Your first LP, Cassette and CD
 

Okay, I know many of you are too young to ever have owned LP's (or cassettes for that matter), but I'm curious what were the first albums you owned in each format. Ignore any "kids" music or the like...i'm talking popular music.

I'll start:

First LP: Michael Jackson - Thriller
First cassette: Culture Club - Colour by Numbers (bought with my allowance!)
First CD: Depeche Mode - Violator

First LP: Shaun Cassidy-Shaun Cassidy
First Cassette: Abba-Abba Gold
First CD: Honeymoon Suite (bought two at the same time...the original self titled cd and The Big Prize)

I'll also add...my first 8 track was a k-tel collection of current hits in the 70's

My God, Derwood, you and I must have the same birthday or something; we came of age at exactly the same time...

First LP: Michael Jackson, "Thriller"
First Cassette: probably either Culture Club "Colour by Numbers" or Cyndi Lauper "She's so Unusual"
First CD: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, "UFO TOFU". Didn't own a CD player yet, I received it as a gift.

First LP was Paid In Full, by Eric B & Rakim - Still got it and I still think it's one of the best albums ever made.

First CD was Dummy, by Portishead - I was quite late in jumping on the CD bandwagon because I've always preferred vinyl. I couldn't find this album on vinyl, so I bought the CD then bought a CD player a couple of months later.

First cassette - I honestly can't remember what was the first. I think it was either License to Ill, by The Beastie Boys or Raising Hell, by Run DMC - it's all coming back to me now. I bought them both at the same time from a market stall.

February 24, 1975

First LP: some Bay City Rollers album that I begged my Mom to buy for me... since lost to taste and time.
First cassette: Geroge Carlin's A Place for My Stuff and Robin Williams' Throbbing Python of Love (bought them at the same time).
First CD: Three Feet High and Rising, De La Soul and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy (I wrecked my cassettes of these two and decided it was time to make the jump to CD)

Putting aside my Mini-Pops albums:

I didn't start buying my own music until after cassettes were dominant, so technically, my first LP was Kiss: Alive, from a garage sale back in the 90's. I did buy singles on vinyl though.

1st Cassette: Huey Lewis and The News: Sports

1st CD: "1958" - One of those Time-Life compilations.

heh heh heh... IIIII just can't believe it... :)


My hall of shame:
LP :Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Cassette: Probably either Andy Gibb's album - or the soundtrack to saturday night live
8 track - something K-tel -- god help me...

CD - i don't remember

8 track.........kiss alive

lp.........led zeppelin III

cassette.........black sabbath...sabbath bloody sabbath

cd...........mother lovebone......apple


*holy fuckin' old guy*

I wonder if we had the same k-tel 8 track lol

mine had Rick Springfield(Speak to the Sky), Donny Osmond(Go Away little girl) , Rod Stewart(Maggie May) and Sweet(Little Willie) (just to name a few)

LP: I got a Bill Cosby's comic thing, can't remember the title
Cassette: Jimi Hendrix electric lady land but it was in a big bunch I got for a birthday but that was the 1st I opened
CD: First CD i ever bought myself was Miles Davis Kind of Blue and hvae repurchased it like 4 times

Re: Bay City Rollers

In my defence, I was probably seven at the time. There was a big, shiny display at the Ceadarbrae Mall and I wanted to be cool like the big kids. I'm not even sure I listened to the damn record. It was just that sort of purchase.

April 24, 1974. Exactly 10 months apart.

First LP: Beach Boys - Endless Summer
First Cassette: Duran Duran - Rio
First CD: Dave Brubeck - Take 5
First Download: Moby - Porcelain

LP: Dire Straits, Money for Nothing
Cassette: I bought AC/DC Who Made Who. I got Huey Lewis and the News FORE! with my walkman for my birthday.
CD: Paul Simon Graceland. Shit that was a good CD.

And for 8 track, I never bought one. My dad had one called "Greased Lightning" (K-Tel I think) that my brother and I always listened to. It was great.

LP: Elvis, one of his 462 live albums...it was my 8th birthday.
Cassette: Rush 2112
CD: Metallica, Master of Puppets

Are there really people here who are too young to have owned a casette? I can't fathom it.

I've no idea what my first LP was. I know that I have none today, but dearly want to start a collection. That isn't to say I've never owned one.

My first casette was probably Michael Jackson. I think it was Bad, but I'm a bit shaky on that.

My first cd... well, that one I remember. I had two; one was Bush's Razorblade Suitcase (back when they were still BushX) and the other was Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill. I received them both along with a cd player as a christmas gift one year.

While I was too young to purchase it myself, the first LP I regard as my own was Michael Jackson's "Thriller". It is the first album I ever remember listening to.

Cassette: Probably New Kids On The Block "Step By Step" or Paula Abdul's "Forever Your Girl"...can't remember which came out first.

CD: Janet Jackson's "Janet"

What about reel to reel? :)

LP: Elton John - Don't shoot me I'm only the Piano Player (and I'm not responsible for this title)
Cassette: Def Leppard - High & Dry (my very first prerecorded, on a road trip)
CD: The Dark Side of the Moon, to replace yet another worn out LP of same

I'm not counting cassettes made of my LPs, hand-me-downs, or random things that may have landed in our house. Just first purchases.

Did somebody say "Bay City Rollers?" :lol::p :D

a good time to grow up, musically speaking.

First LPs given to me were "Meet The Beatles" and "Jan and Dean's Dead Man's Curve + other hits" I inherited my mom's old records and record player, those were the 2 I played all the time.

