What Album has been in your possesion the longest (that you still enjoy)?

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Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, i am a youngin, but james-laid

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The Jets - S/T.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

weezer - the original s/t one with the blue cover and it ends with "only in dreams"

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

They Might Be Giants - Flood.

― Nick A., Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beatles - Revolver. (bought in 1975. Still one of my favorites.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Duran Duran - S/T. Obviously, it's not the same wonky old cassette tape that I bought when I was 11, it's been replaced by a nice, shiny CD, but this is the album that I've owned and consistantly liked the longest.

(OK, I went through about a year of denying my love during my fiercest punk rock stage, but grew out of that silliness pretty quickly.)

― kate, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

How about posting how long its been in your possesion, also?

Mine is Born to Run, in my possession since approximately 1984, and it sounded great on the bus to work about four months ago.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Ash - 1977

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark, you bought a Springsteen album in 1984 that wasn't Born In the U.S.A.?

As for my Beatles album, my uncle gave it to me in 1984 or 85.

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

But Mr S it hadn't come out then!!

(Oh my sides)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Actual answer - David Bowie's Station To Station probably, a Christmas present in 1987. I'm not sure how MUCH I still like it but I think I do.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Megadeth - Peace Sells

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, and probably about 13 years.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably Slint, Tweez (first pressing) or the Solution Unknown LP or the last Ignition EP or John Lennon, Imagine.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That my parents bought: the Beatles White Album
That I bought: Prince's Purple Rain

― Aaron W., Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahem.

"Keep on wombling" by the Wombles. It's their "Sgt Pepper" and I won't hear anyone say anything against it.

Cough.

― Rob M (Rob M), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

You guys aren't into the "how long it's been in your posession" thing?

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

ELO - Out of the blue. The reason gatefold sleeves were invented

Earth, Wind and Fire - I am. Now that was a great record. I think I'll nip downstairs for a blast of boogie wonderland.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

The first album I ever bought was Slade Alive, in 1972 I am pretty sure. I still love it, though it's not the same copy now, in that I found this double album version, so that's what I have now (the second live album is much less good). Same physical copy? Mott from 1973 leaps to mind, and is one of my top 10 of all time still, but I'm not absolutely sure there wasn't something else terrific in between those two.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beatles - Help, Sgt. Peppers, & a couple others. I have had these via my parents since I was born I guess. They were the first records I actually played, and got me into music initially, along with the Hair Soundtrack(!)...

― g (graysonlane), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Jon Carter Live 7 mix, bought about 4 years ago now....a whole 4!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

R.E.M's Eponymous. I was seven when I got it. I remember I got Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl on the same day too.

― Claire (Claire Miccio), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

This is the core set of LPs i started playing when i was five years old.

Bob Dylan -- Self Portrait
The Guess Who and Blood Sweat & Tears -- Greatest Hits
Homer & Jethro -- At the Country Club
Shelley Berman -- In Person

They were as good in 1973 as they are now.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Black Sabbath-Paranoid

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Def Leppard - Hysteria

It was given to me for free by someone from a rock radio station at a college football game in the fall of '87, I think. You could pick the cassette or a bumper sticker. May have been my first album, not sure.

― Stuart, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

De La Soul 'Three Feet High & Rising' (got it on tape in 89/90)

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Led Zeppelin II in 1989, I think. The more I think about it, though, I don't know if I got III first. If we're counting albums that I got rid of and then bought back, then Hysteria would just have the edge.

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of the time I only listen to maybe 4 songs from Hysteria though.

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I bought Thriller and Off the Wall at about the same time (mid '80s) and still like them quite a bit. I don't if those are the earliest, but they're the earliest I can recall with assurance.

― Steph (Steph), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if those are the earliest

― Steph (Steph), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

John Coltrane Blue Train

― Kenan, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Nirvana - Nevermind

First CD I ever bought. I don't enjoy it as much as I did, but I don't hate it. Haven't listened to it in years.

― fletrejet, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

1st stooges album

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

thin white rope in a spanish cave -- 15 years

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Off the Wall, the first record I ever asked my mom to buy me (I was four). Have owened it off and on since then

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

When I first started buying music, it was all either cassettes or LPs, even though CDs were a pretty well-established format by then. I guess I preferred my media cheap, dusty and playable on odd old stereo systems. Since then I've done a lot of replacing and culling of stuff I never listen to anymore, and to the best of my knowledge the oldest media I own is a CD of Nirvana's In Utero - which shouldn't count since I don't really listen to it anymore. I got it in '94. I think I might still have a few LPs I bought back then too, but most of them are horrendously uncool things like Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here - but, unlike In Utero, I still like it and would listen to it every so often if my turntable hadn't broken (and if we're going by 'albums you've liked the longest', it certainly falls under that category - I remember first hearing it when I was about four or five). Most of my collection dates around 1996-present.

