Ok, time to put on your tiniking caps:

What was your first music purchase? For the younger, CD, SACD, for the older LP and single (45)? For the inbetween, 8-Track, 4-track, Cassette?

Mine:

First 45: Purple People Eater, Sheb Wooley

First LP: Lonesome Town, Ricky Nelson

First 4-Track (cartridge): Sanatra, It Was A Very Good Year

First RTR: Santana (first album)

First Cassette: The Kingston Trio (MOFI) Goin' Places

Didn't buy any 8-Tracks!

First CD: New Acoustic Music

First SACD: Allison Krauss & Union Station Live

fist lp elo new world record
second black sabbath paranoid :banana:

lp of course

First 45:"Aint Too Proud To Beg"-Rolling Stones(their cover version 1974)

First LP:"Ringo"-Ringo Starr(1974)

LP: Pure Prairie League - Bustin' Out

Cassette: Top Gun - Soundtrack

8 track: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

CD: Wierd Al Yankovic - Somethingorother...

I really don't like you Granger!! I can barely remember yesterday, now you plugged into my head this thought. It's been 40+ years ago I got started on this never ending highway. Well no sex for the wife tonite, thanks to you! Ill be taking a mind trip on the PolyVinyl Chloride trail. I'll be back though :smoke:

First LP was the Beach Boys All Summer Long, 45 was Paperback Writer by The Beatles. It was 1964 and I was 10. :)


Carl

Beach Boys Endless Summer. Still have a fond affection for that album.

Second: Bachman Turner Overdrive Not Fragile

Regards
Mister Pig

First 45 was "My Girl Josephine" by Fats Domino (Imperial, 1960) Xmas present and I was 4 years old.
First Lp was "Sgt. Peppers" by The Beatles (Capitol mono version, 1967) Birthday present and I was 11 years old.

Owwww, owwww..................it hurts to think that far back -haha!

45.....Green Onions / Booker T & the MG's
LP.....Meet the Beatles
8 track....Procol Harum / Broken Barricades
cassette....Abbey Road
CD......Europe 72

I really don't like you Granger!! I can barely remember yesterday, now you plugged into my head this thought. It's been 40+ years ago . . .

You think Purple People Eater was less than 40 years ago? Both of my selections were in the 50s!

And I can't remember breakfast, or yesterday. But the 50, that was great!

Chuck Berry LP and Johnny Mathis LP. Not exactly the same type of music. I still like Chuck Berry, but don't recall putting on a JM LP since '61.

AC/DC Highway to Hell and Judas Priest Hell Bent for Leather, on casstte. I was 13.

First 8 track - Walter Egan, Magnet And Steel. First album, Bob Seger, Stranger In Town.

Cassettes (The real beginning for me):
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Corey Hart - Boy In The Box
Whitney Houston - Whitney
Gino Vanelli - Black Cars

CD: Metallica - and Justice For All

LP (This year): Miles Davis Kind Of Blue

!st LP was Steppenwolf. Still have it but, it is trashed. :tears:

Cassette - Dr. Hook - Greatest Hits (don't hate me!)
LP - The Cars - Heartbeat City
CD - U2 - The Joshua Tree (Still love that one)
8 Track - My dad let me have his Kiss 8 tracks!
45 - Maybe a Journey single! I had a lot of 45's

Yes I grew up in the 80's!

sheesh :scratch2:

LP - Loggins and Messina (self titled) or Deep Purple - Made in Japan
I'm not sure anymore.

8-Track - Foreigner Double Vision and Changes One Bowie
(but the first ones I heard were my mom and dad's Steve Miller - Rock Love and Carl Perkins and NRBQ) :smoke:

45: Ray Charles - Here We Go Again
LP: Three Dog Night - Golden Bisquits (that's spelled right, btw)
CD: Pat Benatar - Tropico
8-track: none
Cassette: don't recall
Tom

LP - CCR's Willy & The Poor Boys (2nd one was BTO's Debut)

45 - Think it was Zager & Evans "In the year 2525"

CD - Well, at least I can remember the dates on these two, puchased Feb 1988:

INXS - Kick (for me)
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & The Cooked (for wifey)

......and they sounded like I had a new set of ears!

