Do you remember your first title, in each format?

bona-fide 45-"Respect"-Aretha Franklin

LP-"Everything's Archie"-The Archies

cassette-either "Soul Tapestry"-The Honey Cone or "What's Going On"-Marvin Gaye

8-Track-"Good High"-Brick

CD-"Like A Virgin"-Madonna

Gold CD-"All 'N All"-Earth, Wind & Fire

boxed set CD-"Storyteller"-Rod Stewart

SACD-"Thriller"-Michael Jackson-stereo

DVD-A-"Winelight"-Grover Washington Jr.

 

45 RPM - Neil Diamond - Shilo/Master Jack - 4 Jacks and a Jill
33 RPM - Snoopy vs the Red Barron - The Royal Gaurdsmen
33 RPM Live album- Grand Funk Railroad - Live
33 RPM Import Omega - 200 Years After the Last War
33 RPM promo - Alice Cooper - Love it to Death (thumb cover)
33 RPM box - Beethoven 9 symphonies
33 RPM Bootleg - Rolling Stones - Rock Out Cock Out
33 RPM Bootleg box - Springsteen - Piece de Resistance
8 track - Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
8 track recording - CCR - Pendulum
Cassette - Ten Years After - Shhh
Cassette recording - Springsteen (dub from soundboard, Houston, 1980)
Reel to reel recording - Argent - Argent
CD - Who's Next (turned out to be Steve's version)
CD "Single" - Bruce Springsteen - Chimes of Freedom
CD Box - Dylan - Biograph (original)
CD bootleg - Townsend - The Tommy Demos
Gold CD - MFSL Supertramp - Crime of the Century UDI
Gold DCC - Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
SACD - Steve's first 5 CRRs (multiple purchase)
DVD-A - Fleetwood Mac - Rumors (still unopened - no DVD-A player)
DVD - Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back
Criterion DVD - Spartacus
VHS - Heavy Traffic (Ralph Bakshi)

mp3 - NONE

 

45 Single: The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
33 1/3: Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
33 1/3 Bootleg: Bob Dylan - Great White Wonder
12" Single: Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
CD: R.E.M. - Document
CD Bootleg: Bob Dylan - Royal Albert Hall '66
CD Single: Bob Dylan - Dignity
CD Box Set: Bob Dylan - Biograph
CD ROM: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Interactive
Gold CD: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
SACD: Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
VHS: Grateful Dead - The Grateful Dead Movie
DVD: Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back

 

78: BB King, Sweet Little Angel (bought it used, not new!!!)
45: Cream, Sunshine of Your Love (Moldie Oldie 45 reissue)
8 Track: Fresh Cream
LP: Elton John, Greatest Hits
CD: Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
DVD-A: ELP, Brain Salad Surgery
SACD: Beck, Sea Changes

 

I only remember CDs..

Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on Strauss' Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel and Salome's Dance.

Next day was Alan Parsons' I Robot

shortly after that A Hard Days Night, Beatles For Sale and Past Masters 1

Cheers

 

>45 - beep beep - the playmates (my mother bought it for me)
>album - dirty water - the standells
>8-track - never bought one, always made my own
>cassette - never bought one, always made my own, however i do have a copy of buffalo springfield on cassette, the one that has the long version of bluebird
>cd - chicago - II


renny

 

Wow, I don't cover all that many formats, but here goes (music only):

45: Badfinger, Day After Day
33: Beatles, Revolver
CD: Midnight Oil, Diesel and Dust
Gold CD: Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick (don't know that I would count this as a separate format)
SACD/DVD-A: nothing, still waiting for this to shake out

 

LP: More Of The Monkees
Cassette: McCartney
45: Creedence's "Sweet Hitch-Hiker"/"Door To Door"
8 Track: Best Of The Beatles Volume 2 (Truck stop pirate tape)
Bootleg: The Beatles The Deccagone Sessions
CD: Kate Bush Hounds Of Love
SACD: Steve's Zombies comp
DVD-A: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
VHS: The Beatles Live
DVD: A tie (bought 'em both with my first player)- Duck Soup and Beany & Cecil

 

45 - Beatles - "Please Please Me" - VJ (parents brought it back to Winnipeg from Minnesota). First 45 I bought with allowance money was "I Want To Hold You Hand".
LP - Beatles - Rubber Soul U.S.
Quadrophonic LP - Johnny Winter - Still Alive And Well
Cassette - Runt - Runt (Todd Rundgren's first album with "We Gotta Get You A Woman"). It's one of the only pre-recorded cassettes that I ever purchased. I usually made my own. I only bought cassettes when there was some difference with the same LP as in the case of Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense or the U.K. cassettes of Japan - Assemblage and The Cure - Standing On The Beach. The Japan and Cure tapes contain a schwack of bonus tracks not found on the LP versions.
8-track - never bought one until recently. At a garage sale about 10 weeks ago I found The Beatles - 1962-1966 . music VHS - Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense and Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (around the same time)
music DVD - Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
CD - Peter Gabriel - So
Gold CD - The Who - Tommy MFSL
DVD-A - Doobie Brothers - The Captain And Me
SACD - The Rolling Stones - Aftermath U.K., Between The Buttons U.K., Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Hot Rocks

I never purchased a 78rpm record as a kid, or in more recent times a pre-recorded DAT or Digital cassette, a 4-track tape or reel to reel tape. I made my own reels with my Sony TC-399.

p.s The Talking Heads thing is pure coincidence.

 

Jamie,

I have always like that John 'Jellybean' Benitz remix which, I believe has never been released on a CD format.

Bob

 

With my own money in 1969:
LP - Meet The Beatles
EP - Twist and Shout
SP - Get Back/Don't Let Me Down
then in 1983:
CD - Abbey Road (Japanese)

I hadn't appreciated just how predictable I am until this thread.

