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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: Lister on May 29, 2006, 11:46:35 pm
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So I was thinking about this: the first album you buy with your own money is very important, but also just as likely to be a horrible decision due to it being made while in your teens. For instance, the first album I bought was:
Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbours (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_up_the_Neighbours).
It had several singles on it that I had heard on top 40 radio and I bought it at K-Mart. I freely admit that I had no taste at the time. I do not know the wherabouts of this CD now; I have moved 4 times since I last remember seeing it and being embarrassed to hold it.
What was your first album? Can it show worse taste? I think not.
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It was Billy Joel's angriest album, Glass Houses.
Very closely followed by 'blue' Beatles greatest hits.
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The first album I bought on my own was Green Day - Dookie. The first album I forced my parents to buy was an Aerosmith's Greatest Hits.
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Queen -- News of the World
followed closely by:
Kansas -- Point of No Return
Styx -- Grand Illusion
ELO -- Out of the Blue
The Cars -- Candy-O
Pink Floyd -- Wish You Were Here
All on 8-track.
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Also, see this thread (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,1471.60.html) for an earlier discussion of this question. It starts about halfway down the page.
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On cassette or cd?
Honestly, I can't remember which cassette I bought... maybe Warren G - Regulate? I was into rap around my early teens.. I distinctly recall being in Target holding it. I'm not sure if I bought any before that myself.
Probably my first cd purchase was another weird rap album. I wish I had been in another musical phase so this would be more interesting :D
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It was Green Day - Nimrod. No I'm not proud of it. No I don't still have it. Thank you very much.
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I don't recall. When did I put my own dollars down rather than just bug one of my folks for it? Who knows. Even then, when was the money actually mine and not money my folks gave me? I remember buying Brother Louie by the Stories, Jackie Blue by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and Rikki Don't Lose That Number b/w Any Major Dude by Steely Dan at the Grants Department Store across the Street from the Little York Bowling Lanes with money my folks had given me for pinball. That's probably the first. I would have been 12-13 at the time I guess.
~Paul
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Grants Department Store
We had a Grants. It later became a Big K, then a Mr. Wiggs.
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First album - Phil Collins "No Jacket Required." Bought at the same time with Billy Joel "An Innocent Man."
First CD, many years later: R.E.M. "Out of Time"
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The soundtrack to the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (http://www.qwantz.com/fanart/qwantz_turtlepower.jpg) movie.
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hm. I believe it was "astro lounge" by Smash Mouth.
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The Simpsons "Sing the Blues".
In my defense, I was pretty young at the time.
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First CD was Pearl Jam's Ten.
I don't remember the first cassette but most of them were purchased for me, anyway. I did have Nirvana's Nevermind on cassette before Ten though.
Also owned before those two:
MC Hammer: Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Buddy Holly: Some kind of compilation
Ritchie Valens: Some kind of compilation
The Fat Boys: Can't remember which one (I'd recognize it by sight but can't find any cover scans)
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I do not remember what record or album I bought first... but I do remember the first compact disc I ever bought was.
Use Your Illusion 2. It's one of the ways I'm awesome.
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Cassette: The B-52's/Self Titled
I still have them all. Me & Spouse listened to the B-52's cassette on the way to the hospital today.
I love you, Mr Asher.
My first album: Blur - Parklife.
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Blood Sugar Sex Majik - Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I bought it off my older brother for ten bucks when he got sick of it.
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The Cocktail soundtrack on cassette. Followed quickly by some beach boys album that came out around that time, then some Paula Abdul, MC Hammer, and the aforementioned Bryan Adams tape. The Dirty Dancing soundtrack was in there somewhere as well.
In other words, I was a girl in the late 80s/early 90s. No New Kids on the Block, though.
First CD? I think I got a columbia house membership when I was 14. I got Green Day's Dookie and a Hootie and the Blowgiraffe album out of that.
Best childhood music: Sesame Street Disco on vinyl. I have no idea where that is now, unfortunately.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication, on cassette (because I was cheap, and, in my youthful innocence, wanted to singlehandedly repopularise cassettes).
