How "old" are you?

I had 45's of Michael Jackson's "The Wiz" and Queen's "Bicycle Race" (though the B-side was "Fat Bottom Girls," which I didn't come to appreciate until much later. Come to think of it, maybe "Bicycle Race" was the B-Side - who knows when you're 6).

My first album was Synchronicity by the Police.

My first tape was a double purchase - Van Halen's 1984 and Huey Lewis and the News' Sports for my 10th birthday.  It was the first time I didn't ask for Star Wars action figures for my birthday.

My first CD was New Order's Substance.

EDIT: Just a little bit of investigation solved the question:

"Bicycle Race" is a single by the English rock band Queen. It was released on their 1978 album Jazz and written by Queen's frontman Freddie Mercury. It was released as a double A-side single together with the song "Fat Bottomed Girls"."

first tape: bryan adams, "reckless"

first cd: ozzy, "no more tears"

grateful wrote:
Mine was U2 War.  I also think I won Jethro Tull Aqualung from DC§101

First LP I ever owned was given to me by a friend - Def Leppard Pyromania.  First LP I ever bought was VH 1984.

First show you made out with a random chick or dude?

I would say it was a Romeo Void show in 1984 at Girards in Baltimore.  Some girl asked me to dance and then…

first tapes are above
first lp was Frampton Comes Alive, given to me by my older juvenile delinquent brother
first cd I bought was the first Misfits best of, called Collection I

But the earliest records I remember spinning on my own were from the family collection in the living room:
Rubber Soul and Meet the Beatles
Bookends and Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkle
Endless Summer by the Beach Boys.

I've loved all 3 acts ever since.

I lost the big V listening to Walk Among Us by the Misfits

My wife walked down the isle to Ladies and Gentleman we are floating in space.

First concert was Prince on the Purple Rain Tour.

First concert I went to by choice was Missing Persons.  I tried to get tickets to that Purple Rain tour but they kept selling out. 

how does anybody remember their first cd.  good.  lord.  wait a minute . . . wait a minute . . . mine was, no wait, its gone.

walkonby wrote:
how does anybody remember their first cd.  good.  lord.  wait a minute . . . wait a minute . . . mine was, no wait, its gone.

I remember because cd's were a pretty exotic item at the time…was mostly into punk and hardcore and those bands def were not putting out cd's yet, so when the misfits released one it was kindof a big deal….to me.

i dont remember last year . . . so theres that.

I remember because the people made fun of me because I didn't have a CD Player.  I don't have one now either.  Except in my car. 

I knew I was getting a cd player for my birthday, so I bought a handful of cds at once, so I'd have something to play when I got the player.  I think this was 1984.  My first ones were:

The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
David Bowie - ChangesOneBowie
The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed

Cant decide how "old" I am.

on the one hand….I missed my first show last night.  Show that I had a ticket to, that is.  Old age? Maybe.

on the other hand….I'm driving up to the Jersey shore to catch the next night of the tour. I have to drive back afterwards. Haven't done anything like this in 7-8 years. Dumb? Probably.

Not acting my age, either way.

The first show I missed that I had ticket to was "We have a fuzzbox and we are going to use it".  I think that was quite a while ago so I don't think age is the main concern.

I'll be 44 next month.  Also, got carded last month.  WIN!

when i shave . . .  i get carded for asking for a pack of matches at seven eleven.  win.