- I'm fairly certain that I'm the least cool person here.
- I don't buy records, but I still call everything I listen to a 'record.'
- I don't listen to the weird electronic stuff that DC does...unless it's DC's weird electronic music.
- I do actually own records, but 90% of them were purchased between 1987-1989 and are hair metal bands.
- That was not a joke.
That said, I will effort to prove I belong. I look forward to being ragged on for my pop sensibilities and general dorkiness.
The record that I can't stop listening to right now is The Slow Wonder by A.C. Newman. He's the lead singer of The New Pornographers whose records I mostly like (and not because they're from Park Slope.) Up-tempo stuff is fun, yet not predictable and the slower stuff is spectacular. Best track for me is Come Crash. That's all I got.
Not sure if this is the accepted demeanor here, but I'll pose this question to the group:
What's the first record you ever bought with your own money? For me it was Licensed to Ill, and damnit, I'm proud of that.
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Technically, records are data that is recorded on any media, so you are correct in calling them records. LPs, CDs, and cassettes are formats, and the data on them are records.
Anyway, I'm down with quality pop music, and The Slow Wonder is a good album.
I think the first album I bought with my own money was Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In. "CC, Pick up that guitar and talk to me!" I bought the CD off of a friend of my step-brother who got two of them by accident in one of those mail order cd/tape clubs - not off a blog. I already owned the tape, but that was purchased for me, and despite not actually having a CD player, I thought that purchasing the CD would be a wise investment in the future since I liked the record so much.
My first LP was given to me by my older step-sister, and that was either the Rocky III soundtrack or Quiot Riot - Metal Health. She gave me both, but the timeline is fuzzy.
I thought the New Pornographers are Canadian? I think the first record I bought was Hall & Oates.
my first album was ZOSO. The 1st CD I bought was a local comp featuring a track from my band at the time, which I thought was super cool.
The first phonographic recording I bought with my own money was Def Leppard's Pyromania. Young and dumb baby, young and dumb...
First Tape: Weird Al
First CD: REM "Green"
First CD I ever heard: ZOSO in Matt Varnishes basement in 7th grade. His dad was ahead of the curve.
DC you never bought vinyl when you were a kid? That would explain a lot.....
I'm trying to reclaim my lost childhood. BOO HOO HOO!!!
I loved Pyromania when I was a lad. My older step-brother had it. I was all about the cowbell. I know that "more cowbell" is a joke these days, but I was seriously into the cowbell.
The first CD I ever heard was probably Phil Collins or Whitney Houston or some shit.
In CT the classic rock radio stations had special CD shows where they would play whole albums from CD instead of LP. I don't recall being able to hear the difference from my crappy boom box.
I, too, am trying to reclaim DC's childhood so I can sell it back to him for a profit.
When I was 11 my mom took me to Kmart and I bought 2 tapes. Wham! and Purple Rain. My first vinyl LP was The Cult: Electric when it first came out. In 6th grade a kid across the street played Moving Pictures and Master of Puppets and I was never the same!
DC- not sure if you remember or not, but that CD player my pops got opened and loaded like a cassette deck and was about 7 or 8 inches tall. i remember watching the disc spin was a trip.
anyway, yo professor i feel you. good post. i too, have kids and catch myself singing thomas or elmo songs.
first cassettes: thriller, and then 2 years later, like a virgin. (i stared at that cover for a long time...)
first cd: can't remember. for some reason only check your head is coming to mind, but i would have been 18 then? i do remember, i tried to keep that CD LONGBOX in pristine condition.
hahaha re: cd longbox, that is old school
First cassette was probably Paranomia by Art of Noise.
First CD was The Land of Rape and Honey by Ministry.
I still have both somewhere!
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