Sometimes just to spend an hour or so and thumb through the perfectly alphabetically listed vinyls, whilst listening to the album playing in the store. Then taking an album up to the counter that you want to buy, but wanted to hear a few tracks first... Great times, fab memories...
It was a communal experience back in the Sixties and Seventies! There are still record stores that are doing pretty good business. I enjoy shopping at Amoeba in Hollywood, CA Canterbury Records in Pasadena, Freakbeat in Sherman Oaks and CD Trader in Tarzana!
The best part about “albums” back then was that you would look at the album cover and infold while you were listening to the songs, and read the lyrics and admire the cover art. They used to put so much effort into album art and packaging back then.
You´re so right, I kind of miss that. Sitting in front of our Tandberg Vinyl player going through that ritual...Listening, studying the artwork, reading lyrics, reading who the bandmembers thanked... Something people of the internet can never relate to... Sad in a way. Music doesn´t seem to have the same kind of value today... Good Times...
Really, n all the cool booklets, posters, n even just like the art itself that was sometimes incorporated into the vinyl packaging was excellent. Many of the coolest were done by Hypnosis, 'Dark Side of the Moon', UFO 'Strangers in the Night', Zeppelin 'Physical Graffiti'. I'm not sure who did E.J.'s 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' but I remember by the lyrics were some cool drawings representative of each song. I liked to read liner notes and that kinda stuff could help to make those albums a kinda unique experience...
Seeing that album cover, the very best cover of all time, there was no way I WASN'T going to buy it! Still one of the ultimate party starter albums ever produced.....talk about studio songs absolutely coming to life on a live album-VOLCANIC ENERGY-ACE STILL RULES!
Me too. I was mocked for it. It was 79 i think that I made the transition from model planes and stuff to heavy rock. My friends were into heavy rock too, but they thought kiss were poofters. When dynasty became popular I copped a lot of shit from the wider school community. I didn’t care much.
This is a good one. Hard to remember back that far but here goes. Not in specific order 1. Kiss-Love Gun 2. Kiss-Hotter Than Hell 3. Styx-The Grand Illusion 4. Alice Cooper-Welcome To My Nightmare 5. Electric Light Orchestra-Out Of The Blue 6. Devo-Freedom Of Choice 7. Electric Light Orchestra-On The Third Day 8. Kiss-Ace Frehley Solo 9. Styx-Pieces Of Eight 10. Queen-News Of The World
Loved that album. Played the vinyl till I wore it out. My friend had the cassette and we'd be driving around New York in the early eighties playing it into the night: Soul Kitchen, Crystal Ship, Twentieth Century Fox, Whiskey Bar...all underrated 3 min songs.
So, it's mid-July 1971 and I'm the youngest of six kids and the only boy and were riding up the Coast from Crescent City, CA to Brookings, OR on vacation in the middle of a storm in a mint-green, Dodge Station Wagon and "Riders on the Storm" is playing on the radio and I hear a loud thud and my Dad swerves the car and we go spinning on the wet pavement! All the girls and my Mom are screaming and my Dad manages to get the wagon under control. It turns out, we were behind a flat-bed with those huge wooden spindles they carry thick, electrical wires and one of them got loose and came barreling down the road at us. Luckily, those wagons were built like tanks and there was minimal damage but, Holy Crap!! What a way to remember a song!!! I love The Doors and I am glad I got to hear there stuff when they were still a band!
My first 10: 1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John 2. Don't Shoot Me - Elton John 3. Honky Chateau - Elton John 4. Grand Funk - Live Album 5. Madman Across The Water - Elton John 6. 11-17-70 - Elton John 7. Band on the Run - Wings 8. Caribou - Elton John 9. The Who By Numbers - The Who 10. Eagles - Greatest Hits
Pete my first 10 albums i bought; 1.Bobby Fuller 4 "I fought the Law" 2.Herman's Hermit s/t Then i woke up! 3.Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" 4.Yes "Close to the Edge" 5.Three Dog Night "Greatest Hits 6.Black Sabbath "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" 7.Deep Purple "Machine Head 8.Jimi Hendrix Experience " Are you experienced" 9. Kiss "Alive" 10. Led Zeppelin 4
Keith-I just purchased Bobby Fuller greatest hits a few weeks ago-good, good stuff! Three Dog Night are no joke- a lot of hooky, solid material (greatest hits is essential) and their magic is the superb vocals! The rest of your list shows you MEAN FOOKIN' BUSINESS!!! Cheers!
not sure but probably 1. CCR - Cosmos Factory 2. The Hollies- Distant Light 3. 3 Dog Night - Suitable for Framing 4. The Best of the Guess Who 5. Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards 6. Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality 7. James Taylor - Mudslide Slim 8. Eagles 9. Grand Funk Live 10. Rush - Fly by Night edit: I just was skimming albums today and realized Sicky Fingers was probably in there somewhere
XO Mt. Hood: That Hollies album is fantastic. Hadn't thought of it in years. And I usually don't site Best Ofs, but that Guess Who best of is an exception. It was a stand-alone play worth hearing. The closest comparison I can think of is ChangesOneBowie. Another stand-alone gem I probably wore out five vinyl copies of over the years. By the way, as a Pacific Northwesterner, let me just say Mt. Hood is a beautiful place.
Jeez, are we the same age? Almost to a tee. With the exception of number six mine would be Alice Cooper's Killer. And for number 10 it would have been Firesign Theaters "How Can You Be in Two Places at All When You are Not Anywhere at All". Number 11 is Santana's Abraxas, Number 12 as honorable mention would be Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Will the Circle be Unbroken"
First two album cassettes I bought together. KISS-ALIVE! Led Zeppelin-Presence... Which reminds me, how about a show of songs you've never ever gotten tired of. One song that I have never gotten tired of is Led Zeppelin's Achilles Last Stand. When I heard the live version from their last show at Knebworth '79, made me love it even more. Absolutely awesome song.👍
Damn, this is a fantastic idea. I'll see if I can think that far back I'll try. 1. Alice Cooper - Love It To Death 2. Grand Funk - Survival 3. Humble Pie - Rockin The Fillmore 4. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die 5. Jethro Tull - Aqualung 6. Black Sabbath - Paranoid 7. Cream - Disreali Gears 8. Alice Cooper - Killer 9. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma 10. Blind Faith - self titled I'm not 100% sure these are in exactly the right order but these are definitely the first 10 I paid for with my own money. Before buying Love It To Death I just bought 45s so I had a good selection of those, lot of Beatles & Stones, and I had a couple gifted to me as well. I remember getting a Byrds album, didn't even have a cover, Led Zeppelin II, Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers". I think that's about it. I hope I didn't miss any.
Thanks Pete for adding Tom & Pat from The Doobie Brothers to the list . Brilliant guitar players and adding Jeff Baxter and John McFee to add even more of a rocking sound to their albums .
What a nice way to get started as a music fan. It´s a classic situation: the older kid approach to you, and show you some cool stuff, too heavy for you and outside of your childish world and you kinda felt like it´s a step in a new exciting, strange, and maybe dangerous land.
Love Gun from Kiss was my first album. My mom was furniture shopping and they had a small record section in the stereo department. Stereos were often giant wooden pieces of furniture back then. I was about 8 at the time and my mom bought it for me to shut me up. My mom was one cool lady.
Hmmm gee need to really think about this one. Ok I remember now: 1 - Kiss - Unmasked 2 - Slade - Sladest 3 - Iron Maiden - Number of the beast 4 - Kiss - Best of the solo albums 5 - Kiss - Dynasty 6 - Billy Joel - 52nd Street 7 - Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry 8 - Van Halen - 1984 9 - Led Zeppelin IV 10 - Queen - Greatest Hits
In 1971, I was 15 and everyone I knew and myself included bought Sticky Fingers and Aqualung together. As a kid I bought Stones, Beach Boys ( until 1967) and Beatles mostly.
Interesting Pete, just like me in the 70s I would often purchase a live recording before the back catalogue. The first live album I bought was Made in Japan...not a bad start! My first studio albums were Billion Dollar Babies, the The Yes Album and Led Zeppelin II. The main influence apart from family and friends was listening to the Saturday Rockshow on BBC Radio 1 hosted by Alan Freeman... I remember him saying that heavy rock music in the 70s had hit a zenith...and there was only one way to go...backwards...and he was right...punk rock!
Suzie.q Popcorn123 My parents were worried about me playing anything by Alice...I was only 13 when Billion Dollar Babies was released...and it was quite a scary album...but with Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter playing guitar on it...the outdo solo on Generation Landslide is right up there with the best. Still at least my folks loved Skynyrd’s “ Freebird “...so I forgive them!
First albums I bought with my own money (not in order)... Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John Sheer Heart Attack - Queen Desolation Blvd. - Sweet Eldorado - ELO S/T - Queen Alive - KISS S/T - Fleetwood Mac Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath Destroyer - KISS A Night At The Opera - Queen
When I was 13, I caught the YES bug, in a huge way. I used to save my allowance & go to Woolworths at the Moorestown Mall (NJ). They had their whole discography on cassettes for $5. each. My 1st purchase was The Yes Album, I had to have Yours Is No Disgrace !! Then, I went back when ever I had 5 bucks & went back to YES, Time & A Word and in release order. I had to know all Bill Bruford's parts, I was fascinated by that man. Never loved Alan White nearly as much, but still a great drummer.... These were not my 1st purchases, but my most memorable experiences buying music....
