Vinyl 45
Vinyl Album
Vinyl 12 Inch Single
8 Track Tape
Cassette Tape (album)
Cassette Single
Cassette Maxi Single
CD (album)
CD Single
CD Maxi Single

*And for the real old timers, first 78.

Vinyl 45: Le Freak - Chic
Vinyl Album: Grease Soundtrack
Vinyl 12 Inch Single: Let's Work - Prince
8 Track Tape: Controversy - Prince
Cassette Tape (album): Dirty Mind/Controversy (2 on 1) - Prince
Cassette Single: Alphabet Street - Prince
Cassette Maxi Single: U Got The Look - Prince
CD (album): Martha Wash - Martha Wash
CD Single: Pumps In A Bump - MC Hammer
CD Maxi Single: Whomp There It Is - Tag Team

vainandy said:

Good choice!!

Vinyl Album: I think it was The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy. I honestly can't remember right now.

Vinyl 12 Inch Single: Let's Pretend We're Married - Prince

8 Track Tape: Stevie Wonder - Anthology

Cassette Tape (album): Prince and the Revolution - Around The World In A Day (for the clear cassette).

Cassette Single: The Jets - Rocket 2 u

Cassette Maxi Single: I don't remember. It was probably Hot Thing/ICNTTPOYM - Prince

CD (album): I got Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits as a gift from my parents...but the first one I purchased was Hearsay from Alexander O'neal

CD Single: Lisa Stansfield - You Can't Deny It

CD Maxi Single: Don't recall this either....but I think it was Gett Off from P and the NPG.
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Vinyl 45: Prince - Controversy
Vinyl Album: James Brown - The Payback
Vinyl 12 Inch Single: Prince - Raspberry Beret
8 Track Tape: I've never had one
Cassette Tape (album): Madonna - Like a Prayer
Cassette Single: Boyz II Men - Motownphilly
Cassette Maxi Single: I don't remember
CD (album): TLC - CrazySexyCool
CD Single - Mariah Carey - Dreamlover
CD Maxi Single - Janet Jackson - That's the Way Love Goes

Vinyl 45: Don't have any
Vinyl Album: s/t album by Icelandic synth-pop band Strax (This was my first non-childrens album, but still I was only 4 years old!)

Vinyl 12 inch: Didn't have any until I bought my own turntable recently, and then I bought two at the same time: Prince - Mountains and Prince - U Got The Look (maxi-single with 7 minutes mo' Quake on the b-side)
8 track tape: Never seen one in my life!
Cassette tape (album): Queen - A Kind of Magic
Cassette Singles: Never bought any
CD (album): Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
CD (single): Puff Daddy - All About the Benjamins (Rock Remix)
CD (Maxi Single): Rammstein - Stripped

Vinyl Album : eurythmics "revenge" (my mom bought it)
Vinyl 12 Inch Single : adamski "killer"
8 Track Tape : never bought one
Cassette Tape (album) : prince & the revolution "around the world in a day"
Cassette Single : prince & the new power generation "gett off"
Cassette Maxi Single : information society "think"
CD (album) : prince "lovesexy"
CD Single : neneh cherry "kisses on the wind"
CD Maxi Single : prince "i wish u heaven"


cassette singles weren't intrudoced in the netherlands until the beginning
of the 90's. they didn't last long either. at least, i don't think there'd
been any before.


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Vinyl 45: Convoy
Vinyl Album: Superman: The Movie Soundtrack
Vinyl 12 Inch Single: When Doves Cry
8 Track Tape: FM movie soundtrack
Cassette Tape (album): INXS Listen Like Thieves
Cassette Single: Prince Thieves in the Temple
Cassette Maxi Single: Don't think I ever bought one
CD (album): A bootleg copy of the Black Album before I had a CD player
CD Single: Batdance
CD Maxi Single: Batdance

Damn, I had totally forgotten about that song.

Vinyl 45 -Signed, Sealed, Delivered-Stevie Wonder
Vinyl Album-Zapp & Roger (Doo Wat Ditty followed by Purple Rain
Vinyl 12 Inch Single-Ring My Bell (I think )
8 Track Tape-Z.Z. Hill (Blues-My Uncle gave it to me )
Cassette Tape (album)-Tony, Toni, Tone
Cassette Single-Toney Terry (Lovey Dovey )
Cassette Maxi Single Al B Sure (Misunderstanding)
CD (album)-Luther Vandross (Never Too Much)
CD Single My memory is gone
CD Maxi Single

I honestly do not know.

Vinyl 45 - Burn Rubber by the Gap Band

Vinyl Album - Midnight Magic & Heroes by The Commodores ( My first purchase was a two-fer).

Vinyl 12 Inch Single - 1999 by Prince ( I think. I bought a few singles at first, but then only stuck to mostly albums, after. Since my brother was a vinyl 12" addict, I stopped buying 'em & just listened to his. And while I may have picked up one every once in a while, I just can't remember specifically which were mine & which were his.

8 Track Tape - None. Even at a very young age, I always thought these things were big clunky messes.

Cassette Tape (album) - 1999 by the ol' Skipper.

