Albums received for Christmas on LP, CD, cassette or 8 track

[ESLAFTK2112]

1981:
Eagles - Greatest Hits 1971-75, Hotel California and The Long Run (all on cassette)
Bob Seger - Nine Tonight (cassette)
got a cassette deck but died a few months later

1982: none as 8 tracks were now obsolete in the US and didn't ask for cassette deck like a fool

1983 (six cassettes):
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Naked Eyes - self titled
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
David Bowie - Let's Dance
two other albums I can't remember

1984 (6 cassettes):
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Eagles - Eagles Live
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Tommy Shaw - Girls With Guns
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

1985 (4 cassettes):
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
ZZ Top - Afterburner
Aerosmith - Toys In the Attic
Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife

1986 (6 cassettes):
AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It, Who Made Who, Back in Black
and Highway to Hell
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

1987 (cassettes):
Def Leppard - Pyromania, Hysteria (2 copies) and On Through the Night
The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (2 copies, gave one to brother) and Ummagumma (US issue sans live tracks from grandparents)
Bad Company - 10 From 6
Magnavox 2-cassette deck boombox

1988 (cassettes):
Def Leppard - High n Dry
KISS - Lick it Up, Asylum (three copies, two switched for Love Gun and Crazy Nights) and Animalize
Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair (replacement)
Magnavox 2-cassette deck boombox (replacement)

1989 (cassettes):
The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll and Black and Blue
The Who - Quadrophenia (replacement)
Pink Floyd - A Collection of Great Dance Songs (replacement)
Magnavox 2-cassette deck boombox (replacement)

1990 (cassettes):
Rush - Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows and Hold Your Fire
Pink Floyd - Meddle (replacement)
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For the Dying

1991 (CDs):
Rush - Grace Under Pressure and Caress of Steel (original issues)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here and The Wall (Columbia/CBS issues)
Queensryche - Operation: LIVE Crime (CD/VHS set)
AC/DC - The Razors Edge
Van Halen - OU812
Steve Miller - Greatest Hits
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I

1992 (CDs):
Rush - Hold Your Fire (original CD)
Pink Floyd - Shine On (box set) (9-CDs)
Queen - Innuendo, Queen I and The Works

1993 (CDs):
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, No Prayer For the Dying and Fear of the Dark
Aerosmith - Live Bootleg (remastered)
Queen - The Platinum Collection (Classic Queen, Greatest Hits and Queen Talks)
Styx - Cornerstone and Paradise Theatre
Dio- Holy Diver
Soundesign CD/2-cassette stereo mini system

1994 (CDs):
The Who - Live at Leeds (original CD), The Kids Are Alright (original CD) and Thirty Years of Maximum R & B (4-CD set)
Pink Floyd - Live Wall ROIO (2 CD), BBC 1970/71 (cassette), Oakland 1977 (2 cassette), A CD Full of Secrets

1995 (CDs):
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (2-CD set)
Pink Floyd - Total Eclipse 4-CD ROIO and 2 VHS Video Anthology VOIO
David Gilmour - About Face Live ROIO 2-CD set
with cash I got for Xmas:
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Queen - Champions of the World VHS
6-disc Magnavox changer mini-system

1996 (CDs):
The Beatles - Anthology I
Pink Floyd - Azimuth Cooridinator ROIO (6-CD set)
Yes - Keys to Ascension
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (remastered)
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (2-CD set)

1997 (CDs):
ELP - Return of the Manticore (box set)
Pink Floyd - 8th Rd From the Moon (Man and Journey, Rainbow 1972 and New York 1977 ROIO 2 CD set), Atom Heart Mother (replacement) and Works (replacement)
Queen - Greatest Hits Volumes I and II Set
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering (remastered)

1998 (CDs):
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of Radio City 2-CD ROIO
Queen - The Crown Jewels 8-CD set (first eight studio efforts remastered)
Fender Lead I Stratocaster

1999 (CDs):
Pink Floyd - Azimuth Coordinator (6-CD set replacement)
Metallica - And Justice For All
Philips 3-CD changer/CD recorder mini system

2000 (CDs):
Rush - Different Stages
Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions (4 CD ROIO)
Triumph - King Biscuit Flower Hour CD

2001 (CDs):
Led Zeppelin - Complete Studio Recordings (10-CD set remastered)
Pink Floyd - Electric Factory 2-CD ROIO

2002 (CDs):
Iron Maiden - Eddie's Archive (6-CD set)
Pink Floyd - PULSE (non-blinking packaging CD)
The Who - Who Are You (original mix CD) and It's Hard (remastered)
Metallica - And Justice For All

