Your first record or CD?
16 January 2013, 09:35 PM
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A tape of Elvis no. 1s to go with my first portable cassette player. It wasn't a Walkman, Walkmans had a rewind button. Bought with my mother at Estover Asda in Plymouth for 99p which was five weeks pocket money at 20p a week. I was seven I think and the first track was Heartbreak Hotel. I can remember being in the music section and selecting it and Mum being surprised at my choice. An hour later I was jumping around my bedroom to All Shook Up. Magic! 
I remember my Dad catching me in full Hugh Cornwell mode to No More Heroes. He said he thought I had mental problems
.... standing here today he may have been right 
16 January 2013, 09:36 PM
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Yes! The newsagent within the small precinct of shops was where I bought my first copy of EVO a dozen or so years later. It was issue number two and I bought everyone subsequent edition. I managed to secure a copy of issue one back along. A year or so after I bought my first cassette we started shopping at the newly opened Tesco Roborough which was nearer home. No music section; no horseburgers, either.
I used to take the cassette out and fast forward if I wanted to repeat a favourite track. With a bit of practice one could time it within plus or minus ten seconds of the beginning.
I used to take the cassette out and fast forward if I wanted to repeat a favourite track. With a bit of practice one could time it within plus or minus ten seconds of the beginning.
16 January 2013, 09:38 PM
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16 January 2013, 09:39 PM
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Me too and on CD.... I think that is why people got down on Come on Eileen as many saw it as them 'selling out'.... stupid expression IMO. Anyway you are right, it was and still is a great album!
16 January 2013, 09:41 PM
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16 January 2013, 09:41 PM
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Album was - Genesis - Invisble Touch
7".. Hmmmm think it was West End Girls by The Pet Shop Boys...
Must have played my Frankie Goes To Hollywood lp till i wore he grooves out... Lol
Had poster of them on my bedroom wall for years, was'nt until years later that i realised that they were gay icons! Aaahhh the total innocence of youth! Lol
7".. Hmmmm think it was West End Girls by The Pet Shop Boys...
Must have played my Frankie Goes To Hollywood lp till i wore he grooves out... Lol
Had poster of them on my bedroom wall for years, was'nt until years later that i realised that they were gay icons! Aaahhh the total innocence of youth! Lol
16 January 2013, 09:48 PM
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PS The rest of the band didn't agree, in both cases!!
16 January 2013, 10:01 PM
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Brillaint album Diamond Dogs, Bowie was/is amazing... Ziggy, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane and the aforementoned albums were all in my colection not long after I started buying.
17 January 2013, 12:04 AM
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First single: Blackberry Way by The Move (Roy Wood)
First LP: This is Soul. Compilation of great Atlantic soul artists.
A1 Wilson Pickett – Mustang Sally
A2 Carla Thomas – B-A-B-Y
A3 Arthur Conley – Sweet Soul Music
A4 Percy Sledge – When A Man Loves A Woman
A5 Sam & Dave – I Got Everything I Need
A6 Ben E. King – What Is Soul?
B1 Otis Redding – Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
B2 Eddie Floyd – Knock On Wood
B3 Solomon Burke – Keep Looking
B4 Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
B5 Percy Sledge – Warm And Tender Love
B6 Wilson Pickett – Land Of A Thousand Dances
Still have the vinyl & still one of the best classic soul albums.
First LP: This is Soul. Compilation of great Atlantic soul artists.
A1 Wilson Pickett – Mustang Sally
A2 Carla Thomas – B-A-B-Y
A3 Arthur Conley – Sweet Soul Music
A4 Percy Sledge – When A Man Loves A Woman
A5 Sam & Dave – I Got Everything I Need
A6 Ben E. King – What Is Soul?
B1 Otis Redding – Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
B2 Eddie Floyd – Knock On Wood
B3 Solomon Burke – Keep Looking
B4 Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
B5 Percy Sledge – Warm And Tender Love
B6 Wilson Pickett – Land Of A Thousand Dances
Still have the vinyl & still one of the best classic soul albums.
17 January 2013, 12:22 AM
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First record bought was a album David Bowie Aladin Sane circa 1973 got record tokens for christmas think it was about £3 and bought it from HMV
Changed days seems now a HMV voucher is not for christmas its for life
Changed days seems now a HMV voucher is not for christmas its for life
17 January 2013, 01:25 AM
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First music I bought was 'Now Dance 95 II' on cassette, in erm, 1995
First CD was 'Perfect Day' in 1997
First vinyl was just after my 18th birthday in August 2002 when I started out DJ'ing on my then Numark belt drives. 'Public Domain - Operation Blade'
First CD was 'Perfect Day' in 1997
First vinyl was just after my 18th birthday in August 2002 when I started out DJ'ing on my then Numark belt drives. 'Public Domain - Operation Blade'
17 January 2013, 10:09 AM
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First single, Is this love by Bob Marley.
First Album, Blue Moods by Kenny Stevens.
First 12" Dancing in Outer Space by Atmosphere, which i still love to this day.
Rappers Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang was also bought on one of those trips.
All from Arcade Records Notts.
First Album, Blue Moods by Kenny Stevens.
First 12" Dancing in Outer Space by Atmosphere, which i still love to this day.
Rappers Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang was also bought on one of those trips.
All from Arcade Records Notts.
17 January 2013, 11:30 AM
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Not really Chris, just when I started djing at 18, vinyl was still king till about 2005-6 when cdj's started taking over.
I have a pretty good collection around 6-700 but refuse to part with them. Plus I still have my Technics 1210 mk3d hooked up to my mixer.
17 January 2013, 11:31 AM
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First single, Is this love by Bob Marley.
First Album, Blue Moods by Kenny Stevens.
First 12" Dancing in Outer Space by Atmosphere, which i still love to this day.
Rappers Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang was also bought on one of those trips.
All from Arcade Records Notts.
First Album, Blue Moods by Kenny Stevens.
First 12" Dancing in Outer Space by Atmosphere, which i still love to this day.
Rappers Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang was also bought on one of those trips.
All from Arcade Records Notts.
17 January 2013, 12:22 PM
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A 10CC single when I was four years old!
Then a Joe Walsh one.
Dad was a pro bass player and so music was a part of life.
Fortunately my kids also like decent (IMO) stuff - some Dubstep, Prodigy, etc.
Then a Joe Walsh one.
Dad was a pro bass player and so music was a part of life.
Fortunately my kids also like decent (IMO) stuff - some Dubstep, Prodigy, etc.
17 January 2013, 12:59 PM
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Police Message in a Bottle on single vinyl.
Purchased, most likely, from a shop in off Croydon market. The singles had all come out of juke boxes, perfectly playable, usually without a proper cover sleeve. Also they were missing the middle part of the record, so the hole was about an inch wide. You needed a small piece of plastic for it to play on a normal record player. Not certain on this, but a lot of my singles were purchased like this so it's likely, and the cost of buying the single (plus little plastic converter) was so much cheaper than buying new at Woolies or Our Price, so I got a lot more music for my pocket money.
Purchased, most likely, from a shop in off Croydon market. The singles had all come out of juke boxes, perfectly playable, usually without a proper cover sleeve. Also they were missing the middle part of the record, so the hole was about an inch wide. You needed a small piece of plastic for it to play on a normal record player. Not certain on this, but a lot of my singles were purchased like this so it's likely, and the cost of buying the single (plus little plastic converter) was so much cheaper than buying new at Woolies or Our Price, so I got a lot more music for my pocket money.