NP - Anthrax - Stomp442

First casette: Top Gun soundtrack (still like that album and movie!)

First Cd: Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs (my dream after I got that tape was to meet James Dewar, And Robin Trower. Sadly Jimmy is gone, But Ive met Trower)

First Lp: Led Zeppelin interview Clear vinyl Just bought my first lp recently, uptill now I had them all given to me:)

First 45: Grand Funk Railroad We are an American band/ Creepin (Love the song creepin thats why I got it Plus its orange!)

Havent ever had an 8 track

lets see.... Bought with my own money right??
1st 45 "Liar" Three Dog Night
1st LP "Straight Up" Badfinger (@ a Sav-on Drug store...3.99)
1st 8track "There's a Riot Goin' On" Sly and the Family Stone
1st Quad 8track "They Only Come Out at Night" The Edgar Winter Group
1st cassette "Muscle of Love" Alice Cooper
1st R2R "Thick as a Brick" Jethro Tull
1st CD Boston (Debut)
1st SACD "Machine Head" Deep Purple
1st DVDA "Fragile" Yes
1st Elcaset....lol

First gift that mattered- 8-track of Kiss' Destroyer.
Second gift that mattered- record of Kiss' Rock and Roll Over
Third Gift that mattered- Ram Jam, self titled

First purchase- soundtrack to "Over The Edge" (Cheap Trick, The Ramones, Van Halen, The Cars, Little Feat, Jimi Hendrix, Valerie Carter)

First 45 - Fever by the Mc Coys,
First 33 1/3 Album - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - I think the Album name was Freak Out - The banner song was 'The Return of the Son of the Monster Magnet' ha ha ha
Vito

It was either Three Dog Night, the album with Joy to the World or Steppenwolf Live.

Record - Disney's Peter and the Wolf (I think I was 5)
Cassette - Cocktail Soundtrack, Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh (Coupled with a Yorx rack, BTW - I was impressionable in Elementary)
CD - Brooks & Dunn or Garth Brooks, IDR (I was impressionable in Junior High)

Nate

First Tape: Led Zeppelin "IV"
First CD: Stone Temple Pilots "Core"

I took my birthday money from my 4th birthday and bought
Danny Thomas-The great songs of
The everly Brothers -Meet the Everly's

LP - Glad All Over - DC5
CRS after that

John

Meet The Beatles on 7" reel to reel played on my Dad's Revox.

Skipping past such stuff as most of the albums by the Monkees and the Theme Music from the Man from U.N.C.L.E., I clearly recall the first real music I bought. It was the debut album from Spirit.

First LP was "Having a Rave-up with the Yardbirds", which I still have.
Never bought 45's until I got a jukebox about ten years ago, now I have
about 8,000!
Never bought into the 8-track thing, and never bought pre-recorded
cassettes (thought they sounded pretty crappy).
First CD was Bob Marley, "Legend"

First 45: Thunder Road, Robert Mitchum

First LP: The Alamo soundtrack (Dmitri Tiomkin)

First 4-Track: H.P. Lovecraft: same

First Cassette: The French Bassoon: on MHS

First 8-Track: Surrealistic Pillow: Jefferson Airplane

First CD: Bop Til You Drop: Ryland P. Cooder

First SACD: Haven't

My first music Lp was Disraeli Gears by Cream - Still have it with shrink wrap on the cover and in great condition.

First LP of any kind was Bill Cosby - Why is There Air

Never bought a cassette. First 8 track was Ray Charles, I forget the title.

First CD was a Beatles title but I don't recall which.

First LP: "Ringo", Ringo Starr (1974)

1974-Alice Cooper-LP's-Muscle of Love and Love it to Death

First LP: Soundtrack to "Exodus", second was Soundtrack to "Hitari", and third was "Toscanini plays Light Classics", all in the late 50s. It was the third one that got me (musically) to where I am today.

