The soundtrack of my life is scratched.

[emmagrant01]

This post that simons_flower pointed to made me feel really old. So, poll:

[Poll #887759]

For extra credit, answer in comments: What was the first single or album you ever bought?

ETA: If you check "other" above, could you explain? I have no idea what came before 78s. And yes, the last question is totally lame, because you can't see the results until you click submit. It's late where I am. So... guess? :-P

Comments

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

I think the first one I ever bought for myself was Shaun Cassidy, in fourth grade.

[mizbean.livejournal.com]

Me, too! I remember it came with a free poster..

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Michael Jackson, Thriller.

I did a lot of chores for that one and saved up my allowance for MONTHS to get it.

so embarrassing.

I also did the same for NKOTB and Vanilla Ice. I am le lame.

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

hee Thriller was the first record I bought too that didn't involve smurfs or chipmunks or some other stuffed animal ^_^

That and Mini Pops

And I owned every NKOTB tape they ever put out, including the xmas special O_o

[simons-flower.livejournal.com]

I don't remember what the first vinyl I bought was, but the first CD I bought was Duran Duran's "Seven and the Ragged Tiger". I also have singles in a bunch of varieties: 45, cassette, CD and mp3.

Do you remember mix tapes?

[owens-mom.livejournal.com]

Yes! Me too, though I had the vinyl. And the Cassette.
John Taylor 4ever like OMG!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I need to add my own first: It was a 45 of "In the Navy" by The Village People. See how early I was into slash? ;-)

early slashing rocks!

[kagyakusha.livejournal.com]

^_^ I was a big fan of Culture Club -- and at the grand old age of 3, asked my mother why a pretty girl like Boy George was called 'boy'. :D Then, when my poor flustered mother explained that Boy George was in fact, shock, a boy - I still insisted I wanted to be JUST LIKE BOY GEORGE! (possibly this explanation also led to G.I. Joe's interest in Barbie's clothing too)

^^`

[kagyakusha.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that the first LP I bought was "She's So Unusual" by Cyndi Lauper. My mummy gave me money and helped me at the counter (I was 3 and a half - this is a very vague memory)

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I can't remember. Probably Backstreet Boys. The first LP I bought was an old Elton John for my mom I think. I love record stores.

[winstonmom.livejournal.com]

The first 45 I bought was Wake me Up by WHAM. I remember playing it really loud and dancing in the family room when I was alone. I did a lot of chores to earn the money and did not tell my mom what I had spend the money on :}

:D

[kagyakusha.livejournal.com]

My dad had that 45 -- and I kept begging him to play it all the time.

[bououou.livejournal.com]

The first I bought was a Spice Girls CD, the first one!
But I use to have a few casettes that where gifts.

[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

I think my first '45 was "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies. I continued to buy 45s, LPs and 8tracks into the 80s, too - I had AC/DC "Back in Black" on 8track. :) We had a few 78s when I was little, but they were my parents' - I never bought any. I just liked playing LPs and 45s on 78 speed. *g*

[helens78]

Don't forget things like phonograph cylinders! (My family almost bought a house specifically because it would have come with an antique phonograph and a collection of cylinders for it, which the family previous could not be bothered to move out. I think it broke my dad's heart not to get it, but the house they eventually got was in a better neighborhood.)

The only reason I didn't list "purchase" for 8-tracks and 78s were because I had no money at the time, and my father never bothered with an 8-track once he had his own setup. My grandmother had 8-tracks, so I was familiar with them, and we did have 78s in the house. :)

Let's see if I can remember the first things I bought on these formats...

45: "Do You Love Me" by the Commodores. B-side was "Sherry Baby", I think. This was shortly after "Dirty Dancing" came out, and I couldn't find the song any other way. The 45 was vintage; it was the original release.

LP: The first one I owned was "Hot Rocks" by the Rolling Stones, but I think the first one I bought for myself was probably a-ha's "Out Of The Blue".

Cassette: I cannot possibly remember this. The first one I remember having bought for me, specifically, rather than being inherited from my dad, was The Bangles' "Different Light". But... oh! No, wait. I remember the first one I bought for myself. It was Madonna's "True Blue". :D

CD: The "Licence To Kill" soundtrack, music by Michael Kamen. The first CD my family owned at all was Paul McCartney's "Flowers In The Dirt"; we bought our very first CD player the same night we went to see him on the FITD tour, Valentine's Day '89.

mp3: The first thing I ever had ripped to .mp3 for me was Ani DiFranco's "Living In Clip", back in college. The first thing I can remember deliberately hunting for on .mp3 was... hmm. I'm guessing it was probably when I was tracking down the individual songs from VH-1's "100 Greatest Dance Hits", most of which are disco.

