78: n/a
45: Sugar, Sugar by The Archies
LP: I Think, Therefore I Am, by R. Dean Taylor
Reel-to-reel: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, by Simon and Garfunkel
8-Track: Some bootleg Led Zeppelin
Cassette: ?
CD: Reg Strikes Back, by Elton John
SACD: n/a
Laserdisc: n/a
DVD: Anger Management
HD DVD: n/a
Blu-Ray: n/a
BLANK VERSION TO COPY/PASTE:
78:
45:
LP:
Reel-to-reel:
8-Track:
Cassette:
CD:
SACD:
Laserdisc:
DVD:
HD DVD:
Blu-Ray:
VHS: Not sure, but one of the following: The Thing, Metropolis, Horrible Horror (a pre-MST3K and pre-It Came From Hollywood sendup of bad horror films, starring Zacherly)
DVD: The Lost World (silent version)
45: “Parents Just Don’t Understand” by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince.
LP: Weird Al “in 3D”
Cassette: Beastie Boys “License to Ill”
CD: The Doors movie soundtrack
Laserdisc: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (and just bought it 2 months ago at a Goodwill)
DVD: A Christmas Story
Blu-Ray: Up
Cassette: INXS Listen like Thieves
CD: C & C music factory Gonna Make You Sweat
DVD: Lord of the Rings extended edition Trilogy
Blu-Ray: Game of Thrones season 1
45: Steve Martin’s King Tut
LP (of the ones I personally selected):
the soundtrack to Star Wars
First CD:
The soundtrack to Ken Burns’ The Civil War, which was a gift along with the CD player.
That I selected: the Broadway cast recording of Les Mis.
VHS: No idea, though Harold and Maude was one of if the not the earliest one.
DVD:
The Lion in Winter
45: Alice Cooper - No more mr. nice guy
LP: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water
Reel-to-reel: na
8-Track: na
Cassette: na
CD: Schubert’s Unfinished symphony
SACD: na
Laserdisc: na
DVD: funny, more recent than the others but I haven’t got a clue
HD DVD: na
Blu-Ray: na
45 or LP record: the only one I ever owned all by myself was a 45 they gave me at Showbiz Pizza when I had my birthday party there. Other records were more for my sister than for me, but I’d listen to them also (e.g., Michael Jackson’s Thriller).
Cassette tape: Funky Divas, En Vogue
CD: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ Greatest Hits
DVD: don’t remember
Digital download album: Animal, Ke$ha
78: First ones I kept were by Jane Russell on a British label
45: Beatles Get Back ca 1969
LP: Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da Vida ca 1969
Reel-to-reel: Tons and tons of blanks only ca 1971
8-Track: Led Zepplin Houses Of The Holy ca 1973
Cassette: IRS Sampler ca 1980
CD: The Fixx The Fixx ca 1982
SACD: never
Laserdisc: Treasure Of the Sierra Madre ca 1983
DVD: Gumby anthology ca 2005
HD DVD: never
Blu-Ray: never and probably never will
78: n/a
45: Mrs. Robinson - S&G
LP: A Night At The Opera - Queen
Reel-to-reel: n/a
8-Track: Don’t recall. I used to record my own from LPs.
Cassette: Ditto.
CD: No idea. Maybe “Who’s Next.”
SACD: n/a (In fact I had to look up what this even means.)
Laserdisc: n/a
DVD: I don’t think I’ve ever bought one by myself, for myself.
HD DVD: Ditto.
Blu-Ray: Ditto.
Cassette: Probably some Christian Rock, Petra or something like it. (Amy Grant or Michael W Smith?) It didn’t make a big impression, as I was used to borrowing my sister’s and probably had allowance to spend at the time I wanted something that wasn’t in her collection.
I do remember the first cassette I got after I moved out to Uni - “Forgiven not Forgotten” by the Corrs.
CD: Love & Gravity, Blackhawk. (Okay, I also got a Lorrie Morgan greatest hits CD on the same trip to the store, but I’m declaring the Blackhawk officially the first.)
