What was your first rock album?

[VH4_BigRig]

First fav rock album ever- The Police's Greatest Hits (my dad's). First rock album purchased on my own? Green Day's Dookie- on cassette, because CD was too expensive.

 

[Michi]

Hmmm... first fav rock kinda albums were 2 compilation cassettes my dad had, by The Beatles and The Shadows. Still love both bands !

I think the first rock albums I had on tape were Kiss: Animalize and WASP: WASP, you know 90 minutes BASF tape recorded with a double deck from your friends friends tape. I'm quite sure the first album I ever bought was Maiden's Powerslave in the spring of 1985 in the tender age of 12 .

 

[stdio]

Highway to Hell - Summer after 6th grade 1980.

Parents didn't hate it as much as Back In Black.

 

[Mesa\Kramer]

 

[SFW]

Def Leppard's Pyromania. Still one of my all time favorites.

 

[chrisrocksusa]

Boston's 'Third Stage' album.

still one of my favorites to date.

 

[JackBootedThug]

Kiss - Double Platinum on vinyl.

Which equated to 2 records for $5.99

i had it on 8-track.

 

[PeteLaramee]

Kiss - Rock & Roll Over

 

[Aristocat]

Van Halen 1/Aerosmith Draw The Line.

Both were given as a gift at the same time.

 

[Philo Beddoe]

My first concert also..Fall of 1979..my ears are still ringing 34 years later but the best concert I've ever been to..

 

[fuzzyguitars]

Pat benatar in the heat of the night

 

[nevusofota]

Quiet Riot.......Metal Health

 

[university81]

The very first rock album I can remember listening to was Guns 'n' Roses "Appetite for Destruction" on cassette thanks to my brother. I couldn't have been older than 5 (born in '84). To this day it is still in my top 5 of all time. What was your first rock album?

same one actually =0 was 7 or 8 at the time, somehow my sister got lent the cassette for the album, artwork drew me in and paradise city when it sped up kicked my ass to want to play guitar

 

[dooredge]

 

[Gorehog]

Kiss-hotter than hell in '77. 8 yrs old. Still love it!!

 

[TrueTone500]

 

[RedRider]

Kiss Destroyer - on 8 track

Me too...but on Vinyl...loved GOT!!!

 

[joepete77]

My first record was the blues brothers on vinyl. My first record bought with my own dough was either weird Al's first record or Huey Lewis sports on vinyl
Next I stole a copy of my older sisters sex pistols never mind the bullocks on cassette and I was hooked! Was only like ten yrs old.

 

[Red_Label]

First one I can remember that made an impact on me was either Kiss Alive II or Aerosmith: Live Bootleg. Loved both of those albums. Wasn't long after that, that Rush's "Moving Pictures", Ozzy's "Diary of a Madman", and VH's "Diver Down" made bigger impressions on me and more influenced me to be a musician. Picked those up on my first Columbia Records and Tapes membership. Wore 'em all out! Especially Moving Pictures (and Rush is my all-time favorite band).

But as a 10 year old kid in the late 70s... Kiss Alive II was truly a bigger than life album for me. In fact, my parents didn't care for that and threw my album away. So what did I do? I walked about 5 miles on a snowy, wintery day to my local Gibson's and bought another! They saw they were fighting a losing battle after that and left me to my own devices. LOL...

 

[Red_Label]

The very first rock album I can remember listening to was Guns 'n' Roses "Appetite for Destruction" on cassette thanks to my brother. I couldn't have been older than 5 (born in '84). To this day it is still in my top 5 of all time. What was your first rock album?

same one actually =0 was 7 or 8 at the time, somehow my sister got lent the cassette for the album, artwork drew me in and paradise city when it sped up kicked my ass to want to play guitar

I was playing in a local band in the 80s and we used to rent this storage space that we used for our rehearsal space. So one Friday night I pry this sticky (spilled beer), nasty, dirty album off of the concrete floor and it looked pretty interesting. Our drummer had bought it right when it came out and threw it on the floor, where it stayed for almost a year. So I put it on for a spin and between Sweet Child and Jungle I was thinking "hey... this is pretty bitchin". Within six months Sweet Child was on the radio constantly, and we had been playing it in the bars for a while and I didn't care for them as much. Still... I get why people dug it so much. It was a nice change from the anti-slick/polished butt rock that we'd been ingesting and playing for over half a decade beforehand.