[Closed] What was your first .......?

First vinyl single: Paul Hardcastle - 19
First vinly Album: Not actually sure I ever bought one - it was tapes when I bought my first albums
First CD Single: St Etienne - She's on the phone
Fisrt CD Album: G&R Use Your Illusion 2

First gig: Faith No More at Brixton Academy in 1992.

Pretty MOR really

I predict a thread of niche-music tryharding 🙂

Single: Gangsters by The Specials with The Selecter by The Selecter on the B side - happens it was the 1st 2 Tone single released!

Album: Showaddywaddy I think Prince Charming by Adam and the Ants after that.

CD single - not sure at all
CD album: This is Big Audio Dynamite by Big Audio Dynamite

First gig: Lindisfarne, Newcastle City Hall - a near-religious experience for any old Geordie.

1st Vinyl Single: Olive - You're not Alone (US Import)
1st Vinyl Album: Hello Children Everywhere
1st CD Album: The Prodigy - Experience

1st Gig: Portishead @ Ashton Court

First vinyl single: Dunno, bought loads from car boots in the late 90s. They pre-date me really!
First vinly Album: As above although my dad gave me his perfect Abbey Rd album if that counts when I was about 10.
First CD Single: Please come home for Christmas - Bon Jovi (oh dear)
Fisrt CD Album: Keep The Faith - Bon Jovi

First gig: Space at York Barbican around 1998.

* Let none of the above give an impression I have no taste in music!

Too much too Young & Absolutely
First Gig - Lloyd Cole.

First vinyl single: R Dean Taylor - There's a ghost in my house
First vinly Album: Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway [probably]
First CD Single: never bought one
First CD Album: Dire Straights - Money for Nothing

First gig: Dr Feelgood

First vinyl single: kylie minogue "slow" (chemical brothers limited mix)
First vinly Album: simon and garfunkl "bridge over troubled water"
First CD Single: ATB "9pm till i come"
Fisrt CD Album: the prodigy "fat of the land"

First gig: the manic street preachers

I had / still do have a very wide taste in music but lean towards house techno etc

I think the first album I bought, in a shop, with my own money, rather than parents picking it up for me or whatever, was T'Pau's Bridge of Spies.

Oddly, it's also the most recent album I've bought, sort of. It's about to be released as a [url= http://www.gnatfishrecords.com/album.html ]"Story Behind The Tracks"[/url] CD / DVD package and I've just preordered it.

Singles wise, might well have been Dire Straits' Money For Nothing, or maybe a Def Leppard single. I can't actually remember now. I spent a good amount of time around college days raiding the record stalls on the local markets and the local independent record stores (hey kiddies, remember those?!)

First album / single I owned via parents buying for me as a sprog is harder to remember. The album was probably the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Kwackers ]Animal Kwackers[/url] after seeing them live (!) when I was very little (god, I've just realised, that was probably my first gig, I've been telling people for years that it was Donington...). I've also got a very old Wombles album, and a Houghton Weavers LP I inherited from my grandad. Singles, gods only know; something like Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs, or Save All Your Kisses For Me, or something, probably.

Excellent thread idea btw, good call.

First vinyl single: Alice Cooper Schools Out
First vinyl Album: Pinky and Perky - Singalong Party (bought when i was a wee boy with my Christmas money)
First CD Single: Can't remember
Fisrt CD Album: it was a Jungle compilation - can't remember the name of it.

First gig: never been to a gig...do raves count?

First vinyl single = Ben E King - Stand By Me (re-issue for the film, I'm not that old)
First vinyl album = Michael Jackson - Bad

First CD Single = No idea
First CD Album = Jimi Hendrix Live at the BBC

First Gig = Michael Jackson @ Glasgow Green, 1990

1st vinyl single- Masquerade by The Skids
1st Album- Replicas by Tubeway Army
1st Cd single -can't remember
1st Cd album Jan and Dean Surfin' safari
1st gig The Damned at the 'Barras

I'm going to be showing my age here (in an opposite way to the usual on here!)

