Thursday, 25 May 2006
At the beginning of the month I posted a review of the Editors album, The Back Room. Since then, I’ve continued to enjoy the album and am happy to offer a giveaway that includes some pretty cool stuff.
The winner will receive a signed 7 inch, a copy of The Back Room album, plus a brand new pair of Converse All-Stars. If you’d like to enter the giveaway, please leave a comment letting me know what the first album/CD you bought, mine was REM’s Out of Time.
In other Editors news, make sure to check out this video of their song Munich.
May 25th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
I am not ashamed to say that my first CD purchase was Ace of Base. Who doesn’t find them one of the ultimate guilty pleasures?
May 25th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
The first CD I ever bought with my own money was either Hootie and the Blowfish’s “Cracker Rear View” or Green Day’s “Dookie.” Though the first CD I ever owned was Garth Brook’s self-titled. I still own two of those, but I’ll leave which ones up to the imagination.
May 25th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Huey Lewis’ “Fore!” was the first tape I bought, the first CD I bought was “Achtung Baby”
May 25th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
1st tape – U2′s Unforgettable Fire
1st CD – Metallica’s Black Album
May 25th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
The first LP (ha!!) I owned was The Simpsons – Sing the blues….. but the first CD bought with my money I think was Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill…. everything’s changed since those times!!
May 25th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
First cassette was the first New Edition album, I think it was self-titled. First CD was Too Legit to Quit by MC Hammer.
May 25th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
1st tape: Fat Boys – Crushin’
1st CD: Jimi Hendrix – Greatest Hits
May 25th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
First cassette I bought was New Kids On The Block “Step By Step”
First CD I bought was Blur’s “Parklife”
May 25th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
the first cd i purchased on my own (not a gift) was amy grant’s ‘heart in motion’.
i just threw up a little in my mouth!
so when do i pick up my prize?
May 25th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
First Cassette: Guns n’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
First CD: Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
I used to be so well-rounded.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
LP: Marmaduke Stories & Songs
TAPE: U2 – The Josuha Tree
CD: Pearl Jam – Ten
I think the only one I still have is the Marmaduke album. Random.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
first cassette; billy joel – greatest hits
first cd; radiohead – pablo honey
May 25th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
My first CD was Joshua Tree by U2. It’s still good.
May 25th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
1st tape: Naughty by Nature (the one with OPP on it. I was so cool in sixth grade)
1st CD: Beck’s Mellow Gold and Blur’s Parklife at the same time.
May 25th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
I think the first album I purchased was Hysteria by Def Leppard. And yes, you read that right. I know you’re all jealous.
May 25th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
First album: K-Tel collection that included Gary Neuman, Nick Cave, Joe Jackson, Pat Benatar and a few others that I cannot recall.
First CD: U2′s Boy.
Got around 50 total songs (or versions)on my iPod. This album is great and they sound even better in a live/acoustic setting. Wonder how many folks will be fortunate to say this was their first CD purchase?
May 25th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
hey great blog
love the Editors
i literally Just started a blog, Igotthemiracledrug.blogspot.com and im just trying to get the word out
May 25th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Oh and while Im at it
My first CD was Foo Fighters- There is nothing left to lose
and the first LP i bought was Pixies Doolittle
May 25th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
The first CD I bought was Better Than Ezra – “Deluxe” at a Kmart in Madison. I had just bought my first CD player, and my father reminded me that I should probably get something to listen to on it. I hadn’t thought that far ahead, and I had no idea what to get.
May 25th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Tape: Another Bad Creation… the one with “Aiesha” on it (did they have another one?)
CD: Boyz II Men – Cooleyhigharmony
I guess you could say I was a second cousin in the East Coast family. “back in school we used to dream about this every day. could it really happen? or do deams just fade away…”
May 25th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
August and Everything After by Counting Crows (still a great album, I think).
Plus, I agree with you on Editors – saw them at Coachella, and they rocked HARD.
May 25th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
First CD: Ace of Base – hey, it’s not that bad! I still have it somewhere.
