Your first?

Thought it would be fun to post our musical histories here. Some will go back further than others, I'm sure.

by Deb NY on March 3, 2010 10:47 PM

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First Concert:
Stevie Nicks at the New Jersey Meadowlands arena in 1983. (My dad had to drive my cousin and I from Queens since we had no way to get there.)

First Album purchased with my own money:
Blondie - Parallel Lines (I really wanted to be Debbie Harry at the age of 10)

First CD purchased:
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

First Single I remember:
"Raindrops Are Falling On My Head" by BJ Thomas (Played it on my Radio Shack portable record player over and over at 4 years old. Still have the single in my collection.)

by Deb NY on March 3, 2010 11:06 PM

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J Geils. went with the family. i was about 7 years old and remember asking my dad what those funny looking cigarettes were.

first album Pink Floyd "Side Of The Moon".
first cassette i bought was Aerosmith "Toys In The Attic".
first cd u2 "Joshua Tree"

by megel on March 4, 2010 10:39 AM

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First concert: Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie in 1995 (when I was 12). My mom took me. I went away from it loving Bowie and my mom went away from it loving NIN. Still one of the better shows I've seen. What furious intensity!

First cassettes owned: Snoop Dogg's 'Doggystyle,' Aerosmith - the one with the cow on the front ('Get A Grip,' maybe?), Nirvana, 'In Utero.' I remember getting them in fourth grade.

First music I remember having an impression on me: Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata.' I remember listening to that and one of Bach's 'Invention' pieces on my way to school with my father, at age 9 or younger. Still love classical music.

by Stephanie on March 4, 2010 11:44 AM

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1st concert: 1986 - i was 14 when my brother took me to the asbury park boardwalk to see the annual WNEW concert. joan jett and the fabulous thunderbirds were playing that day. i got served in mrs. j's...

1st vinyl: def leppard's pyromania (via columbia house. it arrived warped but i still played the hell out of it)

1st cassette: fat boys' - the fat boys are back. krush groove just came out and fatboymania had overcome us all...

1st cd: metal church - blessing in disguise. still love that album.

1st single i remember: toss up between wings - "let em in" OR rose royce's "car wash" OR "disco duck".

by gordon getgo on March 4, 2010 12:07 PM

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First concert: Loverboy @ Timberwolf Amphitheater Kings Island
First album: Kiss Alive
First Cassette: Beatles White Album
First CD: Van Morrison's Greatest Hits Vol II
First single: Lido Shuffle Boz Scaggs

by Kid Millville on March 4, 2010 8:59 PM

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First Concert: (1988) Guadalcanal Diary
First Vinyl: ELO - Out Of The Blue
First Cassette: Def Leppard - Pyromania
First CD: The Clash - London Calling
First Single I Remember Hearing On The Radio: Boston - Don't Look Back

by mogaar on March 8, 2010 1:39 PM

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First concert 1978 Boston(the band), opening act- Smamy Hagar
Philadelphia Spectrum
First vinyl-45_1972 -Cream -Aside- White Room-Bside-Spoonful
First LP - 1973 Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
First 8 track - Allman Brothers- Brothers & Sisters
First CDs 1984 Kevin Eubanks -Sundance & The English Beat I Just Can't Stop It

by sharpe_skates on March 20, 2010 9:00 PM

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First concert "Die TotenHosen" (German punkrock) in 1986, maibe there was something before, its the first one i still remember
First Cassette: The Beatles - Blue Album (1979)
First Vinyl: John Lennon - Mind Games (1980)
First Single: Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen (1982)
First CD: The Cassandra Complex - Cyberpunx (1992)

by Ralf on March 21, 2010 5:47 PM

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First Concert:
jimmy page and robert plant, when i was 14

First Album purchased with my own money:
(i'll say cassette, though i do have a decent vinyl collection, it's all inherited) in utero by nirvana

First CD purchased:
i think it was bobby darin?

First Single I remember:
jamie's cryin by van halen

by slightlysinister on March 23, 2010 5:14 PM

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First Concert:
With parents - The Osmonds (I was about 6 and Donny Osmond was sooooo cute)
On my own - Duran Duran (I was 14 and Simon Le Bon was sooooo cute)
See a theme here?

First Album purchased with my own money:
J.Geils Band - Freeze Frame (it was a cassette), couldn't tell you what the first album was. Probaly something really embarrassing like Shaun Cassidy or some such nonsense.

First CD purchased:
I have no clue.

First Single I remember:
Little Willy by Sweet

by andrea on March 31, 2010 3:31 PM

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After years of refusing to take us see the Stones, Van Halen, The Who, etc, my father finally broke and took my brother and I to see The Police with REM opening at the Hartford Civic Center in 1983. Stewart Copeland has got to be one of the very best drummers ever. I can still see that blur of sticks and cymbals and sound...

First album? Funky Favorites - it had Lil' Red Riding Hood and Hello Muddah Hello Faddah - fun for the whole family!!! But, my first album by a band was Destroyer by Kiss. I know that was a gift, but as far as first one bought with my own money, I couldn't say. I was way overboard into rock fandom by age 5 or 6. Hot Rocks (Stones best of) got me off Kiss, though, in about 78. The intro to Gimme Shelter did me in.

Not sure how its even possible to remember the first song I remember, but it would likely be something from the ollllld Chicago albums my Mom used to play the crap out of!!! Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? or Colour My World, those songs always take me wayyy back.

by rockin on on April 4, 2010 2:56 PM

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First concert was the Simple Minds (sorry about that) but my real interest in music came along with the Smiths. Too bad I never got the chance to see them but I got over it.

Best concert: Pearl Jam in 1992, in front of 1200 people.

First album, bought with my own money: Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon.

Best album ever heard: Gentlemen, Afghan Whigs. Hearing that album always gives me the feeling like a tank bashes it's way through my house with me in it.

by DebonMac on April 19, 2010 5:14 AM

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First concert: Motley Crue with Guns N' Roses opening in 1988.

First album bought with my own money: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts "I Love Rock N' Roll."

First CD: Siagon Kick's self-titled debut.

by FuriousD on June 22, 2010 6:58 AM

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