Moorestown Mall?? I remember they had a stream flowing through the mall with birds flying around. That was back in the late 60's early 70's when they had a Pathmark Supermarket right by the movie theater
Can’t remember what my first 10 albums were that I bought myself but it started in ‘79 with Kiss, Ted Nugent, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath etc...
I'm 5 years younger. My first albums were on cassette. Listened on a Walkman. 1. Men at Work - Business as Usual 2. Van Halen - Diver Down 3. The Cars - Heartbeat City 4. J. Giles - Freeze Frame 5. Eagles - Eagles Live
My memory that far back is a little hazy, but I think it goes - 1. Black Sabbath - Masters Of Reality 2. Steppenwolf - Monster 3. Humble Pie - Rocking The Fillmore (a life changer!) 4. Jethro Tull - Stand Up 5. Yes - Close To The Edge 6. Yes - Fragile (which I remember buying one day after hearing CTTE. I was stunned by this band as a kid!) Who knows after that? Maybe Machine Head ...
Great Show! I had a lot of influence from an older brother and a cousin with a massive LP collection full of Sabbath, Zeppelin, Tull, Purple...you know, the good stuff. There was a 10 and 12 year difference between me and them, so I was hearing this stuff at a pretty young age. I didn't have to start buying albums until my brother moved out and took most of the music (except the 8 tracks) with him. I'm not certain what order they were purchased except the first two. 1. "Fragile"- Yes (Mom didn't want me buying it, but I argued that "Rick has Yes!" (Close To The Edge) 2. "Pieces Of Eight"- Styx (Bought it on a church youth trip to Houston, so Mom wasn't there to tell me no.) 3. "The Game"- Queen 4. "Freeze Frame"- J. Geils Band 5. "Diver Down"- Van Halen 4, 5, and 6 all bought at the same time. 6. "The Broadsword and the Beast"- Jethro Tull (The memory gets murky from here on out} 7. "Hell Bent For Leather"- Judas Priest 8. "Tooth and Nail"- Dokken 9. "Perfect Strangers"- Deep Purple 10. "Powerslave"- Iron Maiden My music tastes are all over the place, which is the way it should be.
I remember buying my first album. After mowing a couple of lawns I went to our old neighborhood grocery store and bought Damn the Torpedoes. And just like the record said my friends and I would smoke on the roof. But they weren’t cigarettes.
1977 Christmas I got Alive I, II, Love Gun and The Star wars soundtrack! As soon as I saved my allowance up, I went and bought Destroyer and Rock N Roll Over. Used to take them to my daycare so I could play them on their turntable during free time! I loved all of the temp tattoos that came with the Kiss albums.
I killed a lot of brain cells but I'll never forget I borrowed my older brothers KISS Alive record every day. My Mom let me get a KISS lunchbox for 1st grade and I talked her into letting me buy Destroyer with my allowance...so that was 1.
Starz. Awesome. Love them. Great shirt. Great episode. I’m gonna be 58/ brings back tremendous memories. I’m old. Lol. First things I was buying was 8 tracks. Thx PETE
I brought Dark Side of the Moon on 8-track. And carried a small 8-track player (small boombox) with a small case of 8-tracks. Wonderful technology back in the 70's.
Great channel mate really loving vids your knowledge and joy of the music really shines through many many thanks for bringing us music buffs so much fun as we are trying to get past this awful virus.
First 15 Albums REO Speedwagon: Hi Infidelity Led Zeppelin IV Van Halen Pink Floyd: The Wall Star Wars: Soundtrack Rocky: Soundtrack Rick Springfield: Working Class Dog Rush: Moving Pictures Kansas: Left Overture The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta Jethro Tull: Aqualung AC/DC: For Those About to Rock Bad Company The Who: Face Dances Southern Fried Rock
My first albums (cassettes) bought by my brother or by me are these: Metallica - Black Album Aerosmith - Nine Lives AC DC - Highway to Hell Manowar - Louder Than Hell Helloween - The Time of The Oath Raven - Live Iron Maiden - Best of the Beast GNR - Lies Kiss - Greatest Kiss Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
On February 9 1964, I along with millions of people watched The Beatles debut in America on the Ed Sullivan show. As a 7 year old boy, I was blown away. At that time I had only heard music on my parents car radio, AM of course. The following weekend my dad took me to shopping where he bought me Meet The Beatles. My first record album, which started my listening to rock music that I still love today.
My first 4 albums that parents bought me were The Monkees when I was 6 and 7.My first albums that I bought, in approximate, but not exact order. Schools Out - Alice Cooper Led Zeppelin IV Made in Japan - Deep Purple Paranoid - Black Sabbath Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin We're An American Band - Grand Funk Who Do We Think We Are - Purple Black Sabbath - Self titled Raunch 'N' Roll - Black Oak Arkansas Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies I started getting these in 1972 and 1973 as these were all current releases, except the Sabbath debut. I learned from some older people what was good.
Just like to say if you are Bruce Franklin from the band Trouble, thankyou for probably one of the best albums I own 'Trouble' self titled. Your guitar sound is incredible, your solo's have so much emotion, your string bends and choice of notes are songs in themselves. There will never be another album that will have that effect on me, every Metal fan should own a copy....it is an absolute masterpiece of song writing...Dark, sad, angry riffs and solo's played like your life depended on it. Thankyou sir!
I was 12 when I started in 1970. Here are my first 20 albums.................it took all my pocket money for the first 2 years collecting. These are in order of purchase. 1. T. Rex - Electric Warrior 2. Savoy Brown - Looking In 3. Budgie - Budgie 4. Jo Jo Gunne - Jo Jo Gunne (Jay Ferguson) 5. Doors - Full Circle (2nd Album after Morrison's Passing) 6. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres 7. Yes - Close to the Edge 8. Pink Floyd - Meddle 9. Jethro Tull - Aqualung 10. Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs 11. Spectrum - Milesago 12. Pretty Things - S. F. Sorrow 13. Deep Purple - Machine Head 14. Led Zeppelin - III 15. Pete Townsend - Who Came First 16. Cactus - Ot' n Sweaty 17. Muddy Waters - Electric Mud 18. Todd Rundgren - Wizard / A True Star 19. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Glorified Magnified 20. Lightning Hopkins - Dirty Blues After selling my record collection in the 80's I started purchsing cd's when they first started making them. All the albums above I now have in remastered cd version. Music keeps us all alive..............
The first albums I bought (at the same time) were Billion Dollar Babies and Uriah Heap Live. The next week I immediate bought Killer and Love it to Death.
I was 7 years old and fell in love with rock and roll with Aerosmith's "Pump" album in 1990. Dad eventually explained to me that Aerosmith is a old band and played "get your wings" for me and it became my favorite album.
Absolutely love the Pump album. Saw them twice on that tour in the USA and Belfast Northern Ireland. The Other Side just my favourite, Voodoo Medicine Man and Janie...
The Cars first album was the first LP I ever bought (notice I typed "LP" there). I had been gifted a couple before that: Mr Spock's Music From Outer Space and Top of the Pops #? (a series of albums featuring cover versions of currentish hits). _The Cars_ , however, what a fantastic LP to start one's music collection with; ace album.
Hi Pete, just to say how much I enjoy your posts and I love your passion. Agree with you 80% of the time too. Kind of moved away from the rock world in my 20s but your channel brings back so many great memories of record buying, great gigs (Saw Queen, AC DC, Rory Gallagher and Thin Lizzy by the time I was 14). Take care to you friends and family in this difficult time and will keep watching
Alice Cooper "Killer" and "Love It To Death", Kiss "Alive", America "America", Rolling Stones "Green Grass & High Tides", Grand Funk Railroad "Live", Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon", Nazareth "Hair of the Dog", Thin Lizzy "Jail Break", Ted Nugent "Ted Nugent"
Remember hearing Techical Ecstacy in 1978 went out and got it right away,then Status Quo, blue for you and then Yes,going for the one,new music was such a big thing back then,good times
Loved this video idea pete. I haven’t even watched it yet and wanted to comment. The first albums I actually purchased were from Columbia house records. You know buy 6 for a penny😀. If memory serves they were mostly greatest hits packages. Elton John. BTO. Boston’s first album. Foghat live . Probably circa 1978 or thereabouts.
Destroyer was my first purchase as well, bought it the first day it came out. Followed by Alive, self titled, hotter than hell and dresses to kill, the Aerosmith toys in the attic and rocks. Besides comic books and baseball cards I bought plenty of Wacky Packages.
Same story with me Pete. Huge comic and card collector but then I got into music in a serious way around age 12 and have never looked back. I'm at a little over 4000 albums/ CD's and counting at this point. Really enjoy your channel! You do a top notch job my friend.
