Oh my. Can I forgive you for that? Hmm… let’s see…
Eep! Next thing I know, you’ll be telling me you were a Young Republican once upon a time!
Oh and for the OP, my first CD purchase was one of New Order’s albums.
The first vinyl was one of those K-Tel album of kid songs (I was about 8 years old).
As a teen: Vinyl - Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cassette – Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live: Rust Never Sleeps, CD – Johann Sebastian Bach
FYI, the OP’s mention of CDs was merely a nod to tem young-uns who missd out on the glorious age of vinyl. Man, I waste my time trying to come up with thoughtful topics, and look what gets me a two-pager! Who’d a thunk?
Our first CD was Lyle Lovett - Pontiac. We were simply fed up with buying warped vinyl, so we took the album back, bought the CD, and went out and bought a player.
Sounds like most of us either hit it, or missed it with their first choices. cornflakes I’ll bet that Styx was accompanied by some rocking Kansas! And Ruffian, remember, “the chair is not my son!” I was a member of the “Off the Wall” bandwagon a couple of years earlier. kferr - fraid we never got much deeper into that album than “Now you’re messing with a …”
How can someone with the name DynoSaur admit to never having bought vinyl? I went out and bought my Johnny Cash right after the Ps bought us kids a hifi for Christmas - most likely 1970. Pretty soon my big sisters were loading up on the 45s, stacking them six deep and dropping them. That was some quality listening! 2 speakers for true stereo. So what if they were molded plastic and permanently mounted 18" apart. And it had 4 speeds for all your listening pleasure. Does anyone know what the speed slower that 33 was? 14 or so? And does anyone know what was ever recorded at that speed?
Folks, you realize Eve, always the trendsetter, had the foresight to skip over CDs, and went right into MP3s.
DeskMonkey - thanks for popping your SDMB cherry to bring up the category of 8 tracks. I fondly remember grooving in the back seat of my friend’s dad’s Monte Carlo to the sounds of Grand Funk Railroad on the car 8 track…
Woohoo! Hells yea. Stray Cats was one of the first albums I bought!
First 45 record: Venus by the Shocking Blue
First 8;track: Star (?) by the Rolling Stones
First Album: Too Much Too Soon by the NYDolls
First CD: Live Thru This by Hole
First vinyl = Men at work - business as usual (my mom didn’t want to buy it for me because she thought it was a sound effect album!)
Another early vinyl was pacman fever. Anyone remember that one?
First Cd = Firehose - If’n
I’m going to bet that it was voice recordings, although I don’t know what makes me say that.
I don’t remember ever purchasing an 8-track, although we definitely had both “John Denver” something or other and “Sesame Street Fever” on 8-track.
My first tape purchase was Cyndi Lauper, “She’s So Unusual.” It still remains a favorite of mine. It was such a harbringer of things to come - the first time I chose my own music - my parents listened to country music, essentially, along the lines of John Denver, the Statler Brothers, and Kenny Rogers. So a “rock” album was itself a bit outside of the norm, not to mention that of an odd-looking woman with duo-tone hair. The fact that she went on to sing the theme song to “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” as well as singing “True Colors,” the song that (I’ve heard)inspired the rainbow flag, and is just such a talented, wonderful person…well, I’ve always been glad that it was my first purchase, if only so that if I ever meet her one day I’ll have something to say while I get her autograph.
I think it wasn’t until about 10 years later that I realized the deeper meaning to the songs on this album - “She Bop” is about mastubation? I had no idea! But then, I didn’t know what masturbation was at the time.
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack on 8-track…
I’m so ashamed…
I later burned it with a carbon arc torch in my garage.
First record someone else bought for me was Michael Jacksons “Thriller”.
First one I bought for myself was actually two records. Dire Straits “Brothers In Arms” (I was a cool fuckin’ kid, that album still rocks) and Men At Work “Business As Usual” (ok, maybe no so cool. Remember that week when Men at Work was popular?).
First tape I bought was: Queen “It’s a Kind of Magic” (it was like all Highlander on one side and the other side was Iron Eagle and the rest was crap.).
First CD: I bought a bunch at once when i finally got a CD player actually I think i remember most of them: Nirvanah “Nevermind”, NIN “Pretty Hate Machine”, Tom Waits “Franks Wild Years”, The 60’s Greatest Hits (Billboard top ten for ever year from 60-69. a great set), same thing for the 70’s, Steve Miller’s “Greatest Hits”. Thats about all I can remember but I know I got more than that. I spent like 300$ on music in one trip.
Dinsdale, the slow record speed was 16 RPM. Since it was 1/2 LP speed, it was used by budding lead guitarists to copy licks off of albums. I think it was meant for spoken word recordings.
FWIW, no Kansas. I had pretty bad taste through junior high. On the other hand, I got into Hendrix and Santana in high school (along with Robin Trower, I don’t know how proud I should be of that), and would have sold my soul for SST records (Meat Puppets, Minutemen, TSOL and even Black Flag) when I was twenty.
Sonny and Cher, “I Got You, Babe” was the first record I ever purchased, but I can’t remember the first album. I miss the vinyl days!
Oh yeah, and first recording the Ps ever yelled at me to stop playing so damn much so damn loudly-45 of Janis Joplin Half Moon
Vinyl = Ah, shaddup a’ yo face (sp?) by Father Guido Sarducci
Cassette = Dirty Deeds by AC/DC
CD = OU812 by Van Halen
I almost forgot…
1st and only 8 track = “The Police” zenyada… um… zinthada… the one with “Dont stand so close to me”
If memory serves me, my first cassette was ELO’s “Time,” which remains one of my favorite albums of all time to this day. I had listened to cassettes my parents had bought (classical and religious music), but “Time” was the first independent purchase of an album for me.
My first album was Al Hirt.
I loved his act in The French Quarter in New Orleans, so I bought the album.
“Shaddap You Face” was done by Joe Dolce.
The Lion King Soundtrack
Vinyl - Elvis Presley, “Elvis’s Gold Records”. I was six.
First CD - Husker Du, “Zen Arcade”
First record album purchase: Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The monoaural version.
Second was “Urban Spaceman” by the Bonzo Dog Band (British title – “The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse”).