Never had an 8-track, never bought cassettes. First CD was probably Mahler's 5th Symphony.

Greg

First 45: At the Hop - Danny and the Juniors

Beatles Get Back on Apple 45

First:
45 Wooly Booly - Sam the Sham

Lp If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears - Mamas & Papas

R2R American Pie - Don McClean

CD The Association - Greatest Hits

I just wanted to jump in and say that there are a lot of good choices, better than mine, here. Only the more recent "Firsts" are confusing to me. I haven't seen an old one that wasn't a fond memory!

:thmbsp: :thmbsp: :thmbsp:

First Lp Johnny Cash Everybody Loves a Nut
First 45 Song Sung Blue Neil Diamond
First Eight Track seems cloudy, something about that time I don't remember :smoke:
First Cassette Spirit The Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus

Jim

Hmmmm...

First LP? It was called something like "Best of the big bands volume 1" it was all big band/swing type stuff...I was 8 or 9 years old.

Tape? Well, when I was 5 years old my grandpa gave me a Frank Yankovic tape, but the first tape (cassette's what we're talking about, right?) I ever remember purchasing was "John Cougar Melloncamp: Scarecrow" played it like crazy....dropped it in the lake, fished it out, let it dry (somewhat) and played it some more! wore it out hehehe Interestingly, now I have it on LP and have never owned it on CD

First CD? Waynes World: The soundtrack...bought it in 1994.

Never owned an 8 track....Oh, I did have a bunch of "kids records" 33's & 45's when I was really little...couldn't tell you what they where though....but that doesn't really count in what we're discussing here :nono:

Beatles, Rubber Soul, lp.

Pete

First purchase was 45rpm "Heart of Stone" by The Stones.
First lp was whichever Kinks had "You Really Got Me".

My 1st LP was The Who - Sellout, Still love that album.
1st 45 The Pied Piper by I dunno who.

I don't remember the first "adult" record I ever bought, the the first three I ever bought, in no particular order, were:

Paul Simon- his first solo album
Hendrix-Band of Gipsys
Elton John-Madman across the Water

The Elton John record I wore out long ago and have it on CD. Band of Gipsys I replaced the vinyl with new, but I still have the original Paul Simon album, still in good shape. Played it over the weekend.

Sounds adult to me. Am I missing someting?

LP: Emerson Lake & Palmer~Brain Salad Surgery
CD: Rush~Moving Pictures

lp AC/DC - Highway to Hell In 1980 before I had a turntable
cassette Iron Maiden - Powerslave In 1985
cd Joe Satriani - Not of this Earth In 1991
45 Guns n Roses - Patience In 2006

1st 45 (gift): I Like People-Jimmy Durante
1st bought 45: Yellow Submarine-Beatles (Capitol)
1st LP (gift): Dr. Doolittle soundtrack (Still have it)
1st LP bought: Aphostrophe'-Frank Zappa
1st pre-recorded cassette: Plastic Letters-Blondie
1st 8-track: Briefcase full of Blues-Blues Brothers
1st CD: Toys in the Attic: Aerosmith

bought 3 lp's as my first purchase...all heard at a church youth group get together :)


elp-trilogy
black sabbath---master of reality
alice cooper--killer

doesnt get any better then that :D

First 45(s); Hey Jude, The Beatles and Those were the Days, Mary Hopkin
First LP; E Pluribus Funk, Grand Funk Railroad

First 45: Def Leppard - Armageddon It
First LP: Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
First Cassette: Motley Crue - Doctor Feelgood
First CD: Guns 'n' Roses - Use your Illusion 2

I still have Armageddon it and Use your Illusion 2. Appetite for Destruction was stolen and Doctor Feelgood was lost long long ago. I bought another copy of Appetite for Destruction used, but my original copy was in better condition and had the imfamous "rape" cover.

First LP Ramsay Lewis ~ The In Crowd ('66)
First CD Miles Davis ~ Kind of Blue ('84)
First 45 Aretha Franklin ~ Respect ('67)
First 8 track Eddie Harris-Les Mccan ~ Swiss Movement ('70)
First cassette ???????????

