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Post by gambaaaa on May 1, 2024 14:12:41 GMT
Great to see that we got some nice stories down here  I remember buying my first Queen CD, Greatest Hits I, back in 2012 (or around that time, anyway) after listening to them countless of time on my PC in a electronic store back when they still had a decent music catalogue on the counters. It was quickly followed by the "In Nuce" bootleg and their second GH release. For some reason the 11/12 yrs old me looked at the Super Jewel Cases packaging as something special and unusual back then. Basically, these 3 releases, along with The Lightning and Garage Inc. by Metallica were the albums that kicked off my record collection addict... erm, hobby. Fast forwarding to 350 records later I still have all of them (minus Garage Inc. that I regretfully given away to a friend) in good condition.
boffy I think he's referring to bootleg cassettes (MC = music cassette). During the 90s the market was flooded with bootleg releases, the most appealing examples were bootlegs coming from Italy or ex-USSR countries like Poland (in the span of 4 years they released 14 different version of GHI!!) or Ukraine. |
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Post by smile on May 1, 2024 15:36:31 GMT
GHII in 1992. I was 10 yo...I'm so old now;-)
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Post by dave76 on May 1, 2024 15:39:57 GMT
I didn't bought it myself but i got my first Queen record for my birthday in 1984 which was "I Want To Break Free". The first one i bought myself if memory serves me right was "The Invisible Man". I started collecting them all after that.
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Post by eiricd on May 1, 2024 16:16:45 GMT
firt purchase thoug, with my own money, ANATO. An album which I've subsequently have bought 10 + times across various formats and editions. That's a great point actually. Of my original purchases, I think I only have a couple left. Blame the endless moves and clear outs. Luckily, I have been good repurchasing the same editions on eBay so built the collection back up. When the 2011 reissues came out, NOTW was the first I bought because it felt right buying my first Queen album again. Although it was probably about the 3rd CD version I had over my life until that point it still felt important. God, the money I've spent! I failed to mentioned that I've kept every copy. I'm sure someone would argue that's certifiably insane |
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Post by luke1982 on May 1, 2024 16:29:21 GMT
(...) boffy I think he's referring to bootleg cassettes (MC = music cassette). During the 90s the market was flooded with bootleg releases, the most appealing examples were bootlegs coming from Italy or ex-USSR countries like Poland (in the span of 4 years they released 14 different version of GHI!!) or Ukraine. Exactly   I forgot that it's not exactly Remixes but something similar... And don't remember versions:  |
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Post by Lord Fickle on May 1, 2024 16:49:33 GMT
That's a great point actually. Of my original purchases, I think I only have a couple left. Blame the endless moves and clear outs. Luckily, I have been good repurchasing the same editions on eBay so built the collection back up. When the 2011 reissues came out, NOTW was the first I bought because it felt right buying my first Queen album again. Although it was probably about the 3rd CD version I had over my life until that point it still felt important. God, the money I've spent! I failed to mentioned that I've kept every copy. I'm sure someone would argue that's certifiably insane I still have all the original LPs and CDs, plus the numerous re-releases in various formats, so I'll join you in your nice secure little room. 😄 |
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Post by victorvil on May 1, 2024 17:53:08 GMT
Live Killers CD, in '95. It was expensive. Saved like 9 months to buy it.
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Post by boffy on May 1, 2024 18:35:46 GMT
luke1982 oh my word, I love that WordArt-style titling on some of those, takes me right back to the 90s!
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Post by jeroeng on May 2, 2024 9:29:52 GMT
My parents already had Greatest Hits (I) and A Night At The Opera on vinyl.
When The Miracle was released in 1989 they bought it on CD, it was one of the very first CD's they bought for our newly acquired CD-player.
Two years later they bought Greatest Hits II on CD, as well as Greatest Hits (I) on CD in 1992.
The first Queen CD I bought myself was A Kind Of Magic in 1992.
The second and third actually were Brian May's Too Much Love Will Kill You CD-single and The Cross Shove It album, when I was on a school trip in Germany in 1992.
However by that time I had already taped all Queen albums from the CD's in the local library as well.
