Everything is front to back with a little slack
Cos inside out is wiggi-da-wiggi-da-wiggi-da-WACK! :lol:

Lyrical genius at work.

LP: Dead kennedys "fresh fruit for rotting vegetables"
tape: Teenage mutant ninja turtles "coming out of our shells"
cd: The beatles "sgnt peppers lonely hearts club band"

First LP. I didn't buy them but the first one I remember listening to was John Denver's "Back Home Again" Still love that album.

First cassette: Already been mentioned but "To The Extreme" Vanilla Ice.

First CD. That's a toughie. I think it was "The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane". That or REM's "Automatic For The People"

I never purchased an LP. My dad wouldn't let us go near his record player or his albums.

My first cassette purchase was Richard Marx. I loved Right Here Waiting in...8th grade I think it was.

First CD...Forrest Gump Soundtrack. Damn good stuff there.

First LP: The Beatles - Abbey Road
First cassette: The Beatles - Beatles `65
First CD: Elton John - Live In Australia

First Casette: Young MC - ???
First CD: Brian Adams - Walking Up the Neighborhood
First LP: N/A

first LP -- 40 Funky Hits, a K-Tel record. If you're old enough, you know what K-Tel is

first cassette -- The Who's Greatest Hits

First CD -- it was a religious experience -- Dark Side of the Moon

first LP: Michael Jackson's Thriller

first cassette:Bryan Adams' Waking Up the Neighbors, Bonnie Rait, OR Carole King's Tapestry (can't recall!)

first CD: I replaced my ruined copy of the Beatles' White album - was tired of buying them and thought perhaps I'd try this newfangled CD thing. I'd heard they last longer. :-)

Believe it or not, I even had an 8-track player and a case full of the awful things in middle school. Most of my friends didn't even know what it was. LOL

this has been a fantastic trip down memory lane.
thanks to all.

first records i remember listening to were 45s.
queen's "another one bites the dust" with "don't try suicide" b side
and
glen campbell's "rhinestone cowboy"

first LP i bought was human league's dare.

first tape... hmmm. not sure.
either billy joel's the stranger
or the beastie's liscensed to ill
(whom i just saw in concert at sxsw,
about 20 yrs. later still f-in' hilarious.)

first CD i bought
the police "outlandis d'amour" & "zenyatta mondatta"
at the same time.

to all those that said thriller to the first album...
my sister had that.
i borrowed it and broke it.
she was PISSED.
i wonder if it was her first.
:)

S! A! TUR! DAY! ... Night!

lol... I remember the plaid pants. My wife has the 45's


My first LP: Queen, Night at the Opera

first Casset: Gearge Carlin as well: Toledo Windo Box, Although I did a home recording off of my friend's Firesign Theatre: We're All Bozos on this Bus

Frist CD: Simple Minds, Once Uon a Time

Honourable Mention goes to my first 8 track: Frampton Comes Alive...

First LP owned: Gary Lewis And The Playboys: SHE'S JUST MY STYLE (I think)
First Cassette owned: LOVE IT TO DEATH by Alice Cooper (1972, probably)
First CD owned: Bought two the day I bought the machine, so it's a tie between SO by Peter Gabriel and DREAM ACADEMY's first album, whatever its called.

I'm quite happy with my list:

LP: Queen - Flash Gordon soundtrack (also simultaneous with the 45 of Another One Bites the Dust/Suicide_.
Cassette: Madness - untitled (the one with Our House on it)
CD: Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (a replacement for a worn out cassette copy from a friend)
Download: Negativland - U2 (that was 15 MB over a 28.8kb connection, which kept hanging up)

Actually, I seem to recall a study which showed that the "best" pop music was released when you were 14 years old. For me, that woud be 1983-1984, and I certainly have fond memories of New Wave and Hair Metal.

I had that 45... I played it to death. I think I used "Don't Try Suicide" for a music project in grade 7.

The Negativeland track, I downloaded a couple months ago, to play it for my son.

First LP - Fonzie's Favorites, a compilation of 50's music from the TV show. I bought it when I was 8, and I still have it.
First Cassette - Journey - Escape
First CD - George Michael - Faith (one of the few you could buy at the time in my area)

And here's a monkey wrench for the works.......

First 8-track - Elton John's Greatest Hits

not as "cool" as i'd like it to be, but here it is.


first record - rage against the machine 7" single for people of the sun
i got it from some website for free

first record (album) - tie b/w led zep - coda and jimi hendrix - rainbow bridge soundtrack
from college radio station sale
(also the only physical vinyl i own, although i have gigs upon gigs of mp3 rips)

first CD - shit, genesis - we can't dance
that was a gift, i probably liked it at the time but i soon sold it for metallica or something
looking back, i wish i had gotten the more exciting & cheesy genesis from a few years prior.

first cassette - some top 40 bad company single from a cereal box mail-in offer

first mp3 - i think it was a nirvana unreleased/rare track. not sure which song exactly. this was from the pre-napster days when websites posted mp3s (huh, that's made a huge comback)
i played it on Winplay or something. the program didn't allow skipping around during playback of the file.


it's strange that the total cost of these firsts (to me) was about four bucks.

