Around 1980, as a kid, my dad gave me a few albums: Out of Our Heads and Beatles '65. Some 45s including the Everly Brothers Dream and Bird Dog. And some Four Seasons ones, including Big Girls Don't Cry.
I was working as a Sales Rep at CBS Records in Australia and we were soooooo hyped about OUR first Stones album. It still has a special place for me. Although it was far from my first Stones.
Oh GAWD, NO! when you held up Bowie's "Tonight" -The RykoDisc 'Changes Bowie' was thankfully my Bowie introduction used-cassette purchase! My reaction was similar to CCR's 'Chronicle'-"Woah, they did that song, and that song, & THAT song? ! The magic of 'discovering' an artist that's been around for decades that produced a treasure trove of music vs. waiting for a current one to get around to making something new/good
My college roommate had a good take on Weasels Ripped My Flesh. I was listening to it in our room and he said, this sounds like a house being torn down.
Loving The Alien has become an amazing lost song because Tonight was such an weak album. Blue Jean is killer too. I only recently listened to Black Tie White Noize. I love “you’ve been around”.
I started Zappa with "Them or us", which was great to begin with, for it collected all the different styles Zappa ever did on a double album. With Bowie I was lucky enough to start with Ziggy Stardust and it took me very long to find out, that Mick Ronson's warm guitar play was as well responsible for its magic. It took me 40 years to discover how great Black Sabbath were. As a child I listened to a best of cassette with the Hieronymus Bosch cover and didn't get it, for the Rolling Stone history of rock book in two volumes I was reading then refused to write about these innovative working class rockers.
Great video - too funny. Kind of bizarre thinking about how you use to have to "take a chance" on a record before hearing it (pre-internet). That said, there was a good/bad thing with being forced to listen to albums that you didn't connect with (at least right away) because that was all you had and you spent money on it. I also remember having to listen to the full album on cassette because you didn't want to waste battery fast forwarding a track - the other option was to flip the tape to avoid a particular track if it was near the end. I like Never Let Me Down with David Bowie because I bought the cassette as a starting point back in 1987... good times
Taking a chance was definitely a big part of collecting, but I also maintained my Rolling Stone subscription and checked the reviews faithfully to get some idea of what was what. Unfortunately, history would suggest that they are pretty conservative and didn’t always get it right at all
I started my Genesis journey with a budget copy of Nursery Cryme, which turned into my favorite prog record a little later. Just expecting another That's All and getting the Giant Hogweed instead came as a shock to me in 1986.
Sometimes I've missed getting an old album by someone or group I was interested in but really hadn't heard, before the time of RUclips, way before so they weren't even on radio anymore. So in the meanttime I got another album by them and it turned out good enough fo me to seek more. When, after several years, I finally got the album I'd missed it turned out not so good and if I'd bought it first I'd never had continued buying the rest that were good.
Sweet that you flashed up that Tin Machine album. Bought that on cassette when it came out and not too long ago picked up the cd. Even on that one he was ahead of his time.
Entertaining video as always, Robert. There was definitely something special about taking chances on albums in the pre-internet days. Sometimes, we'd end up with a complete piece of garbage, but other times we'd discover new gems. I remember being a teenager in the mid-80s and getting into punk music. I would often base my choices not only on album covers (artwork, song titles, how cool the people in the band look, etc.) but also on t-shirts I would see older punk kids wearing. But many times the records available from these bands were the crappier ones and I would think, "why are people wearing shirts for this group? They're not that great." But then, of course, I'd later discover that it was the early and harder to find records that were the good ones. Some of the less than stellar albums I stumbled across were ones you mentioned (DK's Frankenchrist, later Black Flag, etc.) but also records by former hardcore/punk bands that had gone bad metal like Die Kreuzen, SS Decontrol, Necros, and Discharge. Later, I went through the same thing (without the t-shirt influence, though) when I became obsessed with 60s psych. There were so many albums that I forked out good money for that only had one or two good tunes on them.
I kind of did the opposite and wouldn't take a chance on a band because of the person I'd see wearing the shirt. Thinking if they appeal to that jerk,, it probably wouldn't be something I'd like. I ended up missing out on some great bands because of that. Lol
I started rock collecting in the 80's and my first exposure to Kiss was a weird, unmasked, Mad Max band. They weren't Motley Crue, Ratt or Faster Pussycat. I didn't understand the worship until I delved into the 70's. That being said, "Heaven's On Fire" is still one of my favorite Kiss songs. Prost!
I have a friend whose first exposure to Kiss was the "Lick It Up" video. He also didn't get the popularity and thought they looked ridiculous, especially Gene trying to make angry demon faces with no makeup. lol
Hehe i always get a good laugh watching your channel oh boy so mine were David Bowie never let me down, pink Floyd momentary lapse of reason, rush power windows and Alice Cooper trash and I still love these albums to hehe
@@RobertFithen you're welcome Robert so here a few more dishonorable or honorable mentions for ya starship knee deep in the hoopla, zz top afterburner and Paul McCartney press to play by the ways im from Edmonton Canada basically the prairies and im 43 so like all I had was muchmusic Canadian version of MTV and radio to go on
i think that some albums even though they might not represent the artist at their creative best are still better than some new bands debut albums in 2021
I remember some kid’s brother had Fresh Fruit on vinyl. I taped it from a speaker while trying to stay really quiet. It was like hearing a new album when i finally bought the CD in the 90’s. That is the only Dead Kennedys album anyone really needs.