― Nate Patrin, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

2 of my favorite albums:
The first cassette i got (took from my parents):
Philip Glass - Photographer

The first cd I got (took from my brother):
Velvet Underground - s/t

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Galaxie 500's third album

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Raffi - singable songs for the very young.

Ok not really. I don't have it anymore.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 00:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Hysteria on cassette when it came out. Listened to it continuously on headphones, which is the best way with that album.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 16 October 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Bowie - Aladdin Sane. It was his current LP when I bought it (I guess 1973), and one of the first LPs I bought when I got my own stereo at 15.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Definitely Weezer's Blue Album. Tho I had Nevermind before, I've had to re-purchase it a few times.

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Beastie Boys - License to Ill

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 01:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Blondie, "Parallel Lines". Still have it, and it sounds better than ever. I love this album. What an image the band had then too; that skinny tie and Converse look is still everywhere.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

pet shop boys' "actually" and michael jackson's "bad", both christmas presents, on tape, in 1986. i had joint ownership with my sister of the "muppet show album" a good few years before if that counts.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

C+C Music Factory's Gonna Make You Sweat since '91 (I was 9) - I still listen to the singles at least.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 07:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Propaganda's "A Secret Wish". I still enjoy "True Stories" by Talking Heads, which was an early one too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

First LP I bought was Elton John's "Honky Château" (in '79). It's no masterpiece, but I like it at least as much as I did then.

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 07:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The Damned - Damned Damned Damned, 1977

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Mahalia Jackson: Live at Newport.
Duke Ellington: Live at Newport, 58.

Had the records for 23? 24? years now (gift from parents)

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Nina Hagen - NunSexMonkRock.

Given to me by my parents for Xmas 1982. Along with Supertramp's Famous Last Words and AC/DC's High Voltage. God knows what made them pick up those records.

Nina's record first scared me, then proceeded to fascinate me for years and years. I was 11 when I got it, and that's when I heard words like "masturbation" and "menstruation" 4 the 1st time. Didn't have a clue what was that all about. Also, took me a long time 2 half realize what the hell was written in the lyrics sheet. It's a great, great album. Still haven't found an appropriate definition 4 those strange, chaotic sounds (new wave clit avant punk, anyone?).

― JML, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate Bush's Hounds of Love got at Xmas 1985. Have gone thru one vinyl copy and need a second cd copy soon. My brother got it for me but I really wanted her greatest hits 'The Whole Story' (since why would you own anything other than greatest hits albums or Now compilations was the pop logic we used at the time?). Still isten to it once a month on average.

― Eamonn (Eamonn Maher), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Aha. I was the lucky boy who got 'The Whole story" that xmas. listened to it on sunday and it was still sounding pretty damn fine.

i also got 'Different Light' by the Bangles - haven't listened to it for ages, but i bet i still like it.

― adam b (adam b), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I still have the first record I ever "owned" (bequeathed to me by my dad, circa 1969): The Fireballs' "Gunshot" b/w "Quite a Party." Still sounds pretty good too. I also still have the first proper album I ever owned, although it was also a paternal bestowal: Bo Diddley's The Originator on Checker. I swear that the guitar distortion on a song called "Limbo" is the very best guitar distortion ever recorded.

Given all those years I dawdled, pillaging my dad's records, the album of my own I've had the longest is probably Gang of Four's Entertainment!, which still sounds amazing and has probably the second best guitar distortion ever recorded.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Saturday Night Fever. Bought it when it came out in '77, the first album I ever bought...still love it today. (Different copy though.)

― G. Turkington, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

the first Cheap Trick

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Serious answer to this has to be my mom's Beatle stuff that she was cool enough to let me play at a very young age (even though I would drop the needle in the middle of the records and scratch them all to hell.)

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I loved your Bee Gees write-up, Turkington. Kudos.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Duran Duran -- Rio. Nearly twenty years owned by me now -- do not deny the godhead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

my mothers copy of "Bookends", i luv it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 17 October 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and its been in my possession since 1978 when i was four.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 17 October 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm... for me, the earliest I still like *and* listen to relatively often would be Galaxie 500 - Today. Purchased in the fall of '88 at Newbury Comics in Harvard Square after seeing the band play a free outdoor show as part of some "welcome back to school" music fest put on by the local alt. rock radio station.

― Jen, Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably Selling England by the Pound which I got somewhere around 1977 though I haven't listened to it for ages.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

bob dylan - bringin it all back home.

― jesse munson, Saturday, 19 October 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Earliest in my posession that I still like: Grandmaster Flash-"The Message" 12 inch-1988
First I purchased:Elvis Costello-Get Happy!! in '93.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 19 October 2002 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Thriller, Welcome to the pleasuredome

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"Play" by Moby.

Yes, I'm a music newbie.

And yes, I realize that Moby's new album sucks.. but his old stuff is good. He's just not good at selling out.

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 19 October 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Earliest one that I haven't got rid of is Kylie's Greatest Hits from 1992, though have upgraded to CD since then.

― alexfack, Saturday, 19 October 2002 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

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