What's the first piece of music you spent your own money on?

[Bluegreen]

Here's mine. I walked to Treasure Island. 69¢.

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[Gracy]

A bit before my time but, this was my first childhood 45 RPM purchase:
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[TomKat]

I listened to older siblings' records, but the first album I purchased with my own money was the Rolling Stones' Between the Buttons:
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[Axman]

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I went to Scotts 5 and dime to buy this 45 when I was 8 years old I felt so cool.
I was a smoker and joker LOL!
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The Axman

[edina]

Seals and Croft, first concert and first "cassette" :)

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[Sadieblue]

This was one of mine


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo

[Hermoor]

The Nutty Boys!

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[shaberon]

The English version of Der Kommisar:


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[Catsquotl]

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[Akasha]

J. Geils Band - Centrefold

The woman behind the counter at W.H. Smiths said "does your mum know you're buying this?"

I was nine: didn't even know what a centrefold was!


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Can't stand it now, haha.

[meeradas]

Thank you for that unexpected trip, bluegreen. Emotional...

I think it was this one:

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but these could have also been "it":

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or

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Heartfelt thanks again!

[Dick]

my first album, and I listen to it a lot, like all the other music from Supertramp.

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(How can i make my video visible? Just like the ones above?)

[meeradas]

my first album, and I listen to it a lot, like all the other music from Supertramp.

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(How can i make my video visible? Just like the ones above?)


Thank you, Dick! There was only a [ missing!

[Ivanhoe]

If I remember correctly (no promises) it was one of these, I can't remember the order of purchase.
1. Crosby, Stills and Nash (1st album)
2. Santana (the one with the lions head)
3. Grand Funk Railroad (red album)

[justntime2learn]

My first purchase was Eagles, Best Of My Love for .99 cents. I was 13 years old.

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[Ioneo]

I bought the Doors first album with Light My Fire.

[thepainterdoug]

very 1st elton john album i think it was called "your song" played it on my dads fisher stereo phonograph. time were magical

[bobme]

It was a forty five. Let it be the beatles. The first albulm was darkside of the moon, dark side of the moon, and breath.

[Kryztian]

This recording, 1977
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[Bluegreen]

Love it :note:

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[enfoldedblue]

Responding to Akashas video of Centerfold by J Geils band. Wow we must be around the same age. I was nine and had just moved to the city from a small country town. I bought this single and Pat Benetar Fire and Ice Album. I remember feeling very sophisticated. I also had no idea the real story of Centerfold until a few years later. I was quite shocked when the penny dropped.

[Sue (Ayt)]

I bought this 45, and my 2 sisters and I would sing along and act it out. Such drama!
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[ralfy]

But I think it was another album cover.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIV_dEWOY3Y

[Mike Gorman]

The very first vinyl album I purchased with my own money was: Cosmos Factory, Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1971, I was about 13 at the time
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This resulted in my attending a CCR concert in February 1972, the band was on its decline at this time with Tom Fogerty the rhythm guitar player and older brother of John Fogerty, having left the band.
The band performed brilliantly, it had a huge influence on my musical development.
I had loved a lot of different music up to this point, being a child in the 1960's I was very taken with the cultural explosion of Rock and Blues music, which no doubt had a profound influence on my developing mind
and sensibility. Because my family had moved to Australia from England in 1970, I had the opportunity to experience a form of the 1960's 'revolution' all over again as a teenager in Australia.
It is a remarkable feature of Australian society, that it tends to respond to major shifts and changes in popular culture at a slower rate than is the case in the northern hemisphere, this was definitely the case
during the 1970's at least!
So the developments in the 'counter culture' manifested at a rate equivalent to a 5 year lag in Perth (approximately), where I was living. I see this as being a huge benefit to me personally, because I always felt a bit envious of my older siblings
being able to participate with the developments of 1960's England. One of those little curiosities in life.

[Luke Holiday]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khH9ih2XJg
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Remember it like it was yesterday: wore this album out on my record player

[Bluegreen]

IMO this is actual time travel

:)

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[justntime2learn]

IMO this is actual time travel

:)

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Love It :heart:

I think you're right about that BG!

[shaberon]

Responding to Akashas video of Centerfold by J Geils band. Wow we must be around the same age. I was nine and had just moved to the city from a small country town. I bought this single and Pat Benetar Fire and Ice Album. I remember feeling very sophisticated. I also had no idea the real story of Centerfold until a few years later. I was quite shocked when the penny dropped.

Of all things in the world from around the same age, Centerfold is the only thing I can think of that a bunch of guys would start singing like at pickup basketball games. I mean, guys just don't sing like that, it is a complete aberration. I cannot be positive if this was happening since we knew what it was getting at, since I didn't know the difference of what any other way would be, and everything was happening all at once, like the fact I am not that good at basketball.

Pat Benatar was one of those where, if you had a pulse, you obeyed everything she said, metaphorically, of course, because you were too young to experience it. Even though you gladly offered yourself on a personal crusade to fulfill her every lyric, her limelight wound up being too brief to actually construct your complete future from the foundation up.