My intro to Frank Zappa was Mothers' Absolutely Free. Plastic People, the opener, to me was weird. And I could handle I Am The Walrus weird. However, I wish I had checked out Mother People because that would've been an instant "click."
Tonight by David Bowie as a 1st album?! Even stranger than the cover of Diamond Dogs (in my Top 10 for Weirdest Album Covers), the story behind Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, etc and the song Ashes To Ashes (sure, the Thin White Duke has done other weird songs but this song is high on the list of Weird David Bowie songs). I must admit I like Blue Jean. The video is pretty funny. "Your record sleeves are better than your songs!" LOL
16:18 Wait for it. Cat hair or something is falling from the ceiling. Maybe kitty climbs on the cabinets. OR, maybe a ghost is afoot. No, not a FOOT, afoot/around or with Robert.
What an amazing record ranks up there with heaven and hell lp(thought blizzard of oz was weak) very powerful very bassy cant go wrong with Gillian's voice
I think the first Bowie studio album I bought was Never let me down on CD because the hype sticker proudly proclaimed longer versions of songs! ...yay(?). Luckily I had already bought changesbowie. First Sto is album I think was Aftermath from parents collection first I bought was Dirty Work so it's hard to be objective as I love it and played it constantly at time still cheers me up now,there are couple like that live magic by Queen, in the army now by Quo everyone tells me how bad they are but damn I don't care.
I bought Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" for $1.00 in a Woolworth's circa 1977. It's the Mercury cartoon cover release The vinyl was an over-pressing with visible pits and it didn't even have an inner paper sleeve, so the sound had an extra layer of noise and fuzz. In other words, an extra dimension of dementia was added to an already demented album including a skip in just the right place for the song "All the Mad Men". I listened to a clean RCA version of the album at a friend's later on -nah! Been thinking about putting my copy up on RUclips full frontal warts and all.
I had no idea that the drums on the CD version I own of Zappa's WOIFTM were changed from the original. 😞 I will try to find the original although it may be a challenge!!
Also (pre-internet), aside from the more commonly known artists, I would also buy records based on a hunch, the cover art and/or song titles, etc. Sometimes you would hit a home run and sometimes not!
Hi Robert one way I used to find good music was the record stores would play new releases while you were shopping in the store and they had a little stand where they would put the cover, so you knew what was playing. To Me the best Zappa music was from the 70s the sixty's were hit and miss and the 80s were good too.
@@RobertFithen they used to open them and let you listen on headphones as well most record stores used to do that I never did that, I am a bit of a germaphobe.
@@RobertFithen it had mostly their earlier hits up until 1971. This was in the 80s. So no start me up, miss you, Angie, emotional rescue etc. I now own every Stones album. Maybe not compilations. But I have all the 60s us releases on cd. Or most anyway. I also have the singles collection which is a very good compilation of early stones.
I also started The Stones with that Rewind Tape. My first studio album was respectable though- Between the Buttons. Now I have to get a copy of that Face of Rock & Roll book.
@@RobertFithen That book looks like it would have captured my imagination as a kid, for sure. Yeah, I checked eBay after watching the video, nice that the price isn't too high.
Great video as always! I did notice that perhaps the ghost of David Bowie started taking issue with your commentary starting around the 16 minute mark. That was pretty trippy, whatever was flying around behind you. 😧😂
I like Dirty Work a lot! Undercover is def underrated as well and Steel Wheels ain't bad either. It's really only Voodoo Lounge and Bridges to Babylon that I would call weak. (I love a Bigger Bang, bad cover art and title notwithstanding).
My first Rolling Stones album was Bridges to Babylon kkkkk Not the best start, but I liked it enough to keep buying their albums. They're my favorite band.
My first introduction to a Zappa album was "Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" - a library album which I taped. It had "Valley Girl" but otherwise don't remember anything else from that album (don't have that tape anymore). Otherwise, my first proper albums were "Freak Out" and "Absolutely Free" I got at the same time on CD. The former is great - the only song I recognized was "Brotherly Love" which I first heard on Dr. Demento's Delights radio show many decades ago. I dig "Absolutely Free" as well - but I figured if you weren't into the 2nd record on "Freak Out", you wouldn't be into "Absolutely Free" either.
@@RobertFithen The reason why my library ordered it was because "Valley Girl" was such a huge hit (at least in L.A., since the San Fernando "Valley" in which Moon Zappa is singing about is a part of L.A. County), that the library felt they had to have the album. Thus the album was available (and I was able to get access to it) shortly after the song was a hit.
I ended up getting the German pressing of their first album a year earlier. The original plan was to get the final Capitol album I've missed all these years "The Beatles Story", but it didn't happen.
