What was your first?

[slash's hat]

As a few members on the younger side have said no idea who klf are, I thought it would be interesting to find out what your first single, album bought etc was and your age ( if you want to share). 

Here's mine;

First single: KC and the sunshine band - give it up

First album: Culture club - colour by numbers, got this as a Xmas pressie.

First tape: Madonna - True blue on the day I got my first walkman.

First CD: couldn't remember but looking through collection and dates seems to be M People - elegant slumming

First download: not a clue

First 'now' album: Now 6, also had Hits 4 but they died out

First gig: Erasure at Hammersmith odeon 1992, still have my bingo ticket and pen somewhere.

First glastonbury: A late comer at 2015

Age: 42

[Hugh Jass]

First single: The Simpsons - Do the Bartman. I say that with no sense of shame or embarrassment.

First album: I'd like to say something cool and avant guard, but I've got a feeling it was Queen's Greatest Hits.

First tape: My own personal mixtape taken from the top 40.

First CD: Got my own CD player one Christmas when I was 13/14, think Blur's Parklife was one of the CD's I was given with it.

First download: Pass

First 'now' album: Never bought one, I did have the popular 90's "Shine" indie compilations though.

First gig: Ocean Colour Scene at Aston Villa Leisure Centre, November 1995, age 14.

First glastonbury: 2004

Age: 35

[chatty]

First single I bought was The Bluetones - Slight return in 1996. So I would have been 12/13 depending on the month it was released. 

Well that was the first proper single I bought. I remember having Snow - Informer which I think came out before Slight return andHaddaway -  What Is Love, not sure when that was released. 

I also had a couple of Gladiators soundtracks which would have been my first albums but they were pretty good - Rainbow, Turner and Overdrive, Ugly Kid Joe, Europe, Meatloaf, Survivor, The Troggs and Edwin Starr among others on it if I remember correctly. 

First CD - I got East 17 - West End Girls with the Cd Player and I bought Blur - The Great Escape and Oasis - Whats The Story as my first CDs. 

First Download I think was The Beatles collection. 

First gig was Stereophonics about 99, I had seen Another Level as they played at my school though and you got out of an after of class if you went to it. I wish Id went to class. 

Edited May 18, 2017 by chatty

[pie_and_a_pint]

First single: Cliff Richard and the Young Ones - Livin' Doll (for Comic Relief 1986)

First album: Kylie by Kylie (EDIT: I have just remembered that I had Roland Rat's Cassette of the Album on vinyl as a Christmas present from my nan, but I guess that doesn't count as I didn't really want or like it! The Kylie one I bought myself with my pocket money)

First tape: Popped In, Souled Out by Wet Wet Wet (I was NOT a cool child)

First CD: Modern Life is Rubbish by Blur

First download: Papua New Guinea by Future Sound of London

First 'now' album: Now 10

First gig: The Wonder Stuff at Wolverhampton Civic Hall

First glastonbury: 2003

Age: 39.5

Edited May 18, 2017 by pie_and_a_pint

[6t6o6m]

First single: Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag

first album: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

first tape: no idea

first CD - a British Compilation from the 90, the name avoids me though.

first download: no idea

first now cd: no idea

first gig: Mostly Autumn at the Brook in 2002/03.

first Glastonbury; last year

age 29.

[paddyclark]

First Single - Space Magic Fly

First Album - Oxygene Jean Michel Jarre

First Now -  Now thats what i call musc  -  first before numbering

First Gig - Hawkwind Swindon College 1971 (was 7) - Mother was Student Union President and organised gig

First CD - Dire Straits Brothers in Arms

First Glastonbury - 2014 (fourth this year

 

Age 53

[Flysheet]

Here's mine;

First single: Probably Merry Xmas by Slade

First album: Bat out of Hell?

First tape: Not a bloody clue

First CD: Kingmaker - Eat yourself whole 

First download: See first tape

First 'now' album: Never ever bought one

First gig: I think it was U2 at Sheffield City Hall, 83?

First glastonbury: 1989

Age: 49

 

 

[mr gumby]

First single: Imagine by John Lennon.

