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Probably this already existed but like i'm gonna go dig......

Me, french band called Indochine and a record called 7000 danses from 1987. I was 9. Very famous in the french world since their debut in 1981, arguably the most popular french band ever in fact (maybe you know them, maybe you dont, no idea how well recognized is the name outside of the french world), but have sucked for like 20 years, like really sucked (despite being still extremely popular though they had a huge slump in terms of popularity for about ten years in the 90's). They started new wave, very synthpop at first, sounded a little more organic after a while. They sounded kinda like...well here's a video of a single off that record, probably still my favorite song of theirs (it doesn't really kick in until about 40 secs in, the intro is not indicative):

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I still like all their 80's stuff. In the 90s they tried a britpop sound. In the 2000's...well fuck knows what sound that is but they basically owe their later life popularity to taking on emo aesthetics more or less (image wise). suddenly, french teenagers liked them (again), despite the fact that half the band was over 40 (every original member but the singer is gone). Total midlife crisis bullshit.

Despite their later suckiness It would have been a decent start on my musical journey if it wasn't that the SECOND record i ever bought was....Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth....obviously i still had a long way to go.

I just remembered Melissa Auf Der Maur actually did a song with them in the early 2000's.... so did Brian Molko. Gainsbourg directed one of their 80's video but while i like the song, the video kinda blows (then again it was the 80's)

firsts:

cheap trick - at budokan LP
grand funk railroad - we're an american band 7" (this was a year or so before cash car star came out so my mind exploded when it came out)

(The first records I got were audio books/stories/radio plays.) First music LPs were Christmas presents, '87.

- Leonard Bernstein
- Whitney Houston

My family told me what the lyrics were about, but I didn't care much. All I wanted was to DANCE.

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A Velvet Underground compilation LP, featuring songs from their first two albums. It had most of my faves.

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Three Car Garage: The Indie Recordings

in this thread does "record" mean a vinyl LP or just an album?

Oh vinyl I don't remember. Probably something equally bopperish but for teens, I'm thinking The Strokes - Room on Fire

first musical recording i bought for myself was probably siamese dream in 1997 on cassette. i was like 15 or 16.

surrounding that purchase though was MCIS on cassette and an Aqua cassingle, a few Bush albums, etc.

i was terrible at music in the mid-90's

p.s. i had the first hanson album on cassette AND their live album plus that 3 car garage thing. idgaf

Ok but 3 Car Garage is a hilarious title

a terrible title.

so, i used to sleep over my friend's house and he had a certified #hotdad but anyway so i'd bring over my cassettes and we'd listen to them at night because we weren't able to because religion and he laughed at me for having a hanson cassette and i was TERRIFIED he'd mention it at school on monday but he never did.

Stainless Steel Refrigerator With An Ice Maker: The Indie Recordings
AAA Membership: The Indie Recordings
Sonicare Toothbrush: The Indie Recordings

so, i used to sleep over my friend's house and he had a certified #hotdad but anyway so i'd bring over my cassettes and we'd listen to them at night because we weren't able to because religion and he laughed at me for having a hanson cassette and i was TERRIFIED he'd mention it at school on monday but he never did.

To think I was rockin to Hanson right in the open
My parents were actually the only ones who made fun of all the music I liked

in my non-defense i was like 14 when middle of nowhere came out so i was way too old

My parents got me Five's first album on cassette, then their second album Invincible on CD for Christmas the year it came out. Those were the only two albums I had for a while, then I unceremoniously threw them out, wanting to distance myself from them in a same way that a child might grow out of their old baby toys.

I didn't religiously listen to music for a while until I was 14, when I bought Green Day - American Idiot and Good Charlotte - The Chronicles of Life and Death

The cycle repeated itself with all the pop punk bands I used to like.

Oh if we are not talking lps then my answer is weird als even worse on cassette

Three Car Garage: The Indie Recordings

I laffed

Oh if we are not talking lps then my answer is weird als even worse on cassette

Running With Scissors was one of my first CDs, although I think my sister paid 12 dollars and I put in 1 dollar cause that's all I had.

actually I think the very first album I bought was either Fastball or Savage Garden

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I loved this shit when I was 8

I saw savage garden live in 2000 at the age of 18. i still like a handful of their songs idgaf

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This was the one I liked. That chorus http://forums.netphoria.org/wwwboard/icons/icon14.gif

My neighbors were obsessed with this song too and I think it's better than the singles

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Savage Garden had a good number of successful hits for just having two albums

pretty sure it was 2 legit 2 quit on cassette if we're doing that

as far as vinyl it was swans of course

Madonna Ray of Light

still think its a great album

boys II men. i think. first few were that, dookie, eagles - hell freezes over, dangerous minds soundtrack (gangsta's paradise, bitches), presidents of the usa, weird all one with lump/amish paradise and alt. polka that had BWBW in it. possibly that was more than one record and I had a few different weird Al. mcis was probably like number 6-8.