Cassette Single - Same long ass answer as the one for vinyl 12 inch, bitchez.

Cassette Maxi Single - Same as previous answer. However, I do remember once coming upon a box of old stuff that I had from college, & finding a Samantha Fox cassette maxi single for "Naughty Girls Need Love Too". Which was surprising, cuz I never like her music, & my brother swore up & down that he didn't either. I dunno how it came into my possession. Maybe I got drunk one night, wandered into a music store & was swayed by her big tits.
I'unno.


CD (album), CD Single & CD Maxi Single - Okay, now we're at the point in my life were I didn't pay much attention to what format I was buying my music. I don't even remember what my first CD player looked like.



*And for the real old timers, first 78. - What in the hell was a 78?

It took me a long time to figure some of these out.

Vinyl 45 - Hot Line - The Sylvers (1976)
Vinyl Album - Destiny - The Jacksons (1978)
Vinyl 12 Inch Single - White Lines - Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five (1983)
8 Track Tape - none
Cassette Tape (album) - Standing On A Beach - The Cure (1986 but, I didn't buy it until years later)
Cassette Single - I Wanna Get Back With You - Tom Jones (1994)
Cassette Maxi Single - none
CD (album) - Compact Command Performances - Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 (1984, but I got it in the late 80s)
CD Single - Iceblink Luck - Cocteau Twins (1990)
CD Maxi Single - Aspects Of The Sensual World - Kate Bush (1989)

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[Edited 5/12/08 11:03am]

vainandy said:

i only remember casette album and that is michael jacksons HIStory

Vinyl 45-locomotion-kylie minogue
Vinyl Album-madonna-like a virgin
Vinyl 12 Inch Single-we had tons already but I listened to Lets All Chant-Michael Zaegar Band often
8 Track Tape-I don't think I ever had one
Cassette Tape (album)-probably something Bollywood
Cassette Single-never had a cassette single
Cassette Maxi Single-see above
CD (album)-TLC-CrazySexyCool
CD Single-Janet-Together Again
CD Maxi Single-Cher-Believe

Vinyl Album Prince - Controversy


Cassette Tape (album) TLC - Oooooohh on the TLC Tip
Cassette Single Jade - Don't Walk Away
Cassette Maxi Single Prince - Most Beautiful Girl in the World
CD (album) Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
CD Single Robyn - Show me Love
CD Maxi Single Prince - Scandalous Sex Suite


I can't answer for the others

sextonseven said:

I just realized I don't have any of these anymore.

Except the Tom Jones cassette single.

sextonseven said:

!!

thekidsgirl said:

I don't even like the song! I just bought it because I wanted to hear how Tori Amos sounded singing background on the track. (This was pre-internet access for me obviously.) All of the other releases I've sold on ebay, but that one I never even tried to sell so it's collecting dust on my short shelf of cassette singles.

They have one song on each side and look like a 12 inch single except a 78 is only 10 inches. The vinyl is extremely thick also. Just like an album rotates at 33 rpm and a 45 rotates at 45 rpm, well, a 78 rotates at 78 rpm. 78s were from the early 1900s and lasted until the mid to late 1950s.

My grandmother used to have a few 78s and a record player with the speeds, 33, 45, and 78. My first stereo I bought in 1979 had a 78 speed on it. I haven't seen any stereos or turntables with a 78 speed on it since the 1970s.


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Yeah i've seen a couple of those things before.
You could whup somebody's ass with one of those 78 lp's.

sextonseven said:

Ohh! I thought you kept it cause it was the one you loved the most

Vinyl 45: Prince & the Rev - When Doves Cry
Vinyl Album: Herrey's - Diggiloo Diggilei (sp) eurovision winners
Vinyl 12 Inch Single: Kiss - Prince
8 Track Tape: ––
Cassette Tape (album): Flashdance soundtrack
Cassette Single: ——
Cassette Maxi Single: ——
CD (album): Led Zeppelin IV
CD Single: ——
CD Maxi Single: ——

Vinyl 45: Prince & The Revolution -- When Doves Cry
Vinyl 12 Inch Single: Michael Jackson -- Smooth Criminal
Cassette Tape (album): Heart -- Bad Animals
CD (album): Janet Jackson -- RN1814
CD Maxi Single: Janet Jackson -- If/One More Chance

vainandy said:

My first turntable had the 78 speed option
Don't have any 78s though

Vinyl 45: The Word Girl - Scritti Politti
Vinyl Album: Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down
Vinyl 12 Inch Single: USA for Africa - We Are the World (WHY? It was the same length as the 7-inch single! Again: WHY?)
8 Track Tape: none
Cassette Tape (album): can't remember...
Cassette Single: Gett Off - Prince
Cassette Maxi Single: none, I think...
CD (album): George Michael - Faith
CD Single: not sure, I think it was "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman
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thekidsgirl said:

My shelf of cassette singles is the worst music that you'll see in my collection: Britney Spears, Jordan Knight, All Saints, Shania Twain, etc. Guilty pleasures all.
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