Your first ever: by format

And MP3 you Luddite!! ;)

Seven inch - "Things Can Only Get Better" by Howard Jones. Too true Howard.

LP (12") - umm I *think* it was "Tommy" by The Wedding Present.

12" Single - One of Midge Ure's follow-ups to "If I Was", I have completely forgotten the name of it.

Cassette - Rage In Eden by Ultravox

CD Single - At War by McCarthy

CD Album - Dead Letter Office by REM, I thought it was rubbish almost immediately though I liked the band at the time.

Minidisc - never owned

8-track - never owned

and 78 for the going back some - I have a 78 of Marlene Dietrich, it was my Gran's I think.

MP3 - "We're In The City" by Saint Etienne

Seven inch, Been such a long way home - Garnett Mimms (1968?)
LP (12") Doris Day sings with kids (approx title) (1966?)
12" Single Substitute - The Who (1976)
Cassette Siouxsie and the banshees (forget the title)
CD Single Darklands - Jesus and Mary Chain
CD Album Out of our Idiot - Elvis Costello
Minidisc Boo Radleys - Kingsize
8-track Sgt Pepper (at a boot sale)
and 78 for the going back some Party - Elvis (1972)

Oh yeah, MP3 - Win a night out with a well known paranoiac - Barry Andrews

7" - Bowie - "Fame"
12" - Sisters of Mercy - "The Reptile House"
LP - Dead Kennedies - "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" (with that awesome foldout that I had tacked up on my bedroom wall forever)
CDS - Can't recall
CD - Depeche Mode - "Violator"
Cassette - Guns 'N Roses - "Use Your Illusion II"
Minidisc, 8-track, 78 - N/A
MP3 - Placebo - "Pure Morning" ...ducks...

Seven inch "Stand and deliver" - Adam Ant

LP (12") "Fantastic" - Wham!

12" Single "Relax" - FGTH

Cassette Queen's Greatest Hits

CD Single not sure about this one....it was either Michael Moog - "That sound" or Pavement - "Carrot rope"

CD Album P.E. - "It takes a nation of millions..."

Minidisc - never owned

8-track - never owned

78 - never owned

MP3 - Lil' Louis - "French kiss"

7" inch - "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo

LP (12") - Rhythm of the Night by Debarge

12" Single - "Cone Toaster" by Black Dice

Cassette - Best of Jan & Dean

CD Single - "Lithium" by Nirvana

CD Album - the Stone Roses

Minidisc - only bought empty ones

8-track - never owned

78 - never owned

mp3 - don't remember

Seven inch: never owned.

LP (12"): got a bunch of 'em at the same time, courtesy of a dead record collector relative. Most of them are post-forties jazz. I only bought a vinyl player after I've got the records.

12" Single: Something released by Major Force. Can't recall...

Cassette: 2 Unlimited's first LP.

CD Single: some remix single of Björk, released after her first LP.

CD Album: "Very" by the Pet Shop Boys.

Minidisc: never owned.

8-track: no.

78: nope.

MP3: nope.

Seven inch: "Cars" - Gary Numan
LP (12") "Panorama" - The Cars (bought by mistake - actually wanted the above. Proper 1st one: "Back In Black" - AC/DC
12" Single "Everything Counts" - Depeche Mode
Cassette: "Rio" - Duran Duran (I stole it from a department store. Bad me.)
CD Single: "Sally Cinnamon" - Stone Roses
CD Album: "Technique" - New Order
Minidisc: Never.
8-track: Nope.
and 78 for the going back some Party: Uh, no.
MP3: seriously have no idea. my first day downloading was a flurry of activity...

I'm probably wrong for most of these, but I have a pretty bad memory...

Seven inch: Sting 'Russians'

LP (12"): Suzanne Vega 'Solitude Standing'

12" Single: The Cure 'Charlotte Sometimes'

Cassette: Simple Minds 'Street Fighting Years'

CD Single: The Cure 'Never Enough'

CD Album: Madonna 'Like a Prayer'

Minidisc: Copies only

MP3: The Cure 'Coming Up'

"Russians" - RESPECT!

Uh-oh, juvenile record choices within.

