What was YOUR first record you remeber listening to or having?

[nightelf56]

I think mine was The Who's My Generation. I know it wasn't when the song/record first came out. I remember stuttering a lot after that song. I really liked it. Didn't understand it, but still liked it.

Then a year ago, I saw when performed it live on the Smothers
Brothers. Bands should destroy their stuff more often.

[Gowienczyk]

Listening: The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe

Purchased: Weird Al Yankovic - Greatest Hits, Vol. I

[DJFreddyG]

I had a small transistor AM radio under my pillow when I was a kid (late 60's) and heard all the best the 60's had to offer. I can't seem to remember what the first record was that I bought, although a good friend of mine during the 70's bought some great ones: Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf, Out Of The Blue - ELO, etc.
The very first album I bought was easy....Michael Jackson - Off The Wall. Still his best album as far as I am concerned.

[blackfeltfedora]

My first stereo/record player came with "Born in the USA".

[SuburbanHell]

Listening: The Cars - Shake It Up & J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
Owning: Van Halen - 1984 & Aerosmith - Greatest Hits
Bought For Myself: Aerosmith - Get A Grip & Cypress Hill - Black Sunday

[NANU11115]

well my first record i ever listened to was some of my parents freestyle records like TKA, Judy Torres, Shannon, etc. "I wonder if i take you home" by Lisa Lisa was the first vinyl i ever listened to

[Runesmith]

Listening: The Reality Bites soundtrack ("Tempted" was my favorite song when I was a wee one)

Purchased with own money: Alien Ant Farm - ANThology

[MronoC]

There were a few soundtracks to musicals by Stephen Sondheim, specifically "Into the Woods" and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", then a few albums not worth mentioning, but the first real album I listened to and owned was Queen's "A Night at the Opera".

[citric_bullets]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way

I'm a young'n.

[indiegeek]

Some "20 Ultramegasuper hits : The Beach Boys!" compilation, and AC/DC - Back In Black from my grandfather.

To give you an idea of how awesome of a man he was, he also bought me the Minor Threat live video when he was 70something years old. If I could have seen the look on the clerks face when he brought that to the counter...

First records I bought myself :

The Clash - S/T
The Alarm - S/T EP

[DarthAthema]

I think my most formative experience was buying Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers' greatest hits on cassette without my parents knowing. They are devout Christians, and it was around the time that James Dobson was all the rage, crusading against MTV and rock music in general. They've eased up a lot after they saw that I turned out alright.

[afterstasis]

the first album i owned was poison's "open up and say ahh", shortly followed by my parents' record collections and motley crue's "girls, girls, girls".

my first purchased album was nirvana's "incesticide". i biked about 10 miles in order to grab it on release date without my parents' permission (they weren't fond of the album title and i was only 12).

i don't remember what my first listen was, though considering the house i grew up in it was probably conway twitty or creedence clearwater revival.

[HMXHypnotoad]

There was actually a 'Zine story a while back where they asked a bunch of us at HMX this question. In case anyone missed it:

HMX First Records Story. (http://www.rockband.com/zine/first_records_story)

[Der_Lex]

My first cd was iron Maiden's No Prayer for the Dying. What a wonderful child I was. :D

[topperharley]

Huey Lewis & The News - Sports

[zack10house]

listening? Metallica- Master Of Puppets or ...And Justice For All. don't remember which I would've heard first....probably MOP (my dad used to put me to sleep to Metallica...awesome lol)

first I ever purchased (with my own money at least) was Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory [still one of my favorite albums]

[sg327]

A family member used to put on his Ted Nugent and Foghat albums all the time when I was younger...earliest music I can remember listening to.

I received "Leftoverture" from Kansas as a Christmas gift when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I never really got into the band until years later when I heard "People Of The South Wind" and started looking for some of their other material.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZz5TaNDrOU

[RainbowMist]

My earliest memories of albums are REM's Out of Time, Who's Next, Blue Rodeo's Five Days in July and, amusingly, The Rankin Family.

To be honest though, my first purchase with my own money was probably Spiceworld (on cassette) but in my defense, I was nine at the time...

