What was your first?

[tjamest]

First Single: Yellow River by Christie

First Album: Can't remember but it was definitely one of these 3. Electric Warrior by T Rex, Fireball by Deep Purple, Every picture tells a story by Rod Stewart

First Tape: A blank BASF C90

First CD: Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits and Street Life 20 Great Hits by Roxy Music, both bought at the same time as buying my first CD player in 1986

First Now: Never had one, but did have a couple of those dodgy 'Top of the Pops' albums

First Download: Black and White Album by the Hives via Mininova

First Gig: Hawkwind at Chatham Central Hall in 1975

First Glastonbury:2011

Age: 57

Edited May 18, 2017 by tjamest

[waterfalls212434]

First single: ATB 9pm till I come, on tape (prob not first but the first I remember actively buying for myself)

First album: Remember listening to greatest hits of frankie goes to hollywood and bonjovi a lot back in the day though I think they were my old mans.

First tape: Weetabix promo tape with a tears for fears track on one side and thompson twins `dont mess with dr dream on the other...how I remember that so in depth I dont know.

First CD: First cd I ever bought myself was a `metal mania` compilation album I begged my old man to let me buy as the cover looked cool.....little did I know it would influence my entire future musically, first track was rip ride by venom, it also had motorhead, girlschool and others on it....I was hooked, that was the cd that got me away from pop music lol

First download: not a clue

First 'now' album: Now 33 seems to ring a bell for some reason

First gig: One minute silence supported by breed 77 at the exeter phoenix back in the early 00`s deep in the world of `nu metal` at the time.

First glastonbury: 2013

Age: 33


I randomly looked up some of this old shit......http://aurallyyours.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/weetabix-top-trax-top-trax-ii-various.html (guess I had `Bixie's Cassette - Top Trax II` )

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/various_artists_f2/metal_mania___volume_one/

blasts from the past! thankyou for this thread, good memories

Edited May 18, 2017 by waterfalls212434

[CajunMoon]

First single: Living Doll Cliff Richard & the Young Ones.

First album: Five Star - Silk & Steel

First tape: Now 4

First CD: Best of J.J. Cale 

First download: no idea.

First Now album: Now 4.

First gig: UB40

First Glastonbury: 2007

Age: See answers above!

[slash's hat]

Lot of don't knows to the first download, just not as memorable as a trip to woolies. 

[Fishman]

First single: Milk & Alcohol - Dr. Feelgood which I've always been quite proud of; 2nd single Some Girls by Racey, less so.

First album: Whatever You Want - The Quo

First tape: No idea.

First CD: Led Zep - Remasters

First download: Not a clue

First gig: Rush - NEC, May 1983

First Glastonbury: 1995

First Glastonbury Headline Set: Prodigy

Age: 48

[Junglist1981]

I like this a lot, it's like being back on Myspace.

First single: Snow - Informer 

First album: Michael Jackson - Dangerous

First tape: The top 40 of the year 1990 taped off radio 1 at New Years. Tracklist was this, think my recording starter around number 31 http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1990.shtml 

First CD: Not sure at all, gonna go with Sasha & Digweed's Renaissance Mix Collection because I definitely had it early and it's cool.

First download: Daft Punk gave away free downloads of reworks and remixes with Discovery. The CD case had a credit card thing inside, you entered the code on the website and very very slowly downloaded the tunes. Favourite one this rework of Aerodynamic 

First 'now' album: 26! 

First gig: I was a late bloomer, think it was Jurassic 5 in Bristol Academy in 2002(?)

First glastonbury: 2003 - I didn't handle it very well at all lol

Age: 36

[Havors]

I got my mum to buy me Michael Jackson - Off the Wall & Bad when I was about 8 years old.

First Album I bought with my own money was probably Nirvana - Nevermind

[The Placid Casual]

First single: Blur - Under the Westway. I didn't get into buying vinyl until then and I never bought CD singles

First album: Busted - Busted

First tape: Some holiday track one, that had In the Navy on it

First CD: Busted - Busted

First download: Oasis - Stop the Clocks

First 'now' album: Now 53

First gig: Busted - Sheffield Arena 2004

First Glastonbury: 2013

[stuartbert two hats]

6 minutes ago, The Placid Casual said:

First single: Blur - Under the Westway. I didn't get into buying vinyl until then and I never bought CD singles

First album: Busted - Busted

First tape: Some holiday track one, that had In the Navy on it

First CD: Busted - Busted

First download: Oasis - Stop the Clocks

First 'now' album: Now 53

First gig: Busted - Sheffield Arena 2004

First Glastonbury: 2013

You going to be there at Avalon?  I went to see my first musical love, The Cure for the first time a few months ago and I thought they were pretty terrible.

[The Placid Casual]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You going to be there at Avalon?  I went to see my first musical love, The Cure for the first time a few months ago and I thought they were pretty terrible.

Clash dependant, but I'll consider it for sure. I'll know every word to all the old tracks 

[The Red Telephone]

First single: Think it was "Do They Know It's Christmas" from Boots, Nuneaton.

First Album: I used to have tapes bought for me when I was young that it was thought I'd like, but the first one I can remember buying with my own money was "Appetite For Destruction" from Exeter Services, Summer 1988.

First Record: I bought Inspiral Carpets "Life" on vinyl from Eastern Bloc in Manchester, 1990.

First CD: Got my first CD player in 1991 and got "Screamadelica".

First download: Very late to the Internet as I didn't think it would catch on...can remember downloading Dangermouse's "Album" illegally at some point in the mid Noughties and burning it to CD.

First Now Album: I had one with Morrissey and Hue and Cry on. Whichever one that was!

First gig: I was taken to watch the Wombles and the Bay City Rollers when i was 1 at Mallory Park, but I didn't have much say in it. Properly, it was the Happy Mondays at the NEC in 1990.

