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Record: iron maiden Live After Death

Cassette: Motley Crue Theater of Pain

CD: Metallica Ride the Lightening 

Download: I'm pretty sure it was SRV off of lime wire. 

I can say with 88% confidence that these were the ones. CD might have been Scorpions Crazy World. The download could have been Wait and Bleed by Slipknot. I know iron maiden was the one because I didn't buy vinyl back then and that was the only one I had. 

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This cover gave young Chad the tingles. 

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I have no idea what my first download was. Most likely Aria Giovanni.  But that's a story for another thread. 

 

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5 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

This cover gave young Chad the tingles. 

 

I have no idea what my first download was. Most likely Aria Giovanni.  But that's a story for another thread. 

 

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These are mostly best guesses but I'll give it a shot:

45: Wake Up, Little Susie (it was my parents but this was probably my very first favorite song as a young kid in the 70's)

Record: Men At Work/Down Under maybe (or Duran Duran/Rio or U2/Under a Blood Red Sky)

Cassette: U2/Joshua Tree maybe

CD: REM/Green or Document in the long CD boxes so they'd fit vinyl display racks (also did Columbia House 12 or 13 for $1 somewhere in here -- lol)

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19 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

LP -- KISS "Alive"

CD -- Pink Floyd "Division Bell"

Streaming -- no idea

Cassette -- never bought retail

Oh Division Bell is so underrated. Love that one. 

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45 - 2: Janis Joplin "Me & Bobby McGee" and Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue"

LP: Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

Cassette: Billy Joel - The Stranger

CD: Roger Waters - Radio KAOS (actually the first one I ever bought was 10cc - Greatest Hits 1972-78, didn't even have a CD player, just knew I would some day so I carried it from apartment to apartment until I got one, when I bought the Roger Waters CD (and Def Leppard - Hysteria), I also got my first CD player, put it on my Sears credit card, only $300+)

download: no idea, but 99% sure it was some Beatles bootleg outtakes

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In 3rd grade, I had my dad but the Flash Gordon soundtrack on vinyl after seeing the movie. The first vinyl I bought myself was Kruder & Dorfmeister’s K&D Sessions.

The first cassettes I bought were two at Sound Warehouse in Houston. Van Halen’s 1984 and Midnight Star’s No Parking On The Dance Floor.

First CD was Appetite for Destruction.

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8 Track:  Kiss-Destroyer

Cassette: Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic

Record: Styx- Paradise Theater (as a kid I thought the laser etching on the record itself was bad ass)

CD: Steely Dan- A Decade of Steely Dan

Forgot to add download.  Don't remember but probably the thousand songs I donwloaded from Napster.

 

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first vinyl was a 45 single of solsbury hill that my dad bought me when i was in kindergarten because i loved it (still have it).

first tape was purple rain (don't still have it).

first cd was a dire straits greatest hits anthology that they titled "money for nothing" that i got for christmas the same year i got my first cd player in 1989 (still have it - the cd, not the player).

i went back and looked and it appears my first ever actual purchase download (not ripped off the jester ethernet) was "roads" by portishead. 

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Never bought a record

Pretty sure the 1st cassette I ever bought was Styx - Kilroy Was Here

Couldn't even begin to think about the CD?  I didn't have a car w/ a CD played until like 2000 so it was never a big thing for me.

Downloaded was probably Pimpadelic - So Damn Tough

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Record - my mom got me a Paul Anka 45 for my little portable record player, and an LP with Kermit singing It’s Not Easy Being Green and Rubber Ducky and the like.  And the S.W.A.T. theme song. 
 

First album I bought was Quiet Riot - Metal Health.  It sucked when my big brother moved because he had always bought the music. 
 

First cassette?  No idea.  My brother made a bunch of copies of albums on Maxell cassettes (the gold label ones) and gave me probably 7 full albums and one complication/mix tape all in a cassette case that probably held 24 cassettes. 
 