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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication
Did I ever mention that I saw RHCP on the Californication tour and my seats were situated on the right side of the stage. I didn't have a very good view of the band, but I could clearly see Rick Rubin, Chris Rock, and Christina Ricci all sitting on the side of the side of the stage just behind John Fruscante's guitars taking in the show.
Pretty cool show too, but they were better two years later on the By the Way tour, they improvised more.
~Paul
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Can't remember the first album I actually bought, but I know the first "real" rock record I got: Iron Maiden's Killers, from a friend for my 10th birthday. Still have that vinyl, though nowhere to play it.
Yes, I Was a Pre-Teenage Metalhead.
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man. Californication was the first record I bought entirely to impress someone else (a girl). I distinctly remember my thought process: "hm. I have enough money for one cd. And I really want this Led Zeppelin record. But... Erin would think I was cool if I bought this RHCP CD!"
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I'm not sure whether I actually bought these two at the same time, but my first two album purchases for myself were Semisonic's Feeling Strangely Fine and TMBG's Severe Tire Damage, neither of which I am ashamed of. Very shortly thereafter I purchased Fastball's All the Pain Money Can Buy, which I am sort of ashamed of, actually.
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i clearly remember purchashing a cassette of Genesis' abacab, but i do not recall why i chose that tape. i don't know who paied for it.
it was several years later before i purchased another tape, in a mall, in virginia, at, possibly, a Sam Goody's.
Rush's 2112 and Led Zeppelin's "4" were both mine from the discount cassette rack.
i wish i owned a ***** who could take all my boxes of cassette tapes, and eat them, defecating a more permenant storage media containing the sounds of those tapes.
and then,
the ***** could help me build a puppy.
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i wish i owned a ##### who could take all my boxes of cassette tapes, and eat them, defecating a more permenant storage media containing the sounds of those tapes.
and then,
the ##### could help me build a puppy.
That would be the most awesome ***** ever.
~Paul
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i wish i owned a ##### who could take all my boxes of cassette tapes, and eat them, defecating a more permenant storage media containing the sounds of those tapes.
Forget *****s, you need to get in on cassette/##### synergy (http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/index.blog?entry_id=1491590).
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My first self-made music purchase was the Miami Vice soundtrack on cassette from a Gold Circle. I didn't buy much after that until I started my adolescent rebellion and had to procure on my own the music that my dad hated. De La Soul, 3rd Bass and Public Enemy, allz. Those tapes were my soundtrack from age 12 to 16 or so, and then the Alt Rock took over hardcore and I signed up for Columbia House.
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First album i ever bought was Hit Machine 14, which was also my ex-bf's first. It had BOTH VERSIONS of the macarena.
BOTH. You can't beat that.
Can't beat MC Hammer though. Hammer time.
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A Hall and Oates live cassette.
I regret NOTHING
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First cassette I got my parents to buy me was by a Finnish rockabilly band none of you have ever heard of (Teddy & The Tigers, if you must know). In 1981 I think.
That was closely followed by Stray Cats' self-titled debut.
First cassette bought with my own money: Music From The Elder by Kiss.
First album bought: Rocket To Russia by Ramones. Either that or End of The Century by same.
First CD bought: either Welcome To my Nightmare by Alice Cooper or the Creeping Death/Jump In The Fire CD EP by Metallica.
Nothing to be shamed of there, methinks :)
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I distinctly remember that someone gave me a Garth Brooks CD (just part of the fun of the beautiful state of Oklahoma) as a birthday while young. Actually I remember who gave it to me, and now he is this really good drummer but in a religious indie band thing (more Oklahoma fun!).
Anyways, first cassette I got my parents to buy for me: MC Hammer
First CD I bought: Probably Dylan's greatest hits or something, although I am not for sure.
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Damn, even seeing some of the answers you lot have given, I still don't want to admit what the first album I bought was...
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Oh c'mon dude, it can't be worse than the Cocktail soundtrack. I mean, really.
