The {www} Community ~ Question Time #8 | Whimsical Wonderland Weddings

15.11.2011

Feature coming soon…

Hi guys.. i hope you are well :-) I gave this feature a little break… BUT i miss you guys. The first couple of weeks this feature was a roaring success but in subsequent weeks things tailed off. So i though i would have a little down time. But the fact of the matter is i love chatting with you, getting to know you and i am sure you enjoy getting to know each other, so lets do it peeps…. come give me a helping hand :-)

I was chatting to G this week about cassette tapes… and how i remember buying my first single, so i thought i would share my story in the hope i could hear yours in return. After all music makes the world go round… and is an important element of a wedding day.

What was the first single you brought? Do you remember the story surrounding it too?

Lou {www}

I was on guide camp… yes i was a girl guide :-) And we went on a shopping trip into town. I remember excitedly heading into WHSmiths.. when they actually sold music hehe! And purchased my first ever single… a cassette tape… Robbie Williams, Angels. I am quite proud of my younger self for such refined taste LOL!! But can you believe, cassette tapes?!! I must dig it out, i hope i still have it.

Your go….. don’t leave me lonely…. *puppy dog eyes*….

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15.11.2011 at 12:14 pm
Mel says:

Hi Lou, I have missed chatting too!
Gulp...first single was a cassette (oh dear...) Bryan Adams "Everything I Do..." I don't have it anymore (obvs!) but i ruined it anyway from playing it too much LOL.
Love Mel x
15.11.2011 at 12:16 pm
Laura C says:

Firstly, WOOOO its back!!

I remember the music cassettes I owned were ALL taped off the radio so often were cut short or had the DJ talking over the beginning and end of each song! I even had a cassette walkman! I was too cool.

Now, not sure that it was a cassette but the first album I owned was Linkin Park - Hybrid theory. I had spent the afternoon in A&E having my hip set after falling off my horse, and my mum let me choose something on the way home in Safeway's to cheer me up. The first CD album I had was Status Quo - 12 gold bars, and that was a gift from my dad at Christmas.

I maintain that I was (and still am!) a little rocker, and have been brought up on my dad's LP collection. So Status Quo went down well with me even at the age of 12-ish!!

xx
15.11.2011 at 12:20 pm
Lou says:

hi girls!! yay!!

omg @LauraC i remember doing that... oh and me and my brother and sister used to record our own radio shows hehe!!

@Mel missed you too!! xoxo
15.11.2011 at 12:31 pm
Mel says:

omg! I used to record my own radio show with my best friend! it would all be Take That music and then us just ripping the F*** outta E17! Oh the days...
15.11.2011 at 12:51 pm
Bethan Jones says:

First single was Faith No More - Be Aggressive, I was a proper grunger at the time ha ha! The song is pretty crap but I really liked Faith No More and it was in the bargain bucket so I could afford it!!
15.11.2011 at 1:06 pm
Lou says:

LOL @Mel

@Bethan you are so cool.... oh to be a grunger ;-) xoxo
15.11.2011 at 1:06 pm
Kelly says:

I had a lot of tapes bought for me when I was younger mainly Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Michael Jackson (first ever album was Off The Wall I think) but the one I bought myself was Sure by Take That with a B Side of No Si Aqui No Hay Amore the Spanish version of Love Ain't Here Anymore.
I had some birthday money and we had all gone to Darlington as my Dad was a professional footballer and was playing there and bought it from Our Price (sweet Jesus I feel old).
Xx
15.11.2011 at 1:14 pm
Lou says:

@Kelly ahaha gotta love Kylie and Jason ;-) I was in LOVE with Take That... posters everywhere!! xoxo
15.11.2011 at 1:31 pm
Neda Lahrodi-Blake says:

Hi Lou

Mine was 'Look Sharp' with Roxette, as a young girl growing in Sweden it was given- right ; ). Loved it, love it still...'listean to your heart...' xx
15.11.2011 at 2:32 pm
Lou says:

hehe thanks for join in @Neda :-) i want a playlist of these tunes now xxx
15.11.2011 at 6:59 pm
Emma ball says:

Mine was a record! Bangles... Walk like an Egyptian, classic!! Xx
15.11.2011 at 9:29 pm
Hannah - The Ebury Collection says:

OK, this is going to be a teeny bit embarrassing... I can't quite remember which one came first, it was either Kylie Minogue's I Should Be So Lucky, which a friend's mum bought for me, or (and here's the embarrassing bit), Paul McCartney's We All Stand Together, otherwise known as the frog song! I did love it at the time. Both were single records.

And I too recorded songs from the chart show on a Sunday onto cassette. I could never quite get to the pause button in time to cut out the DJ talking!
16.11.2011 at 12:48 am
Hannah Webster says:

I kinda have two answers. My first singles were all on VINYL because I am OLD...I don't actually remember buying any cassette singles, think I went straight from vinyl to CD. I did have A LOT of cassettes though. Really wish I'd kept them in fact. Would be so funny to listen back to them now.

Anyway, singles, sorry. I was a wee little thing at the time but I insisted on being bought "Green Door" by Shakin' Stevens on 7". Some years later, the first single I actually bought for myself with my own pocket money was "Do They Know It's Christmas" - the original 1984 Band Aid version, on 12" Vinyl. Still makes me smile thinking back to how amazing I felt making that purchase. Like I was making a difference. :)
18.11.2011 at 2:48 pm
Lou ~ {www} says:

@Emma hehe that made me giggle

@Hannah thats an awesome song, instantly recognisable LOL

@Hannah W Vinyl rocks!! Also that is the sweetest thing ever :-)

thanks for joining in everyone, love getting to know you all more xoxo