Most of these songs were ground into our brains repetitively at the weekend cat-and-mouse game called the skating rink. Since there are really none left, there may not be such a thing as an establishment that would actually play Pat Benatar. At this point, since there is nowhere left to go, and probably never will be, I suppose we will have to confide in ourselves the nostalgia that there was such a thing. Rock will never die! It is only the society that seems to.

[Bluegreen]

Time traveling with Ivanhoe :rapture:

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[TomKat]

I always loved Santana's guitar solos. They were composed, not improvised.

[Bluegreen]

The very first vinyl album I purchased with my own money was

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First album – This one Mike

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[Strat]

I really don't remember. I was a late bloomer when it came to music. Most of the music I'd listen to I'd record off the radio via cassette or listen to a vinyl from my parents archive. Later in life, Napster showed up... so everything was free. That being said, I do remember buying Audioslave in high school.
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[Bluegreen]

:dancing:

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[TomKat]

My first was probably the Stones' Between the Buttons

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[Strat]

Offtopic: How many albums do you folks own? Hard copies only, digital doesn't count!

[Bluegreen]

None . . .

[DaveToo]

Offtopic: How many albums do you folks own? Hard copies only, digital doesn't count!

I've got somewhere between 100-200.
As for the first music I spent money on...
I don't really remember, but it was probably a Beatles 45 rpm.

[Ernie Nemeth]

All I have left is my Black Sabbath albums. All of them up to Sabotage.

I had all their tunes up to present digitally but I now boycott them and erased all their music - because they allowed the scalpers to rip us off at the door. I had to listen to the concert outside the venue from a bridge - will never forgive them for it.

[avid]

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Slim Harpo, on offer from local quirky record shop, along with loads of Chess labelled artists.
Still have all these 45s in original paper sleeves.
Dimples, John Lee Hooker etc etc. Finally saw JLH live at a small bar in Bloomington Indiana, utter magic.
Happy days. Someone stole my Bo Diddley ‘Hey Mama, Keep your big mouth shut’ at college, never forgave them.

[gord]

The first piece of music I spent my own money on for listening, was Uncle Meat by The Mothers of Invention, because my older brother had just played Apostrophe(') and Over-Nite Sensation for me. I couldn't find either, so I bought this instead because the cover was weird.

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Before that, the first piece of music I spent my own money on for playing (fife) was The Company Music Book - Vol. I published by The Company of Fifers and Drummers.

[Guru Know It All.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ElC4UwYVuA
The world is Just a Great Big Onion . Motown.

[Karen (Geophyz)]

After the Gold Rush....Neil Young

[Old Student]

For singles, I Want To Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, and Twist and Shout all by the Beatles.
For albums, Rubber Soul (Beatles), Disraeli Gears (Cream), Electric Ladyland (Hendrix).

First Pop song I ever danced to:

When A Man Loves A Woman Percy Sledge

First Rock Concert: Jefferson Airplane.

OBTW, Rubber Soul cost $2.97.

[Deux Corbeaux]

Brenda Lee: I’m Sorry.

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[mojo]

Im not proud of my bid to pay $40 for one song on ebay. It was a song that shows up in a movie and was not on youtube at the time. It wasnt my first time to pay for music but it was the most pricey..;)

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[Charles Harris]

Purchased from the bargain bin at Wooden Nickel in Fort Wayne IN.
Cost $2.97
Mid to late 70's It was issued on vinyl.

[atman]

1969: I was 14, overly idealistic and a rebel at heart. I had just announced to my mom that I would no longer go to church on Sundays, because I was not a cannibal (for the few who might not know, the Catholic Church teaches that in the Eucharist, the communion wafer and the altar wine are truly transformed into the body and blood of Jesus Christ).

But back to the music... "Québécois", by then short-lived Québec band "La révolution française", was playing a lot on the radio and it became the very first piece of music that I bought (a 45rpm).

It is a patriotic anthem for the French speaking people of Québec, a song stylistically influenced by The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But it is not the strong political message of the song that had primarily captured my interest, but rather the melody, the singing and the music with its odd break in midsong (an ominous sounding siren followed by an enthralling bass line).

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I was not aware of it at the time, but the band also recorded an English version of the song that very same year, under the title "Americas". It was an adaptation rather than a translation, with lyrics that are strangely suited for the times that we are currently in:


America
God bless America
America, you're great
America, have faith

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Within the following year, I bought several LPs, the first of which were:

The Beatles — The Beatles (White Album)
King Crimson — In the Court of the Crimson King
Léo Ferré — Amour Anarchie
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
Pachelbel's Cannon (arranged and directed by Jean-François Paillard)


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[Anchor]

Rush - 2112

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[justntime2learn]

Rush - 2112

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My first concert was Rush, March 16th, 1980 at the Eugene fairgrounds. They opened with the entire side of 2112.

