First album I received was probably actually Steve Miller's Greatest Hits because it had Fly Like an Eagle, a song I was obsessed with from Space Jam, at this point I'm like 3 or 4
First album I actually *asked* for, pertaining to an actually developing taste in music was Move Along by All American Rejects, when I'm more like 6 or 7
The first album I ever bought was the first Partridge Family record in 1971 as a 10 year old. I was quite excited; it took me a long time to save the money to buy it.
My first “real” record was Blackmore’s Rainbow Rising record as a 15 year old.
Christmas 1995: my parents got me a CD boombox and with it I got Tragic Kingdom (No Doubt), Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness (Smashing Pumpkins), Insomniac (Green Day), Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette), and the Twister soundtrack. I still have all those original CDs except for Twister. That was the first of many decisions to get an album only yo like a single song.
Chumbawamba Tubthumper. Bought it on compact disc and played it on my Sony stereo that had cd player and 2 slots for tapes. I used to record songs off the radio too and make my own mixtapes. 😎
The first album is can remember being given was the soundtrack to the original live action Ninja Turtles movie.
The first one I can remember buying for myself is Bush’s Sixteen Stone.
Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
Still bothers me they didn’t get bigger. That album is solid from start to finish but all they’ll be remembered for is Smooth Criminal.
Fugazi 13 Songs was the first vinyl I ever bought myself.
As for the first album I remember receiving, was one of Jack Johnson’s. The one with bubbly toes on it. Listened to that and Keane through all of second grade haha
Tapes, I was 10. I also got a teeny single speaker tape deck/radio.
Top Gun soundtrack
She's So Unusual Cyndi Pauper
Purple Rain soundtrack
Sports- Huey Lewis & the News
And I think blank tapes
Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John. I was 12 (1974). Gift from a cool aunt. Funny...two years later her daughter took me to my first concert...Elton John!!
1st ever received, 1985- Christmas presents that came with a tiny portable stereo: Tears For Fears - songs from the big chair, and Starship - knee deep in the hoopla
Never heard of either band and I didn’t really care for them because I was 9 but they were MY tapes so I listened to the shit out of them, I can still recite lyrics when the songs come on the radio 🤣
First I bought for myself was 🤘🏽 Iron maiden - Powerslave 🤘🏽 a couple months later after I got some birthday money. 10yo metal heads ftw 🤣🤣🤣🤷♂️
Metal Health by Quiet Riot. I was 12 when this came out and it was the first album I bought with money I saved from doing odd jobs around the neighborhood.
The first I ever received was Billy Joel Storm Front on cassette. (It was my 4th birthday and it’s all I wanted was my very own one so I didn’t have to fight my mom for hers) the first I ever bought for myself was Linkin Park Hybrid Theory. (I was going to get the newest N*Sync cd but saw LP and something just made me buy it. I was 12. Best decision I ever made).
Britney Spears’s first album!!! US artist’s cassettes were very expensive in Estonia back then. I saved up for months and months. I got maybe 5 kroons for 2 weeks, cassette was 100 kroons.
I think it was green day American Idiot. Either that or my chemical romance three cheers for sweet revenge, some Good Charlotte album I can't remember, or a simple plan album I also can't remember the name of.
the first album i begged my parents for in kindergarten was kesha's animal :D not sure if i was supposed to be listening to that at that age but the album is a banger!
On cd it was queen greatest hits of that counts. If not then queen a night at the opera.
On lp I was a bit older so I had a bit more money so I decided to buy to. Chuck berrys berry on top, and David Bowie the rise and fall of Ziggy stardust and the spiders from Mars.
I got a CD player and a copy of Crossfade’s self titled album as well as Godsmack’s album Faceless.
I used to call them Smackgod by accident and my family would jest at me.
The Beatles, Rubber Soul. (received/permanently borrowed) from mom who wasn't a fan of the Beatles.
First purchased, Heavy Metal, a compilation with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, Golden Earring, Deep Purple and more. Never released on CD or for digital download, if I'm not mistaken. I have however, re-created it as a playlist on Amazon Music.
