My first was, as much as I may hate to admit it, Guns N' Roses- Lies back in Junior High. So much has changed....

G-N-R rocks!!! No reason to be ashamed of buying any of their music..... My first tape was Iron Maiden-Seventh son of a seventh son....awsome tape...still listen to it....:cool:

i can't possibly be the only person in here whose first album was MJ's thriller. come on, speak up.

This is gonna sound stupid but uh bactstreet boys, I sang larger than life for a talent show in elementary school. I was a messed up kid. Now im into death/grind/metal, whodah thought?

Though I'm ashamed now...I will admit...."MTV Party to Go Vol. 3" ;)

KISS 'Alive II'. I distinctly remeber 2 older kids thinking it was 'Sesame Street Fever' through the bag and I was furious LOL. Wish I still had the temp tattoos that came with it. Likely worth a fortune now.
CK

The Beatles HELP. I was pretty pissed off that they were already broken up by the time I finally got into them.
:(

Okay, well before I fess up to my first album, I should explain that when I was younger my parents were very controlling of what I could listen to.

That being said, the first tape I ever owned was Eric Carmen. He sang that really sappy song in the 80's. I don't recall the title, but the lyrics were like...

"Turn the radio up... For that sweet sound.
Hold me close, never let me goooo...
Keep the spirit alive, etc, etc..."

Suuuuper sappy. I'm pretty ashamed of it.

Shortly after that I bought Arrested Development's first tape and Will Smith 'He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper'.

First 2 CDs I ever bought were Green Day, Dookie and Counting Crows, August and Everything After, both of which I still have and listen to. (I was a little behind the trend on the getting a CD player.)

Anyways, yeah... Because of over-controlling parents, my earliest voyages into music pretty much sucked. I like to think my taste in tunes has improved since then.

The first album I ever owned was one of the many Best of Sinatra cds....I was listening to some Aqua sounding shit and my dad asked me if I wanted to hear some real music and jokingly I said ''what?...Frank Sinatra?"....yada yada yada I listened to a bit of it with him, liked it and he let me have it.


The first album I ever bought was Dave Matthews Band- Under the Table and Dreaming.

my kids gonna have the opposite problem ...
they play dance shit at his daycare so we counter it with rock and roll at home.

he's been digging an old 80's CD lately and loves the song Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles (and Gary Newmans : Cars)