What Was Your First...

[AKAtude]

What was the first album/vinyl/8-track/cassette/cd (whatever) you ever bought or got your parents to buy for you? Those animated read-alongs don't count! Although my first one was Winnie the Pooh.


Michael Jackson - Thriller
I remember my mama paid $14 for it out of a Bi-Lo grocery store. I must have been 8 yrs. old.

My second was the "Annie" soundtrack.

[DreamfulOne]

Mine would have to be Whitney Houston's cassette w/ the Greatest Love of All on it...I can't remember the album name.

[PrettyPetite]

It was the Purple Rain album (record). I don't know why, but I was always a fan of Prince....even when I was a little tyke.

[kiml122]

Ok I'm about to date myself, but mine was a 45 of the song Jimmy Mack. It was by Martha & the Vandellas. Yes I'ma mid 60's baby.My mom bought me that when I was really really young. I don't know why I liked that song so much, but I did, and I still do when I hear it on a oldies radio show.

[novella000]

My mom never really allowed me to listen to "secular" music before the age of 15... around that time I got a job and my first check I bought the following tapes:

Midnight Mauraders - A Tribe Called Quest
Diamond Life - Sade
Saturday Night Fever - Soundtrack
Greatest Hits - Little Johnny Taylor (not to be confused with Johnnie Taylor, although I looooooveeee me some JT)

[ClassyLady]

Okay, I do not buy CDs or tapes. I'd rather spend that fifteen or twenty dollars on a shirt.

The first tape that I ever got was Troop - My Attitude. That's the one with "All I Do Is Think of You" (I can't wait to get to school each day . . . . ) I still love that song


Many, many years later, I bought my first CD. It was Queen Latifah - Black Reign (U-N-I-T-Y, Who you callin a binch?) I spent $16.99 on it and I told myself that from then on, I can do without CDs if they're gonna cost that much.

Now, I have the hook-up because my sister works for a radio station, so all of my CDs are free.

[Sugar_N_Spice]

First CD I Bought: Stronger than Pride by Sade

I've never bought tapes for myself...my "hip" Mom listens to much of the same music that I do to this day, such as Jamiroquai, Erykah Badu, Maxwell, etc. so even back-in-the-day I never had to buy my own Kriss Kross or Tribe tapes--she bought it for all of us...

The joys of having a cool Mom...

[littlelady]

The Chipmunks, remember the little records. The first one I bought by myself was TLC, Ohh on the TLC Tip on tape.

[volgirl2376]

OK...Dont laugh, but when I was in the 8th grade, I thought Vanilla Ice was the hottest guy I had ever seen....so his tape was my first....although the lyrics were so raunche my mom threw it away. After that it was the Escape Club.

[squirrely girl]

don't feel too bad vol. i think the first tape i got was a gift and it was the "ice ice baby" single. nice eh?

marissa

[Ideal08]

It was either Thriller or Purple Rain.

[loviest95]

Michael Jackson's

"Don't Stop til you Get Enough" Single

I was very very young (preschool age) but I threw a fit for it..

And i took my daddy's Spinner's 8 track and hid it my room because I liked it and it was pink

[Exquisite5]

My first CD was Quincey Jones' "Back on the Block" (with Tevin Campbell's Tomorrow). My first tape was The Boyz, man I loved some Hakeem!

[tickledpink]

All This Love by Debarge. I bought it for myself. I thought I was in LOVE with El.

[prayerfull]

My Firsts - -

Jackson 5 - Mom and Dad bought it for me on tape.
(we also had an 8 track of them)

The firsts that I bought for myself -
Purple Rain, New Edition Candy Girl

I am a NEW EDITION FANATIC. In fact, as I type, sitting in the CD player of my car is NE Greatest Hits. My kids actually love Candy Girl and Popcorn Love. I would so much rather that they sing that instead of all that sleazy mess that kids like Jodeci and Ray J are making. Can somebody tell me what happened to music?

I still have a huge collection of vinyl records. In high school, my school had a radio station. I went to this private prep school in pebble beach, ca where I was one of about 10 black kids at the school (y'all are gonna trip when I tell you that the way they got the black boys was to go on this annual trip to oakland and recruit black boys to come to our school to play basketball. they'd give them full scholarships. they were all boarders - it was a boarding and day school - i'm not complaining though because otherwise i wouldn't have had any boyfriends!!!)

anyway, back to what i was saying - - the few of us black kids that were there, hosted this radio show called Super Soul Sunday. I was a DJ on the station. So, I've got all my records from high school. My best friend in college and I used to put on shows for people. We'd pull out those records and get down.

Sorry y'all that this is so long, but I'm reminiscing right now. I am truly a child of the 80's!!!