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

[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.

[Der_Lex]

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

[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

[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.