Your first Vinyl /Audio CD was...?

[Brahmsian]

My very first CD I purchased once I got my own CD player (when I was 15), back in 1990 was White Lion - Pride.



My first official classical music purchase was Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Naxos).

[Sergeant Rock]

These were the first two LPs I bought (I can't remember which was purchased first):




Surprisingly (or maybe not) I turned out gay. 

I don't know, Wendell. I had those records, too, and I'm sure Nancy and the whipped cream woman helped keep me on the straight and narrow path 

Sarge

[George]

When I got into classical, I think I bought five or six discs at once to get a broad sample.  Can't remember them all.

Kempff, Backhaus, Gulda, Annie Fischer and Schnabel playing Beethoven, no doubt. 

For me, on CD it's VH's 5150 and Seger's Night Moves.
On Cassette it's Run DMC's first album.
Classical was Szell's Beethoven Symphonies 1 and 6 on Sony Essential Classics.

[Jay F]

I don't see a way to add attachments, so I'll use words.

My first 45 was "I Will Follow Him," by Little Peggy March, in the spring or summer of 1963.

My first LP was Cloudy, with Occasional Tears, by Skeeter Davis, a Christmas gift to go with my new stereo, also in 1963. This would quickly be followed by Lesley Gore and Meet the Beatles.

My first CD? Maybe Streisand's The Broadway Album? I don't remember. It would have been sometime in 1986. I remember my first classical CDs perfectly, though. In January, 1987, I heard Schubert's last piano sonata while I was at Olsson's in Georgetown, and I had to have it. It was the one on Philips Silver Line, by Alfred Brendel, and it was my introduction to classical music, basically (beyond stuff I heard in movies). They were having a "3 for $25" sale, so I also bought the Brendel/Marriner Mozart PCs 23 and 27 and HvK's Galleria Beethoven 9.

And I was hooked.

[Jay F]

You can add images by using the image tagger icon - I've the plugged in the ones I could find but don't know if they are the ones you remember.

Thank you, Leon, for posting those. I must have bought "I Will Follow Him" late in its release, as I didn't get a picture sleeve. But the other two are just as I remember them.

Let's see. These must be the image tagger icons . Oops, they don't show up here. How do I get the image in there? How do I browse through my Pictures files?

[AllegroVivace]

Another vote for Technotronic! Can't believe I was listening to that!

"Get your booty on the floor tonight! Make my day!"
Pretty sophisticated, eh?

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Another vote for Technotronic! Can't believe I was listening to that!

You're asking for forgiveness? Granted.

"Get your booty on the floor tonight! Make my day!"
Pretty sophisticated, eh?

Maybe text for our GMG book authors

[jlaurson]

I started with tapes, copied by my father off the radio, which included the complete Bach Passions, lots of his organ music, and upon request, many Haydn Symphonies. My first vinyl as a kid (without having a player to make use of it) was an LP of bawdy Mozart songs, largely about defecation. 

Then my classical desires took a hiatus, into which fell my first sound-medium purchases.

I think my first vinyl purchase (I don't think it was the LP, but only the 12" single) was Alice Cooper's "Poison"  (+ "House of Fire"?)


Alice Cooper - "Poison"

My first CD was a stack of five, methinks... but if I remember correctly (I'm too lazy to go into the cellar and check to see) this should have been No.1


Van Halen - "Van Halen"


My first five classical CDs were:

m. ravel           bolero etc. [unknown label, more an accident]
w.a.   mozart   requiem + charpentier: te deum [forgot the label, strangely... maybe the Malgoire on Sony - the disc I consider my true first classical CD]
w.a.   mozart   zauberfloete - WPh, WStOpCh / Boehm / Gueden, Simoneau, Lipp, Boehme, Berry, loose, Hellwig, Ludwig, Roessel-Madjan... [London]
j.s. bach           ouvertueren (orchestral suites) - Gardiner [Erato] {Always remember them as Koopman, because of Erato, but it's Gardiner, after all}
j. rheinberger   organ concertos op. 149, sechs stuecke op.150 [Capriccio]



Bach, Orchestral Suites
Gardiner, EBS

[Wanderer]

[Brian]

BTW the Sibelius 4 with Ashkenazy: Is it any good?

I like it a lot. It's a fast account, no movement longer than 10 minutes, but that made it very easy for me when I was just beginning to understand the symphony. I think slow readings like Maazel/Pittsburgh are for those who already know the bizarre, unhappy sound-world of the music and faster readings like Ashkenazy are for those who are still somewhat intimidated. Maybe. The Ashkenazy was really useful for me, though, and I still like it.

