LP: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Greatest Hits, or some such name. Definitely a CCR compilation.
45: Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Cassette: Don’t recall. Possibly Dio’s The Last in Line.
VHS: Batman (1989), I think.
CD: Hold Your Fire - Rush
DVD(s): Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Star Trek II, and Blue Velvet.
78: -
45: Probably something by Boston
LP: Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk (I was a kid - don’t judge me!)
Reel-to-reel: -
8-Track: Only ever got a few of these, one was “Best of Foreigner”, another was “Screaming Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends” (With that name, how could I NOT buy that tape?)
Cassette: Only bought a couple of these, I was all about the vinyl. I only remember Roy Buchanan’s, “A Street Called Straight”.
CD: I bought my first two CD’s at once: CCR’s, “Cosmo’s Factory” and Steve Vai’s, “Passion and Warfare”
SACD: -
VHS: There were only a couple I was really excited about. Of those, the earliest one was the much-hated Bakshi’s, “Lord of the Rings.” Oh, and PORN! Wonderful porn! Marvelous porn! Glorious porn! (I was young, and it was before the internet. Don’t judge me!)
Laserdisc: -
DVD: No idea whatsoever. Got it in 1999 I think, so probably some big effects movie from that time.
HD DVD: -
Blu-Ray: -
78: n/a
45: The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy vs. The Red Baron
LP: KISS - Destroyer
Reel-to-reel: n/a
8-Track: Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Cassette: Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced/Axis: Bold As Love double cassette*
CD: The Clash - Combat Rock and Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (bought them both at the same time)
SACD: n/a
Laserdisc: n/a
DVD: Blazing Saddles and South Park Ep. 1-4 (bought them both at same time)
HD DVD: n/a
Blu-Ray: The Matrix*
*I think this is correct but I may later remember that it is wrong.
78: We had some at home, don’t remember, maybe Glenn Miller collection
45: Manhattan Spiritual by Reg Owen
45, that I purchased with my own money: Snoopy vs. the Red Baron by The Royal Guardsman.
LP: Graduate Soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel
LP that I won being the 15th caller at a radio station: Frampton Comes Alive
Reel-to-reel: n/a
8-Track: Tormato by Yes- very under-rated album
Cassette: Greatest Hits: 1967-1970 by the Beatles [Blue Album]
CD: Revolver by the Beatles
MP3 D/L: Convoy by CW McColl :o
iTunes song: not sure
iTunes Album: Chicago V
VHS: blank tapes to record Jeopardy!, otherwise some porn title
DVD: The Godfather Trilogy
The first music I bought was “Outlandos D’Amour” by the Police. The first movie I bought was the VHS version of “The Terminator.”
Cassette: Petra: Fired Up
CD: Best of Petra
DVD: The Matrix
VHS: Hoosiers - the McDonald’s copy they included/sold for awhile.
78: N/A
45: N/A
LP: J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
Reel-to-reel: N/A
8-Track: N/A
Cassette: Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
CD: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15
SACD: Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Laserdisc: N/A/
DVD: Monty Python, The Complete Series
HD DVD:
Blu-Ray: Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Mariinsky Theatre
I don’t remember the first 45 I bought.
The first album I bought was a KTel compliation.
The first eight-track was by Kansas. Probably a Greatest Hits (although they really only had two hits).
I had a VCR for a long time before I ever bought a videotape. I always rented. But I was in a comic book store and they had a collection of old Ub Iwerks cartoons in their bargain bin so I bought it.
The first CD I bought was a bargain bin Mozart so I could test my new CD player.
I got some free DVDs as part of a package deal when I bought my first DVD player. But the first DVD I intentionally bought was Mr Vampire, a Chinese horror-martial arts-comedy.
Technically, the first Bluray I bought was The Illusionist (the French animated one). But I bought it as a DVD/Bluray combo pack on sale for the DVD because I didn’t have a Bluray player yet. The first Blurays I bought after buying a player were The Lion King and Patton.
78: n/a
45: n/a
LP: Grieg Piano Concerto, Arthur Rubinstein
Reel-to-reel: Switched-On Bach
8-Track: n/a
Cassette: The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows (bought around 1987)
CD: Amahl and the Night Visitors (original cast)
SACD: n/a
VHS: A Man For All Seasons (Scofield) (before that I got “A Charlie Brown Christmas” free with x gallons of gas)
Laserdisc: Fantasia (I never bought a player. I only bought the disc as insurance against Disney never releasing it again.)
