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

First Single - Chirpy, chirpy, cheep cheep - middle of The Road
First Album - Pinky & Perky at Christmas (1969)
First Cassette - Donny Osmond
First VHS - A snide copy of E.T.

Oh, Chirpy, Chirpy Cheep Cheep! I remember that! Lots of fun.

Snide copy of ET is that like a pirate copy or recorded off TV ?

First album was Adam and the Ants.
I was very young at the time but still have a thing about men in makeup!

eolisa what was your first vinal single, tape and VHS tape ?

Not a clue!
I have a very old copy of Labyrinth(sp?) knocking about, could be that.

Fair enough thanx anyway.

First vinyl single = Yello - 'The Race'

First vinyl album = The Clash - 'The Clash' (We had a very good second-hand record shop in Bury St. Edmunds which is long since closed. )

First tape = Terence Trent D'arby - 'Introducing The Hardline According To.....'

First VHS tape = Vic Reeves Big Night Out Live

Videos crept up on me (not literally) so the importance of remembering the first one I ever bought was never there, subsequently I canot recall

Vinyl, the first album bouht for me, was a Showaddywady greatest hits, purchased by my grandad, as he inexplicably thought I'd like the song 'Blue Moon', I didn't and still don't.

The first vinyl 7" I ever bought for myself (aged about ten in the local woolworths) was a track called 'The Last Film' by Kissing the Pink. Toal one hit wonders that i'd never heard of before or since, and no-one else ever appears to of heard of them either. So it's kind of a cool first. Even though, as a kid, I only liked it really because it had someone whistling in it.

first vinyl single = Dreadlock Holiday, 10CC

first vinyl album = War of the Worlds, Jeff Wayne

first tape = not sure, probably some dodgy Black Sabbath live bootleg from the market.

first VHS tape = Mindcrime, Queensryche I think.

I just bought a CD copy of the War Of The Worlds soundtrack.

War of the Worlds is cool yay David Essex

It's great isn't it? Hasn't aged at all either

I probably ought to buy it again on CD, since all my vinyl has been in a box in the attic for 8 years...

Yes TWOTW's brings back memorys, not sure what this new film version is like ?

Vinyl Single - Love Me Do

Album - Please Please Me

Cassette - never bought any (see Orcus reasoning in Post 3)

VHS - parents had a VERY early reel to reel video machine so I used to buy blank tapes and record TV programmes.

I had ALL of the early Beatles records (and lots of Stones, Who, Bolan etc) but my dad "forgot" to retrieve them when we moved in 1966 and they were lost - I dare not think what they would be worth now!

I like the Beatles cool I was not born in 66

First Single - Bob Newhart ~ The Driving Instructor
First Album - Adam And The Ants ~ Kings of the Wild Frontier
First Cassette - Now 5
First VHS - Fantasia

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Do yourself a favour DaveBlackEye, Get that vinyl dusted off - it'll have survived 8 years in the attic just fine and will recreate the feeling way better than the CD remaster....!

Appleadelaide - I've still got the record in the attic somewhere

LordWolfden - It was a 'pirate' copy obtained from a video store I used to work in in 1981.