I got Asia: Heat Of The Moment when I was 8, but then my 11 year old brother, ahem, taped over that little spot on the cassette and recorded himself singing. So then he had to buy me my second tape, which I think was Journey (Escape, maybe?). Or maybe Adam Ant, though it’s possible I just stole that one from him.
45 single The Archies-Sugar Sugar
Cassette- that’s a puzzler. I remember listening to Depeche Mode’s Speak and Spell a lot. (I had to laugh–this is from wiki " Cassettes…in the early years sound quality was mediocre…but by early 70’s caught up to the quality of 8-tracks".
8-track–lol, IDK, but I remember shoving matchbooks underneath the 8-track to keep it from multi-tracking.
CD Eno-Thursday Afternoon
Napster–I missed that
itunes. 2004, maybe it was Pere Ubu
first 45 rpm… Cream - Sunshine of your love.
Album… Iron Butterfly- In a gadda da vida
First 8 track I can recall was Three dog night whatever album had Eli’s Comin’ on it.
Don’t remember what cassette. Probably was more of a teaching tape than music. I was too busy with kids by then.
My first album was Queen - “A Night at the Opera” and it was an LP.
I interpreted the question as "What was the first album (regardless of format) that you purchased? " as opposed to “What was the first in each format?”
@ruouttaurmind I remember the first K-Tel album I ordered took so long (6 weeks?) to arrive in the mail, that I had forgotten about it by the time it showed up.
Before K-Tel, similar compilation albums contained covers by “sound-alikes” that were often nothing of the sort. (Even after K-Tel, you still could encounter this practice from some cheap-o record companies if you weren’t paying close enough attention)
They were usually a pretty good deal, especially when they were packed with one-hit wonders (or at least from albums with only one hit), because I had no intention of buying those original albums. One drawback: early on, they were just as bad as Ronco about editing all the tracks down to sub 3 minutes. By the late 70’s, K-Tel had stopped butchering the songs in this manner.
Before K-Tel, similar compilation albums contained covers by “sound-alikes” that were often nothing of the sort.
Good ol’ Rhino Records! They were well known for this practise.
By the time I was of record purchasing age, K-Mart had started selling the K-TEL records in-store, so no wait time, no exorbitant S&H fee, just a long bicycle ride home with my prized new record in my sweaty little grip! I must have been living right in those days 'cause I rode my bicycle about 3 miles home, reading the cover the whole way and never once was mashed by a truck in the street.
@f00l Was it a contemporary release at the time, or were you retro-cool before it was even a thing?
My second LP was The Doors Greatest LA Woman, but it was released about 10 years before my purchase, and a year or two before the mid-80’s classic rock revival.
BTW, both the albums I list here were purchased at my trusty neighborhood Tower Records store. Good times…
I owned music before that, stuff my parents bought. Soundtracks to musicals and Disney. The Chipmonks. Classical stuff. Jonny Horton, Roger Miller.
But when the Beatles hit, I begged a trip to the record store, with all my allowance on me.
I think it was just all 45’s st first. A few months or more passed before I started getting LP’s.
I was fond in this one.
Iron Butterfly was a big deal. And the Stones and Hermits and many others. And Peter Paul and Mary, and Dylan. Simon and Garfunkel. Jan and Dean. Chubby Checker. Anything Motown.
Elvis seemed like something for “old people” at that time in my life.
@f00l My parents were pretty young when I was born (my mom was 17 and dad was fresh out of the Navy) and had every Beatle record that came out as they came out. I didn’t need to buy any of those. They were the youngest couple on the block and our hi-fi was going all the time… windows open, door open and half the neighborhood over. I remember going to the movies to see Help, etc… 1 theater and as many crazy teen girls that could fit in there and jump so hard they broke the seats and tears flyin’, etc… it was crazy!
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel 45 in 3rd grade.
Ist lp was Jan and Dean Popscile
First 8track was Moody Blues "In Search of the Lost Chord"
Didn’t buy prerecorded cassettes
First CD was Black Market Weather Report
Then I got married.
First Album: Some K-Tel collection (can’t recall which one)
First Cassette: Pre-recorded cassettes were junk. I recorded albums to tape with Dolby NR! High-Fidelity, baby!
First CD: Yes - 90125
The first album I ever bought with my own money was Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell”. I was 12. The first album I ever had was something by Peter, Paul, and Mary. Apparently, when I was 3, I used to sing “Lemon Tree”
Vinyl: Survivor (Eye of the Tiger) and Styx (Kilroy Was Here)
Tape: No idea. I think it was 8 of them from the BMG club
CD: T Lavits tribute to Charlie Brown and some other one I can’t recall…
1st music bought was a 45: Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
First vinyl album: it was The Beatles but I don’t remember which one
First 8track: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
First cassette: Don’t really remember
First CD: Kenny G - Kenny G
[edit] The only medium I didn’t but was 78s and reel-to-reel. Too expensive. I did put music on 8 hour VHS tapes. Party music for 8 hours. Priceless!
The first album I owned was More of the Monkees. I don’t remember for sure which was the first album I bought with money I made from having a job. But I do remember having my dad drive me to the Record Factory in Colma so I could buy Night at the Opera and Breakfast in America.
