so back in the day when you first got your first boombox

[bill]

what music were you listening to on it.
really tho back in the day when you got your very first boombox or portable stereo.
what were you playing on it.

i think going back to when i was twelve the first music i was listening to was the ventures gary numan and the first b 52s album.
those i seem to think were the first tapes i ever actually owned that were my own.

i seem to remember being twelve at the time and the stereo i had was a really really awful consumers distributing pos.


also how old were you all.

 

[Pointdexter1906]

Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force (which, IMHO, is the GREATEST Hip Hop song of all time...), Scorpio by GM Flash and the Furious Five, lots of Kraftwerk, I'm Ready by Kano.... various hits off of my hometown R&B station, WBLZ (no longer in existence...)

 

[blah blah]

On my first box which was a crappy Toshiba: Black Sabbath, early punk rock mix tapes and Parliament!

 

[Fatdog]

My one and only boombox (back in the day), the Sanyo M9935K, was subjected to a lot of Newcleus, Midnight Star, Jonzun Crew, Twilight 22, and Run-D.M.C.

And lot's more old school jams.

 

[jaetee]

Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force (which, IMHO, is the GREATEST Hip Hop song of all time...), Scorpio by GM Flash and the Furious Five, lots of Kraftwerk, I'm Ready by Kano.... various hits off of my hometown R&B station, WBLZ (no longer in existence...)

Dude, we are so on the same page... That was pretty much my style at the time, too... But that was more second generation stuff for me. Just prior to your playlist I was pounding out some Jacksons, Diana Ross, Cameo, Earth Wind & Fire, early Prince, Parliament, Commodores, Slave, Sugarhill Gang, Brick, Queen, Dazz Band, Mass Production, Kurtis Blow, Lakeside and Con Funk Shun.

Between Poindexter's list and mine, you have the makings of several of my first mixtapes...

 

[Boom Shaka Laka]

I was in my thirties in the eighties, and I was listening to REO Speedwagon, Styx and Journey on my first boomboxes... a Panasonic, Quasar and Toshiba. I thought I was pretty cool. Turns out, maybe not.

 

[bill]

I was in my thirties in the eighties, and I was listening to REO Speedwagon, Styx and Journey on my first boomboxes... a Panasonic, Quasar and Toshiba. I thought I was pretty cool. Turns out, maybe not.

well honestly more boomboxes were used to play that reo speedwagon album with the old rusty truck on it than most likely all the fore mentioned albums. i mean that was a huge selling band back in the day.
i was into pretty different music from most people back in 1979. i wasnt into styx journey or reo speed wagon but man did they ever sell a huge ammount of albums.

i am guessing from the others here most of the people got their first boxes in there late teens.

 

[2steppa]

A lot of tapes I recorded on my box off the 'Boogie Down' show on Saturday nights with Dave Brown on my local FM station.
Discovered loads of great tracks and blasted out lots of great music in the street too.

Artists like Kashif, Dazz Band, Ready For The World, The Whispers, Thelma Houston, Kleeer, Glenn Jones, Howard Johnson, Surface, Windjammer, Shannon, The System, Willie Hutch, Mtume, SOS Band, the list is endless and contributed to my starting what turned out to be quite a large collection of 12" singles of this kind of music.

In fact, still listened to regularly these days and enjoyed every bit as much as the first time round.

 

[oldskool69]

My first true boombox, if you could call it that, was a horrid Samsung my dad got me. You know the type, uber cheap plastic with the giant red record button on the deck and a tone control. I actually tried to spiff it up by painting the speakers white!

My dad was ridiculed by HIS freinds for being so cheap when (in a military family) they know what your household makes and they were buying their kids better stuff.

No need to state what music was played as you all were listening to the same thing I was.

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Well I cranked my boxes so loud you almost couldn't make out the songs.

