First LP, Cassette, CD

[Winnow]

Name your the first Record, Cassette and Cd you bought (if you can remember!) Just list the first CD (you bought, not given to you) if you never experienced LPs or CDs.

Post a YouTube associated with them if you can find something.

Record: Kiss Alive II (1979)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu7FMVvAh0A

Cassette: Beach Boys (it was a double album collection of their greatest hits is all I can recall)

As for most memorable cassette, I remember buying my girlfriend Van Halen I, (Ain't Talking about Love, Jamie's Crying, Running with the Devil). So romantic! She listened to it all the time afterwards though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-JfqCepDs

CD: The Cars Greatest Hits (1985/86), there were so few CDs out at the time but this one was the best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8oZZJojROo

I still have this CD. Timeless!

[Fairweather Pure]

Record:
Weird Al Yankovic - Polka Party
and
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

Cassette:
Weird Al Yankovic - In 3D
and
Van Halen - 1984

CD:
(I bought several at once with Xmas money after I recieved a cd player from Santa)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here
Beck - Mellow Gold
Tool - Undertow
Rage Against the Machine - self titled
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Pearl Jam - 10




I seem to buy my new media in multiples. My first DVD, computer/console game purchases would be the same way.

[Spang]

First Tape: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper

First CD: Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel

[Midnyte_Ragebringer]

Hard as hell to remember back that far, but I'll try.

First record, The Jackson Five: ABC



First Cassette, Hall & Oats: Private Eyes



First CD, NWA: Straight Outta Compton

[laneela]

First Cassette: Wham! - Make it Big



First CD: Bjork - Debut

[Xatrei]

I couldn't begin to guess what was the first LP, cassette or CD that I bought (or 8-track or 45, for that matter). I can say that I bought my first CDs in the summer of 1985 when I got my first player, and the the older formats years before that.

[Boogahz]

Not entirely sure, but the first (non-kid music) LP that I bought with my own money would be:
Billy Joel - Glass Houses

Cassette:
Motley Crue - Theatre of Pain

CD:
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Bryan Adams - Into the Fire

I only remember the two CD's for sure, since there were so few CD's even available in the small town I was living in at the time.

[Fash]

I used to buy 45's. Not a clue in the world what any of the firsts were, though.

[rhyae]

First LP - Andy Gibb Shadow Dancing (it takes a long time to save up album money on 50 cents a week allowance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqpsVY2v0zk

First Cassette - Toto IV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPT_3PEjnsE

First CD - INXS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXtijtRffI0

Weird thinking about that.

[Zamtuk]

Didn't really get records, but I remember making my dad buy me an Elvis Greatest Hits LP (which was also his favorite artist), so I'll count that.

First cassette was MC Hammer

First CD was Cypress Hill - Black Sunday

[Aabidano]

First album - Led Zeppelin 2?
First 8 track - something by Black Sabbath
First cassette - something by Blue Oyster Cult
First CD - Pretty Hate Machine

[Ashur]

Record: The Star Wars Soundtrack (Double Album!) - Man, took me a long time to save up for that! I remember making all sorts of geeky recordings using my tape cassette recorder/player with that playing in the background.
Cassette: Sammy Hagar - Standing Hampton (I think...)
CD: Oh lord, not sure if I remember, probably something by Depeche Mode or The Cure.

[Chidoro]

I think the first record I got was the 45 for Rubber Biscuit by the Blues Brothers. Cassette I think was Men at Work's first album. I bought Wolfmother on cd to put on my computer. I think it's the only music cd I own. My wife re-purchased her catalog on cd's but I wasn't going to buy everything all over again especially since my car only had/has a cassette deck.

[Canelek]

Album - I do not remember...
8-Track - STYX I think
Cassette - Men at Work (Business as Usual) or Quiet Riot (Metal Health)
CD - Beastie Boys (License to Ill)

[Xyphir]

LP - Kilroy Was Here (Styx)
Cassette - Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A.)
CD - Violator (Depeche Mode)

[Winnow]

Name your the first Record, Cassette and Cd you bought (if you can remember!) Just list the first CD (you bought, not given to you) if you never experienced LPs or CDs.