2003 (CDs):
The Who - Tommy (Deluxe 2-Hybrid SACD version)
ELP - Return of the Manticore (replacement)
Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? (Deluxe Edition)
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Queen - The Game (1991 CD issue)

2004 (CDs):
Rush - Rush in Rio (3-CD set replacement for scratched copy)
Judas Priest - Metalogy (4-CD/1 DVD set), remasters of British Steel, Point of Entry and Screaming For Vengeance

2005 (CDs):
Rush - Different Stages (3-CD set, put CDs in jewel case)
Queen - A Night at the Opera 30th Anniversary Edition (CD/DVD set)
Journey- Infinity and Frontiers

2006 (CDs):
KISS - Alive 1975-2000 (4-CD set remastered)
Pink Floyd - Works
Queen - The Platinum Collection (Greatest Hits 1 and 2 (UK versions) and Greatest Hits III all remastered 3-CD set)
Supertramp - Paris (2-CD remastered)
Genesis - Seconds Out (2-CD remastered, my boss bought me)

[DBlaze]

so...uhh...you kept track of all of that???

[burning_bridges]

Not at Christmas...but for my 17th birthday, my then boyfriend gave me a copy of Madonna's Erotica on cassette. I was repulsed.
I also received a Color Me Badd cassette on my 16th from a friend. Horrible. Just terrible. What were they thinking?

I thought I would never receive a decent album as a gift, until this past year, when one of my MySpace friends sent me Dave's "On An Island" in the mail. Thank God for that. Maybe there is hope for my future album-receiving.

[Massed Gadgets]

I never get albums as gifts, not for many, many years. No one knows what to get me. They're afraid that either I'll already have it or it's so obscure they won't even know what to ask for. The last one I got was about 20 years ago, my Dad got me Klaus Schulze's Angst on vinyl. Good on him for tracking down an expensive import by an artist he'd never heard before!

[PublicImage]

I got no albums for Christmas this year, suprisingly. I got a couple of music DVDs, though.

[ESLAFTK2112]

so...uhh...you kept track of all of that???

That is an advantage I have with my Aspergers/Autism is that I can remember what I got when I got it and so on. Thing is, I pick out my gifts so then my dad goes out to pick them up or order online. Then my mother would buy my clothes, my dad would take care of musical end. Family members would get me either clothes or an extra CD case or more CDs/cassettes.

[Keith Jordan]

Jesus!!! You can remember exactly all those things? I can not even remember..... mmmm....... sorry, it's gone.........

[Massed Gadgets]

When I was in high school, I was just getting into Yes, and there was a particular Yes album I wanted (it had Roundabout on it, but at the time I didn't know the album name was Fragile...we didn't have the Internet back then to look these things up instantly!). So I put on my Christmas list Albums: Yes (that's the name of the band!) - don't get it yet, because I didn't want my mom going out and buying just any Yes album. My mom went to the record store and asked if they had "Don't Get It Yet" by Yes. She was mortally embarrassed when the guy at the store said, "I think he means he doesn't want you to buy it yet!" She has never got me an album as a gift ever since then.

[Keith Jordan]

That's funny!!!!

[oldhippy]

I gave my big sister a triple cd and dvd of Roy Orbison for Christmas

[Mr Tuck]

I got this year...
larrikin love album
System of a down- mezmerize
annd the arnold layne single

[J Ed]

I got for Christmess:
Duke Ellington vs John Coltrane
Working With The Miles Davis Quintet
Tom Waits Used Songs
a cd of Cuban music my mum picked up on her trip there last fall
Ben Heppner - opera stuff, I immediately regifted to my mum who likes that kind of thing
also i got: Monty Python & the Holy Grail and Meaning of Life

[wiped]

Yay - I got some tasty stuff :

Johnny Cash : Essential Cash 2 CD collection
The Who : Live at Leeds Delux 2 CD
Lynyrd Skynyrd : One More From The Road Delux 2 CD
Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes - Live at th Greek 2 CD
Tommy Tiernan - Jokerman DVD
Red Dwarf - Season 8 DVD
The Mighty Boosh - Live DVD
Curb Your Enthusiam - Season 1 DVD
The Cure - Greatest Hits CD

.... fuckin ace

[jambo]

This Year I got:

Led Zeppelin - Coda
The Beatles - Love (CD + 5.1 DVD)

[lovescene4]

I got for Christmess:
Duke Ellington vs John Coltrane

I'm glad you got that one... "In a Sentimental Mood" is a perfect recording. Listen to Duke at the end of "My Little Brown Book"--some of the most haunting piano I've heard.