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Not in any order, except for the first five, the rest were among my first ones I owned in the first year that I started buying music of my own:

1. Steve Miller Band - "Fly Like an Eagle"
2. A various artists collection that I can't remember the title of but it had stuff like The Carpenters "Kind of Hush" and Atlanta Rhythm Section - "So Into You" on it.  I bought it from a travelling vendor that came into the service station where I worked.
3. 10cc - "The Original Soundtrack"
4. The Eagles - "On the Border"
5. Bread - "The Best of Bread Vol. 2"
6. Chicago - "Chicago II"
7. Blue Oyster Cult - "Agents of Fortune"
8. America - "History: America's Greatest Hits"
9. King Crimson - "A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson" (The Half-Speed Master which I wish I still had on vinyl.  For the longest time, it was the only KC album I owned, but I was very fascinated with)
10. The Doobie Brothers - "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits"

It was in the next year that I became friends with a guy that worked in a music store in the mall and he started introducing me to more progressive music.  I didn't know what progressive meant back then, but I know I loved it.  I was also introduced to Rush and U.K. through Columbia House and write-ups that they had printed about them in their catalog.


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Very hard to remember, probably

Rainbow - Rising
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Saxon - Denim and Leather
Motorhead - Overkill
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
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Cant remember exactly but I started work in 76 and that summer bought

Beach Boys compilation
Floyd DSOTM
Supertramp COTC
Led Zep first 4 albums
Yes Fragile ( already had CTTE).
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Genesi NC and FT
10cc TOS.
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Hmm, this is tough but 

The Band-s/t-my first because I won it!
Three Dog Night - It Ain't Easy - the first one I bought
Mouth and MacNeil - How do you do
Juke Box Jive - ktel collection

and then started getting into prog

Procol Harum - s/t and Best of
Cat Stevens - Foreigner and Tea for the Tillerman
Strawbs - Grave New World and Bursting at the Seams
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Hi,

Starting in 1964, though!

Starting in Brazil:
Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
Beatles - Help

and then in the US:
Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrils
Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Credence Clearwater Revival - First
Procol Harum - First
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Steve Miller Band (first)



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As best as I can remember and not in correct order,

1. BÖC - Fire of Unknown Origin
2. Zebra - s/t
3. Rush - Moving Pictures
4. Tangerine Dream - Exit
5. Peter Gabriel - Melt
6. Peter Gabriel - Security
7. Rush - Signals
8. Rush - Grace Under Pressure
7. BÖC - Revolution by Night
9. BÖC - Cultösaurus Erectus
10. Zebra - No Telling Lies

I mostly stuck with the same bands I liked early on and had cassettes of albums I recorded from albums I borrowed.
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10?! I don't remember exactly, let's see

Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying
Black Sabbath - a compilation on cassette, I don't even know if it was official, but it was great! Tongue
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Led Zeppelin - I
KISS - Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
King Diamond - Abigail (and then the rest of classic KD, I was a big fan as a teen)
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Ozzy Osbourne - No more Tears
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Metallica - ... and Justice for All

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Owned by daddy (+/- 69 @ age 6) but annexed by yours truly
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Haïr (Musical Tribes) - OST

Bought as a gift by mommy (+/- 72):
Aqualung (she was horrified at Eyeing little girls with bad intent, snot running down his nose, and My god).

Bought with my own money (summer 74 & onwards and more or less in that order @age 11
Harmonium's début (then Fifth Season, as soon as it came out)
Crime of The Century
Dark Side of The Moon (then Meddle & AHM, then WYWH once it came out)
Thick As A Brick
Grey & Pink
In The Court
Selling England
In Rock
Argus
Abbey Road
Hot Rocks


BTW, I can never thank enough Mississauga's Records On Wheel's manager (he looked like Savoy Brown or Foghat's Roger Earle), who once I completely blew my nmind on Crime OTC, he directed me to the next albums when I asked him if there was more of that stuff.

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The first vinyl that I bought is easy to remember: MARILLION - Fugazi. A lot of Marillion followed. 

These are more or less among the early ones (certainly I don't remember them all; probably most of them I don't have anymore):

TALK TALK - The Colour of Spring
KATE BUSH - The Whole Story
PETER GABRIEL - Plays Live
DIRE STRAITS - Alchemy
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
THE CURE - Standing on a Beach
YES - Yesshows
TWELFTH NIGHT - Live and Let Live

Funny how many live albums I bought at the early days (c. 1985-7), because later on I have very rarely bought them.

