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First single bought with your own money. No lies, excuses and apologoes are welcome, but no lies!
My first single was probably 'How much is that doggie on the window?' but this is the first one I saved up for with my pocket money. Three of us went into Golden Discs in Cork. We bought U2 - 3, The Specials' Gangsters and this one, which was mine. I loved all three and ended up swapping with them for the other two as well.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Friday Music Fred - First Single Bought on 11:55 - Oct 10 by londonscottish
I was on a school trip to Holland in 1979 when Into The Valley was released. On the ferry on the way across we badgered and badgered the Smashie and Nicey-type DJ to play it. Cue 60 fifteen year old kids from Dunfermline going utterly mental, pogoing about the place, chicken dancing and moshing.
On the return trip we were solemnly informed that the record was banned as "P&O had a policy of not playing punk". Ah those were the days.
Marvellous stuff. I was busy buying Nolans records at the time, but love that tune now. I had a massive soft spot for Big Country when I was a kid — and I absolutely loved the film “Restless Natives” when I was younger — Big Country soundtrack. Went to East End Park a few years ago to watch Hibs and was very happy to be in Stuart Adamson’s home town and somewhere he spent his Saturday afternoons (RIP).
— Some top extra-ing from the Edinburgh locals in this clip. Haven’t seen it in years and it might be pure mince, but from memory it’s up there with Gregory’s Girl for me.
Fulham FC: It's the taking part that counts
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Friday Music Fred - First Single Bought on 12:51 - Oct 10 with 1188 views
I had already bought my first LP, "Reel to reel cacophony" by Simple Minds, when I snapped up this gem in Woolworths (where else):
Good to see some Soundgarden in this thread! Respect!
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Friday Music Fred - First Single Bought on 11:55 - Oct 10 by londonscottish
I was on a school trip to Holland in 1979 when Into The Valley was released. On the ferry on the way across we badgered and badgered the Smashie and Nicey-type DJ to play it. Cue 60 fifteen year old kids from Dunfermline going utterly mental, pogoing about the place, chicken dancing and moshing.
On the return trip we were solemnly informed that the record was banned as "P&O had a policy of not playing punk". Ah those were the days.
Mate, I remember it so clearly. It was a toss up between this and The Sound of the Suburbs. I only had enough money for one of them.
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Friday Music Fred - First Single Bought on 13:23 - Oct 10 with 1148 views
"Something in the air ", Thunderclap Newman. Still got it, along with 1,000 others.
There was a programme on BBC 4 the other night called "Joy of the single ". It's been on before but well worth a look for vynil junkies, just to see Norman Cooks record collection ! As he said " what about the B sides ". Some good old footage on there, and just shows how massive the 7" single used to be, sales wise.
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It's being so happy that keeps me going.
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Friday Music Fred - First Single Bought on 13:24 - Oct 10 with 1147 views
I remember getting my first single in Woolworths in Horsham. Before I left the house, I remember my mum telling me 'to buy a nice record with that pocket money'. I said I would. She probably thought I was going to buy a Val Doonican record or such like. I returned with ' We're Going to Step on You Again' by John Congo. It was on the Fly label. My mum [and my old man ] tried hard to hide their displeasure when I put it on the old Garrard turntable a few times. I still love that record, but my brother pinched it to lend to a friend of his. You know the story. You never see the light of day of it again. Dr and The Medics recorded a version of this song many years later. I thought they crucified it.
horrible feeling it was this and i was 6 or 7. used to be a record shop at the top of Lansbury Drive on the Uxbridge Road. hardly cutting edge but got me started.
may even have been a Bay City Rollers song; whatever it was was i'm not proud of it!
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Friday Music Fred - First Single Bought on 14:05 - Oct 10 by ElHoop
I think that the second single that I bought was I'd like To Teach The World To sing by the New Seekers, which later became Shakermaker by Oasis!
I love the doubters on this thread! There may well be a reason for this for all of us.
For the avoidance of doubt, Turning Japanese was the first record I bought with my own money, not the first song I liked. Much different story! Before that I liked whatever was on my Dad's eight-track in the car (eight-track!) including The New Seekers, Abba, Elvis (still like Elvis), Charley Pride and lots more tosh.
But I had no money then and music was, well, just something you listened to.
Later on, we all came to realise that music was far more than that!
And buying your first single was a big deal. You got asked at school if you'd bought one yet. If you hadn't - when? If you had - what was it? And people judged, and they fuggin' remembered!
So the trip to Cork to buy our first singles was a big shaggin' deal. They eyes of (my little) world were (probably not) watching. I may well have liked listening to Darts' 'Girl From New York City', but I wasn't coming home with that!
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Friday Music Fred - First Single Bought on 12:09 - Oct 10 by ithastogetbetter
Peter Gabriel - Games without Frontiers. 1979/1980 in Golden Discs in Dun Laoghaire. I had already bought my first LP before that - Dark Side of the Moon. Looking back, that all a bit "way out" for a pre-pubescent!
BTW - fav cheese is a nice bit of Comte
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Welcome - and an excellent choice of music... and cheese. Been to see PG a few times in concert - something of a hero to me (apart from our heroes in Hoops, of course!)
"Thank you for supporting Queens Park Rangers Steep Staircase"... and I thought I'd signed up for a rollercoaster.
Ah the 7 inch single. Can't really remember my first but it was probably something silly. I do remember loads of 'specials' on coloured vinyl, one that I had was Babylon's Burning by the Ruts on vomit coloured vinyl!
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Friday Music Fred - First Single Bought on 16:29 - Oct 10 with 1024 views
I didn't buy any singles till I was 16. If I liked something I'd just tape it off the radio. So this was the first of only a few. The thing is I really liked the lyric "She drives me crazy, like warm wet air" - even though I had it wrong then and for years later. :)
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Friday Music Fred - First Single Bought on 14:42 - Oct 10 by Tripper
Think the very first was by the Smurfs, but closely followed by a bit of Boney M.
Memories of the estate youth club and us hilariously linking arms round my mates sister. Were we being racist? I dont think so.Would it be racist today ? Probably not in the youth club but I recon someone would try to make an issue over it. BTW if my mate thought it was racist he wouldve and could've beat the shit out of us..
"If Paradise is half as nice" by Amen Corner. First album was "Sometime in New York City" by John and Yoko. Bought either in Balham or Jonjax in Battersea.
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but not my cup of tea. 
