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.

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"

The First LP I ever purchased was Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind.

I shortly afterwards underwent a change of musical tastes, which brought me to my first cassette, which was either The Cure - The Head on the Door or Devo - Oh No! It's Devo!

My first CD ever was actually a quadruple purchase. I got 4 Depeche Mode CDs: Strangelove Single, Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, and Some Great Reward.

Never bought a LP
First cassette: Cocktail soundtrack. I bought that just for the song Kokomo
First CD: Michael Jackson's HIStory

vinyl...."Meet the Beatles" (I'm not called Gramps for nothing!)

cassette....lost in the fog of the 70's?

CD.....was waiting for the digital tape revolution,??? Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"?

Hmmm, this is tough. My memory sucks...

First LP: I never bought one myself, unless you include winning a Kansas record at a town fair. (don't remember which)
First cassette: It's a toss-up between Men-at-Work's "Business As Usual" or Styx's "Kilroy Was Here"
First CD: I honestly don't remember. It was a bunch from the Columbia Music Club.