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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you please edit the post and clarify what you mean by "turn on"? I'm not smart enough. Thank you.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Turn on meaning cause the music to play. OP means what non-kids music did you listen to when you were first in control of what music to play.

[–] colourlessidea@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory

[–] ELLIOTTCABLE 3 points 2 years ago

oh man probably me too. either that or Evanescence.

i was a angsty lil’ dickhead omg

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My first album was They Might Be Giants - Flood.

What can I say, I still have great taste.

Also nice to know my first band has had good politics since their first show was at a Sandanista rally.

I gotta admit though, I first heard them on Tiny Toon Adventures.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Queen. One of their best of albums. And Michael Jackson. Dangerous and History album (which had a best of disc too).

[–] ccdfa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Also Queen here. Staying up late sitting on the floor next to the cassette player with the headphones on listening to News of the World.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

In the mid 1970s, we could borrow cassettes from the library. I started with Neil Diamond β€œHis 12 Greatest Hits”, then moved on to Electric Light Orchestra, Roxy Music, and Mike Oldfield.

[–] teatime@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

It might have been Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

One of the first albums I purchased was Back in Black by AC/DC. I also purchased a compilation album called Certified Gold. About half the songs on that were good, I remember liking a Pat Benatar song.

Before that I remember having a little portable boombox with cassette recorder and I recorded Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap also by AC/DC and Destroyer by The Kinks. I listened to them over and over.

[–] peter@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

The first CD I ever owned was O zone - Dragon Sta Din Tei aka the Numa Numa song. No idea why or where I got it from but I would listen to that on my little cd player

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eminem curtain call. My grandma brought it for me having no idea what it was. I was listening to it for a few days before my mum was like wtf is that and then listened to the first song on the album which was fack. I was 9 or 10 and she confiscated it and I had to steal it back and rip it to the computer and create copies incase she got those.

[–] nueonetwo@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I remember making back up's of songs I liked that had swearing in them when i was like 8 in case my mom found them. I think I had like 5 or 6 copies of Damnit by Blink 182 hidden in my folder on the family computer, which had an 8gb hard drive.

[–] ShockDetective 2 points 2 years ago

Found my parents "Business as usual" - Men at work vinyl.

Memorized "Down Under" listening with Sony DR-S5s. I always thought that's how you were supposed to listen since the cord matched the one on the album cover.

[–] Conman_Signor@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

System of a Downs 'Toxicity'

[–] sara@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

I’m not sure of the first song, but the first music I ever bought myself was II by Boyz II Men.

[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I loved playing with my bigger sister's cheap hi-fi, I would put on a vinyl record and without power turned the record manually save heard whispering ^(🎡cherry cherry lady...🎢), so there's Modern Talking, then when she bought a CD player it was Crush by Jennifer Page

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

The Macarena. I still have a cassette tape that is front to back The Macarena on repeat.

[–] MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The sound track to Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey and then all the artists on there- kiss, slaughter, winger, faith no more, megadeath, etc.