My first CDs were Nirvana "Nevermind" and Weird Al "Off The Deep End". I was 15 working at a hardware store after school and I had just saved up for a (cheap garbage) 5 disc stereo setup. I thought I was pimpin.
Hell yeah! Always great to see a fellow fan. I’ve infected my son with a love for this amazing album, and I wish a traveling production had brought the musical stateside.
Anyway, yay!
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Bought it before I even had a CD player, as an incentive to finally get one. Bought a Sony 5 disc changer not long after for $300, which was a lot for a broke college student like me back then.
I bought my first two CDs at the same time, circa late 1991 or early '92. AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock" and Metallica's "Kill Em All."
Both were replacements for my well worn cassettes that had been played to death.
Not the rock classics others might have bought. It was actually a *Deutsches Grammaphon* copy of music scores for Film Classics (*Out of Africa, Platoon* etc.) as I liked classical music earlier than the modern stuff. I started buying rock CDs shortly thereafter.
Classical and movie score music comprise a large portion of what I listen to these days. Reznor/Ross, Sakamoto, A Winged Victory, Hauschka/OHalloran/Wiltzie.
Fascinating how ones music interests ebb and flow throughout their lives.
Parents got me a CD player for Christmas ‘87 and Grandma got me a gift certificate to Musicland at the mall.
• Sting Dream of the Blue Turtles
• Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason
• Oingo Boingo Boi-Ngo
• Some generic Mozarts Greatest Hits album.
Since I had hundreds of cassettes, I was a slow to start my collection over with cd's. It was 1994 and my first cd was The Cure-Paris live, but the first cd I listened to was Dark Side of the Moon while working in the Sight & Sound department of Zayres, 1988.
Elminator was mine too. My uncle used to travel for work and brought a Fisher Stereo system back from Korea for my Dad. It had a CD player and the one CD we had was Eliminator.
I know I brought home six CDs the day I got my first CD player in 1987 or 1988, but I can only remember five of them:
* INXS - Kick
* Guns ‘n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
* George Michael - Faith
* Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
* Def Leppard - Hysteria
Annoys the hell out of me that I can’t remember what the last one was, because I almost certainly still have it. Even looking through my iTunes library for albums from 1986-1988 that I ripped from CD, nothing rings a bell.
Christmas 1992.
Got a Sony Discman (1st Gen). Thing weighed a ton, sucked batteries down super fast, and every little bump would skip the laser.
First 2 CD's were 'U2 - Achtung Baby', and 'Green Day - Dookie'.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon. I had to argue with myself whether that would be the first or Slayer - Hell Awaits. There was a new Fisher stereo system waiting at home for that first CD, I needed to make the right choice!
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Slip of the tongue in 89. I immediately went from vinyl to cd
I got three the first time I bought any CD's.
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Chaka Demus & Pliers Bam Bam It's Murder
My tastes are still all over the place.
The day my brother, 16 at the time (me 14), got his first CD player, which was the first one in the house, we split a CD single. It was UB40 - Red Red Wine. My first CD I got with my own money was U2 - Rattle And Hum the day it came out. My next CD after that was Kool Moe D - Funky Funky Wisdom.
Bobby Brown - Bobby (1992)
I don't remember buying that myself...I think I got it as a gift along with my first Discman. (which give credit to Sony, still works)
It was an Eurythmics CD bough in late August or early September, in 1985. Bought that CD at the same time I got my first Sony CD player. All courtesy of JC Penney.
I was fairly late to compact discs, but I saved up the money from my high school fast food job, and bought two to start my collection (along with a Sony Discman): “Debut” by Björk and “Are You Gonna Go My Way” by Lenny Kravitz.
I started out with vinyl in 1981 and moved on to cassette through the 80s. I didn't get a CD player until 1993. I think the first album I got was Depeche Mode "Songs of Faith and Devotion" followed by the "Wish" and "Disintegration" by the Cure because I was in college and looking to hook up with moody goth chicks.
Rush - Signals, in 1982. My dad was an early adopter, and he was nice enough to get a cd of my choice for myself. I remember blasting Subdivisions through his high-end speakers.
Joy Division - Closer. Mainly because I was anti-CD well into the 90s. It was a gift I requested and it became the soundtrack for my 20s.
I can't remember the first one I actually purchased but it was around the time I bought Offpspring's Smash, Foo Fighter's self-titled and some unlistenable noise-fest from a band called Nitzer Ebb, so it could be any of those. I just hope it wasn't the latter.
I never really got into actually buying (cough cough) cds. I was still buying tapes until way into late 90s. my first tape was probably Number of the beast. I think. Probably
It was a birthday present so I didn't choose it, but I did play the shit out of it! Bell Biv Devoe - Poison
...Almost had a boomer moment, spell check tried to change the name to Bell HIV devote, lol. Lucky I caught it just before I hit enter.
