# What was your first record (or cassette, or CD...)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** liquor-alcohol\ **Created:** [February 6, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952 "2025-02-06T14:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/21 "2025-02-06T15:13:14Z")
Sigh… these sorts of questions come up, and I sound like such a lightweight. For instance, a common question from my fellow Serious Cinephile friends during our Covid lockdown was “Okay, WHAT was the LAST movie you saw?” (with a subtext of “Maybe the last you’ll ever see?”)… mine happened to be _Sonic the Hedgehog._ So, anyhow, my first LP was… _Paul Revere and the Raiders’ Greatest Hits._ Now, my parents bought me that as a birthday present. The first album I ever bought-with-my-lawnmowing-money was Van Morrison’s _Moondance._ And I was constantly playing Cream _Wheels of Fire_, so I did have some taste, honest! . eta: Never bought 8-tracks or cassettes. I bought a cassette deck, but only as a way to make mixtapes for the car (and to give to that girl I had a crush on, but who never acknowledged my labor of love). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/22 "2025-02-06T15:13:46Z")
The first LP I bought was almost certainly classical, probably on the old Seraphim label (Angel Records’ discount line, which sold back in the day for $2 an album. God knows what it was. \*God probably has a complete set of the Angel and Seraphim records. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/23 "2025-02-06T15:20:07Z")
Despite being older than that, CDs were the first format I actually bought albums for. I was 25 and my first was Irene Cara’s _What a Feelin’_ which was then current. I was living overseas and the available variety of CDs was limited. Growing up of course the family had record players, then eventually an 8-track player, and a cassette player in turn. As a little kid, the parents had quite a collection of old 78s, a few 45s, and a growing collection of LPs and later other formats through my teens. But I bought, or received as gifts, very little recorded music of my own. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/24 "2025-02-06T15:31:56Z")
I cannot recall my first album, but most likely it came from Columbia House with 12 other albums for a penny. Kind of sure Frampton Comes Alive was one of them. My first 8 track was the Cars first album, the Cars. Played to death in my 69 Camaro. Never got into buying cassetes. My first CD was the Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed. I recall it was New Years Eve 1987 and I pissed off my upstairs neighbor by switching back and forth between the album and CD at very, very high volume to see if I could tell the differance between the two. Damn she was pissed off. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/25 "2025-02-06T15:39:42Z")
First 45: Blinded by the Light (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band) First LP: Love at the Greek (Neil Diamond) First CD: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/26 "2025-02-06T15:41:30Z")
First record I bought. . .hmmm. Lost in time, I fear. I didn’t have my own record player until about junior high, which would be in the early 60s. Otherwise, I listened to my parents’ really old stuff on the console. It may have been “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley (a 45 rpm). First LP album may have been Marty Robbins or possibly The Pink Panther sound track. I know the first (and maybe only) jazz 45 I bought was “Soul Serenade” by King Curtis. First jazz album was Time Out, by Brubeck. I never fell for the 8-track fad, but I did have a reel-to-reel deck and a number of pre-recorded tapes. The first album may have been Petula Clark. First cassette is also lost to memory. First CD would have been a rock album, but I have no memory of it. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/27 "2025-02-06T15:41:32Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > I cannot recall my first album, but most likely it came from Columbia House with 12 other albums for a penny. After I got the CD player, I enrolled in Columbia House as well. I remember some of the first big shipment: AC/DC’s _Blow Up Your Video_, Aerosmith’s _Permanent Vacation_, and the _Woodstock_ soundtrack were in it, but I forget the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/28 "2025-02-06T15:43:56Z")
First LP was Jim Croce’s _Photographs and Memories: His Greatest Hits_. First CDs were the 4-CD set _Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul_. I still listen to the songs from both. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/30 "2025-02-06T16:05:55Z")
_LPs bought for me_: [K-Tel Kollection 1973-1983: SONGBIRD [1981]](https://hercsktelalbums.blogspot.com/2015/07/songbird-1981.html) I wanted it for that Terri Gibbs song originally, but it had a lot of great stuff that I still like. _LPs bought by me_: Madonna – Like a Virgin John Fogarty – Centerfield Van Halen – 1984 Kiss – Asylum Ratt – Out of the Cellar Et cetera, your basic 80’s starter kit. _Cassette_: Possibly Def Leppard – Pyromania _CD_: Oh I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/31 "2025-02-06T16:15:35Z")
This is such a great memory. I think I was 10, and had only listened to music on the radio up until that point. Then for Christmas, my brother gave me a Walkman and Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette) on cassette. Being able to listen to music I like whenever I wanted to, as opposed to waiting for it to come on in the radio line-up, opened up a whole new world for me. I listened to it so incessantly that I wore out the batteries on my Walkman after only a week! ---
**Author:** ![Hook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@Hook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hook)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/32 "2025-02-06T16:19:37Z")
My first LP was a Best of The Searchers, in 1966. Cassettes and CSs I have no idea now, ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/33 "2025-02-06T16:21:05Z")
My first LP was called “Certified Gold” from 1981. It had flashy graphics with a picture of a gold seal on the front, and it was a hits compilation with songs like “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” and “Brass in Pocket.” ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/34 "2025-02-06T16:24:31Z")
First record was Billy Joel’s ‘Glass Houses’ First cassette Weird Al Yankovic in 3-D First CD Alice Cooper-Easy Action ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/35 "2025-02-06T16:31:26Z")
First single: “I Want to Hold Your Hand” First vinyl LP: _The Doors_ First CD: _Brothers in Arms_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/36 "2025-02-06T16:34:22Z")
Why is this thread categorized under liquor/alcohol? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/37 "2025-02-06T16:35:44Z")
Yessongs, a triple vinyl album, for $5 at Sound Warehouse in Dallas. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/38 "2025-02-06T16:37:15Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > Why is this thread categorized under liquor/alcohol? I have absolutely no idea. I didn’t choose a subcategory when I started it…can a Mod maybe tweak that? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952/39 "2025-02-06T16:39:06Z")
I never bought or otherwise acquired LPs. My first cassette was _The Cars: Heartbeat City._ I didn’t buy it, though, I shoplifted it. Still, it was my first, so I’ma say it counts. I don’t have a first CD, because I bought a large stack of them all at once a couple of days after my cassette cases were stolen out of my car. ---
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I don’t remember the first record i bought, but it would have been a 78rpm in the 1960s ! Me & my brother used to go round the second-hand/thrift/junk shops looking for them. It’s possible it was 12th Street Rag. First LP was Dvorak’s 9th (New World) Symphony. First 45 was Fanfare for the Common Man by ELP. Don’t remember first cassette or CD > [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > Why is this thread categorized under liquor/alcohol? It mentions rum, beer and brandy ! (and discobot is stupid !) ---
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The first LP I ever bought with my own money was _The Doors_. The first CD I ever owned was Pink Floyd’s _Dark Side of the Moon._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952.md?page=3)