Seven inch, The wombles "The Wombling Song"
LP (12") "War of the Worlds"
12" Single Gary Numan "Down in the Park"
Cassette - I can't remember, poss OMD's first album?
CD Single - Darling Buds "Let's go Round There"
CD Album - Fairport Convention "liege & Lief" vs Dvorak "Hymnus"
Minidisc - Feh, never bought one
8-track - Hendrix/Yes as per other thread
and 78 for the going back some "Well Did you Evah" from "high society"
MP3 - various excerpts from antiorp's album.

LP (12"): Now, I certainly owned several LPs when I was very young, things like the Muppets Christmas album, but I believe the first LP that I bought with my own money was Michael Jackson, Thriller

Cassette: With the same caveat -- Tiffany, Tiffany

CD album: P.M. Dawn, Of the Heart, of the Cross...

MP3: I think a few excerpts from Papa M's Live From a Shark Cage album; if not the very first, they were among the first dozen.

Seven inch: "I Wish It Could Be Xmas Everyday" - Wizzard
LP: "Elton John's Greatest Hits" (though "Sheer Heart Attack" by Queen was the first one I bought with my own money)
12" Single: "It's A Love Thing" - The Whispers (I think)
Cassette: Don't remember.
CD Single: Never bought one
CD Album: "Walking Wounded" - EBTG (I clung to vinyl for a long, long time)
MP3: "Airport" - The Motors (possibly, I mostly used Napster to replace old 45s)

Ooh, a Friday stroll down memory lane, warts and all:

Seven inch = "Jungle Love" -- Steve Miller Band
LP (12") = "Bat Out of Hell" -- Meat Loaf
12" Single = "I Just Can't Get Enough" -- Depeche Mode
Cassette = "Point of Know Return"
CD Single = "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)" -- Residents
CD Album = "Liege and Lief" -- Fairport Convention
8-track = "Jailbreak" -- Thin Lizzy

Seven inch: Electronic - Getting Away With It (I didn't buy singles till v v late)
LP (12"): Clannad - Legend (oh yes, oh shame)
12" Single: PSBs - Always on My Mind
Cassette Album: PSBs - Actually or Please
Cassette Single: KLF - What Time is Love
CD Single: No idea, maybe Army of Lovers - Crucified
CD Album: Substance - New Order
mp3: Orbital - Dr Who theme live at Glasto

Seven inch, "Stay with me" - The Faces (Oxfam shop, Penarth, 1982, well my Mum was working there...)
LP (12") "Dazzle Ships" - OMD (HMV, Cardiff, April 30, 1983)
12" Single "Doot doot" - Freur (as OMD above)
Cassette: "Equinoxe" - Jean Michel Jarre (Boots, Cardiff, 1980, though bought for me by my father)
CD Single: "Eve's volcano" - Julian Cope (HMV Cardiff, April '87)
CD Album: "Valuable passages" - Durutti Column (via Gema Records mail order, April 9th 1987)

Can you tell I kept a diary from 1983 onwards?

IIRC (and this will show how slow I've been to keep up with the evolution of technology)

Seven inch: Sparkmarker - "Gerberick"

LP (12"): Lydia Lunch et al - Honeymoon In Red

12" Single: Sonic Youth - SYR 1

Cassette: Bon Jovi - New Jersey

CD Single: En Esch (? The KMFDM guy. Forget the track.)

CD Album: Nirvana - Unplugged In New York and In Utero

8-track: Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (We found this in someone's garbage and were excited. We never played it as I've never seen an 8-track player.)

MP3: Avril Lavigne - "Sk8er Boi"

Seven inch: Walter Egan - "Magnet and Steel"
LP (12"): K-Tel Hit Machine
12" Single: Fat Boys - "Jailhouse Rap"
Cassette: U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky
CD Single: Sinaed O' Conner - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
CD Album: REM - Dead Letter Office
8-track: The Kinks - Sleepwalker
Mp3: Conway Twitty - "It's Only Make Believe"

LP: was there a Pac Man tv show christmas album?
Cassette: either Bon Jovi/New Jersey or Starship/Knee Deep in the Hoopla
CD single: First I actually bought was probably Born Slippy
CD: Dark Side of the Moon (20th Anniversary)
mp3: no idea. the first I ever heard was 2 Live Crew though.