First tape: Brian Adams’ Waking Up the Neighbours
May 25th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Ones I purchased myself-
Tape – Beastie Boys : License to Ill
CD – 3 at once…
Paula Abdul : Spellbound,
MC Hammer : Too Legit To Quit
Arrested Development : 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of…
May 25th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
8-Track: KISS – Destroyer
LP: AC/DC – Back In Black
Cassette: Led Zeppelin 4
CD: Grateful Dead – In The Dark
DVD-A: Lyle Lovett – Joshua Judges Ruth
iTune: House of Pain – Jump Around
May 25th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Thats hillarious to look back on and reflect. I actually bought two albums my first time purchasing.
1) Dumb and Dumber Sountrack
2) Dookie
“She don’t eat meat… but she sure likes the bone!”
May 25th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Billy Idol’s “Vital Idol”. How was I supposed to know what “Dancing With Myself” was about at the age of seven?
May 25th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Take off Your Pants and Jacket by Blink 182. I always had tapes before that.
May 25th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
My first CD was, embarassingly, Hanson. Hey – I was in 4th grade. I can assure you my musical taste has improved immensely since then.
May 25th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
The first album I bought was “GNR Lies” by Guns N’ Roses… On cassette no less. My parents weren’t too thrilled about that one.
May 25th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
I bought Metallica (Black album) in the store, but had ordered Nirvana – Nevermind from BMG. So i probably had metallica first, but had ordered nirvana before I bought it. So there you go.
May 25th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Weird Al Yankovic – Bad Hair Day
and it was awesome
May 25th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
The first album I bought was an “Archies” album in about 1969 or ’70. It was even some off-brand cashing in on their popularity because there were no pictures of the Archies on the cover: as I remember it the cover featured these unidentifiable plastic disc-like things. The songs sure pleased me, though: I was 9.
May 25th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Beach Boys- Greatest Hits
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Chronicle, Vol 1
I think they checked out the Beach Boys first, so they win.
May 26th, 2006 at 1:49 am
OkaU I def. remember Ace of Base But I think the very first was The sound Track from the Body Gaurd, Whitney Houston.
May 26th, 2006 at 7:48 am
First tape: Whitney Houston “Whitney”
First CD: Boyz II Men “Cooleyhighharmony”
That’s what happens when you give a grade schooler (the tape) and a middle schooler (the CD) money.
May 26th, 2006 at 9:19 am
CD: Squeeze-Singles, English Beat-What is Beat?, Pete Townshend-Empty Glass
LP: Elton John’s Greatest Hits
yeah, I’m a geezer
May 26th, 2006 at 9:21 am
love the editors.
first 45>paul mccartney – coming up
first lp> KISS rock and roll over
first tape>van halen
first cd> YES SONGS
other 45s i bought that im ashamed to admit. wierd al yankovich – yoda, styx – too much time on my hands, fleetwood mac – tusk, jgeils band – love stinks… for those of you who dont what what 45′s were… they’re like itunes, but with a label.
jeff
May 26th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Dream A Little Dream SDTK (Michael Damien covering “Rock On”)
-ben
May 26th, 2006 at 10:23 am
My first CD was “Meantime” by Helmet, and my first vinyl album was “Thriller” by Michael Jackson.
May 26th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
My first CD was also REM Out of Time, my second was U2′s Achtung Baby. My first tapes were Bon Jovi followed by C&C Music Factory. My last CD was Spin Doctors, over 12 years ago and it was so bad I haven’t bought a CD since.
May 26th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Dance Mix ’93 – featuring the single “Jump” by House of Pain. Rad!
May 28th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
The first CDs I bought were Miles Davis, Kind of Blue and Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced?.
May 29th, 2006 at 2:05 am
Pink Floyd – Wish ypu were here.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
First CD I purchased was Green Day’s “Dookie,” which is right around the time I was in sixth grade.
May 31st, 2006 at 7:22 am
the first cd i ever purchased was also “out of time”… i was really young and just freaking loved “losing my religion”.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:31 am
Not counting the 6 CDs I “purchased” for $.01 from Columbia House, my first real CD purchase was “What Hits!?” from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I loved their cover of Sly and the Family Stone’s “If You Want Me to Stay”.
