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Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
This is the first album I remember ever laying eyes on. It was my mother's, although she doesn't remember ever owning it. I played it over and over and over and over. If I had to pick one, I'd say its probably my favourite album ever.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
This is the first album I ever bought with my own money. I got it in 1979 just after The Wall was released. The Wall soon followed.
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Around the same time I bought my first album, I discovered this gem in my step-father's car. (cassette) Of course I'd heard The Beatles on the radio while I was growing up, but I had never heard an entire album of theirs. I recognized Come Together, Something and Here Comes The Sun, but I had never heard any of the other songs. As you can imagine, I fell in love with it. I remember listening to it over and over on a portable cassette player in a fort I built in the basement. This is a very close second for my favourite album.
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Heard it for the first time in 1981 and I remember thinking, "wow. This sure is different." After a few listens, I was hooked. I never actually owned it until I was much older, but me and a buddy would play it when his older brother wasn't home. Later that year I talked my mother into getting me a ticket to my first concert: Frank Zappa at Shea's Theater in November 1981. I was 14 years old. I saw him again three years later.
AC/DC - Back In Black
I heard You Shook Me All Night Long on Casey Kasum's America's Top Forty in 1980. This was my introduction to hard rock. I'd never even heard of AC/DC before then. This, of course led to Judas Priest, Ozzy, the Stones, Zeppelin and a few other great bands.
This all pretty much happened between 1979 and 1981, with the exception of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road which I probably first heard around 1976.
This is the first album I remember ever laying eyes on. It was my mother's, although she doesn't remember ever owning it. I played it over and over and over and over. If I had to pick one, I'd say its probably my favourite album ever.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
This is the first album I ever bought with my own money. I got it in 1979 just after The Wall was released. The Wall soon followed.
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Around the same time I bought my first album, I discovered this gem in my step-father's car. (cassette) Of course I'd heard The Beatles on the radio while I was growing up, but I had never heard an entire album of theirs. I recognized Come Together, Something and Here Comes The Sun, but I had never heard any of the other songs. As you can imagine, I fell in love with it. I remember listening to it over and over on a portable cassette player in a fort I built in the basement. This is a very close second for my favourite album.
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Heard it for the first time in 1981 and I remember thinking, "wow. This sure is different." After a few listens, I was hooked. I never actually owned it until I was much older, but me and a buddy would play it when his older brother wasn't home. Later that year I talked my mother into getting me a ticket to my first concert: Frank Zappa at Shea's Theater in November 1981. I was 14 years old. I saw him again three years later.
AC/DC - Back In Black
I heard You Shook Me All Night Long on Casey Kasum's America's Top Forty in 1980. This was my introduction to hard rock. I'd never even heard of AC/DC before then. This, of course led to Judas Priest, Ozzy, the Stones, Zeppelin and a few other great bands.
This all pretty much happened between 1979 and 1981, with the exception of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road which I probably first heard around 1976.