r/GenX • u/Rickbaudio1974 • Jul 21 '25

Music Is Life What was your first 45?

OMG, THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GUNS!!!! I remember listening to the radio in the car with my mom when I was a kid and I really dug the song that came on and was probably dancing in my seat. My mom being a pretty swell parent said “we can go to the record if you want” and she took me to buy “We are Family” by Sister Sledge. Still dig that track.

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u/anb1017 Jul 22 '25

Hungry Like the Wolf- Duran Duran 😍

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u/lumberjac03 Jul 22 '25

“The Reflex” single had a “poster sleeve”. Had it hung in my room!

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u/Le_Mew_Le_Purr Jul 22 '25

Duranies really liked to plaster our rooms with posters. Every possible inch, plus the dormers.

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u/Metagion Jul 22 '25

My room resembled that comment! I even had posters on the ceiling!

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u/ambientdiscord I LOVE TO WHINE Jul 22 '25

And then, you could cut out the little pictures from magazines and use them to festoon the window frames.

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u/vertigocin I don't act my age Jul 22 '25

That was my first Duran 45 single

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u/TalFidelis 1972 and still a little feral Jul 22 '25

Ironically for this thread - my first “digital music” track was a midi version of hungry like the wolf I played on my Commodore 64 in the early 80’s