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Post by Nuppiz on May 2, 2024 16:11:52 GMT
My parents had late 80s/early 90s CD editions of A Night at the Opera, Innuendo and Greatest Hits I & II. So I was familiar with Queen from a very young age.
But it wasn't until late 2018 though when I really got interested in the band. I got free movie tickets from work so me and my sister went to see Bohemian Rhapsody. Despite the... liberties it took with the history of the band (some of which I was already aware of at the time), something clicked. I had just moved on my own earlier that year but still spent many weekends with my parents and sister, and one of the problems we always had was deciding on what movies or TV series to watch. Inspired by the movie, I got this idea of getting a couple of Queen live shows we could watch, as all of us knew and liked Queen. So right at the start of 2019 I ordered the Wembley '86 DVD and Rock Montreal & Live Aid Blu-ray and well... I was hooked. Over the course of the year I bought the entire back catalogue of studio albums on CD as well as every official live Blu-ray and DVD, including discontinued ones like Live at the Bowl.
And of course, as I was already very familiar with unofficial recordings through hosting a dedicated Judas Priest bootleg website, it didn't take me long to find the Queenonline forums and the vast archives of high-quality unreleased pro-shot Queen material provided by Chief Mouse and others...
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Post by august on May 2, 2024 19:38:41 GMT
SHA was maybe a bit too much to chew for a 11-year-old. The only songs that I truly liked were ITLOTG...revisited and She Makes Me. I thought it was a bad investment,indeed. How do you feel about SHA now? Thanks for asking. I've learned to love the quirkiness of SHA over the years but it took me a while. Especially Freddie's work on SHA is exceptional: Lily of The Valley & ITLOTG (both of them) are on my top list. Brighton Rock, NIH and Tenement Funster are also great, and Misfire is just a lovely first attempt from John. However, I've never learned to appreciate songs like Flick of the Wrist, Stone Cold Crazy or Dear Friends, and as a whole, this album is probably my least favourite of their early stuff. Somehow SHA doesn't have the same flow as II or ANATO, even if it contains many great songs. |
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Post by chowder on May 2, 2024 20:32:44 GMT
The album Queen on cd was my first Queen related purchase. I think I bought it in 1992 when I was 13 and on vacation with my parents in... Switzerland maybe?
I still don't know why I got that album. I only heard ANATO and SHA on vinyl (my dad had them) and had a cd copy on cassette of GH2.
The 1992 Barcelona cd-single was my first ever Queen related cd which I got as a present from my parents.
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Post by blackqueen on May 3, 2024 12:13:05 GMT
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Post by readyeddie on May 18, 2024 12:54:28 GMT
Don't Stop Me Now on iTunes in 2009!
However, when I really got into Queen in 2016, the first thing I wanted to buy was the A Night At The Odeon box set, which has pride of place in my collection now! (Despite the fact, I prefer Live At The Rainbow '74 !!!)
The first Queen vinyl I bought was, surprisingly, an original Innuendo, at a record fair in the same year, where I also bought the 7" of We Are The Champions!
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Post by macduff77 on May 20, 2024 0:20:31 GMT
A mint copy of Greatest Hits LP for 25 cents Canadian in 1991. Plus a sealed copy of Flash Gordon for $3.00 (still sealed!). Great flea market day, that day.
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Post by mattzarella on May 20, 2024 5:12:20 GMT
My brother had a copy of half of the 2 cassette live killers album that was pretty cool. But when I growded up* I am pretty sure I bought GREATEST HITS (*Hollywood) initially because I figured it would have their biggest hit that I didn't know by name
I mean
It's not like they sing
"BOHHHHH- hemian RHAP-sody!"
"BOHHHHH- hemian RHAP-sody!"
Pause pause
"Bohhhhhh-HE-mian RHAP-sody!"
"BOHHHHH- hemian RHAP-sody!"
Then I believe I bought a used copy of ROCKS VOL 1 as I believe it was called.
After that I got ANATO...
