Smashing Pumpkins did their best to warm up the crowd but were just blown away by the power of what came next…
CD you bought:
First: Oasis - Be Here Now
Last: Christ knows for myself but I got my Dad The Epic by Kamasi Washington a few years back
Vinyl you bought:
First: Muse - Uno (Transparent 7", Signed)
Last: Tyler the Creator - Igor
CD single you bought:
Absolutely no idea
Cassette you bought:
First: Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Last: Brand New - Leaked Demos
Gig you went to:
First: Muse at Earl’s Court 2004
Last: Self Esteem at Brixton Electric 2019
Festival you went to:
First: V Festival 2004
Last: Glastonbury 2011
CD you bought
First: Oasis - What’s The Story…
Last: DM Stith - Heavy Ghost
Vinyl you bought
First: Bob Dylan & The Band - Basement Tapes (maybe? Was one of the first)
Last: Fred Again… - Actual Life
Cassette you bought
First Single - Two Can Play That Game by Bobby Brown
First Album - Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell II
Last - no idea
Gig you went to
First: Lightning Seeds, Manchester Apollo 1996
Last: Angel Olsen, Ritz Feb 2020
Festival you went to
First: V98
Last: Bluedot whichever yr Caribou played
CD you bought
First: Ash - ‘Trailer’
Last: Joanna Newsome - ‘Have One on Me’
Vinyl you bought
First: Mike Oldfield - ‘Tubular Bells’ from a charity shop
Last: One of Peter Gabriels’s self-titled solo albums
CD single you bought
First: Joyrider - ‘Rush Hour’
Last: Honestly no idea, it would have been years ago. Possible a Black Heart Procession EP I bought in 2004
Cassette you bought
First: Pulp - ‘Different Class’
Last: Spiritualized - 'Pure Phase
Gig you went to
First: Joyrider, Southampton Joiners Arms 1996
Last: Loscil, some venue in Wroclaw Klub Formaty 2019
Festival you went to
First: Reading 2000
Last: Off Festival 2011.
CD
First: Body Count - Body Count
Last: Not sure, although there was a CD of similar music with the Black Country New road album, so that?
Vinyl
First: Ocean Colour Scene - Traveller’s Tune
Last: Sennen - Widows (expanded edition)
CD Single
First: Dog Eat Dog - Who’s The King?
Last: Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Cassette
First: I bought 4 in one day - Metallica - …AJFA, Nirvana - IU, Therapy? - Troublegum and Aerosmith - Pandora’s Toys.
Last: Steve Hadfield - Silly Baby LP
Gig
First: if Stiltskin playing Virgin Megastore in Reading ‘95 counts, that, if not, Fun Lovin’ Criminals at Rivermead in '99
Last: Tove Lo - The Forum, March 12th last year.
Festival
First: Reading '99
Last: Reading '19
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CD you bought
Dylan - Highway 61
Florenci Salesas – La Teoria Dels Forats Blancs -
Vinyl you bought
Ultravox - The Collection
Valentina Goncharova - Recordings 1987-1991 Volume 1 -
CD single you bought
No idea, only ever bought about 20. A few Bjork ones so I’ll say Bjork for both. -
Cassette you bought
Stephen Duffy - The Ups and Downs
Mercury Tracer - I-L -
Gig you went to
Wire at the Leadmill. Had vaguely heard of them but didn’t actually know them, I just wanted to go to the Leadmill.
It’s years since I went to a proper gig, it will have just been some covers band playing locally. -
Festival you went to
Reading ‘91
A thing at a farmhouse in Puglia a few years back. Main attraction for me was Laetitia Sadler from Stereolab. It was lovely.
CD
1st: Mr. Mister - Welcome to the Real World
Lst: Orb - UFOrb/Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide/ABC - Lexicon of Love (deluxe reissues)
VINYL
1st: Shamen - Pro >>Gen/Lightning Seeds - Pure. 7”s
Lst: Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel reissue
CD Single
1st: Suede - Stay Together
Lst: Jungle Brothers - True Blue
Cassette
1st: The Hits Tape
Lst: blur - Parklife
Gig:
1st: Wonderstuff/Ned’s Atomic Dustbin/Eat - Exeter University Great Hall
Lst: Amason/Esther - Cirkus, Stockholm
Festival
1st: Glastonbury 1990
Lst: Red Bull Music Week, Stockholm 2019
CD: Spice Girls - Spice / MBV - Isn’t Anything
Vinyl: n/a I don’t need ornaments
CD single: Britney Spears - My Prerogative / Suede - Stay Together
Cassette: Aqua - Aquarium / Suede - Coming Up
Gig: McFly/Busted at Broadstairs in 2004 / I guess technically James Blunt at Pub In The Park (parents’ choice not mine), last gig I chose to go to was Ariana Grande in August 2019
Festival: Reading Festival 2011 / Hop Farm Festival 2012
I feel like Jack Black is about to bawl me out for choosing Beethoven Track 1 Side 1 of the Fifth Symphony.
CD
First: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (it was the CD everyone bought when CDs first arrived alright?)
Last: Lamp of Murmuur - Remnants of a Bewildered Ache (talk about chalk & cheese!)
Vinyl
First: ELO - A New World Record
Last: Leatherface - Mush (30th anniversary reissue)
CD single (guessing here, didn’t used to buy many so going from release dates)
First: The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Last: Royksopp - Remind Me
Cassette
First: Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Last: Don’t really know, maybe Nirvana’s Nevermind or Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger?
