all you 'older MNers' who would have received LP's for xmas........which one would take you back to a christmas of your teens???

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mine is the pet shop boys LP that had 'shopping' on it, the first Aha album (take on me/sun always shines on tv), and bonjovi (slippery when wet).

I got each LP at xmas when I was 13/14/15 (one per year).

what was yours???

oh it would have to be depeche mode for me

oooh depeche mode.

I had the depeche mode on dc a few years back from DH..

you know what tho, cds at xmas is nothing like it was when we opened our LP IMHO. I actually feel quite sorry for our teens, never knowing the thrill (and smell.......they actually carried a smell didn;t they) of a new LP.....oh, and that sound of taking them out of the cover for the very first time.

not on dc.....

on CD.....

I was wondering if I'd missed out on something by never having a dc there yes, definitely something really special about opening a new LP, cds are just a bit common I think

supertramp - even in the quietest moments.

university years would have to be Spandau Ballet - GOld and Hall and Oates

Ooooh Depeche Mode. First band I ever saw live.

I'm going to go and find the tapes.

Atlantic Crossing by Rod Stewart
A Night At The Opera by Queen
Something unspeakable by the Bay City Rollers

Didn't Arrival also have the sound of the helicopter rotor blades at the start and end? Those were the days, eh?

cictrice me too oxford apollo 1985 I think

new Model Army - can't remeber teh nma now of the LP

oooh I saw them live too as a student in London, had forgotten all about them

I was a serious Teen, so the Dylan Biograph set.

As a kid stuff like Kate Bush's 'The kick inside' and whatever that famous Dire Straits record was with the Romeo and Juliet song on it and the guitar on the cover, I remember that being played in the car on Cassette on the way to visit the grandparents. My parents played them to death.

gothic santa - Vengeance?
Thunder and consolation??

Oh I loved NMA.

Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids 1982 - I think.

see, Gemini here, so every month of my teenage years had bme trying on a different personas and listening to dofferent music.

So early teens - 80s electropop and Bowie
mid teens - above, plus 70s drug-rock. Beginnings of a gothy bent. Plus good dose of Smiths, Joy Division and Indie
Late teens, all of the above plus Folk rock, Goth, grunge and metal...

late 30s. All of the above plus folk and trance

FM vixen it was no rest for the wicked, (snet dh to have a look for me)then I had vengence. NMA were so cool they were the fisrt band I saw live

oh I loved that title track''there is no rest for the wicked ones, dear god what is this evil that they must have done..''

With Justin's particular Nothern emphasis on ceretain words...

We used to hang out in the cemetery in Bradford and take appalling arty B&W pix and hope we'd bump into one of NMA and become friends...

Started with Grease, ok I'm lying, the first was Showaddawaddy. I'm old!!

Quickly moved on to Blondie's Parallel Lines, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, then Rush 2112 before going headfirst into Led Zep, Black Sabbath, ACDC etc. Didn't have many LP's as they were expensive. Was addicted to Tommy Vance (used to record it onto tape so my parents didn't hear the radio as it was 'past bedtime')

When we met, Dh had an eclectic collection which included David Bowie, Blondie, some of my stuff and ..... Haircut 100!!!! WTF!

....I had forgotten about New Model Army.

(though like most 3rd Division bands of this ilk from that time, I saw them play)

So I looked them up on You Tube, and am now trying really really hard to forget them again...

Then again, You Tube also sheds doubt on my early 80s crush on Liz Fraser of the Cocteau Twins

...I had been SURE she winked at me at the Colston Hall gig in, er, 1983ish....

The first one that comes to mind is Led Zeppelin - the one with Stairway to Heaven on it. I think Abba Arrival was my first LP though. Other Xmas presents: Rumours, the early Queen Albums, Genesis, Thin Lizzy, Bowie. Still got most of them.

Blondie 'Picture This' and Elvis Costello 'Oliver's Army' are the sound of 16-17 for me.

First one for me was Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet when i was around 14/15 IIRC.

a double album Snap--The Jam

lol retiredgoth. Wayne Hussey from the Mission winked at me and flashed his nipples at me before a gig in Bradford once.

Ah jeez, to think i was thrilled at the time.

I still like NMA's Battle of Bodmin Hill. Though, I suspect that's because it has a whiff of early Levellers about it. And I still like them :0

Lol - you mean, you could actually SEE him through all the cigarette lighters?!!

Tracy Chapman. That would really remind me of being on Brittas Beach and feeling slightly guilty about not studying for my exams.