Albums you played tirelessly, as a kid.

I can remember jumping on my bed and feeling pretty sneaky because I got into my brother's albums, and the song I loved to jump on my bed to was by the 5th Dimension. I scratched his album all up playing it so much!

Up, Up, and Away!

Rainbow - the first album and also Rising and Long Live Rock and Roll...also KISS ALIVE II....the first Van Halen album....

I was thinking about this one a couple of days ago. It has never made it to CD which is tragic. And they are not likely to press anymore vinyl copies either or I would buy one for sure. My older brother gave this one to me for Christmas in 1974, and it was the first April Wine album I had ever listened to and remains my favorite even now. I managed to find two versions online, a cassette transfer that is good, but the damn idiot used the Dolby NR when he converted it to digital so it's a little flat sounding but better than nothing.

And a vinyl rip someone posted a couple of months ago, but after the third song the pops and clicks are so bad I couldn't play the whole album,,,one thing I do not miss about the days of vinyl are worn out records, there is nothing you can do about it even the best software cannot completely remove the noise and keep the original recording intact.(Except maybe the Smithsonian Institute, there are some of the best engineers in the business who invented a device that is amazing, they are re-recording every album ever released in the US and adding it to the Congressional Music Archives to preserve it forever.)

April Wine Live!

Van Halen - Any album prior to 1981 (when I graduated)

Ted Nugent - You name it.

Led Zepplin - You name it.

Tom Petty - You're Gonna Get it!/Damn The Torpedoes

AC/DC - Highway To Hell/ Back In Black

Elton John - Honky Chateau (the first album I ever bought)/Greatest Hits

KISS - ALIVE!/Destroyer/Rock and Roll Over/Love Gun

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive

The Rolling Stones - Some Girls

Queen - News of the World/Jazz

Journey - Infinity/Evolution/Departure

Steve Miller Band - Book of Dreams

Styx - Grand Illusion/Cornerstone

Supertramp - Breakfast In America

R.E.O. Speedwagon - High Infidelity/You Get What You Play For

this list will probably show my age

1) Blink 182-Dude Ranch and Emmena of The State
2) Korn-Issues and Follow the Leader
3) Papa Roach-Infest
4) Third Eye Blind-Self Titled
5) Rage Against the Machine-Battle of Los Angeles

All on 8-Track..

I've been meaning to collect 8-track cartridges for a long time.

The first time I used one, I listened to Pat Benatar's "Crimes of Passion" - an album I was totally hooked on as a kid.

These made quite an impression on me in the late 60's, and on many others apparently...

Beatles Sgt Pepper
Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced / Axis-Bold as Love / Electric Ladyland
Cream / Disraeli Gears
Rolling Stones Through the Past, Darkly.../ Beggars Banquet
John Mayall - Bare Wires / Laurel Canyon
Led Zeppelin 1
Led Zeppelin 2

Us small group of schoolboys would meet at a friend's house where his parents' treasured stereo radiogram was, this was put to use to unlock the above albums, sitting in a smoke filled room isolated from the pressures of our small world and dream...

Records were an expensive luxury in those days and we would pool our hard earned money to buy them, i remember there were not many of releases in those days but looking at the records in my rack there were a lot more than i buy today - 1968; 25 albums, 1969; 48, 1970;57 and in 1971; 57 album releases - certainly my golden age !

1970's...

Genesis - Trespass / Nursery Cryme
Deep Purple in Rock / Fireball
Black Sabbath / Paranoid
Beatles - Let it Be
Stray
Groundhogs - Split
Led Zeppelin 3


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Back In Black - AC/DC (first album/band that I got into excessively lol)

that's really the only album I've had since I was a kid so...

Meet The Beatles
Something Special The Beatles
Abbey Road The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour, aah, all their LP's
Argent
Greatest Hits/The Four Tops
Greatest Hits/The Temptations
Cloud Nine/The temptations
Greatest Hits The Supremes
Import version of Dave Clark %'s hits
Led Zep I and II
Spirit The Family That Plays Together
Vanilla Fudge
All of CCR's LP's
Hall & Oates, take yer pick

happy you didn't ask about 45's, I'd never be able to name the over 800 titles I had (my daughter has them)