(and sorry to say, my first cassette purchase was the Top Gun soundtrack. It literally took my breath away…)
May 31st, 2006 at 9:37 am
The first CD I got was actually two at the same time… both Beatles albums (The White Album and Sgt. Peppers)
May 31st, 2006 at 11:02 am
They Might Be Giants-Flood
I still listen to it a lot. Great record
May 31st, 2006 at 11:34 am
first cassette – duran duran, rio.
first cd – chicago 17 (the peter cetera era – yikes)
May 31st, 2006 at 1:16 pm
First CDs:
R.E.M. – Murmer
Roxy Music – Avalon
(Got them the same day)
Now first albums or cassettes, is a different story…
May 31st, 2006 at 2:07 pm
I remember staunchly believing at age 12 that CDs would be a passing fad, and sooner or later everyone would forget the new and embrace the infinite wonders of cassettes.
So when that dream died, the first album I bought was The Beatles Anthology: III.
First cassette though, was Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em by the Reverend MC Hammer. Those were the days…before I discovered something called “quality.”
May 31st, 2006 at 2:20 pm
The Bodyguard Soundtrack – Whitney Houston
My favorite song (aside from I Will Always Love You) was “I’m Every Woman”. Before going to school, I would blast it in my room and sing along to get pumped up for the day.
Looking back, it makes sense while I was growing up my mom thought I was gay.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Mine was “Waking Up the Neighbours” by Bryan Adams. It’s still goo-……ah, it’s terrible.
May 31st, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Blues Traveler – Four
Now that I think about that I may just have to try and find it.
May 31st, 2006 at 7:04 pm
My first CD purchase was a two-fer:
Beatles – Abbey Road
Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Yeah, I had England on the brain.
May 31st, 2006 at 8:49 pm
My first CD was the soundtrack to “Beverly Hills Cop III”, which seemed really cool at the time.
The one thing I could think of that was cooler than the song “Axel F” was the newer, more edgy version of “Axel F” on this soundtrack.
Now, it doesn’t seem as cool, but neither do I. Harumph!
–nt–
May 31st, 2006 at 9:49 pm
First CD: Duran Duran’s Thank You
First Tape: Doctor Suess’s Red Fish, Blue Fish (laugh all you want!)
June 1st, 2006 at 5:02 am
Aerosmith-Pump
Still go crazy whenever I hear “What It Takes.”
June 1st, 2006 at 5:13 am
i think it may have been kula shaker – k…
i still don’t hate it so i must have had ok taste as a ten year old…
June 1st, 2006 at 9:00 am
The first vinyl I bought was Paul McCartney / Michael Jackson – Ebony & Ivory 45 at K-Mart.
The first CD I bought was The Police – The Singles
June 1st, 2006 at 3:08 pm
First CD: Megadeth’s Countdown to Extinction
First cassette: a K-Tel Old School Rap comp from around 1985. Still the best mix of oldschool I’ve ever heard.
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:04 pm
The first album (vinyl) I ever owned was Kiss’s Destroyer (given to me by my next door neighbour). The first cassette I ever purchased on my own was Motley Crue’s Shout At The Devil. My aunt and uncle brought a copy home from China for my cousin. After hearing it, I knew I had to have a copy I could call my own. The first CD I ever owned (even before I had a cd player) was Stevie Ray Vaughen’s The Sky Is Crying. It was a gift from the same aunt and uncle who ultimately got me into Motley Crue. The first CD(s) I ever bought with my own money were Pearl Jam’s Ten, Nirvana’s Nevermind, Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger and Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque. I can’t remember which came first because it was so long ago and I tend to buy cds in bunches (much like I do today).
June 2nd, 2006 at 10:06 pm
The first CD that I bought was “Together We’re Heavy” by The Polyphonic Spree.
Don’t know why; maybe they just hit a chord.
June 4th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
The first CD I ever bought was kinda random: Mike Viola & the Candy Butchers’ “Falling Into Place”
My first cassette, I think, was a single of Toni Braxton’s “Breath Again”
April 1st, 2007 at 7:54 pm
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