First albums

[odontophobia]

Cassette - I want to say TMNT soundtracks. But the first "artists" cassette I got was the single for "I Swear" by All 4 One.

I was 8.

CD - Billy Joel's River of Dreams.

At 9 I was still soft.

After that I stared listening to the Alternative Rock radio station. Shortly thereafter I got a copy of Alice Cooper's greatest hits, some Nirvana and Bush cds.

My first record was the "Bright Eyes Vinyl Box Set" that Saddle Creek put out. I think most of it has gone un-played.

weird to think, when looking at that list, that I would eventually get into metal.

YOLO.

[casecandy]

My first record was the "Bright Eyes Vinyl Box Set" that Saddle Creek put out. I think most of it has gone un-played.

This was the first record that I mail-ordered, actually. Actually now that I think about it, no! It was my first record, period, this and Deja Entendu by Brand New, the first pressing. I ordered them both over summer 2005. With the mail order sheets from the labels, via money order from the post office!

The other records I told you about were from September 2005, when I got my first apartment with my girlfriend (later wife) and one of our mutual friends (spoiler: never do this, couple living with friend thing, despite what Bright Eyes says in "Waste of Paint," there will be no fuzzy feelings, and it will strain that friendship to the breaking point).

First record buddies! Whether you think it's gay or not.

In my case, it did not go unlistened; in fact, I just listened to the first LP of A Collection of Songs yesterday!

Still have that Deja pressing, too, despite its being worth hundreds of dolla dolla billz... it's not even a good vinyl album, even, the sequencing is all broken up wrong by the sides of the LP... but I could honestly never part with it. Means too much to me.

[neonblack]

OK, here goes.

First cassette-
TMNT The Musical soundtrack
Yes it was real. Yes it was sponsored by Pizza Hut.

First CD-
Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack.

First questionable album choices-
Smash Mouth - whatever the first one was called. Fush yu mang maybe?

First nu metal albums I bought-
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
System of a Down - Toxicity and the first one, same day.

First albums post nu-metal but still pretty questionable-
Thursday - Full Collapse
AFI - The Art of Drowning

[odontophobia]

OK, here goes.

First cassette-
TMNT The Musical soundtrack
Yes it was real. Yes it was sponsored by Pizza Hut.

First CD-
Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack.

First questionable album choices-
Smash Mouth - whatever the first one was called. Fush yu mang maybe?

First nu metal albums I bought-
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
System of a Down - Toxicity and the first one, same day.

First albums post nu-metal but still pretty questionable-
Thursday - Full Collapse
AFI - The Art of Drowning

Fush Yu Mang is definitely a Smash Mouth album I owned. "Walking on the Sun" was on it.

First non-quesitonable album was probably Outkast's Stankonia.

I think this whole thread should be questionable, particularly if your parents weren't cool/you didn't have older siblings.

I mean, my dad got me into Sabbath but at such a wee age I did not yet practice my faith at the altars of Iommi.

[Invisible Man]

I think this whole thread should be questionable, particularly if your parents weren't cool/you didn't have older siblings.

I was thinking this, too. I mean, I have a little brother who benefited a good bit from my music. We cruised around in my old VW Beetle listening to Bad Brains, At the Drive-In, QoTSA, Kraftwerk...you know. Not the stuff he probably would have heard as a thirteen year-old. I was just starting to find good stuff, myself.

[Invisible Man]

^^And driving around in a 1970 Beetle with Kraftwerk blasting through a couple of 12" PA speakers behind the backseat is a great experience. I know that this makes no sense, but I swear I could feel the car resonating to the sound. Like it would have run on pure Kraftwerk, and didn't need gas. Which is good, because the gas gauge never once worked.

That car also caught fire three times. I was once passed by my own detached wheel. For about a nine months, it honked every time I made a left turn. I only retired it because (not making this up) I saw an acorn fall off of a tree and go right through the fender. It didn't bounce off. It just went through the body of the car. I realized I was gonna die in that thing.

What were we talking about?

[Iommic Pope]

I had a 71 Superbug.
They will resonate.
I never caught fire, but I did have to fix my carb with a rubber band every few km for a while there.

[Invisible Man]

Yeah, they're in constant need of fixing. The good news about old bugs is that you could pretty much MacGyver up a solution from whatever trash you had in the backseat. Coffee can muffler? No problem.

[Iommic Pope]

It was great but boy, how I don't miss it.

[kbit]

First nu metal albums I bought-
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
System of a Down - Toxicity

These were the first non-pop albums I bought. I still have them. I also listened to the Nutty Professor 2 soundtrack a lot around this time my step-bro at the time had just started using Napster which introduced me to more hip hop and nu-metal. Gorillaz, Limp Bizkit, Cypress Hill, Eminem, etc.

A few years later I bought Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets... which was my obsession for a looooong time. Chappelle's show got me into more hip hop, I bought Talib Kweli - Quality and downloaded a bunch more: Common, Black Star, Slum Village, Hilltop Hoods. Dabbled in classic rock, more nu-metal and hip hop for a few years, plus a lot of She Wants Revenge's self titled...

Around 2007 I stopped downloading music so much because I was burning out on having discographies all at once. My friend got me into going to record stores and I started buying albums again. This is kind of where I consider my obsession with music to start. The big records here which marked a big shift in my taste:

Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Minus the Bear - Menos El Oso
The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger
Portugal. The Man - Waiter: You Vultures!
The Dear Hunter - Act I & II

& Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
I don't know if I would be into electronic music much if it wasn't for this record, I was listening to so much rock otherwise at this time.

Kind of exploded from there. Eventually I had a post-rock phase that was (thankfully) a stepping stone to ambient/drone/experimental stuff. Yeah.

[D.o.S.]

I can't remember.

[kbit]

Weed will do that.

[D.o.S.]

I mean the downside of being a weird nerd who gets into music as a way to avoid meaningful personal growth at an early age is that this stuff is really early on my developmental timeline. So it's back before "first time I really looked at a pair of boobs and thought 'hey, boobs!'" or "realizing that not everyone is a special snowflake after all (thanks, Trey)."

I want to say the first CD I ever owned was Green Day's Insomniac, but I didn't buy it (and wouldn't actually get a CD player for another year or so). No idea on the tapes. First record I remember going out of my way to purchase was a straight up minty copy of Are You Experienced?

[Strange Tales]

I don't remember my first cassette at all. Probably don't want to know.

First CD was Zeppelin II from my Dad.

First record was The Get Up Kid's "Something to Write Home About"

[rustywire]

At 3years old, cassettes in car/trips with babyboomer parents:
The Beatles - Abbey Road. Then Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA.

Loved those albums but I was mostly preoccupied with Legos as a kid. Then Nintendo. Then began discovering music for myself.

First request, gifted at 10yo: Metallica "Where ever I may roam" cassette single.
Firsts, purchases at 11: Metallica s/t cd, Nirvana "Lithium" cass single.
First purchased at 12: Onyx - BACDAFUCUP cass, Cypress Hill "Insane In The Brain" cass single.
At the end of that year I split a music club offer with my dad, 10 cds for the price of 1 (I got to pick 5): Nevermind, Siamese Dream, The Chronic, Enter the Wu-Tang, The Beavis & Butthead Experience.
First vinyl record I purchased at 16: George Clinton - R&B Skeletons In The Closet. Didn't even have a turntable. Something about its cover art spoke to me, in a jungle-emphasized music/clothing store. Shoutout to HOMEBASS.

Real impressed with myself not cringing at this list...I didn't have the benefit of an older sibling to put me onto any of it.