To celebrate the CDs 25th birthday - What was the first CD you ever bought?
 

This probably applies mostly to those of us who were already buying music in the mid-1980s when the CD format really started to make an impact.

Mine: The Cure - Pornography, in 1987.

best of the blues.

for a bonus point, what was the first official cd album release?

My first purchase was In The Court Of The Crimson King but this was in the early/mid 90's so it doesn't count and I suck.

I was buying tapes before this, though.

Abba - "The Visitors", and a classical recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting "An Alpine Symphony" by Richard Strauss.

I remember buying spice girls cassettes and borrowing Cd's from the southampton library, but i think the first CD i ever bought was a Backstreet Boys one.

this one


it was 1997, so i was 9.

Funny 'cause mine is Desintegration (around 1991-1992). It's still one of my favorite albums ever.

I've heard a re-issue of that Karajan recording. He's a great conductor if you ignore the whole rabid anti-semitism thing.

My first CD was Menwe@r's Nuisance. I still quite like it.

David Bowie's Tha Man Who Sold The World. It was from the first wave of re-issues of his back catalogue that came with the bonus tracks/outtakes. The next day I got The Jesus And Mary Chain's Psychocandy and I still listen to it, cd technology explanation writing and all.

It was either "Heaven Up Here" by Echo and the Bunnymen or "Garlands" by Cocteau Twins. Not sure which.
1988.

Radiohead - "My Iron Lung e.p."



for me, an unspeakable cult.

I don't remember what my first CD was. I remember there being very little choice at the time, and so I bought things like The Cult's Love album, just to have another CD. I think my first was either The Best of The Damned, or Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill.

wrong wrong wrong, it was brothers in arms by dire straights i believe.

It was Brothers In Arms.

I got on the cd bandwagon really really late. I think it was '90 before I bought a player (I have a large vinyl collection and would only play that and tapes).

I got a spacemen 3 cd (LOSING TOUCH WITH YOUR MIND) because I couldn't find a copy on vinyl. I had to use my friends cd player in order to listen to it and that got old fast....so I broke down and went digital.

these days, my records sit wasted and even playing tapes can be a chore.

:(

The beginnings were indeed humble: the first CDs to be pressed were "The Visitors" by Swedish pop group ABBA, the top-selling artists of Philips record label Polygram, and a classical recording by Herbert von Karajan conducting "An Alpine Symphony" by Richard Strauss.

"The CD Turns 25" - Yahoo! story

up yer bum.

There's no way I'm shoving a CD up my bum. An ipod, maybe, but not a CD.

wow....a 40gig ipod is kinda big.

kudos.

"The first Compact Discs pressed were The Visitors by ABBA and a recording of the Eine Alpensinfonie by Richard Strauss conducted by Herbert von Karajan. They rolled off the assembly line on August 17, 1982, reaching the market in late 1982 in Asia, and early the following year in the United States and other markets."

Which is what sonicl said, but worded differently.

My first CD was Alien Ant Farm's album. Haha.

I think I was about 8 or 9 when I bought it.

that was really the only CD I had when I was little & the only reason I had it was because my mom thought I might like it..

the first CD I bought on my own was Queen - Greatest Hits I

i had that one too!, i still do actually.

In my head this was either last year or the year before. Where does the time go etc.

Edit: the AAA album was last year or so. Not Derek buying it. Obviously, that could've been so recently as today.

they are both classic. my cousin had the backstreet's back tape I thoght he was the coolest guy in the world.

I think my first CD was an Elliott Sharp Carbon CD circa 1990.

You're right. Brothers In Arms is the first album to sell 1 million copies on cd, and Dire Straits the first band to use its longer time format so that Mark Knobfler could stretch the solos for the masses. Apologies.

pixies-bossanova. it was 1990.

1985 - Led Zeppelin IV:




I considered it a christening.

Wut?

The Alien Ant Farm album was released in 2001.

what do you mean? that album rules!!!

my first cd, my cousin gave me a scratched up copy of pearl jam ten but the first one i bought was:



still my favorite pantera album.

i have to add, though, that the only reason i started buying cds was because tapes were getting scarce and manufacturers were cutting artwork from tapes but leaving them and expanding them on cd, so i bit the bullet.

Legacy Recordings, 1990



2-cd boxed set

This was back when people where being overtly fibbed to that cds would preserve quality for years and years. Nowadays, we know you gotta buy the ultra-expensive archival quality gold-plated ones for them to really have a chance of lasting.

http://www.physorg.com/news2297.html

I am one ashamed character for this. However, i bought OK Computer a few weeks later and it still plays fine. I think i only had one or two tape singles before i got my trusty old manually opening CD player in 1996 *sighs of nostalgia*

Precisely. If someone asked me when that album was released, I would say 'recently' rather than 6 years ago. It's the memory, see, it starts going with 'old age'.

I'm off to start a thread.

nirvana - nevermind, i already had it on tape but i bought the CD for endless, nameless

I guess its cool to own this album once again.

Nirvana's Nevermind sometime in 1992, when cd's were still packaged in the long box.

All you old people who had a chance to develop good taste before CD's came out! Although that's not really an excuse, RdTv I think told me he bought a Jimi 3-disc rare comp when he was 6. For me, it was this:



I know, I know, don't judge. And the funny thing is, even now when I hear it, I don't hate it. I guess it just takes me back :)

Word.

I was about to post something to the effect of "if you only knew how much I hate CDs, you'd understand how loathe I am to respond to a post that celebrates the CD" when I saw this post.

CDs suck! They always have. I only bought them when I began to find I couldn't get the music I wanted on vinyl. That was in the early 1990s. That didn't last long, thank God. Since the mid-1990s there's been a resurgence of interest in vinyl, and I hope vinyl stomps the ugly bug of CD to death.