Mine was Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Before that I listened to my father's Johnny Cash records and Irish/Scottish folk music.
Your last paragraph sounds a lot like me, except for E. Parents loved country music.Johnny Impact said:It was either Pearl Jam's Ten album or Phish's Rift (don't judge me too harshly, I just experimented with Phish in high school, okay?).
Pretty sure I bought Pearl Jam first because that was the one cassette I owned before switching to CDs. I had other tapes but they all started as blanks.
I wish I could take 100 or so of my CDs back in time and give them to my twelve-year old self. For a long time I had every problem getting into music. At thirteen I was: A) hating most popular music, B) being unaware of/unable to access the music I would later come to love, C) blowing all my money on Magic cards, D) being raised in a podunk town, ten miles from the nearest record store, where they thought Billboard Top 40 was "a great selection," E) living with parents who strongly disapproved of all music (my mother is weird) or merely disapproved of anything recorded after 1975 (that would be Dad), F) most of the music I like hadn't been recorded in 1990.