LPs were on their way out when I first started getting into music but I did get one or two just to have some (and to use my oft neglected turn table)

First LP: Scandal featuring Patty Smyth - The Warrior
First Cassette: I think it was Culture Club-Colour by Numbers (yes, I can admit it)
First CD: I ordered a bunch from Columbia CD club. BUt Derik and the Dominoes-Layla was in there and it the only one I still listen to
First DVD-A: Inside the Music:Classic Jazz

First Record: 45 rpm Elvis "Hound Dog", I think "Love Me Tender" was on the other side.
First LP: "Meet The Beatles" or whatever their first USA LP was.
First 8 Track: I think was by the Righteous Brothers.
First Cassette: I think was "Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John.
First CD: Replacing old LPs and cassettes.

*is very young*

I don't think I ever owned a non-mix tape, and I was too young for records. Maybe I'll get a record player and buy some Belle and Sebastian on vinyl or something.

My first CD was Cyndi Lauper's 12 Deadly Cins. Mum bought it for me when she bought me my first Boom Box in grade two. ^_^

1st album: Wouldn't You Like It - Bay City Rollers
1st cassette: can't remember exactly, but I know one of the first had to be Synchronicity - The Police
1st cd - Ingenue - kd lang
1st downloaded song - You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man - Loretta Lynn

What was your VERY first music purchase?
 

I was thinking today about the first record I ever bought and how old I was at the time. It think back to how that purchase completely dictated the course of my musical choices through the years and the influences on my taste that never really left me.
The first record, and I mean vinyl people when it was the only game in town and 8 tracks were just starting to make a dent in the market, was a 45 by Led Zepplin containing "The Immigrant Song" and on the b-side was a song called, "I think, Hey Hey What Can I do". I was 8 years old and so proud.
My brother, who was 16, was into Zepplin, Black Sabbath and Steppenwolf. And I was completely engrossed in that scene (just because I thought everything he did was sooo cool).
Studying my current CD collection, I see that the musical influence remains though the names of the bands have changed.

My first music purchase was the soundtrack of a movie I enjoyed. However, that was far from my first ownership of music. I got a bunch of cds from those "get 10 for the price of 1" music clubs since my dad would pay for 1 and let me choose 5 of the free ones.

Alan Jackson - Everything I Love

Things sure have changed (turns up Alexisonfire).

I think maybe it was "Lonesome Loser" by the Little River Band, but I'm pretty sure I must have bought records before that. Everything before that that I remember was a gift, Endless Summer by the Beach Boys was the first album I owned.

The soundtrack to Phantom of the Opera. :p My poor family probably still knows every word.

The first record I remember buying was Peter Gabriel's album "Security". I am still a huge Peter Gabriel fan to this day.

My first...
 

Wow...i've bought so much music in my lifetime that it took me a few minutes to decipher my first REAL purchase.

Matchbox Twenty - Yourself of Someone Like You.


I was 13 at the time, just coming into my own as far as musical tastes went. I remember hearing Push on the radio and thinking "Man, that's a cool song...i really wanna hear more stuff from these guys!" So i saved my money (and begged for some too...I was 13, i didn't have a job!) and purchased the album. Fell in love with it...listened to it constantly...the song "Busted" is still to this very day one of my favorite songs ever! (I dig angry rock music...and that song was as angry as Matchbox Twenty got!)

Not so much a Little River Band fan today, if they even exist. The only early music purchase that has retained my appreciation is Johnny Cash.

He built that Cadillac one piece at a time. It was a '57 '58 '60 car.

Honestly... the Men in Black soundtrack.

*hangs head in shame*

Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today...I bought it many years ago and still like it.

740 Boyz - Shimmy Shake. It was a single, I musta been 12 or 13. I can't remember the last time I listened to it, but if I heard it now it'd probably last all of 15 seconds before I'd fling a shoe at the CD player.

I still have this in the car. It belonged to a friend of mine who I relentlessly pestered for it for almost a year before he gave it up. I still get flack from my buddies when they see it in my CD wallet.

Putting aside some Pop Hitz collections, I think it was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports.

Other early purchases around that time would be:

Peter Gabriel - So
Paul Simon - Graceland

Then in grade 8, my friend Thomas played me Led Zepplin's first album, and everything changed. :)

I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but: Jon and Vangelis "The Friends of Mr. Cairo"

Culture Club - Colour by Numbers (on cassette)

I had a similar thread a few months ago...

Classic Queen, I think.

I was all set to make fun of people for having a very recent album as their first purchase, and then I realized my first purchase was a CD, so....

Fun thread, but someone else started it already; can we get a mod-merge?

Tilted Forum Project - Your first LP, Cassette and CD

Your wish is my command.

First LP: Too young.
First cassette: The Mighty Ducks 2 Soundtrack (I know, I know.)
First CD: Puff Daddy - No Way Out and Will Smith - Big Willie Style (Again, I know, I know.)

LP: Oingo Boingo - "Dead Man's Party"

Tape: The Cure - "Japanese Whispers"

CD: Depeche Mode - "Music for the Masses"