DVD: Sportsnight box set
iTunes album: Firefly soundtrack. (It might have been someone on here who let me know it was available on iTunes.)
78 – some children’s record; I don’t recall which
45 – “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha haaa!” – Napoleon XIV
LP – “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” – I forget who.
CD – “Dawgwood” – David Grisman Quartet (given to me by a coworker).
iTunes Song – “Rosalita” – Bruce Springsteen.
iTunes Album – “Third” – Soft Machine.
8-track: Some book on tape. Possibly Teddy Rupskin related.
Cassette: One of Jeff Foxworthy’s comedy tapes.
CD: one of Travis Tritts.
Vhs: Nightmare on Elm Street.
DVD: ghostbusters, born in east L.a., and a couple of others I bought the same day I got my first DVD player.
Cassette: Synchonicty by The Police.
CD: Syd Barrett’s box set, Crazy Diamond. It wasn’t available in cassette (at least at the shop I found it at,) and I didn’t have a CD player at the time, so I actually bought it in CD before I had a CD player!
DVD: LOTR: FOTR.
78:N/A
45:don’t remember
LP:something by K-Tel?
Reel-to-reel:N/A
8-Track:Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
Cassette: don’t remember
CD:All The Best by Paul McCartney
SACD:N/A
Laserdisc:Titanic
DVD:Lord of the Rings:Fellowship Of The Ring box set?
HD DVD:N/A
Blu-Ray: N/A
Ones I’ve never personally owned not listed.
45: Some random novelty single I won at a children’s activity thing in St John’s. Never listened to it, because nobody I knew had one of those spacer things so the disk could stay on a turntable not created specifically for 45s…Don’t think I bothered bringing it home when we went back to Grand Falls.
Cassette: Debbie Gibson, Out of the Blue
CD: The Beatles, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
DVD: The unremastered Robotech box set vol 1.
I’ve never purchased from iTunes, but my first purchased (well, it was a freebie from some offer or another, but, legitimately downloaded) mp3s were by Molotov…Frijolero and another couple tracks off of Dance and Dense Denso (which I now have complete).
Why no VHS or Betamax? (Akira and ‘never owned’, respectively.)
CD: AC/DC Back in Black and Whitesnake Whitesnake
DVD: Pitch Black
Blu-Ray: Star Trek
78: none
45: can’t remember
LP: not sure - probably the first Partridge Family album (hey, I was seven or eight at the time)
Reel-to-reel: none
8-Track: none
Cassette: assuming blank ones don’t count, probably The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the LP version, not the original radio version, although I bought that as well once)
CD: Something classical - by Bizet, I think
SACD: none
Laserdisc: none
DVD: not sure - probably some shovelware like “NASA: The First 25 Years”
HD DVD: none
Blu-Ray: again, not sure; it might have been The Simpsons Movie
LP “Every Picture Tells a Story” Rod Stewert.
45 can’t recall, something from 70 or 71 though
CD “Bat Out of Hell” Meatloaf, to replace my LP that developed a skip
Cassette “Autoamerican” Blondie got a record player in 1970 didn’t get a cassette untill after college(with my first car).
VHS “Jane Fonda’s Workout Tape” For my wife, can’t recall mine.
DVD not sure may have been “Rocky Horror Picture Show”
45: Barry McGuire “Eve of Destruction”.
8 track Uriah Heep “Demons and Wizards”
CDs Kinks “Word of Mouth”
Tina Turner “Private Dancer”
LP John Entwhistle “Mad Dog”
VHS recorded overnight/time shift “Adventures of Mark Twain” Fredric March
LD Roxy Music “The High Road”
DVD Muddy Waters “Live at the Chicago Blues Festival”
The ones I can remember-
Cassette: Milli Vanilli
CD: Soul Asylum
DVD: Toy Story
iTunes: The Shins
Napster: Sir Mixalot
BitTorrent: Mad Men S1 ??? some doubt here