Here are a few of my first albums I got (I was 7 yrs old). 1. Led Zeppelin II 2. Grand Funk Railroad Red Album 3. Iron Butterfly-In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 4. CCR-Cosmo's Factory 5. Tommy Roe-12 In a Roe(yes I liked this too)
First five LPs I was exposed to because my parents owned them: 1. Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack 2. Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm the Piano Player 3. Neil Diamond - Stones 4. Elton John - Honky Chateau 5. Jim Croce - Photographs and Memories First 10 albums I bought myself: 1. Barry Manilow Live (LOL!) 2. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack 3. Grease Soundtrack 4. Kiss - Destroyer 5. Steve Miller Band - Book of Dreams 6. Foreigner - Double Vision 7. Styx - Grand Illusion 8. Paul McCartney & Wings - Greatest Hits 9. Queen - News of the World 10. Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell (purely for the album cover!)
Others soon after: Bob Seger - Against the Wind Cheap Trick - Budakon ZZ Top - Duegella Journey - Evolution Linda Ronstadt - Back in the USA Rod Stewart - Foot Loose & Fancy Free Stones - Some Girls Supertramp - Breakfast in America The Cars Debut Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes Van Halen 1 Eagles Greatest Hits I also bought a lot of K-Tel albums!
interesting to see the progression of our music listening habits-yours is similar to mine, as our taste gets better and better.....Barry Manilow plays live-I thought his music was strictly in elevators and grocery stores?!?! Ha Ha P.S. Jeff-I just bought Neil Diamond's Stones a few months ago! Love that voice and a big fan!
@@treffbennett6534 I came much later to Neil Diamond and like many I thought he was just the big hits that didn't really do it for me. Stones is a great album for anyone who wants to check out the real Neil Diamond.
My first album I bought was the black album by Metallica, second one was 1984 by Van Halen. But the first album I ever owned, was Darryl Hall and John Oates greatest hits.
Started my collection with: 1. BTO - Not Fragile 2. Alice Cooper - School's Out 3. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic 4. KISS - Alive 5. KISS - Destroyer 6. McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run 7. Kansas - Leftoverture 8. Yes - The Yes Album 9. Styx - The Grand Illusion 10. The Doobie Brothers - Best Of
Hello Pete , great video . We grew up on the same music , my first LPs were more or less the same . I had older brothers with all different tastes so I had access to a mass of music from Buddy Holly , Johnny Cash to The Stones , The Beatles and Zeppelin to Black Sabbath . All played on an old LP player with crappy speakers . The good old days . There was something special about Record shops back then , had a great vibe and the smell of the records. There's nothing like a record shop with Lynyrd Skynyrd playing , you look around and everyone is rocking out to the part in Freebird that just has to be rocked out to lol . Great memories 🍺🥃🤘👍
Pete: We are the same age and have similar musical interests. My first favorite band was also Kiss. I really did not listen to music until 5th grade when I moved from California to Kentucky and a lot of the kids in my class were into Kiss. I wanted to fit in, so I started listening to them. But the first album that I bought was Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo! I had a bunch of friends who bought albums and we would record them on tape and share them with each other. We did not have a lot of money, so this was the cheapest way to get new music. I did end up buying all of the early Kiss albums and Kiss Alive is still their best record. Like you, I still gravitate toward live music. My attitude is if a band or artist does not sound good live, they are not worth my time and money.
Hi Pete...Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your show....your collection reminds me of mine..but I also have a TON of 8 tracks too!!! I grew up in the late 60s and 70s. We grew up in the best possible time for music...I'm 63 so youre younger than me but youre very knowledgable about all we grew up with. I lost my wife of 32 years 4 years ago this year. As for myself Ive had rheumatoid arthritis for the past 20 years and it and neurothapy cause me to lose my left leg last November. Im in a wheelchair now so I spend alot of time at the computer. Just wanted to let you know I enjoy your show very much so keep up the great work man!!! Much success!!! Bob Peace!!!
My first 10 albums I owned/acquired: 1. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon and Garfunkel 2. "Live in Las Vegas" - Tom Jones 3. "ABC" - Jackson Five 4. "Woodstock" - Original Soundtrack 5. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John 6. "Little Queen" - Heart 7. "Hotel California" - The Eagles 8. "Straight Shooter" - Bad Company 9. "Double Vision" - Foreigner 10. "Back to the Egg" - Paul McCartney and Wings
My school pal had a giant poster of David Bowie dressed as Ziggy Stardust with the lightening flash on his face up on his bedroom wall. When his parents were doing Christmas shopping they saw the Kiss Destroyer album and thought they looked as weird as Bowie and bought it for him. That's how we discovered Kiss.
The first 3 albums i bought with my money were "Get the knack" by The Knack (i was a big fan of "My Sharona"), "The game" by Queen (for the hits at first) and "London Calling" by The Clash (the title track blews me away). Still got them on vinyl and still love them!
Hello Pete, my ten first albums are the following: 1. Deep Purple In Rock 2. Deep Purple Fireball 3. Black Sabbath Paranoid 4. U.F.O. 2 Flying 5. Grand Funk Live Album 6. Frumpy 2 7.George Harrison All Things Must Pass 8.Deep Purple Machine Head 9.U.F.O. live 10. Ten Years After Recorded Live I am now 62 and begin to collect music as above in 1971. Now I have hundreds of CD's and there is not only rock-music, also now electronic music, jazz and a little bit classic. Your ranking shows are always interesting to me and I like them. greetings from germany H.U.
I had a ton of 45's as a kid, but my first two album purchases were Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (US version) and Bachman Turner Overdrive - BTO II. Still have them to this day!
The first album I remember owning was K-Tel 22 explosive hits. I was well under 10 and looking back it did have April Wine on it. Then it was probably a couple of forty-fives from the Monkees. Like many of you I was in a little bit of a daze in the 70s so I don't remember the exact order but here are some early ones that I had: KISS Alive Ted Nugent double live Gonzo Jethro Tull. Heavy Horses Styx Pieces of Eight Heart Dreamboat Annie Journey Evolution Take care of everybody and stay healthy
I love this video the best. Here are the first 11 pieces of music I owned to best of my memory; 1). “Purple Passages” by Deep Purple, 1973, 2). “Full House Live”- J.Geils Band, 3). “Billion Dollars Babies”- Alice Cooper, 4). “Closer To The Edge”- YES, 5). “Machine Head” - Deep Purple, 5). “Led Zeppelin IV”- LED Zeppelin, 6).”Bloodshot”- J.Geils Band, 7). “Ladies Invited”- J. Geils Band, 8). “Yes Album”- Yes, 9). “Nightmares...and Other Tales From The Vinyl Jungle”- J. Geils Band, 10). “Fragile”- Yes. 11). Fandango”- Z.Z. Top, 1975, This is to the best of my 63 year-old memory.
Mom gave me some money to go get my hair cut. I came back home with the Grand Funk red album...and long hair. "Go to your room!" OK, that's where my turntable is.
Great vid Pete! 59 years young here... first albums I got were The Partridge Family, KISS Alive, and RUSH Fly By Night! I never looked back either. I now probably have 5,500 albums and about 3,300 CD's, across many genres. But those 3 bands, AM radio, and my father cranking Greek bouzouki music, Sinatra, and movie soundtracks on his old tubed FISHER receiver housed in a large, cheesy wooden console (the size of a small boat), I credit getting me into music! Cheers!
Majewski79 the most memorable album I bought was Van Halen fair warning on cassette. Looked at that cover the whole time I was listening to the songs. Matched the dark tone of the album well.
Pete as you said the album cover could lead to the purchase of an album. My first 2 gets were prime examples. Queen-News of the World ELO-Out of the Blue I don't listen to the Queen album much at all anymore, but I definitely listen to the ELO one still to this day. Thankfully I was able to see Jeff Lynn's ELO concert last summer. Great show!
Im 50 so my journey started a few years later than yours Pete, some older teens moved into my neighborhood in '78 and got me into all this stuff and i started buying tons of stuff in '80 and beyond, mostly Led and Rush but also many of the other hard hitters at the time. Before '80 i just knew all the stuff on radio like disco and whatever but my parents had a lot of great albums so i fooled around with those here and there, mostly into ELO back then. But I'm also pretty certain that the first album I ever bought with my own money was Rush's A Farewell to Kings, or maybe Led Zep 4.
started in 1968 1. Monkees - Headquarters 2. CCR - Green River 3: Beatles - Abbey Road 4. Led Zeppelin 1 5. Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. 6. Beatles - Hey Jude 7. Paul McCartney - McCartney 8. CCR - Willy and the Poor Boys 9. CCR - Cosmos Factory 10. Beatles - Let It Be
You're folks loved you Pete....even if they didn't like your music... I can relate. Take care and stay safe..Thanks for all you do and the passion of music you share...
Hey Pete, I'm Nick from Chicago, and I just wanted to say that it's so cool because I grew up with a lot of the same stuff you did! I'm still a huge KISS fan, but all the other stuff too! I'm 55 so we're basically the same age so that's pretty awesome!