Some of the bands I had on Tape in the late 70's into the early 80's:
Blue Oyster Cult
Nazareth
AC/DC
Styx
Journey
Blondie
The Cars
Led Zeppelin

 

[Johnny]

12 years old listening to Def Leopard, riding my Diamond back "trying to do tricks" in my driveway while my two tape deck (NO TUNER!!) Boombox sat on my dads '63 Galaxie 500's deck lid blastin lol

 

[Old school Scott]

Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Butthole Surfers, Agnostic Front, and the Specials.
That is, in between listening to every Funkadelic cassette available

Cheers OSS

 

[bill]

Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Butthole Surfers, Agnostic Front, and the Specials.
That is, in between listening to every Funkadelic cassette available

Cheers OSS

now we are talking some hardcore .
man oss you have some cool bands on that list.
pretty much every band you mentioned still sees some play here.

 

[bill]

12 years old listening to Def Leopard, riding my Diamond back "trying to do tricks" in my driveway while my two tape deck (NO TUNER!!) Boombox sat on my dads '63 Galaxie 500's deck lid blastin lol

ahhh the beloved diamond backs of years gone by.
unfortunately i was never any good on those twenty inch wheels once i got past twelve.
bad knees/
damn 63 galaxy my dad had one of those too with a 390 in it and enough carberation for a fleet of subarus.
cool.

 

[eldorado]

I was in my thirties in the eighties, and I was listening to REO Speedwagon, Styx and Journey on my first boomboxes... a Panasonic, Quasar and Toshiba. I thought I was pretty cool. Turns out, maybe not.

maybe youre on to something

 

[Gluecifer]

In 1984 when I was 12 I got my first box that I used predominantly for recording American Top 40 with Casey Kasem through which I discovered the charting hip hop and rap gear, and from there I hunted down more. At the same time I got into a lot of Iron Maiden, Twisted Sister, Motley Crue, etc.

One band I loved was Zodiac Mindwarp. Prime Mover is still one of the best rock songs ever!
Used to love blasting that. My parents tried banning me from listening to Zodiac however when I
came home with the Backseat Education picture disc. They deemed the lyrics too sexually loaded for
a boy of my years.

They eventually gave up when I started getting into extreme deathmetal and grindcore though, then they couldn't understand any of the lyrics!!



Rock On.

 

[bill]

rick i would hope you had waited till your teens before exposing the family to the grindcore and death metal scene.
otherwise they might have taken your boombox aways.
lol i mean when we were twelve there was little we had control over other than perhaps the volume and tone controls when the parents were in the other room

 

[TMR]

cranking Pink Floyd on the daily walk to my now ex-wifes house after school.. on my Sanyo C44.. ahh the good old days..

 

[mellymelsr]

Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force (which, IMHO, is the GREATEST Hip Hop song of all time...), Scorpio by GM Flash and the Furious Five, lots of Kraftwerk, I'm Ready by Kano.... various hits off of my hometown R&B station, WBLZ (no longer in existence...)

Dude, we are so on the same page... That was pretty much my style at the time, too... But that was more second generation stuff for me. Just prior to your playlist I was pounding out some Jacksons, Diana Ross, Cameo, Earth Wind & Fire, early Prince, Parliament, Commodores, Slave, Sugarhill Gang, Brick, Queen, Dazz Band, Mass Production, Kurtis Blow, Lakeside and Con Funk Shun.

Between Poindexter's list and mine, you have the makings of several of my first mixtapes...

...damn, we are on the same page too!!...my first boombox was a Panny 5150 and the first cassette I bought for it was Gap Band III, I wore that tape out I played it so much....I will add Evelyn "Champagne" King to jaetee's list of great artist's from my era. My alltime favorite tape was the Many Facets of Roger...a great boombox tape.

 

[appleknocker]

That was a long time ago -but I remember it like yesterday. The Brothers Johnson were my favorite, Ray Parker Jr., Earth Wind and Fire, Commodores, Brick, Con funk shun, Barkays, Yarbrough and Peoples, Gap Band. We thought it was cool to listen to old Smokey Robinson stuff, too. The Cars, J.Geils Band, & Billy Squier had great records out at that time that got played alot too on my GF-8686.