The first album I ever owned was Nirvana Nevermind, on cassette, and it was three or four weeks before my eighth birthday, perhaps then it was the year 1991, in fact perhaps that album was nearly new in release now that I think about it, I was obviously a little kid at the time, but I am going to pick first five compact discs because I can not recall my first collection of tapes, but I got my first CD player when I was ten and I had to replace everything from cassette to disc so here it goes to the best of my recollection:
around this time I also purchased
Aerosmith- Get a Grip
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Nirvana - Bleach, Incesticide, Unplugged came out, eventually Wishkah some two year or two later,which was the first album I every bought the day it came out, 1000 leaves was the second to have that honor)
Lenny Kravitz- Circus
Blind Melon - Self Titled
some Nirvana bootlegs which were outrageous expensive at the time
it was not until 1997 that my disc collection expanded to include a more variety of ecclectic music.
this has been a serious journey down memory lane, wandering around through the archives of sound in my head... also this retrospection makes me realize I was hipper then I thought, I did not realize that I had Nirvana Nevermind around the time of its release, I also did not realize the same about most of the albums I listened to as a kid, it seemed to me that they had been out forever, but at looking at the release dates for them all of them were new at those times, very surprising, aside from the flood of memories, road trips gone by, school yard imaginings and daydreams out the window in elementary school, playing with girls in a world of true innocense, childhood is a trip to recall these days... they say that psychedelic mushroom eaters have an increased capacity to draw and elaborate on early and middle childhood memories, to the point of recapulation
i got my first reggae album in 1999, Bob Marley Natty Dread...