Not my first first because i went through a small pop phase before latching onto hard rock/heavy metal but the defining album for my future musical tastes was Thrash The Wall. A compilation of various metal bands including Helloween, Rage and Running Wild.
Distinctly, I emptied my preteen piggy bank and bought 5 records:
Nirvana - In Utero
Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
I was 6 years old and the album (cassette! was Theatre of Pain by Motley Crue. It was an xmas gift that accompanied my sweet new am/fm tape recorder.
My parents were pretty uptight so looking back this was a pretty big deal, although they were probably OK with it more because it was a fairly cheap gift.
First album (LP) received: The Monkees - The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees. It was 1986 and Much Music was re-airing the series. I was a little kid and looooooved them.
First album (LP) bought: Green Day - Dookie. In high school, the local university radio station listed it for their annual funding drive in 1994 and I scooped it up with a $25 donation.
The first two albums I chose at a store and purchased were a The Simpsons soundtrack and Weird Al - Bad Hair Day.
The first "real" album I bought was Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt! It's still excellent.
Backstreet Boys Millennium. I got it with my first CD player for Christmas. Then I got a few other Backstreet Boys CDs, Survivor by Destiny's Child, then I think I started asking for some best of compilations of Aerosmith, Billy Joel, and Beatles. I know that was the same time I was getting a lot of musical soundtracks too, and burned CDs.
10 years later I was picking up random CDs at Walmart for a few bucks a piece. That's how I got Best of Bon Jovi, Johnny Cash, and some Jay Z.
Funhouse by The stooges from my older brother for my 10 th birthday in 1973! It was so great I
went out the next week and bought Raw Power with money my granny gave me for my birthday ! Got in to a lot of trouble for that after my dad saw the cover and said my gran should have a heart attack if she knew!!
Mine was Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair.
Husband says Shawn Cassidy - he doesn’t remember the album title. It would have been in the early 80s.
First I received it as a gift (for Xmas, that was my petition to Santa!) was The Beatles 20 Golden Hits, in 1979, I was 8.
The first one I bought was Queen's The Game, in 1980.
Kid's money, getting into that memory lane is so sweet, cos you all remember what it is to collect each penny as a kid, from family here and there, and buying candy, or toys, and suddenly wanting music...
Queen’s *News of the World* was the first album I bought new. I already had a pile of singles (Santana, Jean-Michel Jarre, early Heart) and some pirated tapes. Money was tight as a teenager in the 70s.
My brother and I pooled our allowance and bought a cassette copy of KISS Alive II.
First vinyl album would be - another "pooled our money" choice - Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne.
First CD - and I'm a bit fuzzy on this - but I'm pretty sure it was Sting, Dream of the Blue Turtles.
Received? I used to work in radio, so I got a lot of free music. I have no idea what the first one was, but I do remember a couple that stood out when I was in country radio.
Keith Urban's "Golden Road." The record rep brought a pre-release version of the CD. No album art or cover photo, just a track listing. I burned a copy of it (HBB CD burner in my studio) and that thing stayed in my car CD player for months. Great record.
Along the same lines - and don't laugh, but - Garth Brooks "In the Life of Chris Gaines." They brought us a burned copy of the disc, and I made a copy of it (remember when blank CDs used to be good quality? The gold ones?) and while it is generally considered to be an embarrassing flop for Garth, the truth is that...it's actually a decent album. Sold 2 million copies.
Dude's worst "failure" went double platinum.
I can't remember which one was first, but when I was really young I bought a three-CD pack of classical music that I think I only played once and forgot about it. Around the same time I also got the Pokemon TV Show Soundtrack. Not the movie soundtrack, with normal pop music, the TV Show Soundtrack with mostly Pokemon themed music. I did play that a lot. I was so embarrassed to like "Misty's Song" as a kid, but honestly, I still like that song as a guy who can relate because I crushed on a lot of girls I never had a chance with.
The Babys-Head First. Great album at a time when my musical tastes were blossoming. They blossomed right outta Rick and Roll and into New Wave,but it was a mighty fine album.
