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What was your first LP (or album in an equivalent medium) not including childrens?

My first was "Glass Houses".

But my first new wave LP was "Bananarama," unless you count Cyndi Lauper's "She's So Unusual".

My first LP as a child was the Chipmunks' christmas album (but I consider part of my "real" album collection today).

My first 8-track was Shaun Cassidy in around '76. I was 8 and obsessed![:0]
1st 45" - Duran Duran "The Reflex" with the cool fold out poster! (I was not a big album buyer because I didn't have a record player. I would get albums ONLY if I couldn't find it on cassette)
1st album - Smiths [i]Hatful of Hollow[/i] (import)
1st cassette - GoGo's [i]Vacation[/i] or Men at Work [i]Business as Usual[/i] ??
1st CD - Duran Duran [i]Essential Night Versions[/i] in 1999. Yah, I was late to the CD game, too.
1st mp3 - Bow Wow Wow "Baby Oh No" off WinMX

Gulp...[:I]
My First LP Purchase was "The Partridge Family" (Self Titled Album) from The Floyd Bennett Department Store in Hicksville NY (1970)
I Also Bought my 1st '45 "Knock Three Times" by Tony Orlando & Dawn then as well.

Played those on my 1st record player, one of those boxy suitcase jobs where the speakers and turntable would fold open and be left together or detached from each other.

Prior to that: (Kiddie Music Purchase) was Gene Autry's "Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer and other Christmas Songs", Pixie & Dixie & Mr Jinx, The Sound track album from Disney's 'The Aristocats'

1st LP received as a gift (Used- from My Big Sis's boyfriend)was The Beatles "Revolver"

1st compilation LP was K-Tel's "Believe In Music" (1972) Still have it , I think.

My LP record collecting began in earnest when I joined The Columbia Record Club around 1976. Boston, Boz Scaggs, ELO, Three Dog Night etc..

1st Nu Wave record purchase
(12")"Heart Of Glass" Blondie (1978)
('45) "Money That's What I Want" Flying Lizards (1979).
(LP) "Scary Monsters" David Bowie (1980)

1st Cassette Purchase(s) Go Go's "We Got The Beat" , Police "Ghost In The Machine", J Geils Band "Freeze Frame" (1981)

1st CD purchase (used- refused to buy new) was U2's "The Joshua Tree" (1987)

Funny... I don't even remember what my 1st mp3 was or when I nicked it.
(think it was off of some Ukrainian site)

Whew!.. I feel like I've given a confessional.[B)]

My first album was The Sesame Street. I remember I didn't put away and my friend dropped a doll on it and it broke. I cried.
Well you asked. hee hee

Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Desrves Favour. I loved it!

As a tot I had Davey Crockett, "Bang Goes Ol' Betsy" / "Be Sure You're Right, An Then Go Ahead" by the Frontiersmen, I think.

First New Wave - can't remember if it was Missing Persons or Plimsouls.

1974 in Iran, begged my dad to buy me "Nilsson Schmilsson" by Harry Nilsson. It was a bootleg cassette. In fact, I don't think I saw a legitimate copy of an album sold until the first time I went to Europe.

First album (which was actually an 8-track): Abba's Greatest Hits
First 45: "Gimme Dat Ting" by the Pipkins (backed with "Neanderthal Man" by Hotlegs, a band with some members that would actually go on to form 10cc)
First NW album: "Parallel Lines" by Blondie
First NW 45: "Mony Mony" by Celia and the Mutations (I think this was an offshoot of the Cramps)
First CD: I forget the title (it was ripped off from work by some guy I worked with who moved to CA), but it was P. J. Harvey's demo-release.

first 45: Harry Nilsson - Coconut
first lp: Cream - Heavy Cream
first new wave lp: Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
(cool thread!)

-mk-

My first 45, when I got my first record player at age 7, was the ABBA single,"Does Your Mother Know That You're Out?", and my first LP was an ABBA one. My first new wave album was either Duran Duran or the Human League.

Nowhere Girl[:I]

First 8-track - "Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits"
First Record Album- "Marianne Faithfull - Marianne Faithfull"
First 45 - "Blondie - "Hanging on the Telephone"
First New Wave Record Album - "Berlin - Pleasure Victim"
First CD - "Various - Punk & Disorderly, Vol. 1"

First 45's: various Motown
First LP: The Partridge Family
2nd and 3rd LP's: Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Black Sabbath's Paranoid (yes, I went from "I Think I Love You" to "War Pigs" in the course of a year! [:)])
First new wave LP: The Cars - The Cars (if that qualifies as NW), and B-52s - B-52s (Edit: after a whole year, I finally unkinked the brain cramp of my original response...)
First punk LP: Jim Carroll Band's Catholic Boy

[quote][i]Originally posted by kimiiii[/i]
<br>1st Kiddie: don't remember but I did love my Mom's West Side Story LP, I was going to grow up and be Maria. I still love that album, I have it on CD and DVD. I'm still going to be Maria.[/quote]God, I remember as a little kid listening to my mom's "Sound of Music" LP all the time. I should have known then I was destined for a life of musical theatre, interior decorating, and mixed drinks.

1st 45: I Wanna Hold Your Hand - The Beatles (Dad bought it for me)
1st 45 I purchased: Pinball Wizard - The Who
1st LP: Madman Across The Water - Elton John (as a gift)
1st LP I purchased: Toys In The Attic - Aerosmith
Last LP: I can't even remember.
1st Cassette: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
1st 8 track: On Your Feet Or On Your Knees - Blue Oyster Cult
Last 8 Track: Eat To The Beat - Blonde
1st New Wave 45: My Sheronna - The Knack
1st New Wave LP: My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello
1st "12" inch single: The Message - Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five
1st CD: Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

First LP - Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke

First New NW LP - Depeche Mode, People are People
First Used NW LP - Missing Persons

First NW Cassette - Devo, Freedom of Choice

First NW CD - Depeche Mode, Violator

[quote][i]Originally posted by G.Gone[/i]
<br>Last LP: I can't even remember.
1st CD: Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
[/quote]When I changed formats, my last LP was "Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine " (Daryl Hall) and my first CD was "The Bridge" (Billy Joel)