7"
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LP

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Crowded House - Crowded house.

Mean to me? Don't dream it's over? Hole In The River? Classic. Stone cold five star classic.

First cassette - Really hard to say, probably Weird Al Even Worse when I was like 9 or 10.

First CD - I think I bought Sgt. Pepper when I was 12 or something, at the Mall of America.

First vinyl - I remember most of my LPs were hand me downs, so I don't think I really bought anything. Might have eventually been either a Lifter Puller or a pAper chAse 7" at one of their shows when I was 19 or 20.

first tape had to be weird al's greatest hits when i was 10 or 11, probably in '89.

first cds i got were the guns n' roses' use your illusion albums. shortly after i acquired a bunch by abusing columbia house/bmg.

first lps i bought were at a flea market type thing when i was 15 or 16, grateful dead's 'terrapin station' and zeppelin's 'song remains the same'. it was at least 10 years before i got to listen to them properly.

Sure is Weird Al in here.

Get on our level

Yeah i didn't mean vinyl. I meant any recording. I still haven't bought a vinyl and don't plan to. Full digital here. fuck physical possessions.

Not literally. though if that's your thing...

What's the first record you had sex WITH?

For me, George Michael's I Want Your Sex single.


it was kinda asking for it.

don't act like you've never owned a CD you dunce

my first cds were the ace ventura 2 soundtrack and the presidents of the united states of america s/t

(i was late on the cd game)

Yes i mean i went full digital eventually. I do have a small CD tower somewhere in the storage room that i havent touched since i ripped all the CD's i cared about in it over ten years ago. I haven't bought a physical record (CD) since 2001.

(i was late on the cd game)

so was I. my first CD was Green Day's Dookie. So like 1994. It had been cassettes before.

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But 5ive was my favorite boy band.

Full digital here. fuck physical possessions.

I have like a 1000 books but read maybe 4 a year. And that's best case scenario.

'NUFF SAID

Oh i see.

Well yes I said in the other thread I actually understand the need to have physical things.

Records it's just... I don't see the point in owning records much since what you want from them (ok what I want) is the music which is not a physical thing. The rest is superfluous to me. But i guess one could say what you want from a book is the text which you could have on a digital format... Look i don't know, you want me to say im a hpocrite!? FINE IM A HYPOCRITE! LEAVE ME ALONE.

Maybe someday ill have a tablet and realise i don't have a use for physical books anymore. For now i prefer reading that way. Even if i hate opening book editions i prize because i don't want to damage them........

I actually stopped buying books like 2 years back though cause i realised in spite of myself that it seemed i liked the idea of owning books more than i liked reading them

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But 5ive was my favorite boy band.
I was a BSB fiend but "When The Lights Go Out" was too good

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When is there gonna be a trend of retro boybands with Max Martin style singles? Or does Korea have the market locked down

There a few fings thass foreva

When is there gonna be a trend of retro boybands with Max Martin style singles? Or does Korea have the market locked down

i for one would love for corner-style doo-wop to come back

Oh my god charmbag, it's 5am and I'm going full on nostalgia on youtube never gonna fall asleep. I don't understand what happened to pop music... I'm old.

first cassette: jackson 5 greatest hits

first cd: selena - dreaming of you (unless you count my brother giving me dookie. i think he stole it)

first record: Alvin and the Chipmunks - Urban Chipmunk (I was 6 or so, aight?)

first download: Cherry Rounders - I Eat Poop (I was 16 and had never downloaded music before. I typed 'poop' into Kazaa and let it ride)

my record player was bitchin', though
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But 5ive was my favorite boy band.

BAY-BE, WEN THE LITES. GO OUT.

cassette: louis armstrong - don't remember what record
vinyl: ravel- bolero
cd - soundtrack to UHF
mp3 - joy division bootleg
flac - mogwai

Cassette: Don't remember. I should since I only owned a handful of cassettes in my life
CD: Bat Out of Hell II
Vinyl: Siamese Dream
Download: One of the not good George Harrison solo records

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I think this is the first album I ever owned. Mom bought it for me when I was like 13 after my friend showed me some Weird Al music videos. First artist I really got into. Lol.

