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What was the first record/cd/etc you bought?

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ShyTalk · 15/03/2009 21:12

Mine was War by Edwin Starr. This sounds quite cool, but wasn't - I stood terrified with my friend in the record shop. She told me to buy that and then we could get out, so I did. Circa 1975. Took me a number of years to appreciate the song.

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ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 15/03/2009 22:58

girls on film - duran duran still ove that album!

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ShyTalk · 15/03/2009 22:59

hester, it always starts cool. It's always downhill after being cool. Sorry.

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christywhisty · 15/03/2009 23:00

I think it was a David Cassidy/Partridge family one.
It was an ex juke box one you could buy for 15p and had the middle missing

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ShyTalk · 15/03/2009 23:03

I remember those with the middle missing - you could buy the middles from record shops. Like a sort of spiral with three arms?

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SlightlyMadScotland · 15/03/2009 23:04

My record dec had a disc thing that would accomodate the missing middle.

My father used to do loads of odd jiobs for the local pub so I used to get loads with the middle missing for nowt.

KerryMumbles · 15/03/2009 23:06

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CompareTheMeerkat · 15/03/2009 23:07

An album by 5 star

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ShyTalk · 15/03/2009 23:09

I remember a misprinted flyer at Uni that advertised Gary Numan as Gary Human

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GypsyMoth · 15/03/2009 23:09

Walking in the rain by modern romance! Have just downloaded it for old times sake!!

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ShyTalk · 15/03/2009 23:12

Ooh, walking in the rain - you have softened this tough old bird

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GypsyMoth · 15/03/2009 23:15

Yeah,came over all dreamy......I was 15 again dancing with some gandgly third year......teachers hiding behind the long curtains in the hall with mugs of tea......waiting to pounce on anyone snogging'!!!

EyeballsintheSky · 15/03/2009 23:21

Ignoring the Wombles stuff other people bought me when I was tiny, my first real single purchase was Blondie - Denis. I was five and my uncle took me to the shop to buy it. Think we played for a whole weekend straight!

DontCallMeBaby · 15/03/2009 23:24

First vinyl album was Psychocandy by the Jesus and Mary Chain - with an eye to value for money I didn't tend to buy many singles. I still have it.

But I was 12 or 13 by then, a latecomer to vinyl, I'd had tapes before that, first tape I bought would have been either Adam and the Ants (Kings of the Wild Frontier, I think), or the soundtrack to Fame.

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ShyTalk · 15/03/2009 23:35

Heavens, he was very young and beautiful then. What most attracted me was the excellent and appropriate use of English. I've always been a bit of a numty about language.

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ShyTalk · 15/03/2009 23:39

Sorry, the young and beautiful was Adam Ant, but the post I was replying to seems to have disappeared!

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ShyTalk · 15/03/2009 23:42

Denis - it is quite a sexy single. I trust, at 5 yrs, you just liked the music?

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ShyTalk · 15/03/2009 23:45

Why do posts suddenly vanish? Does anyone know?

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InSearchOfLostKeys · 16/03/2009 00:01

'Pass the Dutchie' by Musical Youth. I was 5 or 6 and begged my mum to buy it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc

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ShyTalk · 16/03/2009 00:04

Pass the Dutchie - I loved that. Did she buy it?

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InSearchOfLostKeys · 16/03/2009 00:04

Yes, still have it!

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ShyTalk · 16/03/2009 00:09

I've just had a moment - "Rio" by Duran Duran. I was beginning an "unwise relationship" right then. I was driving to an assignation and that was on the car radio. That song will always mean infidelity (and delicious excitement). Ooer.

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themoon66 · 16/03/2009 00:11

Wig Wam Bam... Sweet. Drove my parents nuts by playing it at least 30 times a day.

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ShyTalk · 16/03/2009 00:15

at Wig Wam Bam 30 times a day! And they let you?

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InSearchOfLostKeys · 16/03/2009 00:18

Feeling all nostalgic now. I loved 'Heart of Glass' & 'Denis' on my mum's Blondie album, & The Specials 'Ghost town' (there was a skeleton playing the piano on the cover that scared me) didn't have to buy those. My mum was a very young mum...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXhWaRCZ7U0&feature=related

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4

Going to bed now or I'll be youtubing all night

EyeballsintheSky · 16/03/2009 00:19

LOL yes just liked the music although I can't vouch for my uncle's motives. He would have been about 17 at the time... . Have been a massive Blondie fan ever since and I detest that song now!!