I got a CD player in 1995, my first CDs were The Downward Spiral and The Lost Boys soundtrack.
Weird, The Lost Boys was one of my first albums, on cassette in the 80s. That and the soundtracks for Platoon and Top Gun, i was a big soundtrack fan as a child.
I think soundtracks were big for all of us 70’s/80’s kids. We weren’t able to just jump on YouTube and such and fine out about a bunch of different bands, so when a movie would impress us with cool tunes it really opened things up for us.
REM - Eponymous
Depeche Mode - Violator
Pink Floyd - everything
Those were tapes. When I switched to CDs, the first two things I bought were Primus’ “Miscellaneous Debris” and the Ministry bootleg “Kill For Kicks.”
Nice to see The Lost Boys soundtrack getting some love. Weren’t we talking about Tim Capello awhile back? You know, the big wrestler lookin dude who played the sax! As cheesy as that song is, he still had metalheads rockin out on the beach!
I wonder how many kids got there first albums from those mail order 8 records for a penny gimmicks. My sister did that and we got a whole pile of 8-tracks.
Haha my dad signed up for one of those Columbia House deals. And consequently spun the living shit out of the Phil Collins, Don Henley and Chicago discs that he got in return. Supposedly they were “even BETTER since they were such a steal”.
I got into that racket pretty early on too.
my very first cassettes i bought in 1980 were
tubeway army - replicas
gary numan - pleasure principle
have them on cassette , 8-track ,lp and cd
all time favorites from the days.
thanks to my older brother for turning them on to me.
r.i.p.
my brother
Bronski Beat - The Age Of Consent
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Bronski Beat - The Age Of Consent
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Excellent. Once i thought it would be amusing to attempt singing “Small Town Boy” in a small karaoke room. Let’s just say that after the initial outbursts of laughter, and cries of “you can’t be fucking serious” when the song was announced on screen, the atmosphere of goodwill and bonhomie quickly evaporated after the first few seconds of me trying to imitate Jimmy Somerville’s falsetto and breaking out into coughing fits.
I got into that racket pretty early on too.
I sure as hell did…
It probably went as well as went I did Karaoake and picked Madonna’s Like a Prayer song, but I attempted to sing it like the Bigod 20 version. But, to my credit 3 girls got up and started dancing and NO ONE danced to any other song the whole night.
Haha it’s the little victories in life that count. I do remember cutting a rug to that song a few times during the Gothick Girlfriend phase of my life.
That incident reminds me a little of one of my Kiwi friends - I think this was actually the same night as the Bronski Beat debacle - cupping the karaoke mic and doing some “death growl” or “necro vokillz” version of Janet Jackson’s “Black Cat.” This, too, inspired dancing.
The first record I bought with my own money was the 7" for “She Blinded Me With Science” by Thomas Dolby. He has remained one of my favorite musicians and is a huge influence on my love for synths and music production.
The first full-length LP I bought was Love at First Sting by Scorpions. I still love that album and World Wide Live. Actually, I never abandoned any of the pop and rock music I grew up with, after diving into alternative, Wax Trax, and darker, lesser-known music in high school.
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Rush - Signals
First album in the industrial/industrial rock realm - Killing Joke “Fire Dances”
I think mine was a RATM record that i bought as a teenager.
I was a music fan way before that tho, my parents were just to cheap to spend a dime on me looool. I usually recorded shit on tape, those were my “records”.
HAHA!!! We used to do the same, Bro!
Cheap ass cassette tapes taping songs off the radio . . .
HAHA!!! We used to do the same, Bro!
Cheap ass cassette tapes taping songs off the radio . . .
And this was in the late 90s for me!
Cassettes really stood the test of time. I think they’re popular with hipsters these days too hahaha.
first off - holy shit you guys are making me feel old.
my first records were probably a donnie and marie album I played on my little record player as a child. I think I had some scary sounds records too. My family always had records and played music.
my first, musically aware, records… was KISS Alive, KISS alive II, Captured by Journey and ac/dc dirty deeds.
my first CDs I got (which I still have) during high school were:
REM - reckoning
Duran Duran - Duran Duran
the Cure - Head on the Door
These were technically my first albums:
Havin’ Fun with Ernie and Bert.
The Dinosaur Record.
Pac-Man Fever.
I liked playing everything at 33 for demonic effect.
Pac-Man Fever.
That’s a sweet jam.
“I got a pocket full of quarters and I’m headin’ to the ARRRCCAAADDE!!!”
First Metal albums:
Metallica - Kill em All
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Exodus - Bonded By Blood