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Post by smokeyb on Dec 10, 2019 21:53:47 GMT 1
I don't know if this will work, but I thought I would post up a list of some of my early albums that I bought through the years only vinyl or cassette ones, no CD's.
The first 2 albums I ever owned were actually given to me by my cousin, who was getting married and was having a clear out. What a first pair of albums to own just when I was starting High School.
First up was The Beatles - With the Beatles (1963) I got it in 1970, but it was originally bought in 1963 when it was released, and it is the oldest album in my collection.
I still have it today.
Some great tracks on this, my favourites were "All My Loving", "Please Mr Postman",
Although I grew up with them in the 60's I never actually owned any of their records until 1970, years later I would own all the albums on CD in a special box set.
It was a little scratched, but not too bad, but it sounded ok on our small cheap record player.
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 10, 2019 22:01:39 GMT 1
The second album was also the Beatles - Revolver (1966).
Wow I still love all the tracks to this day, everyone brings back so many great memories. Years later when I had it on CD it was nearly always on the car cd player.
Stand out tracks include - Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine, Got To Get You Into My Life & I'm Only Sleeping.
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 10, 2019 22:27:12 GMT 1
In early 1972 I loved a song in the chart by an unknown band called America, the song was "A Horse With No Name", with my pocket money I bought the single, and played it do death.
A few months later I bought the album "America" on cassette. It became my favourite album, until the next one, probably.
There were so many great tracks on this album.
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 10, 2019 22:40:01 GMT 1
Because I liked their first album so much I bought their next album "Homecoming" later in the year for xmas.
This was my first vinyl album that I bought myself. When you only own 4 albums, and you play them all the time, you know all the lyrics by heart. When I sometimes play them now
, I can say all the lyrics from memory, even after all these years.
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 12, 2019 22:52:33 GMT 1
And now for something completely different.
I was a huge fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus on tv, and bought this album when it was released.
There is some great sketches on the album.
Monty Python's Previous Record
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 15, 2019 22:59:06 GMT 1
A few months after seeing David Bowie singing Starman on TOTP, I decided this was the artist whose music I Ioved better than anyone else.
But which album to buy first, so to quote Pulp's Common People - But I Had To Start It Somewhere, So It Started There.
So I went for his most recent release " The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars".
The title alone sounded fascinating, I played it to death, learning all the lyrics by heart.
At school you were either in the Bowie camp or Slade camp. Well there were those kids with the long hair who listened to Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple or something like that.
Songs like Starman, Five Years, Moonage Daydream, It Ain't Easy, Lady Stardust and Suffragette City, were just out of this world to a teenager in late 1972.
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 15, 2019 23:15:15 GMT 1
When you get a taste for something you want more, so in early 1973 I had to get another album by Bowie, so I bought "Hunky Dory", although it was released in 1971 it didn't chart until early 1973.
Once again I learnt all the tracks but there are 2 songs in it that I loved to death, one of them is still my all time favourite song of the 1970's.
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 20, 2019 23:49:36 GMT 1
At this stage I didn't have a lot of cash, so albums were a rare purchase, so I only could afford a few at a time.
Next on the list was the brand new album by David Bowie - Aladdin Sane. With it's iconic sleeve, this was the first album I bought on it's first week of release.
For me every song was just brilliant, from Aladdin Sane, to The Jean Genie, Panic In Detroit, Drive In Saturday, Watch That Man, Cracked Actor and Time.
It would be 5 more years before I would actually see him play live, long after Ziggy was finiashed.
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 21, 2019 0:17:08 GMT 1
It would be a whole 12 months before I could afford another album, so after that wait I defaulted to what I knew, and bought the latest Bowie album - Diamond Dogs.
Another great album full of great tracks like, Rebel Rebel, Diamond Dogs, 1984 and Sweet Thing.
Owning the latest Bowie album was something that you talked about a lot in school, there was always something to discuss, whether it was the album cover or the songs.
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 21, 2019 22:30:11 GMT 1
Another band that was making a big impression on me at the time, was 10CC, I knew them from their early singles like Donna, Rubber Bullets etc.
But when I heard Wallstreet Shuffle I thought the lyrics were so clever, I made it my next album. So I bought their second release Sheet Music.
Not only was Wallstreet Shuffle on it but also The Worst Band In The World, Silly Love and Clockwork Creep a personal favourite of mine.
This is a great album to introduce you to 10CC,if you ever wanted to hear their music not just the singles.
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