I like Dirty Work as well! I think it's a lot better than all their 90s albums which I think are way too long. For me, everything after Steel Wheels is kind of disposable. I did like Blue & Lonesome though.
Albums i had to force myself to like. Iron Maiden no prayer for the dying.the long awaited and anticipated follow up to 7th son.was so excited.i seen the artwork and the wind went outta my sails.heard the album and was shocked.it was like being betrayed by family.i was only 13 or so.lol.what a letdown.but i love it now like a bastard cousin
Kate B took leave of absence after red shoes 👠 to have a baby hounds of love is amazing first dead Kennedys album is the one to start off with my first little river band was sleeper catcher wanted the song help is on the way which was the hit from the previous album Diamantina cocktail remember purchasing it from k mart and bringing it home to play it and feeling disappointed bought uncle meat too...still don't get it it
My first Stones purchase was Their Satanic Majesty's Request on cassette! It has it's moments, but not the best place to start. My first Zappa WAS the mock Pepper cover on Rykodisc on Christmas Day 1987, which also included his first solo outing Lumpy Gravy. I didn't realize until years later that Frank remixed it with his trademark overdubs; however, I felt it was redeemed by the inclusion of the original lyrics which Verve felt were too vulgar for 1968.
I started with Let It Bleed which is one their best. In the early 2000s ABKCO released a bunch of hybrid SACD titles and I had just bought a sony dvd changer with 5.1 surround system with the shitty little speakers and equally bad sub. It also played SACDs which I had never heard of at that point so when those stones SACDs came out I immediately went out and bought them. I got Aftermath, Flowers, Metamorphosis, Let It Bleed, and Their Satanic Majesties Request. Other than Let It Bleed I didn't have any of the other albums. Most we standard type of stones but more early tracks I hadn't heard before. Flowers was one my favorites of the new ones. I got Satanic Majesties Request having never even heard of this album (I would have remembered any album with Satan in the title) and anyone I knew (who were all more casual fans of the stones) never had it or mentioned it so I thought it as some rare album or whatever. I got it because it had She's Like Rainbow which is a track I'd heard somewhere and I could tell it was the stones, but it sounded so different to any of their other songs. At the same time at was really catchy so I decided to get that album on SACD,. There were more titles available but at $30 each 5 was already pushing my spending limit. When I listened to SMR the first time I was confused right away. It didn't sound like anything the stones had done and until I heard Mick's voice I thought they burned the wrong album on it. But I gave it a listen and while it was weird for a stones album it had a few really good sing including Rainbow. I immediately listened to it again this time without the shock clouding the experience and just considering it as a discrete album not tied to the stones I knew. I actually really liked it. It was unlike anything I had heard from the 60s up to 2002 and even the less radio friendly songs I got into. The album as a whole played all the way through is better than the sum of it's parts. From that day it has become one of my favorite stone albums along with Let It Bleed, Goats Head Soup, and Some Girls. I think people that don't like it never gave a chance and tried to appreciate it outside the rest of the stones catalog. I now have a first pressing on vinyl and an open reel tape version with the lenticular cover. It's only 3.375 ips and not 7.5, but it still sounds good.
@@vinylmandate Bleed is the second of their four album run, which many, including myself, consider to be the finest albums the band ever recorded starting with Beggar's Banquet ('68), Let It Bleed ('69), Sticky Fingers ('71), and Exile On Main Street ('72). It's cool to listen to their transition from the late Brian Jones to the twenty-year-old Mick Taylor. After the commercial failure of Satanic they enlisted the talents of New York native producer Jimmy Miller who was very instrumental in being tap into their full potential starting with the '68 single "Jumpin' Jack Flash" backed with "Child of the Moon", an overlooked gem IMHO, and finished up his contract with the somewhat disappointing Goat's Head Soup". That one too has its share of decent songs, but with Keith's heroin addiction and other internal struggles, it pales in comparison to their previous slabs of absolute greatness. For me, Some Girls was a great return to form, but sadly they would never again reach such lofty heights. I've fought my inner demons for many a long year trying to decide which one is my absolute favorite, but I've come to terms and have settled on Sticky Fingers. I think that it's their most cohesive work to date with Taylor fitting in nicely, much to Keef's chagrin. Love his slide work. He was truly the only lead guitarist the Stones ever had. Exile is an incrementally close second. It's a hot mess, but what a beautiful and transcendent hot mess it is. So cool that you have a reel-to-reel version with the original trippy packaging.
Freak Out! was the Mothers' debut lp, summer 1966. First track I heard on the radio -- Help I'm a Rock. Suzie Creamcheese was a recurring character from Frank Zappa's fertile imagination, played by various young Jewish women. Some girls were on record, but they also did publicity photos with the band and served as staged groupie fans where the Mothers were performing.
