Music question: What was your first LP/Cassette/CD/etc?

LP: Chicago 16. Christmas present from my Dad, if I recall.

Cassette: Pink Floyd Animals. my player would autoreverse, but they also split a song from side 1 over to side 2 - if you hit the reverse button at the right time, it was almost seamless. Autoreverse would go through the tape leader at the end of the reel, click a couple of times, take the leader back up, then start back into the sing. Pigs on the Wing.

CD: I'm not sure. I stayed on cassette a long time because of car stereo setups. Might have been Pearl Jam's Ten.

First paid digital download (I ripped a LOT of CD's I had back in the day, but...) The Fixx Ultimate Collection.

Cassette: don't remember

CD: Foo Fighters first album

As a kid on family road trips I had a lot of exposure to some Cruisin Classics mix tapes from Shell gas stations. Last year I kind of brought that back full circle, I tracked down mp3s for all 6 tapes, and either burned CDs or saved to a USB stick and gave to my mom and siblings for Christmas.

First owned? Some Whitney Houston cassette u got in a garage sale radio. First purchased....jesus I don't want to admit this...m

Please hammer don't hurt em and the Simpsons sing the blues. Same day, same target.

Cd- probably Aerosmith, what hits. Lp? Well there was the smurfs records i had as a kid. First real album...idk. I collected random vinyl for a bit. Rob zombies first solo album? On graphic vinyl.

First cassette, can't remember, but it was all about cassettes in the early days. I think there was some Columbia House 'ish going on in middle school and it might have been Autograph or ACDC Fly on The Wall.
My first CD I remember very well, I had just gotten a Denon DCD-610 player and my first two CDs were The Velvet Underground and Nico and Elvis Costello Spike.
Vinyl would come later, but the first LP I got was XTC Skylarking, well used and still in the stack today. I played it on an idler wheel Dual that was pretty wow and fluttery.

The vinyl stacked up to some 350+ titles later on, mostly jazz, hip-hop and R&B, and a little honky-tonk country.

My first cassette was either genesis, the n one with invisible touch on it, or the California raisins. Fun fact, I thought they were a real band until I was a teenager. I knew they weren't really raisins but I mean I didn't figure out they were cover songs for a while.

First cd would be when I got a disc man for xmas one year, I picked out some cds, I thi k I got weezer, butthole surfers, and a jock Jams cd lol

My first record was a 78. "The Ballad of Davey Crockett". I still have it,too.

First LP: Dave Brubeck - Take 5 (my Dad gave it to me when I was 5, still have it)

First Cassette: None. I have never owned a prerecorded cassette

First CD: Steve Winwood - Back in the high life

First Download: BB King - Live from the Cook County Jail

First Streamed Album: Dave Brubeck - Take 5 (My vinyl copy sounds like a 5 year has been playing with it)

SilverFleet wrote: In the Metallica thread

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Stories are encouraged for nostalgic feels.

My first cassette was, I am pretty sure, Anthrax's "I'm the Man" EP. I was 8 and my friend at the time thought the song was funny, so my mom got me the tape for my birthday. It is long gone, of course, and it irks me that every version of the unique songs on the tape (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath cover, live versions of Caught in a Mosh and I Am the Law) are DIFFERENT from the ones I can find in the usual sources. I have a kind of photographic audio memory and I want to hear those originals.

Also, during the live version of the title song, they stopped the song for a bit and said "This is going to be played in Chicago, Cleveland, everywhere..." and WBWC (Baldwin-Wallace college station) used to use that clip as part of one of their bumps. Still trying to find that clip, and all of my BWC metal show tapes are lost/destroyed.

First non-EP cassette: Guns N Roses, Appetite for Destruction. Another present from mom, although IIRC she borrowed it from me a lot.

CD: MARRS, Pump Up the Volume. Hey, I was 8 or whatever.
First non-EP CD: Metallica, Kill 'Em All. Actually it was the first three albums in one gift, but this was the first one I opened and listened to. Thanks Mom!

First album: Hmm. I'm no stranger to vinyl, but I don't think I ever actually owned any, aside from a gift when I was 13 or 14 or something: Mom got me an unopened Queen "A Night at the Opera". I left it with her collection for safekeeping. Might have been lost in a move.

