h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

first vinyl single = The Wombles 'Wombleing Free'

first vinyl album = Best of Walt Disney

first tape = Madness 'Baggy Trousers'

first VHS tape = The Never Ending Story

Yay! One for us old-timers!

First vinyl single: Ministry- "Everyday is Halloween"
First vinyl album: Plasmatics- "New Hope for the Wretched"
First cassette tape: U2- "The Unforgettable Fire"
First Video tape: "Repo Man"

First single: Dear Prudence: Siouxie and the Banshees
First Album: Queen: A Night at the Opera

That's not counting ones bought for me by my parents when I was five.

If so:

Dougal and the Blue Cat: The Magic Roundbout people

Playschool the Album: Bang on a Drum

Never bought cassette tapes, always sounded crap compared to vinyl - I used to record records onto tape in order to preserve the vinyl.

First VHS tape Maybe Queen Live - We Will Rock You.

First ever 7" vinyl, I am the Beat by The Look. Music about music, it set the tone for the rest of my life. I think I was about 8 years old.

I did have vinyl before that, but it was all stiff my mum had bought, you know, Disney stuff and 'White Horses'...

this is great nostalga

first album bought for me when i was 7...Wham--make it big


first album i bought...Europe--The final countdown..1986

first tape i bought...i dunno,prob some cheesy pop of the time,like Jason donovan


god how times have changed...

awwww Never ending Story ,i sobbed my little eyes out to that film,when the horse sank...brings back memories..

First single - Telegram Sam - T Rex

First LP - Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie and School's Out - Alice Cooper

First cassette - ? Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous?

First VHS - absolutely no idea!

I'm supprized you lot can remember al lthis.... I think* one of the first albums I bought on casette was 'sheer heart attack' by Queen, from Woolworths in Beccles Suffolk, for, I seem to recall about £5....

One of the first vinyl albums I bought was a second hand copy of Night at the opera by Queen, with at the same time, Waka Jawaka by Frank Zappa, at a car boot I've never relaly bought many 7 inch singles first one.... probably somethign awful wahtever it was The first casette I had as I recall, was recorded by a friend from his brothers origional copy; was Queen greatest hits I, I think, oh no, I had a copy of Aprostrophy before that on a recorded tape But I was quite late on getting round to buying any music on any media, as I had a pre installed collection in the house of black Sabbath, frank zappa bonzo dog band, and a whole load of awful albums that my older sister left there

Hmmm not a single David Cassidy/Donny Osmond/Ronan Keting etc etc so far.....


Are we all being honest???? I know I am

I never bought a single in my puff. Was too busy spending my pocket money on biba nail varnish.

First album was Tupelo Honey/Van Morrison

Ooooh! Biba! Bet you bought Aqua Manda too!


Down in Bristol we had to make do with Miners!

Definitely no Aqua Manda - it was all Patchouli Oil and loon pants in my neck of the woods

I started wondering about why I never bought any singles - apart from financial constraints occasioned by expensive taste in nail varnish - and I think it was because radio was better in those days.

Ah yes - I eventually landed up with one of those cassette recorders that you had to point the mike then tell everyone to shush before pressing record - used to record the Top 20 every Sunday!

However on single vinyl I have - various Slade, various T rex, Argent - Hold Your Head Up and ....hang on I need to go to the attic!!!

First single I bought - Wall Street Shuffle, 10cc.

I distinctly remember buying Cool for Cats on pink vinyl at some stage too...

First vinyl single (ooh, that was back a while..) = Probably Crocodile Rock, Elton John

First vinyl album = Liverpool Spinners

First cassette tape = Clannad, Legend

First VHS tape = Star Trek The Next Generation

First DVD (because we got the DVD player a year before the video player) = Dr Who, Spearhead from Space.

First single - Do They Know it's Christmas (the first one)

First Album - Ultravox - Vienna (I'm now on at least my third copy and I still love the album) although I have very fond memories of a vinyl copy of 'Rubber Soul' by the Beatles, which I think was my Dad's until I adopted it.

First dodgy tape - it was a green transparent C90, with The Police 'Regatta de blanc' on one side and Blondie's 'Parallel Lines' on the other.

First CD - Deacon Blue - Raintown

First VHS - Highlander

First DVD - Fantasia

With the possible exception of Band Aid, every one of the above is still on rotation in my home.

Orcus, I too had Dougal and the Blue Cat on vinyl!!! To this day (ahem) years later, I still whisper 'indigo' when I let people through doors.....

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Oh, I love that! My fiance gave that album to me as a birthday present in 1981.

(I have a correction - the first DVD was Dr Who The Seeds of Death...)

Let's see can I remember.

First single: Slade "Mama we're all crazee now" (1973?)

First album: Beatles "Abbey Road" (1973?)

First cassette: Michael Jackson "Bad" (1986)

First VHS: Amadeus (1996?)