The Swamp

(h/t Scottie)

I can't remember. But I do remember the first CDs I bought, each in 1983:

1)

2)

The latter was one of the first truly digital (DDD) recordings released.

The first CD I ever bought was this:

I'm pretty sure it was this one, complete with the laser etchings.

First cassette I bought was Metallica - ...And Justice For All. First CD I bought was this one:

I really don't remember. If it was my own money, it was probably something much more embarrassing than Styx.

Sticking with my theme today, I do know that my initial versions of the Led Zeppelin catalog were on cassette, painstakingly transferred from my Dad's LPs.

I had every Zeppelin album on vinyl. Right up to Coda. Although when I purchased Houses Of The Holy, my parents frowned upon the album cover. One thing about Zep, they didn't hide it. Imagine the storm that would occur today if that album cover came out? Yikes.

Y'know, the one I played the least was The Song Remains the Same. That album one side two of half-hour indulgence was just, well, too fucking long.

One thing I never understood was that Stairway To Heaven, which I can't fucking stand, was played as the last waltz at every high school dance. Brother Jake Edwards started that; oddly he's on the air out here now, and he began that terrible tradition back at Sydney Academy in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The last half, or so, of Stairway is pretty much hard rock, right? And there'd be a hundred people trying to waltz to it. And as we wind on down the road. Yeah, sure. Very romantic. And it's like, what, 120-beats per minute in the final throes? While Plant falsetto screams?

Stairway To Heaven is exactly eight minutes and two seconds too long.

And the voices of those who stand looking may possibly be the dumbest thing ever intentionally written. Nigel Tufnel not withstanding.

When I was about 11, my mother was in one of those crappy record clubs, and she let me make the selection one month. It was:

The first one I bought with my own money at a record store was this one, shortly thereafter:

I wore those albums out, on my mum's big old console hi-fi. I blew out the speakers, although she never pinned it on me.

eta: I was 27 by the time I bought my first CD. It was:

Amazing how everyone's first was a classic rock album...did you all bang the hottest girl in school the first time as well? I unabashedly give you my first (and it was appreciative of the attention):

I bought lots of 45's as a kid, but the first LP I remember buying was



The first CDs I bought were


and

Scottie wrote:I had every Zeppelin album on vinyl. Right up to Coda. Although when I purchased Houses Of The Holy, my parents frowned upon the album cover. One thing about Zep, they didn't hide it. Imagine the storm that would occur today if that album cover came out? Yikes.

Imagine if they tried to put out this cover today

Rams Fanny wrote:Amazing how everyone's first was a classic rock album...did you all bang the hottest girl in school the first time as well? I unabashedly give you my first (and it was appreciative of the attention):

Haha, i think mine is even worse -

I was only ten at the time but still. First tape ever bought by me. Hungry eyes was a heavy favourite before I followed that classic purchase with The best of the beach boys, and MC Hammer.

bfj wrote:Imagine if they tried to put out this cover today

. . .and everyone on The Swamp just collectively deleted their Internet history, browser caches and, well, everything.

bfj wrote:Imagine if they tried to put out this cover today...

I can remember an incident where my parents gave a friend a copy of Roger Waters' The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking as a birthday present, I guess without buying a copy for themselves. Shortly thereafter, the record label changed the cover to censor that ass:


They still have a cool looking incense holder that they picked up at a flea market that they decided not to give to the same guy for a subsequent birthday on the off chance it was worth something. At least that's how I remember it. I probably was in 3rd or 4th grade at the time, which would have made them....I think younger than I am now. Fuck.

Scottie wrote:

bfj wrote:Imagine if they tried to put out this cover today

. . .and everyone on The Swamp just collectively deleted their Internet history, browser caches and, well, everything.

I deleted it, but is it any worse than the Houses of Holy cover that Rass posted?

bfj wrote:

Scottie wrote:

bfj wrote:Imagine if they tried to put out this cover today

. . .and everyone on The Swamp just collectively deleted their Internet history, browser caches and, well, everything.

I deleted it, but is it any worse than the Houses of Holy cover that Rass posted?

[understatement]Scottie can be a hard cat to read[/understatement], but I think that was a joke.

rass wrote: [understatement]Scottie can be a hard cat to read[/understatement], but I think that was a joke.

I'm not taking any chances. Does anyone remember Ryan? (In my Robert Plant voice)

Honestly, this is all fucking Kranepool's fault for not thinking to put NSFW and PUBE* tags on the thread title.

*Potential Underage Boob Exposure

I got Use Your Illusion I for Christmas and needed to complete the set.

kranepool wrote:(h/t Scottie)

I can't remember. But I do remember the first CDs I bought, each in 1983:

1)

2)

The latter was one of the first truly digital (DDD) recordings released.

You bought a CD in 1983?

1982 wasn't it? When CDs first arrived?

Moving Pictures was released in 81, and Nightfly was released in 82.

I bought a shitton of CDs in 83. Even took a job in the record store just for the discount.