Gig
First: Genesis - Birmingham NEC 1983
Last: Monster Magnet - Leeds Uni Jan 2020
Festival
First: Reading 1994
Last: Damnation 2019
CD
First - bought 3 when I bought my first cd player.
New Order Power Corruption and Lies
New Order Low Life
The Cure Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Last - Burning Airlines Mission Control (this week)
VINYL
First - Top Gun soundtrack
Last - Daniel Avery Together in Static
CD SINGLE
First - Depeche Mode Personal Jesus
Last - no idea
CASSETTE
First - didn’t buy many originals, did pick some up 2nd hand. Maybe The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
Last - No Age Spree Snare Cuts live in Germany thing
GIG
First - The Charlatans, Brighton 1990 or 91
Last - Dry Cleaning, Portland Arms Cambridge Feb 2020
FESTIVAL
First - Reading 1994
Last - EOTR 2019
Gig
First - Pink Floyd at Earl’s Court
Last - Algiers at Clwb Ifor Bach
CD
Oasis - WTSMG
Last - Fuck knows - at least 8 years ago, maybe Artic Monkey’s AM?
Vinyl
First - Pink Floyd - Animals
Last - Bicep - Atlas
Cassette - none
Festival
First - Reading 2001
Last - Cardiff Hub 2019
Good thread
CD
First: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Last: Not 100% sure but I think it was Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Vinyl
First: Level 42 - Running In The Family
Last: Bought 3 at once from a street stall in Brighton: Adamski - Killer 12”, The Shamen - Progen 7”, These Animal Men - Too Sussed?
CD single
First: Slowdive - Holding Our Breath but that’s an EP so may not count in which case Carter USM - After The Watershed
Last: SL2 - On A Ragga Tip, 50p on discogs, the postage cost more than the CD
Cassette
First: Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Last: I’m really not sure so I’m going to guess and say Joy Division - Still
Gig
First: Some local gig where the name of the bands are long lost in my memory. The first where I can remember who played is Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, University Of Surrey 1993 or 1994
Last: According to last.fm it’s Mudhoney, Meat Puppets and Metz, The Forum 2013. That was when I basically stopped going to gigs so makes sense but I’ve probably been to something since then and forgotten
Festival
First: Glastonbury 1994
Last: Porto Primavera 2014
CD you bought
First: The Seahorses - Do It Yourself
Last: Maybe a Bowie album off ebay when I wanted to complete my collection a year or so ago.
Vinyl you bought
First: Maybe the 7" box set of See This Through And Leave by The Cooper Temple Clause
Last: I’ve just pre-ordered the new Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan record - does that count? If not, then I got a decent second hand haul in a charity shop in Northumberland a couple of weeks ago - McCartneys I and II, Band On The Run and Graceland.
CD single you bought
First: Oasis - D’You Know What I Mean
Last: Probably Oasis - Little By Little/She Is Love
Cassette you bought
First: Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Last: Beliefs - Catch My Breath
Gig you went to
First: Robbie Williams at the MEN in 1999
Last: Hot 8 Brass Band at The Ritz in Feb/March 2020
Festival you went to
First: V2001
Last: Bluedot 2019
CD
First: U2 - Achtung Baby
Last: Anansy Cissé - Anoura
Vinyl
First: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Last: Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi - Melodies in the Sand
CD single
First: Faith No More - Be Aggressive
Last: Urusei-Yatsura - Kewpies Like Watermelon
Cassette
First: Duran Duran - Decade
Last: Earth Rod - Scuttling Around E.P.
Gig you went to
First: The Levellers @ Crawley Leisure Center, 14 October 1993
Last: Explosions In The Sky @ Hammersmith Apollo, 15 Feb 2020
Festival
First: Reading 1995
Last: Primavera Sound Porto 2014
Oh fucking snap!
I’m not 100% sure but it’s the first pre-recorded one I remember getting and it being in my walkman permanently for weeks!
Bought it from woolworths with my own money! Still remember the occasion
CD
First: R.E.M. - Green
Last: The Sundays - Static & Silence
CD single (these are very rough guesses)
First: Ash - Oh Yeah
Last: Blur - Out Of Time
Vinyl
First: Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
Last: Spiritualized - Pure Phase
Cassette
First: The Simpsons - Do The Bartman
Last: Shimano XT M8000 (11-42)
Hilary Woods - Isolation Tank
Gig
First: Wet Wet Wet, July 1992
Last: Earth, November 2019
Festival
Not on festivalbook, pal
- CD you bought
First/ Dirty Three self-titled. Bought immediately after seeing them in 1994. Had to buy a CD player to listen to it.
Last/ The Armed: Ultrapop. Last week.
- Vinyl you bought
First/ Girlschool: Hit and Run. Maybe 1983
Last/ a couple of Rocket Recordings comps that were released for RSD, and were on sale at one do the shops mentioned in the bargains thread.
- CD single you bought
First/ dunno, maybe Car Wash Hair by Mercury Rev. Second hand.
Last/ dunno, maybe the Low Xmas EP in Oxfam last year.
- Cassette you bought
First/ Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden. Maybe 1984.
Last/ No idea, something not very memorable shortly before buying my first CD.
- Gig you went to
First/ Marillion at Wembley Arena, 1990.
Last/ Daniel Avery at a church in Hackney a few weeks ago.
- Festival you went to
First/ the Cunbrian Rock Festival in Workington in 1991 (headlined by Marillion).
Last/ Big Foot festival last month.