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Pretty self-explanatory. For me:

--First song I saw on MTV: No Time to Lose by the Tarney Spencer Band.
--First booze to get me puking: MD 20/20.
--First car: 1977 LTD. Killed it due to lack of maintenance, the same fate as my next 7-8 cars until I finally got a clue.
--First job: Rolling newspapers.
--First concert: Journey in 1979.
 
First song on MTV: Can't remember
First booze to make me puke: MD 20/20 Orange Jubilee
First car: 1985 Chevy Cavalier
First job: Farm hand
First concert: Vince Gill at the South Alabama State Fair
 
--First song I saw on MTV: "Heat of the Moment" (Asia)
--First booze to get me puking: El Toro
--First car: 1980 Chevy Chevette. Old Gold. AM radio. No AC. Kept a boom box on the console between the 2 front seats so my in-car entertainment wasn't limited to WJR.
--First job: Washing dishes and filling the soup/shrimp/salad bar at a repulsive local seafood chain
--First concert: Iron Maiden in 1983. Lansing Civic Center. With special guests Fastway and Coney Hatch
 
Song on MTV: Huey Lewis And The News, If This Is It.
First puke from booze: 21st birthday, fed Cement Mixers
First car: 1988 Dodge Omni. Wouldn't shut off all at once.
First job: Cleaning a vet clinic at night.
First concert: Def Leppard, Lee Civic Center, 1989

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first car: 1983 mitsubishi tredia. long live the tredia!
first drunk: summer after senior year of high school working as a counselor at a summer camp
first job: bag boy at local supermarket in junior high
 
First cassette tape I ever bought: Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel
First booze I ever got drunk on: Red Dog beer
First car: 1979 Honda Accord
First job: Arby's
First concert: Janet Jackson, Tacoma Dome, 1994.
 
--First song I saw on MTV: Can't remember
--First booze to get me puking: Cold Duck
--First car: 1973 Chevrolet Kingswood station wagon
--First job: Grocery store clerk
--First concert: Styx in 1983.
--First home run over the fence: Age 12
--First trip out of country: Mexico, 1973
--First time on airplane: Leaving for boot camp, 1985.
 
First song I heard on MTV: "Glory Days", Springsteen
First puke-drunk: Everclear
First car: 1994 Nissan Sentra
First job: locker rentals at a local water park
First concert: Marty Stuart in Hiawassee, Ga.
 
First home run over the fence: Never hit one.
First time out of the country: Trip to Canada with dad in the 18-wheeler
First time off the continent: Uncle Sam-sponsored trip to Italy, 2000
First time on airplane: Kansas City for the National FFA Convention sometime round 92 (maybe?).
 
First LP - Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
First 8-track - Billy Joel - 52nd Street
First cassette - not sure
First CD - Big Audio Dynamite- No. 10 Upping Street
First drink I ever got drunk on - Midori melonballs (age 12)
First car - 1990 Nissan 240SX (I still miss it)
 
--First song I saw on MTV: No Doubt "Don't Speak"
--First booze to get me puking: Smirnoff
--First car: 1994 Saturn
--First job: CVS Pharmacy
--First concert: 311/The Roots in 2004
 
First CD: "Past Masters: Volume Two" -- The Beatles (a gift from a family friend for the same birthday my parents gave me a stereo with a CD player... and I still own both)
First sports story, college paper: women's ice hockey feature
First boyfriend: Kristin, age 4
First car regularly driven: my mom's old gray Maxima
First car owned (and crashed): blue Saturn inherited from my dad
First concert: either something classical at Tanglewood or Peter, Paul & Mary
First (volunteer, part-time) job: day-care assistant (until the kids gave me lice!)
 
I don't know why one wouldn't remember. It was like nothing else before it on TV; nothing but promotional videos (and at the beginning, unless you liked Rod Stewart or Blotto, a limited amount)
 
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