Thought it might be interesting as there has been a lot of talk in the threads about music from the past.
So, as the title suggests, and by that I mean one that wasn't influenced in any way by what your friends or family were listening to at the time. You heard it and thought "I've gotta get this!".

I was into the Rock and Punk music at the time that was the influence of my older brother and his mates
that used to hang out at our house.

Anyway it's 1983 and I'm in HMV in Brighton, when a track starts playing on the store sound system.
I had no idea what it was called or who it was by. I just new I liked it and had to have it, so I quickly ran to the counter before the record could finish to find out what it was. The copy being played was the last in the shop, so I bought there and then. So began my true journey into electronica.

So, that's mine: would be interesting to hear yours, but one record only.

 

buying? records?

faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark. dat is so long ago.

 

Velvet Acid Christ - Fun with Knives at now defunct Tower Records lol

 

AC/DC's Jailbreak. I bought the cassette in 1986 with my allowance money. I was blown away. It really defined my musical taste forever.

 

David Bowie-Low
I had lots of music that influenced me but this one stole the show!

 

I used to sell newspapers after school and saved up so I could buy Jimi Hendrix single "Hey Joe". It had "Stonefree" on the B-side! This was in 1972 :-D ( jeeez I'm gettin' old )

 

My first single 1965 The Beatles - Nowhere Man
My first Longplayer 1970 Deep Purple in Rock and Rare Bird - As your mind flies by, both on the same day.

 

Found it in a junk shop. A wonderfully eclectic record that is still the blueprint for learning how to write the perfect pop song, and seamlessly combine various types of instrumentation. Robert Smith is a master of textures. It is still very listenable to this day, and if I were in a young upcoming band I would be all over this.

 

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My first own record was Michael Jackson's Bad. I can live with that.

 

Mine was probably Gorillaz self titled album in 2001 i think. Kind of fed into one facet of my musical tastes. Also a lot of video game music had a very hard influence on the music i enjoyed when i was younger (Tony Hawks/SSX/Def Jam fighting games).

 

golden age of wireless - thomas dolby

 

Guns'n'Roses - Appetite for Destruction (cassette

 

Burnt Weeny Sandwich/Mothers of Invention. I still have it and I play it since nothing beats vinyl. How old does that make me.........

http://www.allmusic.com/album/burnt-weeny-sandwich-mw0000268953

Last, I downloaded the new and not yet released `Underworld – Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future (2016)`. Official release March 18.

 

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Apache by the Shadows - 1960
I was too young to know what record I was selecting then, but after I got it home and spun it, I liked it. British invasion bands held the Shadows in very low regard. WTF did I know? I was just a kid.

eta: It was the seminal point toward my learning to play guitar.

 

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This certainly wasn't the first record or album I ever bought by any means, there was Elvis to the Beatles, Hendrix etc. But in early 1968, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes released one of the era’s most definitive singles, “Journey to the Center of the Mind,” which perfectly captured that bridge between psychedelia and the emerging hard-rock sound. This song forever influenced the direction of my musical taste and guitar playing.

This YouTube video is an actual 45 RPM record from back in the day played on a turntable, check it out....aww man what memories!

 

Depeche Mode : Speak & Spell

 

Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey

That was the first CD I bought when CDs first became widely available. That album had a huge influence on me.

 

1993, in a summer vacation camp on elba (it), a pal put the mc his bro (dj) from berlin gave him, hooked me on acid tech and trance should run grab some ol casettes from the basement and hope the casette player still works ^^i should find some early tracker tunes from the amiga days there too