First album: Shaky by Shakin' Stevens.

First tape: Declaration by The Alarm.

First CD: Misplaced Childhood by Marillion

First download: never downloaded anything, unless you count that U2 album that I got whether I wanted it or not.

First 'now' album: the first one!

First gig: I was taken along to Alice Cooper when I was a kid, somewhere in the US, Dallas possibly. 

First gig I chose myself: Deacon Blue at Hammersmith Odeon.

First glastonbury: 2010

Age: 42

[RAMMAN]

First single - madona - la Isla Bonita 

first albulm Carter USM - 101 damnations 

first now - now 2 

first gig - Carter usm queen Elizabeth theatre 1991 (I think) Oldham followed by GnR at Maine road 

first cd - no idea

first download - no idea 

first Glastonbury- 2010 

age 39 

[Deadendfriends8]

First single: B'Witched - C'est la Vie (No shame)

First album: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Funny because I hate them now)

First tape: Probably to young for that

First CD: See first single

First download: Muse - Stockholm Syndrome (live from Glastonbury 2004)

First 'now' album: Now 40 something?

First gig: Busted at a school in Broadstairs (2004)

First glastonbury: 2005

Age - 24

[shuttlep]

First single: Carter USM i can't remember which one i bought it with my pocket money as I knew they swore a lot

First album: Jive Bunny 

First tape: NOW (Which number i don;t know. crowded house weather with you was on there)

First CD: I was a late comer to the old CD i think it was the Verve Urban Hymns

First download: i don't know

First 'now' album: see above 

First gig: Limp Biscuit (I was a late comer to gigs)

First gig I chose myself: see above

First glastonbury: 2004

Age: 40

[Franky]

First Tape. Single: Take my breath away by Berlin

First Vinyl. Single: Whats up by The 4 non Blondes

First CD. Single: Night Swimming by R.E.M.

First Album. Tape. Rust in Peace by Megadeath

First Album CD. Bat out of Hell 2 by Meatloaf

First Glasto 2004

Age 39

 

Bloody hell, looking at that it's an eclectic group of music lol shudders with shame lol

Edited May 18, 2017 by Franky

[moheetoes]

I'm 1st single- message in a bottle -by the police

1st album - zenyatta mondatta by the police

1st tape - no idea

1st cd- probably Thriller

1st download - crazy by gnarls Barkley 

1st 'now' album- 4 and still have it

1st gig - 5 star, and I chose this myself....

1st Glasto - 2004 my sister's hen do 

age 47

[FloorFiller]

First single: Michael Jackson - Earth Song

First album: Spice Girls - Spice

First tape: One of the above

First CD: Wheatus - Wheatus

First download: Pretty sure it was something like Stone Sour's first album

First 'now' album: Thankfully never owned one

First gig: Begrudgingly went to see Steps with my mum and sister. Sat in a sulk for the whole thing despite the fact I was almost definitely loving every minute.

First Glastonbury: 2010

Age: 28

[Cath-T]

First single: Some Comic Relief one - forget the song but I do remember that I bought it from Woolworths!

First album: Kylie by Kylie

First tape: A mix tape that I complied myself from the radio during the Top 40 on a Sunday - the trick to stop it before the DJ starting talking always bought me out in a cold sweat!

First CD: The Bodyguard soundtrack

First download: Some Christmas album

First 'now' album: Now 10

First gig: Forgot what it was called by Andi Peters was presenting it and it had acts such as Utah Saints and Sybil performing haha!

First glastonbury: 2005 ( yes the epic downpour year where tents were floating away)

Age: 36

[phillyfaddle]

First single: Little Jimmy Osmond - Tweedle Dee (oh the shame )

First album: The Osmonds - Crazy Horses (...can you tell I was in the Osmond's fan club?)

First tape: Not 100% sure, but Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels was definitely one of my earliest (I was all vinyl before then)

First CD: CD version of John Martyn's Solid Air (which is a treasured vinyl of mine)

First download: can't honestly remember

First 'now' album: Never bought one

First gig: Psychedelic Furs, University of York , 1982

First Glastonbury: 2004

Age: sssshhhhh it's just a number (52)

[giantkatestacks]

First single: Eye of the Tiger by Survivor

First album: Now something or other though there were a lot of those shite 70s albums of covers with ToTP dancers on the front

First tape: Mixtape from the radio

First CD: no idea

First download: dont know

First 'now' album: 4 or 5?