ETA: '82 sounds about right for DVDs being available. I know it was 82/83 when I bought them because I was a freshman in HS and that's when I had that (miserable) job.

kranepool wrote:Moving Pictures was released in 81, and Nightfly was released in 82.

I bought a shitton of CDs in 83. Even took a job in the record store just for the discount.

ETA: '82 sounds about right for DVDs being available. I know it was 82/83 when I bought them because I was a freshman in HS and that's when I had that (miserable) job.

Sweet Jebus. I knew I was late to switch to CDs, but I did't but my first CD until 1992.





First album I bought at a record store




In retrospect, what the hell were my parents thinking letting a 10 year old buy that album? I need to give them a stern talking to.

One of the reason we might mostly be listing classics is that CDs were kind of a luxury item. So I only bought CDs that I was positive I wanted forever. I'd get cassettes or cassingles or even albums of other stuff. Then along came Random House, and changed all of that.

My first CDs were gifts from my father:

One that I wanted desperately:



One that he wanted me to like:



And one because it was Christmas:

Rams Fanny wrote:Amazing how everyone's first was a classic rock album...did you all bang the hottest girl in school the first time as well? I unabashedly give you my first (and it was appreciative of the attention):

Keep in my with the older guys, the Classic Rock albums were newly released popular records when they bought them. If it makes you feel better, I'll include my second (possibly third) album, as also bought whichever LL Cool J around the same time.




ETA: Didn't realize how much of the Hippity Hop I was listening to as a 10-12 yo. Throw in some Run-DMC, too.

First 45


First LP Album (My music teacher in 5th or 6th grade exposed me to this album. Our class listened to, and discussed, each song individually. Catholic school to boot. Whoda thunk?)


Bonus second LP... (birthday gift from Dad)


First Cassette (confessions thread? Hey, fuck that, I was 9, and everyone loves YMCA, right?)


First CD

The first record albums I bought ... as in, vinyl:

First album I remember owning (cassette):



First CD's I remember getting for Christmas (I kid you not, apparently I was a slave to early 90's CanCon):




Suffice to say it took a long time for me to catch up to the cool music (if I ever did), and I'm starting to think my parents either thought I was gay or wanted me to be.

Rams Fanny wrote:Amazing how everyone's first was a classic rock album...did you all bang the hottest girl in school the first time as well?

Um, no, never banged Vickie Grubaugh (a cheap feel in a hot tub once, after high school, nada mas.)

I stand by this choice. I was 12. Records were not cheap, and my parents weren't buying. It was at least a year, maybe two until I bought my second. Mowed a bunch of lawns for this:



Number two:

travzilla wrote:First album I remember owning (cassette):

Oh Teen TFG listened the shit out of this one and its follow-up, BA's best of. Thank you Robin Hood !!

travzilla wrote:

BTW could you stop sending (some clone of) those guys down here every year ?

First cassette:



First CD:

I got my first CD player my junior year of high school, so I bought my first CDs in 86 or 87. I remember thinking they were so expensive. I wanted something I thought would sound particularly cool in great digital sound, so I chose for this one:


Then, I noticed a used cd bin, and realized I could afford a second disc at that rate, so I bought this one:


I still have the U2 disc, but the Depeche Mode one was stolen somewhere along the way.

Shirley wrote:I got my first CD player my junior year of high school, so I bought my first CDs in 86 or 87. I remember thinking they were so expensive.

That's just it. Discs were expensive. They were something like $28 and, at that age, I couldn't afford much. Classical discs were often over $30. Jazz, too. And I also didn't want to spend the money for something I already had on vinyl or tape. I remember when the Led Zeppelin boxed set came out (the one with the crop circles on the cover) and not being able to afford it; it was somewhere around $100.

Heck, when I bought my first CD player it was around $400 and I recall thinking which disc I could get. Not which discs, which one.

The second CD I ever bought was The Joshua Tree, pictured above. But didn't everybody buy that one at the time? I remember Brothers In Arms being huge back then as well. There also wan't a helluva lot of choice at the time.

Scottie wrote:The second CD I ever bought was The Joshua Tree, pictured above. But didn't everybody buy that one at the time? I remember Brothers In Arms being huge back then as well. There also wan't a helluva lot of choice at the time.

Yeah, both of those were in my early cd collection. Probably in my first ten and both got a ton of play.

I remember CDs being around $18 in the states, which seemed like a lot. I think records were still around $8-10 or so?

The exchange rate was not on par; at the time the Canadian dollar was worth around US $0.60. That probably accounts for the discrepancy (which is effectively the same price). Plus there was about 18% tax on that.

Yes, albums were just about half the price of CDs back then. Plus used record stores were easily found where you could get albums dirt cheap.

first cassette



first cd



fuck technology.

I'm almost positive it was this...

I thought about this a bit last night, and the first album I can remember really wanting and getting was this (on vinyl):



That definitely would have been bought for me. As for something I bought myself, it probably would have been something like Appetite for Destruction, or maybe Open Up and Say... Ahh!.