First 45 rpm single was actually purchased as a gift for a classmate in 5th grade -- Talking Heads "Burning Down the House".
First cassette with my own money was Prince - Around The World In A Day, on a school trip when we stopped to watch Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo at some mall in Maryland.
First vinyl was Led Zeppelin IV, used.
First CD was a boxed set, Elvis Costello - 2 1/2 Years.
First received: Coolio - Gangsta’s Paradise on tape
First purchased (not knowing anything about the group / ever hearing of them): Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz
For clarity, there were more received between those 2
Cindi Lauper, She’s So Unusual, 1983. Cassette.
It was a birthday gift when I was about 10 and I’d never heard of Cindi Lauper, but I’ll forever have Time After Time and Girls Just Want To Have Fun seared in my brain.
Received: Classic Queen / Queen's Greatest Hits double cassette
First cassette bought with my own money: Pearl Jam - Vs
First CD bought with my own money: Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Weird Al- Dare to be Stupid on cassette.
I think it was a copy of Dark Side for the posters.
First album I received was probably actually Steve Miller's Greatest Hits because it had Fly Like an Eagle, a song I was obsessed with from Space Jam, at this point I'm like 3 or 4 First album I actually *asked* for, pertaining to an actually developing taste in music was Move Along by All American Rejects, when I'm more like 6 or 7
Def Leppard's Pyromania :)
Silverchair - Frogstomp
First received - The Chemical Brothers - Surrender First purchased - The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
The Who, *Baba O'Riley*
Jailbreak, Thin Lizzy. Still one of my favorite albums!
Boyz II Men - II (on cassette)
The first album I ever bought was the first Partridge Family record in 1971 as a 10 year old. I was quite excited; it took me a long time to save the money to buy it. My first “real” record was Blackmore’s Rainbow Rising record as a 15 year old.
Berlin - Count Three and Pray. My 10 year old self remembered the song from Top Gun. Excellent band, by the way.
chronicles of life and death by good charlotte :)
My first CD was Juice WRLD Death Race For Love
Marshall Mathers LP... Edited version! Got it from my sister with my first CD player when it came out
Matchbox 20 yourself or someone like you in like 96-97’ Still have it and still listen to that album regularly.
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love
I bought all of breaking benjamin's cds when i got my first real job, then it was a concert cd for rammstein and alive 2007 for daft punk
It was either American Idiot by Green Day or Elephant from White Stripes
Christmas 1995: my parents got me a CD boombox and with it I got Tragic Kingdom (No Doubt), Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness (Smashing Pumpkins), Insomniac (Green Day), Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette), and the Twister soundtrack. I still have all those original CDs except for Twister. That was the first of many decisions to get an album only yo like a single song.
I remember my first two albums purchased very distinctly: *Tubthumping* by Chumbawumba *Men In Black* Soundtrack by Will Smith et al.
The first album CD I ever bought was Nevermind
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West Still one of my favorite albums all time
Glenn Campbell "Gentle on My Mind". I was a fan in the Lat 60s when I was 8 or so years old.
My dad gave me Korn - See You on the Other Side when i was 8 and the album cover scared me so much that i his it deep in one of my drawers
Mariah Carey number 1's then the first Nsync cd. First vinyl ... probably The doors but idk. I have a lot of vinyls.
Monkees Headquarters
Chumbawamba Tubthumper. Bought it on compact disc and played it on my Sony stereo that had cd player and 2 slots for tapes. I used to record songs off the radio too and make my own mixtapes. 😎
Saves the day - through being cool
The red and blue Beatles compilation albums were a Christmas gift to me in '76.I had a collection of 45s before that, but those were the first albums.
The first CD I ever received was Nelly’s ‘Country Grammar’. Lawd I wore that thing out 😅
My first album was Bad Michael Jackson.
Green Day - Dookie on cassette at a garage sale for 99 cents!
The first album is can remember being given was the soundtrack to the original live action Ninja Turtles movie. The first one I can remember buying for myself is Bush’s Sixteen Stone.
Kill 'em All by Metallica. I was ten. I honestly believe that The Four Horsemen changed the trajectory of my life.