Nice list.

First LP Gift - Superstars of the 70's - 4 album set

First LP Purchase - Jerry Rafferty - City to City

First CD Purchase - James Ingram - Its your Night

first LP: star wars soundtrack, bought at Kmart as a birthday gift, i remember being dissapointed that listening to it wasn't as good as watching the movie (i was 4)

first cassette: another gift, michael jackson's thriller

first cd . . . . . . . . . . . . um . . . . .. . . . . something tells me it was bauhaus, but i'm not sure

first SACD - rolling stones between the buttons, still haven't heard it on an SACD player

I dunno. Was buying 45's and LP's. First one that really got me rocked was Led Zeppelin. I really liked early Bob Dylan and played his 45's over and over.
Led Zep opened a door to a world I should never have gone through.

I dunno. Was buying 45's and LP's. First one that really got me rocked was Led Zeppelin. I really liked early Bob Dylan and played his 45's over and over.
Led Zep opened a door to a world I should never have gone through.

But what was THE first LP and 45? That is, what got you on the way to the sickness you have today???

1st 45: "I'm Sorry" - Brenda Lee (1960)
1st LP: "Town Without Pity" - Gene Pitney (1962?)
1st rock LP: "Beatles '65" (duh, 1965)
1st cassette tape: "Future Games" Fleetwood Mac (1971)
most copies of an LP bought because the previous were worn out: "Super Session" Al Kooper

First 45 was Ring of Fire,Johnny Cash
First lp was...Best of Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs
..and I still have 'em!
First cd was Trilogy,Emerson,Lake & Palmer

First 45 was "Bustin' Loose" by Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers

First LP was "Rock 'n' Roll Over" by Kiss

First CD was "A Decade Of" Steely Dan (I think)

Can't remember the first tape though-

This is embaressing - my first record purchase was "The Lovin' Spoonful" on LP.

I had bought sheet music before.

1st R2R tape: Don't know yet, it's in my future.

1st cassettes (and 1st recorded music ever): Foreigner, Double Vision; Led Zep IV; Styx, Cornerstone.

1st lp: Rush, Permanent Waves

1st 45: People bought those??

1st 8 track: See above.

1st CD: I don't remember but it may have been Rush, Signals
(The town library had a massive collection and I used to just listen to those.)

1st DVD Audio: Yes, Fragile; Eagles, Hotel California

1st DTS audio: Sting, 10 Summoners' Tales

1st SACD: Ray Charles, Genius Loves Company

lp: AC/DC, Back in Black

cassette: Various Artists, Masters of Metal Vol. 1

cd: Beastie Boys, Pauls Boutique

illegally downloaded mp3: CW McCall, Black Bear Road (i believe)

Now that is an eclectic list.

45 - Drifters - "Under The Boardwalk" (still have it)
LP - Four Seasons - "Sherry" (still have it)
4 track - McCoys - "Hang On Sloopy"
8 track - Simon & Garfunkle - "Bookends" (the girls liked it)
Cassette - Statler Bros. - "Elizabeth"
CD - I have never bought a cd. The first gift was a Spike Lee "Doin' It Acapella" soundtrack from a TV special that had the Rockapellas doing "Zombie Jamboree". The only CD I have ever requested was the Merced Blue Notes "Get YOur Kicks On Route 99". I make my own out of old doo-wop and early rock & roll mp3s the rest of the time.

45 - "Judy in Disguise" John Fred & His Playboy Band - 1966
LP - "Band on the Run" Paul McCartney & Wings - 1973
CD - "Surfing With The Alien" - Joe Satriani - 1994
SACD - "Every Breath You Take" - The Police - 2003

45 - Drifters - "Under The Boardwalk" (still have it)
LP - Four Seasons - "Sherry" (still have it)
4 track - McCoys - "Hang On Sloopy"
8 track - Simon & Garfunkle - "Bookends" (the girls liked it)
Cassette - Statler Bros. - "Elizabeth"
CD - I have never bought a cd. The first gift was a Spike Lee "Doin' It Acapella" soundtrack from a TV special that had the Rockapellas doing "Zombie Jamboree". The only CD I have ever requested was the Merced Blue Notes "Get YOur Kicks On Route 99". I make my own out of old doo-wop and early rock & roll mp3s the rest of the time.

