Baby's First Cassette

ELISSA'S FIRST - The Smashing Pumpkin's Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadnes

What can I say? I just loved feeling smart when I said the title.

I thought he might want to Rock Wit’ Me? What can I say?

Q: What has 7 arms and sucks?

A: Def Leppard

Who am I kidding? I love these guys. STILL.

Donna Summer - Bad Girls

Here’s my first…Thanks Mom and Dad. I was in 3rd grade and I was into disco.

Ace of Base: The Sign

Yeah. So what if every song is indistinguishable from the next? With hits like “All That She Wants,” “The Sign,” and “Don’t Turn Around,” you’d have to be crazy to not purchase this cassette as a fourth-grader.

Aerosmith - Get A Grip

No shame. That’s all I have nothing else to say.

I'm about to admit something very incriminating....

MY FIRST TAPE…..was a recording of Les Mis.

WOW. Now thats a theater geek if you’ve ever seen one. The worst part, I still have it.

One of my first albums. I actually bought the record, not a tape or a CD but a record.

I don’t which record I had first but I loved this album. I made up a dance for every song and I bet I still know the words to every song.

Weird Al

Can be seen today playing at your local county fair.

Someone had to admit it

5th grade. And I didn’t buy it at first. I stole my older brother’s. And ruined it while playing it for all my friends. Was forced to do his chores until I could afford to replace it.

Also, I saved up and bought a convertible Mustang 5.0 when I was 17 – a “drop-top” if you will. No one thought it was coincidence.

Save the best for last

A little ironic that this was my first tape? I still get chills if I hear it. When do I hear it? Usually when I’m in the dentist’s chair or some other office situation where lite FM is the name of the game.

It wasn’t my first, but I sure has hell had the cassingle for Gangsta’s Paradise.

Um I don’t know? When I tell people this they generally burst out laughing. I think I tried to be a lot more hardocre than I was. But this was the first album I purchased all on my own.

However, not much has changed as I still love music not a single friend of mine has any interest in. Though it’s a big different than Alice in Chains. Harcore.

You Eediot by Ren & Stimpy

The first album (and it was on cassette) I ever bought was You Eediot by Ren & Stimpy. The plastic shell of the cassette was translucent Nickelodeon orange.

Wayne's World Soundtrack

Full disclosure: I tried to buy Color Me Bad’s album with “I Wanna Sex You Up” on it, but that was shot down by my dad. So Wayne’s World was the winner. And looking back now I’m glad my dad helped me out in making my first purchase a cool one.