First MP3: Trent Reznor, Supernaut
I had just heard about Napster on a local radio station's Saturday night metal show (2000-ish?) and downloaded the software while listening to the radio, and I thought, what should I try to find? I had been collecting rare covers/import versions for a while ($20-30 a CD often for just one track that I'd listen to once, ugh!) and one thing that I hadn't been able to find was the 1000 Homo DJs version of Supernaut with Trent Reznor on vocals instead of Al Jourgensen. Apparently there were contract issues that kept Trent from releasing music outside of NIN so it had to be re-recorded with Jourgensen on vocals, but dammit I had to find the original because rare. Easily found on Napster and downloaded. Was hooked instantly. No more spending half my paycheck at the record store.

My grandfather gave us a giant box of 45s when I was a kid. He worked for RCA and got them from a defunct radio station, I think. Elvis and a bunch of old C&W stuff, IIRC.

First LP I ever bought with my own money was Jesus Christ Superstar. Still got it. Anyone want it?

Knurled wrote:

SilverFleet wrote: In the Metallica thread

There's a Metallica thread?

Stories are encouraged for nostalgic feels.

My first cassette was, I am pretty sure, Anthrax's "I'm the Man" EP. I was 8 and my friend at the time thought the song was funny, so my mom got me the tape for my birthday. It is long gone, of course, and it irks me that every version of the unique songs on the tape (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath cover, live versions of Caught in a Mosh and I Am the Law) are DIFFERENT from the ones I can find in the usual sources. I have a kind of photographic audio memory and I want to hear those originals. Also, during the live version of the title song, they stopped the song for a bit and said "This is going to be played in Chicago, Cleveland, everywhere..." and WBWC (Baldwin-Wallace college station) used to use that clip as part of one of their bumps. Still trying to find that clip, and all of my BWC metal show tapes are lost/destroyed. First non-EP cassette: Guns N Roses, Appetite for Destruction. Another present from mom, although IIRC she borrowed it from me a lot. CD: MARRS, Pump Up the Volume. Hey, I was 8 or whatever. First non-EP CD: Metallica, Kill 'Em All. Actually it was the first three albums in one gift, but this was the first one I opened and listened to. Thanks Mom! First album: Hmm. I'm no stranger to vinyl, but I don't think I ever actually owned any, aside from a gift when I was 13 or 14 or something: Mom got me an unopened Queen "A Night at the Opera". I left it with her collection for safekeeping. Might have been lost in a move. First MP3: Trent Reznor, Supernaut I had just heard about Napster on a local radio station's Saturday night metal show (2000-ish?) and downloaded the software while listening to the radio, and I thought, what should I try to find? I had been collecting rare covers/import versions for a while ($20-30 a CD often for just one track that I'd listen to once, ugh!) and one thing that I hadn't been able to find was the 1000 Homo DJs version of Supernaut with Trent Reznor on vocals instead of Al Jourgensen. Apparently there were contract issues that kept Trent from releasing music outside of NIN so it had to be re-recorded with Jourgensen on vocals, but dammit I had to find the original because rare. Easily found on Napster and downloaded. Was hooked instantly. No more spending half my paycheck at the record store.

Metallica thread Asking if anyone had listened to the new release yet.

Carry on!

Beat it. Or survivors eye of the tiger

First Vinyl- Geto Boys - Self Titled

Cassette: Beastie Boys- Pauls Boutique

CD: MC Hammer: Please Hammer don't hurt 'em

First minidisc (lol)- Nine Inch Nails - Broken

First MP3- Eagles - Life in the fast lane

No idea on my first cassette

First CD purchase was DMB's Under the Table and Dreaming.

Never owned vinyl before.

First vinyl I ever bought was Hall & Oats H2O. Before that there was a Spider Man record of some sort. But that was a gift. (quick Google search says it was The Amazing Spider Man Vol II, The Invasion of the Dragon Men)

First pre-recorded cassette was Van Halen's 1984. Turns out it was my wife's first cassette too.

First CD was Roger Daltrey's Under A Raging Moon. Was looking for Pete Townsend's White City but it was out of stock. Got it a little later for my birthday.

First 8-track was some Elvis stuff my great aunt gave me, but never got to my house. 8-track player, tapes, and some other stuff was stolen out of my grandfather's B210 wagon at my other aunt's wedding.

Vinyl Beatles She Loves You 45 probably around 1964-65 and I think my first 1st LP was Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Pat Benatar Crimes of Passion, LP

Album: Thriller
Cassette: Indigo Girls self-titled
CD: Monster TV rap hits