Tuesday 30 June 2009

My first 'album'.

Just asked Jen on Twitter what her first album was as a result of this comment:

@havock21 On the radio this morning a guy was talking about his first vinyl record. He said " it was my most memorable 12 inches" and I DIED

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Anyway, on Xmas morning, 1980, I opened a pressie that contained my first 'album'. That year, as a family - (Parents, me, brother, and my sister) - ventured north from Dunedin, UnZud, aiming for Auckland.....driving the whole way. Two islands and a coupla thousand K's.

IT's funny, now that I think about it I can remember a WHOLE heap about that trip. The trip on the inter-island ferry, Wellington with the Beehive, and the reclining trees, Tawa - (where 'Lynn of' lives) - Taupo, Waioru - (the Army museum and UnZud's base for 'Basic Training') - mum screaming - literally - down the open top hydro slide at Taupo, Rotorua and the mud pools, geisers, buried town, HUGE trout, and the little candy fruit that came in the little wooden crates, and the smell of sulphur, then on to staying at 'whoevers' farm near Hamilton, then on to Auckland and so much more there. Those are some of my highlights, not including my first album that everybody HAD to listen too for the whole damn journey.

I was JUST 8, and the album - (in the form of a casette) - was The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits. Loved it. 'Daddy Cool', 'Rasputin', and 'Ma Baker' were my standouts. I still know the words to 'By The River Of Babylon'.

What was yours, and what did it mean to you?.

19 comments:

  1. Cool piece Moko. My first album was probably Biggest/Hottest/Shite-est Hits of 'Eighty-something on cassette (can't remember the exact year) and used to inflict pain and suffering on the rest of the fam during long car trips and caravan hols, much as you did with Boney M. The first album I actually bought for myself with my own damn cash was TISM's Machiavelli and the Four Seasons in 1995, as mentioned in the Generation J post at the World of Bollocks. Though to be fair the onset of me starting to buy CDs had as much to do with the arrival of a CD player in the house as it did the arrival of Triple J in the area.

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  2. Hmm first LP? had to say, first single 'Bohemian Rhapsody', first tape 'Turnstyles'.

    can no longer access twitter at work :((

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  3. LOL I was BORN in 1980...heheh!

    My first album was Michael Jackson's Thriller. I wore that thing out. Now I have the CD version, and I still get a thrill when I see Michael in that white Miami Vice suit with the baby tiger. I remember it so vividly I can remember how the album SMELLED when I opened it (ah that new album smell) and how smooth it felt in my hands...I even remember the curvy, colored writing scrawled across the inside of the album.

    Very cool post Moko.

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  4. my first album was boston more than a feeling the one with the space ship on it. i was so proud of that thing. i got it in chicago when we went to visit family in the late 70's. i still HAVE it.

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  5. Aaagggghhhhh! The GLN still loves Boney M.

    I think my first album was Paul Hogan narrating Peter and the Wolf, which I shared with my brother.

    The first album I owned by myself I got when I was about 5. It was all the Beatles #1 hits. It was a proper vinyl record and funnily enough at that age I was a big fan of Yellow Submarine. I am not a massive Beatles fan these days, but when they were good they were very good.

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  6. SHannon?....SHANNON,Shannon?. Squirrel, Shannon...SHANNON....lol That you?.

    OMFG Peter and the wolf. 'I had' the orchestral version, with the instruments being the characters...think the Oboe was the Wolf. Crist I loved that.

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  7. Yeah we went on a family caravan holiday up to Cairns and back in 1983 (two weeks, about 3500km) with that on permanent duty in the cassette deck. That and the audio version of Wind in the Willows.

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  8. My very first non-kid vinyl was Patti Smith's brand new album 'Easter'. It was 1978/79 so I would have been around 14. I bought it for something like $6.99 with birthday money. That album was totally thrashed - it drove my parents to distraction. A few months later they bought me another new album I was seriously coveting - Pete Townshends 'Empty Glass'. I know they bought it just so I'd listen to something else. My parents were hippies so were completely confused about my rocker tendancies. I still love those albums.

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  9. First Album, "Hey, Hey It's Saturday", first single "Another Brick In The Wall P2" and first CD Concrete Blonde "Bloodletting" (I didn't even have CD player at the time).

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  10. Wind in the Willows, awesome. You come across Bad Jelly the Witch, Doc?.

    Lou, cool, thanks for sharing.

    B, Concrete Blonde....and I get HIGH....yeah, we know. lol

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  11. i am sad to say my first tape what i brought my self was ACDC blow up your video in 1988. I don't remember any of the songs. the next was never mind the bollocks. With that album i can even imitate the breaking of Johnny rottens voice in God save the Queen

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  12. HEAT SEEKAAAAA!!!! TORCHIN UP THE SKAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

    Heatseeker was the single off Blow Up Your Video - I remember the filmclip to that when it was out. It involved heroic amounts of rock cheese. The AC/DC Live double album was probably my third or fourth album evaaarrrr. Almost definitely the most played evaaaarrrr - pre-exam or going out amp-up music. Back in Black FTW.

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  13. Bad Jelly the Witch is on the playlist of our lab iMac that basically gets used as a massive iPod. However so is about two continuous weeks of music so it doesn't get much of a run. All kinds of stuff on there.

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  14. The first album I had was Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma, which I bought in about 1974–75. Since it originally came out in 1969 I suppose it must have been a re-release, though it did have the same cover art as the original, so it’s possible it may have been that old.

    I’d like to be able to tell you of the feelings it evoked – but I’m afraid my memory has been so eroded by years of prescription drug abuse and senility I cannot: sorry about that!

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  15. I was 5 in 1978 and The "Grease" soundtrack was my prize possession. My cousin and I would set her record player up on the front step of her house and alot of us kids in the neighborhood would put our horrible dancing skills on display handjivin' and such.

    I used to stare at the cover picture of Olivia Newton John and dream about being that gorgeous some day. Dreams don't always come true though. hahaha.

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  16. Used to baby sit some kids when I was a teenager that knew EVERY.SINGLE.WORD to Grease. Easy to baby sit tho.

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  17. The first album I bought was the Yellow Submarine soundtrack in 1969, it was on sale :-)

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  18. Richard Clayderman...Reveries...that pooncy French piano player. Sad.

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