 

We appreciate you John

&ru

 

LP -K-tel fantastic

8 track-honky chateau-Elton

cassette- stones rewind

45rpm Mr Jaws

 

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I guess you don't remember.

 

It's just really small font.....blow it up......

 

I can't answer that one for you. I don't have my original Runt LP anymore. I lent that album along with The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren and Something Anything (with the orignal booklet) to a beautiful woman name Kelly in around 1983/84. She was going to tape the LPs and return them to me. I never got the LPs back. (As a general rule, I never lent my LPs to anyone, but I wasn't thinking too clearly around her, if you know what I mean.)

 

My first record purchase ever was on March 3, 1973. I bought seven 45s, used, for 10 cents each at a local junk store called Koffel's Curiosity Shop in Telford, Pa. For years, I bought more used records there than any other place, and after a while, I had first dibs on everything he got in the store before he put it out for other customers. I even still remember most of the titles from that first purchase:
I Want to Hold Your Hand -- The Beatles
Galveston -- Glen Campbell
Put a Little Love in Your Heart -- Jackie DeShannon
Mame / Cabaret -- Lester Lanin [not what I thought it was! I knew the song "Cabaret" and thought this was the hit version, not knowing any better. but it was an easy-listening instrumental]
Harper Valley P.T.A. -- Jeannie C. Riley
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard -- Paul Simon

My first "new" 45 was "Little Willy" by the Sweet, which I bought for 69 cents at a W.T. Grants store in the spring of '73.

The first LP I bought used was Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel, for 75 cents, also at Koffel's.

My first new LPs (not including gifts) were all on the same day, December 26, 1973, and I bought 'em with Christmas money. I can't remember what order, but they included Ringo by Ringo Starr, Hey Jude by the Beatles (which, once I opened it, discovered it had the label "The Beatles Again" -- almost four years after it came out!), There Goes Rhymin' Simon by Paul Simon, Living in the Material World by George Harrison, and Ram by Paul and Linda McCartney. I remember "Heart of the Country" skipped badly on whatever turntable I was using at the time, and I didn't have a copy that didn't skip until I got one used!

I bought some used 78s in 1974, but they had a habit of breaking before I could get them home to play, so I stopped before I had very many. One of my favorites was "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" by Tex Williams on Capitol Americana Series, which I once saw on a 45 on the same red label (what I now know to be a very early 45 from 1949) but passed on it because I had the 78 ... and now the 78 is cracked! Oh well.

My first 12-inch single was either "Miss You" by the Rolling Stones or "Let's All Chant" by the Michael Zager Band ... I bought both new in June of 1978.

I never bought an 8-track, new or used. I was given some.

I bought only one prerecorded cassette, new or used, and that was to support a band I knew from South Bend, Indiana called The Kinetics. I bought it in early June of 1988 from a local music shop in South Bend; I had no choice but to buy a cassette because they didn't release it on vinyl, and CDs were still rare for private pressings. Again, I was given some cassettes.

My first CD purchases were on December 26, 1987 (Christmas money again) -- various titles in the Beatles' catalog. The first CD I owned was a Christmas gift, Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen.

I never bought a gold CD new -- too expensive then, and even more expensive now! In 2002, I bought a DCC The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas at a used CD shop -- the first used on I ever bought. The others I know I own, which I got for free, are Cheap Trick at Budokan (MoFi) and Elvis Is Back! (DCC, but I think the booklet is missing, I have to check again).

My first SACD, a hybrid, was Beggars Banquet by the Rolling Stones, which I bought in 2002 at a Circuit City in Appleton, Wisconsin several weeks after it came out.

My first videocassette purchase, other than as a gift for someone else, was the TV show of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer on December 26, 1997. (I probably still wouldn't have a VCR had I not won one in a raffle in 1996. I didn't own a TV at that time, so I bought a TV so I could use the VCR!) I have others I've received as gifts or premiums.

I own several DVDs and a couple DVD-As, but I have never bought one for myself. I have bought some as gifts. I have a DVD player on my computer but not with my television.

 

45: Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel (still may be the best double "A" side single)
LP: Meet The Beatles
8-track: Lady Samantha--Elton (had a bunch of non-LP "B" sides on it)
Cassette: Babes In Arms-MC5 (I think this was the only pre-recorded cassette
I ever bought)
CD: Live 75-85--Bruce
SACD: Blonde On Blonde
DVD Concert Video: Live in New York--Bruce

 

With my own money:

45 - Maybe Baby
LP - Elvis Xmas LP
Strereo LP - The Early Beatles
4 Track Cart - Rolling Stones Now
8 Track Cart - Beatles White Album
Quad 8 - Band On The Run
Reel To Reel - Sweetheart of the Rodeo - Byrds
Quad LP - Bill Wyman - Monkey Grip
CD- Blood On the Tracks
SACD - Blonde on Blonde
DVD-A - Hotel California
DTS - Band on the Run

mud-

 

1st 78: "I Cant Quit You Baby" by Otis Rush.

1st 45 : "Speedy Gonzales" by Pat Boone.

lst Album: "World Without Love", by Peter & Gordon.

1st reel to reel: "Happy Trails" by Quicksilver Messenger Service.

1st 8-track: "Live Dead" by Grateful Dead. Played once, and broke. Brought back to store for replacement, broke again. Bought Cream's Greatest Hits instead.

1st Cassette: "Tommy" by the Who.

1st CD: "Little Richard's Greatest Hits" or "Carl Perkin's Greatest Hits", not sure.

1st SACD: "Zombies Greatest Hits".

1st Gold CD - "McCartney".