First Glastonbury: 1994. Took my first E to Orbital. Life changed.

Age: 41

Edited May 18, 2017 by The Red Telephone

[giantkatestacks]

24 minutes ago, slash's hat said:

Lot of don't knows to the first download, just not as memorable as a trip to woolies. 

At 15 I worked on the record counter at Woolies on Saturdays. Dream job.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

First single: Edelweiss - Bring Me Edelweiss

First album: Salt N Pepa - A Salt With A Deadly Pepa

First tape: Depeche Mode - Violator

First CD: Nirvana - Nevermind

First download: Can't remember

First 'now' album: Now 10

First gig: Numerous raves 93-95, but my first gig was Oasis at Earl's Court

First Glastonbury: 2008

Age: 39

[Avalon_Fields]

Showing my age, as ever:

First single: T Rex, Hot Love (Or Slade Coz I Luv You), 1971

First album: Led Zeppelin IV (Remains unbeatable) 

First tape: Will have been a self-made compilation of some dodgy 1970's stuff no doubt. Still got a box of cassettes in the attic

First CD: I think it was a Dire Straits album.

First download: Plenty of illegal downloads catching up on all the acts I'd missed, first legal download looking at my itunes was Gnarls Barkley's Crazy in 2006

First 'now' album: Happily missed out on those

First gig: Ten Years After, 26th October 1972, The Hard Rock, Manchester...now sadly a B&Q. Thereafter Hawkwind Space Riitual tour and Uriah Heep in the legendary Glasgow Apollo

First Glastonbury: 2003, saw Radiohead, REM & Moby, probably remains my favourite headliners. First band seen was The Darkness opening the Pyramid.

Age: 60 & 1/4

[slash's hat]

8 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

 

First tape: Will have been a self-made compilation of some dodgy 1970's stuff no doubt. Still got a box of cassettes in the attic

 

I've got a load of tape singles and albums including stuff nicked off the radio. All sound as ropey as hell. Have replaced the favourites with CDs, but still can't bring myself to just chuck them out. Was surprised to see Royal Blood offering tapes as an option for their new album, surely not going to have the same revival as vinyl.

[maelzoid]

First single: Rat Rapping by Roland Rat from Father Christmas. First one I bought was Loverboy by Billy Ocean

First album: Dream Into Action by Howard Jones

First tape: Ghostbusters soundtrack (also along with my first 'walkman' which was not a Sony but a Saisho) and tragically also The Album by Roland Rat (I listened to this on Youtube recently - dire). First one I bought was probably Hits 2 

First CD: The Essential Jean Michel Jarre

First download: American Woman by Lenny Kravitz in 1999 from Napster. I remember being blown away by how good mp3 sounded considering it had taken only 30 minutes to download via dialup and was free.

First 'now' album: Now 5 on double vinyl (preceded by The Hits Album)

First gig: Simple Minds - NEC - 23/09/89

First Glastonbury: 1993

Age: That should be fairly easy to deduce from the above

[maelzoid]

6 minutes ago, slash's hat said:

I've got a load of tape singles...

Surely you meant to say Cassingle

[guinness_guzzler]

First single: Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name

First album: Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn (my brother gave it me as he had 2)

First tape: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

First CD: No Idea

First download: Not a clue

First compilation: Taped off radio 1 charts one sunday night in the early 80's

First gig: Whitesnake, NEC January 1988

First Glastonbury: 2008

First Glastonbury Headline Set: Kings of Leon

Age: 45

[Guy Incognito]

First single: no idea

First album: Gorillaz - Demon Days

First tape: R.E.M - Reckoning

First CD: see first album

First download: No idea

First Now album: never owned one

First gig: Fleet Foxes, Hammersmith Apollo 2011

First Glastonbury: 2015

Age: 20

[Cuzzy]

First single. Kings of the wild frontier,  Adam and the ants

First album can't really remember probably some sort of compilation lp

First tape  top 40 with Tony Blackburn

First cd might of been roobarb and custard,  shaft 

Download dunno

First now 8

First gig 1987 ish the mac lads, fleece and firkin Bristol

First Glastonbury.  2017

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[The Placid Casual]

Edited May 18, 2017 by The Placid Casual

[The Red Telephone]

2 hours ago, Hugh Jass said:

 

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

 

I saw loads of bands at the Aston Villa Leisure Centre - used to love it there! There, Leicester De Montford Hall and Wolves Civic were the mainstays of my gigging in the early to mid 90s. As far as i know only the latter is still used for gigs.

[arcade fireman]

First single: Don't Look Back in Anger, I was 10 years old

First album: Whats the Story Morning Glory

First tape: see above

First CD: No Surprises CD single

First download: Half the World Away from Napster at a guess

First Now album: Never got them

First gig: Radiohead @ Manchester Apollo, 2003

First Glastonbury: 2004. It took most of the day to get through, I think i eventually got tickets after about 11 hours or something! Bring back those days as long as the sale is on the weekend - maybe not quite as long a sale but that really rewarded perseverance!

[CaledonianGonzo]

26 minutes ago, SPTFRE said:

First single: Edelweiss - Bring Me Edelweiss

Quite amusing in the context of all this chat about The KLF.

[Graf21]

First single: Eminem - Lose Yourself w/ b-side of Renegade

First album: Enrique Iglesias - Escape (must have been on the naughty list that year)

First tape: What's one of those?

First CD: See first single

First download: The Fratellis - Costello Music

First 'now' album: Now 65

First gig: Oasis at Heaton Park in 2009, when I was 15 (supported by Kasabian and The Enemy)

First Festival - Kendal Calling 2013

First glastonbury: First time this year!

Age: 23