12 inch - Phil Silvers - "Bilko Marches"
cassette - Rolling Stones - "Flowers"
cd album - Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon" {as a vinyl update}
8 track - Five Man Elecrical Band - "Signs"
78 - WKXL's library / circa 1966 Too much Sinatra & the likes for me, though. Ended up giving most away and skeet shooting the rest.

Seven inch: "I Can't Wait" - Nu Shooz
LP (12"): "Give me Convenience or give me Death" - Dead Kennedys
12" Single: "Blinded by Science" - Thomas Dolby
Cassingle: "Tom's Diner" - D.N.A. feat. Suzanne Vega
Cassette: "Rio" - Duran Duran (not stolen)
CD Single: "World Destruction" - Time Zone
CD Album: "The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking" - Roger Waters
Minidisc: N/A
8-track: "Armed Forces" - Elvis Costello
78: N/A
mp3: "Everlong" - Foo Fighters
Music VHS: "Staring at the Sea" - The Cure

I still own only the first two and the last two.

Seven inch: some local punk band, perhaps Anti-Product
LP (12"): a Joy Division live in Holland '80 bootleg
12" Single: Always remixes by Erasure
Cassette: U2 Rattle and Hum
CD Single: They Might Be Giants, Istanbul (not constantinople)
CD Album: NIN Downward Spiral
Minidisc N/A
8-track N/A
and 78 N/A

Seven inch: Deep Purple, "Might just take your life"
(I can't remember how I got this. I hardly ever bought 7" singles. Somehow even at an early age, some part of me decided I was an albums sort of bloke. It was probably the influence of seeing the cool dudes from the year above me at school stood at the bus stop with "Brain Salad Surgery" tucked under their arms. You couldn't do that with a 7". Well, you could, but it didn't have the same iconic effect. Which of course with hindsight may have been a Jolly Good Thing, but at the time an ELP album sleeve held a certain je ne sais quoi, believe it or not.)

LP (12"): A Top of the Pops compilation
(One of those with a foxy lady on the cover where sessions musicians covered current chart hits)

12" Single: The Cult, "Resurrection Joe"
(I'm not 100% sure about this, but again I had almost no 12" singles, but the couple I did have coincided with a brief flirtation with G*th)

Cassette: Pink Floyd, Relics

CD Single: Leftfield, "Release the Pressure"

CD Album: Various, Q DCCCD II (Q Magazine cover CD)
(I didn't get a CD player until 1993. I was a student and pretty skint, so my first purchases were all magazine cover CDs, midprice back catalogue reissues in HMV threefer deals, and second hand stuff. I think I might have bought this before I had the CD player and kept it in anticipation of being able to play it. Which means that the first track I played on CD was very probably "Love is stronger than justice" by Sting. *Cough*)

Minidisc: Never owned

8-track: Never owned

MP3: Don't know. Probably something from epitonic.com

Seven inch: "Bad", Michael Jackson

LP (12"): I think Screamadelica was the first vinyl album I bought, just after I got a turntable when I was 20.

12" Single: That Skid Row tune that was massive.

Cassingle: "Blame It On The Boogie" by Big Fun.

Cassette album: Electric by The Cult.

CD Single: "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Wont Do That)" by Meatloaf.

CD Album: Magic Bullets by Mega City Four.

MP3: Not sure, but one of the very first things I downloaded was "The Butterfly Effect" by Four Tet.

Seven inch: Barry Manilow, "Daybreak" (that was the first one I ever bought; the first one I ever owned was Little Anthony & the Imperials, "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop")

LP (12"): "Barry Manilow Live"

12" Single: Never owned one.

Cassingle: Never felt the need to have one until Paula Abdul, "Blowing Kisses in the Wind"

Cassette album: The Beatles, "1967 - 1970"

CD Single: Something that was mailed to me that I've long since forgotten.

CD Album: KFOG, "Live From the Archives" (charity compilation from a SF radio station)

MP3: William Shatner, "Mr. Tambourine Man"