Induction to Gentle Giant was power and the glory, not impressed, but was Steven Wilson version . So decided to give it a nother chance got 3 friends great, love them. Only frank zappa I like is one size fits all. A friend's brother gave me Absolutely Free. Nope
i have a story for you: you really want to know where i first heard the term “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”? it wasn’t through the Beatles… it was through the Bee Gees. i was only 9 then the very next year i discovered the Beatles through thier compilation album ‘1962-1966” and to cut to the ending… having discovered and enjoying the Beatles entire discography including thier solo.. i felt ripped off!😡 the first time i heard any song from the 2 Beatle albums “Sgt. Pepper…..” and “Abbey Road” was through that @#&%$ Bee Gees/ Peter Frampton soundtrack! That’s what i have to live with my entire life.😞
My first Pink Floyd was The Final Cut. Man was that depressing at 13 years old. Luckily a little while later a got to hear Dark Side and it blew my mind.
I am a Zappa fan since... 1975. And I agree with you. There are some FZ's records I just don't like. Usually, I get annoyed with stuff that is "overdone". Too much weirdness, or too much synclavier, or too much of a sophomoric humor. Too much of anything is just... that. Greetings from Poland! :)
My first grand funk album was good singin good playin. I bought this at the Kmart budget section. I didn’t listen to any grand funk for another ten years. While I do have appreciation for you this album now, it’s not the best grand funk. They were at the end by that time. My first Aerosmith album was rock in a hard place from 1982. The album with jimmy crespo on guitar. I think it is a good album, but not classic Aerosmith. First Van Halen album was diver down. Regardless of the hate I love this album. First j Geils was freeze frame. J geils 70s stuff was way way better. First Pink Floyd album was Relics. Compilation of early Floyd. Not bad. But not classic Pink Floyd.
Montrose “Warner brothers presents” The who “face dance” Aerosmith “a night in the ruts” Prism “beat street” Ted nugent “penetrator” (before you make jokes, the amboy dukes rock” UFO “making contact” got it from the library and yes the front cover was covered up Santana “marathon” Blue oyster cult “the revolution by night” And the worst Led Zeppelin “coda”
I would have hated “Metal Machine Music” to have been my introduction to Lou Reed. It’s an album (double) of pure shite. Guess he owed the company an album. Thank goodness “Transformer” was my intro album.
For me isn't care that much for tattoo you except a couple songs that. Was my least fave I can't stand Zappa to wierd can't go wrong with boiwe but I agree 84 on back was his best great. Show as always
Never an artist that presents more a challenge is getting a first Zappa album. I started off with "Meets the Mothers of Prevention" ...a truly lame and terrible 1986 album and only bought it because it was discounted on cassette to about $8. But best to start off with "Overnight Sensation" or "Sheik Yerbouti" for entry level Frank and go from there. I listen most to "The Man From Utopia" but for some reason I love it, but it was not considered a great record, so beauty is in the ear of the beholder.
The Man With One Red Shoe. Geez, you seriously brought back a childhood memory with that one. At least it had a funky theme tune.
Age 15 I had no clue, so I bought Song Remains the Same as my 1st Zep album
I love it ...
Keep listening to Uncle Meat. It grew on me.
Hands down the best vinyl channel 🙌👑✌️❤
Wow! Thanks!!
Around 1980, as a kid, my dad gave me a few albums: Out of Our Heads and Beatles '65. Some 45s including the Everly Brothers Dream and Bird Dog. And some Four Seasons ones, including Big Girls Don't Cry.
I was working as a Sales Rep at CBS Records in Australia and we were soooooo hyped about OUR first Stones album. It still has a special place for me. Although it was far from my first Stones.
Oh GAWD, NO! when you held up Bowie's "Tonight" -The RykoDisc 'Changes Bowie' was thankfully my Bowie introduction used-cassette purchase! My reaction was similar to CCR's 'Chronicle'-"Woah, they did that song, and that song, & THAT song? ! The magic of 'discovering' an artist that's been around for decades that produced a treasure trove of music vs. waiting for a current one to get around to making something new/good
That cassette was one of my first Bowie experiences, too.
My college roommate had a good take on Weasels Ripped My Flesh. I was listening to it in our room and he said, this sounds like a house being torn down.
Loving The Alien has become an amazing lost song because Tonight was such an weak album. Blue Jean is killer too. I only recently listened to Black Tie White Noize. I love “you’ve been around”.
I started Zappa with "Them or us", which was great to begin with, for it collected all the different styles Zappa ever did on a double album.
With Bowie I was lucky enough to start with Ziggy Stardust and it took me very long to find out, that Mick Ronson's warm guitar play was as well responsible for its magic.
It took me 40 years to discover how great Black Sabbath were. As a child I listened to a best of cassette with the Hieronymus Bosch cover and didn't get it, for the Rolling Stone history of rock book in two volumes I was reading then refused to write about these innovative working class rockers.
Great video - too funny. Kind of bizarre thinking about how you use to have to "take a chance" on a record before hearing it (pre-internet). That said, there was a good/bad thing with being forced to listen to albums that you didn't connect with (at least right away) because that was all you had and you spent money on it. I also remember having to listen to the full album on cassette because you didn't want to waste battery fast forwarding a track - the other option was to flip the tape to avoid a particular track if it was near the end. I like Never Let Me Down with David Bowie because I bought the cassette as a starting point back in 1987... good times
Some of those cassettes turned into defacto singles because I would just listen to the same one or two songs.