Kiss Destroyer, Queen News of the World, Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo, Bob Seger Live Bullet, Black Sabbath Paranoid & Master of Reality, and a bunch of K-tel albums
The first record I ever bought was Roger Hodgson - In The Eye Of The Storm. A weird yugoslavian press no less. Second was Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Love Beach. Erm... Don't judge me, I was a big fan of ELP, and it was the only one they had in stock.
You never forget your first. My very first album was Aerosmith - Toys in The Attic. My first stereo was a combo. Turntable/Tuner/8-track tape. Some of the early albums were BOC Spectres. Pink Floyd Animals. Everyone was releasing live albums. Rush - All The World's a Stage. Etc
once again thanks for SOT , although i don't have the same musical taste your passion and knowledge is greatly appreciated from this music nerd! i am ten years older than you so my first purchases were most like 45 rpm's . i don't know what was first etc but i am sure it was a lot of British Invasion and Motown along with bands like the Monkees , the grass roots , etc. and i still have many of those 45's along with some of the first albums i bought. i do have a nice memory of walking to a record store in philly with my sister with some money to buy records and i was so excited when the monkees songs we wanted were both on the same record! this meant we could buy another 45 and i am pretty sure we got something by the supremes. again thanks for the channel pete. really enjoy your analysis of the music you hold dear.
1) Brain Salad Surgery: Emerson, Lake and Palmer 2) Who's Next : The Who 3) Live at Leeds : The Who 4) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: Black Sabbath 5) Paranoid: Black Sabbath 5) Led Zeppelin II: Led Zeppelin 6) Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits: Alice Cooper 7) Quadrophenia: The Who 8) Master of Reality: Black Sabbath 9) Kiss Alive: Kiss 10) The Hoople: Mott the Hoople --- can't stop : don't ask me to stop -- 11) Physical Graffiti: Led Zeppelin 12) Made in Japan: Deep Purple 13) Muscle of Love: Alice Cooper 14) Sladest: Slade 15) Energized: Foghat 16) Tommy : The Who 17) Mark, Don and Mel: Grand Funk Railroad 18) Tarkus: Emerson, Lake and Palmer 19) Led Zeppelin IV: Led Zeppelin 20) Kimono My House: Sparks 21) The Slider: T.Rex 22) Desolation Boulevard: The Sweet 23) Live : Uriah Heep 24) M.U. : The Best of Tull: Jethro Tull 25) All the World's a Stage: Rush 26) Rainbow Rising : Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 27) Sheer Heart Attack : Queen
Oh heck yes. Those first 10 albums! We were so into the music because there was and still is so much great stuff. Why not is right Pete. TY for this channel. 🤟✌️
I will argue to this day that "Bat Out of Hell" is the greatest rock and roll album every recorded. The first album I ever bought with my own money was "Grand Illusion" by Styx.
I can't nail down my first 10,but my first 3 ( for sure ) were: Deep Purple's Machine Head,In Rock and the mighty Made in Japan. I grew up in Newfoundland,so albums by Canadian bands April Wine & The Stampeders were likely among the first 10 LPs I ever got. ( The Stampeders was my first concert in 1976 )
I ligit grew up with KISS, my whole car rides home I’d be listening to sonic boom or whatever album my dad had on of them because he has been a mega fan of them since 1975. Flashing forward to 2019 and I’m on a trip to Washington DC and I wanted to listen to a KISS record since I Hadn’t listened to them since I was little. I put on rock and Roll over and I was HOOKED. Peter grooving drums beats and raspy voice, Paul’s one of a kind vocals, Genes growling vocals and sick bass lines, aces screaming solos. And a few weeks after that I watched the Tom Snyder interview and got to know what the band really was trying to capture and who they were. And now I’m the KISS mega fan, Ik the deepest tracks, the songs on each album, and can’t stop listening to them. Now 2020 I became a 14 year old guitar player listening to KISS, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Dio, Sabbath...It’s crazy what rock n roll can do.
In 1976, my brother bought home the cover of an album and another album. The actual album with the record was the first Boston album. I loved it! It was all over the radio! I was 8 years old and my mind was totally blown! I became a musician right then and there! The COVER of an album (with no records inside) that he brought home was KISS Alive. I couldn't believe what I was seeing on that cover! My first girlfriend had Destroyer and we listened to it in her room one time. It was just awesome music! We were kids who just fell for KISS! Great memories! In 1977, I did odd jobs and got some cash. I bought Rock And Roll Over. I still have that record album!
Love your videos! I’m the youngest of four boys and I’m 56. My oldest is nine years older than me. He has a collection that rivals yours. I got my fill of all that music at a very young age and have never looked back. Awesome stuff, so many good memories.
I’m a lot younger than probably most people here, and I only started liking music in 2016. So I bought my first CD and my first LP in 2017. My mom took me to Barnes and Noble to look for books and I ended up finding their music section. I had just found bands other than Rush at that time; bands like Yes, Van Halen, AC/DC... And Yes was probably my favorite band at that point. I was kind of disappointed to find that they didn’t have any Yes records on vinyl, but I went over to the CDs and immediately found Close to the Edge and just held onto that, praying that my mom would be fine with buying a CD instead of a book. So I went over to the vinyl section again just to see if I could find anything good. Found ‘Hell Bent for Leather’ by Judas Priest and AC/DC’s ‘Highway to Hell.’ I didn’t bring my own money back then, so I had to hope my mom was okay with paying for stuff she wasn’t even there to buy. Eventually my mom came over and I’m pretty sure she was okay with getting the CD because it was cheaper, but didn’t want to spend the money on the slightly pricier vinyl. After a while I convinced her to buy the albums so long as I payed her back when we got home. Played ‘Close to the Edge’ in the car on the way home and ‘Highway to Hell’ when we got back. That was a great day.
It was always a great feeling back then walking into a record store and buying a record.
Sometimes just to spend an hour or so and thumb through the perfectly alphabetically listed vinyls, whilst listening to the album playing in the store. Then taking an album up to the counter that you want to buy, but wanted to hear a few tracks first... Great times, fab memories...
Vary true miss those days
It was a communal experience back in the Sixties and Seventies!
There are still record stores that are doing pretty good business. I enjoy shopping at Amoeba in Hollywood, CA Canterbury Records in Pasadena, Freakbeat in Sherman Oaks and CD Trader in Tarzana!
@@raulmacias1311 not much in St Louis MO. One big one
yes I loved record stores 20/25 years ago. Now the stores in my area are full of nothing but reissues.
The best part about “albums” back then was that you would look at the album cover and infold while you were listening to the songs, and read the lyrics and admire the cover art. They used to put so much effort into album art and packaging back then.
And double albums you could open up and spread your weed on the inside and the seeds would fall to the center.
You´re so right, I kind of miss that. Sitting in front of our Tandberg Vinyl player
going through that ritual...Listening, studying the artwork, reading lyrics, reading who the bandmembers thanked... Something people of the internet can never relate to... Sad in a way. Music doesn´t seem to have the same kind of value today... Good Times...
Really, n all the cool booklets, posters, n even just like the art itself that was sometimes incorporated into the vinyl packaging was excellent. Many of the coolest were done by Hypnosis, 'Dark Side of the Moon', UFO 'Strangers in the Night', Zeppelin 'Physical Graffiti'. I'm not sure who did E.J.'s 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' but I remember by the lyrics were some cool drawings representative of each song. I liked to read liner notes and that kinda stuff could help to make those albums a kinda unique experience...
Brian, I agree 100%
Actually I still listen to music like this
I still use vinyl occasionally by the way
Greetings from Austria, my friend
@@djfrank68 Till I switched to grandma's flour sifter! I have one that's never seen flour!
The first LP I ever bought was Rush - Hemispheres. I was 19 at the time. That was four months ago.
Better late than never I guess.
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You're starting off on the right foot. Love that album! Good Job!!
It's a great album !
TKWeckroth look for the original red vinyl Canadian release
good start..
Kiss "Alive" was my first purchase. Saved my money and bought the vinyl. Still have it.
Seeing that album cover, the very best cover of all time, there was no way I WASN'T going to buy it! Still one of the ultimate party starter albums ever produced.....talk about studio songs absolutely coming to life on a live album-VOLCANIC ENERGY-ACE STILL RULES!
Me too. I was mocked for it. It was 79 i think that I made the transition from model planes and stuff to heavy rock. My friends were into heavy rock too, but they thought kiss were poofters. When dynasty became popular I copped a lot of shit from the wider school community. I didn’t care much.
walking through Bradlees as an 11 yr old kid, spotted Kiss Alive and asked my dad to buy it for me...changed everything
This is a good one. Hard to remember back that far but here goes. Not in specific order
1. Kiss-Love Gun
2. Kiss-Hotter Than Hell
3. Styx-The Grand Illusion
4. Alice Cooper-Welcome To My Nightmare
5. Electric Light Orchestra-Out Of The Blue
6. Devo-Freedom Of Choice
7. Electric Light Orchestra-On The Third Day
8. Kiss-Ace Frehley Solo
9. Styx-Pieces Of Eight
10. Queen-News Of The World
All of those are great choices but I don’t know about Devo LOL I’ll let you slide on that one
Devo rules! Great hooks and energy-just plain fun to crank up!
