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Two Headed Boy

Two Headed Boy

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I'm feeling a bit creaky today. My social media feed informed me that the first record I bought with my own money (two weeks paper round in 1994) turned thirty today:

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How Dookie made Green Day the biggest (and most hated) punk band on earth - Double J

Their DIY punk scene back home disowned them but Dookie made Green Day the biggest band on the planet.
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I realise this will make me seem pathetically young to be feeling old on this particular forum, but I'd be interested to see what the gateway records for the rest of the Bounce were.
 
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Peevemor said:
For my 12th birthday (1979) I was given a record token bought at Rae Mcintosh in Queensferry Street, so that's where I went and bought my first album.

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A breakout album by a stadium filling power-pop band initially loved and eventually disowned by punks.... I can relate.

I was 12 when I bought my first record too. I reckon that might be a common age.
 
This was the first Album I bought with my own pocket money when I was a young whipper snapper in the first year of High School.
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These are all quite good. I'm waiting for the first person to fess up to something chronic.

I will admit that while Dookie was the first one I sacrificed my own cash for, I did already own cassettes of the Turtles movie soundtrack album, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, U Cant Touch This by MC Hammer and The Stonk by Hale and Pace on my parents dime.
 
Two Headed Boy said:
These are all quite good. I'm waiting for the first person to fess up to something chronic.

I will admit that while Dookie was the first one I sacrificed my own cash for, I did already own cassettes of the Turtles movie soundtrack album, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, U Cant Touch This by MC Hammer and The Stonk by Hale and Pace on my parents dime.
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Nothing really embarrassing though the 12" single of The Lebanon by the Human League probably wasn't the best choice I've made.

Though it's nothing to match the shiteness of Hot Space by Queen. Apart from Under Pressure, on a scale of 1 to mince, it's a huge pile of ground beef.
 
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Two Headed Boy said:
These are all quite good. I'm waiting for the first person to fess up to something chronic.

I will admit that while Dookie was the first one I sacrificed my own cash for, I did already own cassettes of the Turtles movie soundtrack album, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, U Cant Touch This by MC Hammer and The Stonk by Hale and Pace on my parents dime.
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Do you mean you had the single? That was on the album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em.

Edit: Sorry. I think I misread that - You had the album of the Turtles movie soundtrack. And here was me thinking you had some class :gigglle:
 
Paid £2.50 to a mate in 2nd year secondary for Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull. For value, I'm probs about the £2.05 kinda level so far... 🥶
 
Dub said:
Do you mean you had the single? That was on the album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em.

Edit: Sorry. I think I misread that - You had the album of the Turtles movie soundtrack. And here was me thinking you had some class :gigglle:
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In my defence I was 8 when the Turtles film came out.

And yeah it was just the single. Hammer time was fleeting.
 
egb_hibs said:
As far as I can recall it was Stray Cats eponymous debut album. Neither cool nor horrendously embarrassing.
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Don't knock it Eeeg. that is a great album and it reinforces your cool rather than detracts from it.
 
I’m more embarrassed to recall my first single I bought was abba’s super trouper lol. I would have been ten.

By the time I was twelve things had developed somewhat and I mind getting this from ripping records on south bridge

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I remember at the time my mate getting a ‘hardened cynical bastard’ Crass badge, which I wanted too but was too scared of my mums reaction lol
 
Two Headed Boy said:
I was 12 when I bought my first record too. I reckon that might be a common age.
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Aye, I reckon we were all twelve at some point ya fuckin genius.

Only kidding.
For a two headed guy, one of them isnae that clever.

Anyway, my first album I think was a sampler with the likes of Amon Dull II on it.
Bought a few of similar because they were cheap and had ‘new’ bands.
 
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