I have rocks used by cavemen in the paleolithic period that were used for tribal dance beats.


I win.

I was checking those out in the store but decided I'd wait until they were remastered and re-released with bonus pebbles.

Makes sense considering the 12" vinyl LP didnt appear until late 1940s and the discs before that couldnt really play longer than 10 minutes a side.

The physically oldest record I own is probably the 10" Songs by Tom Lehrer from 1953:



I've got a comp or two of boogie woogie piano music and old blues singers that probably date to the mid-1920s.

This is probably cheating, but I have a CD of Scott Joplin rags performed by Joplin himself--except they weren't audio performances, they were piano rolls for player piano. So the CD was recorded relatively recently, on a player piano that Joplin never touched--but it's definitely Joplin's performance.

i must be in a giggly mood or something but this made me laugh really hard

Glad to hear.


And I'm realising now the error of my ways. I really should have asked "What's the oldest musical acts that you listen to?" because that's what I was intending.

This is mine.

My mom passed down her 45's from the 50's and 60's.. They're in a box that I'll eventually get too.


As for me, my earliest buying experience seeking something out was "Destroyer" by Kiss...

Probably some jazz album that I'm still trying to get into...although there are some Edison cylinders lying about....can't really claim those though.