@@treff9226 yes they do. Love Devo, One of the greatest bands ever
I bought Rainbow-On Stage because it was a cool album cover, didn't know anything about Rainbow otherwise. And the album didn't dissapoint!!!
Same here, bought my first album based on the album cover. Armageddon self titled 1975.
And me... Different album though. I was mesmerised by the amazing cover of Rising. What a brilliant selection of tracks.
The first album I ever bought from a record store was The Doors debut album
Loved that album. Played the vinyl till I wore it out. My friend had the cassette and we'd be driving around New York in the early eighties playing it into the night: Soul Kitchen, Crystal Ship, Twentieth Century Fox, Whiskey Bar...all underrated 3 min songs.
So, it's mid-July 1971 and I'm the youngest of six kids and the only boy and were riding up the Coast from Crescent City, CA to Brookings, OR on vacation in the middle of a storm in a mint-green, Dodge Station Wagon and "Riders on the Storm" is playing on the radio and I hear a loud thud and my Dad swerves the car and we go spinning on the wet pavement! All the girls and my Mom are screaming and my Dad manages to get the wagon under control. It turns out, we were behind a flat-bed with those huge wooden spindles they carry thick, electrical wires and one of them got loose and came barreling down the road at us. Luckily, those wagons were built like tanks and there was minimal damage but, Holy Crap!! What a way to remember a song!!! I love The Doors and I am glad I got to hear there stuff when they were still a band!
My first 10:
1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
2. Don't Shoot Me - Elton John
3. Honky Chateau - Elton John
4. Grand Funk - Live Album
5. Madman Across The Water - Elton John
6. 11-17-70 - Elton John
7. Band on the Run - Wings
8. Caribou - Elton John
9. The Who By Numbers - The Who
10. Eagles - Greatest Hits
I think that "Jump Up!" (1982) and "Made in England" (1995) are a couple of under-the-radar efforts from EJ,
My sister owned Don't shoot Me and Caribou, and this rocker played them to death! I was learning bass guitar at the time, and Dee Murray kicked ass!
Wow. You remember your first 10 albums? You have an outstanding memory. I can barely remember what I had to eat yesterday.
I’m guessing you’re an Elton John fan
Caribou was my favorite. I bought it the minute it came out! Good choice Andy!
Pete my first 10 albums i bought;
1.Bobby Fuller 4 "I fought the Law"
2.Herman's Hermit s/t
Then i woke up!
3.Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour"
4.Yes "Close to the Edge"
5.Three Dog Night "Greatest Hits
6.Black Sabbath "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
7.Deep Purple "Machine Head
8.Jimi Hendrix Experience " Are you experienced"
9. Kiss "Alive"
10. Led Zeppelin 4
Keith-I just purchased Bobby Fuller greatest hits a few weeks ago-good, good stuff! Three Dog Night are no joke- a lot of hooky, solid material (greatest hits is essential) and their magic is the superb vocals! The rest of your list shows you MEAN FOOKIN' BUSINESS!!! Cheers!
keith - you got on a nice roll with; sabbath, purple, hendrix and zeppelin!
@@treffbennett6534 Thank you Treff and still collecting all these years.
not sure but probably
1. CCR - Cosmos Factory
2. The Hollies- Distant Light
3. 3 Dog Night - Suitable for Framing
4. The Best of the Guess Who
5. Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
6. Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality
7. James Taylor - Mudslide Slim
8. Eagles
9. Grand Funk Live
10. Rush - Fly by Night
edit: I just was skimming albums today and realized Sicky Fingers was probably in there somewhere
xomthood damn that’s a great list !!’
You’re Canadian too eh?
xomthood that’s a damn great list, you got clsss🍀
XO Mt. Hood: That Hollies album is fantastic. Hadn't thought of it in years. And I usually don't site Best Ofs, but that Guess Who best of is an exception. It was a stand-alone play worth hearing. The closest comparison I can think of is ChangesOneBowie. Another stand-alone gem I probably wore out five vinyl copies of over the years.
By the way, as a Pacific Northwesterner, let me just say Mt. Hood is a beautiful place.
Jeez, are we the same age? Almost to a tee. With the exception of number six mine would be Alice Cooper's Killer. And for number 10 it would have been Firesign Theaters "How Can You Be in Two Places at All When You are Not Anywhere at All". Number 11 is Santana's Abraxas, Number 12 as honorable mention would be Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Will the Circle be Unbroken"
First two album cassettes I bought together.
KISS-ALIVE!
Led Zeppelin-Presence...
Which reminds me, how about a show of songs you've never ever gotten tired of. One song that I have never gotten tired of is Led Zeppelin's Achilles Last Stand. When I heard the live version from their last show at Knebworth '79, made me love it even more. Absolutely awesome song.👍
Frampton Comes Alive was a 1976 purchase for me, still one of my favorite albums.
Damn, this is a fantastic idea. I'll see if I can think that far back I'll try.
1. Alice Cooper - Love It To Death
2. Grand Funk - Survival
3. Humble Pie - Rockin The Fillmore
4. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
5. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
6. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
7. Cream - Disreali Gears
8. Alice Cooper - Killer
9. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
10. Blind Faith - self titled
I'm not 100% sure these are in exactly the right order but these are definitely the first 10 I paid for with my own money. Before buying Love It To Death I just bought 45s so I had a good selection of those, lot of Beatles & Stones, and I had a couple gifted to me as well. I remember getting a Byrds album, didn't even have a cover, Led Zeppelin II, Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers". I think that's about it. I hope I didn't miss any.
Can I ask why Ummagumma was your first Pink Floyd album?
@@TheMclesc UMMAGUMMA!!!
all the rest, right up there, great list!
FYI. Loved it. Tremendous stories / you gave on each album. Fun times
Thanks Pete for adding Tom & Pat from The Doobie Brothers to the list . Brilliant guitar players and adding Jeff Baxter and John McFee to add even more of a rocking sound to their albums .
What a nice way to get started as a music fan. It´s a classic situation: the older kid approach to you, and show you some cool stuff, too heavy for you and outside of your childish world and you kinda felt like it´s a step in a new exciting, strange, and maybe dangerous land.
Love Gun from Kiss was my first album. My mom was furniture shopping and they had a small record section in the stereo department. Stereos were often giant wooden pieces of furniture back then. I was about 8 at the time and my mom bought it for me to shut me up. My mom was one cool lady.
Hmmm gee need to really think about this one. Ok I remember now:
1 - Kiss - Unmasked
2 - Slade - Sladest
3 - Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
4 - Kiss - Best of the solo albums
5 - Kiss - Dynasty
6 - Billy Joel - 52nd Street
7 - Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
8 - Van Halen - 1984
9 - Led Zeppelin IV
10 - Queen - Greatest Hits
I'm giving you a thumbs up because you wrote "42nd Street". 42nd Street was awesome back in the day!
One word, COOL🍀
Actually (not trying to sound condescending), it's 52nd Street. I love that album.
SLADE!!!!
In 1971, I was 15 and everyone I knew and myself included bought Sticky Fingers and Aqualung together. As a kid I bought Stones, Beach Boys ( until 1967) and Beatles mostly.
My first album was Pat Benatar - ‘Crimes of Passion’. The cover had quite a lot to do with that decision. 😍
If memory serves me correctly: first lp i bought: KISS--Love Gun
Interesting Pete, just like me in the 70s I would often purchase a live recording before the back catalogue. The first live album I bought was Made in Japan...not a bad start! My first studio albums were Billion Dollar Babies, the The Yes Album and Led Zeppelin II. The main influence apart from family and friends was listening to the Saturday Rockshow on BBC Radio 1 hosted by Alan Freeman... I remember him saying that heavy rock music in the 70s had hit a zenith...and there was only one way to go...backwards...and he was right...punk rock!
Suzie.q Popcorn123 My parents were worried about me playing anything by Alice...I was only 13 when Billion Dollar Babies was released...and it was quite a scary album...but with Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter playing guitar on it...the outdo solo on Generation Landslide is right up there with the best. Still at least my folks loved Skynyrd’s “ Freebird “...so I forgive them!
@Suzie.q Popcorn123 my first 45 was No More Mr. Nice Guy.
Yep, live albums for me, it was the way to start
First albums I bought with my own money (not in order)...
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Desolation Blvd. - Sweet
Eldorado - ELO
S/T - Queen
Alive - KISS
S/T - Fleetwood Mac
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Destroyer - KISS
A Night At The Opera - Queen
When I was 13, I caught the YES bug, in a huge way. I used to save my allowance & go to Woolworths at the Moorestown Mall (NJ). They had their whole discography on cassettes for $5. each. My 1st purchase was The Yes Album, I had to have Yours Is No Disgrace !! Then, I went back when ever I had 5 bucks & went back to YES, Time & A Word and in release order. I had to know all Bill Bruford's parts, I was fascinated by that man. Never loved Alan White nearly as much, but still a great drummer....
These were not my 1st purchases, but my most memorable experiences buying music....
Moorestown Mall?? I remember they had a stream flowing through the mall with birds flying around. That was back in the late 60's early 70's when they had a Pathmark Supermarket right by the movie theater
Can’t remember what my first 10 albums were that I bought myself but it started in ‘79 with Kiss, Ted Nugent, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath etc...