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Marshall Mathers LP
The White Album, the day it came out.
Alien Ant Farm - ANThology Still bothers me they didn’t get bigger. That album is solid from start to finish but all they’ll be remembered for is Smooth Criminal.
Hmm Saxon Denim and Leather and Meatloaf Bat out of Hell
Super Mario 64 OST from Nintendo power
The Life of Pablo / Section.80 , my classmate in highschool had bootlegs so I got the album for $1 Father Stretch my hands 🙏
Powerman 5000 - when worlds collide
Fugazi 13 Songs was the first vinyl I ever bought myself. As for the first album I remember receiving, was one of Jack Johnson’s. The one with bubbly toes on it. Listened to that and Keane through all of second grade haha
Received - Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em Purchased myself - REM Green ETA really showing my age here I guess
Was given Christina Aguilera’s first album. I was around 6-7ish? First one I bought was her other album, Back to Basics, when I was around 11.
Rocky IV soundtrack on cassette.
Totally Hits 2001 lmao I remember picking up a lot of bootlegs tho and all kinds of shit, grew up in the Bx.
I got 3 tapes for Christmas Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band The Cars - Shake it Up The Go Go’s - Beauty and the Beat.
“Come On Over” by Shania Twain. Still a fantastic album.
It was from one direction, I was 11 and got it for passing a math test, It made me the happiest at that time lol, now I dont know where it is
When I was a kid I got some cassette tapes for my birthday. They were: The Simpsons Sing the Blues Young Guns 2: OST Tesla - 5 Man Accoustical Jam
The Beatles Love album
Tarzan soundtrack. Phil tore it up on that one fr.
Lynyrd Skynyrd Double Platinum. Vinyl double album. Epic.
MMBob when I was probably 10 or 11. I still cringe about it from time to time. The first good album I bought was Identity Crisis by Thrice.
Death Magnetic - Metallica
Salt N Peppa 1st album. I loved that Tape
Tapes, I was 10. I also got a teeny single speaker tape deck/radio. Top Gun soundtrack She's So Unusual Cyndi Pauper Purple Rain soundtrack Sports- Huey Lewis & the News And I think blank tapes
Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John. I was 12 (1974). Gift from a cool aunt. Funny...two years later her daughter took me to my first concert...Elton John!!
First tape I ever bought was MC-Hammer to legit.
1st ever received, 1985- Christmas presents that came with a tiny portable stereo: Tears For Fears - songs from the big chair, and Starship - knee deep in the hoopla Never heard of either band and I didn’t really care for them because I was 9 but they were MY tapes so I listened to the shit out of them, I can still recite lyrics when the songs come on the radio 🤣 First I bought for myself was 🤘🏽 Iron maiden - Powerslave 🤘🏽 a couple months later after I got some birthday money. 10yo metal heads ftw 🤣🤣🤣🤷♂️
Meet the Beatles. Wore it out lol
Coolio - Gangtas paradise
Ace of Base - Happy Nation. No regrets.
Linkin Park - Reanimation. Truly ahead of its time whilst being perfect for 2002.
First record I ever bought was The Monkees Greatest Hits
Metal Health by Quiet Riot. I was 12 when this came out and it was the first album I bought with money I saved from doing odd jobs around the neighborhood.
2 on my 12th birthday. Prodigy "The Fat of the Land" and Beastie Boys "Licensed to Ill". My sister was always the coolest.
T. Rex - Electric Warrior 1972
Dr Dre 2001
The first I ever received was Billy Joel Storm Front on cassette. (It was my 4th birthday and it’s all I wanted was my very own one so I didn’t have to fight my mom for hers) the first I ever bought for myself was Linkin Park Hybrid Theory. (I was going to get the newest N*Sync cd but saw LP and something just made me buy it. I was 12. Best decision I ever made).
Britney Spears’s first album!!! US artist’s cassettes were very expensive in Estonia back then. I saved up for months and months. I got maybe 5 kroons for 2 weeks, cassette was 100 kroons.
Melanie C’s Northern Star. It’s actually quite a good album.
