My first album was a Christmas gift, Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol. 1, which I still have stashed in a milk crate with all my other LPs. I think I was 12. I also have it on CD; got it as a present too, not that long ago. I still like it, although my 16-year-old has been playing it lately too, so I'll have to liberate it from his CD player.

My God I'm old, My first Album was A Burl Ives Album when I was like 7 years old, it was a Christmas gft from my Mom.

lol Jenny! the first album I can remember having was Thriller! Ahhh I was 8 years old. Billy Jean is a staple whenever I dj! I remember having a muppets record player. The second album I remember is the Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffle!

My pops had a Cheech & Chong record that had the huge rolling paper in it. "knock knock knock. hey man, it's me Dave, open up I got the stuff." "Dave's not here" hilarious!

I got a copy of Neil Diamond's "Hot Summer Nights" from my mother when I was just a tyke...I still have it somewhere, tho it has been out on loan for a few months now.

The first album I paid for was either Stevie Nicks' "Bella Donna," which reminds me of roller skating, or "Grease." And, yes, I CAN do the hand jive.

While I had others, I think "Thriller" was the first album I went out to buy--we got it from Zayre on Pendleton Pike if I remember correctly. My mom still has it.

Also, the "Ghostbusters" soundtrack was up there too, though it was unfortunately warped in the hot summer sun.

I also remember buying Culture Club's "Colour By Numbers" at a garage sale.

I think the first cassette tape I bought was the Jacksons "Victory" back in I think '84 or '85. I still have the tape, but not the case.

If I remember correctly,the first album I bought was Rolling Stones'"Let it Bleed".

Show off.

Mine was the Whitney Houston tape with 'I Wanna Dace with Somebody' on it. I can't remember the name of the full cassette. It makes me think of my aunt Susan, and for some reason I keep picturing Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth perfume bottle, but that was years later...

Mine was "Tears for Fears", the one with "Everybody wants to rule the world" and "Shout", and of course my 11 year old girl personal favorite "Head Over Heals"...I still have it. Cassette tape.

Queen A Night at the Opera or the Tommy soundtrack. I don't remember which was first...I think I was 7. My uncle bought them for me...he was awesome!

Mine also was Queen: A Night at the Opera on vinyl. Saved up my allowance for 2 months! Back then, I thought their sound was the best, most unique music I had ever heard. 30 years later, it still holds true.

Mine was "Elvis Live" ...it was a recording of his TV special.

I'm pretty sure mine would have been Disco Duck on vinyl ... a classic. :P

First "contemporary" music I remember owning was the cassette-single of the Bangles "Eternal Flame"/"In your room."

First Album was Michael Jackson's BAD album...BUT I have brilliant memories of dancing like a madwoman to the Bangles' Different Light (more specifically - Track #3 - Walk Like an Egyptian) on the brown plaid couch in my parents basement.

All the first vinyl I owned usually involved, "At the sound of Tinkerbells wand...Turn the page."

The first cassettes I owned were The Police "Synchronicity" and Def Leppard's "Pyromania".

God it makes me feel old knowing I had a Def Leppard cassette back when the drummer had 2 arms.

sigh.

s.h.

If I remember correctly, my first CD was Warren G - Regulators. Or perhaps Garth Brooks - No Fences. Either way, it's really sad. (hangs head in shame). My musical taste has come a long way.

my first cassette tape album that I picked out was Yes 90125.

I had had 45's prior to that, and had a few tapes that my parents bought me as gifts, but that my first album selection.

The first piece of music I ever bought with my own hard earned money as a kid has to be The Cars Greatest Hits on cassette. Followed up the next week with Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks and The Smiths - Queen is Dead also on cassettes.

That Bangles album was the first cassette tape I ever bought with my own money.

First record I ever bought was a 45 RPM single of I Saw Her Standing There by the Beatles. It was 89 cents at the GC Murphy store in Broad Ripple, basically where Scholar's Inn and Hotbox Pizza are at Collage and Broad Ripple Av.

The Beatles changed nearly everything in popular music, starting with that song. They'd been around for a few years, incorporating everyone else's music into theirs, but when they really did their own thing and released it in the US it made everybody stop what they were doing and notice. They were probably the most disruptive musical force of the era, James Brown being second to them. He was as disruptive, but the changes he introduced weren't accepted as immediately as the Beatles'.