I’m not sure. I remember having cassettes of Prince and MC Hammer. Eventually someone loaned me Metallica’s Black Album. I remember owning the Lion King soundtrack and some wolf sounds on CD. I think the first band CD I actually purchased was Smashing Pumpkins.
Found this site today, and immediately thought of this thread. Maybe some of you will be entertained. I spent some time there and it doesn’t seem too spammy. http://www.inthe00s.com/
I’m pret-ty sure that the first record I bought with my own money was Donovan’s Atlantis on a 45 with Susan on the West Coast Waiting as the B side. I rarely bought music, preferring to save my allowance for comic books. We had a Show 'N Tell record/slide player that could play 45s - Pop’s audio system was reserved for “serious music.”
Cassette: Hammer - Too Legit to Quit
CD: Metallica - Black Album
Download: The Dualers - The Melting Pot
/giphy Trip down Memory Lane
I got Asia: Heat Of The Moment when I was 8, but then my 11 year old brother, ahem, taped over that little spot on the cassette and recorded himself singing. So then he had to buy me my second tape, which I think was Journey (Escape, maybe?). Or maybe Adam Ant, though it’s possible I just stole that one from him.
My first 8track was Wild Cherry. I think this has been asked before.
This last Christmas @daveinwarshington gave me two volumes of holiday music on 8track tapes.
8 track anne murray…cassettes metallica…cd meatloaf…
My first cassette was Comic Relief.
45 single The Archies-Sugar Sugar
Cassette- that’s a puzzler. I remember listening to Depeche Mode’s Speak and Spell a lot. (I had to laugh–this is from wiki " Cassettes…in the early years sound quality was mediocre…but by early 70’s caught up to the quality of 8-tracks".
8-track–lol, IDK, but I remember shoving matchbooks underneath the 8-track to keep it from multi-tracking.
CD Eno-Thursday Afternoon
Napster–I missed that
itunes. 2004, maybe it was Pere Ubu
@wew I had that Archie’s song from a giveaway on the back of a cereal box. You cut it out and it played like a 45
first 45 rpm… Cream - Sunshine of your love.
Album… Iron Butterfly- In a gadda da vida
First 8 track I can recall was Three dog night whatever album had Eli’s Comin’ on it.
Don’t remember what cassette. Probably was more of a teaching tape than music. I was too busy with kids by then.
My first album was Queen - “A Night at the Opera” and it was an LP.
I interpreted the question as "What was the first album (regardless of format) that you purchased? " as opposed to “What was the first in each format?”
@DrWorm Woah! yeah. You’re probably right.
Powerplay by K-TEL. Oh but to be in grade school again…
@ruouttaurmind I remember the first K-Tel album I ordered took so long (6 weeks?) to arrive in the mail, that I had forgotten about it by the time it showed up.
Before K-Tel, similar compilation albums contained covers by “sound-alikes” that were often nothing of the sort. (Even after K-Tel, you still could encounter this practice from some cheap-o record companies if you weren’t paying close enough attention)
They were usually a pretty good deal, especially when they were packed with one-hit wonders (or at least from albums with only one hit), because I had no intention of buying those original albums. One drawback: early on, they were just as bad as Ronco about editing all the tracks down to sub 3 minutes. By the late 70’s, K-Tel had stopped butchering the songs in this manner.
@DrWorm
Good ol’ Rhino Records! They were well known for this practise.
By the time I was of record purchasing age, K-Mart had started selling the K-TEL records in-store, so no wait time, no exorbitant S&H fee, just a long bicycle ride home with my prized new record in my sweaty little grip! I must have been living right in those days 'cause I rode my bicycle about 3 miles home, reading the cover the whole way and never once was mashed by a truck in the street.
this one (elementary school)
@f00l Was it a contemporary release at the time, or were you retro-cool before it was even a thing?
My second LP was The Doors Greatest LA Woman, but it was released about 10 years before my purchase, and a year or two before the mid-80’s classic rock revival.
BTW, both the albums I list here were purchased at my trusty neighborhood Tower Records store. Good times…
@ruouttaurmind
Yep. 1963.
I owned music before that, stuff my parents bought. Soundtracks to musicals and Disney. The Chipmonks. Classical stuff. Jonny Horton, Roger Miller.
But when the Beatles hit, I begged a trip to the record store, with all my allowance on me.
I think it was just all 45’s st first. A few months or more passed before I started getting LP’s.
I was fond in this one.
Iron Butterfly was a big deal. And the Stones and Hermits and many others. And Peter Paul and Mary, and Dylan. Simon and Garfunkel. Jan and Dean. Chubby Checker. Anything Motown.
Elvis seemed like something for “old people” at that time in my life.
@f00l My parents were pretty young when I was born (my mom was 17 and dad was fresh out of the Navy) and had every Beatle record that came out as they came out. I didn’t need to buy any of those. They were the youngest couple on the block and our hi-fi was going all the time… windows open, door open and half the neighborhood over. I remember going to the movies to see Help, etc… 1 theater and as many crazy teen girls that could fit in there and jump so hard they broke the seats and tears flyin’, etc… it was crazy!
