First Of All...
Once upon a time, there was a little boy who liked to listen to music. He wasn't fussy, pretty much anything was good.
Then there came a time when he could tell the difference between good and bad. However, the time he had previously spent in appreciation of all types of music stayed with him, and he grew up with a very eclectic taste, indeed.
How eclectic? Well, look at my firsts...
FIRST RECORDS GIVEN:
Father Abraham and The Smurfs
Adam and The Ants - Stand And Deliver
The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again?
(it does have to be pointed out, however, that the last was bought in error. My parents completely mistook the reason for my interest in Sheila Ferguson. I was a smutty little beggar even then...)
FIRST SINGLE BOUGHT:
The Specials - Ghost Town
FIRST ALBUM BOUGHT:
Madness - Complete Madness
REQUESTED (as a child) AND REFUSED:
Incantation - Cacharpaya
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (damn my hormones!)
Anything by Steel Pulse
FIRST CD BOUGHT:
Peter Gabriel - Passion (Last Temptation of Christ OST) - bought even though I didn't have a CD player at the time...
Hmm - not that eclectic after all. I suppose I've made up for lost time sice, though...
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For some years....
...I got by on my parents' record collection which had Beatles/Pink Floyd/Van Der Graaf Generator/King Crimson/Soft Machine albums that I grew up hearing and still love to this day. I also hired Beatles albums out of a library.
The first CD I remember buying myself, with my own money, was Genesis' 'Selling England By The Pound' when I was about 6 in 1994. Something of an odd choice as it was about 20 years old even then but to this day, it remains my all time favourite album and Genesis remain my all-time favourite band. I think I perhaps got that Genesis thing from (again) my parents who had Peter Gabriel's 'Third' ('Intruder' used to scare me but I always loved hearing that album) and, ahem, Phil Collins' 'No Jacket Required' (none of them will admit to buying it!).
I was never much of a singles person, but the first single I ever bought was The Beatles' 'Real Love' in the midst of all that Beatles Anthology hoo-ha. I still like that song and 'Free As A Bird', for that matter. The merit of that as a first singles purchase is slightly cancelled out as the 2nd one I bought was Sting's 'You Still Touch Me'...
Pretentious? Moi?
First record, officially, bought for my 10th birthday (and until I purchased the recent singles collection, my only Beatles): Sgt Peppers.
First self purchased singles: Living in the past/Jethro Tull, (cos they didn't have Man of the world/Fleetwood Mac)and then Si tu dois partir/Fairport Convention. Is this about 68, 69?
LPs first purchased were Pictures at an Exhibition/ELP and L.A. Woman/The Doors, both 1970 ish.
Looking back, I feel no shame.
Last purchased, e-music yesterday, Mr Love and Mr Justice/Billy Bragg, Molinos/Paperboys and Another Country/Tift Merritt.
Life goes on.
my memory fails me, but.....
First single ever bought - Band Of Gold by Freda Payne.
First album bought - Electric Warrior by T. Rex.
Worst album I've ever owned - something by the band Dollar, which was given to me by an aunt as a birthday present(I still have it but don't own a record player any more)....phew!
Bought this week -new Billy Bragg(still to arrive though), Shery Crows Detours and Lonnie Donegans King Of Skiffle(£1 from the charity shop).
Will be bought soon - new Counting Crows and new REM.