Every one has to have a first time.  Mine was 'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush (on vinyl - God, I'm old).  What was yours?

I like to tell everyone it was 'I don't like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats' but that was my second buy, my first was really 'Coward of the County by Kenny Rogers'!

The first vinyl album I bought myself was "The Long Run" by the Eagles...the first cassette was "Voices Carry" by til Tuesday...the first CD, "Once Bitten" by Great White

I like to tell everyone it was 'I don't like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats' but that was my second buy, my first was really 'Coward of the County by Kenny Rogers'!


Ouch!

Oh geez, my first album was by Bobby Sherman, Portrait Of Bobby, first 45 was Donny Osmond, Sweet & Innocent. Two blockbusters there! I was only 10, so I have an excuse!  ;D

"Once Bitten" by Great White


I've told you before haven't I. The guy I used to play with, Kelly, used to hang out with them every day. He used to go on and on about Great White.. and it was like "Yeah, we're aware of them, now shuttup."


First thing I ever bought is hazy, but I believe it was a Deep Purple album. No idea which though.

The first CD I ever bought was the soundtrack to "Streets of Fire" which I found in a bargain bin at Music World in 1994

The first single I ever recall owning was the cassingle of "Too Hot" by Alanis (Morissette) in 1991

The first cassette tape I ever bought was Bon Jovi's "New Jersey."  I was 10.  I think the first CD I ever got was Pearl Jam's second album, but I'm not sure.

First 45 was The Jackson Five's "I Want You Back"; I was 11, the same age as as Michael

Oh geez, my first album was by Bobby Sherman, Portrait Of Bobby, first 45 was Donny Osmond, Sweet & Innocent. Two blockbusters there! I was only 10, so I have an excuse!  ;D
My first 45 was Shaun Cassidy, "Da Doo Ron Ron" ;D

My first 45 was Shaun Cassidy, "Da Doo Ron Ron" ;D

:D  ;D

My first 45 was Shaun Cassidy, "Da Doo Ron Ron" ;D


He was soooo dreamy.  :D

Appetite for Destruction by Guns'n' Roses was the first cd i ever bought,i think i was 12. I had a fixation with Axl Rose,if someone had told me how he would end up,i would've killed myself ;D

i think mine was led zeppelin II but i'm not entirely sure.

I have no idea...I can't really remember. I did have a NKOTB obsession though...so most likely it was one of theirs. ;D

Appetite for Destruction by Guns'n' Roses was the first cd i ever bought,i think i was 12. I had a fixation with Axl Rose,if someone had told me how he would end up,i would've killed myself ;D


I loved him too at that time...then he had to go and get a damn face lift.  That is SOOOO not metal.  ::)

I loved him too at that time...then he had to go and get a damn face lift.  That is SOOOO not metal.   ::)

You too? We're the same age so that makes sense ;)
I remember seeing them live in Rock in Rio in 1991,with a bunch of other bands like Judas Priest,Queensryche,Megadeth,Sepultura.I miss those days :\'(

You too? We're the same age so that makes sense ;)
I remember seeing them live in Rock in Rio in 1991,with a bunch of other bands like Judas Priest,Queensryche,Megadeth,Sepultura.I miss those days :\'(


Well Guns was just the coolest band out there at that time.  As far as I was concerned, no one stood a candle to them.  I still listen to their old stuff and love them, but Axl...he just went to a weird place...a stupid place. 

Axl...he just went to a weird place...a stupid place. 


I'm still diggin him.

He's just full of hate.. aren't we all?

Appetite for Destruction by Guns'n' Roses was the first cd i ever bought,i think i was 12. I had a fixation with Axl Rose,if someone had told me how he would end up,i would've killed myself ;D


I take it you're referring to the 'caught in a wind tunnel' look his face has taken on.... :o

I have no idea...I can't really remember. I did have a NKOTB obsession though...so most likely it was one of theirs. ;D


"Well I guess it's a brand new day after all.  Everytime we hear the curtain call"

I think the first album I ever bought was a Queen - Greatest hits album

I take it you're referring to the 'caught in a wind tunnel' look his face has taken on.... :o


Totally.  Well, more like "caught in a suprise wind tunnel!"  ;D



I'm still diggin him.

