― Mean Guy, Monday, 17 February 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.ukcollectibles.co.uk/Images/now7tapeb.jpg
No regrets...
― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 17 February 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 17 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
My first LP was 'The Very Best of David Bowie' with my Xmas money in 1980.
First 7" was 'What you're proposing' by Status Quo.
― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
First CD: 'Kill Uncle'.
― Rayas Blancas, Monday, 17 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― willem (willem), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 17 February 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
That would be Jim Irvin, singer in Furniture, I believe! Also played surreptitious guitar on a handful of early Gay Dad tracks, if memory serves...but I'm sure he doesn't want to talk about that.
― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― oops (Oops), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
...what was the first cd that i bought myself, that i honestly cannot recall; cd's given by musicians started to appear in the corner of my shelf a few years before i bought a cd player or any cd's m'self
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 02:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
did you buy aforementioned LP/cassette/CD specifically in anticipation of answering questions on threads/in conversations such as this one?
Well did you? Come on now.
― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 02:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
This is why I avoid ILM.
― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
CD: Michael Penn, "March"
(cringe)
― mosurock (mosurock), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― kevin brady (groeuvre), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6EXADT7.jpg
― warm smell of burritos (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
whoa hueg, sorry
Beatles 1967-1970Doors, 13
I must have been 9 or 10, so 1977-1978
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link
Bonnie Tyler - Faster Than the Speed of Night
― jmm, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
LP: Beatles, White AlbumCD: I wish I had a better memory of this, but I think it was Philip Glass, Songs from Liquid Days (lol)Vinyl single: Cramps, "Faster Pussycat"/"You Got Good Taste" (7" picture disc on New Rose) (I was not a single buyer)8-track tape: something by Neil Young I think?
Don't recall any prerecorded cassettes or CD singles
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:27 (ten years ago) link
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
this is what we do. do. do. do.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:30 (ten years ago) link
haha Blind Man's Zoo was one of my first elpees.
My first CD was Michael Penn's March.
First CD single: "Lovesong."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
cassette: men at work, business as usual
lp: possibly thriller, but i'm not sure
cd: rust never sleeps
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:36 (ten years ago) link
lp: Chicago 18
cassette: Candlebox - s/t (shut up)
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
First LP was either Goofy Greats or the Hair movie soundtrack (which my parents inexplicably let 6-year-old me listen to). First cassette was Rush's A Farewell To Kings. First CD was a bootleg of the Who's 4/5/68 Fillmore East show. That's the only one of these I still have.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
Oh weird mookie, my first CD was that Men At Work album, followed closely by the first Gin Blossoms album
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
Continuing the Men at Work theme, I saved my allowance for weeks to buy my first new record, the Business as Usual LP in the spring of 1982. Before that I had bought a couple of used records, notably Judas Priest's Hero, Hero.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:40 (ten years ago) link
I think my first tape was Diver Downfirst 45 was "Eye of the Tiger"first LP was Thriller10K Maniacs was my first CD
― warm smell of burritos (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
it was either the marshall mathers lp or the third foo fighters album (i bought them within a couple of days of each other), which is unfortunate as i can't pin anything of biographical or genealogical interest onto either of those albums
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:35 (ten years ago) link
first 2 LPs bought in a Manchester shop c.1975/76: Black Sabbath - Paranoid and Led Zeppelin - IIpretty great start and I first listened to them loud on headphones!
soon after I bought some Beatles cassettes: Revolver and Magical Mystery Tour - one of these actually in Liverpool I think! (the other prob in Stockport) most Beatles albums I'd already home taped from friends. I also bought Led Zep's live The Song Remains The Same (cassette or LP?).
I bought some Roxy albums from other kids at boarding school (in Staffs) during 3rd Form (1976): Siren and Viva!. strangely I didn't learn of Eno and hear the first 2 Roxy albums until 1980, though I did also hear someone else's copies of Stranded and Country Life and in 1977 Bowie - Heroes, which made a strong impression (side 2 ambient weirdness!).
first artist I followed/bought contemporary was Ferry: Let's Stick Together and In Your Mind.last album I bought in England before I left Dec '77 was Never Mind The Bollocks, October release I think.
that's pretty much my record collection until Jan 1980 when I got a part-time job and could afford to buy LPs every week.
― Paul, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 03:08 (ten years ago) link
Funny I never posted yet, I love asking people this.
First 7" - Christopher Cross, "Ride Like The Wind"First LP - Gary Numan - The Pleasure PrincipleFirst Cassette - Violent Femmes - The Blind Leading the Naked (Not sure, could have also been Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun Shy, Woodentops - Giant, Hüsker Dü – Candy Apple Grey or Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time. Dunno why but I liked the toxic plastic smell of those new plastic cassettes more than new records!)First CD - Joy Division - Substance
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
First Cassette Single - Duran Duran - Come UndoneFirst Cassette Album - Duran Duran - DecadeFirst CD Single - Menswe@r - Stardust First CD Album - Pulp - A Different ClassFirst 7" - Julian Lennon - Saltwater First LP - I'm struggling to remember what this was. Think it was around 1999 I started buying vinyl. Think it was possibly Real Life by Magazine.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 03:53 (ten years ago) link
First LP - Probably either Bill Cosby Wonderfulness or Another Monty Python Record (I was 10)
First Music LP - Barry Manilow's first album (the one with "Could It Be Magic") (I was 12)
First CD was going to be Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon but the store didn't have it in stock
Actual first CDs - - Peter Gabriel So- Various Artists A Winter's Solstice - A Windham Hill Compilation- XTC The Big Express (Import)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 24 July 2014 03:59 (ten years ago) link
please hammer don't hurt em
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 July 2014 05:09 (ten years ago) link
tape - Red Hot Chili Peppers 'What Hits'CD - Spin Doctors' second album I thinkLP - Cramps 'Off The Bone'
― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 July 2014 07:53 (ten years ago) link