First Album Meme

[+ nycman]

Meet the Beatles was my first, I was 13. I adored every Beatles Album (and still have most of them. My favorite is Rubber Soul. Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and The White Album are also ingrained in my memory. Eleanor Rigby is one of the most perfect songs ever, IMHO. Here is a performance of Eleanor Rigby as we heard it back in the day. To my ear the "remastered" versions all sound wrong.

 

I agree some of the"remastered" versions seem to have lost some of the deeply haunting quality of the original.

[+ quoththeraven]

like.. as in vinyl records? hmmm does other formats count?

 

Albums vs. singles or individual songs. Other formats count.

[Jim Corrigan]

OK,now I am going to embaress myself.I was 9 yrs old and it was 1962.I bought the first Peter,Paul and Mary Album.Compared to the rest of what was being played on the radio then(teen idols like Fabian etc) they sounded damn good to me.Plus Mary looked so beautiful on the cover.I eventually moved on to more folk music and then blues rock and jazz.I still have a soft spot for Peter,Paul and Mary but every ti.me I hear Puff The Magic Dragon I want to puke.

[Rudynate]

OK,now I am going to embaress myself.I was 9 yrs old and it was 1962.I bought the first Peter,Paul and Mary Album.Compared to the rest of what was being played on the radio then(teen idols like Fabian etc) they sounded damn good to me.Plus Mary looked so beautiful on the cover.I eventually moved on to more folk music and then blues rock and jazz.I still have a soft spot for Peter,Paul and Mary but every ti.me I hear Puff The Magic Dragon I want to puke.

 

In 1967, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary perform at the Auditorium Theater in Rochester NY. It was one of the high points of my adolescence.

[AdamSmith]

You were a precocious tween. It took awhile for me to buy clasical albums. Then again, we had copies of Handel's Messiah, the Philadelphia Orchestra playing Tschaikowsky's Swan Lake Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker Suites, and the 1812 Overture that my parents bought, so why should I?

Confession: after hearing some fairly trivialized Ludwig Van by the Boston Pops on TV, it was in truth the influence of Schroeder in Peanuts that made me seek out Beethoven on disc at that age.

 

Sort of the same way Saturday morning SF-ish cartoons whetted my appetite to see 2001 at age 9.

 

In both cases, the meteor impact that starts everything over again.

[+ quoththeraven]

OK,now I am going to embaress myself.I was 9 yrs old and it was 1962.I bought the first Peter,Paul and Mary Album.Compared to the rest of what was being played on the radio then(teen idols like Fabian etc) they sounded damn good to me.Plus Mary looked so beautiful on the cover.I eventually moved on to more folk music and then blues rock and jazz.I still have a soft spot for Peter,Paul and Mary but every ti.me I hear Puff The Magic Dragon I want to puke.

 

In 1967, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary perform at the Auditorium Theater in Rochester NY. It was one of the high points of my adolescence.

 

Peter Paul & Mary In Concert was the first pop/rock album I remember listening to, but I didn't buy it or urge anyone to buy it. (Most likely my father bought it.) Within a year or two, the whole family -- all three of us -- saw Peter, Paul & Mary in concert at (ironically) a nearby armory.

 

I still own a copy of the Peter, Paul & Mary Songbook, a collection of songs from their earliest albums.

[+ José Soplanucas]

[Rudynate]

Peter Paul & Mary In Concert was the first pop/rock album I remember listening to, but I didn't buy it or urge anyone to buy it. (Most likely my father bought it.) Within a year or two, the whole family -- all three of us -- saw Peter, Paul & Mary in concert at (ironically) a nearby armory.

 

I still own a copy of the Peter, Paul & Mary Songbook, a collection of songs from their earliest albums.

 

I agree with Jim Corrigan - I though Mary Travers was beautiful with her long blond hair. During the concert peformance I attended, she wore a 60s version of the Little Black Dress and looked great. Aside from their goatees, I found Peter and Paul fairly boring.

[kewtex]

I've also bought every Dark Side of the Moon in every format, album, 8 track, cassette, CD-Rom, and now digital.

 

I don't remember the first vinyl album I bought, but "Dark Side of the Moon" was the first CD I purchased when I got a Sony Discman. I've often thought that I'd have side one of that album played at the start of my funeral service.

[Nvr2Thick]

I always remembered it as Rickie Lee Jones' debut album, but after checking the time line it had to have been the first Dire Straits album.

[+ WilliamM]

 

Not my first album, but the best. Belafonte was one of the first to release a live album recorded at Carnegie Hall. The 1959 album set the high bar for all album recorded there later.

 

Listen to Harry Belafonte's "Danny Boy." All these years later his version still moves more than I can put into words.

[mattr]

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