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Oh c'mon dude, it can't be worse than the Cocktail soundtrack. I mean, really.
Really? OK... It was an INXS album.
I have to go and wash myself off again... My only defense is that I must have been about 8. Ok, two defenses - the music I was listening to that I didn't have to buy as my brother gave me it was all good! And it was purely because of a T shirt a girl gave me...
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"Flood", by TMBG.
eh...heh...hello
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Slink and Bozack back on the same day? Coincidence?
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Really? OK... It was an INXS album.
I have to go and wash myself off again...
No matter how hard you scrub, you'll never be clean.
Also, welcome back, even though you don't know who I am.
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Slink and Bozack back on the same day? Coincidence?
What can I say, I couldn't resist his charms any longer!
Doffs hat to Hobot. Why thankyou
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um yeah, my uncle tried hard to get me to listen to INXS recently. and I was trying equally hard not to laugh in his face.
obviously I am better than him, because I succeeded, but he failed.
...also, this is the same uncle who saw The Clash. and The Specials. Goddamn him.
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INXS was a good band before its singer killed himself while jerking off.
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INXS was a good band before its singer killed himself while jerking off.
When trying to find out what the hell Jough was talking about, I came across this fascinating list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_who_died_in_hotel_rooms).
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I didn't know André the Giant was French! Huh. Those Gargantuan Gauls.
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I didn't know André the Giant was French! Huh. Those Gargantuan Gauls.
Nor did I. I had heard he was Russian, which I guess is kind of close to Polish and Bulgarian. Kind of.
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Nor did I. I had heard he was Russian, which I guess is kind of close to Polish and Bulgarian. Kind of.
I always just assumed he was Russian or at least Eastern Bloc by his last name. This is why I should never assume, it makes concrete donkeys out of all of us.
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I always just assumed he was Russian or at least Eastern Bloc by his last name. This is why I should never assume, it makes concrete donkeys out of all of us.
Apparently you need to watch his A&E biography. Apparently he always carried a VHS copy of The Princess Bride with him and was always trying to get people to watch it with him.
And hey, the Concrete Donkey is the ultimate symbol for goodness and light. Don't be dissing the CD.
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When trying to find out what the hell Jough was talking about
The lead singer of INXS accidentally killed himself performing autoerotic asphyxiation.
See, cutting off blood flow to the brain shortly before climax results in a superiour orgasm, especially so in women, which is why so many girls like to be strangled during sex
Hutchence figured if it was good during sex it must be great during masturbation. The wanker took it too far though and killed himself.
Kinda gives a new meaning to "Suicide Blonde."
I have a copy of their "Kick" album and it still sounds good. It is a good album. "Never Tear Us Apart" is a quality song. "Devil Inside" too (although I can't sing along with it anymore without singing 'Intel Inside').
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Michael Hutchence had the best death ever.
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A kid I went to high school with went like that. His sister (a classmate of mine) was the one who found him. Rough times. Lotta awkward conversations had by all.
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When Andre the Giant was a wee lad (well, not very wee), he was too big to fit onto the school bus. So he had to get rides to school every morning with his next-door neighbor. And that neighbor was SAMUEL BECKETT.
Truth is stranger than etc.
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Only if he made it...
If so, it would be an exciting end. Climatic, even.
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If so, it would be an exciting end. Climatic, even.
You know, I don't think we've been introduced, but after that statement, I have to say hello.
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I had an awkward moment with friends a while ago when I made a joke about Autoerotic Asphyxiation. I tried to explain tactfully, and they just would not get it. so I ended up being very blunt. It was unfortunate.
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If so, it would be an exciting end. Climatic, even.
BAD Judy!
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You know, I don't think we've been introduced, but after that statement, I have to say hello.
Hello Bozack. I hope you 'take a shine' to me, because after seeing photos of you you look like you could take me in a fight.
BAD Judy!
I was trying to fit in the word 'ejaculation' somewhere, but it didn't come out right.
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...You've seen photos of me?
We're going to fight?
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Michael Hutchence had the best death ever.
