[b]First album bought[/b]: Meet The Beatles. My dad had this great idea that we as a family were going to get "musical." The idea was that once a month, we'd go to the record store and each of us would pick out something. My mom bought an Andy Williams record, my brother bought The Man From U.N.C.L.E soundtrack, I bought the Beatles, and my dad bought a Lefty Frizzell album, which I ended up listening to more than he did. Dad's great idea was soon forgotten, because that's the only time I remember us going to the record store.


[b]First 45rpm record[/b] (yeah, I'm an old fart :D) : Don't remember, because I collected and had hundreds, but it was probably by the Beatles because I loved Meet The Beatles so much.


[b]First concert[/b]: Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies" tour, in Lawrence, KS. I loved it! It was also the first time I ever did acid, which of course, is why I'm so warped now :-).


[b]First movie seen in the theater[/b]: It was either Mary Poppins or Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (then again, this could be why).


[b]First Grown-Up movies seen in the theater[/b]: In Cold Blood (with my parents, who couldn't find a babysitter) and a double feature of Bonnie and Clyde / Bullitt (on my own).


[b]First movie seen at a Drive-In[/b]: Don't know, since we were raised at the Drive-In, but the first ones I remember clearly are Hell's Angels On Wheels and Born Losers. Dad loved those biker flicks. He didn't like Easy Rider though. My brother and I loved it!!


[b]First movie that thunderstruck my soul[/b] (ok, annoyingly bad grammar, I know): 2001: A Space Odyssey


[b]First music that thunderstruck my soul[/b]: Seeing Peter Gabriel's Genesis perform "Watcher Of The Skies" and "The Musical Box" on The Midnight Special in 1973. That was when I realized that there was something beyond the Top 40 out there *for me*. Everything since, mainly discovering beloved music such as Kate Bush and Happy Rhodes, not to mention meeting my husband (k8fan) in 1982, came as a DIRECT result of those amazing minutes spent watching TV. My entire life would be radically different, if I hadn't watched that program. 


[b]First pre-recorded video[/b]: Music - Kate Bush's Live At The Hammersmith Odeon. Film - Francis Ford Coppola's One From The Heart.


[b]First CD[/b]: Kate Bush "The Kick Inside" long before we actually had a CD player. The CD itself was mislabeled and just said "Kick Inside."


[b]First laserdisc[/b]: Music - Kate Bush's The Whole Story. Film - Wim Wender's Until The End Of The World.


[b]First DVD[/b]: Film - L.A. Confidential (also before we had a DVD player). Music - Still no Kate Bush on DVD (DAMN!). I think it was the Sarah McLachlan video collection.


[b]First car[/b]: A Volkswagon, which is what I learned on too. We were a Volkswagon family. Everyone had one. Mine was old and needed a tune up every 20 miles it seemed. 

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Straight Dope World Music thread:
There are a million worth having, and I have a few hundred, but without looking at my library, these come to mind immediately, before I have to leave:

[b][URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005IYL/qid=1134370078/sr=8-2/ref=__2/104-7238196-0934353?v=glance&s=music]Le Mystere des voix Bulgares, Vol. I[/URL][/b] - Exquisite Bulgarian folk music

[b][URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000E2H/qid=1134370170/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-7238196-0934353?v=glance&s=music]Najma - Qareeb[/URL][/b] - I have several albums by her, but most of them are, IMHO, crap, though her voice is always gorgeous. This one is sublime and a must-have.

[B][URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000HOK/qid=1134370252/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7238196-0934353?v=glance&s=music]Sheila Chandra - Weaving My Ancestor's Voices[/URL][/B] - not my favorite by her (that would be [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001ECV/ref=pd_sim_music_7/104-7238196-0934353?v=glance&s=music]Third Eye with Monsoon[/URL], which is more pop) but it's pretty wonderful, how she incorporates traditional Indian drum talk with folk music from other countries. Sheila's uneven, but when she's great, she's really really great. Others by her could take the place of WMAV, such as Zen Kiss or Moonsung or Quiet or Roots And Wings or ABoneCroneDrone or maybe even This Sentence Is True. I don't know those albums well enough to say though. [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008GQBY/ref=pd_sim_music_8/104-7238196-0934353?v=glance&s=music]Indipop Retrospective[/URL] is a decent sampler too. My all-time favorite Sheila Chandra song, "Raqs" is from [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056O20/ref=pd_sim_music_4/104-7238196-0934353?v=glance&s=music]Nada Brahma[/URL], another good, but early, album.

[B][URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000OR5/ref=cm_lm_fullview_prod_7/104-7238196-0934353?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance]Peter Gabriel - Passion[/URL][/B]