He's just full of hate.. aren't we all?


Well, you are.  I think the rest of us are pretty nice.

Well, you are.  I think the rest of us are pretty nice.


409!!!

409!!!


;D

Only when provoked!

;D

Only when provoked!


Suuuure.

You know you have the Axl gene in you.

I think the first CD I bought was 20 years ago and I believe it was "Bad" By Michael Jackson.

"Well I guess it's a brand new day after all.  Everytime we hear the curtain call"



"see the girls with the curls in their hair...the buttons and the pins and the loud fanfares....TONIGHT"  hahaahah :) :D

First CD I ever bought was Mariah Carey MTV Unplugged waaaaaay back in 1994.

The 45 I ever bought was "Eat It" by Weird Al.  First full vinyl was That Was This Is Now- The Best of The Monkees.  First CD was Cool Night- The Best of Paul Davis

First record - "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!" by DEVO
First 45 - "A Million Ways" by OK Go
First CD - The Poke'mon Movie Sampler... XD

A Weird Al record, that's all I remember.

"see the girls with the curls in their hair...the buttons and the pins and the loud fanfares....TONIGHT"  hahaahah :) :D


"Tonight" was my fave NKOTB song.  I still love it.  That trumpet in it is awesome 8)

First Vinyl LP: Purple Rain Soundtrack - Prince & The Revolution
First 45: "Footloose" - Kenny Loggins
First 12" Single: "19" - Paul Hardcastle
First Cassette Album: Thriller - Michael Jackson
First Cassette Single (Cassingle): "Praying For Time" - George Michael
First CD Album: Book Of Love - Book Of Love
First CD Single: "Pray" (Remixes) - M.C. Hammer  :D

I don't know what "first" cassette (as that was the norm in the mid-late '80s) I purchased, but I think I requested a few and my mom purchased them. One I know I wanted and my mom bought was Whitney Houston's second album simply titled "Whitney!" in 1987. There were a few others, such as NKOTB, too. I also am sure I urged her to buy Paula Abdul's first album and also Debbie Gibson's first. I remember rotating those few albums quite often on my cassette player (and for your amusement, I had one of those "clear" cassette/radio players - kinda like those "clear" phones back in the day.) My first CD's were purchased in early 1992. I bought some cheap classical CD's, but later for my 10th birthday in May, I got KrisKross and the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack.

The first album I bought was Fire by the Ohio Players, my older brother wouldn't let me play it.  >:(
so I went out and bought Led Zeppelin II, that I was allowed to play.  :)

"Tonight" was my fave NKOTB song.  I still love it.  That trumpet in it is awesome 8)


yes, that was a good one!

Step By Step, Funny Feeling, Please Don't Go Girl > Tonight

Step By Step, Funny Feeling, Please Don't Go Girl > Tonight



aww...now you are all making me wanna break out my NKOTB cassettes!! ;D

aww...now you are all making me wanna break out my NKOTB cassettes!! ;D



Cassettes?  Girl, I have the CDs.  ;D 


Jordan Knight > everyone else

Cassettes?  Girl, I have the CDs.  ;D 


Jordan Knight > everyone else



I still have all of my cassettes in a box in the attic. The only one that I have on CD is "Step By Step".

The first album I bought was some kind of 80s hits type of thing.  I had to have it because it had Foreigner - Urgent.

Oh geez, my first album was by Bobby Sherman, Portrait Of Bobby, first 45 was Donny Osmond, Sweet & Innocent. Two blockbusters there! I was only 10, so I have an excuse!  ;D


I woulda bet $$$ that you were gonna say something by Elton John! :-[

First record I can remember was some kids dance song record with stuff like "Hokey Pokey" and "Do The Bunny Hop", etc.