The first 70's album I ordered was GENESIS - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, in the spring of 1987. After that, most of my vinyls were from the 70's.


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I believe mine were in terms of listening to are: 

Disraeli Gears - Cream
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
DSOTM - Pink Floyd
ITCOTCK - King Crimson
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Animals - Pink Floyd
Foxtrot - Genesis
Velvet Underground and Nico - Velvet Underground 
Red - King Crimson
Larks Toungues in Aspic - King Crimson
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Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Deep Purple - Machine Head
AC/DC - Back in Black
Deep Purple - In Rock
Eric Clapton - Time Pieces: The Best of Eric Clapton
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Dream Theater - Images and Words
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Wow! Not sure I can remember! Probably:
Carpenters Carpenters
Carpenters Close to You
Elton John Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player
Wings Band on the Run
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Jesus Christ Superstar Original Cast
Jethro Tull A Passion Play
Devadip Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Love Devotion Surrender 
Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill
Steely Dan Pretzel Logic

or something like that.... Before that I only collected 45s.



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Some of these I was given or were bought for me, other ones I bought.

1. The Beatles - 1962-1966
2. The Beatles - 1967-1970
3. The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964-1971
4. Queen - Greatest Hits
5. Daft Punk - Tron: Legacy
6. Daft Punk - Tron: Legacy Reconfigured
(those ones were all given to me digitally by a friend from their iTunes in 8th grade)
7. Queen - Queen
8. Queen - Queen II
9. Rush - 2112
10. Rush - Clockwork Angels
(these ones were all purchased by me on iTunes the summer before I started high school)

Ah, but if we go just by the first albums I myself bought it's a slightly different story:

1. Queen - Queen
2. Queen - Queen II
3. Rush - 2112
4. Rush - Clockwork Angels
5. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
6. Muse - The Resistance
7. Queen - A Day At The Races
8. Muse - The 2nd Law
9. Rush - Permanent Waves
10. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry

I was going in order with Rush and Queen, and I had A Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres, and A Night At The Opera given to me by my parents after asking for them.  
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Well, counting the cassettes that I had from an early age, the very first was:

1. Men at Work, Cargo (that I nearly wore out on my Walkman ate age 12-13, because It was all I had). 

2 and 3:  Rush, Moving Pictures and 2112 (introduced to me on each side of one cassette)

From there I don't completely remember the order, but something like:

4. Rush, Grace Under Pressure (cassette)

5. Yes, 90125

6. Rush, Power Windows

7. U2, Joshua Tree

8. Paul Simon, Graceland

9. Yes, Big Generator

10. Yes, Classic Yes
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Only counting the ones I actually bought and weren't given to me by my dad who didn't want them anymore:
1. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
2. Pink Floyd - The Wall
3. Rush - 2112
4. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

After that I honestly don't remember (and it's not even been 10 years since I started collecting; gee...)
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

Pink Floyd - Relics (pocket money bargain!!)


That was my first album purchase too - I can't remember what I bought after that or in what order - after all my memory is not so good 50 years later!
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Hmm… hard to recall exactly but these were all at or close to the beginning

Moody Blues | On the Threshold …. & To Our Children’s…..
Moody Blues | This is the Moody Blues
Moody Blues | Octave
The Beatles | 1967-1970
Wings - Greatest
Wings | Venus & Mars
Beatles | White Album
Pink Floyd | Meddle
Blue Oyster Cult | Fire of Unknown Origin
ELO | Face the Music
Beatles | Meet the Beatles

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I can only remember the first 3. In this order:

Judas Priest - Killing Machine (Red Vinyl)
Rainbow - Down to Earth
Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Over the years I somehow lost Down to Earth, but have rebought it since.
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That's a long time ago!

I can remember buying two albums by Waldo De Los Rios, the guy who recorded classical music with a beat. Symphonies for the Seventies and Mozart in the Seventies. I also bought two T Rex albums in 1972, a compilation called Bolan Boogie, and The Slider. My fifth purchase I think was Argus by Wishbone Ash (on cassette). I can't remember what order I bought albums in after that.
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I know, for sure, the first three, as I ordered them from the now defunct "Record Club of America" =

King Crimson, "In the Wake of Poseidon" 
CSNY, "Deja Vu" 
Led Zeppelin, "III" 

Subsequent albums would likely have included:

Alice Cooper, "School's Out" 
Yes, "The Yes Album" 
Captain Beyond, "Captain Beyond" 
Flash and "In The Can" 
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