[doublewuzzy]

What was the first album you ever owned, REALLY listened to, or that really had an impact on you?

[ursulabear]

My favourite song as a child; until I developed my own tastes in music; was 'Burning Down the House' by the Talking Heads. When I was 11, I got 'Fever To Tell' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 'Maps' was so great.

[Wanbli]

When I was 5 it was "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night

But at age 11- KISS "Alive" changed my life forever - I became a slave to THE RAWK!

The next album that had impact was RUSH "2112" - which to this day is one of the greatest albums ever made IMO- again one of those holistic concept albums

[Pierre]

(It was the actual sleeve in France...)

Just as soon as I heard "Dancing Queen", for the first time I felt I had to get this album (allthough I already knew ABBA before, I had never really been impressed)!

The whole album is not as good unfortunately, but I still believe "Dancing Queen" is one of the best pop songs ever written!

[claire]

I bought my sister's copy of "Jagged Little Pill" by Alanis Morissette from her for $7 in the fourth grade.

The next year I got a boombox for Christmas and I was allowed to buy two CDs to go with it. I chose "Nimrod" by Green Day and "Eight Arms to Hold You" by Veruca Salt.

[Steve]

I owned two classical LPs (The Planets - Gustav Holst, and Má Vlast - Bedřich Smetana) and some Monty Python comedy records, but the first "popular" record album I bought was Big Science by Laurie Anderson. I bought it soon after it came out in April 1982, and it remains one of my favourites to this day.

The first time I went into a shop and bought a single was to get Blatantly Offensive by Wayne County & The Electric Chairs. However, this was not for me - a schoolfriend asked me to get it because, he said, the shop in his small town did not stock it and I lived in a slightly bigger town; though I suspect the real reason was that he had to somehow smuggle it home past his mum! Mr County was an 'interesting' character, who in later life underwent a sex change and became Jayne County.

[milkisobel]

there was all of this child music, then, my first Björk, i was 14 and...i only liked one song on it time after time i learned to love it, and it really changed my way to listen music, i turned into the adult culture. After i discovered my father's vinyl, and santana "caravanserail" pink floyd "harvest" airguitaring, very loud in the living room, best moment of joy

[doublewuzzy]

I got the cassette of this in 3rd grade (circa 1993) and was obsessed with it... I would sing every song in the car and probably annoyed my parents to death. And I was also obsessed with the follow-up that came out two years later. And Claire!!! I had the Alanis Morrisette cassette tape TOO except I paid $5 for it... then bought the CD when THAT came out too. Reminds me of riding the bus in 5th grade...



This was my first "real" album that I seriously listened to. It opened the door to close listening of music. I used to sit in the backyard watching thunderstorms come in while I listened (this was around 200 or 2001, and there's a big field behind my house so you could see storms from far away). It is very near and dear to my heart. I discovered this really complicated connection between Joanna's and Fiona's musical timelines as they related to my musical life, and it was pretty neat.

[ursulabear]

I hate Ace of Bass so much. SO MUCH! ABBA is much better.

[doublewuzzy]

I hate Ace of Bass so much. SO MUCH! ABBA is much better.

When you're 8, you really don't care that much!

[ursulabear]

This is true.
Growing up, I listened to Sublime, Mr.Bungle, and Cake. Bands I listen to now. One of my earliest memories is sitting in my mother's green Grad Am listening to 'What I Got'. I must have been about four.

[Steve]

ode to wrote:
..my first Björk, i was 14 and...i only liked one song on it

Don't leave us in suspenders ... which one?

[doublewuzzy]

This is true.
Growing up, I listened to Sublime, Mr.Bungle, and Cake. Bands I listen to now. One of my earliest memories is sitting in my mother's green Grad Am listening to 'What I Got'. I must have been about four.

It is really weird to me that your "growing up" was my "high school/college."

[ursulabear]

The music? My mother and aunt were both hipsters. My little brother's favourite song is 'Song #2' by Blur. He's 7.

[doublewuzzy]

No, just the fact that those were two contemporaneous timelines.

[ursulabear]

Oh? Haha. I thought you were in your early twenties.

[u-som]

My first albums were all Finnish New Wave. Unfortunately for a long time I bought only cassettes. First foreign album was The Great Rock'n'roll Swindle by Sex Pistols. Fortunately I got to swap it to the classic Never Mind the Bollocks by the same group. Yes, as a ten year old I considered myself a punk rocker.

[doublewuzzy]

Oh? Haha. I thought you were in your early twenties.

I am, but you're only 15. Ten years ago, when I was in high school, you were 5. 8 years ago, when I was in college, you were 7. So yeah.

[ursulabear]

Oh, well, there is a reason I am failing maths.

[Weirdelves]

Oh? Haha. I thought you were in your early twenties.

I am, but you're only 15. Ten years ago, when I was in high school, you were 5. 8 years ago, when I was in college, you were 7. So yeah.

I knew this but to read it makes it all seem rather strange. Go internet!