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Right Im twatting about on spotify and talking about the first single I bought (for those of a younger age a single was a small pices of plastic with a couple of songs on it) Im not sure which was first but here's my first 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDhWlxBOfeE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4J-EVxMcd0

So I am a bb boy who likes football.  Hmm.

Im sure we've done this before.  But lets do it again.

Funnily enough I was thinking about this the other day and think the first single I bought was 'Somebody to Love' by Queen.  Though I  can remember back in the early 70's, buying the cheap Top of the pops LP's you could get from Woolies for 49p, think these days you'd call them cover bands, and Most of them sounded nothing like the original groups/singer. They always had some scantily clad female form on the cover in a provocative pose, like soft porn to us early teens back then.

I had to google it.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=top+of+the+pops+lps&hl=en&biw=1028&bih=580&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7QT0TfWpCIWBhQeW2YzgBg&sqi=2&ved=0CDoQsAQ (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=top+of+the+pops+lps&hl=en&biw=1028&bih=580&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7QT0TfWpCIWBhQeW2YzgBg&sqi=2&ved=0CDoQsAQ)

I dont know,it wouldnt have been very cool though.

Soul II Soul - Keep On Moving was the first single I bought, and Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline picture disc was the first album I got.  Both from the "our price" which was a couple of yards from mcilroys.

Good times!

I remember I didn't really listen to much music until I started secondary school. Just as 1994 was starting, a new band called Oasis were emerging and this was their first single released in April 1994. I was 12 years old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p29MG7wn4F8

I liked their hair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

facied the pants off her too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyRU0fKHAY

Kylie Minogue, I should be so lucky...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnOvjWXhpkI

Either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ICuHfw5w7k&feature=related

Or:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU4hKBK_w24

I'm proud of neither!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkKX035484

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIBnYMltl0U

Still own it...

[url width=480 height=314]http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f208/RWDP1983/hhh.jpg?t=1307870086[/url]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhoU7lINYxk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqnSY_ctXoE

This was my first album, i didnt buy it though. My parents did as i loved the song  :doh:



Edit: Just seen the album thread, sorry  :doh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaBUr2f9Yxg

First record  I bought with my own money: Madness, Wings of a Dove. From WH Smith Cirencester

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6GR7NHsa94

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzdcFEHre4Y     (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzdcFEHre4Y)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x0UV1X1SlQ

Not one of his best but my first,played it and the reverse side untill to death.

First record I bought for my own money:

A-HA - "Hunting High and Low"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6VaeFCxta8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6VaeFCxta8)

Not the most well-known of singles - hadn't heard it for a long while before searching here:

Don't know why the picture says 1964 - it was 1973

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrw0mFltas&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrw0mFltas&feature=related)

Probably sang it on TV and gigs long before they released it in 1973.

Excuse = I was 9 years old and didn't know any better.

On cassette tape 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b74A7BP6Rvo

Blimey! :eek:

If anything deserves a ban,this does ;D

 :eek:

That explains everything!

My mum often reminds me that I was obsessed with Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson when it was re-released in late '86 (I was 3 years old).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ3-NnNx6Zs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrrch43CweU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrrch43CweU)

In 1963 and it cost me 5 shillings and 8 old pennies!  :-[

Abba - The Album off Warminster Market in the 70s....theres a Morrisons there now...

my mum bought me "Ossie goes to Wembley" when I was 8.

Yes its shit  - but it provides my standard response to the question "Do you have a criminal record ?"

party fears 2 by the associates and i second that emotion by japan,from suttons records in salisbury..happy days

Earth Song - Michael Jackson 8)

Think it was Gangsta's paradise

Girls School by Wings. Unfortunately it had Mull of Kintyre as the double A side...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNktqyj5s3E

Ally's Tartan Army by Andy Cameron from the shop by Brunel Rooms on the corner of the Brunel Plaza that quite often had special offers on singles. It was either there, Woolworths or Rhapsody I bought my singles until Music Market (later Our Price) arrived.

unforgiven........that Robson Green is in the highest order.....I wish i was a big catfish , i would drag the cunt under!

Early 80's cheese at it's finest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc

I bought my 1st couple of records with my first weeks youth opportunity scheme wages, too much too young:the specials.and going underground: jam. Still like the early 80's music today.

Just found a great site for those who want to remember old songs,films etc. It's www.wwwk.co.uk ( when we were kids ) I find it interesting anyway !