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I only own two records, one of which is the Fraggle Rock album, I'll never let go of that one!

This was back in fourth grade, and I had heard it when a classmate had brought it in. I decided that I had to have it.

The first jazz CD that I bought, and still one of my favorite jazz CDs, was "Big Swing Face" by the Buddy Rich Band. If you haven't heard it, you should.

By the way, TODAY IS WES MONTGOMERY'S BIRTHDAY! HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 80 TODAY HAD HE NOT DIED YOUNG FROM A HEART ATTACK IN 1968. WES, THOUGH YOU ARE NO LONGER WITH US, YOUR BRILLIANT MUSIC WILL CONTINUE TO GUIDE US FOREVER!

i can still remember being a little kid and going to the electronics store with my dad to get our first stereo with a cd player... its an Aiwa which is now in my room from there we went to the record store (sorry, i call them that despite the obvious anachronism) and picked out two or three cd's.

Incidentally, I have the same Greatest hits album on LP (know what those are, guys?)

for a 16 year old, im surprisingly stuck in the past

'nuff said

In point of fact the early CDs were often inferior to their companion LPs, in large part because the LP masters had been recorded with compression to overcome the limited dynamic range of the LP medium, and when you heard the masters fully on compact discs, they sounded harsh and unrealistic.

I still have the SE that I used to run that business, and it still runs fine.

/Mr Lynn

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.
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then I got into Celine Dion, I have 2 of those and an Enya CD...

every-so-often I pop in the Eiffel65 and the Pokémon and think of the good old days when I had a pair of LabTec "Powered Speakers" that I used with the 7300 when I could only go into the low resolution of a VGA monitor...

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my first "cd" was a PokéMon thing

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My next CD was an Eiffel 65 CD...

then I got into Celine Dion, I have 2 of those and an Enya CD...

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My first CD (if we're being medium-specific) was The Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" back in fourth grade, followed by "With The Beatles" and "Help" (and in that order)

My first cassette tape probably was either "Wee Sing Silly Songs" (recordings of kids singing ridiculous versions of known songs ie "be kind to your web footed friends / for a duck might be somebody's mother...") or it was some sort of kids' sing across america sing along type deal with kids singing songs like "this land is your land", etc

Hmm...actually my first cassette must have been a recording of The Letter People from back in kindergarten (any body remember these). Every character (Mr. Z, Ms. E, etc) sang a song about his/her letter (Ms. E's went like "..exercise / excersise/ wiggle your toes **funky bass riff**"...)

sigh...feeling like an old coot

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My first cassette tape probably was either "Wee Sing Silly Songs" (recordings of kids singing ridiculous versions of known songs ie "be kind to your web footed friends / for a duck might be somebody's mother...")

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Speaking of silly songs I can't remember the series name but there were a bunch of childrens programs for schools in the UK, including Dark Towers, Badger Girl, Through the Dragons Eye and Jordie racer.

The thing about these stories were that they all had some educational content mixed in, usually in the form of one of the main characters and an orange head covered in letters that floated around and explained various principals of English spelling and Grammer.

No one said anything at the time but I don't think they'd be allowed to sing songs about Magic, Magic E anymore There was an animation that went with that song that was just as bad! It showed a criminal escaping from the police with the help of Magic E! They showed the crook with a kit but with the help of Magic E the kit became a Kite which he used to fly away!

Sometimes I wonder about the things they made us do in school, like watching endless videos of kids getting their shoes trapped in railway lines and mown down, and there was always something about kids flying kites under power lines and getting electrocuted!

I'm I going OT?

thomas the tank engine was never better....

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Small world...I bought that tape from a thrift store for my daughter a year or so ago. I must know all the words to those wacky songs now...

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I used to make copies of my tapes and play them on 2 different players...

I also used to tune to the same station and put it on 2 or more different radios... anyone else as weird as me?

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My first cassette tape probably was either "Wee Sing Silly Songs" (recordings of kids singing ridiculous versions of known songs ie "be kind to your web footed friends / for a duck might be somebody's mother...")

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Small world...I bought that tape from a thrift store for my daughter a year or so ago. I must know all the words to those wacky songs now...

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I just looked and its in mine too

As for first CD.... that would be "Led Zeppelin III"...

SpaceBoy

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VINYL!

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Somthing of a mag probably but a cd player didn't enter my possesion for a lon time, indeed I got my PSOne just over a year ago because it plays cd's, but my first cd(I know I'm wavering but it is better this way) player was probably my Compaq pc which I got in erm 97 I think, The first cd I went out of my way to get would have been "GEMULATOR" & I have never regretted it it is perhaps the classiest piece of software I have come accross.

erm first tape, I found it on the road one day when cycling about it was "Pop Said" by the Darling Buds, it was crushed & I had to mend it :-) shak takes a bow & then I discovered the art of making tapes play backwards & also doing "Megamixes" by recording little bits of the radio.

now first vynll is embarressing at first sight, something like sounds of the seventies, or top of the pops it had the then obligatory girl on the front, but I only bought it(it was an LP(read Long Player)) for Bright Eyes(from the film Watership Down)

I only got to use cartridges of other peoples:-(, but I plan to rectify that:->

Loading tapes into an Atari 800xl(my brothers) & waiting half an hour(I kid you not) for Red Max to load only to get to the end & have the message "load error", tears are streaming down my face with laughter.

we now either have to do a "first removable media" post or individually post for each media?

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my first CD was a game. It was one of those "Imagination Express" cds. I have the "Destination Castle" one. that was my first cd. and on the same date i got a cd with a package of "critics choice" games. hehe i never really played either.

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CD'S ARE MADE OF VINYL, TOO... no one seems to realize that... i prefer to use the term "LP" or "record" or en francais, "le disque"

EDIT: Please note that the actual number of times I've said "le disque" is equal to zero, aka the null set...
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I like "Le Disque", but to be even more specific how about "Black Wax"?

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The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.
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I like "Le Disque", but to be even more specific how about "Black Wax"?

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Many LP (and 45 rpm) records were other colors: red, green, blue, even white.

Amazin' how all the young whippersnappers here must have entirely missed the era of 45 rpm singles!

Not to mention 78s!

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BTW, I'm fairly certain that CDs are made from polycarbonate, not vinyl (polyvinylchloride). Polycarbonate is tougher, less brittle, and optically clearer than vinyl. But polycarbonate is totally unsuitable for LPs because it has very poor scratch resistance.

G4From128k

By comparison my most recent portable player is MP3 capable and cost $39 at Targett.

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Amazin' how all the young whippersnappers here must have entirely missed the era of 45 rpm singles!

Not to mention 78s!

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