The first CDs I ever bought were Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger and Superunknown, Alice in Chains Greatest Hits, Pearl Jam's Ten...I was a grungetard.

first CD was Batman Forever ST, followed by Nirvana Unplugged in NY.

first vinyl record was Talking Heads 'Speaking in Tongues'.

as far as first cassette, i really have no idea. maybe moist 'silver', ugly kid joe 'amerca's least wanted', or megadeth 'rust in peace'.

Late to the music game on accounta religious upbringing. Didn't buy music until I was like 14 or so. Kind of a blur for me but best guess...

CS: probably Siamese Dream, 1997
Vinyl: either a Phil Collins/Genesis or Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American, 2002
CD : Pisces Iscariot, 1998 maybe
mp3: def a Pumpkins demo off pumpkins.net realplayer, 2000

I own every Weird Al release up until poodle hat, get on MY fucking level posers

I have absolutely no memory of what my first mp3 or full digital record was....


I do remember though that one of the first thing i did on napster was looking up Cure Rarities and bsides. so i suppose the first song was one of these.

The first album I downloaded was Murmur by R.E.M. and that was in 2009. I was real late on the stealing music on the internet train.

Almost everyone in this thread got their first albums on cassette or CD.
I feel old, get off my lawn.

yeah you are fucking old if you were born between 1888 and 1965 and had a turntable as a baby and the capacity to use it. dig a ditch in the lawn.

I own every Weird Al release up until poodle hat, get on MY fucking level posers

get to steppin', chump. i have every album. even the peter and the wolf with wendy carlos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf_(%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic_%26_We ndy_Carlos_album)). new one out in a couple weeks.

you never forget your first.

My very first was "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on tinfoil.

I'm OLD

My very first was "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on tinfoil.

I'm OLD

I meant ancient, like really late to other formats. We didn't have a cassette deck at home until '89.

get to steppin', chump. i have every album. even the peter and the wolf with wendy carlos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf_(%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic_%26_We ndy_Carlos_album)). new one out in a couple weeks.

you never forget your first.

yeah in 8th grade I started to get into "serious" music and that was that. I remember having buyer's remorse after getting poodle hat because it wasn't as good as running with scissors or bad hair day and kind of realizing I might have outgrown Al.

I meant ancient, like really late to other formats. We didn't have a cassette deck at home until '89.

I didn't have a CD played until like 1998. :beatup:

yeah you are fucking old if you were born between 1888 and 1965 and had a turntable as a baby and the capacity to use it. dig a ditch in the lawn.

come to think of it though..........I suppose the first recordings I owned were vinyls...we had a mickey mouse turntable. It would only play 7 inches. Someone gave us loads of 7 inches they didn't want anymore. but i was very young and the only tune I remember playing on it was Bay City Rollers' Saturday Night. I still like this song I don't care who knows it. That's called catchy right there.

anyway doesn't count since I didn't buy them....

but yeah I don't know by the mid 80s most people I knew bought cassettes, not vinyls.

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IIRC this dude wrote and composed all the music himself, no record company bullshit

its vinyl. no s. ever.

there's nothing wrong with letting other people help make good music

record companies write and compose the music. I am in hell.

The first record I ever got was a German version of Peter And The Wolf, with a Sonata by Mozart Sr. on the B-Side.
The first record I ever bought was Aerosmith's I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing single.

its vinyl. no s. ever.

oh. I didn't realize that. i'll blame it on second language as I usually do when someone points out a grammatical mistake.

the earliest thing i can remember is a mix-tape my dad bought from some guy in freetown. i don't remember much about it except that it had 19 by paul hardcastle, which i loved. the first albums bought for me were michael jackson's off the wall, and bad. my sister accidentally melted the off the wall cassette so i didn't get to hear it in its entirety till much, much later. the first singles i bought were swv's i'm so into you, and i got a man by positive k. the first album i bought was original gangster by ice-t, but this was many years after it came out. i'd already heard it and probably owned it too at one point, but i had a gift voucher from hmv and had no idea what to get so i used it to get that... again. that was kind of the start of my getting into music: realizing that i liked music but hadn't developed any sort of taste apart from early 90s yo! mtv raps stuff, which, by then, even i had lost interest in. the album i bought after that was garbage's self-titled.

It was either the Ghostbusters OST, or Sesame Street: Exercise!

oh. I didn't realize that. i'll blame it on second language as I usually do when someone points out a grammatical mistake.

Sharing is caring. That's what assholes on the internet like me are for.