I used to have the order enthralled and contained in my brain but right now it's a little bit muddy
Sadly though, the GREATEST HITS was the HOLLYWOOD RECORDS version. Which was obviously a marketing ploy to sell greatest hits II which they now retitled CLASSIC QUEEN and tacked on some additional crap into the mix.
gh got BODY LANGUAGE and CLASSIC QUEEN got ONE YEAR OF LOVE or something like that.
Outright crime against a kid with only $12!
Anyways. I used to recall the order in which I first heard each album. I could probably write that down but I remember each one vividly.
I'd sit enthralled. Cause even with lackluster stuff like THE WORKS or HOT SPACE, AKOM you could get lost in those Productions. AKOM in particular is very almost visual.
I miss that feeling being enthralled by someone creating a journey on a musical album.
Last to do it for me have been Prince and Esperanza Spalding (*she's amazing)
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Post by mattzarella on May 20, 2024 5:36:41 GMT
(...) boffy I think he's referring to bootleg cassettes (MC = music cassette). During the 90s the market was flooded with bootleg releases, the most appealing examples were bootlegs coming from Italy or ex-USSR countries like Poland (in the span of 4 years they released 14 different version of GHI!!) or Ukraine. Exactly I forgot that it's not exactly Remixes but something similar... And don't remember versions: Wow. Sounds like you've BEEN through some places! Bootlegs. Pretty cool. I find kinder hearted people mostly from folks who've had bootlegs as opposed to the err other |
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Post by leighburne on May 20, 2024 13:58:03 GMT
A lot of my early Queen CDs were stolen from my mum!
I think the first one I actually bought with my own money was Live at Wembley ‘86.
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Post by peacelovingguy on May 22, 2024 9:31:11 GMT
In 1987, when I was 12, I bought Live Magic on cassette a few weeks after it was released. A few months later I bought a CD player and starting with A Night At The Opera, gradually bought all of their albums on CD except Greatest Hits as my parents had it on vinyl. I still don’t own Greatest Hits!
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Post by florians on May 23, 2024 20:18:44 GMT
My brother and my father had a lot of Queen LPs and CDs, I grew up with Queen. My first own purchase was the Wembley double CD back in 92, when I was 14.
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Post by farfelbaby on May 26, 2024 20:25:03 GMT
My Aunt gave me my first Queen album: Sheer Heart Attack and my first purchase was A Night at the Opera.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Jun 7, 2024 0:44:10 GMT
Classic Queen on cassette in 1993 - although I think it may have been gifted to me. I still have it.
The first one I know I bought for sure was Live Killers on cassette about a year later. I listened to it twice in a row that day, and my life was changed forever.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Jun 7, 2024 4:34:42 GMT
But once the internet came along and everything (almost) became available at the touch of a button I slowly lost interest in owning everything. I hate to become the "old man yells at cloud" meme, but it's sad that physically owning music has mostly become a thing of the past. I cannot quantify the joy I had in my youth from holding my favourite things in my hand - and not just music. The convenience factor all things being digital now is obviously undeniable, but so much has been lost by having everything on screens. Listening to an album, being enthralled with the artwork and photos, reading the liner notes and the credits to see who played on it, there's just nothing like it. And I haven't done this in more years than I'm willing to admit. This thread has been a wonderful trip in nostalgia. And what a trip it is to see people who were there right in 1974 to much younger folks who jumped on board 10-15 years ago. It's incredible to see how this music has transcended generations. When I was a kid, 50 year old music was Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman - and nobody but our grandparents listened to that stuff. That's one of the most beautiful parts of being alive today, that we can just share everything with each other because it's all here for the taking. |
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Post by dysan on Jun 7, 2024 5:23:11 GMT
