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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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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.

Dahlietta · 25/04/2025 21:07

I am also of the era of cassette singles, but can't remember which was my first one!

LadeOde · 25/04/2025 21:07

No, but they will have different first, like their 1st phone.

Eggsinthewhoopsiebasketalready · 25/04/2025 21:06

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

CopperWhite · 25/04/2025 21:06

They might remember their first game, or the first app they downloaded instead. They’ll have other things that are equally as nostalgic to them one day.

frozendaisy · 25/04/2025 21:05

He will have first YouTube star hit or equivalent

just culture consumed in a different way

HaddyAbrams · 25/04/2025 21:04

No idea what mine was! Would have been a cassette tape, but no idea what.

LoremIpsumCici · 25/04/2025 21:03

Moveoverdarlin · 25/04/2025 20:59

But you still bought cassette singles. That would be classed as your first record.

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I always bought entire albums, my first was the U2 Joshua Tree in 1987, on cassette for my Sony Walkman 🫣

Babysitting money went pretty far then,

Moveoverdarlin · 25/04/2025 20:59

LoremIpsumCici · 25/04/2025 20:57

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

But you still bought cassette singles. That would be classed as your first record.

JackieDaytonaLuckyBrews · 25/04/2025 20:57

Mine was Kylie Minouges first album -I was seven and I remember vividly going to buy it for my birthday. Played that record to death!

LoremIpsumCici · 25/04/2025 20:57

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

LlynTegid · 25/04/2025 20:56

It won't just be the first record they bought. Their first Blue Peter presenters, which stop-motion programme (Bagpuss or Magic Roundabout), for example.

cramptramp · 25/04/2025 20:56

I know what was no. 1 when I was born as well as my first single and first LP.

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 25/04/2025 20:55

Maybe they'll have a first playlist memory.

MolkosTeenageAngst · 25/04/2025 20:54

Mine was Natalie Imbruglia - Torn.

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