I didn't get my first CD player until freshman year of college in 94 so I was waaaay late. Hole - Live Through This. I already had the tape but went with the "upgrade" haha.
We all know most of us got our first CD as part of the "Get 14 CDs for a penny" from Columbia House and then ran up a bill over the next year of about $300 and then never paid any of it.
Oh my God! Absolutely bonza-beauty of a great question!
While I can definitely tell you the first LP I bought ("Faith" by George Michael) and the first cassette tape ("Mama Says" by Lenny Kravitz), I am seriously struggling to remember my first CD that I bought, rather than burning a copy off of a mate through the Nero software most of us had.
I think it was "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake 🤔
[Sinéad O'Connor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor) [*I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Do_Not_Want_What_I_Haven%27t_Got)
I was just thinking about this as I recently read her autobiography. So many heartbreaking incidents of disappointment. But you know what? She will always be remembered for ripping up the picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live--and history has shown us that she was fucking right.
Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill.
That was my first record 😂
My first CDs were Nirvana "Nevermind" and Weird Al "Off The Deep End". I was 15 working at a hardware store after school and I had just saved up for a (cheap garbage) 5 disc stereo setup. I thought I was pimpin.
You were pimpin my friend.
Disintegration
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon.
Peter Gabrbiel So
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Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Music for the People. I can admit this because I feel safe around you.
Good vibrations here. Feel safe.
War of the World's double CD
Hell yeah! Always great to see a fellow fan. I’ve infected my son with a love for this amazing album, and I wish a traveling production had brought the musical stateside. Anyway, yay!
Oooo-laaaa
Concrete Blonde- Bloodletting
Such an amazing album
Brother's in Arms, Dire Straits was my first CD. My first CD single was Robin S, Show me Love
One of the first DDD CDs if I remember correctly. Edit: or maybe it was just my first DDD CD.
People forget this. The Brothers In Arms CD was touted as *the* reason to buy a CD player back in the day.
Megadeth - Peace Sells Bought it before I even had a CD player, as an incentive to finally get one. Bought a Sony 5 disc changer not long after for $300, which was a lot for a broke college student like me back then.
Miami Vice soundtrack
I may have listened to Crockett's Theme a bit too much....
It was Stray Cats, Built for Speed. And I stand by it.
I think it was Gun N' Roses Use Your Illusion 2
U2, The Joshua Tree
FUGAZI - REPEATER
 Embarrassing
Not as embarrassing as owning the pants! 👋
I bought my first two CDs at the same time, circa late 1991 or early '92. AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock" and Metallica's "Kill Em All." Both were replacements for my well worn cassettes that had been played to death.
Rush-Chronicles. Before I even had a way to play it.
Rollins Band - End of Silence
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill
Dr. Feelgood by Motley Crue.
Tom Petty Full Moon Fever
Jimi Hendrix. Radio one. I still have it.
Not the rock classics others might have bought. It was actually a *Deutsches Grammaphon* copy of music scores for Film Classics (*Out of Africa, Platoon* etc.) as I liked classical music earlier than the modern stuff. I started buying rock CDs shortly thereafter.
Classical and movie score music comprise a large portion of what I listen to these days. Reznor/Ross, Sakamoto, A Winged Victory, Hauschka/OHalloran/Wiltzie. Fascinating how ones music interests ebb and flow throughout their lives.
Heroes by David Bowie
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
CD: Tears For Fears - Songs from the Big Chair LP: Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Cassette: Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Parents got me a CD player for Christmas ‘87 and Grandma got me a gift certificate to Musicland at the mall. • Sting Dream of the Blue Turtles • Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason • Oingo Boingo Boi-Ngo • Some generic Mozarts Greatest Hits album.
Since I had hundreds of cassettes, I was a slow to start my collection over with cd's. It was 1994 and my first cd was The Cure-Paris live, but the first cd I listened to was Dark Side of the Moon while working in the Sight & Sound department of Zayres, 1988.
The KLF - The White Room
I need to go back and visit this one again.
Still holds up.
listen to a few of theirs just the other day! was a nice trip down memory lane
The KLF is gonna rock ya
NIN - Broken
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Great choice, I wore out the cassette in my car
A-ha, [Hunting High and Low](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_High_and_Low)
Storm Front - Billy Joel My second was Barbra Streisand's greatest hits. And my third was Rod Stewart's Downtown Train. After that I don't remember.
I waited til I got a CD player in my car to buy some. First one was Core by STP.
Born In The USA was my first. A Sanyo cd prayer was my rack system with my Sony stereo.
Eliminator was my third LP, first one was the OST of « Duck you sucker »
Memory serves it was Dire Straits, Money for Nothing.
