What was your first album?
 

What was the first Indie or Alternative album that you purchased?

I dunno if Nirvana counts as alternative, but if it does I bought Nevermind first.

naw...nirvana is more grundge punk....but still, thats a great album

i guess sonic youth would be my first though...

I've got some Nirvana too..what would you consider Bush (X)? If you count them, I got sixteen stone a long time ago...

Bush is defenitely indie rock.....Indie is split up into more than just rock....but I'm more of an expert in indie rock. Basically Bush is an Indie Rock group.

Pavement, heh, caught me off guard. Wowee Zowee.

Sonic Youth- Dirty

If you would consider newer Red Hot Chili Peppers alternative, then it was Californication. If not...then Ok Computer by Radiohead.

uhmmm....

War - U2 .. if you consider this alternative... which you probably wont..

so make it Our Lady Peace - Clumsy

Offspring-Smash
Back when they were maddd sick. Prolly the best indie album ever released.

Uhh well i dont think u'll class good charlotte as alternative but i dont care that was the first album i bought and the last album i bought was HIM-And Love Said No just on saturday, lol im bored
rock on
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This is a really difficult one to do, because "Alternative" goes back much earlier than Grunge, or 90's Brit-Pop (which is where I would lump Bush). I would classify the earliest forms of Punk to be Alternative. Glam-Rock, even. Early David Bowie, The New York Dolls, etc. When I was young, the "Alternative" music was New Wave. I would have to say that MY first Alternative album was "Wild Planet", by The B-52's.

Indie is it's own monster. From a true definition, it would be something that was released on an independent label, and produced with a DIY (do it yourself) mentality. True Indie music is stuff where the artists are more responsible for their releases than a record company. Something that the artists helps to promote, instead of a high paid record company mogul who doesn't give a hairy rat's behind about the music that he is pushing. Although Bush was a core of the mid 90's "Alternative" movement, which was more focused around Brit-Pop, Nirvana was definitely the core of the early 90's Alternative movement. Alternative simply means outside of the mainstream. There was actually a point where all those bands really became Mainstream Rock artists.

Yes, you may say that The B-52's were just a Pop band. That would be true, if you were talking about 1988-1990. They were definitely left-of-center, back in the late 70's and early 80's.

So, for me... The B-52's was my first "Alternative" album... and as far as true blue Indie music? Geez... probably a guy by the name of Fela Johnson, who wrote everything, played every instrument, had a horrible black and white album cover, and nobody had, or has ever heard of him. TRUE Indie music.

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Probably Surfer Rosa by the Pixies.

californication was mine.

For Alternative:
Nirvana- Nevermind


For Indie:
The Smiths- Hatful of Hollow

Velvet Underground and Nico in 1993 for first Indie album

First "alternative album" and only one I have bought to this date is Live's Throwing Copper. Most of what I hear that is described as alternative I tend not to like.

Document by REM. It was actually the first album I bought ever, of any genre.

the first indie album i bought was you're a woman, im a machine by death from above 1979. i didnt buy it but i got it for christmas was franz ferdinand's debut - that was my first alternative album that i got. the first one i actually bought was rated r by queens of the stone age, i dont know if you would consider them alternative though....

The Flamming Lips back in 1993. I was a little late in the ball game.

I don't think Verve was an indie label.

at the time verve was a subsidiary of MGM, and before that was its own label that tended to sign jazz artists (the verve jazz compilation released in the 90's is amazing). it was independently produced by John Cale, who was not a major producer let alone artist. but if we want to nitpick on here, almost every "indie" band around today is produced by a subsidiary independent label. Even the smith's compilation album you mention was a subsidiary of Zomba.

I'm not sure if it's inde/alternative but ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes was my first album that could even possibly considered as such.

I'm wanting to say the first one I bought was Nicole Atkins and the Sea but I could be wrong...I've got so many right now

My first indie album was, The Icarus Line's "Mono"...I think.

the smiths meat is murder i think

First album was Guns N Roses Use Your Illusions and the first indie album was Boy Hits Car.

The first LP that I ever purchased with my own money, was CHICAGO 13. Don't ask me why...

First rock CD i bought was KoRn's Life is Peachy. I was 13 and just APPALLED at the language on there :love:

the first record i bought was some embarrassing effort from the offspring
and then crazytown (oh jeez)

Nirvana - Nevermind
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

one of those two, can't remember which I bought first. I got the MM album a few weeks after it came out, after hearing them on a TV show and loving the song.

The first "Alternative" album I ever owned was "Unplugged in NY" by Nirvana.

But what really got me into indie were three albums I bought at the same time:
My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
Neutral Milk Hotel- "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea"
Sonic Youth- "Daydream Nation"

I hadnt heard one track from any of them, I got them just from hearing about them so much on music websites. I was completely blown away by all of them.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

lol, that was like 2002

The Go-Betweens...'16 Lovers Lane' Bought it in primary school, track it down trust me you will not be dissappointed .

Wow, I can hardly remember. I'm pretty sure the first album I ever owned was Ace of Base. O.o You know, that one with "The Sign" on it... I was in 4th grade or something. The first CD I ever owned was Lisa Loeb's Nine Tails.

First ever "alternative" album I owned was probably Green Day's Nimrod.

First indie album: Two, actually - Jim Guthrie's "Now More Than Ever" and St. Vincent's "Marry Me" back in 2007.

First album ever: Saliva "Every Six Seconds." I was in gr. 7

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i was in grade 12 hahaha



my first 'alternative' cassette tape was mother's milk by the chili peppers :laughing:

My first album was Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? I bought it on cassette (remember those?) way back when in 1995 when i was 9 years old and they were bigger than Jesus.

My first 'alternative' album was the Pixies - Doolittle about 7 years ago.

It was a blend of these (I was too young to remember which one I actually put on first).

Pink Floyd - The Wall
U2 - The Joshua Tree
The Toy Dolls - Dig That Groove Baby

.. and there was a Johnny Cash LP that I think was called Ring of Fire. It had "bonanza" on it and I loved playing it on high speed so that his voice got smurfy.

Third Eye Blind, self-titled.

I still rock this as hard as I did back then too.