First three albums... Beethoven's Eroica, which came with a strange floppy-disk kind of record that may have been a forty-five, of the conductor (Leonard Bernstein) discussing the structure the symphony itself, and going on at some length about music theory...

But that was all put on the backburner in my life a year or so later when I got "Morrison Hotel" by the Doors...

Then "Deja vu" hit my parent's stack 'em up mono record player, and the beginning of "Carry On" was consistantly turned up to the point of that pesky speaker distortion we all remember so fondly...

But my favorite music before I ever bought any myself, and Baroque still is... "Baroque Trumpets", on the 'Nonesuch' label.