I was 8, so I always just listened my older sisters’ CDs. This was the first one that I got for myself.
/giphy brak
@Moose oh my god I totally had this on cassette! “It smells like Cartoon Planet, wooo-eee”
I think it was this album. I was probably the only one in middle school that had it.
@sammydog01 Same missing image as your last post. Maybe you’ve been image blacklisted?
/giphy No soup for you!
@ruouttaurmind I CAN SEE IT!!! REALLY!!! i’M NOT CRAZY!!!
/image at the drop of a hat flanders swann
Ooh it got bigger.
@sammydog01 TWSS
Cassette: Weird Al - Alapalooza
CD: Toy Story soundtrack
Vinyl: Welcome to Nightvale (podcast)
Cassette: Weird Al - Bad Hair Day
CD: I think Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge
Vinyl: Box of used vinyls at a garage sale, don’t remember all of them.
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel 45 in 3rd grade.
Ist lp was Jan and Dean Popscile
First 8track was Moody Blues "In Search of the Lost Chord"
Didn’t buy prerecorded cassettes
First CD was Black Market Weather Report
Then I got married.
This is the first album I ever owned. A gift that my parents regretted giving to me…
@daveinwarsh Isn’t it nice that you could put the arm up on the turntable and it played the record over, and over, and over, and over…
@sammydog01 I could… until the record mysteriously disappeared…
@daveinwarsh Guess what? It’s on YouTube! You can listen all you want!
https://www.google.com/search?q=lets+all+sing+with+the+chipmunks&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#mie=rl,,alvin and the chipmunks let’s all sing with the chipmunks songs,H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLUz9U3SCo0KClXQjC1RLOTrfRzS4szk_UTc5JKc62K8_PSiwFe44YKLwAAAA
@sammydog01 Thanks! No wonder that record was suddenly missing. It’s more obnoxious than I remember…
First Album: Some K-Tel collection (can’t recall which one)
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First Cassette: Pre-recorded cassettes were junk. I recorded albums to tape with Dolby NR! High-Fidelity, baby!
First CD: Yes - 90125
The first album I ever bought with my own money was Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell”. I was 12. The first album I ever had was something by Peter, Paul, and Mary. Apparently, when I was 3, I used to sing “Lemon Tree”
Vinyl: Survivor (Eye of the Tiger) and Styx (Kilroy Was Here)
Tape: No idea. I think it was 8 of them from the BMG club
CD: T Lavits tribute to Charlie Brown and some other one I can’t recall…
1st music bought was a 45: Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
First vinyl album: it was The Beatles but I don’t remember which one
First 8track: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
First cassette: Don’t really remember
First CD: Kenny G - Kenny G
[edit] The only medium I didn’t but was 78s and reel-to-reel. Too expensive. I did put music on 8 hour VHS tapes. Party music for 8 hours. Priceless!
*buy were
Over fifty-five years ago. Probably some Disney 45 rpm.
The first album I owned was More of the Monkees. I don’t remember for sure which was the first album I bought with money I made from having a job. But I do remember having my dad drive me to the Record Factory in Colma so I could buy Night at the Opera and Breakfast in America.
Certainly not the first I ever owned, but the first 45 I ever bought was the classic Pump Up the Jam by Technotronic.
/giphy technotronic
The first 45 I remember owning, although I’m sure someone else bought it for me:
I don’t remember the first 45 I bought, but I do remember the first album:
I’m not sure. I remember having cassettes of Prince and MC Hammer. Eventually someone loaned me Metallica’s Black Album. I remember owning the Lion King soundtrack and some wolf sounds on CD. I think the first band CD I actually purchased was Smashing Pumpkins.
Great topic!!
A long time ago but I still remember:
Album was Harvest by Neil Young
8-track was Desperado by the Eagles (my record store had a lifetime gtee and I wore out several copies…plus Marshall Tucker’s Take the Highway
)
Cassette was Kansas Leftoverture
I didn’t get started with CDs for some time but my first one was Be As You Are by Kenny Cheney
Plus my Dad had a reel-to-reel and he bought me Frankenstein by Edgar Winter!
Good stuff. Music always brings the memories
first album was Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust
first cassette was Prince’s Purple Rain
first CD was one of Madonna 's I think
@moonhat I love purple.
I started buying vinyl around 1997 or so, after I got an awesome record/cd/cassette all-in-one stereo system. First record:
Found this site today, and immediately thought of this thread. Maybe some of you will be entertained. I spent some time there and it doesn’t seem too spammy.
http://www.inthe00s.com/
First with my own money: Cargo by Men at Work (and now I live Down Under… hmm…), on cassette, age 9, 1983.
First record in my house that I listened to a lot: the “King Tut” 45 by Steve Martin, age 4, 1978.
I’m pret-ty sure that the first record I bought with my own money was Donovan’s Atlantis on a 45 with Susan on the West Coast Waiting as the B side. I rarely bought music, preferring to save my allowance for comic books. We had a Show 'N Tell record/slide player that could play 45s - Pop’s audio system was reserved for “serious music.”