This should be fun.
Me first: 1st single-- Surfer Joe b/w Wipeout The Surfaris
1st album-- Chuck Berrys Golden Decade
followed by Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
East West-- Paul Butterfield Blues Band

If you're not hip to East West Check it out. It was the record that spawned the whole jam band thing with 2 extended cuts that were jams.
The East West title refers to the Indian modes that Mike Bloomfield brought to what was basically the first mixed race Chicago Blues Band.

All the SF cats from Garcia on down cite East West as a primal influence.
Bill Graham brought the Butter band to the Fillmore on Garcia's urgeing. And it was his rebooking of them that caused the Chet Helms-Graham schism.

That would be megadeth's countdown to extinction, was a major headbanger back then. I had had other metal albums I had borrowed from friends but was the first I purchased. Was total forbiden fruit, mother was a fundalmentalish christian, would even go into my room and change my radio back to the christian station when I was out.

Thanks Luc, for getting the ball rolling.

well, we had a cd burner in my house. so buying CDs wasn't always necessary, plus my older brothers and people let me borrow CDs.

but if i had to guess, i'd go with MetallicA ! ! !

yo guys,

I just climbed the attic and had a glimpse at tons of dusty jewel cases housing yellowed booklets.
my first CD was ice-t's "power" album - http://www.discogs.com/release/205719

... and it's still working *g*

soph.

Great topic.

Black Sabbath -"Paranoid," was the first album I bought.

Deep Purple - "Fireball," the first 8 track I scored.

"Crimson and Clover," was the first single gifted to me but then taken back after my uncle broke up with that particular de-gifting girlfriend.

lw

The second set of 8 tracks I bought was Superstar's of the 70's comprised of the tunes below when I was 11 or 12. Matter of fact, I went to sleep listening to these tunes through headphones every night for a long spell. Looking back, I'm guessing I bought this set because of the deep purple and black sabbath tunes that were included. But I ended up really appreciating most of the artists.

A1 Alice Cooper School's Out
A2 Seals & Crofts Summer Breeze
A3 Beach Boys, The Surf's Up
A4 Randy Newman Sail Away
A5 Judy Collins Both Sides Now
A6 Doors, The Tightrope Ride
B1 Bee Gees Lonely Days
B2 James Taylor (2) Fire & Rain
B3 Grateful Dead, The Truckin'
B4 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway Where Is The Love
B5 Stephen Stills Love The One You're With
B6 Yes Roundabout
C1 Doors, The Light My Fire
C2 Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit
C3 Crosby, Stills & Nash Marrakesh Express
C4 Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
C5 Bee Gees To Love Somebody
C6 Kinks, The Lola
D1 Carly Simon Anticipation
D2 Guess Who, The American Woman
D3 Todd Rundgren We Gotta Get You A Woman
D4 America (2) Ventura Highway
D5 Jo Jo Gunne Run, Run, Run
D6 Rolling Stones, The Tumbling Dice
E1 Otis Redding (Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay
E2 Deep Purple Hush
E3 Gordon Lightfoot If You Could Read My Mind
E4 Roberta Flack The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
E5 Jimi Hendrix Foxy Lady
E6 Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love
F1 Eagles Take It Easy
F2 America (2) A Horse With No Name
F3 Byrds, The Cowgirl In The Sand
F4 Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi
F5 Guess Who, The These Eyes
F6 Van Morrison Domino
F7 Judy Collins Amazing Grace
G1 Doobie Brothers, The Listen To The Music
G2 Joni Mitchell Woodstock
G3 Wilson Pickett In The Midnight Hour
G4 Arlo Guthrie City Of New Orleans
G5 Jackson Browne Doctor My Eyes
G6 Black Sabbath Paranoid
H1 Allman Brothers Band, The One Way Out
H2 Aretha Franklin (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
H3 Faces (3) Stay With Me
H4 Graham Nash Chicago
H5 Rolling Stones, The Happy
H6 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Lucky Man

Harry Nilsson's "The Point," was also a major influence in my musical and maybe even social development. This was released as a soundtrack to an animated tv special in 1971. I was blown away bought the 8 track a year or two later. After dredging this up, I'll have to look for the cd. Btw, I just read that HN came up with the idea for the story and songs while high on acid, according to his bio.

