Embarassing youthful memory

[jwgh]

I've tried to remember what the first record I ever bought was and I never can. I remember that at some point my sister got me a Genesis album.

But just now urbeatle accidentally caused me to retrieve a disturbing memory, which is:

I'm pretty sure I bought 'Pac-Man Fever' on a 45 rpm record when I was like nine years old.

I think the B side was the same song but without the vocals so you could sing along.

Comments

[canetoad.livejournal.com]

Wow. Pac-Man karaoke.

[boutell.livejournal.com]

WAKA WAKA WAKA WAKA WAKA WAKA WAKA WAKA

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

If my memory of my own past serves me correctly, I believe I can out-lame you by a decisive margin:

http://songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=2774

[omarius.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

Mine was Mr. Mister's Welcome to the Real World when I was 11 or so.

My first was an impressively obscure find.

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

The first record I ever bought was Fireballet's Night on Bald Mountain. I didn't even know who Ian MacDonald was at the time, but I picked it out of a clearance bin, when the Merit department store was going out of business, based on the cover (poofy hair and all), having fallen in love with my big sister's copies of Brain Salad Surgery and Starless and Bible Black. I nearly also bought a Lindisfarne album as well, but it seemed a little too precious to me (where Fireballet struck just the right note of self-conscious pretension)--and still does.