Your first single?

[Vista]

I guess in the days of cheap and easy downloads, the first record people buy now may not stick in the memory the way it did with older generations. Any younger folks on here say different?

 

Anyway, I digress. In my experience, first record purchases can later prove different to the music you go on to enjoy, and in fact often a little embarrassing.

 

Me? It was 1976 and I remember hearing Britain's answer to ABBA on the crackly AM radio in my Dad's mk3 Cortina and knew I HAD to have the single.

 

 

:blush:

 

I think I redeemed myself slightly a few years later with this South African (Clout, I kid you not) girl band's biggest UK hit.

 

 

And then I changed tack completely and just about every record I bought in the 80's was heavy rock :rock:

 

Anyone else got any cheesey skeletons on the music cupboard?

[SmokeEm]

As you know Scott, I really don't 'do' music as a whole, but I do remember the very 1st single I bought like it was yesterday.. Ghost Town by The Specials. No idea of year but as I was born in 1970, I would say it was about 1979? I know it was current No1.

 

Today, the only music I will listen to is either Coldplay or the BeeGees with a bit of Bastille or Dire Straits on the side

[Vista]

Ghost Town is definitely a more illustrious start than me! It was 1981 though.

 

[dalmarshall]

I remember buying my first single....err ........Soft Cell, Say Hello Wave Goodbye. TBH (attempting to form some sort of defence!!) I was drawn to it by the cover, literally. I wanted to copy the cover in pencil.

Sometimes you forget important stuff but hold onto the strangest memories lol!!

 

 

I also remember buying Showaddywaddy's greatest hits, that was cool lol!!

 

 

[katana]

Jeez you lot make me feel old........... Mine was 'Blockbuster' by The Sweet - 1973!

[colr6]

All you whippersnappers, don't remember them doing 'singles' in 78s ?.......LOL

[khanlad]

I can't remember my first single but I did buy the kids from fame album, I'll get my coat!

[dalmarshall]

Dear lord paul, i thought i was bad admitting soft cell lol!!!

[colr6]

I can't remember my first single but I did buy the kids from fame album, I'll get my coat!

If anybody asks I don't know you!!.......kids from fame I ask you, ...dear oh dear

[khanlad]

Can I have it back when you've finished with it col? Some of the soft cell stuff was ok, tainted love with the baby love bit sampled at the end was good?

[khanlad]

I've got fame again too, that was like the follow on album because the first one did so well! I bet you're all deny watching too !

[colr6]

I've got fame again too, that was like the follow on album because the first one did so well! I bet you're all deny watching too !

How can it have done so well ? It only sold one of each and you got both of them !!.....your unique

[khanlad]

Hey kids from fame was big TV when I was a youth! I bet secretly col you had some Leroy ankle warmer things!

[Vista]

All you whippersnappers, don't remember them doing 'singles' in 78s ?.......LOL

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess that yours was this, but played on one of these

 

 

 

[colr6]

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess that yours was this, but played on one of these http://youtu.be/Mz4lKSaxsBI

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The thing they have in connection with today's music is when they wanted winding up again they produced the music of today, can't understand a bloody word and its crap

[Vista]

the music of today, can't understand a bloody word and its crap

Amen to that!

[khanlad]

Something we agree on!

[Vista]

The thing they have in connection with today's music is when they wanted winding up again they produced the music of today, can't understand a bloody word and its crap

Here's another thing about today's music artists, how many of them will stand the distance?

 

For example, in 1965, Judith Durham and the Seekers. No auto tune and Her voice and tone pitch perfect and beautifully clear:

 

 

45 years later, yes that's nearly half a century later! Still nails it live on stage!

 

[colr6]

Singers of yesteryear could SING and not have to be digitally enhanced, bit like photo shopping a pic to make it what it's not !

[accord83]

I was 12,

[Vista]

I was 12,

 

 

I remember that but haven't the faintest idea why, when or where from

[khanlad]

If anybody asks I don't know you!!.......kids from fame I ask you, ...dear oh dear

Hang on a minute, you've got an mgb! Now who doesn't know who?

 

 

 

 

Freak!!!!!!!!!

[Vista]

Hang on a minute, you've got an mgb! Now who doesn't know who?

 

 

 

 

Freak!!!!!!!!!

 

 

A fair shout I'd say

[JP.]

[Herr Doktor]

God awful song but this was my first single