Taking a chance was definitely a big part of collecting, but I also maintained my Rolling Stone subscription and checked the reviews faithfully to get some idea of what was what. Unfortunately, history would suggest that they are pretty conservative and didn’t always get it right at all
I started my Genesis journey with a budget copy of Nursery Cryme, which turned into my favorite prog record a little later. Just expecting another That's All and getting the Giant Hogweed instead came as a shock to me in 1986.
Sometimes I've missed getting an old album by someone or group I was interested in but really hadn't heard, before the time of RUclips, way before so they weren't even on radio anymore. So in the meanttime I got another album by them and it turned out good enough fo me to seek more. When, after several years, I finally got the album I'd missed it turned out not so good and if I'd bought it first I'd never had continued buying the rest that were good.
Sweet that you flashed up that Tin Machine album. Bought that on cassette when it came out and not too long ago picked up the cd. Even on that one he was ahead of his time.
I know l am late to this party but l couldn't believe that the first two examples you showed were the exact same ones for me, Stones and Zappa 😯👍.
Entertaining video as always, Robert. There was definitely something special about taking chances on albums in the pre-internet days. Sometimes, we'd end up with a complete piece of garbage, but other times we'd discover new gems. I remember being a teenager in the mid-80s and getting into punk music. I would often base my choices not only on album covers (artwork, song titles, how cool the people in the band look, etc.) but also on t-shirts I would see older punk kids wearing. But many times the records available from these bands were the crappier ones and I would think, "why are people wearing shirts for this group? They're not that great." But then, of course, I'd later discover that it was the early and harder to find records that were the good ones. Some of the less than stellar albums I stumbled across were ones you mentioned (DK's Frankenchrist, later Black Flag, etc.) but also records by former hardcore/punk bands that had gone bad metal like Die Kreuzen, SS Decontrol, Necros, and Discharge. Later, I went through the same thing (without the t-shirt influence, though) when I became obsessed with 60s psych. There were so many albums that I forked out good money for that only had one or two good tunes on them.
I kind of did the opposite and wouldn't take a chance on a band because of the person I'd see wearing the shirt. Thinking if they appeal to that jerk,, it probably wouldn't be something I'd like. I ended up missing out on some great bands because of that. Lol
I've just discovered your channel. You are very entertaining. I wish you great success.
Thanks!
I started rock collecting in the 80's and my first exposure to Kiss was a weird, unmasked, Mad Max band. They weren't Motley Crue, Ratt or Faster Pussycat. I didn't understand the worship until I delved into the 70's. That being said, "Heaven's On Fire" is still one of my favorite Kiss songs. Prost!
I have a friend whose first exposure to Kiss was the "Lick It Up" video. He also didn't get the popularity and thought they looked ridiculous, especially Gene trying to make angry demon faces with no makeup. lol
Hehe i always get a good laugh watching your channel oh boy so mine were David Bowie never let me down, pink Floyd momentary lapse of reason, rush power windows and Alice Cooper trash and I still love these albums to hehe
Thanks! I know a couple of people introduced to Alice Cooper via "Trash". They were so blown-away to hear the early stuff.
@@RobertFithen you're welcome Robert so here a few more dishonorable or honorable mentions for ya starship knee deep in the hoopla, zz top afterburner and Paul McCartney press to play by the ways im from Edmonton Canada basically the prairies and im 43 so like all I had was muchmusic Canadian version of MTV and radio to go on
Funny video!! We've ALL started out on the wrong foot with great bands! Especially back in the pre-internet days!
My first Beatles album i ever heard was Abby Road and it made me a Beatles fan.
I started my love of Mott the Hoople with Wildlife. Most people think it's the weakest of the Ian Hunter Mott lps.
i think that some albums even though they might not represent the artist at their creative best are still better than some new bands debut albums in 2021
I remember some kid’s brother had Fresh Fruit on vinyl. I taped it from a speaker while trying to stay really quiet. It was like hearing a new album when i finally bought the CD in the 90’s. That is the only Dead Kennedys album anyone really needs.
Hard disagree. Plastic Surgery Disasters is even better.
My intro to Frank Zappa was Mothers' Absolutely Free. Plastic People, the opener, to me was weird. And I could handle I Am The Walrus weird. However, I wish I had checked out Mother People because that would've been an instant "click."
Great video, Robert! This vid's topic is something I am very familiar with! :-)
Thanks for doing this Robert! I always look forward to your videos! Hot Rats rules! 👍👍
Tonight by David Bowie as a 1st album?! Even stranger than the cover of Diamond Dogs (in my Top 10 for Weirdest Album Covers), the story behind Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, etc and the song Ashes To Ashes (sure, the Thin White Duke has done other weird songs but this song is high on the list of Weird David Bowie songs). I must admit I like Blue Jean. The video is pretty funny. "Your record sleeves are better than your songs!" LOL
16:18 Wait for it. Cat hair or something is falling from the ceiling. Maybe kitty climbs on the cabinets. OR, maybe a ghost is afoot. No, not a FOOT, afoot/around or with Robert.
