Who was your 1st?

[Hellsinkey]

Queen- s/t

[Tommy2Tone84]

David Lee Roth's Eat 'Em and Smile. I saw the "Yankee Rose" video and was like "Are you shitting me with this?" I thought it was the greatest thing. Steve Vai was SUPERHUMAN to me.

A little after that would've been Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet and Stryper's To Hell with the Devil. (All cassettes. My parents thought vinyl records in 1986/1987 were a waste of money. )

I still think "Calling on You" is a pretty good song.

Chip, well done

Steve Vai is superhuman

SWW is 10/10

Stryper were cheesy but could play and write. COY was good, I was partial to Free. Haven’t listened to them in years.

[Wednesday 13 Fan]

Defenders of the Faith....1994 but I stole that one so I'm not sure that counts.

From a store, or another person?

A friend and I would go car shopping after school and steal the jocks stuff. We didn't have anything against them, but they were the only ones still at the school. You would be surprised by how much metal was still in small town high schools, or at least that one in 1994.

[Spongie]

Kinda hard to believe nobody’s claimed the Star Wars movie soundtrack yet. Step forward, dork.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Defenders of the Faith....1994 but I stole that one so I'm not sure that counts.

From a store, or another person?

A friend and I would go car shopping after school and steal the jocks stuff. We didn't have anything against them, but they were the only ones still at the school. You would be surprised by how much metal was still in small town high schools, or at least that one in 1994.

I was going to say that it mightve been tough finding a copy of that in a record store in 94.

[Sleek]

The U.S. Sweet single that had Ballroom Blitz on one side and Fox on the Run on the other.

So...I peaked early...

[cc117]

I got hand me down copies of KISS Alive! and Destroyer. The first new release I bought with my own money was Dynasty.

[GreatWhiteSnake]

The U.S. Sweet single that had Ballroom Blitz on one side and Fox on the Run on the other.

So...I peaked early...

Greatest .45 ever?

My first handful of .45s included The Eagles -New Kid in Town/Victim of Love, ELO - Livin' Thing/Ma Ma Ma Belle, Barry Manilow - Weekend in New England/??, Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night/??. FIrst LP was Yellow Brick Road...

[eddie lee roth]

Angie Dickinson - Dressed to Kill

[HottKarl777]

Kinda hard to believe nobody’s claimed the Star Wars movie soundtrack yet. Step forward, dork.

I would be that dork. It was Stars Wars and Other Galactic Funk by Meco in 1977.

[FreddyFender]

One of those K-Tel compilation LPs with children's songs.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Angie Dickinson - Dressed to Kill

That wasn't her.

[whiteowl yesterday]

too many years and too many beers ago to remember my first.

[St_Augustines_Pears]

Quiet Riot's Metal Health

[bill_kir]

first album i bought with my own money was Ktel's the Rock Album, still have it and still a solid track listing

[CrankerBait]

Didn't need to get my own albums for a while because my parents had a great - combined, later separate - collection: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, CSNY, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Joe Cocker, etc.

Started getting my own vinyl albums when I was around 10. American Fool and Toto IV were two of the first, but I can't remember the exact order. Synchronicity was my first cassette, quickly followed by Pyromania and Let's Dance. You can thank the Sony Walkman - a blue WM-4, I believe - for the change in format.

[Van Ailin']

Rocky III soundtrack with "Eye of the Tiger" as the lead track.

[Metal Heart]

My first album was Partridge Family "Sound Magazine". I was 9 at the time. Then I was able to get "The Partridge Family Album" and "Up to Date." There are some really good 70's soft rock / pop songs on those Partridge albums. I still listen to them occasionally. Later I got into Linda Ronstadt and Eagles. My first hard rock album was "Toys in the Attic" because I loved "Walk This Way." It was on the radio every hour. Aerosmith propelled me into hard rock and metal.