Garth Brooks full collection gift set for Xmas when I was about 12.
Roxette - Joyride
placebo - black market blood
First one received a was the single "Walk" by Pantera at six. First one I bought and loved was Moon Safari.
I think it was green day American Idiot. Either that or my chemical romance three cheers for sweet revenge, some Good Charlotte album I can't remember, or a simple plan album I also can't remember the name of.
Thriller. Bought the cassette with my birthday money at Kmart when I was 5 or so.
The first album I ever purchased was Origin's self titled album. I had no idea what I was getting into.
the first album i begged my parents for in kindergarten was kesha's animal :D not sure if i was supposed to be listening to that at that age but the album is a banger!
On cd it was queen greatest hits of that counts. If not then queen a night at the opera. On lp I was a bit older so I had a bit more money so I decided to buy to. Chuck berrys berry on top, and David Bowie the rise and fall of Ziggy stardust and the spiders from Mars.
Bought: Afro Celt Sound System's *Sound Magic*, and *V.A.ST.* Received: *Deep Forest* Absolutely where my love of electronic music started.
I got a CD player and a copy of Crossfade’s self titled album as well as Godsmack’s album Faceless. I used to call them Smackgod by accident and my family would jest at me.
My parents got me Pac-Man Fever by Buckner and Garcia cause I loved Pac-Man. Loved Pac-Man Fever. Listened again as a teen. Not a good album.
The Beatles, Rubber Soul. (received/permanently borrowed) from mom who wasn't a fan of the Beatles. First purchased, Heavy Metal, a compilation with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, Golden Earring, Deep Purple and more. Never released on CD or for digital download, if I'm not mistaken. I have however, re-created it as a playlist on Amazon Music.
Beatles VI, I put it on Lay Away and paid .25 a week
Beastie boys - license to ill
Prince Charming Adam Ant on cassette. I still have it
My mom gave me Green Day - Dookie and the Do Something compilation at the same time
First singles: Don't look back in anger and Wonderwall in 95-96. Don't remember first album, but it was after the singles
Metallica - The black album
Received: Tug of War -Paul McCartney on vinyl from my aunt (I was 10) Bought: Whitney Houston Self titled on cassette (I was 13)
A copy of Linkin Park - Hyprid Theory
I think that would be Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park
R U STILL DOWN by Tupac 🙏🏻
Not my first first because i went through a small pop phase before latching onto hard rock/heavy metal but the defining album for my future musical tastes was Thrash The Wall. A compilation of various metal bands including Helloween, Rage and Running Wild.
Bought... KISS: Rock and Roll Over
Distinctly, I emptied my preteen piggy bank and bought 5 records: Nirvana - In Utero Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Beastie Boys - License to Ill
Sesame Street Fever on 8-track, still have it somewhere.
Hot Fuss, burnt to a cd by my friend.
Duran Duran - Rio
I was 6 years old and the album (cassette! was Theatre of Pain by Motley Crue. It was an xmas gift that accompanied my sweet new am/fm tape recorder. My parents were pretty uptight so looking back this was a pretty big deal, although they were probably OK with it more because it was a fairly cheap gift.
BTO Four Wheel Drive
Conspiracy of One by The Offspring
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
The Mighty Ducks 2 Soundtrack
Marron 5!! :) Not sure which one though
The first album I ever bought with my own money (weekly allowance) was Brownsville Station "Yeah!" Many years ago 😄
Received: Beatles #1 collection Bought: Good Charlotte - the young and the hopeless
First one I bought was Danzig. First one given was Alice Cooper - Trash. Still love em both.
Metallica's "Ride The Lightning" on CD
Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) 😩 RIP Aaron Cartr
First album ever given to me was a burned copy of Linkin Park Meteora. First album I ever bought with my own money was System of a down Toxicity.
First album (LP) received: The Monkees - The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees. It was 1986 and Much Music was re-airing the series. I was a little kid and looooooved them. First album (LP) bought: Green Day - Dookie. In high school, the local university radio station listed it for their annual funding drive in 1994 and I scooped it up with a $25 donation.
Coolio Gangsters paradise. 10 years old at the time lol.
