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Post by oatmealschnappz on Aug 19, 2007 23:43:36 GMT -5
I'm bored...and I'm curious. (...and i've haven't started a thread in a while)
So, what was the first album(s) that you (yourself) bought?
First record: Culture Club - "Kissing To Be Clever" (I actually bought it at a Woolworth's)
First cassette(s): Megadeth - "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying" Iron Maiden - "Killers" Guns N' Roses - "Appetite For Destruction" (Bought them all 3 at Cat's on the same day with Christmas money)
First compact disc(s): Danny Tenaglia - "Mix This Pussy" DJ Pierre - "Muzik Set You Free" (single) (From the Disc Exchange in South Knoxville)
Obviously, my musical tastes have changed greatly over the years.
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Good one Jesus, made me go thru my album collection just to hold it-"America" 1972 bought at an Air Force Base PX my father was stationed at in Louisiana
Don't remember the first cassette, 8 track(yes ), or CD, but I remember all my album purchases and still have a Denon player to spin them on
Post by steveternal on Aug 20, 2007 8:01:30 GMT -5
My very first music purchase, which of course I still have, is the cassette single for "Turtle Power" by Partners in Kryme from the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" film. I can still rap the entire song. After that it was Pearl Jam's "Ten", also on cassette. A couple years later I got a CD player, and in one day bought:
Counting Crows - August and Everything After Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Pearl Jam - Vitalogy R.E.M. - Eponymous Live - Throwing Copper Hootie & The Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
Used to steal cassettes from K-mart, record them, and return them for another different cassette. (Yes, they used to let that kinda stuff happen all the time. Sometimes they would refuse to exchange, and would only give you cash back !!) That's where I started with Tom Petty's "Damn the Torpedoes" and returned it for his "Hard Promises".
My first cassette purchased on the up and up-John Cougar's "Uh-Huh".
Long before I had money or the nads to steal, I had an old school tape recorder. I sat it by the tv and taped when my dad watched The Band's "Last Waltz" as it originally aired on HBO in the mid seventies. I sang those songs over and over before I even knew the words. (No wonder I love The Band, Neil Young, and company so much !)
First compact discs-bought three at the same time.
Grateful Dead-"Grateful Dead" Variuos Artists-"Born on the Fourth of July Soundtrack" Bob Dylan-"Desire"
Prior to that--used to play ALL my parents old albums from "Beatles 65" to Mamas and the Papas to Kingston Trio. Also had some cool Sesame Street albums that I wish I still had !!
When I was a kid I mostly listened to my parent's music. Hmmm... My first puchases? Let's see...
First Cassette Tapes: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA Grateful Dead - Skeletons From The Closet
First CD's: The Eagles - Greatest Hits Volume 2 Led Zeppelin - IV
First Albums (I bought these in college, the ones I had as a kid were purchased by my parents): Lynyrd Skynyrd - Two For The Road Hooters - Nervous Night Boston - Boston
Post by oatmealschnappz on Aug 20, 2007 9:23:05 GMT -5
snoochio said:
Used to steal cassettes from K-mart, record them, and return them for another different cassette. (Yes, they used to let that kinda stuff happen all the time. Sometimes they would refuse to exchange, and would only give you cash back !!)
You too? LMAO! ;D It's good to see that my friends and I weren't the only ones!
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Gosh, I'm gonna really show my age. Back in the day there was a great record store in Memphis called Pop Tunes. You could get 3 45's (ahem, do I need to tell you youngsters what these are?) for $4. Coincidentally, my allowance was $4. I cant remember what my first purchases were. I used to just go through the racks and pick the ones that were the clear colors cause I thought they were cool (still do).
^^^^this may not beat you but does date me somewhat - I remember laying on the floor listening to my dad's reel to reel tapes of Captain & Tenille and Sonny and Cher and begging him to teach me how to record my 45's to the reel to reel so that I could listen to them all at once - LOL
Post by lordrockinhood on Aug 20, 2007 10:44:00 GMT -5
oatmealschnappz said:
snoochio said:
Used to steal cassettes from K-mart, record them, and return them for another different cassette. (Yes, they used to let that kinda stuff happen all the time. Sometimes they would refuse to exchange, and would only give you cash back !!)
You too? LMAO! ;D It's good to see that my friends and I weren't the only ones!
Not the only ones, as a teenager, I too was a culprit in that old record and return scam. Or I would "lift" the crappy CD'S that we sold at the drug store I worked at, and then I'd return them for good ones (or cash) at actual records stores... for better or worse, back in the day it was totally a, "No receipt, no problem," kind of world
First tape I bought all by myself... Either MJ's Thriller, or Quiet Riot's Metal Health, can't remember which
*edit* 1st record album- Huey Lewis and the News- Sports 1st concert ticket buy when I was 13, Huey Lewis- the Fore Tour at MSG (I've changed a lot since then, but Huey was my 1st rock and roll obsession, and he'll always hold a special place in my heart )
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Aug 20, 2007 11:26:23 GMT -5
First cassette was Poison - Open up and say Ahhh (w/ the censored cover).
Many years later I finally got my first CD player. Bought the Sup Pop 200 compilation, the Interview With a Vampire soundtrack, and nine inch nails - further down the spiral.