First gig: Prince, Lovesexy Tour

First gig I chose myself: Prince, Lovesexy tour

First Glastonbury: 1992

 

[hfuhruhurr]

I'm 1st single- Ernie, the fasted milkman in the West, Benny Hill (sorry, if you're of an age, you'll have that in your head all day!)

1st album - Tomorrow Belongs to Me - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

1st tape - would've been a compilation off the radio, never bought one

1st cd- Nebraska - Springsteen (since I'd worn out the vinyl)

1st download - uh? I went last year and am going again this year

1st 'now' album- nope

1st gig - 999 and Angelic Upstarts (since the Sex Pistols cancelled in Newport) 

1st Glasto - 2010 

age 21 with 34 years experience

[Smash1984]

Here's mine;

First single: If memory serves then I think it was zig and zag (if that counts)

First album: It was a 'Now' album but can't remember the year.

First tape: Zig and Zag

First CD: Return of the Mack

First download: Something on Kazaa which was all the rage when downloading started.

First 'now' album: Something in the early 90's.

First gig: Don't remember.

First glastonbury: 2013. My first festival was IOW in 2012 so got the bug after that. Pretty good year to start view too from headliner POV.

Age: 32

[CaledonianGonzo]

Heh.....Now 10 getting a strong showing.  

That was mine as well, and - a few duffers aside - it's still a cracker.  I picked up a pristine second hand copy a few years back and it still gets a semi-frequent spin.  Not many chart hit compilations take you from Nina Simone to Hey Matthew by Karel Fialka.

[Heather90]

First single - Hearsay - Pure and Simple

first album - Spice Girls, Spice

first tape - probably something with nursery rhymes on 

first now - now 38. Some good songs on it, sadly not the ones I listened to at the time 

first gig - Steps at Sheffield Arena in 98/99

first cd - The Spice Girls Album

first download - no idea 

first Glastonbury- 2015

Age 26 - John Barnes rapping was no1 when I was born 

 

I like to think my musical tastes have somewhat matured. I'll be there for Ed but generally prefer more rock

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I can only remember my first single, which was  L'oiseau et l'enfant sung by Marie Myriam.

I can't remember my first Glastonbury, but it was in the 90's sometime.

Age - 51

[MrTambourineManc]

Here goes...

First single: 2 Unlimited - No Limit

First album: Culture Beat (clearly swayed by cheesy Dutch early 90s techno)

First tape: Madonna - Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana

First CD: Oasis - Definitely Maybe (getting better now)

First download: can't remember

First 'now' album: Now 1993

First gig: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci at the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1996

First Glastonbury: 2007 (this year will be my 9th).

First act I saw at Glastonbury: Bright Eyes (in the rain and mud I remember the whole band wore all white!)

[henry bear]

First single: I can remember buying Killer Queen or Bohemian Rhapsody but it may have for a present.

First album: no idea

First tape: ditto, never really bought many but made loads of mix tapes

First CD: Beatles Past Masters Vol 2

First download: no idea.

First Now album: never owned one, pretty much hated mainstream 80's pop.

First gig: The Specials, Cardiff 1980

First Glastonbury: 1983. As I remember there were two stages, the Pyramid and the Hare Krishna tent. The Pyramid headliners were Melanie, UB40 and King Sunny Ade. We were easily pleased back then!

[stuartbert two hats]

First single: Not sure, not much of single buyer.  I think Blur - Country House

First album: The Cure - Mixed Up

First tape: Strauss - The Blue Danube

First CD: The Cure - The Top

First download: not a clue

First compilation: Moods (mainly ambient TV themes like Inspector Morse and Twin Peaks)

First gig: The Desperate Cherries - Haslingden Sports Centre

First Glastonbury: 1997

First Glastonbury Headline Set: Primal Scream

Age: 38