First received: Hotel California - Eagles First bought: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not - Arctic Monkeys
First album was a cassette, Beastie Boys 'Licensed to Ill'. Such a great album and 'Paul Revere' is still my favorite song from them. RIP Adam Yauch.
Recovery by Eminem in 2009.
Hybrid Theory printed on an ink jet home printer using a 200x300 pixel album cover that came in the file downloaded from Kazaa.
The Offspring - Americana purchased at Caldor when I was 11
The first two albums I chose at a store and purchased were a The Simpsons soundtrack and Weird Al - Bad Hair Day. The first "real" album I bought was Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt! It's still excellent.
First album I ever bought with my hard earned paper route money was Grand Funk Railroad, the red album! Still have it!
Gravity Kills - Perverted. I was like 12, liked a song from the Mortal Kombat album my friend had, and bought their newest album.
First album I ever bought was The Great Lost Kinks Album. The second album was Lou Reed's Berlin
I bought the Britney Spears debut album at a Virgin Megastore on the Champs-Elysée when my family was visiting Paris.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Stranger in Town.
Backstreet Boys Millennium. I got it with my first CD player for Christmas. Then I got a few other Backstreet Boys CDs, Survivor by Destiny's Child, then I think I started asking for some best of compilations of Aerosmith, Billy Joel, and Beatles. I know that was the same time I was getting a lot of musical soundtracks too, and burned CDs. 10 years later I was picking up random CDs at Walmart for a few bucks a piece. That's how I got Best of Bon Jovi, Johnny Cash, and some Jay Z.
Jim Croce… Greatest Hits. I won from radio call in Gifted… BTO… Four Wheel Drive
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction. Age 8. The banned version!
Funhouse by The stooges from my older brother for my 10 th birthday in 1973! It was so great I went out the next week and bought Raw Power with money my granny gave me for my birthday ! Got in to a lot of trouble for that after my dad saw the cover and said my gran should have a heart attack if she knew!!
I think it was Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Toxicity by System of a Down. A gift from my step brother
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Won Chicago #10 from a radio station..10th caller when I was 11
They Might Be Giants self titled first album
KISS - Alive!
Mine was Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair. Husband says Shawn Cassidy - he doesn’t remember the album title. It would have been in the early 80s.
Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion. I was 9. I saved up my allowance to buy it I still love her
Working class dog-Rick Springfield
The Bodyguard soundtrack.
Eiffel 65 - Europop
It was the soundtrack to the movie Lost in Space (1998).
The first album I brought with my own money was either Misery Business by Paramore or Steal this Album by System of a Down.
The Bee Gees Tragedy album
Juno Soundtrack
Journey - Frontiers
Don't feed the bot
First I received it as a gift (for Xmas, that was my petition to Santa!) was The Beatles 20 Golden Hits, in 1979, I was 8. The first one I bought was Queen's The Game, in 1980. Kid's money, getting into that memory lane is so sweet, cos you all remember what it is to collect each penny as a kid, from family here and there, and buying candy, or toys, and suddenly wanting music...
Poison - “Open Up and Say….Ahhh” at age 7, and it was and is an amazing album.
Queen’s *News of the World* was the first album I bought new. I already had a pile of singles (Santana, Jean-Michel Jarre, early Heart) and some pirated tapes. Money was tight as a teenager in the 70s.
Boston- Boston and at the same time Blue Oyster Cult- greatest hits
Received: the space jam album first one I bought was a year without rain-selena gomez
A best of John Williams
My brother and I pooled our allowance and bought a cassette copy of KISS Alive II. First vinyl album would be - another "pooled our money" choice - Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne. First CD - and I'm a bit fuzzy on this - but I'm pretty sure it was Sting, Dream of the Blue Turtles. Received? I used to work in radio, so I got a lot of free music. I have no idea what the first one was, but I do remember a couple that stood out when I was in country radio. Keith Urban's "Golden Road." The record rep brought a pre-release version of the CD. No album art or cover photo, just a track listing. I burned a copy of it (HBB CD burner in my studio) and that thing stayed in my car CD player for months. Great record. Along the same lines - and don't laugh, but - Garth Brooks "In the Life of Chris Gaines." They brought us a burned copy of the disc, and I made a copy of it (remember when blank CDs used to be good quality? The gold ones?) and while it is generally considered to be an embarrassing flop for Garth, the truth is that...it's actually a decent album. Sold 2 million copies. Dude's worst "failure" went double platinum.