79 was such a great year! Narita by Riot, Van Halen II, Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming, Highway To Hell, Strikes by Blackfoot, what a kickass year!
I'm 5 years younger. My first albums were on cassette. Listened on a Walkman.
1. Men at Work - Business as Usual
2. Van Halen - Diver Down
3. The Cars - Heartbeat City
4. J. Giles - Freeze Frame
5. Eagles - Eagles Live
Loved my Walkman. Best birthday present just about ever.
Freeze Frame is underrated. Rage In The Cage is my favorite Geils track.
My first record was also Business as usual
My memory that far back is a little hazy, but I think it goes -
1. Black Sabbath - Masters Of Reality
2. Steppenwolf - Monster
3. Humble Pie - Rocking The Fillmore (a life changer!)
4. Jethro Tull - Stand Up
5. Yes - Close To The Edge
6. Yes - Fragile (which I remember buying one day after hearing CTTE. I was stunned by this band as a kid!)
Who knows after that? Maybe Machine Head ...
Great Show! I had a lot of influence from an older brother and a cousin with a massive LP collection full of Sabbath, Zeppelin, Tull, Purple...you know, the good stuff. There was a 10 and 12 year difference between me and them, so I was hearing this stuff at a pretty young age. I didn't have to start buying albums until my brother moved out and took most of the music (except the 8 tracks) with him. I'm not certain what order they were purchased except the first two.
1. "Fragile"- Yes (Mom didn't want me buying it, but I argued that "Rick has Yes!" (Close To The Edge)
2. "Pieces Of Eight"- Styx (Bought it on a church youth trip to Houston, so Mom wasn't there to tell me no.)
3. "The Game"- Queen
4. "Freeze Frame"- J. Geils Band
5. "Diver Down"- Van Halen 4, 5, and 6 all bought at the same time.
6. "The Broadsword and the Beast"- Jethro Tull
(The memory gets murky from here on out}
7. "Hell Bent For Leather"- Judas Priest
8. "Tooth and Nail"- Dokken
9. "Perfect Strangers"- Deep Purple
10. "Powerslave"- Iron Maiden
My music tastes are all over the place, which is the way it should be.
I remember buying my first album. After mowing a couple of lawns I went to our old neighborhood grocery store and bought Damn the Torpedoes. And just like the record said my friends and I would smoke on the roof. But they weren’t cigarettes.
"You never forget your first"...KISS ALIVE was my first as well. A Great album cover--all 4 sides of it.
1977 Christmas I got Alive I, II, Love Gun and The Star wars soundtrack! As soon as I saved my allowance up, I went and bought Destroyer and Rock N Roll Over. Used to take them to my daycare so I could play them on their turntable during free time! I loved all of the temp tattoos that came with the Kiss albums.
Don't know why but some of the best albums ever made came out between 75 to 80. Wish I was alive then to live it.
I killed a lot of brain cells but I'll never forget I borrowed my older brothers KISS Alive record every day. My Mom let me get a KISS lunchbox for 1st grade and I talked her into letting me buy Destroyer with my allowance...so that was 1.
Starz. Awesome. Love them. Great shirt. Great episode. I’m gonna be 58/ brings back tremendous memories. I’m old. Lol. First things I was buying was 8 tracks. Thx PETE
I brought Dark Side of the Moon on 8-track. And carried a small 8-track player (small boombox) with a small case of 8-tracks.
Wonderful technology back in the 70's.
Starz great band still great
Great channel mate really loving vids your knowledge and joy of the music really shines through many many thanks for bringing us music buffs so much fun as we are trying to get past this awful virus.
My first album was ZZ Top Tres Hombres. Being from Texas these guys were rock gods to us. Still one of my favorite albums of all time.
First 15 Albums
REO Speedwagon: Hi Infidelity
Led Zeppelin IV
Van Halen
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Star Wars: Soundtrack
Rocky: Soundtrack
Rick Springfield: Working Class Dog
Rush: Moving Pictures
Kansas: Left Overture
The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
Jethro Tull: Aqualung
AC/DC: For Those About to Rock
Bad Company
The Who: Face Dances
Southern Fried Rock
Rick Springfield really. I had that album too but I would never admit it.Oh shit I just did.
Damn, there hope for this world,you guys got good tunes🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
My first albums (cassettes) bought by my brother or by me are these:
Metallica - Black Album
Aerosmith - Nine Lives
AC DC - Highway to Hell
Manowar - Louder Than Hell
Helloween - The Time of The Oath
Raven - Live
Iron Maiden - Best of the Beast
GNR - Lies
Kiss - Greatest Kiss
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Raven! Rock Until You Drop-my friend!
Roberto Sada Gutiérrez where you guys come up with all this good stuff? Very good🍀🍀
I bought Life's a Bitch after reading about Raven in one of the rock mags when I was a kid. Still a great Album.
The first two Raven albums are up there with the best!!!
On February 9 1964, I along with millions of people watched The Beatles debut in America on the Ed Sullivan show. As a 7 year old boy, I was blown away. At that time I had only heard music on my parents car radio, AM of course. The following weekend my dad took me to shopping where he bought me Meet The Beatles. My first record album, which started my listening to rock music that I still love today.
Thank you for your first Top Ten albums/CD's. I love your Starz shirt! Life is better with music!! Take Care.🎤🎸🎵🥁
My first 4 albums that parents bought me were The Monkees when I was 6 and 7.My first albums that I bought, in approximate, but not exact order.
Schools Out - Alice Cooper
Led Zeppelin IV
Made in Japan - Deep Purple
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
We're An American Band - Grand Funk
Who Do We Think We Are - Purple
Black Sabbath - Self titled
Raunch 'N' Roll - Black Oak Arkansas
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
I started getting these in 1972 and 1973 as these were all current releases, except the Sabbath debut. I learned from some older people what was good.
Just like to say if you are Bruce Franklin from the band Trouble, thankyou for probably one of the best albums I own 'Trouble' self titled. Your guitar sound is incredible, your solo's have so much emotion, your string bends and choice of notes are songs in themselves. There will never be another album that will have that effect on me, every Metal fan should own a copy....it is an absolute masterpiece of song writing...Dark, sad, angry riffs and solo's played like your life depended on it. Thankyou sir!
@@centaurus5676 Wow! Thanks very much,I appreciate that.
I was 12 when I started in 1970. Here are my first 20 albums.................it took all my pocket money for the first 2 years collecting. These are in order of purchase.
1. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
2. Savoy Brown - Looking In
3. Budgie - Budgie
4. Jo Jo Gunne - Jo Jo Gunne (Jay Ferguson)
5. Doors - Full Circle (2nd Album after Morrison's Passing)
6. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
7. Yes - Close to the Edge
8. Pink Floyd - Meddle
9. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
10. Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
11. Spectrum - Milesago
12. Pretty Things - S. F. Sorrow
13. Deep Purple - Machine Head
14. Led Zeppelin - III
15. Pete Townsend - Who Came First
16. Cactus - Ot' n Sweaty
17. Muddy Waters - Electric Mud
18. Todd Rundgren - Wizard / A True Star
19. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Glorified Magnified
20. Lightning Hopkins - Dirty Blues
After selling my record collection in the 80's I started purchsing cd's when they first started making them. All the albums above I now have in remastered cd version. Music keeps us all alive..............
Nothing wrong with your memory!!!
wow great collection.looks like my collection;i didn't think anyone liked jo jo gunne exept me lol
Black Sabbath 8 years old, the album cover was the defining moment. Mom bought it for me, my life was "changed" at the first listen. Thanks mom !!
The first albums I bought (at the same time) were Billion Dollar Babies and Uriah Heap Live. The next week I immediate bought Killer and Love it to Death.
Heep* 👍
Heep live is still one of my favorite albums ever.
Still a huge fan of The Alice Cooper Group💥
Alice cooper is my fav artist of all time
I was 7 years old and fell in love with rock and roll with Aerosmith's "Pump" album in 1990. Dad eventually explained to me that Aerosmith is a old band and played "get your wings" for me and it became my favorite album.
Absolutely love the Pump album. Saw them twice on that tour in the USA and Belfast Northern Ireland. The Other Side just my favourite, Voodoo Medicine Man and Janie...
The Cars first album was the first LP I ever bought (notice I typed "LP" there). I had been gifted a couple before that: Mr Spock's Music From Outer Space and Top of the Pops #? (a series of albums featuring cover versions of currentish hits). _The Cars_ , however, what a fantastic LP to start one's music collection with; ace album.
Pete I'm a few years older than you but your music beginnings are so much like mine. I love the story, thanks!
Hi Pete, just to say how much I enjoy your posts and I love your passion. Agree with you 80% of the time too. Kind of moved away from the rock world in my 20s but your channel brings back so many great memories of record buying, great gigs (Saw Queen, AC DC, Rory Gallagher and Thin Lizzy by the time I was 14). Take care to you friends and family in this difficult time and will keep watching
Alice Cooper "Killer" and "Love It To Death", Kiss "Alive", America "America", Rolling Stones "Green Grass & High Tides", Grand Funk Railroad "Live", Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon", Nazareth "Hair of the Dog", Thin Lizzy "Jail Break", Ted Nugent "Ted Nugent"
That is called ROCK AND ROLL!