Post a YouTube associated with them if you can find something.

Record: Kiss Alive II (1979)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu7FMVvAh0A

Cassette: Beach Boys (it was a double album collection of their greatest hits is all I can recall)

As for most memorable cassette, I remember buying my girlfriend Van Halen I, (Ain't Talking about Love, Jamie's Crying, Running with the Devil). So romantic! She listened to it all the time afterwards though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-JfqCepDs

CD: The Cars Greatest Hits (1985/86), there were so few CDs out at the time but this one was the best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8oZZJojROo

I still have this CD. Timeless!

I have a confession to make! My first record purchased was actually from the bargain bin of a grocery store.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZBjLjB9h8 (give it a listen, as disco songs in the 70's go, it's actually not that bad!) Roll on!

I just wanted to buy an album and had no clue about music or even what was on the album. (miir would say that's still true!)

I must have been attracted to the sexy black people on the cover!

Kiss Alive II was the second record I purchased and first that wasn't a random grab bag. BTW, ended up talking to a guy who knew the announcer for Kiss the yells in the beginning of the show "You wanted the best and you got the best! The hottest band in the world...KISS!" You can hear him in this Kill Alive II Detroit Rock City video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfiV77Q_8zk . He proceeded to talk to me for like 15 minutes about Kiss and stories about the band. The announcer had just recently died at a Kiss Convention so he died doing what he enjoyed right up to the end. My brother had purchased Kiss: Destroyer in 1976 and I still have that record:

[Show]

1. "Detroit Rock City" Paul Stanley, Bob Ezrin Stanley 5:17
2. "King of the Night Time World" Stanley, Ezrin, Kim Fowley, Mark Anthony Stanley 3:19
3. "God of Thunder" Stanley Gene Simmons 4:13
4. "Great Expectations" Simmons, Ezrin Simmons 4:24
5. "Flaming Youth" Ace Frehley, Stanley, Simmons, Ezrin Stanley 2:59
6. "Sweet Pain" Simmons Simmons 3:20
7. "Shout It Out Loud" Stanley, Simmons, Ezrin Stanley, Simmons 2:49
8. "Beth" Peter Criss, Ezrin, Stan Penridge Criss 2:45
9. "Do You Love Me?" Stanley, Ezrin, Kim Fowley Stanley 3:40
10. "Rock And Roll Party [29]" Simmons, Stanley, Ezrin Instrumental 1:25

Bonus: first song I can remember actually liking and wanting to hear again was Barracuda by Heart because they kept playing it in the theater while we were waiting for the original Star Wars movie to start. This actually predates my selection of Peaches and Herb by a few months (thank god) and is a bad ass song which I can be proud of as my first!

[Sartori]

First LP: This was a gift from my dad at the end of 1984. Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA



First Cassette: Bought this with my allowance in 1984 or 85. Yes, 90125



First CD: Bought this on CD to replace my absolutely worn out cassette version sometime in 1988. Metallica, ...And Justice For All



Those were the days

[Siji]

First LP: Not sure which it is, but The Eagles with the eagle skull on the cover. Parents bought me that one and The Long Run (might be one and same). The first one I bought for myself was a KISS album, probably Alive (1). I remember stealing the various solo KISS albums from the local grocery store as a kid..

First CD/Cassette, no idea.

First Concert: The Eagles/Jimmy Buffet - last show performed in the old Tampa Stadium.

[Aslanna]

First CD: Bought this on CD to replace my absolutely worn out cassette version sometime in 1988. Metallica, ...And Justice For All

Their last good album imo. Fuck the Black album!

I don't know my first LP. I think Pac-Man Fever by Buckner and Garcia (RIP Garcia!)



Cassette - I have no idea. I know I had an awesome Sony Walkman at the time but not sure what I bought first. Def Leppard - Hysteria maybe or Heart - Bad Animals.







First CD - Great White - ...Twice Shy



First 45 - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I Love Rock n Roll.



Never owned an 8-Track. I'm not that old!

[masteen]

I've never bought vinyl.

First tape: Dancing Madness

First CD: Faith No More - Real Thing