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Your first "real" record/CD/8-track/cassette?

mactastic said:
Black Flag's Damaged
Metallica's Ride the Lightning

Boy were my parents thrilled!
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I remember getting Freeze Frame from the J Geils Band, with such classics as "Centerfold" and "Piss on the Wall."

I thought my parents were going to kill me. Or, more specifically, my brother, who as I recall actually made the purchase for me. I don't remember exactly how old I was, but I was pretty young still.
 
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1993. Road my bike to Blockbuster Music.

Still a great song.
 
mpw said:
So was that iTMS, Mini Disc, Compact Disc, Magnetic Tape, Vinyl or Wax Cylinder?
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You almost made me choke on my tater tot with that comment. :eek:

45rpm vinyl, btw. I was about 7 or 8 years old. Which still makes me an old geezer.
 
MICHAEL JACKSON THRILLER...I was in first grade....I made my dad go by the album and the tape for me!!!

Now looking back it terrifies me to think I had a crush on JACKO!!
 
First 45 vinyl: davidcassidycherish *cough* what? did I say something?

First album: Paul McCartney and Wings: Band on the Run Still listen to that often.

First CD: given to me for Christmas before I opened my first CD player - Tchaiovsky: The Nutcracker and Romeo & Juliet. It made my grandfather cry when I played it on my JBL Studio Monitors because it sounded so real, so live!
 
I had some LP's and Cassettes earlier, e.g. gifts and a couple of albums I "adopted", like "The Wall" and "London Calling", but these are the first I bought myself:

Cassette: "Anthem" by Toyah and "The Gift" by The Jam

7" vinyl: "In Dieser Stadt" with The Cut

12" vinyl: "Sheep Farming in Barnet" by Toyah

CD: Some cheap but OK release of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Got about 5 years before I had access to a CD player. First CD bought after I got a CD player (actually bought it along with the CD player): "Forbudte Følelser" by Raga Rockers.
 
Heart: Dreamboat Annie on LP, a pre-commercial release sample, won it from a radio station contest before Heart had broken out of the Vancouver/Seattle region with "Crazy on You"

Damn I played that one until the grooves wore through. And bought another. It still listens well today (bought it again from iTMS). Still have a mild crush on Nancy Wilson - oooh can that lady play guitar. Why d'you deserve her, Cameron Crowe ye unkempt battard!

2nd and 3rd were the first April Wine and an early Bob Seger LP, also radio station wins (no money in teenland you see).
 
emw said:
I remember getting Freeze Frame from the J Geils Band, with such classics as "Centerfold" and "Piss on the Wall."

I thought my parents were going to kill me. Or, more specifically, my brother, who as I recall actually made the purchase for me. I don't remember exactly how old I was, but I was pretty young still.
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As I recall, your brother ended up with the album. :D
 
Check out all the old fart music on this thread! :D

Although I started out listening to classical myself. My first ever was a cassette of Beethoven's 9th, followed by Handel and Bach. I used to tape symphonies off the radio (we have an excellent classical music station in Cleveland).

Then I did a little experimenting; I got a Yellowjackets album, a Fine Young Cannibals album, and a Depeche Mode album in quick succession in 5th grade.

I got a few Aerosmith albums from a well-meaning relative but thought they were lousy. :rolleyes:

My first albums bought intentionally after radio exposure was Green Day's 1994 release Dookie, and Dave Matthew's Band's Remember Two Things. The Greenday ablum was a cassette, but the DMB album was a CD - and I didn't have a player. This was a ploy to make my parents buy me one, and it worked beautifully.

So there's my history, as if you care. :cool:
 
First tapes I got were the Milli Vanilli one with the Blame it on the Rain and what not and the Batman Soundtrack. Of course I was a kid and my cousin convinced me that Milli Vanilli was cool, and I wanted to be cool. Batman was Batman, so I had to have it. But that was a Columbia House thing. First store CD? Garth Brooks, The Hits.
 
ScruffyTheMac said:
You almost made me choke on my tater tot with that comment. :eek:...
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You might want to get the nurse to mush it some more and/or put your teeth in before eating next time:p :D
 
The first vinyl ever given to me was Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies-the first one I bought was Madonna (some kind of collection, I dont remember).
The first tape I was given was The New Kids on the Block (my parents gave it to me for my birthday with a new stereo...they had "Happy Birthday" from NKOTB playing...oohh, I was so girlie that day!) The first tape I bought was Nirvana Nevermind. The first CD given to me was NIN Downward Spiral. The first I bought was Metallica Master of Puppets. All the above minus the NKOTB are still with me. I've evolved...
 
Onizuka said:
(real punk, not that shoddy wannabe mtv crap.)
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<Gasp> You mean Blink 182 isn't real punk?!? <looks up and in anguish screams "NOOOOO!!!" as the overhead camera pans out...> :p

Anyway, the first CD I ever owned was Hootie and the Blowfish's "Cracked Rear View". If I could turn back time, the first piece of recorded music that I would have wanted to buy would be the Beatles' "Revolver".
 
Carly Simon, No Secrets, on vinyl. 8-tracks came later when I started making them for the car. Compact cassettes were so awful back then. :D
 
Hysteria by Def Leppard. On LP :eek:

First Cassette: Dr. Feelgood/Motley Crue or Open Up And Say...Ahh! by Poison

First CDs: Metallica/Metallica and No More Tear/Ozzy Osbourne
 
First record: "Ghostbuster" the sound track

First CD: "Tribal Voice"

First Cassette: Peter Comb's Greatest Hits

First Laserdics: Scilence of the Lambs

Cheers
JOrdna
 
The first one I bought with my own money was Bryan Adams - "Waking up the Neighbours". :eek: On tape, 1991.

The first ones I got as a present in the late eighties was Jason Donovan "Ten Good Reasons" and Bros "Push". <Hangs head in shame> :p
 
iGav said:
You were a Brosette Lau? :eek: hahahahahahaha. :p :p :p
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<cries>

I was 9! I thought they were so cool. :(

My parents were distinctly unimpressed as they'd brought me up on a strict Stones and Beatles diet. I think I went through my rebel "my-parents-wont-like-this" music phase at the age of 9, to be honest....;)
 
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