KILLER one of my favorites. ROCK ON MY ROCK AND ROLL FRIEND. LONG LIVE ROCK!!!
“Hitch A Ride” is an underrated song off of Boston’s self-titled album.
Boston's best song...ends with a lloonngg guitar solo!
The best song they ever did.
Amen - an amazing song!
And just like ever other track on that record, it was played on the radio today. Not many albums can make that claim. Every song. Every day.
Very cool song to play...
You should do a countdown of you're favorite Corona virus stay at home songs or albums!
Remember hearing Techical Ecstacy in 1978 went out and got it right away,then Status Quo, blue for you and then Yes,going for the one,new music was such a big thing back then,good times
Loved this video idea pete. I haven’t even watched it yet and wanted to comment. The first albums I actually purchased were from Columbia house records. You know buy 6 for a penny😀. If memory serves they were mostly greatest hits packages. Elton John. BTO. Boston’s first album. Foghat live . Probably circa 1978 or thereabouts.
Destroyer was my first purchase as well, bought it the first day it came out. Followed by Alive, self titled, hotter than hell and dresses to kill, the Aerosmith toys in the attic and rocks. Besides comic books and baseball cards I bought plenty of Wacky Packages.
lol. Wacky. Packages were awesome. Great you brought that up !!!
Same story with me Pete. Huge comic and card collector but then I got into music in a serious way around age 12 and have never looked back. I'm at a little over 4000 albums/ CD's and counting at this point. Really enjoy your channel! You do a top notch job my friend.
Here are a few of my first albums I got (I was 7 yrs old).
1. Led Zeppelin II
2. Grand Funk Railroad Red Album
3. Iron Butterfly-In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
4. CCR-Cosmo's Factory
5. Tommy Roe-12 In a Roe(yes I liked this too)
First five LPs I was exposed to because my parents owned them:
1. Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack
2. Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm the Piano Player
3. Neil Diamond - Stones
4. Elton John - Honky Chateau
5. Jim Croce - Photographs and Memories
First 10 albums I bought myself:
1. Barry Manilow Live (LOL!)
2. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
3. Grease Soundtrack
4. Kiss - Destroyer
5. Steve Miller Band - Book of Dreams
6. Foreigner - Double Vision
7. Styx - Grand Illusion
8. Paul McCartney & Wings - Greatest Hits
9. Queen - News of the World
10. Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell (purely for the album cover!)
Others soon after:
Bob Seger - Against the Wind
Cheap Trick - Budakon
ZZ Top - Duegella
Journey - Evolution
Linda Ronstadt - Back in the USA
Rod Stewart - Foot Loose & Fancy Free
Stones - Some Girls
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
The Cars Debut
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes
Van Halen 1
Eagles Greatest Hits
I also bought a lot of K-Tel albums!
Jeff Cobb Don't feel bad. I'm getting in to Manilow since hearing his song on the GOT documentary,
Degüello
interesting to see the progression of our music listening habits-yours is similar to mine, as our taste gets better and better.....Barry Manilow plays live-I thought his music was strictly in elevators and grocery stores?!?! Ha Ha P.S. Jeff-I just bought Neil Diamond's Stones a few months ago! Love that voice and a big fan!
@@treffbennett6534 I came much later to Neil Diamond and like many I thought he was just the big hits that didn't really do it for me. Stones is a great album for anyone who wants to check out the real Neil Diamond.
My first album I bought was the black album by Metallica, second one was 1984 by Van Halen. But the first album I ever owned, was Darryl Hall and John Oates greatest hits.
Started my collection with:
1. BTO - Not Fragile
2. Alice Cooper - School's Out
3. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
4. KISS - Alive
5. KISS - Destroyer
6. McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run
7. Kansas - Leftoverture
8. Yes - The Yes Album
9. Styx - The Grand Illusion
10. The Doobie Brothers - Best Of
Hello Pete , great video . We grew up on the same music , my first LPs were more or less the same . I had older brothers with all different tastes so I had access to a mass of music from Buddy Holly , Johnny Cash to The Stones , The Beatles and Zeppelin to Black Sabbath . All played on an old LP player with crappy speakers . The good old days . There was something special about Record shops back then , had a great vibe and the smell of the records. There's nothing like a record shop with Lynyrd Skynyrd playing , you look around and everyone is rocking out to the part in Freebird that just has to be rocked out to lol . Great memories 🍺🥃🤘👍
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust was my first around 1976 as a 12 year old kid 😍
Pete: We are the same age and have similar musical interests. My first favorite band was also Kiss. I really did not listen to music until 5th grade when I moved from California to Kentucky and a lot of the kids in my class were into Kiss. I wanted to fit in, so I started listening to them. But the first album that I bought was Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo! I had a bunch of friends who bought albums and we would record them on tape and share them with each other. We did not have a lot of money, so this was the cheapest way to get new music. I did end up buying all of the early Kiss albums and Kiss Alive is still their best record. Like you, I still gravitate toward live music. My attitude is if a band or artist does not sound good live, they are not worth my time and money.
Same here right on!
Hi Pete...Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your show....your collection reminds me of mine..but I also have a TON of 8 tracks too!!! I grew up in the late 60s and 70s. We grew up in the best possible time for music...I'm 63 so youre younger than me but youre very knowledgable about all we grew up with. I lost my wife of 32 years 4 years ago this year. As for myself Ive had rheumatoid arthritis for the past 20 years and it and neurothapy cause me to lose my left leg last November. Im in a wheelchair now so I spend alot of time at the computer. Just wanted to let you know I enjoy your show very much so keep up the great work man!!! Much success!!! Bob Peace!!!
My first 10 albums I owned/acquired:
1. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon and Garfunkel
2. "Live in Las Vegas" - Tom Jones
3. "ABC" - Jackson Five
4. "Woodstock" - Original Soundtrack
5. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John
6. "Little Queen" - Heart
7. "Hotel California" - The Eagles
8. "Straight Shooter" - Bad Company
9. "Double Vision" - Foreigner
10. "Back to the Egg" - Paul McCartney and Wings
My school pal had a giant poster of David Bowie dressed as Ziggy Stardust with the lightening flash on his face up on his bedroom wall. When his parents were doing Christmas shopping they saw the Kiss Destroyer album and thought they looked as weird as Bowie and bought it for him. That's how we discovered Kiss.
Led zeppelin II cassette when I was 13 back in 81 and pronounced Skynyrd was my first album
The first 3 albums i bought with my money were "Get the knack" by The Knack (i was a big fan of "My Sharona"), "The game" by Queen (for the hits at first) and "London Calling" by The Clash (the title track blews me away). Still got them on vinyl and still love them!
Hello Pete,
my ten first albums are the following:
1. Deep Purple In Rock
2. Deep Purple Fireball
3. Black Sabbath Paranoid
4. U.F.O. 2 Flying
5. Grand Funk Live Album
6. Frumpy 2
7.George Harrison All Things Must Pass
8.Deep Purple Machine Head
9.U.F.O. live
10. Ten Years After Recorded Live
I am now 62 and begin to collect music as above in 1971. Now I have hundreds of CD's and there is not only rock-music, also now electronic music, jazz and a little bit classic.
Your ranking shows are always interesting to me and I like them.
greetings from germany
H.U.
I had a ton of 45's as a kid, but my first two album purchases were Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (US version) and Bachman Turner Overdrive - BTO II. Still have them to this day!
Those are some kickass first albums! Pure hard rock.
The first album I remember owning was K-Tel 22 explosive hits. I was well under 10 and looking back it did have April Wine on it. Then it was probably a couple of forty-fives from the Monkees. Like many of you I was in a little bit of a daze in the 70s so I don't remember the exact order but here are some early ones that I had:
KISS Alive
Ted Nugent double live Gonzo
Jethro Tull. Heavy Horses
Styx Pieces of Eight
Heart Dreamboat Annie
Journey Evolution
Take care of everybody and stay healthy
Great show man!
I love this video the best. Here are the first 11 pieces of music I owned to best of my memory;
1). “Purple Passages” by Deep Purple, 1973,
2). “Full House Live”- J.Geils Band,
3). “Billion Dollars Babies”- Alice Cooper,
4). “Closer To The Edge”- YES,
5). “Machine Head” - Deep Purple,
5). “Led Zeppelin IV”- LED Zeppelin,
6).”Bloodshot”- J.Geils Band,
7). “Ladies Invited”- J. Geils Band,
8). “Yes Album”- Yes,
9). “Nightmares...and Other Tales From The Vinyl Jungle”- J. Geils Band,
10). “Fragile”- Yes.
11). Fandango”- Z.Z. Top, 1975,
This is to the best of my 63 year-old memory.
the STARZ t-shirt, though! :P \m/
How did that shirt survive all these years? I saw Starz open for Foghat in 77 or 78. Awesome show!!!
