First album I recieved- "Tales of the Frightened" spoken word by Boris Karloff

First album I bought- Alice Cooper's "Killer"

First vinyl single I was given- "Henry the VIII" by Herman's Hermits

First vinyl single I bought- McCartney's "Uncle Albert Admiral Halsey"

First cassette- "Greatest Hits" Linda Ronstadt

First cassette-single- I think it was by Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
but I'm not absolutely sure

First flexi-disc- Pretty sure it was REM doing "Femme Fatale", a give-away with Bob Magazine

First 8-track- "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk

First cd- Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks"

First cd single- Not sure of the song but I'm pretty sure it was by Tom Petty.

I can't remember the first album I bought, but I remember the first album covers I ever saw: Pink Floyd's "The Wall", and the Cars' album with the girl on the cover.

I think the first album I actually bought with my own money was "Elton John's Greatest Hits", which featured him on the cover in a white suit sitting at a piano, and covered the early hits up to 1974. I don't think this album is even available anymore -- it has been superseded by later hits packages.

I am sure I listened to it hundreds of times and, to this day, I can pretty much sing every song on it from beginning to end. Now
c'mon everybody ... "It's a little bit funny -- this feeling inside/I'm not one of those who can easily hide ...".

I owned albums before that -- things that had been given to me as gifts -- but I can't remember the first album I ever owned. It might have been "Abbey Road" -- that was certainly an early one I had.

I can't remember the first single I bought.

This is hard for me to remember, but the first album I ever bought with my own money was "Brothers In Arms" by Dire Straits. I think was about 8 years old. I think the first CD I ever purchased was the "Imagine: John Lennon" soundtrack. I am going to stay away from tapes b/c there are too many. One other first I want to list is the first album I can remember listening to and knowing what it was. "Chipmunk Punk" by Alvin and the Chipmunks. I don't think I have ever bought a single.

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This is hard for me to remember, but the first album I ever bought with my own money was "Brothers In Arms" by Dire Straits. I think was about 8 years old. I think the first CD I ever purchased was the "Imagine: John Lennon" soundtrack. I am going to stay away from tapes b/c there are too many. One other first I want to list is the first album I can remember listening to and knowing what it was. "Chipmunk Punk" by Alvin and the Chipmunks. I don't think I have ever bought a single.

But wait! Driving home yesterday I heard the song that comprised my first and only single, and it is a classic...

"When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" by Billy Ocean. It was from the movie The Jewel of the Nile.

Please do not ask me what station I was listening to that I might hear a Billy Ocean song. It's a long story.

First single -

Sigue Sigue Sputnick - 'Love missile F1-11'

First Album -

Paul Simon - 'Graceland'

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Originally posted by Boris Von Chocolate:
What's the first album & single you bought?

Album: Love Gun by Kiss

Single: "I'm in You" by Peter Frampton (and I bought this because I was going to my first Rock Concert, also Peter Frampton-- I was in 5th grade)

Album: Sgt. Pepper

Single (somewhat later): "Cold Turkey"

single-Roy Orbison's Crying/Candy Man

album-Del Shannon's Runaway

cd- Freedy Johnston's Unlucky EP

These recollections are subject to the distortions of an increasingly fogged over memory. These records were bought with my own allowance money. I already had a few singles that were gifts such as Raunchy, Don't Be Cruel, Hound Dog, Blueberry Hill, Rumble, etc.
Other records I bought at the time have less cool appeal such as Bobby Vee's Rubber Ball, Johnny Burnette's Dreamin' and a few Everly Bros. singles.

A special mention: Kingsmen's Louie Louie was my reward for bowling the highest game at a classmates birthday party

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He was like our rehearsal director when dad and my brother weren't there, and my mother and my nana weren't there. I was on his show... he said it wasn't a taped show, but we, like, did a show... yeah, it was his office. But he had a bed in it, like a couch... that he called "Uncle Joe's Bed for Little People", because a couch is like a bed for little people, y'know... Joe Franklin raped me.

Wrong thread?

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a crappy 90's dance compilation tape I was 10 or 12 and dance music was big at the time and my sister loved dodgy 80's music and my brother loved dodgy dance music I picked the lesser of the two evils..

first cd that I remember buying was Green Day dookie when it first came out.

first download probably manic street preachers b side

The first album I bought was, I think, Bush's Sixteen Stone. Depending on when you were born, that's either really rad, really lame, or maybe you don't even know who Bush is. Is that possible with the youngins these days?

First single? I was vehemently anti-pop music until Napster made me see the light. The consequences of that should be obvious. But in recent years I have picked up some Mariah Carey and Gwen Stefani 12"s on the cheap, so I think that counts.

Actually, I just thought of a cooler one that may have come first: Herbert's "Moving Like A Train" 12". Great song, cool remixes.

First album: Green Day's Dookie

First single (and one of the few I've bought): Dishwalla's "Counting Blue Cars"

First LP: Green Day's Insomniac

First two albums (purchased simultaneously, I think): Green Day's Nimrod and Everclear's So Much For the Afterglow

Singles? I never really bought singles... Everclear was my favorite band through much of high school, and I fancied myself a completist, so I bought the "Heartspark Dollarsign" single just because.

Records? I don't buy records; the only one I own is a 7" of the Go! Team's "Ladyflash", which came with Thunder, Lightning, Strike when I bought it.

This really ages me:

First album: Def Leppard - Pyromania

First Single: ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag

Didn't buy many records but one I did cherish was The Cure's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

First CD: Alice Cooper - Constrictor

Strange because I think Pyromania still rocks!

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Originally posted by Duncan Black:
First single -
Sigue Sigue Sputnick - 'Love missile F1-11'

And what a great single too! Used to love these guys.

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Originally posted by MusicEmissions:
First CD: Alice Cooper - Constrictor

I had that too! Pretty random album, but "Teenage Frankenstein" is a classic. Someone needs to rehabilitate Alice Cooper's 80s work; it ain't that bad.