First vinyl single: Baron - Squelch (Sub Focus Remix)
First vinly Album: Guerilla Warfare on Renegade Hardware
First CD Single: Oasis - Wonderwall (hah!)
First CD Album: Sash - It's my Life
First gig: Muse @ Wolverhampton

Vinyl single: The Piranhas - Tom Hark
Vinyl Album: Elvis Presley - Elvis sings Flaming Star

First CD single: Kicks Like A Mule - The Bouncer
First CD album: Happy Mondays - Thrills Pills and Bellyaches

First gig: Anthrax

First vinyl single: Carl Douglas - Kung Fu fighting
First vinly Album: Best of Abba
First CD Single: never bought one
Fisrt CD Album: Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms

First gig: The Seekers, late 60's. Taken by my parents, I was about 7.

First vinyl single: N/a, first cassette single was Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun.
First vinly Album: N/a, not sure that I even bought a cassette album
First CD Single: It was either Whigfield's forgotten follow up to Saturday Night or Oasis - Don't look back in Anger.
Fisrt CD Album: if compelations are allowed then it was 100% Dance, Volume 1. If not, Pulp - Different Class

First gig was with my parents, Status Quo at the NEC, on my own it would have been The Big Day Out in Milton Keynes, Metallica headlined with Placebo and Marilyn Manson in support.

Looking back I had (and still do have) some very varied music tastes.

First cassette single: Kylie - I Should Be So Lucky (I WAS EIGHT!! OK?)
First cassette Album: Bananarama - Greatest Hits (Again, I was eight!)
First CD Single: Soundgarden - Spoonman
Fisrt CD Album: Metallica - ...And Justice For All

I have got a fair few vinyls, they were mainly for collecting purposes rather than listening to, and duplicates of albums I already owned on CD and cassette.

First gig: Donington '95. Was supposed to be Pantera on the Far Beyond Driven tour the previous year, but my brother's mate failed his driving test!

First vinyl single: Men At Work – Down Under
First vinyl Album: Penthouse and Pavement – Heaven 17 or Reggatta de Blanc – The Police
First CD Single: Never bought one
First CD Album: Script of the Bridge – The Chameleons
First gig : The Mission (although I did see Nick Kershaw in concert when I was 14, but that was only because I was there with my 11 year old sister)

I didn't buy anything on vinyl.
The first album I bought on cassette (remember them!) was Nevermind
The first CD I ever bought was RATM.

First gig: Ugly Kid Joe at the Glasgow Garage

1st vinyl single bought for me as a 6 year old: 'Love and Pride' -King
1st I bought for myself: 'I am The resurrection' 8)

1st Vinyl Album: 'Rust in Peace' (picture disc, no less) Megadeth
1st CD single: 'Hangar 18-also Megadeth
1st CD Album 'Badmotorfinger' -Soundgarden
1st gig (as opposed to crap band in pub) Pantera+Megadeth, Plymouth Pavillions 1993ish.

I think I must have been a bit of a metalhead as a lad. Not really now.

First Tape Album - Babylon Zoo - The boy with the X-Ray eyes
First CD single - Gangster's Paradise by Coolio
First CD Album - Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving

First Gig - Status Quo at Wembley Arena with my folks aged about 8.

[b]First (cassette) Single:[/b] 808 State - Cubik Olympik or Happy Mondays - Madchester EP - still got 'em too, both class 🙂

[b]First (cassette) album:[/b] Jeff Waynes War of The Worlds - still got it and still scares me sh1tless. Of course the next one purchased was less cool as I wanted to impress a girl Bros - Push. O dear, the daft things you do to impress girls 🙂

[b]First CD Single:[/b] FSOL - Papua New Guinea - a cracker and it was an attempt to start and replace all of the dance vinyl I'd purchased from '90 onwards that I sold job lot with my Technics SL1200 decks. Bad decision. What a plum 🙁 still regret it even though they would be taking up space and collecting dust in the garage.

[b]First CD Album:[/b] Jimi Hendrix - JH Experience

1st vinyl single: Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough
1st vinyl album: Don't know, probably some hits compilation
1st gig: Showaddywaddy at Newcastle City Hall
1st CD single: The Beloved - Hello
1st CD album: Rush - Presto

First Single: My Perfect Cousin - The Undertones
First Gig: The Wurzles 😳

First vinyl single: The toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant
First vinly Album: Beastie Boys - Licenced to ill
First CD Single: I don't know. I was buying 12" vinyl
Fisrt CD Album: I think it was a Tim Dogg album, I used to buy vinyl...
First gig: Queen @ St James Park, Newcastle, aged 10 with my mum.