First concert starz opened have their first record
On Cassablanca label; same as KISS and Donna Summer
Mom gave me some money to go get my hair cut. I came back home with the Grand Funk red album...and long hair. "Go to your room!" OK, that's where my turntable is.
Great vid Pete! 59 years young here... first albums I got were The Partridge Family, KISS Alive, and RUSH Fly By Night! I never looked back either. I now probably have 5,500 albums and about 3,300 CD's, across many genres. But those 3 bands, AM radio, and my father cranking Greek bouzouki music, Sinatra, and movie soundtracks on his old tubed FISHER receiver housed in a large, cheesy wooden console (the size of a small boat), I credit getting me into music! Cheers!
Queen - News of The World in '77. Told my brother, "Get me the album with the robot!"
Can't remember the first ten but I remember the first album I bought was Iron Maiden Live After Death double cassette haha
Majewski79 the most memorable album I bought was Van Halen fair warning on cassette. Looked at that cover the whole time I was listening to the songs. Matched the dark tone of the album well.
That's a kickass way to start! One the first albums I bought was Number Of The Beast.
I think my first album I bought was Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced?
I was in a big Hendrix phase in my early teens
So was mine!
Pete as you said the album cover could lead to the purchase of an album. My first 2 gets were prime examples.
Queen-News of the World
ELO-Out of the Blue
I don't listen to the Queen album much at all anymore, but I definitely listen to the ELO one still to this day. Thankfully I was able to see Jeff Lynn's ELO concert last summer. Great show!
Im 50 so my journey started a few years later than yours Pete, some older teens moved into my neighborhood in '78 and got me into all this stuff and i started buying tons of stuff in '80 and beyond, mostly Led and Rush but also many of the other hard hitters at the time. Before '80 i just knew all the stuff on radio like disco and whatever but my parents had a lot of great albums so i fooled around with those here and there, mostly into ELO back then. But I'm also pretty certain that the first album I ever bought with my own money was Rush's A Farewell to Kings, or maybe Led Zep 4.
started in 1968
1. Monkees - Headquarters
2. CCR - Green River
3: Beatles - Abbey Road
4. Led Zeppelin 1
5. Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
6. Beatles - Hey Jude
7. Paul McCartney - McCartney
8. CCR - Willy and the Poor Boys
9. CCR - Cosmos Factory
10. Beatles - Let It Be
Destroyer was my brother’s first album and I believe the live album was 5he second one he bought too!
You're folks loved you Pete....even if they didn't like your music... I can relate. Take care and stay safe..Thanks for all you do and the passion of music you share...
Hey Pete, I'm Nick from Chicago, and I just wanted to say that it's so cool because I grew up with a lot of the same stuff you did! I'm still a huge KISS fan, but all the other stuff too! I'm 55 so we're basically the same age so that's pretty awesome!
Kiss Destroyer, Queen News of the World, Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo, Bob Seger Live Bullet, Black Sabbath Paranoid & Master of Reality, and a bunch of K-tel albums
The first record I ever bought was Roger Hodgson - In The Eye Of The Storm. A weird yugoslavian press no less. Second was Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Love Beach. Erm... Don't judge me, I was a big fan of ELP, and it was the only one they had in stock.
You never forget your first. My very first album was Aerosmith - Toys in The Attic. My first stereo was a combo. Turntable/Tuner/8-track tape. Some of the early albums were BOC Spectres. Pink Floyd Animals. Everyone was releasing live albums. Rush - All The World's a Stage. Etc
once again thanks for SOT , although i don't have the same musical taste your passion and knowledge is greatly appreciated from this music nerd! i am ten years older than you so my first purchases were most like 45 rpm's . i don't know what was first etc but i am sure it was a lot of British Invasion and Motown along with bands like the Monkees , the grass roots , etc. and i still have many of those 45's along with some of the first albums i bought. i do have a nice memory of walking to a record store in philly with my sister with some money to buy records and i was so excited when the monkees songs we wanted were both on the same record! this meant we could buy another 45 and i am pretty sure we got something by the supremes. again thanks for the channel pete. really enjoy your analysis of the music you hold dear.
1) Brain Salad Surgery: Emerson, Lake and Palmer
2) Who's Next : The Who
3) Live at Leeds : The Who
4) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: Black Sabbath
5) Paranoid: Black Sabbath
5) Led Zeppelin II: Led Zeppelin
6) Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits: Alice Cooper
7) Quadrophenia: The Who
8) Master of Reality: Black Sabbath
9) Kiss Alive: Kiss
10) The Hoople: Mott the Hoople
--- can't stop : don't ask me to stop --
11) Physical Graffiti: Led Zeppelin
12) Made in Japan: Deep Purple
13) Muscle of Love: Alice Cooper
14) Sladest: Slade
15) Energized: Foghat
16) Tommy : The Who
17) Mark, Don and Mel: Grand Funk Railroad
18) Tarkus: Emerson, Lake and Palmer
19) Led Zeppelin IV: Led Zeppelin
20) Kimono My House: Sparks
21) The Slider: T.Rex
22) Desolation Boulevard: The Sweet
23) Live : Uriah Heep
24) M.U. : The Best of Tull: Jethro Tull
25) All the World's a Stage: Rush
26) Rainbow Rising : Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
27) Sheer Heart Attack : Queen
My first was The Alice Cooper show on L.P. and Aerosmith Toy’s in the Attic.
Oh heck yes. Those first 10 albums! We were so into the music because there was and still is so much great stuff. Why not is right Pete. TY for this channel.
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First Album Kiss Love gun 2nd Black Sabbath Paranoid, these albums changed my life forever.
I will argue to this day that "Bat Out of Hell" is the greatest rock and roll album every recorded.
The first album I ever bought with my own money was "Grand Illusion" by Styx.
Christopher Crowder never heard Master of Puppets huh?
@@thedadyouneverhadchannel3544 that aint rock and roll thats noise pollution
Bat was eye and ear opening. I bought it strictly because Todd Rundgren and Utopia were all over it.
@@thedadyouneverhadchannel3544 Master of Puppets? Rock and roll? I don't think so!
Disagree
I can't nail down my first 10,but my first 3 ( for sure ) were: Deep Purple's Machine Head,In Rock and the mighty Made in Japan. I grew up in Newfoundland,so albums by Canadian bands April Wine & The Stampeders were likely among the first 10 LPs I ever got. ( The Stampeders was my first concert in 1976 )
Impeccable taste 👍
I ligit grew up with KISS, my whole car rides home I’d be listening to sonic boom or whatever album my dad had on of them because he has been a mega fan of them since 1975. Flashing forward to 2019 and I’m on a trip to Washington DC and I wanted to listen to a KISS record since I Hadn’t listened to them since I was little. I put on rock and Roll over and I was HOOKED. Peter grooving drums beats and raspy voice, Paul’s one of a kind vocals, Genes growling vocals and sick bass lines, aces screaming solos. And a few weeks after that I watched the Tom Snyder interview and got to know what the band really was trying to capture and who they were. And now I’m the KISS mega fan, Ik the deepest tracks, the songs on each album, and can’t stop listening to them. Now 2020 I became a 14 year old guitar player listening to KISS, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Dio, Sabbath...It’s crazy what rock n roll can do.
In 1976, my brother bought home the cover of an album and another album. The actual album with the record was the first Boston album. I loved it! It was all over the radio! I was 8 years old and my mind was totally blown! I became a musician right then and there! The COVER of an album (with no records inside) that he brought home was KISS Alive. I couldn't believe what I was seeing on that cover! My first girlfriend had Destroyer and we listened to it in her room one time. It was just awesome music! We were kids who just fell for KISS! Great memories! In 1977, I did odd jobs and got some cash. I bought Rock And Roll Over. I still have that record album!
First i bought was KISS Hotter Than Hell
I’m stunned no “Frampton Comes Alive” wasn’t that mandatory? How about “Rumors” another Pete no show.
Love your videos! I’m the youngest of four boys and I’m 56. My oldest is nine years older than me. He has a collection that rivals yours. I got my fill of all that music at a very young age and have never looked back. Awesome stuff, so many good memories.
I’m a lot younger than probably most people here, and I only started liking music in 2016. So I bought my first CD and my first LP in 2017.
My mom took me to Barnes and Noble to look for books and I ended up finding their music section. I had just found bands other than Rush at that time; bands like Yes, Van Halen, AC/DC... And Yes was probably my favorite band at that point. I was kind of disappointed to find that they didn’t have any Yes records on vinyl, but I went over to the CDs and immediately found Close to the Edge and just held onto that, praying that my mom would be fine with buying a CD instead of a book. So I went over to the vinyl section again just to see if I could find anything good. Found ‘Hell Bent for Leather’ by Judas Priest and AC/DC’s ‘Highway to Hell.’
I didn’t bring my own money back then, so I had to hope my mom was okay with paying for stuff she wasn’t even there to buy. Eventually my mom came over and I’m pretty sure she was okay with getting the CD because it was cheaper, but didn’t want to spend the money on the slightly pricier vinyl. After a while I convinced her to buy the albums so long as I payed her back when we got home.
Played ‘Close to the Edge’ in the car on the way home and ‘Highway to Hell’ when we got back. That was a great day.