I’ll kick us off with an absolute banger…
Boyzone - Love Me For A Reason
I was like 6. I wanted it desperately. Listening back to it now, as a 36 year old man I can admit that it’s an absolutely horrible bit of music…but it still takes me back to being a young kid.
Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
On cassette tape, no less. Still have it somewhere in my basement, probably.
First two CDs I bought were Bon Jovi - New Jersey, and Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Appetite for Destruction was my first CD. I was in Hong Kong, bought a portable CD player and the G’n’R CD. As I was walking the street in Kowloon, first notes of Welcome to the Jungle hit me with a force. I was hooked immediately. Will see Slash in couple of weeks.
That’s awesome. I was just a kid and was gifted a stereo with a CD player for my birthday by my uncle. He gave me a CD along with it: Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & the Cooked. I don’t remember much but I know my collection was quickly followed up by Def Leppard - Hysteria
I’m not sure which was first, Rainbow Rising or Metallica …And Justice for All. Both vinyls were played a lot.
With my own money, it was “Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth” by Joan Jett. Killer fucking album. Well, tape, because that was back when cassettes were still the only really portable music option. 8 tracks still existed, but they weren’t really portable. Have you ever seen one of the supposedly portable players? Way too big and bulky to casually carry around.
Anyway, yes, I’m old as fuck.
However! The day I bought it, we were at the mall. I had to choose between that and Alabama’s Mountain Music. In a rare event, my dad asked if I had any money left, and when I said only a little, he handed me enough to go back and get the Alabama tape too.
Listened to the Alabama with him on the way home :)