The first Black Sabbath album I bought when I was a kid and didn't know any better was Born Again.
It definitely has a different sound. I still love that album cover.
What an amazing record ranks up there with heaven and hell lp(thought blizzard of oz was weak) very powerful very bassy cant go wrong with Gillian's voice
I think the first Bowie studio album I bought was Never let me down on CD because the hype sticker proudly proclaimed longer versions of songs! ...yay(?).
Luckily I had already bought changesbowie.
First Sto is album I think was Aftermath from parents collection first I bought was Dirty Work so it's hard to be objective as I love it and played it constantly at time still cheers me up now,there are couple like that live magic by Queen, in the army now by Quo everyone tells me how bad they are but damn I don't care.
“Weasels…” is my second favorite Zappa album. I was 9 when I first heard it - blame my Uncle Jimmy
I bought Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" for $1.00 in a Woolworth's circa 1977. It's the Mercury cartoon cover release The vinyl was an over-pressing with visible pits and it didn't even have an inner paper sleeve, so the sound had an extra layer of noise and fuzz. In other words, an extra dimension of dementia was added to an already demented album including a skip in just the right place for the song "All the Mad Men". I listened to a clean RCA version of the album at a friend's later on -nah! Been thinking about putting my copy up on RUclips full frontal warts and all.
Great subject!
I had no idea that the drums on the CD version I own of Zappa's WOIFTM were changed from the original. 😞 I will try to find the original although it may be a challenge!!
It was an 80's cd. Since then, it was replaced by the original mixes so now the better one is easier to find.
@@RobertFithen Thanks! I recently subscribed and shared w friends! I'm glad your vids are hitting my algorithm strong on my day off!!!👍
red shoes is a soundtrack to a video she made with miranda richardson so it makes a bit more sense when hearing it with the visuals
I did not know that.
Also (pre-internet), aside from the more commonly known artists, I would also buy records based on a hunch, the cover art and/or song titles, etc. Sometimes you would hit a home run and sometimes not!
I remember the first time I heard of Savage Garden, I thought they were a metal band just based on the name.
The RUclips image link to this showed the "rzzzzz" hovering over the lava lamp. I knew immediately what album that was aimed at.
Also, Mick Jagger's pants from "Dirty Work", the fez from "Frankenchrist", the red shoes, etc.
I never got Zappa. I have strictly commercial etc. I just don't get him.
Hi Robert one way I used to find good music was the record stores would play new releases while you were shopping in the store and they had a little stand where they would put the cover, so you knew what was playing. To Me the best Zappa music was from the 70s the sixty's were hit and miss and the 80s were good too.
I used to go to a CD store like that called Now Hear This where all of the cds were opened and you could listen to anything with headphones.
@@RobertFithen they used to open them and let you listen on headphones as well most record stores used to do that I never did that, I am a bit of a germaphobe.
great vid man as usual
Some coincidence that all the bad albums were put out around 1985-1989. It was a rough time
My first stones was hot rocks 64-71. First studio album was black n blue.
Hot Rocks has to be the best way to start!
@@RobertFithen it had mostly their earlier hits up until 1971. This was in the 80s. So no start me up, miss you, Angie, emotional rescue etc. I now own every Stones album. Maybe not compilations. But I have all the 60s us releases on cd. Or most anyway. I also have the singles collection which is a very good compilation of early stones.
I also started The Stones with that Rewind Tape. My first studio album was respectable though- Between the Buttons. Now I have to get a copy of that Face of Rock & Roll book.
That book was an awesome thing to have as a kid. They are all over eBay for around $15.
@@RobertFithen That book looks like it would have captured my imagination as a kid, for sure. Yeah, I checked eBay after watching the video, nice that the price isn't too high.
I like rewind because they had the lyrics enclosed. I finally figured out what he was singing on Tumbling Dice. haha
Great video as always! I did notice that perhaps the ghost of David Bowie started taking issue with your commentary starting around the 16 minute mark. That was pretty trippy, whatever was flying around behind you. 😧😂
Thanks! That is bizarre! I didn't notice that.
I like Dirty Work a lot! Undercover is def underrated as well and Steel Wheels ain't bad either. It's really only Voodoo Lounge and Bridges to Babylon that I would call weak. (I love a Bigger Bang, bad cover art and title notwithstanding).
Midwest, I still live in Indiana
My first Rolling Stones album was Bridges to Babylon kkkkk Not the best start, but I liked it enough to keep buying their albums. They're my favorite band.