First LP I bought or had bought for me = Kiss' Love Gun

First Cassette I bought = a K-Tel with the original "Funkytown" "You Light Up My Life" and "Do That to Me One More Time", I think it was supposed to be like a lover's tape lol..... had no idea just remember talking my mom into getting it for me for some God awful reason. What's even sadder is I remember playing it a lot. (Although if you asked me in person to keep from having you laugh at me I would say Billy Joel's 52nd Street which was cassette #2)

First CDs = 1996 The KINKS "Phobia" and Shakespear's Sister's "Hormonally Yours".... I had bought like 3 tapes of each (they got stolen each time), and I bought a '95 Nissan Pickup with a CD player in it and since those were the 2 musical items I was listening to in my old car's cassette deck, I bought the CD's.

Oh come on now the mid 70's had very little good music. I mean when the hits were "Love Will Keep Us Together", "Delta Dawn" and so on and the big acts were the Captain and Tenille, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Led Zeppelin.... it's a sad period in music.

Fortunately, I wasn't much listening to music until the early Eighties. Like I said: first LP, "Thriller".

so you say now...

First LP: Jon and Vangelis - Friends of Mr. Cairo
First Cassette: Huey Lewis & the News - Fore
First CD: Tal Bachman

LP: never bought one of my own, but scratched up one of my parents' LPs in a science demonstration in school
Cassette: I honestly cannot remember the first one I bought, probably Milli Vanilli. Hey, it was the 80s
CD: Metallica - Metallica

S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y NIGHT..........


ahahahhahahahahahha....

You were a closet roller fan... you know the words!!!

DORK!!! :D

I loved (and still do...I have them on my MP3 player) The Bay City Rollers

so there :p

You're crazy! The mid-70s was ripe with great music. Pop music almost always sucks, pay it no heed. :thumbsup:

Patti Smith
The Ramones
Television
Richard Hell and the Voivods
Talking Heads
Lou Reed's best solo works
David Bowie's Berlin trilogy of albums
Iggy Pop's solo work

Etc.

oh you hush up eh..........




i'll admit to the dork part though.


:D

There was a lot of very good music to come out of the 70's.

My List:
LP - Mike Oldfeld, Tubular Bells
8 Track - Fleetwood Mac, Rumors
Cassette - Blondie, Parallel Lines
CD - Artie Shaw, The Complete Gramercy Five Sessions

Maybe.

I don't know, I just think from around '72 to the Hotel California, Rumours, Bat out of Hell, Stranger, etc. era the music from the 70's was really devoid of creativity as a whole. I just believe the industry was relying on past formulas and selling them, so if you lived in the heartland you weren't as aware of the underground music as say those living in NYC and L.A. where the bands of the future were solidifying the sound.

Yeah, you had punk coming in and with it a new sound but as a whole the music was bland. I think because IMHO the new bands that would later be major players (the Eagles, the Runaways, Queen, Fleetwood Mac adding Lindsey and Stevie, the Sex Pistols, Blondie, etc) were just starting to break into the business and had not quite yet solidified their sounds.


Sorry to threadjack.

LP: Michael Jackson; Thriller
Cassette: Bad Religion; How Could Hell Be Any Worse
CD: Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream (it was a gift)

This is a toughie...

LP... The clash
Tape.. none - still to this day. I would make tapes of the records i bought
CD.. Judas Priest Unleashed in the East. I first started getting CD's in about 83/84ish, and once again I'd tape everything, make compilations, etc.

The late 70's and 80's were either really good, or really bad for music, depends on how you look at it. I still can't stand "southern" rock to this day, it's like nails on a chalk board for me.

Cassette.. Kriss Kross Totally Krossed Out? I was 8 gimme a break
CD.. probably The Chronic, still proud of that one, though I lost the CD, I think my parents took it, now I have the LP re-release
LP.. well, 12" singles would more accurately describe them, UR My Love/Desenchantee by Kate Ryan and Ligaya by Gouryella I bought at the same time (still haven't opened the latter)

lp: the rolling stone's "out of our heads" and some bizarre sing-a-long version of early beatiles hits--i remember the record was some guy playing beatles chord changes on a hammond organ--the liner came with lyrics and tablature.

8-track: i think it was deep purple's "purple passages" but i am not sure

cassette: no idea. i like cassettes, though. i still play with them. make them produce bad noises by hurting them. that kind of thing. it's lots of fun, particularly if the results are running through a p.a. nice.


btw: there was alot of good music produced in the middle 1970s. for example, island records starting isuing (remixed) bob marley in 1974, nd with that the world beyond jamaica/beyond other places with a significant jamaican community started to find out about reggae.
hip-hop emerged in the middle 1970s (rapper's delight was around 1977, yes?)
and everything of any interest that rock n roll ever had to say lyrically was summarized by the stooges on their fine record raw power, with their immortal couplet

now i wanna
be your dog

it's all been downhill from there, folks.

Motherfucker, I WORE MY PANTS AND YANKEE JERSEY BACKWARDS TO SCHOOL ONE DAY.

I was totally Krossed out. I swear. I wish I was making it up.

I am listening to Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole now. Thank god.

Oh, and before I forget, I wanted to shave a little line in my eyebrow ala Vanilla Ice, but my mom wouldn't let me. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

LP - Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
Cassette - ZZ Topp's "Eliminator"
CD - Bob Mould's "Workbook"

Interestingly enough, one of the underwriters that I deal with is the stepfather of one of the kids in Kriss Kross. They still have a recording studio in the house, although he moved out years ago.

first LP i ever bought: "silk and satin" - nina simone
first LPs ever given to me: "high tides and green grass" - the rolling stones, "twist and shout" - the beatles, "help: the soundtrack" - the beatles, "sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band" - the beatles and the beach boys greatest hits.
[most of my LPs were gifts from family and friends who really haven't listened to them in years.]

first cd: "tragic kingdom" - no doubt
first cassette: the bangles, though i'm not sure what the name of the album is.