One of the cassettes might have been just instrumentals - Rush, some Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, all of the EVH instrumentals/solos, and even the little acoustic guitar solo by George or John on The White Album before The Continuing Adventures of Bungalow Bill 

Also, a cassette titled Meaty Metal Metal Metal that had a mix of excellent Metal, including a live version of The Green Manalishi (with the two-pronged crown) by Judas Priest, which is the greatest cover version of any song ever when you consider the original. 
 

CD - first CD i got was a birthday present from a friend. Phil Collins, No Jacket Required.   First one I bought was probably Powerslave

 

I don’t know that I’ve ever downloaded a song. 

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

As a teen, discounting novelty records like CW McCall's Convoy, I think this:

I says, "Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck.

We just ain't a gonna pay no toll."

So we crashed the gate, doin' 98,

I says, "Let them truckers roll!  10-4."

 

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

As a teen, discounting novelty records like CW McCall's Convoy, I think this:

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LOL.  I won a copy of Black Bear Road (the album that contained the song "Convoy") by C.W. McCall when I was a kid -- and come to think of it that might have been my first album.  It was either that or a Three Dog Night Greatest Hits album I bought because of late night television commercial.  Good times.  

Cassette?  I do not recall.  But if Cheap Trick's At Budokan wasn't my first cassette, it was close.

Compact disc -- Communique by Dire Straits

Download -- I have no idea.  It's interesting that I have at least partial recollections of my first LP, cassette and CD, but none whatsoever of my first download.  And I'm sure it's at least in part because buying and listening to an LP (or a cassette, or a CD) was always more than just about hearing the music.  You were also checking out the artwork, reading the liner notes, looking at the songlist, learning who played the instruments on the songs, discovering who wrote the songs, etc., etc.  With downloads, click a mouse and two seconds later you have music but not much else.  It's not the same experience.   

 

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I guess I have to give myself an incomplete.

I hated cassettes, except for making "mixtapes."  The thing we or I did with cassettes mostly was tape songs off the radio or make compilations from LPs.  I quickly became familiar with their deteriorating fidelity and mechanical finickyness and wasn't about to pay for a cassette if an LP was available.

I do recall buying a cassette of Big Audio Dynamite II's The Globe album because they were out of CDs.

I don't think I ever paid for a download and surely have no idea what was first.  In my defense, I tended to download things I already owned for use on an mp3 player.

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I'll have to think about the rest, but my first 8-track:

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First Cassette: Quiet Riot's Metal Health

First CD: SRV Live Alive

First LP: Either the Flash Gordon Soundtrack, Chipmunk Punk, or J. Geils Band's Freeze Frame.  There are a lot of movie soundtracks I probably had (and still have).

 

/and yes, I still have that 8-track.  That's probably the second iteration since I wore the first one out.

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I had a record with Witch Doctor on it by Alvin in the Chipmunks when I was like 5 or something.  Not sure if it was a full record or not because I really only recall that fucking song.  

Cassette - Bel Biv Devoe Poison 

CD - something country....I know Tim McGraw Not A Moment Too Soon was one of my first ones if not the first lmao 

Streaming -  fuck Lars in his fucking ass forever.  I have no clue because I was hittin Napster all day and night 

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For my first LPs, I got The Beach Boys "Endless Summer" and ELO "A New World Record" for Christmas.  The first that I bought was "Sergeant Pepper's...".

I don't remember my first 45, but it was probably a promotional that I won from our local radio station in a "Name That Tune" type of contest.  ETA - I just remembered, I bought "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John for my first purchased 45.

The first cassettes that I bought instead of mixing my own from the radio were Chuck Mangione "Children of Sanchez" and Andrew Lloyd Webber "Requiem", purchased together.

My first CDs were Tears For Fears "Songs From The Big Chair" and Dire Straights "Brothers In Arms", again purchased together.

I can't remember first download.

 

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