It's a bullshit defense though because at this point I write better English than French. And that's not even a lie. I make tons more mistakes in French now.


Though.... the S thing... like I used to say cereals or hairs (as in my hair, on my head) for years. in French if there's many there's always an s (or x) so this always confuses me when some words aren't pluralized. though I suppose technically one should say vinyl records

yeah in english we have nonsensical shit like collective nouns and uncountables and stuff

yeah in english we have nonsensical shit like collective nouns and uncountables and stuff


Trust me though in a war of nonsensical grammatical rules, French will win every time over English. That's why I like English better. It's a more well thought out language, more elegant, just complex enough but without too much unnecessary bullshit. I can't write three sentences in French without making at least one mistake and that's all I spoke or wrote until I was like 20 (well no....we had some english classes but you don't learn English that way, proof being that no one in my family speaks English..but I mean I didn't communicate with anyone in English before then)

French language is regulated by a bunch of academic twats at the Academie de la Langue Francaise and it seems their goal has always been to make the language complicated for non speakers. And probably trying to prevent people who didn't finish high school from writing properly. While in English you're reading literature in Hs, We're still learning grammatical rules in grade 12.

French dude I'm crushing on speaks terrible English, it's pretty funny. My spoken French isn't great, but I like to think my grammar is mostly ok. I get texts from French people with some really basic grammatical mistakes though... Why would passé composé be hard? I don't understand. I think most of my mistakes come from gendered nouns that I assume will be the same gender in Portuguese and in French and when they're not I'm like... Why? Anyway, teb, what you're mentioning is a problem in all romance languages... And even then we have it easy, certainly not the hardest languages to learn.

No, for certain they aren't.

French dude I'm crushing on speaks terrible English, it's pretty funny. My spoken French isn't great, but I like to think my grammar is mostly ok. I get texts from French people with some really basic grammatical mistakes though... Why would passé composé be hard? I don't understand. I think most of my mistakes come from gendered nouns that I assume will be the same gender in Portuguese and in French and when they're not I'm like... Why? Anyway, teb, what you're mentioning is a problem in all romance languages... And even then we have it easy, certainly not the hardest languages to learn.

i assume you speak portugese, and great english...how many languages do you speak?

bonus question: Do you know of Tiago Splitter, and how great he is?

its vinyl. no s. ever.

SAME WITH LEGO, 'MERICA!

the earliest thing i can remember is a mix-tape my dad bought from some guy in freetown. i don't remember much about it except that it had 19 by paul hardcastle, which i loved..

I think that was my second 7".

Fo sho.

I kinda meant that you bought yourself though. Well...or with your parents money but that you went, I want this record.

too late for that now
bad luck
wah wah wah
boo fucking hoo
don't tell me what to do

I started this thread, therefore I get to make the rules.


That's how it works.

I kinda meant that you bought yourself though. Well...or with your parents money but that you went, I want this record.


Dangerous

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^ that's a nice cover. not sure it it fits the title though.

Explodimg boy doesnt pay for music so he has no idea what a record is

who says I don't pay. Digital doesn't mean i get it all for free. Though i haven't paid for all i have no. It depends. I haven't given any money to a major in years that's for sure.

A record is a record. An album could be any format.

Tangent: i was thinking the other day how the only reason i got seriouslyinto vinyl was because at the time many underground bands were releasing stuff as vinyl only and this was before digital downloads were even a thing. Therefore Finding and buying the record was the onlynway you could hope to hear the music. At least today you have dedicated rippers or download codes.

First cassette: I am fairly certain it was Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell. I still love how over the top and cheesy that album is.

First CD: Green Day's Dookie. I remember distinctly because my sister and I both wanted it so bad but we waited until we could both buy our own copies so as to not drive the other insane with jealousy/murderous rage.

First record: Other than the SP stuff I bought off of eBay before I even had a record player, I am pretty sure it was Pink Floyd's The Wall and some Steely Dan album at a garage sale. I had heard the Pink Floyd album but mainly bought the Steely Dan record because it had an ugly cover and I wanted to show everybody how ugly it was.

Probably "can't buy a thrill"

Yup! Google agrees.

boy that cover is something awful

The Dangerous video collection on VHS was pretty much my first exposure to music outside of Sesame Street. My brother and I would watch it all the time when I was like 5 or 6.

Siamese Dream

The Dangerous video collection on VHS was pretty much my first exposure to music outside of Sesame Street. My brother and I would watch it all the time when I was like 5 or 6.

We had kiddy competitions in imitating dance moves from the Moonwalker movie. Still love it.