But once the internet came along and everything (almost) became available at the touch of a button I slowly lost interest in owning everything. This thread has been a wonderful trip in nostalgia. And what a trip it is to see people who were there right in 1974 to much younger folks who jumped on board 10-15 years ago. It's incredible to see how this music has transcended generations. When I was a kid, 50 year old music was Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman - and nobody but our grandparents listened to that stuff. That's one of the most beautiful parts of being alive today, that we can just share everything with each other because it's all here for the taking. I often think of that time analogy and have recalibrated it over the decades. I remember when I first got the debut album, it seemed like an ancient relic from a mythical far off London. In truth, it was released less than a decade before I heard it and recorded only about an hour up the railway, but both were unfathomable distances for me to comprehend back then. To think it's now 50 years is bizarre when I think about what was 50 years ago at that point. As much as the internet has stripped away the magic of those journeys we used to take to getting an album, the saving up, the hunting down, the risk taking, it's certainly opened up everything for everyone and I think we've all benefitted. Here's a nice quote from James Dean Bradfield of the Manics about ye olde days: “There’s also a simple explanation as to why a lot of music we got excited about, why we coveted it so much when we finally got it. You’d gone through a mini battle to get it, you know, you’d sent off a postal order or taken a bus journey and you’d saved up and by the time you got it it just seemed so important. It seemed as if some kind of sacrifice was involved in getting this music, so by the time you put it on the turntable the build up was so gigantic it meant something more.” |
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Post by The Real Wizard on Jun 7, 2024 6:15:57 GMT
This thread has been a wonderful trip in nostalgia. And what a trip it is to see people who were there right in 1974 to much younger folks who jumped on board 10-15 years ago. It's incredible to see how this music has transcended generations. When I was a kid, 50 year old music was Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman - and nobody but our grandparents listened to that stuff. That's one of the most beautiful parts of being alive today, that we can just share everything with each other because it's all here for the taking. I often think of that time analogy and have recalibrated it over the decades. I remember when I first got the debut album, it seemed like an ancient relic from a mythical far off London. In truth, it was released less than a decade before I heard it and recorded only about an hour up the railway, but both were unfathomable distances for me to comprehend back then. To think it's now 50 years is bizarre when I think about what was 50 years ago at that point. As much as the internet has stripped away the magic of those journeys we used to take to getting an album, the saving up, the hunting down, the risk taking, it's certainly opened up everything for everyone and I think we've all benefitted. Here's a nice quote from James Dean Bradfield of the Manics about ye olde days: “There’s also a simple explanation as to why a lot of music we got excited about, why we coveted it so much when we finally got it. You’d gone through a mini battle to get it, you know, you’d sent off a postal order or taken a bus journey and you’d saved up and by the time you got it it just seemed so important. It seemed as if some kind of sacrifice was involved in getting this music, so by the time you put it on the turntable the build up was so gigantic it meant something more.” Wow - I felt all of that, hard. |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 7, 2024 9:17:12 GMT
This thread has been a wonderful trip in nostalgia. And what a trip it is to see people who were there right in 1974 to much younger folks who jumped on board 10-15 years ago. It's incredible to see how this music has transcended generations. When I was a kid, 50 year old music was Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman - and nobody but our grandparents listened to that stuff. That's one of the most beautiful parts of being alive today, that we can just share everything with each other because it's all here for the taking. I often think of that time analogy and have recalibrated it over the decades. I remember when I first got the debut album, it seemed like an ancient relic from a mythical far off London. In truth, it was released less than a decade before I heard it and recorded only about an hour up the railway, but both were unfathomable distances for me to comprehend back then. To think it's now 50 years is bizarre when I think about what was 50 years ago at that point. As much as the internet has stripped away the magic of those journeys we used to take to getting an album, the saving up, the hunting down, the risk taking, it's certainly opened up everything for everyone and I think we've all benefitted. Here's a nice quote from James Dean Bradfield of the Manics about ye olde days: “There’s also a simple explanation as to why a lot of music we got excited about, why we coveted it so much when we finally got it. You’d gone through a mini battle to get it, you know, you’d sent off a postal order or taken a bus journey and you’d saved up and by the time you got it it just seemed so important. It seemed as if some kind of sacrifice was involved in getting this music, so by the time you put it on the turntable the build up was so gigantic it meant something more.” That's so true! |
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Post by georg on Jun 7, 2024 13:32:05 GMT