First 45 was "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing"

First 8 Track was the Grease Soundtrack.

First CD I'm not too sure, I'm thinking probably Erasure's "The Innocents".

With me, this is sorta open-ended.

Like lots of you already know, my whole life has basically been around music, so I can remember (at least to an extent) my mom buying new or fairly current tapes in the then-present of, like 1985 or 1986. I couldn't possibly remember the first.


But me myself, with my own money?

When I was 10, I got three tapes at once with my birthday cash: (1) Eddie Money's Can't Hold Back (the one with "Take Me Home Tonight"; (2) Weird Al's original Greatest Hits, and (3) Billboard Top Hits - 1984 compilation.

I didn't buy CDs until 1998, and that was Chicago 17 and Steve Miller's Greatest Hits.

Yeah, I'm a dork. ;D

LOL  I forgot about our 8 tracks.  We had Boston and Donnie and Marie. ;D

LOL  I forgot about our 8 tracks.  We had Boston and Donnie and Marie. ;D


My mom was ordering from one of those clubs where you get 10 (8 tracks at the time) for a penny... so she let me pick one and that's when I got the Grease one :D

My mom was ordering from one of those clubs where you get 10 (8 tracks at the time) for a penny... so she let me pick one and that's when I got the Grease one :D


Yep, same with us.  Columbia House.

LOL  I forgot about our 8 tracks.  We had Boston and Donnie and Marie. ;D


8-tracks aren't as dorky or stuck in the '70s as people think.

I first saw one in the early '90s at a flea market after my dad pointed it out to me. It made sense to me. Sure, nobody except someone really cheap would've still been actively using them by then, lol - but it was a recent enough "older technology" that it was in my grasp.

It's pretty sad that I can remember the first 45 I got (when I was about 7) but I can't for the life of me remember the first mp3 I downloaded...when I was probably about 33. :-[

I can only guess that it was probably a Bee Gees song.

8-tracks aren't as dorky or stuck in the '70s as people think.

I first saw one in the early '90s at a flea market after my dad pointed it out to me. It made sense to me. Sure, nobody except someone really cheap would've still been actively using them by then, lol - but it was a recent enough "older technology" that it was in my grasp.


Do you know what sucked about 8 tracks...they had 4 programs that the music was on and sometimes the player had to switch from one program to another right in the middle of a song.  So you would hear the song start to fade.....click....then the song would fade back in.  

Do you know what sucked about 8 tracks...they had 4 programs that the music was on and sometimes the player had to switch from one program to another right in the middle of a song.  So you would hear the song start to fade.....click....then the song would fade back in.  


Yeah, and you couldnt rewind or fast forward either, if I remember correctly...

Do you know what sucked about 8 tracks...they had 4 programs that the music was on and sometimes the player had to switch from one program to another right in the middle of a song.  So you would hear the song start to fade.....click....then the song would fade back in.  


Yeah, I've heard about that, lol. People always joked about the crappy performance they had, even for its time (I'd say 1974-1979 was its peak time). I'm sure alot of car players ate them.

aww...now you are all making me wanna break out my NKOTB cassettes!! ;D


I was just listening to some NKOTB cassettes.  I have "Tonight" and "Cover Girl" on cassingles :D

Am I the only one who never owned a NKOTB cassette/CD/whatever?

NO^ I was older at the time, I never liked them, my sister did.
I think the first record I purchased was a single play 45 The Blo Monkeys "Diggin' your Scene" ::)
or it could've been Level 42 "Something About You"

Am I the only one who never owned a NKOTB cassette/CD/whatever?


No, you certainly aren't! 8)

Being a big 80's fan, I would be perfectly content to never hear NKOTB again in my entire life... and I couldn't stand 'em then either.

