweet Like Chocolate Shanks & Bigfoot. A great garage tune that I still have in my collection on one of the 'Best Garage Songs' albums.

Hey Boy Hey Girl The Chemical Brothers.

Right Here Right Now Fatboy Slim

These 2 were another 2 really catchy songs that would be played on repeat, both very lyrically unchallenging which may have had something to do with it at a young age!

A little bit of a theme to the songs I guess with more of them being dance/pop classics. Like most people, I think these albums were great for containing some of your favourite songs at the time and then you would just skip through the stuff you had no interest in!

I wouldn't say any of them are songs I would still consider listening to now, except maybe Boom Boom Boom Boom as a fun pop song with my kids. My tastes have change to a much stronger preference for rock and R&B. Fond memories in this Now album though!

TheGreatestBanana12 8/10/2024, 3:55:33 PM

My first album that I got was during my rap phase whilst I was in my teens, the album was Curtain Call by Eminem and was a kind of greatest hits album. Many years later I still listen to Eminem and still have this album and its just as good as when I first bought it but thankfully I now also enjoy a much wider variety of music rather than just rap.

Paul 8/7/2024, 10:51:46 PM

So the first time I bought my own cd, I actually bought two. Sum41 All Killer no Filler and Gorillaz.

What drew me to those albums?

The early 2000s was all about attitude and alternative media with WWF's attitude era and MTV shows like Jackass. With all this new teen angst came a new generation of punk and metal bands with Sum41 and Gorillaz being two of the stand out of the time.

Tbh I dont think my taste in music has changed too much and I still think these ablums are great. Now I know who was behind the Gorillaz its understandable how successful they were.

Kane Carnifex 8/1/2024, 8:23:26 PM

Iced Earth : The Blessed and the Damned

Rich · 2024-08-01T16:55:28.452Z

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!...

A double CD best of compilation album.Mix of Metal Arts (Heavy, Power, Trash)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blessed_and_the_Damned

It was released 2004, which makes me ~13 years young.
Why did i bought it? -> Fuck i loved the cover :P
Yes, didn´t knew the music xD

This also happend later with a T-Shirt from The Haunted.
First got the shirt than in love with the band.
but this is another story.

Yes, this was the CD time.
The ones with 60 seconds anti shock.

I loved "Stormrider" and "I Died for You"
It is still running from time to time on my Spotify.
<3

Sturmer 8/1/2024, 8:00:22 PM

It was Experience (The Prodigy).
1993 or 1994, not sure.

The story is quite interesting or dull, depending on how you look at it. There was a local shop selling all kinds of stuff, including music cassettes. One cassette, in particular, was on display for about two years. The graphics were kind of boring, which is probably why no one bought it. But it caught my eye every time I walked past it on my way to school.

One day, I got invited to a birthday party and knew my friend had an awesome HiFi system. Wanting to look cool, I decided to bring a cassette. I grabbed my savings and headed to the shop, buying the cheapest one available - Prodigy's "The Experience."

At that time, I didn’t own a cassette player, so I had no idea what was on that cassette!

Makster 8/1/2024, 5:37:54 PM

Come on Over - Shania Twain (1997)

No embarrassment either. This is the first album I remember owning on CD courtesy of my dad purchasing it for my sister and I.
I assume my father heard us singing along to it in the car or on CD:UK and decided to pick it up. Whilst I don't think Shania gets enough credit or staying over as her peers like Britney, or Mariah Carey, there is a special place in my heart for her singles: Man I feel like a Woman and You're still the One.

I've looped back round to pop recently. After the more edgey emo-metal phase of my teenage years, the sappy acoustic cover of my university years, and just after my indie rock resurgence of my working years, I'm digging the Sabrina Carpenters and Taylor Swift stuff more now.

Listening back on this album though.. it don't impress me much

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Maskedgambit 8/1/2024, 5:19:03 PM

Thank god this wasn’t ‘reveal the first album ever purchased for you’ as that would be Aqua - Aquarium (still a banger to be fair) but the first Album I bought myself was Guns ‘n Roses Greatest Hits!

I had just finished playing Guitar Hero 3 and became obsessed with this new world of music that I was missing out on. My mum and dad were big on music, meaning I grew up in a house with Bowie, Hall & Oates, The Carpenters, The Jam, and other iconic artists being played on repeat. But playing Guitar Hero helped me develop my own tastes, and my dad took me to go buy the album, which was being freshly advertised on TV at the time despite already being out for a few years, and we had to go to four different shops to find it! I used my saved money from doing chores around the house to buy it because the rule was that I could buy whatever I wanted with my money (within reason, I never got GTA until much later).

Finally getting my hands on it and playing it when I got home was a great memory, and while the content of some of the songs was perhaps a little unsuitable in hindsight, it was still a moment that really shaped my music tastes throughout my teenage years, and now I can happily listen to anything from death metal to musical soundtracks!