Your first cassette

Norm Apter
Norm Apter Posts: 1,036
edited June 2008 in The Clubhouse
Piggy-backing on Danger Boy's thread, what was the first cassette you ever purchased?

Hard to believe its been a quarter-century...fall 1983, I was 9 years old and living in a small town in northwestern Connecticut. Nerf football was all the rage for my neighbors and me at the time. I recall vividly going into the record store for the first time. All the tapes were locked up in wooden racks behind those clear plastic sliding doors....And my first selection was:

Men At Work-- Business as Usual

Over the following 4 months, I acquired these tapes in the following order:

Men At Work -- Cargo
Billy Joel -- An Innocent Man
Billy Joel -- Glass Houses
Matthew Wilder (the one with "Break My Stride")
The Romantics -- In Heat
The Police -- Synchronicity
Van Halen -- 1984

After reading the link that Face posted on 8-track tapes, I see that they were pretty much phased out of record stores at the end of 1982. So, I guess I just missed the 8-track at the onset of my musical journey.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited June 2008
    In 1969 for my 17th birthday, my dad gave me six pre-recorded cassettes. Second Winter, Between The Buttons, a Motown or two, and something by the Electric Prunes. I still have the Electric prunes.
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited June 2008
    I don't think I ever bought a commercial cassette. I used to buy vinyl, record them the first time I played them, and put them away.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2008
    Never bought store cassettes, just recorded my own.
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,213
    edited June 2008
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Never bought store cassettes, just recorded my own.

    +1 never got into pre-recorded cassettes. I remember as a kid (10-11 years old) recording albums off the radio. On Friday nights they has something called the "six pack" where they would play new releases on the radio each side of each album was commercial free. That's as close to your question as I can get. By that age I had a nice starter stereo with a killer Pioneer CTF-500 cassette deck.

    LOL- before that at age 7-8 I used to take my Panasonic portable out in the living room and tape music off my parents stereo; always having to shuuuush someone.

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited June 2008
    I bought a car in 1980 that had a cassette deck. The next day my girlfriend at the time (soon to be my wife) and I were going on a road trip to Myrtle Beach. That night I went out and bought Jackson Browne "Hold Out", Pat Benatar "Crimes of Passion" The Alan Parsons Project "Turn of a Friendly Card" and Warren Zevon "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" (all current releases at the time) so I would have some road music. I bought my first Pioneer cassette deck/recorder very soon after and started recording cassettes off of LPs because the quality of the prerecorded tapes was so bad. The four mentioned above may have been the only ones I bought. I think I still have at least 3 of them.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited June 2008
    Def Leppard - Hysteria

    RAWK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,213
    edited June 2008
    In 10 years or so our kids, on a board similar to this, will be asking "What was the first music you downloaded onto your iPod?" LOL :p
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited June 2008
    I think it was Thriller.

    Then I got into vinyl, I remember having Juice Newton, as well as Urban Chipmunk. Last I heard, Theodore was arrested during an attempted robbery to support his meth habit. Damn shame.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited June 2008
    Actually... now that I think about it - I believe I had a whole stash of Weird Al tapes first.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited June 2008
    Nature Trail to Hell in 3-D is a classic.

    edit: oh wait... that was on Weird Al - In 3-D. Wasn't Christmas at Ground Zero on Polka Party?
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited June 2008
    Def Leppard - Pyromania
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited June 2008
    MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em

    You know you had it too. :p
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited June 2008
    Iron Maiden- Piece of Mind

    I was 15. Man I played flight of icarus until the letters all completely came off the tape. Eventually it was just an all white tape.
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,213
    edited June 2008
    PhantomOG wrote: »
    MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em

    You know you had it too. :p

    Give me the pants!
    hockeyboy wrote: »
    Iron Maiden- Piece of Mind

    I was 15. Man I played flight of icarus until the letters all completely came off the tape. Eventually it was just an all white tape.

    Great album/cd/cass
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited June 2008
    "Weird Al" Yankovic -- Dare To Be Stupid

    I wore it out but I know every word of every song on that album.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited June 2008
    I am pretty sure it was Van Halen's 1984.

    I loved Weird AL,

    Just Eat it, Eat it.
    Open up your mouth and feed it.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited June 2008
    I have no idea. Probably something from the Beach Boys.
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  • Polk addict
    Polk addict Posts: 558
    edited June 2008
    ACDC Back in Black...
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited June 2008
    My first 2 cassettes were copies from a friend actually:

    ACDC: Back in Black and Motley Crue: Shout at the Devil.

    The first one I bought, I think, was Quiet Riot: Metal Health.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,606
    edited June 2008
    I also didn't buy commercial cassettes.
    My first tape(8-track) was ZZ Top Fandango.
    Cheap stand alone player with two little wedge speakers.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited June 2008
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Never bought store cassettes, just recorded my own.

    Same here....factory cassettes sucked HARD...they used the cheapest tape and shells. . Took my huge album collection ...bought the best blank cassettes ( Usually TDK or Maxell ) and got busy. Also overcame one of the worst ( Of many ) drawbacks of the format...I could put the songs I liked on there to not have to FF or rewind to find a song.
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  • wodom1
    wodom1 Posts: 1,054
    edited June 2008
    The Fat Boys -- Crushin. I think I was like 7 or something.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited June 2008
    My third grade class actually did a break dance routine for our parents to that album. I think I suffered permament spinal injury from doing the Worm.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • wodom1
    wodom1 Posts: 1,054
    edited June 2008
    zombie boy 2000 wrote: »
    My third grade class actually did a break dance routine for our parents to that album. I think I suffered permament spinal injury from doing the Worm.

    Thinking about it now, my parents must have never listened to that album. Remember all of the sex references? I think I learned about things a little faster than my buddies after listening to "Beneath the Sheets" and "Protect Yourself". I might not have those song titles right.
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  • thebluemonkey
    thebluemonkey Posts: 190
    edited June 2008
    Loverboy "get lucky"
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  • avguytx
    avguytx Posts: 1,628
    edited June 2008
    Man....that was too many bongs and beers ago. :D I have no clue.... I had LP's before cassettes and I can't even remember what my first LP was either.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited June 2008
    Some of my first cassettes....

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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited June 2008
    Iron Maiden, Somewhere in Time or Motley Crue, Theater of Pain.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited June 2008
    wodom1 wrote: »
    The Fat Boys -- Crushin. I think I was like 7 or something.
    Awesome!
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    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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