This thread has been a wonderful trip in nostalgia. And what a trip it is to see people who were there right in 1974 to much younger folks who jumped on board 10-15 years ago. It's incredible to see how this music has transcended generations. When I was a kid, 50 year old music was Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman - and nobody but our grandparents listened to that stuff. That's one of the most beautiful parts of being alive today, that we can just share everything with each other because it's all here for the taking. I often think of that time analogy and have recalibrated it over the decades. I remember when I first got the debut album, it seemed like an ancient relic from a mythical far off London. In truth, it was released less than a decade before I heard it and recorded only about an hour up the railway, but both were unfathomable distances for me to comprehend back then. To think it's now 50 years is bizarre when I think about what was 50 years ago at that point. As much as the internet has stripped away the magic of those journeys we used to take to getting an album, the saving up, the hunting down, the risk taking, it's certainly opened up everything for everyone and I think we've all benefitted. Here's a nice quote from James Dean Bradfield of the Manics about ye olde days: “There’s also a simple explanation as to why a lot of music we got excited about, why we coveted it so much when we finally got it. You’d gone through a mini battle to get it, you know, you’d sent off a postal order or taken a bus journey and you’d saved up and by the time you got it it just seemed so important. It seemed as if some kind of sacrifice was involved in getting this music, so by the time you put it on the turntable the build up was so gigantic it meant something more.” Man, this brought me back to Christmastime 1993, digging around my mom's closet to sneak a peek at my gifts, and finding three cassettes – Queen, A Night at the Opera, and The Great Pretender – and buzzing with anticipation until Christmas morning, wondering what all those songs (except what was on Classic Queen or the Hollywood Records Greatest Hits) sounded like. Or walking around my local record store in November 1995 to get the first Beatles Anthology, jokingly stopping by the Q section, as I always did in those days, to see if Queen had put a new album yet (completely unaware that they actually had), and then getting the cassette because I couldn't afford both the Beatles and Queen on CD. Once I got outside I tore the cellophane off of Made In Heaven – The Beatles were no longer my main focus even though leading up to that day I had completely immersed myself in them in anticipation of the Anthology – and immediately started reading the lyrics and wondered what such an un-Queen title Mother Love could possibly sound like. The wait for my mom to get to the record store to pick me up, and ultimately the drive home, was interminable; it was probably five minutes total at the most, but it felt like a lifetime. I felt so lucky that I was able to listen to a "new" Queen album. |
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Post by pimderks on Jun 8, 2024 9:03:32 GMT
The day I got my copy of the Heaven For Everyone 4-track cd-single is imprinted in my mind as well. Not my first purchase, but definitely my first day-of-release purchase. I think I saved up for weeks to buy the cd-single and then being kind of disappointed that the b-sides were KYA, SSOR and KQ - tracks I already had. Initially I hoped that maybe they had remixed them or something.
Buying MIH two weeks later is also something I very vividly recall. November 6th, 1995. My mom picking me and my best friend (both Queen fans) up at 15:30 and driving to the nearest town with a music store. Putting it on at home for the first time, being weirded out by there being 13 tracks on the disc with 11 on the artwork. Loved the free Queen badge that was included and also the "tactile" jewelcase/holder with the embossed Q's on it. Still probably in my top 5 of Queen albums, even though now I know that a lot of it was not really "the last recordings of FM" but just scraps of tape from 1980-1991.
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Post by Dimitris on Jun 8, 2024 10:14:51 GMT
My cousin had two copies of News of the world aThe Game and one very used of A Night at the opera, she gave them to me, so I bought Live Killers LP and few months later I Want it all single was released.
Since I want it all single was strong and its b/sides were also interesting, I had great expectations about the forthcoming album....
I called my best friends all of them metalheads to give it a listen. They were blown by the song.
Then one suggested to listen hammer to fall live from Live Magic, an album was gifted by his girlfriend.
A few weeks later I bought The Miracle LP. The album was very fresh and worked very well for its time. We had another gathering to listen the album.
We all liked Kashogi's ship, The Miracle, Breakthru and Was all worth it. Remember comments that the song was like Europe's intros.
Then we watched Highlander another suggestion by my friends. Comments to bad that the AKOM wasn't so good album as the movie music score.
By early 1991 our gatherings had many memories listening various albums including the beautiful Innuendo.
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