It only got better from there! I just did a video about how "Bridges To Babylon" is generally tied with "Dirty Work" as considered their worst album
My first introduction to a Zappa album was "Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" - a library album which I taped. It had "Valley Girl" but otherwise don't remember anything else from that album (don't have that tape anymore). Otherwise, my first proper albums were "Freak Out" and "Absolutely Free" I got at the same time on CD. The former is great - the only song I recognized was "Brotherly Love" which I first heard on Dr. Demento's Delights radio show many decades ago. I dig "Absolutely Free" as well - but I figured if you weren't into the 2nd record on "Freak Out", you wouldn't be into "Absolutely Free" either.
I taped several albums from our library, but it never had anything like Frank Zappa.
@@RobertFithen The reason why my library ordered it was because "Valley Girl" was such a huge hit (at least in L.A., since the San Fernando "Valley" in which Moon Zappa is singing about is a part of L.A. County), that the library felt they had to have the album. Thus the album was available (and I was able to get access to it) shortly after the song was a hit.
I guess you must have turned 50 now, so what was the Beatles album you got for your birthday?
I ended up getting the German pressing of their first album a year earlier. The original plan was to get the final Capitol album I've missed all these years "The Beatles Story", but it didn't happen.
I like Dirty Work as well! I think it's a lot better than all their 90s albums which I think are way too long. For me, everything after Steel Wheels is kind of disposable. I did like Blue & Lonesome though.
Exactly!
Albums i had to force myself to like.
Iron Maiden no prayer for the dying.the long awaited and anticipated follow up to 7th son.was so excited.i seen the artwork and the wind went outta my sails.heard the album and was shocked.it was like being betrayed by family.i was only 13 or so.lol.what a letdown.but i love it now like a bastard cousin
Kate B took leave of absence after red shoes 👠 to have a baby hounds of love is amazing first dead Kennedys album is the one to start off with my first little river band was sleeper catcher wanted the song help is on the way which was the hit from the previous album Diamantina cocktail remember purchasing it from k mart and bringing it home to play it and feeling disappointed bought uncle meat too...still don't get it it
My introduction to The Ramones was Too Tough to Die. Love the album, but it’s a weird place to start
My first Stones purchase was Their Satanic Majesty's Request on cassette! It has it's moments, but not the best place to start. My first Zappa WAS the mock Pepper cover on Rykodisc on Christmas Day 1987, which also included his first solo outing Lumpy Gravy. I didn't realize until years later that Frank remixed it with his trademark overdubs; however, I felt it was redeemed by the inclusion of the original lyrics which Verve felt were too vulgar for 1968.
I started with Let It Bleed which is one their best. In the early 2000s ABKCO released a bunch of hybrid SACD titles and I had just bought a sony dvd changer with 5.1 surround system with the shitty little speakers and equally bad sub. It also played SACDs which I had never heard of at that point so when those stones SACDs came out I immediately went out and bought them. I got Aftermath, Flowers, Metamorphosis, Let It Bleed, and Their Satanic Majesties Request. Other than Let It Bleed I didn't have any of the other albums. Most we standard type of stones but more early tracks I hadn't heard before. Flowers was one my favorites of the new ones. I got Satanic Majesties Request having never even heard of this album (I would have remembered any album with Satan in the title) and anyone I knew (who were all more casual fans of the stones) never had it or mentioned it so I thought it as some rare album or whatever. I got it because it had She's Like Rainbow which is a track I'd heard somewhere and I could tell it was the stones, but it sounded so different to any of their other songs. At the same time at was really catchy so I decided to get that album on SACD,. There were more titles available but at $30 each 5 was already pushing my spending limit. When I listened to SMR the first time I was confused right away. It didn't sound like anything the stones had done and until I heard Mick's voice I thought they burned the wrong album on it. But I gave it a listen and while it was weird for a stones album it had a few really good sing including Rainbow. I immediately listened to it again this time without the shock clouding the experience and just considering it as a discrete album not tied to the stones I knew. I actually really liked it. It was unlike anything I had heard from the 60s up to 2002 and even the less radio friendly songs I got into. The album as a whole played all the way through is better than the sum of it's parts. From that day it has become one of my favorite stone albums along with Let It Bleed, Goats Head Soup, and Some Girls. I think people that don't like it never gave a chance and tried to appreciate it outside the rest of the stones catalog. I now have a first pressing on vinyl and an open reel tape version with the lenticular cover. It's only 3.375 ips and not 7.5, but it still sounds good.
@@vinylmandate Bleed is the second of their four album run, which many, including myself, consider to be the finest albums the band ever recorded starting with Beggar's Banquet ('68), Let It Bleed ('69), Sticky Fingers ('71), and Exile On Main Street ('72). It's cool to listen to their transition from the late Brian Jones to the twenty-year-old Mick Taylor. After the commercial failure of Satanic they enlisted the talents of New York native producer Jimmy Miller who was very instrumental in being tap into their full potential starting with the '68 single "Jumpin' Jack Flash" backed with "Child of the Moon", an overlooked gem IMHO, and finished up his contract with the somewhat disappointing Goat's Head Soup". That one too has its share of decent songs, but with Keith's heroin addiction and other internal struggles, it pales in comparison to their previous slabs of absolute greatness. For me, Some Girls was a great return to form, but sadly they would never again reach such lofty heights. I've fought my inner demons for many a long year trying to decide which one is my absolute favorite, but I've come to terms and have settled on Sticky Fingers. I think that it's their most cohesive work to date with Taylor fitting in nicely, much to Keef's chagrin. Love his slide work. He was truly the only lead guitarist the Stones ever had. Exile is an incrementally close second. It's a hot mess, but what a beautiful and transcendent hot mess it is.