That is quite a list. Are the Rockappellas the same group that was called The Nylons? (They had an album called Rockappella)

That is quite a list. Are the Rockappellas the same group that was called The Nylons? (They had an album called Rockappella)
Not the same. The Rockapellas were strictly an acapella group, as were all on the CD. I first heard them in the late 80s or early 90s, but the group has changed members and don't sound the same to me. See if you can find their "Zombie Jamboree". They do a great job.

Not the same. The Rockapellas were strictly an acapella group, as were all on the CD. I first heard them in the late 80s or early 90s, but the group has changed members and don't sound the same to me. See if you can find their "Zombie Jamboree". They do a great job.

The Nylons were acapella also. Well, there was a drum machine on some tracks.

Don't know. Both groups have websites.

Now that is telling. I guess there are just similarities!

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon -- record
Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells -- CD

I see no activity since August. The moderator could lock the thread. It isn't gathering any more interest.

Maybe because its a kind of hard thing to remember. I've spent the last 15 minutes trying to come up with answers. The thread seems to have morphed into a list of ALL of your first buys as far as format. Album, Tape, CD, whatnot.

I can remember running out to the RECORD store to buy an Eric Clapton-"Slowhand" LP.

My first Cassette may have been The Jimi Hendrix Experience-"Smash Hits"

My first CD was back when most of a music store's stock was in LP and Cassette form. I think I found Ten Years After's self titled first release. Either that or Led Zeppelin's first album. I wanted to hear the rock greats in this new and supposedly great sounding form.

Now I listen to the LP versions.......

You're right. When I started this thread, I listed my first 45 and LP. Then added the rest as others started posting their first of everything. But first is first, not what you bought when changing formats.

Look back, you will see what I bought, when current, as my first two black vinyl musics.

I suppose if most people listed them in chronological order (which is what I did - I think), we're seeing both "first" and "first of format". It's also interesting to see who bought vinyl first...or 8 Track...or CD...or Victrola, and how their media choices progressed. Of course, the youngest members will start with CD or maybe even MP3, then "progress backwards" into the older formats.

The first CD that I purchased for my DIY Altec Valencias was Billy Joel's Live New York 2 disc set.

I since sold the DIY Altec Valencias, because I found a pair of 846U Altec Valencias.

;)

Since then, I have accumulated over 120 cds and 150 Lps. I can't stop!

When I purchase a cd or lp, I ask myself - how will they sound on my speakers? If I have to think about it, I usually buy it.

Funny though, I purge my CDs and I still have that many. I rotate every so often. I feel bad for the ones I hardly listen to.

-Storm.

Free-Fire And Water
James Taylor- Sweet Baby James

Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers -Why Do Fools Fall In Love

45RPM, purchased in the summer 0f 1956. I still have it and it remains in beautiful condition.

Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers -Why Do Fools Fall In Love

45RPM, purchased in the summer 0f 1956. I still have it and it remains in beautiful condition.

I'm trying to put this together, it is still in good condition? All my teenage records are trashed. You were a different kind of teenager.

You lucky guy!

great thread.....

first 45 - Little Bit of Soul - Music Explosion (i think that's who sang it)

first LP - Iron Butterfly - In A Godda Da Vida

first 8 track - Santana - Abraxis

first CD - Michael Jackson - Thriller

first SACD - Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

first DVD-Audio - Tommy - The Who

Hi Grainger49

Yes its in real good shape. I never ,ever stacked multiple 45s or lps , So all the lables have no wear rings and the vinyl remains unscuffed . I guess I was crazy at a young age.

LP, Darin at the Copa, Bobby Darin 1960 (still have it)
R2R, Boots Randolph, 67 or 68 (still have that too)
dont think I ever bought a 8 track
CDs I bought a few when they first came out, cant remember which was first.