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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Ten most memorable early album purchases back in the mid-1970's:-

Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet or On Your Knees
Camel - Moonmadness
Justin Hayward & John Lodge - Blue Jays
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
Demis Roussos - Forever and Ever
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Your tastes haven't changed much have they?

LOL  I'm not so sure about that, whatever Paul says.


Edited by David_D - January 15 2023 at 11:20
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Big 6
Pink Floyd - Animals
Genesis - Live
King Crimson - ITCOTKC
Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast
Yes - Yessongs
ELP - I've got to admit I never bought an album of them; my father had a few and I would tape them and others from friends; I only bought stuff when there were mp3/flac files around

Before those I had
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales and Bombers (and more of them)
The Beatles - 1967-1970 (and more of them)

Pink Floyd Animals was the first that was not Manfred Mann and not Beatles; after that I bought lots of stuff in pretty short time from flea markets at 5 DM or so, first Tangerine Dream, Can, Amon Duul II, Camel, Renaissance, Cure, Comsat Angels and many others within probably half a year.
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I had loads of tapes initially, a real mix of heavy metal, Mike oldfield, Rick Wakeman, Camel, Focus etc recorded from my older brother and mates older siblings but the first vinyl lps i bought with my own money from summer jobs as a teenager were:

Hawkwind 1st lp
Barclay James Harvest Live tapes
Camel A live record
Genesis Seconds out
Pink Floyd Animals
Blue Oyster Cult Cultosaurus Erectus
Rush A farewell to Kings 
Roy Harper Bullinamingvase (one of those days in England)
Caravan Land of Grey and pink
Steve Hillage Green

and loads of others that flooded in from second hand and junk shops once i got the bug! At a quid a throw i could afford to try lots of things on spec.

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My first purchases were (between maybe '83, as the earliest, and '91):

Pink Floyd - Relics (vinyl)
The Who - It's Hard (cassette tape)
Yes - Fragile (cassette tape)
Pink Floyd - Animals (cassette tape)
Rush - Hemispheres (cassette tape)
Kitaro - Oasis (cassette tape)
Laurie Anderson - Big Science (cassette tape)
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (CD)
Kate Bush - Lionheart (CD)
A few Clannad albums (CDs)
Supertramp - Crime of the Century (CD)

If going outside what is in PA, then I would include Bauhaus, various Enya albums, and some other things in that period. Most of the music I listened to were from my older brothers' extensive collections, and my friends and their older brothers collections when I was a youth in the 80s. And I had many albums that had been given to me (various Led Zep's, Gary Numan's, Alan Parsons Projects, The Cure's....)
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Strange as it may seem, I didn't own any albums by the so-called Big Six back in the seventies. Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Strange as it may seem, I didn't own any albums by the so-called Big Six back in the seventies. Embarrassed

Whatever to think about it, those were close to

Camel - Moonmadness
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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My "first" encounters with the Big 6:

Yes - Fragile
ELP - Tarkus
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Genesis - Genesis Live
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