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i felt this way about michael in 2002 and wrote this:

OXFORD, England (Reuters) - Michael Jackson made a tearful appeal to the world to introduce a children's bill of rights that would ensure parents read bedtime stories to their sons and daughters and make them feel loved.

The King of Pop hobbled on crutches onto the stage of Oxford University's venerable debating chamber on Tuesday night -- he broke his right foot in a fall last week -- to promote his "Heal the Kids" charity and call for a renewal of parent-child bonds.

In a lecture punctuated by tears, Jackson urged children to forgive their parents as he spoke of the difficulty of growing up under the spotlight of stardom.

"My father is a tough man, and he pushed my brothers and me hard, from the earliest age, to be the best performers we could be," Jackson, 42, told an audience of students and journalists, his voice faltering.

"I wanted more than anything else to be a typical little boy. I wanted to build tree houses, have water balloon fights and play hide and seek with my friends. But fate had it otherwise...."

His choice of a good cause could raise some eyebrows -- in 1993 a 12-year-old boy accused Jackson of sexually molesting him.

you think? raise eyebrows? more like filled with rage. reading this headline sent me into a fit of rage, where i went out and bought a gun. i went to the local k-mart and mr. retired boat dock worker with shaking hands was working behind the counter. i went up and told him my predicament, and how angry i was.

"sir, i need to purchase a weapon"

"well, son, there is a new process for purchasing weapons.. we will need you till fill this out."

"it's always something new, isn't it? i just want to kill michael jackson, and be on my merry way. do you have a bb-gun that penetrates the skin? i mean, something. i know you guys have swiss knives and squirt guns. i need a power weapon"

"did your parents read you bedtime stories when you were a child?"

"yes, lots of them. far too fucking many. i can't go a day without thinking about the 'things that go bump in the night'. i want to shoot my parents too. are you going to help me out or not?"

"hold on while i page a clerk."

i'm sick and tired of listening to what michael jackson has to say. he got away with molesting a giraffe in the 80's, and a toddler in the 90's, and now he's right there when the shit goes down for his valuable commentary on how we should fix our problems. i don't even find it funny how ridiculous his proposal is. read bedtime stories to your children. a bill of rights?

"I wanted more than anything else to be a typical little boy. I wanted to build tree houses, have water balloon fights and play hide and seek with my friends. But fate had it otherwise...."

COME ON FUCKHEAD! you wanted to be a typical little boy, but you turned yourself into a freak of a grown man, by your own free will. and now you can have your fucking tree houses with monkies in them, and you can hire all the pre-pubescent kids you want to molest and have them play in it, and have little pedophilic water balloon fights (wet tshirt contests is what he really wanted)... GAH... fate had it otherwise. you chose to burn off every natural feature that was on your face. michael needs to go play hide and go fuck himself.

As the King of Pop swept in from the rainy darkness outside, there were audible gasps from the audience.

Jackson wore his trademark black and white suit and pushed back curtains of jet-black hair as he began to speak in his almost child-like voice.

He argued that a "Universal Children's Bill of Rights" should be introduced in every home.

The Oxford Union debating society is no stranger to controversy and Jackson referred in his lecture to illustrious guests who had graced the stage before him, including Albert Einstein and Malcolm X.

Outside in the rain, fans from across the globe had gathered to catch a glimpse of their idol.

"People from all over the world follow him everywhere, that must be love and love can't be a bad or dangerous thing," said German Dorothy Debuhr, 42, her face daubed with blue paint and glittering with gold stars.

Jackson's big hits belted out from a nearby radio.

"He is a phenomena, he is the ultimate mega-star, said student Catherine Wendsey, 20, holding a home-made banner welcoming Jackson to the university town.

Jackson has two children of his own by his former wife Deborah Rowe, who filed for divorce in 1999. He was also married briefly to Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie.

The singer was accompanied by psychic spoon-bender Uri Geller, at whose wedding he will be best man on Wednesday.

Jackson spent 16,000 pounds ($23,470) hiring part of nearby Blenheim Palace for a celebration dinner on Tuesday night, the Daily Telegraph reported.

It said servants of the Duke of Marlborough rolled out the red carpet for Jackson, but sprayed the thick pile with disinfectant -- a reminder that even the rich and famous cannot escape Britain's fight against a major outbreak of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth livestock disease. ($1-.6818 Pound)

stupid fuck broke his foot. probably because it was black. apparently breaking limbs changes their color. now.

all we need is gary glitter starting a child care center.

kill yourselves now.