What was the first album you ever heard?

The earliest music I remember hearing as a kid would be things like Christie Moor - Ride On, The Fureys, The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash & If I Should Fall from Grace with God. Parents listened to a lot of Irish folk music, so for the ealiest stage of my childhood this was what I would hear in the house.

Then in the early 90's I remember my dad listening to things like The Orb - U.F. Orb & Orbus Terrarum, then later things like Tricky - Maxinquaye & Pre-Millennium Tension, Portishead - Dummy & Portishead, Leftfield - Leftism plus various others (All these things I still regard as some of my favorite bands/albums. Especially Leftism. It's prob my favorite album evvurr).

The first album I bought though was Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell II. I saw the vid for I'd Do Anything for Love on ToTP and bought the album when I'd saved up enough pocket money.

My dad used to be a DJ back in the day, so when I started enjoying rock music I used to love going through his old 7" collection. He had things like Sabbath - Snowblind, Paranoid, Iron Man etc, Zepplin, Alice Cooper, T Rex, Bowie.

I think that is the main reason my music taste is so varied; because of both my parents eclectic music taste.

I definitely thank Sky, Beatles and Philip Glass pre-the age of 6 for me having a massively open mind with music, hearing more progressive things like that at that age made that feel more normal. I used to listen to the radio all the time too, so everything from pop to classical music was going into my brain from about the age of 7 or 8 properly.

My mum was into stuff like T-Rex, Thin Lizzy, and my older brothers (who left home before I was born, but still heard about the bands through them) were into their Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, The Who etc., so I must have heard that without being conscious of it right from birth.

When I found the John Peel radio program at, must have been about 11 or 12, that's when it all stepped up a gear for just being into everything, more or less.

All the punk from my Mum and blimin trance and 80s dance from dad.

Barf

Make it go away

My phone won't even pay it, it keeps crashing!


I'm joking it makes me feel womby.

Orbital trance is amazing! I thought you'd be into stuff like that Anna?

What about stuff like this? Goa trance is awesome!

Why don't u get some glow in the dark face paint and some flourecent leggings and be done with it.

KLF were fucking ace.. and totally justified.. and ancient as fuck!

Might have to listen to 'Chill out' and 'The White Room' now.