First album you ever bought? First CD?
12-12-07, 12:22 PM
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Sister Hazel - Somewhere More Familiar
There was quite a buzz around Gainesville since they were a local band that had a national hit. That led to me listening to top 40 radio (I had previously just listened to sports talk with my parents) and buying a ton of CDs.
There was quite a buzz around Gainesville since they were a local band that had a national hit. That led to me listening to top 40 radio (I had previously just listened to sports talk with my parents) and buying a ton of CDs.
12-12-07, 02:38 PM
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Heh - this thread is fun!
My first single: "King Tut" by Steve Martin. Yep - there's no accounting for taste sometimes.
My first 8-track: Crusin' by the Village People. I got it probably in 1977 or 1978. I was 6 or 7 at the time and was blissfully unaware of the whole "gay" thing. I just thought it was fun, poppy music.
My first album: Duran Duran by Duran Duran. Interestingly, the band was almost completely unknown in the US at the time - late December, 1981. I was almost 11 years old at the time. I went to an Atlanta-area mall with my grandmother to return\exchange some unwanted Christmas presents. There was a Record Bar store next door to the cafeteria, and I talked her in to letting me go in. I looked around for a few minutes and found a British copy of Duran Duran's first album - the original first album, mind you, not the 1983 US re-release - in the bargain bin for $5.99. It looked cool, and I begged her to buy it for me. She did, and my love affair with Brit New Wave was born.
My first cassette: I have no idea, although two K-Tel cassettes stick out as being possible "firsts": Hooked on Classics and some "Best of 1981" tape with Sheena Easton, Melissa Manchester and Steel Breeze. I honestly don't remember cassettes that well, because: a) I went through them like tap water (I know I had at least 4 copies of Never Mind The Bullocks) and b) some neighborhood kid stole all my tapes back in 1983.
My first CD: it's kind of hard to say. I got a CD player from my parents for Christmas in 1985, and my uncle and grandparents got me CDs of Duran Duran, Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger as presents too so I'd have something to play on it. So they were my first discs... but I think The Cure's Staring at the Sea was the first CD I actually bought.
While we're at it:
My first concert: My parents took me to see The Beach Boys at Lanierland Music Park in the late summer of 1983. It wasn't my choice, but it ended up being kind of cool as Dennis Wilson died a few months later. The first concert I actually chose to go to was Men At Work, also in 1983, at the old Omni in Atlanta. I still have the ticket stub - it was only $11.50 per ticket! I remember being miserable before the show because I was going to get braces and the orthodontist had put spacers in my teeth earlier that day. But what a great show! Ahhhhh... good times!
My first single: "King Tut" by Steve Martin. Yep - there's no accounting for taste sometimes.
My first 8-track: Crusin' by the Village People. I got it probably in 1977 or 1978. I was 6 or 7 at the time and was blissfully unaware of the whole "gay" thing. I just thought it was fun, poppy music.
My first album: Duran Duran by Duran Duran. Interestingly, the band was almost completely unknown in the US at the time - late December, 1981. I was almost 11 years old at the time. I went to an Atlanta-area mall with my grandmother to return\exchange some unwanted Christmas presents. There was a Record Bar store next door to the cafeteria, and I talked her in to letting me go in. I looked around for a few minutes and found a British copy of Duran Duran's first album - the original first album, mind you, not the 1983 US re-release - in the bargain bin for $5.99. It looked cool, and I begged her to buy it for me. She did, and my love affair with Brit New Wave was born.
My first cassette: I have no idea, although two K-Tel cassettes stick out as being possible "firsts": Hooked on Classics and some "Best of 1981" tape with Sheena Easton, Melissa Manchester and Steel Breeze. I honestly don't remember cassettes that well, because: a) I went through them like tap water (I know I had at least 4 copies of Never Mind The Bullocks) and b) some neighborhood kid stole all my tapes back in 1983.
My first CD: it's kind of hard to say. I got a CD player from my parents for Christmas in 1985, and my uncle and grandparents got me CDs of Duran Duran, Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger as presents too so I'd have something to play on it. So they were my first discs... but I think The Cure's Staring at the Sea was the first CD I actually bought.
While we're at it:
My first concert: My parents took me to see The Beach Boys at Lanierland Music Park in the late summer of 1983. It wasn't my choice, but it ended up being kind of cool as Dennis Wilson died a few months later. The first concert I actually chose to go to was Men At Work, also in 1983, at the old Omni in Atlanta. I still have the ticket stub - it was only $11.50 per ticket! I remember being miserable before the show because I was going to get braces and the orthodontist had put spacers in my teeth earlier that day. But what a great show! Ahhhhh... good times!
12-14-07, 12:06 PM
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As ashamed to admit it as I am, my first CD purchase was New Edition - Heartbreak. Closely following that was Tevin Campbell's T.E.V.I.N.. Luckily my musical tastes have greatly improved since then. But then again, I was only 9 or 10 at the time.
12-17-07, 02:18 AM
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first tape - jackson 5 collection from tv
first cd - Kris Kross - Totally Crossed Out
First Dvd Audio - Metallica - The Black Album
First SACD - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
First and only 8 track (garage sale) Johnny Cash - A boy named Sue
first cd - Kris Kross - Totally Crossed Out
First Dvd Audio - Metallica - The Black Album
First SACD - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
First and only 8 track (garage sale) Johnny Cash - A boy named Sue
01-15-08, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by B5Erik
First LP I bought: KISS (Self-titled debut) (bought it in 1977)
First CD I bought: Black Sabbath (Featuring Tony Iommi) - Seventh Star (bought that one in 1987)
First CD I bought: Black Sabbath (Featuring Tony Iommi) - Seventh Star (bought that one in 1987)
01-23-08, 01:36 AM
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1st album was either The Monkees (debut) or The Doors (debut). Can't remember. May sound contradictory, but, remember...Hendrix also briefly shared billing with the Monkees (for about 2 shows).
1st CD was undoubtedly a Beatles CD...probably Rubber Soul. Whatever was in the first wave of Beatles releases.
Cassettes? Never bought prerecorded cassettes (except in garage sales).
How about 8-Tracks? (never had them either, but remember friends trying in vain to unravel some of the tapes that got eaten in their car's player).
1st CD was undoubtedly a Beatles CD...probably Rubber Soul. Whatever was in the first wave of Beatles releases.
Cassettes? Never bought prerecorded cassettes (except in garage sales).
How about 8-Tracks? (never had them either, but remember friends trying in vain to unravel some of the tapes that got eaten in their car's player).
01-27-08, 12:09 PM
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First LP was probably a K-Tel Hits collection off of tv.
First CD was probably The Cure Disintegration.
First 45 record was Steve Martin's King Tut
First 8-track was something called Looney Tunes. It had Dr Demento type songs on it.
I have no idea what my first cassette was.
First CD was probably The Cure Disintegration.
First 45 record was Steve Martin's King Tut
First 8-track was something called Looney Tunes. It had Dr Demento type songs on it.
I have no idea what my first cassette was.
