Tell Me About Your First….
Posted by Phil Ferguson on July 27th, 2012 – 6 Comments – Posted in Uncategorized
Yesterday I was in a store and Boston was playing over the speakers. I was transported to my childhood somewhere around 1977. I could see my house and my mom and dad. I was filled with joy!
The local grocery store had a program where you get points for shopping there and we had enough point more me to get an album. Yes, a 12 inch black vinyl record. I had to have the new record from Boston! I remember getting it and going home to play it.
It was my first Album. I listened to it over and over and over. I still love all of the music from this album today. It holds a very special place in my memory.
What was your first album? Was it vinyl, tape, 8-track, CD or MP3. Do you still like it today and does it bring back some good memories. Please share your story. I am in a nostalgic mood and would love to hear your story.
Here is a little Boston for you!
My first album was Hysteria by Def Leppard, on cassette. I had seen some Guns N”Roses song on MTV and asked for their album for my birthday. My older sister got me Def Leppard instead because apparently she didn’t think GNR was appropriate for a 7-year-old (and Def Leppard was?).
Still…A great album.
My first album was REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity on vinyl. Talked my dad into getting it for me because I had been sick and he felt sorry for me. I had a super-awesome monstrous console stereo with a turntable in my room, but the only records available were my mom’s Sonny & Cher, The Sound of Music soundtrack, The Purple Puzzle Tree (bible stories for kids – ha ha!) and Seals & Crofts. I played that REO album until it was smooth.
you could say that you were riding the storm out.
Kiss Alive II! It was X-mas present that my brother and I scoped out the previous night under the tree using our LED calculators as flashlights. I was fascinated by the demon spitting blood and was instantly hooked on Hard Rock and Metal.
My first album was “Movin” 1963 by Peter, Paul, and Mary. It was their second album and awesome. I knew all of the songs by heart. I lived in Corpus Christi Texas a mile from the beach. It would be called urban folk. The songs were so haunting to me. I had such a crush on Mary Travers. Much later I met her daughter and she was unhappy as she hated that her mother was always on tour. As Cosmic Variance notes, music was better in the sixties–not entirely true but Disco making dance wildly popular and easy killed musicality. Butt DVDs brought back diversity. Another article doing a metastudy of the last fifty years of rock and roll notes that music has gotten more and more homogenous and simplistic (accessible). Doesn’t really matter but interesting–hard not to be snobbish. I tell my modern pop loving daughters that the music we love has more to do with what we were listening to between 10 and 22 than intrinsic quality.