Here's the set list if anyone's interested:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rush/1980/lane-county-fairgrounds-eugene-or-73d97a31.html

[Ernie Nemeth]

I never went specifically to see Rush in concert. But...Rush is the band I've seen the most in concert - 6 times! They either were opening for for others, or I was there to see the opener. Bad Company and Max Webster come to mind as two bands I went to see where Rush was the other band. They always put on a great show!

[thepainterdoug]

It was either a Cat Stevens album or the Doors first. But had Elton Johns "your song", that my brother bought, was on my Dads fisher stereo record player whenever my parent were out

That fisher only saw the grooves of classical or show music otherwise.

sneaky kids! lol

great days

[Bluegreen]

First concert: Siegel-Schwall Blues Band w/ Howlin Wolf at the State Fair

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[Nenuphar]

I think the first record album I bought myself was ABBA's "Super Trouper".

The first record I know I bought myself was ABBA's "Gracias Por La Música". This stands out because I was so excited to have found a new record of theirs, and because of the reaction of the sales lady when I went to pay for it: "Oh, wow! You speak Spanish?" I replied no...and was confused because I was quite young and living in an area where I hadn't been exposed to Spanish. I wasn't entirely sure what she was talking about. Ha! I found out when I got home and played it...and then just memorized the words, anyway. I had no idea what I was singing, but had fun doing so! :note: :sun:

[I am B]

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here, but on CD :P 10/12 years ago ^^

[Michel Leclerc]

Well, that was back in 1965, I think, when I was fifteen. It was an epochal rendering of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto by David Oistrakh and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy’s baton. Tchaikovsky often figured as the concerto chosen by the finalists of the Queen Elisabeth Concours in Belgium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elisabeth_Competition), which in those times used their four-year cycles for violin, piano, composition and then a leap year for nothing.

You can hear it here, as it sounded then – delightful and masterly, I guess, for the lovers of classical music, and also... for those who are open to listening to it:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc7yk2i2g-4

[DaveToo]

Well, that was back in 1965, I think, when I was fifteen. It was an epochal rendering of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto by David Oistrakh and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy’s baton. Tchaikovsky often figured as the concerto chosen by the finalists of the Queen Elisabeth Concours in Belgium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elisabeth_Competition), which in those times used their four-year cycles for violin, piano, composition and then a leap year for nothing.

You can hear it here, as it sounded then – delightful and masterly, I guess, for the lovers of classical music, and also... for those who are open to listening to it:



One of my all-time fave violinists, but not one of my fave pieces though.

[Michel Leclerc]

Thank you DaveToo. Over the years my “hearing” Tchaikovsky has changed – but I now think that he is indeed one of the greatest. It took a very great artist to write something like the 6th Symphony. Through all his seemingly light-hearted music I now always hear the tragic undertone. His is not one of those sad musics that make you happy – as Chopin could be framed to be, bur rather one of those merry musics that make you sad – and then, after everything has sunken in, grateful. (Truth is meant to make us grateful.)

But maybe you meant something else: that this is just not one of the composer’s greatest pieces.

If you, as I, value highly the artist David Oistrakh, may I then ask you: what would be the concerto or concertos that you consider more deserving of his talent?

[DaveToo]

Thank you DaveToo. Over the years my “hearing” Tchaikovsky has changed – but I now think that he is indeed one of the greatest. It took a very great artist to write something like the 6th Symphony. Through all his seemingly light-hearted music I now always hear the tragic undertone. His is not one of those sad musics that make you happy – as Chopin could be framed to be, bur rather one of those merry musics that make you sad – and then, after everything has sunken in, grateful. (Truth is meant to make us grateful.)

But maybe you meant something else: that this is just not one of the composer’s greatest pieces.

If you, as I, value highly the artist David Oistrakh, may I then ask you: what would be the concerto or concertos that you consider more deserving of his talent?

I agree with you about the emotions a well-played Tchaikovsky concerto or symphony can elicit.
There's certainly always that tragic undertone that you mention, and what better musician to reveal it than a virtuoso Russian compatriot?

I simply meant that to me, Tchaikovsky's violin concerto is not the most moving in terms of melodic brilliance.
There are too many cliched phrases to my ear. I can certainly understand though why it became very popular for the masses.

One of my favorite concertos that Oistrakh has played is the Sibelius violin concerto.
I never get tired of watching/listening to it.
The piece is certainly not for the faint of heart. The first time I heard it, I couldn't make heads or tails of it,
and I'm a musician. :) But it just grows and grows on you the more you take it in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T5fctRsBLY

[Bluegreen]

What's the first piece of music you spent your own money on?

First concert I bought a ticket and went by myself: John Entwistle's Ox w/ J Geils Band

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[Antagenet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9XuJJXylw

memories!
With this first song I discovered my hips/pelvis.
:-)

[Bluegreen]

(Bump.)

A question I find endlessly fascinating.

[grapevine]

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night LP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5en2JMLA8Z0&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmTgBLvWnYsvBXqFyeTaW3KC
At the end of their reign I had all albums, all singles, 3 Beatles Fanclub floppy vinyls and every copy of The Beatles Monthly, all pristine.
When I returned from living abroad I found that my mother had had a clear out and thrown the lot away !:silent: