My First Vinyl, My First Tape, My First CD
Vinyl: N/A (we had vinyls when I was a kid but I’ve never purchased any)
Tape: DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince – Rock the House
CD: Journey – Greatest Hits
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Vinyl: Synchronicity
Tape: Born In The USA
CD: Brothers In Arms
1st 8-track: Star Wars, the complete movie on 8-Track.
Vinyl: N/A
Tape: Counting Crows—August and Everything After, I think
CD: Must’ve been Pearl Jam—Ten
Vinyl: “The One That You Love” by Air Supply 7-inch single
Tape: WAR – U2
CD: I think it was Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking
Vinyl: N/A. But the first one I owned outright was Slim Goodbody.
Tape: Thriller, Michael Jackson
CD: Substance, Joy Division
I think my favorite vinyl growing up, though, was my mom’s soundtrack to the Man of La Mancha.
Oh, wait. I didn’t think far enough forward…
Vinyl: Closer, Joy Division.
My coolest vinyl is probably U2′s first record single, Nirvana’s first record single, or my autographed copy of New Model Army’s first record single.
oh boy… this is going to be ugly
vinyl: given Lionel Richie, Dancing on the Ceiling as a gift
tape: either Falco 3 or Genesis, Invisible Touch
cd: given Billy Joel, Storm Front
first illegal download: Chumbawumba, Tub Thumping
first legal download: Outcast, Hey Ya!
Vinyl: Beatle Mania in the USA – the Liverpools (it was the only album with both She Love’s You and I Want to Hold Your Hand on it, even if it was fake).
Tape: Song for America – Kansas
CD: Fresh Aire Christmas – Mannheim Steamroller (ducks)
ARJ:
You have nothing to be embarrassed about. I loved that song back in seventh grade.
First (and only ) Illegal Download: Extraordinary Machine, Fiona Apple (the entire album)
First Legal Download: Hmmm. I have yet to pay for a download. I did download NYC by Interpol for free from Amazon.com.
wait… are we talking gifts, or purchases? because there’s a world of difference.
first vinyl (gift): Leo Sayer, Endless Flight
first tape (gift): ABBA, Super Trouper
first CD (gift): Weird Al, Dare to Be Stupid
Yeah, gifts don’t really work for me, since I inherited a bunch of vinyl singles from older siblings.
vinyl: Cream, Strange Brew
tape: ZZ Top, Eliminator
CD: Jimmy Buffett, Songs You Know by Heart
illegal download: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Pride and Joy
legal download: -
Vinyl: Didn’t purchase any, but owned all the Disney movie records. My favorite was Snow White. The first single I can remember swiping and listening to repeatedly from a sibling who bought it herself was Talking Heads’ Burning Down the House.
Tape: Wierd Al’s Dare to be Stupid.
CD: Strangely, I do not remember. I think I was either engaged or already married, though.
1st Vinyl: Thriller or Give my Regards to Broad Street (what? I was young?)
1st cassette: I honestly don’t know…maybe Vivid by Living Colour (I survived on radio and mix tapes growing up (pretty much still do))
1st CD: Aktressa Vesna by DDT (purchased in Russia before I owned an actually CD player (subsequently stolen by LDS missionaries))
Vinyl: n/a
Tape: New Order Substance
CD: Alison Moyet Singles or Crowded House Woodface
(wow….I just can’t remember!)
Allison-
We totally listened to Snow White on vinyl growing up. The color pictures on the back always freaked me out!
V: Thriller
T: The White Album
CD: The Joshua Tree
That makes me sound a lot cooler than I actually am. There was plenty of George Michael, New Edition, Trixter, and Poison mixed in there as well. I just got lucky with my firsts.
gabby, did you try to read the teeny tiny little words on the back too? I think there was once a booklet that went with the record, but if so it was long gone by the time I could read. Luckily, with all the pictures shrunken and put on the back, I didn’t miss out on the pictorial representation. Although I think I might have damaged my sight making out those teeny tiny letters.
Man, the VCR changed parenting/childhood a lot, didn’t it?
Actually, I bought cassette singles before I bought cassette albums. Now that I think of it, I think it was Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper singing “Debbie Gibson is pregnant with my two-headed love child” and some other cassette single that I can’t remember.
Vinyl: Foreigner 4 (inherited)
Tape: Tears For Fears, Songs From the Big Chair
CD: Can’t remember, but probably whatever hair metal was big in 1990. Extreme? Mr. Big?
vinyl: “bambi”
tape: c&c music factory
cd: john anderson and color me badd were bought at the same time
sigh.
i wore out my “bambi” and “alice in wonderland” albums while i was wearing out my “born in the usa” and huey lewis and the news albums. at least that makes up for c&c music factory and color me badd, right? no? bummer.
WAIT!!! c&c music factory was a gift. i bought “bad” first, then followed it up with the weird al version, which i still have and know every word to.
Vinyl: either “Caribbean Queen” by Billy Ocean or “Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive” by Men At Work (I can’t remember which)
Tape: “Blue Sky Mining” — Midnight Oil
CD: “Blue Sky Mining” — Midnight Oil
Apparently, I really liked Midnight Oil. Now, not so much.
I’ve never actually downloaded anything, legally or otherwise. I’d rather just buy the CD.
Ouch.
First Tape: I bought my first two tapes the same day, MC Hammer and the Soundtrack of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
First CD: I also bought my first two CD’s the same day, Nine Inch Nails (Pretty Hate Machine) and Soundgarden (Superunknown).
Oh, wow. The tiny words. So funny! We still had the booklet, I think. We would play it for hours on our plastic record player – along with the cardboard records of Sweet Pickles that came with cereal!
Vinyl: “Angel in a Centerfold” by J. Geils Band
Tape: “Hysteria” by Def Leppard
CD: “Vulgar Display of Power” by Pantera
Um, I just noticed that those three are very strong indicators of a sliding scale from light to “heavy…”
Wow. I’m impressed that you all can remember. I have no idea which vinyl, tape and CD were my first.
Tape: Wilson Phillips (it was a gift, but one that I loved and listened to all the time)
CD: Tapestry by Carole King
Gifts:
V: The Grease Soundtrack- I think I was 7- both my front teeth are missing in the photo on chirstmas with it…
T: REO Speedwagon- Hi-Infidelity
CD: Boston
My own purchase:
V: n/a
T: American Beauty, the Grateful Dead
CD: The soundtrack to Amadeus by Academy of St Martins in the Field (wht’re they doing out there, anyway??)
First vinyl: Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman
First Tape: Can’t remember but 99% chance it was Beatles
First CD: See “First Tape.” Actually, I think it was Abbey Road.
My first 3 LP purchases:
Blue, Joni Mitchell
Summer Breeze, Seals and Crofts
Teaser and the Firecat, Cat Stevens
Never had tape  I went directly from LPs to CDs
First CD  Ralph Vaughn-Williams, Fantasia on Greensleeves
Vinyl: The Chipmunks–Chipmunk Punk
Tape: The Police–Synchronicity
CD: Public Image Ltd–Happy?
Vinyl: Led Zepplin I (could have been IV though)
Tape: Probably a Nylons tape or maybe Phil Collins (No Jacket Required?)
CD: Pearl Jam Vs.
mp3: Not a being a big downloader, I think it was quite late. Maybe Chris Cornell’s Can’t Change Me (song)
Tape: INXS, Kick. (Legal). Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet (Copy).
CD: Hmm, I got my first CD player in the early 90s. As I recall, my first CDs were a batch that I got from one of those CD clubs. Better Than Ezra; Alanis Morrissette; Simon & Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits; the Eagles Greatest Hits, vols. 1 & 2. And some others, but I don’t recall what right now — Hootie & the Blowfish?
MP3 (illegal) — don’t remember.
MP3, legal. I bought Counting Crows, Round Here, and Lisa Loeb, Stay, from the new legal Napster for a dollar apiece, a few years ago. They were the only songs I bought there. A pain to play, and impossible to export them to CD.
Itunes. First Itune (this is embarrassing, but it’s one that I do have an exact record of) — DHT and Edmee, Listen to Your Heart. I’ve only been doing Itunes for about a year now, since I decided to go 100% legal on mp3s and decided on Itunes as the format of choice.