I’ll kick us off with an absolute banger…
Boyzone - Love Me For A Reason
I was like 6. I wanted it desperately. Listening back to it now, as a 36 year old man I can admit that it’s an absolutely horrible bit of music…but it still takes me back to being a young kid.
With my own money, it was “Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth” by Joan Jett. Killer fucking album. Well, tape, because that was back when cassettes were still the only really portable music option. 8 tracks still existed, but they weren’t really portable. Have you ever seen one of the supposedly portable players? Way too big and bulky to casually carry around.
Anyway, yes, I’m old as fuck.
However! The day I bought it, we were at the mall. I had to choose between that and Alabama’s Mountain Music. In a rare event, my dad asked if I had any money left, and when I said only a little, he handed me enough to go back and get the Alabama tape too.
Listened to the Alabama with him on the way home :)