First and Lasts

Smashing Pumpkins did their best to warm up the crowd but were just blown away by the power of what came next…

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Oh fucking snap!

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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!

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Bought it from woolworths with my own money! Still remember the occasion

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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

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  • 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.