Nowadays if I'm just looking for an individual track, I go to YouTube and look for its video. :)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Phonograph cylinders? I'm going to have to google that one. :-P

[tattooedraven.livejournal.com]

Abby Road by the Beatles!

[cenas-plots.livejournal.com]

I think the first album that *I* bought was a Hanson casette in 1997 when I was in fifth grade. I really have no idea. :/

[florahart]

OH DUDE, if the results were making me feel old... Let's just say I was in the fifth grade when Mount St. Helens blew up.

[jamoche]

My grandparents had a reel-to-reel tape player. I remember them using it as late as the 80s - for all I know they're still using it, though they do also have a CD player.

And I should've hit '"Buy" music? What?' because the first tapes I bought were blank - I'd set a mike in front of a radio to record stuff.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Oh! I remember my parents having a reel-to-reel! But they only recorded on it. I don't remember them having any music that you could play on it.

[simons-flower.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the second comment, but I did think of something other than 78s: reel to reel. I remember what I was a kid that my parents' friends had one of these players. The reels themselves were of differing diameters, depending upon what you were listening to, but what I remember were ones about the size of an LP.

...I'm just going to sit in the corner with my walker and dentures now.

[karitawyr.livejournal.com]

I remember reel-to-reel tape. My dad recorded me telling me a story when I was 4 or 5. My parents still have the tape, but no way to listen to it.

The 78s I have purchased have been collector's items from 1940s Hollywood musicals. I have a set from Holiday Inn which contains (what I believe to be) an original recording of Bing Crosby's White Christmas. I love that.

The first 45 I bought was "Jack and Jill" by Raydio, Ray Parker, Jr.'s band. The first LP was Billy Joel's Glass Houses.

[mariannec.livejournal.com]

Andy Gibb's I Just Want to Be Your Everything

[vichan.livejournal.com]

Whitney Houston. *facepalm* I don't remember which one. I was just thrilled at using my own money for something.

And in defense of my whacked out results (I'm 23) - I'm a music junkie. I've got the usual CD/cassette player, but I've also got a turntable, and I recently got an 8-track player (though nothing to play in it yet). If there's a used record store in your town, you will find me in it, digging through all the bins. I love finding a good album for $2.00. :D

Oh, but this guy? *points at icon* DeLaughter. Buy his CDs. Polyphonic Spree. I throw them at everyone.

[briel-morrigan.livejournal.com]

A bootleg TLC CD in 6th grade. I traded my vodka and cigarettes to my one true love for it.

[littleroo27.livejournal.com]

"other" = my great aunt had a real working victrolla that is now in my parents' house, including victrolla records and needles. Very cool.

[lauralynn22.livejournal.com]

The first '45' I bought was "Waterloo" by ABBA, summer of 1973.

Other songs that year "I Shot The Sheriff", "The Night Chicago Died" and "She's Having My Baby"

[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

*hee* I STILL have my "The Night Chicago Died" '45! (and quite a few others, as well!) I loved that song!!

[dreamerneva.livejournal.com]

The first album I purchased myself was some sort of Beach Boys compilation in the 1990's. First cassette ever purchased on my behalf (and that of my sister) was an oldie's compilation. Excellent.

[florahart]

My dad only finished converting his reel-to-reel stuff about, oh, 7 or 8 years ago.

Phonograph cylinders, as someone else said. Edison, circa 1900.

My first, I *think* was the Steve Miller Band. Maybe. about 1982 or 83ish.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Michael Jackson, Thriller

[fiona-fawkes.livejournal.com]

My first me-bought cassette was a Taco Bell special called "Do Something - Alternative." One of those $4 with the purchase of a combo meal kind of thing. It had Possession by Sarah McLaughlan and Low by Cracker as two of my favorite songs. I have no idea how old I was, but it was probably around twelve or thirteen.

[puppydifranco.livejournal.com]

*ROFL* -- I bought that also!! I actually ended up ripping it to mp3 and I have it in my iPod... that's just funny.

[henpecked.livejournal.com]

TLC was the first CD I owned. I never really bought singles until I was in high school and started getting into records. This poll made me feel like I should be old. I'm 20, but I have every format listed up there. I have some old player piano sheet music. Does that count as other?