[HyeJinx1984]

Big Willie Style... I swear :o

[Hungryfreak]

My earliest childhood memories (what my parents would play in the car back when I lived in California for the first 5 years of my life):

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Frank Zappa - Strictly Comercial (compilation)
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer - Songs by Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer - That Was The Year That Was

Those are what I remember best, anyways.

[Quinarvy]

American Idiot by Green Day

Before the flaming, take into perspective that back then my brother liked only hip hop (thank god his wife likes rock, so he branched out), and my parents like 60's/70's Pop. So AI was my starting point for rock.

[Oscar-Rio]

My first album i ever had was when Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys was released. I still listen to it from time to time.

[Blazeheart93]

Listened to - Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses
Owned - Appetite for Destruction by (See above)
Bought for myself - Ten Thousand Fists by Disturbed

[CycoMiko138]

1st album listened to: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
(I scratched up my dad's copy pretty good, too) age 5
1st album owned: Escape - Journey (I think) age 8
1st album bought: 1984 - Van Halen (on cassette) age 10

[benson111]

1st album listened to: Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
1st album owned: Black Sabbath - Paranoid ( My Brother Gave it to me )
1st album bought: Rush - Fly by Night ( I orig bought the album because of the album cover, and then i heard the music, (Had not heard of the before that ) And went out the next week and made my dad buy me the rest of there albums)

[Rockband2Wiiplayer4]

Mine is the All man brothers band recored it has ramblin man

[TopazDolphin]

Garth Brooks' The Chase. In my defense, it's a decent album. "Every Now and Then" is a really good song.

[Hungryfreak]

Other firsts:

First CD I bought (with parents help): Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Ludwig van Beethoven - "1812 Overture and Wellington's Victory"

First CD I bought (by myself): Frank Zappa - "Hot Rats"

[Lord_Mhoram]

The first record I can remember having was a Disney album of Mickey and the Beanstalk... I was 5 or 6 IIRC.

The first album I ever bought was Queen - A Night at the Opera. I was 11 or 12 at the time, the album had been out less than a year. Yeah, I'm old. :)

[instantdeath999]

There was actually a 'Zine story a while back where they asked a bunch of us at HMX this question. In case anyone missed it:

HMX First Records Story. (http://www.rockband.com/zine/first_records_story)

I'm going to take this opportunity to say that your avatar and username are, for lack of a better phrase, ****ing awesome.

As for me, I really can't say. My dad is a huge rock fan, and I'd heard pretty much every major rock artist from the 60s to 70's before I was 5.

I remember liking the Beatles from a very young age. I also remember my dad blasting the Who's "My Generation", where I fell in love with Daltrey's shuddering. I also loved Pinball Wizard, though I didn't hear the entire Tommy album until as recent as this year.

The first album I remember owning was Linkin Parks Hybrid Theory. The first album I bought with my own money was Metallica's Master of Puppets.

[TheCrimsonSaint]

First record I listened to: What's Your Name - Lynyrd Skynyrd

First record I bought: Brave New World - Iron Maiden

[Jordan77]

Alien Ant Farm - ANThology

[DarkSide247]

Signals -- Rush, Got LIVE If You Want It! -- Rolling Stones, and Aerosmith -- Aerosmith were the first records I got. And The Soft Parade -- The Doors was the first one I listened to.

[SevinWoohoo]

My first actual record I bought was Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? I got it on Wednesday lul.

[Slashboi]

Our Lady Peace, Clumsy

[Antari]

Alice in Chains - "Facelift"

[Warlokk_TPF]

J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame -- First cassette ever owned
Quiet Riot - Metal Health and Def Leppard - Pyromania -- first metal albums I ever heard, that changed my musical viewpoint forever.

[Anarchy Club Fan]

Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction.

[schmeankman]

Third Eye Blind's debut probably..

[Overlord]

My first cd I ever bought was either 3 Doors Down: The Better Life or Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory. I can't remember what was first but they were pretty close together.

[PenguinTipper]

Purchased: Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Listened - ?

[trench762]

First album I bought was Simpsons sing the blues on cassette b/c of bartman but that kinda turned me on to blues. First cd I bought was Wierd al, whichever one had livin in the fridge and jurassic park on it, think it was alapalooza or somethin. I think the first rock album I got was either Get a grip/permanent vacation or Use your illusion.