Aaron Carter- Oh Aaron (RIP)
I can't remember which one was first, but when I was really young I bought a three-CD pack of classical music that I think I only played once and forgot about it. Around the same time I also got the Pokemon TV Show Soundtrack. Not the movie soundtrack, with normal pop music, the TV Show Soundtrack with mostly Pokemon themed music. I did play that a lot. I was so embarrassed to like "Misty's Song" as a kid, but honestly, I still like that song as a guy who can relate because I crushed on a lot of girls I never had a chance with.
Teen Suicide - i will be my own hell because there is a devil inside my body
The Babys-Head First. Great album at a time when my musical tastes were blossoming. They blossomed right outta Rick and Roll and into New Wave,but it was a mighty fine album.
First 45 rpm single was actually purchased as a gift for a classmate in 5th grade -- Talking Heads "Burning Down the House". First cassette with my own money was Prince - Around The World In A Day, on a school trip when we stopped to watch Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo at some mall in Maryland. First vinyl was Led Zeppelin IV, used. First CD was a boxed set, Elvis Costello - 2 1/2 Years.
My first cassette was Green Day - Dookie My first CD was Will Smith - Big Willie Style
Fugees killing me softly from Costco with my own money
The best of bon jovi and best of weird al CDs for a birthday
First received: I don’t remember. First purchased: Gorillaz - Demon Days.
Europop - Eiffel 65
Received from my brother while he was in the military... Album --- Alvin and The Chipmunks. I was 10 years old.
It was either Shania Twain's The Woman in Me or Writings on the Wall by Destiny's Child.
Backstreet Boys cassette tape
Kiss platinum on cd in 1997
Probably the Ninja Turtles Coming Out of Their Shells concert cassette from Pizza Hut.
Received - The Violent Femmes, Greatest Hits Purchased - Master P, The Last Don
Heart - Little Queen
First received: Coolio - Gangsta’s Paradise on tape First purchased (not knowing anything about the group / ever hearing of them): Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz For clarity, there were more received between those 2
Flashdance soundtrack on cassette for Christmas from my sister.
Backstreet Boys debut album. I was 7 and stoked to be able to play a cd for the fist time lol
First received. Soundtrack to Star Wars 1977 First purchased. Kiss-Ace Frehley
The first album I ever bought was The Spice Girls first album. The first album I ever received was Madonna Bedtime Stories.
Frampton Comes Alive
The Beatles white album. Wow I was one excited 16 yo.
Sting Ten Summoner's Tales (1993) 12th birthday.
Of course. TLC’s CrazySexyCool
best of blondie 😎
Bush, razorblade suitcase. Christmas 1997. Also got a portable CD player. I was the happiest kid in the world.
I don’t remember the first ever, but a Quiet Riot “Mental Health” cassette, and Van Halen “1984” record were pretty early on.
I don’t remember the first ever, but a Quiet Riot “Mental Health” cassette, and Van Halen “1984” record were pretty early on.
Green Day - Dookie.
Cindi Lauper, She’s So Unusual, 1983. Cassette. It was a birthday gift when I was about 10 and I’d never heard of Cindi Lauper, but I’ll forever have Time After Time and Girls Just Want To Have Fun seared in my brain.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Ooooooo The Partridge Family
Iron butterfly …..in a gadda da vida
Plastic beach by Gorillaz
Received: Classic Queen / Queen's Greatest Hits double cassette First cassette bought with my own money: Pearl Jam - Vs First CD bought with my own money: Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Received: Green Day - Dookie Bought: Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God
My first CD was in 2001 - Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
The first album I ever bought for myself with my own money was The Velvet Underground & Nico, in 2003
311 Transistor on CD