I've always had a tendency to like ballads, so "I'll Be Loving You Forever" is a guilty pleasure (i.e. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be caught listening to it). ;D

Their dance stuff, especially when they tried to pass themselves off as tough guys, sounds pretty dated though, and I was never into it (although I don't dislike it per se). I do think ballads tend to age better than upbeat songs, too.

(i.e. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be caught listening to it). ;D




Pshaw... you need to get over that, McFly... you don't have to be embarrassed by what you like... 8)

^Oh I know, when I say things like that, I usually mean it in a kinda tongue in cheek sense. Plus, if I'm saying that I wouldn't want to be caught, that means I'm already admitting it to you guys, lol. ;) ;D

^Oh I know, when I say things like that, I usually mean it in a kinda tongue in cheek sense. Plus, if I'm saying that I wouldn't want to be caught, that means I'm already admitting it to you guys, lol. ;) ;D



Oh, ok... I had this vision of you stumbling over everything in your way to try to turn it off quickly when you hear someone coming. :D

Am I the only one who never owned a NKOTB cassette/CD/whatever?


No, I had the CD.  I may have actually been my first CD.  I was in 10th grade.

Andy Gibb's 'Everlasting Love'...




(Well, we all have our cross to bear!  ;))

Andy Gibb's 'Everlasting Love'...




(Well, we all have our cross to bear!  ;))


Oh, don't say that!  I worshipped Andy Gibb *swoon*

With me, this is sorta open-ended.

Like lots of you already know, my whole life has basically been around music, so I can remember (at least to an extent) my mom buying new or fairly current tapes in the then-present of, like 1985 or 1986. I couldn't possibly remember the first.


But me myself, with my own money?

When I was 10, I got three tapes at once with my birthday cash: (1) Eddie Money's Can't Hold Back (the one with "Take Me Home Tonight"; (2) Weird Al's original Greatest Hits, and (3) Billboard Top Hits - 1984 compilation.

I didn't buy CDs until 1998, and that was Chicago 17 and Steve Miller's Greatest Hits.

Yeah, I'm a dork. ;D


;D  Hey, I have some pretty "dorky" material like that myself. I remember I bought America's Greatest Hits when I was 14 years old (11 years ago) and one of my good friends was over and saw that, and I think she took it as being like American Anthems and stuff, not the actual group "America." That's when I knew I was such a nerd!

LOL  I forgot about our 8 tracks.  We had Boston and Donnie and Marie. ;D


8 Tracks,How old are you? :o

Oh, don't say that!  I worshipped Andy Gibb *swoon*


Well he was never (cough) my type!  ;)

Good enough song tho'...and I've still got that piece of plastic somewhere!

I woulda bet $$$ that you were gonna say something by Elton John! :-[

First record I can remember was some kids dance song record with stuff like "Hokey Pokey" and "Do The Bunny Hop", etc.



I did get the 45 of Crocodile Rock when it came out, but it wasn't the first. I still have it in my old record case around here somewhere, along with a bunch of me and my sisters old 45s. I 'll have to dig it out later and see what's in there.  I remember the very first album my mom bought me, in the 60s though, The Jungle Book soundtrack.

First record... must've been a 7". Not sure which one though...
could've been "Amico E (Inno dell'Amicizia)" by Dario Baldan & Caterina Caselli, or perhaps "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)" by Information Society...or something by Depeche Mode. :-\\

Albums... I don't have that many (vinyls, that is), and I think most were given to me as a birthday present. I know I bought "Reconciled" by The Call, though.

CD albums...now that I know. The first CD album that I bought was "Raw Like Sushi" by Neneh Cherry. 8)

CD singles.... blurry again. Most likely something by Depeche Mode, possibly "It's Called A Heart". I think I got hooked on them around that time.

And then there's 12"... I'm almost sure it was "(Hey You) The Rocksteady Crew" by the Rock Steady Crew.

Oh... For cassettes, I had a few that are the audio to a book, one for kids songs, and..


... "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo. XD