First vinyl were 2 12" singles - Nirvana Come as You Are picturedisc and Pearl Jam Go
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
I got my first little stereo system when for Christmas when I was 8 or 9. The tape I received with it was Bobby Brown's My Prerogative album. Not what I chose myself, but I listened to it anyways. Remember those plastic anti-theft devices they put on cassettes? wowsa. I can't remember the first tape I bought for myself - probably something incriminating.
Some of the last tapes I bought were Live - Throwing Copper and The Cranberries - Ode to my Family. Even when I was buying cd's I clung on to those for a long time - and only replaced them in the last couple years.
First CDs were the same Christmas I got my first player - I was 14 or 15. I picked out Silverchair - Toadstomp, Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill, and Better than Ezra - Deluxe. I still pull out the last two once in a while, which still play despite being scratched to all hell.
We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be out to drift Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and They both tell me that we're better than this
Husbands first music purchase was a Tangerine Dream album, 2nd was Hawkwind. Anyone else hear of Hawkwind? Their old stuff is really good. Just have to figure out how to get it from album to my MP3.
I don't remember my first music purchase (it was probably Debbie Gibson, the New Kids on the Block, or Jack Wagner. . .yes, I was pretty awesome, but I was also 9), but I know I got my first CD for Christmas (along with my first CD player), and it was Billy Joel's River of Dreams.
Wow Indigo, seems like I must have run into you at one of the old 107.9 Endfests back in the day when you could see The Cranberries, Live, AND The Proclaimers for a measley buck-o-seven ! Those were the days....
And to the rest of you theivin' yer music from early on I say-Aaaaaaargh-were were destined to sail the musical seas as pirates mateys !
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Husbands first music purchase was a Tangerine Dream album, 2nd was Hawkwind. Anyone else hear of Hawkwind? Their old stuff is really good. Just have to figure out how to get it from album to my MP3.
In fact Hawkwind for Bonnaroo anyone?
You Lefty Spacerawker !!!!
There used to be a Hawkwind fest at a Pagan campground upstate New York ways. Don't know if they still hold it.
I think Hawkwind would go over great at the Roo...
Post by bamadancer on Aug 20, 2007 14:30:56 GMT -5
Giving myself away here, but my first CD purchase was The Spice Girls - Spice World
Yeah, I was 12.
First concert ticket purchase was to XFest (a little festival put on by the music station here) and the headliner was Filter...yeah...awesome. Still, I count my first concert as the Allman Brothers when I was 4...I try to ignore that pop music phase I went through
First Albums: Michael Jackson - Thriller Madonna - Madonna AND Like a Virgin (bought at the same time) Prince - Purple Rain (no brainer, that's what every 2nd-4th grader HAD to have)
Do ya'll remember the resurgence of 45s? I had a ton of these puppies. Used to buy them at Bradlees.
First Cassette: Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual, purchased at Camelot Music on the top floor of Laurel Mall with my hard earned money from chores. I think it was one of my own official purchases, where I went up to the register sans parental unit. Then I proceeded to become obsessed with REM and purchase every cassette they had, bootlegs and foreign albums. Seriously obsessed.
And do you remember cassette singles? What a waste of money. Going through old stuff this summer I found the case for the cassette single of "Here Comes Your Man" from The Pixies. I think i got that as a birthday present one time.
First CDs: Okay, this seems majorly lame but when I got my first CD player (one of those big boom boxes that looked like a bookcase stereo and the speakers detached and I covered with stickers) I got with it the soundtracks to Cats, Les Miz and Phantom. I don't think "Santa"/Mom had a clue. I wore the crap out of those CDs until i could get to a mall and the first thing I got was...
REM, Depeche Mode and Matthew Sweet all at once (I had seen Matthew Sweet in concert like 2 weeks prior).
First cassette was either Tears for Fears- Songs From the Big Chair or Paul Young or it might have been INXS The Swing, I'm not sure, it was a long time ago but I know it was one of those three.
As far as CDs goes... I think I still owe BMG money... for the big happy package I received
I can't remember everything in that box but I know a replacement Purple Rain was there as well as Blondie's Greatest hits, prolly The Eagles, Ozzy's Tribute album and Journey too...
I've come a long long way ;D
edit* Important to mention, the first show I burned, all by myself, was Phish-Big Cypress
Post by mikesworld420 on Aug 20, 2007 23:37:03 GMT -5
cacobb said:
Husbands first music purchase was a Tangerine Dream album, 2nd was Hawkwind. Anyone else hear of Hawkwind? Their old stuff is really good. Just have to figure out how to get it from album to my MP3.
In fact Hawkwind for Bonnaroo anyone?
yes, the first time i heard them was with a friend ten years ago who got a box of records at a garage sale, I remembered reading an interview with Lemmy Kilmester of Motorhead who was talking about his old days with that band, he was kicked out when he got busted with cocaine at the US-Canada border in 1975. he wrote the song Motorhead when he was still with Hawkwind. The album was the double lp, hard to find ,Space Ritual, I wish I could find a copy of it somewhere, but Hawkwind is some great stuff that is forgotten about and hard to find. i have the Psychedelic Warlords:Best of Hawkwind, and Golden Void The hawkwind Years on CD.
), or CD, but I remember
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