So cool that you have a reel-to-reel version with the original trippy packaging.
Its called The Line The Cross and the Curve
Frank Zappa self indulgent ? Never, lol !
Saw 200 motels at theater
Give Directly From My Heart from Weasel, another listen!
I don't think I would've liked Uncle Meat either. I haven't heard all of Apostrophe but like what I've heard.
Freak Out! was the Mothers' debut lp, summer 1966. First track I heard on the radio -- Help I'm a Rock. Suzie Creamcheese was a recurring character from Frank Zappa's fertile imagination, played by various young Jewish women. Some girls were on record, but they also did publicity photos with the band and served as staged groupie fans where the Mothers were performing.
I like Suzie in small doses, but on the Uncle Meat CD she just goes on and on.
Induction to Gentle Giant was power and the glory, not impressed, but was Steven Wilson version . So decided to give it a nother chance got 3 friends great, love them. Only frank zappa I like is one size fits all. A friend's brother gave me Absolutely Free. Nope
i have a story for you: you really want to know where i first heard the term “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”? it wasn’t through the Beatles… it was through the Bee Gees. i was only 9 then the very next year i discovered the Beatles through thier compilation album ‘1962-1966” and to cut to the ending… having discovered and enjoying the Beatles entire discography including thier solo.. i felt ripped off!😡 the first time i heard any song from the 2 Beatle albums “Sgt. Pepper…..” and “Abbey Road” was through that @#&%$ Bee Gees/ Peter Frampton soundtrack! That’s what i have to live with my entire life.😞
I have a similar experience, but it wasn't the Bee Gees doing The Beatles, it was The Chipmunks! lol
You mean album title?
Most of Zappa's albums sound like outtakes or B-sides. Never got into Zappa at all.
Hey,I like Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
My first Pink Floyd was The Final Cut. Man was that depressing at 13 years old. Luckily a little while later a got to hear Dark Side and it blew my mind.
Final Cut was labeled as Pink Floyd, but was truly Roger Waters first solo album - and the beginning of the end to such a fantastic group.
The Final Cut IS a great album...but not for the newbies...As a long time fan, it is one of my favorite...
Their Satanic Majesties Request is the only Stones album I can handle...but I love Weasels Ripped My Flesh 😃
I am a Zappa fan since... 1975. And I agree with you. There are some FZ's records I just don't like. Usually, I get annoyed with stuff that is "overdone". Too much weirdness, or too much synclavier, or too much of a sophomoric humor. Too much of anything is just... that. Greetings from Poland! :)
My first grand funk album was good singin good playin. I bought this at the Kmart budget section. I didn’t listen to any grand funk for another ten years. While I do have appreciation for you this album now, it’s not the best grand funk. They were at the end by that time. My first Aerosmith album was rock in a hard place from 1982. The album with jimmy crespo on guitar. I think it is a good album, but not classic Aerosmith. First Van Halen album was diver down. Regardless of the hate I love this album. First j Geils was freeze frame. J geils 70s stuff was way way better. First Pink Floyd album was Relics. Compilation of early Floyd. Not bad. But not classic Pink Floyd.
The negativity towards "Diver Down" is something I'm just noticing in the last few years. Years ago it seemed like another classic VH album.
@@RobertFithen I love that album. I love all DLR era Van Halen.
Montrose “Warner brothers presents”
The who “face dance”
Aerosmith “a night in the ruts”
Prism “beat street”
Ted nugent “penetrator” (before you make jokes, the amboy dukes rock”
UFO “making contact” got it from the library and yes the front cover was covered up
Santana “marathon”
Blue oyster cult “the revolution by night”
And the worst
Led Zeppelin “coda”
I would have hated “Metal Machine Music” to have been my introduction to Lou Reed. It’s an album (double) of pure shite. Guess he owed the company an album. Thank goodness “Transformer” was my intro album.
The whole "it was to fulfill a contract" myth is still alive and well, I see. Avoid Merzbow.
For me isn't care that much for tattoo you except a couple songs that. Was my least fave I can't stand Zappa to wierd can't go wrong with boiwe but I agree 84 on back was his best great. Show as always
I love that you hate Dire Straits. It’s okay…i hate Kiss. We need balance in this world.
Never an artist that presents more a challenge is getting a first Zappa album.
I started off with "Meets the Mothers of Prevention" ...a truly lame and terrible 1986 album and only bought it because it was discounted on cassette to about $8.
But best to start off with "Overnight Sensation" or "Sheik Yerbouti" for entry level Frank and go from there.
I listen most to "The Man From Utopia" but for some reason I love it, but it was not considered a great record, so beauty is in the ear of the beholder.