You know, on the VH1 Behind the Music*, they play it as a suicide. Knowing what it actually was makes a lot more sense, and also explains all that hemming and hawing that went on with the announcement/statements. It's both more and less of a sad story.
I have been EDUCATED.
Also, if you were in The Princess Bride, would you not carry it around with you? If I was even remotely recognizeable in it, I'd wear a portable DVD player around my neck and keep it cued at all times. Unless maybe I played Prince Humperdinck. I'd be all, "That was ME! I'm the one who told the Count about Inigo giving us some trouble! Let's watch it again!"
This reminds me that I am INCENSED about this latest release of the DVD, because I bought the damn DVD when it first came out and it doesn't have anything but the movie on it, and now I have to buy the movie AGAIN and then I get to buy it again in five years whenever the format wars are over. GEEK RAGE
*I am sorry for watching this. I do not do it that often.
Also: I can't fault anyone for owning INXS music. I put them in the "made their music and became popular" category rather than the "made their label's music in order to be popular" category. I don't have real evidence of this. It is an opinion.
Also more: the whole reason I brought this up is that I have a theory that your very first music purchase with your own money usually says more about the tastes of people around you than your own tastes. Most of my early purchases were based on what I thought my friends would like rather than what I liked. What do you think, kids?
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No way dude. Just because YOU were a poseur doesn't mean that we all were.
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yeah, I was a pretty big poseur.
Although I am so much more Pure than any of my other indie-lovin' friends, because until I was like 14 I only bought a few CDs. And the first year of me liking music was All Beatles, All the Time. So my CD collection is pretty much good... there are only a few really really shameful albums. And then a few that are embarassing, but I can justify them as Hip at the time (at least, hip among my age group. Jet? Even then I knew that Jet were rip-off artists. But I own the album.)
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Also more: the whole reason I brought this up is that I have a theory that your very first music purchase with your own money usually says more about the tastes of people around you than your own tastes. Most of my early purchases were based on what I thought my friends would like rather than what I liked. What do you think, kids?
I guess that to an extent was true with, whichever INXS album it was. I was given a T Shirt by a friend, and I had no idea who this band were, so I bought an album. Listened to it a few times and then well, obviously 'parted ways' with it a considerable time ago, as I have little memory of owning it. So I'll blame others happily for that one.
And I'm sorry Jough, but I still can't forgive myself for it. I think it was Kick as well, and I while I do recall not hating one track by the end of my time with it, it really just... wasn't my bag. Which was a line from an INXS song no?
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Oh, Slink, don't be sorry for not liking INXS. I'm just saying that when I got "Kick" (by accident, because I had forgotten to send back the card that said "Do not send me anything this month, Columbia House Record Club") I listened to it and liked a few tracks. I just didn't know that INXS was considered not a good band until recently with their stupid reality TV show to pick a new singer.
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I just didn't know that INXS was considered not a good band until recently with their stupid reality TV show to pick a new singer.
Wow. That sounds, horrific! Like a car crash waiting to happen.
Yes, I speculate that their new singer will get off on auto-eroticism. Or would that be auto-auto-eroticism?
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Also, if you were in The Princess Bride, would you not carry it around with you? If I was even remotely recognizeable in it, I'd wear a portable DVD player around my neck and keep it cued at all times. Unless maybe I played Prince Humperdinck. I'd be all, "That was ME! I'm the one who told the Count about Inigo giving us some trouble! Let's watch it again!"
This reminds me that I am INCENSED about this latest release of the DVD, because I bought the damn DVD when it first came out and it doesn't have anything but the movie on it, and now I have to buy the movie AGAIN and then I get to buy it again in five years whenever the format wars are over. GEEK RAGE
This is a valid point. The line, "hello lady!" alone is cooler than choking Bob Uecker and winning the title and giving it to Ted DiBiase.
I'm pretty sure the Pricess Bride DVD is also one of the ones with RCE, which is specifically designed to fuck over people with region-free DVD players. As far as the format war goes, if HD-DVD wins then I weep for our dumbass culture.