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To think today's young people won't know what their ''first record ' was

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Toffeesgirl · 25/04/2025 20:53

Listening to Spotify and the first record I ever bought came on (On my Radio by Selector if you're interested !)

but DC who all music comes from Spotify, won't have that 'first record' moment.

It probably doesn't matter to him but I think it's a shame.

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Iwontlethtesungodownonme · 25/04/2025 22:03

Seven and the ragged tiger.

cardibach · 25/04/2025 21:59

I’m 60. I have no idea what my first record was. I think my first album was one of the ABBA ones (not sure) but no idea about a single.

UndermyShoeJoe · 25/04/2025 21:58

JustAnInchident · 25/04/2025 21:23

Honestly I’m always surprised that anyone at all can remember what their first record/tape/cd was. I literally don’t have a clue 😅

Same. I also don’t have a childhood toy or
blanket that I’ve got as an adult.

Chiseltip · 25/04/2025 21:56

They will have first TicTok or first Call Of Duty.

I mean, none of us have "first TV show".

Tech moves on.

We had "first car", kids born today won't have that either.

BunnyBerries · 25/04/2025 21:56

Loadsssss of kids have a Yoto Player now.

So their first radio DJ is Jake, and possibly the Queen Greatest Hits album Yoto card their first official record Smile

QueefQueen80s · 25/04/2025 21:53

They’ll have their own firsts. Just like my parents had different firsts to me that I was never sad about missing as it wasn’t my existence

SeaShellsSanctuary1 · 25/04/2025 21:52

LoremIpsumCici · 25/04/2025 21:40

Thanks, I did not know that. Probably because my parents went on a no screens
kick and tossed out the TV when I was 10 to 14, so I discovered music videos while babysitting at other houses.

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To be fair pre MTV (1981) videos were pretty non existent.

Conistonhawks · 25/04/2025 21:41

Mine was Kylie- Kylie
first single was d ream party up the world

TheFormidableMrsC · 25/04/2025 21:40

Mine was Stand & Deliver by Adam & The Ants. I still have it. OG vinyl ❤️

LoremIpsumCici · 25/04/2025 21:40

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 25/04/2025 21:32

Music videos pre-dated MTV. The first music video that stuck in my mind was Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 but that wasn't the first ever.

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Thanks, I did not know that. Probably because my parents went on a no screens
kick and tossed out the TV when I was 10 to 14, so I discovered music videos while babysitting at other houses.

BoldBlueZebra · 25/04/2025 21:38

I should be so lucky kylie minogue

Serencwtch · 25/04/2025 21:36

No clue. Born 1980's Would have been cassette tapes. Don't remember buying/being given singles. We recorded off the radio or bought albums eg NOW.

Bbq1 · 25/04/2025 21:32

Bucks Fizz after they won Eurovision with Making Your Mind Up. Me and my friend were always making up dance routines to The Fizz!

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 25/04/2025 21:32

LoremIpsumCici · 25/04/2025 21:07

I was telling my adult DC the other day about how when music was released there was NO VIDEO to go with it. That videos were a later thing once MTV came about. They were amazed. Because producers have gone backwards in time and created videos for old songs, they thought there had always been a video with each song.

Music videos pre-dated MTV. The first music video that stuck in my mind was Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 but that wasn't the first ever.

Willyoushutthefrontdoor · 25/04/2025 21:32

LoremIpsumCici · 25/04/2025 20:57

I am pretty old and have no “first record” moment. We had cassette tapes.

In a charity shop on Tuesday with my 17yo daughter and there were a box of tapes. I was reminiscing about my diana Ross LP 😂 i had on tape. Vinyls and CDs beside the tapes. Happy memories. Next shop had an old stack system in it and I was trying to explain to her where the tapes went and how a pencil or pen sometimes came in handy and she was looking at me like I needed locked up!

Reallyyyyyy · 25/04/2025 21:31

Mine was a tape. Bwitched 🤣

OhCrumbsWhereNow · 25/04/2025 21:31

Vinyl is back in a big way... DD spends a small fortune on it. So she definitely knows what her first ever record was.

TallAndSkinnyWithAnUnusuallyLargePelvis · 25/04/2025 21:29

I vividly remember the first single I bought. It was 'Vienna' by Ultravox. Our music teacher allowed us to bring in a favourite single to play at the end of term, and mine was one of the chosen. I was 12.

Before that I'd been relying on using my Dad's HiFi system to tape record the Top 40 (trying to stop the tape before the DJ spoke was quite a skill).

Doyouthinktheyknow · 25/04/2025 21:29

Goombay Dance Band, Seven Tears was my first single, on vinyl. I am singing it now😂

It’s a song you rarely hear unsurprisingly these days but I love it as much as my favourite socks, even now😍

Second is Karma Chameleon by Culture Club. Loved culture club so much back in the day♥️

JustAnInchident · 25/04/2025 21:23

Honestly I’m always surprised that anyone at all can remember what their first record/tape/cd was. I literally don’t have a clue 😅

WhatWouldTheDoctorDo · 25/04/2025 21:20

Vinyl’s pretty popular though. Though they feel bloody expensive these days!

I told DS to choose the first one he bought himself carefully as he might always remember it! In the end he had three first records at the same time - one he chose from a deceased grandparent’s old record collection, one we bought him, and one he bought himself.

Dinosweetpea · 25/04/2025 21:15

In my 40's. Mine was Beats International- Dub be Good to Me. Still got the record in a memory box! Happy days.

AngeloMysterioso · 25/04/2025 21:13

The first album I owned was Everything Changes by Take That on CD. It was a Christmas present when I was 8 and I’ve just discovered it was shortlisted for the mercury music prize! It was obviously much less up it’s own arse back then 😂

ObliviousCoalmine · 25/04/2025 21:11

My 15 year old has a ‘first record’.

LoremIpsumCici · 25/04/2025 21:10

Eggsinthewhoopsiebasketalready · 25/04/2025 21:06

My first vinyl was Remember You're A Womble in the 70's!!

I was dressed as a Womble for a primary school Christmas play in early years. I think I was added into the Nativity as a joke because I remember gales of laughter when the Womble song came on and I and my fellow wombles wombled up to Mary and baby Jesus.

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