First vinyl single: Think I got my mum to buy me the Theme from Vandervalk
First vinyl Album: Public Image - Happy
First CD Single: possibly Fluke: Electric Guitar
First CD Album: Guns n Roses – Appetite for destruction
First gig: Metallica NEC 1990

Embarrassing, but:

Bought for me:
First vinyl single: The Wombles (was about 6)
First vinyl Album: The Smurfs (was about 6)

Bought by me:
First vinyl single: none iirc
First vinyl Album: none iirc
First Cassette Album: Bad News - Bad News
First CD Single: never bought such a daft thing
First CD Album: Queen - Greatest Hits (probably)

First Gig: Diesel Park West (I think) (fresher's week at uni)

Never bought vinyl never bought a single

First album with my own money was prob Avril Livigne under my skin

First gig was dunno been going since I was a baby with mum and dad first one I was allowed to wander about by myself was glasto 03 Radiohead, REM weather was lovely!!

First vinyl single - Nirvana - Sliver, the blue Tupelo records one.
First vinyl album - Lemonheads - Creator
First cd single - Sleeper - Alice EP
First cd album - Rage Against The Machine

First gig - Suede, Brighton Pavillion 1993

First tape single: Prodigy - Voodoo people
First tape album: Greatest hits 89
First cd single: Prodigy - Firestarter
First cd album: Nirvana - Nevermind

First gig: Cast @ Derby assembly rooms (circa 97 I think)

First single: "I Want Money" Barrett Strong. Tamla. 1959.
First Album: "Small Faces Small Faces Small Faces". Small Faces ( 🙄 ). 1964.
First gig: "Keef Hartley Band". Kingston Hotel. 1968.

I'm quite old....

First Vinyl Single(s): Def Leppard - Hysteria, Madonna - who's that girl, Shakin Stevens - what do you want to make those eyes for (probably shouldn't admit that one :oops:)
First Tape Album: Mel and Kim - Respectable
First CD: Radiohead - The Bends

First Big gig: Guns n Roses - Use your illusion tour, Gatehead with Faith no more and Sound Garden

1st vinyl single: Simple Minds, Chelsea Girl
1st vinyl album: 20 of another kind, a punk/new wave compilation
First Gig: Undertones
Edit, oops forgot cd
CDs, I waited to buy a player until I first tried to buy and album that was CD only, no vinyl
First CD album: Arrested Development: 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of...
Cd single, hardly bought any, but probably EBTG: Missing

Vinyl single - Wurzels - Combine harvester 🙂
Vinyl album - Adam and the ants - Kings of the wild frontier
CD single - COC - Vote with a bullet 👿
CD album - Alloy - Eliminate
First gig - Big Country 85/86 ish (p.s. i was with OP at his first gig)

Vinyl single - some dance effort I was obessed with you could only get on vinyl. I can't even recall the name of it now.
Vinyl album - I've never had one.
CD single - Cancer for the Cure, Eels. I wa never into sinfles though, I think I own about 3.
CD album - Probably Dookie by Green Day.

First gig - Soulwax, Wulfrum Hall, Wolverhampton.

(p.s. i was with OP at his first gig)

Surprised you can remember!! 😉

First vinyl single: So Lonely - The Police
First vinly Album: Baggy Trousers Madness
First CD Single: ??
Fisrt CD Album: U2 Joshua Tree
First gig: The Farm in Birmingham somewhere

I think I bought a JVC CD player for £200 the same day too.

1st vinyl single: 999 - Emergency (With my own pocket money. Before that Dad bought me T.Rex - Deborah)
1st vinyl album: Iggy Pop - New Values (or Dad purchased Mud Rock by Mud)

1st CD Single: Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows
1st CD album: can't remember (Compact Snap! maybe)

1st gig: Stiff Little Fingers, Portsmouth Locarno Ballroom. Ah, just a few since then 🙂

How many have still got their first purchases? (I have)