First single you bought.

[Atticus_Finch]

Continuing the music theme.

My first single was Ghost Town by The Specials. Limited edition with a skeleton playing a piano on the front cover.
Thought I was the business.

 

[viscount17]

It might as well rain until September - Carole King
(no idea why now though. my brother had just got a dansette record player, he was heavily into Brenda Lee (he was 6ft 1 and his girlfriend was 4 ft 10 so he kept up the theme)

 

[USER1999]

first single, Smokey, Oh Carol. Don't know why, it was rubbish.
First album, Tonic for the troops by the Boomtown Rats.

 

[StuartD]

Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant

 

[johng]

Kings of the wild Frontier. Adam + The Ants.

 

[TonyN]

Think it was a Euro 96 song, cant remember though!

 

[HartleyHare]

Reward, The Teardrop Explodes.

i'm quite proud of this being my first ever single, still love it now and it's quite a cool record, considering it could have been pinky and perky, or something!!

 

[madandra]

Pink Floyd ... The Wall
or
Queen ... Don't stop me now

I t5hink I got them within a couple of weeks of each other and can't 'member which was first.

 

[The23rdman]

Ooo, I like this question beacuse mine was pretty cool too. Chaka Kahn - I Feel For You. I totally screwed up my coolness by making Showaddywaddy's greatest hits my 1st album!

 

[GB72]

Single was not too bad: Stand and Deliver, Adam and the Ants.

Did not start buying albums until much later in life but was proud that my first one was The Queen is Dead by The Smiths. That should have been in my top 5 really.

 

[Tommo21]

First single The Beach boys, "I can hear music".

First album, Cream, Disraeli Gears.

Now I’m showing my age.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

First single: Coolio, Gangsters Paradise.(don't ask why - I don't know!)
First Album: Michael Jackson, Bad.

 

[viscount17]

first album - wooden heart (there was a girl involved in that choice)

 

[haplesshacker]

I totally screwed up my coolness by making Showaddywaddy's greatest hits my 1st album!

Not sure if I should admit this, but that was the first album that I asked for from my parents when I was very young. Blue cover with pics of the band members on it if I remember correctly.

 

[Ken_A]

First single: Coolio, Gangsters Paradise.(don't ask why - I don't know!)

My first and I still think it's great!!

 

[Ken_A]

First Album - Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction

 

[Kaizer_Soze]

Rainbow - All Night Long

 

[Nico]

First single Bohemian Rhapsody.

First album, Innervisions,Stevie Wonder I still listen every now and then and every track is perfect.
Where would JK be without this period of the great Stevie's work?

 

[vig]

First one I asked for was hey jude, first one I actually bought was follow you follow me.

Many thousands followed as I started doing disco's in my mid teens, still have them in the loft. Can't bear to part with them.

 

[HTL]

Fire Starter, Prodigy. Never use to buy tapes etc I use to record the chart every Sunday and play that non stop for a week.