"Lime in the Coconut," was another of Nilsson's songs that earned a spot in me heart early on.

All music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson

"Everything's got 'em" – 2:25
The town (narration) – 1:31
"Me and my arrow" – 2:04
The game (narration) – 1:49
"Poli high" – 2:41
The trial & banishment (narration) – 2:11
"Think about your troubles" – 2:49
The pointed man (narration) – 2:42
"Life line" – 2:21
The birds (narration) – 1:58
"P.O.V. Waltz" – 2:12
The clearing in the woods (narration) – 1:53
"Are you sleeping?" – 2:17
Oblio's return (narration) – 3:08

Stories - "Changes - About Us" - was another early favorite of mine. (W/ cover of "Brother Louie.")

lw

Thank you, now we better understand the orgins of the super hero known only as laughing willow.

My brother gave me the first Blues Project record, Live at the Cafe A Go Go for Hannuka 1966, so that may have been my third LP. Another early one was an Elektra compilation called "What's Shakin" if I remember right. It had more Butterfield, John Mayhall with Eric Clapton and some other artists. Good stuff!

1st tape, (used) hero hero by judas priest

1st album we sold our souls for rock and roll.... black sabbath (still one of my favorites.)

This is really embarrassing, but the first tape I bought was... New Kids On The Block

My uncle returned from Georgia in 1973 or so after a stint in the service and moved into our house, sharing my bedroom and maybe paying a little rent to the parents. I stopped buying albums at that point for the most part due to the wide array of music that came into my life along with his stereo. Southern rock ruled the roost for the most part. ZZ Top, Little Feat, Lynard Skynard and the likes became daily staples. And for NW Iowa, that was about as far out as it got back then for an eleven year old.

Nights were spent in the tv room watching "Don Kirchner's Rock Concert," "In Concert" or "The Midnight Special".......

Later, "K-A-A-Y," Little Rock, Arkansas...... Man, I used to tune in to that channel late night, when the am radio signal made it all the way up to our corner of the prairie. I remember getting turned onto Uriah Heap and Mott the Hoople that way, lying on the living room floor around midnight, ear close to a speaker. (mono still ruled. hehe)


lw

Nothing like those old clear channel stations. My introduction to the blues was when my brother discovered Wolfman Jack on pirate station XERB. "The Big 1090, 50,000 Watts of Soul Power" That's when Wolfman was still underground, before his post Anerican Graffitti days as an oldies but goodies pimper. Back then he just played the most spaced out blues he could find, lots of Elmore James, Howlin Wolf, Lowel Fulson. And the station had weird stull like horse race results, Reverend Ike's Church of Money.

At first bro would tape the Wolfman on our old Wollensack(same as the one Brian Wilson grew up with) and play em for me the next day, then after a couple years, me and my buddies would drive around smoking weed and tuning in to the big X.

The great ZZ Top song "Heard It On the X" was about a similiar radio station they could hear in Texas!

What do you call a single on vinyl? My first one of these old fashioned thingies was Spitting Images 'Chicken Song'. The B was 'Ive never met a nice south african' - satire was a huge thorn in apartheid's side.

First LP = Monty Python live at the Hollywood Bowl. My folks were OK with posh peeps making jokes about albatross ice cream being fucking albatross flavor but heavy metal is bad mkay?

I only ever bought these two records - what a gay format!

First tape = whatever Now Music compilation contained 'Let Them Know Its Christmas'. Now 9 I think - late 80's anyway.

First CD = Metallicas black album - if only this pirate was aware of their attitude to their fans then - I wouldnt have bought it.

First minidisc - OK I had a minidisc recorder but I never bought a commercial disc - I just made what were then HUGE mix tapes.

First DVD - never bought a music DVD.

First MP£ download - I bought NINs last album online - £5 for a FLAC album was cool with me

Aside from NIN none of this relates to my musical tastes at all - what does this say about peer pressure and advertising to the young?

I'm pretty sure they were called singles.

What did they call the little plastic discs that fit in the middle of the singles allowing them to be played with the smaller diameter spindle used for Lp's?l
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