DVD: Beany and Cecil: The Special Edition
HD DVD: n/a
Blu-Ray: Becket and Fantasia (I bought Fantasia just before it went back into the vault and included Becket on the same order)
Only thing I know for sure is CD: Andreas Vollenweider’s Book of Roses. It’s also the longest lived album in my collection… from day one until today, and I still listen to it.
I don’t remember ever buying any actual records. I know I asked my parents for “Disco Mickey Mouse,” when I was a kid, and I took home my grandfather’s large collection of Bach records, but none of those I actually bought.
The first piece of music I remember buying myself was Led Zeppelin IV on cassette. First CD I remember buying is The Bad Examples Cheap Beer Night (they’re a local band.) First CD I got (gifted to me with the Discman) was The Black Crowes Southern Harmony and Musical Companion.
I don’t recall ever buying any movies, although I’m sure I must have bought DVDs of something in the past.
45:Convoy (I think)
LP:Chopin’s Greatest Hits
CD:As far as I remember those TV Toon collections are the only CD’s I’ve ever bought for myself.
78:
45: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
LP: 1984 - Van Halen
Reel-to-reel:
8-Track:
Cassette: Solitude/Solitaire - Peter Cetera
CD: To The Extreme - Vanilla Ice (I knew there’d be something embarassing in here!)
SACD:
Laserdisc:
DVD: Zorro (the first Antonio Banderas one)
HD DVD:
Blu-Ray:
78: (I’m not that old)
45: Young Girl by Gary Puckett & the Union Gap
LP (purchased for me): With Love, Bobby by Bobby Sherman
LP (purchased by me): You Don’t Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce
Non-Blank 8-Track: Tormato by Yes
Non-Blank Cassette: Hitchin’ A Ride by Vanity Fare (a cassette “single”)
CD: The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking by Roger Waters and Biograph by Bob Dylan (both purchased on the same day)
DVD: The Matrix
I don’t remember most of them, but I remember my first CD. I was a kid in the '80s in the Netherlands and the CD was a Big Deal. A friend of my parents worked on the development at Philips.
The CD was Kinderen voor Kinderen, Children for Children. They’re children singing songs to raise money for kids in developing countries. The first song was terribly un-PC, we realised many years later… :eek:
78: N/A
45: Don’t Remember
LP: Elton John’s Greatest Hits
Reel-to-reel: N/A
8-Track: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John*
Cassette: Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
CD: Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits
SACD: ?
Laserdisc: N/A
DVD: Contact
HD DVD: N/A
Blu-Ray: Something relatively recent, for my daughter… I think Captain America.
*What can I say? EJ was big in the 1970’s.
78: N/A
45: Eddie Grant-Electric Avenue
LP: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
Reel-to-reel: N/A
8-Track: N/A
Cassette: Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
CD: If I should Fall From Grace with God - The Pogues
VHS: Jeeves and Wooster or bootlegs of Doctor Who episodes
SACD: n/a
Laserdisc: n/a
DVD: The Professional
HD DVD: Gladiator
Blu-Ray: not sure
If you mean by own as, Actually Bought in the store and not hand me downs…
78: The MickyMouse Club singalong thing…with the original mousekateers.
45: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in The Wall part 1, One of These Turns on side b.
LP: AC/DC - For Those About to Rock
Reel-to-reel: Recoded My Own Stuff
8-Track: Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Cassette: Ratt - Outta the Cellar
CD: Return to the Valley of the GoGo’s
DVD: Rush R-30
SACD:
Laserdisc:
HD DVD:
Blu-Ray:
78: some Gene Autry cowboy thing
45: I Want To Hold Your Hand/Beatles
LP: Meet the Beatles
8-Track: Wee Tam/Incredible String Band
Cassette: The Nightfly/Donald Fagen
CD: The Lady and the Unicorn/John Renbourn & Blue/Joni Mitchell (bought together to replace my scratched to hell and gone LPs)
VHS: The Point!
DVD: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
A couple of categories that weren’t mentioned:
Napster download
iTunes purchase