[prémont]

Kempff, Backhaus, Gulda, Annie Fischer and Schnabel playing Beethoven, no doubt. 

Reminds me of my first LP, which was Beethoven´s op. 31. no. 2 and 3 with Kempff (mono) - a birthday present from my elder sister..

My first CD(s) was the Brandenburg concertos with Reinhard Goebel.

[kishnevi]

My first CD(s) was the Brandenburg concertos with Reinhard Goebel.

That may have been my second CD purchase.   That or Kunst der Fuge with Goebel/MAK.  The Solti recordings of Nozze di Figaro and Meistersinger rounded out the first five, IIRC.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

I started with tapes, copied by my father off the radio

Oh yeah, that's what I did. I had a nice collection of self-recorded tapes. Unfortunately, I don't have them any more I remember I wrote a complaint to the radio guy from "WDR 1" because he always started talking before then end of a music piece, which really annoyed me. I received an answer, he felt rather offended and didn't change anything WDR1 Disco Night - Acid House era, tape recording, oh long gone... I must be old (I am, I'm close to 40 and have a dog now).

m. ravel           bolero etc. [unknown label, more an accident]

In any case true. "Bolero" and "Accident" are an unrivaled duo.

[kishnevi]

( I remember I wrote a complaint to the radio guy from "WDR 1" because he always started talking before then end of a music piece, which really annoyed me. I received an answer, he felt rather offended and didn't change anything

I've heard that announcers do that on purpose, for the exact purpose of discouraging people from taping off the air.

A dormmate of mine in college religiously taped every Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinee broadcast (late 70s).   Since I lost touch with him as soon as we graduated, I have no idea of what the current status of that collection might be.

[AllegroVivace]

You're asking for forgiveness? Granted.

Actually I just went and listened to "Pump Up the Jam" on YouTube after all these years, and I have to admit, there's something there. Its creativity is simply working in a different paradigm. What's more striking is the quality of the music video. It's possible that close to half a million was spent on it, but I am sure a kid could make a better one on an iPhone today.

[jlaurson]

My first CD was a stack of five, methinks... but if I remember correctly (I'm too lazy to go into the cellar and check to see) this should have been No.1


Van Halen - "Van Halen"


My first five classical CDs were:

m. ravel           bolero etc. [unknown label, more an accident]
w.a.   mozart   requiem + charpentier: te deum [forgot the label, strangely... maybe the Malgoire on Sony - the disc I consider my true first classical CD]
w.a.   mozart   zauberfloete - WPh, WStOpCh / Boehm / Gueden, Simoneau, Lipp, Boehme, Berry, loose, Hellwig, Ludwig, Roessel-Madjan... [London]
j.s. bach           ouvertueren (orchestral suites) - Gardiner [Erato] {Always remember them as Koopman, because of Erato, but it's Gardiner, after all}
j. rheinberger   organ concertos op. 149, sechs stuecke op.150 [Capriccio]



Bach, Orchestral Suites
Gardiner, EBS

HA! I checked. The top-five included "Van Halen" (at No.5), but No.1 was


Scorpions, Savage Amusement

My first classical CD WAS this one, after all ("CD No. 53")


Mozart + Charpentier,
Jean-Claude Malgoire
La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy
Sony

The Te Deum is particularly good on it, I find. Better than more famous recordings with more famous singers (i.e. Hotter).

The Bolero was this one, but came quite a bit later. ("CD No.100")


Mozart + Charpentier,
Anton Nanut / Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana
"World Famous Masterpieces"

We've come a long way, since.

[Papy Oli]

2 of my first 45 rpm singles bought in 1983...

[vandermolen]

First LP of any sort was probably 'Please Please Me (The Beatles)' or 'With the Beatles'. First classical LP was Scheherazade by Rimsky Korsakov (RCA, Reiner Boston SO).  First CD (before I had a CD player!) was Tubin Symphony 2 and 6 (BIS, Jarvi).

[jwinter]

First LP:



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First classical CD:



If there's a recording of anything anywhere that kicks more @$$ than Szell's Tannhauser Overture, I've never heard it.  Every time I hear it, I'm 12 again and wondering if my speakers will melt from playing it so loud.   

[snyprrr]

This Thread is a trap!!


However, I am proud to say that I have you all beat in the Classical cd category. As I recall, my first classical cd was Suk's Asrael on Virgin. Of course, at the time, I'm sure I wished it sounded more like the Gorecki (which was years off). I tried to like it, but even the minor key couldn't save me,... and so the search began...