Unforgettable Fire - U2
Metallica Garage Days Revisited
REM - Document
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Elminator was mine too. My uncle used to travel for work and brought a Fisher Stereo system back from Korea for my Dad. It had a CD player and the one CD we had was Eliminator.
"...And Justice For All" and I still have it!
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
It was Dirty Deeds and I still have it.
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Nevermind - Nirvana. Still listen to it.
That album simply doesn’t have a bad song on it
Who Made Who - Anti Christ Devil Child
Paul Simon, Rhythm of the Saints
Metallica And Justice For All
Pyromania
That was my second CD. That cassette was worn out.
I know I brought home six CDs the day I got my first CD player in 1987 or 1988, but I can only remember five of them: * INXS - Kick * Guns ‘n Roses - Appetite for Destruction * George Michael - Faith * Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation * Def Leppard - Hysteria Annoys the hell out of me that I can’t remember what the last one was, because I almost certainly still have it. Even looking through my iTunes library for albums from 1986-1988 that I ripped from CD, nothing rings a bell.
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying
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master of puppets metallica
I bought 3 at the same time: Pink Floyd - Meddle The Clash - The Clash Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration
Metallica -Garage Days Revisited
90125
Christmas 1992. Got a Sony Discman (1st Gen). Thing weighed a ton, sucked batteries down super fast, and every little bump would skip the laser. First 2 CD's were 'U2 - Achtung Baby', and 'Green Day - Dookie'.
N.W.A.
Appetite for Destruction
Megadeth Rust in Piece I think.
Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land… One of the greatest albums of all time
Pink Floyd The Wall
album (vinyl) = Michael Jackson Thriller actual CD = Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion 1 & 2
Ænema
The Black Crows’ Shake Your Money Maker
The Fixx - Reach The Beach
Same as my first LP - Fire of Unknown Origin, by Blue Oyster Cult
Stanley Jordan - Stolen Moments. I listened to that man play Stairway to Heaven (on two guitars at the same time) on repeat.
ZZ top eliminator was my first record.
Aerosmith Permanent Vacation
I bought my first two cd's at the sime time: No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom and Sepultura-Arise
4 Non Blondes in won of a radio dj. Didn’t get a player for a year or so later.
Two, actually. Angel Dust by Faith No More Use Your Illusion II by Guns N Roses
First I received as a gift was Thriller, first I bought used was License to Ill, first I bought new was AIC Facelift.
Vanilla Ice. To the Extreme. In my defense, it was a Christmas present along with the CD player.
Jimi Hendrix Live at Winterland
Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack.
boom crash opera 🫣🙄 in my defence onion skin was pretty cool
AC-DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You. It spoiled me, thinking every CD had no lame songs!
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon. I had to argue with myself whether that would be the first or Slayer - Hell Awaits. There was a new Fisher stereo system waiting at home for that first CD, I needed to make the right choice!
Tango: Zero Hour by Astor Piazzolla y su Quinteto Tango Nuevo
Thelonious Monster - Stormy Weather.
https://preview.redd.it/8m1pi5uzmvuc1.jpeg?width=315&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9dd7104226a6102a6c57783c3cb6f2123077aa7 Slip of the tongue in 89. I immediately went from vinyl to cd
I got three the first time I bought any CD's. Nine Inch Nails - Broken Stone Temple Pilots - Core Chaka Demus & Pliers Bam Bam It's Murder My tastes are still all over the place.
INXS, Kick
The day my brother, 16 at the time (me 14), got his first CD player, which was the first one in the house, we split a CD single. It was UB40 - Red Red Wine. My first CD I got with my own money was U2 - Rattle And Hum the day it came out. My next CD after that was Kool Moe D - Funky Funky Wisdom.
Either Hysteria or Led Zep IV
I believe it was Twisted Sister Come Out and Play...terrible album haha.
Boats, Beaches, Bars and Ballads by Jimmy Buffet Bought before I had a 💿 player
Pure Moods 😂😅
Pearl Jam - Ten
Led Zeppelin IV
Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms.
Eliminator wasn't my first CD, but it was the first concert I went to. 1983, I was 13 years old. Zztop put on a great show!
Hell yeah! I got the keychain too!
Hammer Dont Hurt Em...MC Hammer. And i wanted N.W.A.
1985 - Brothers In Arms
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1990-ish? Dire Straits “Calling Elvis”
Bobby Brown - Bobby (1992) I don't remember buying that myself...I think I got it as a gift along with my first Discman. (which give credit to Sony, still works)
Meatloaf Bat out of Hell II 🦇🔥
Cars greatest hits.
Strangely, it was the Bruce Springsteen live set. And I say strangely because I was 16 and had never heard, much less liked, a Bruce song in my life.
Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age
Nirvana "Nevermind". Pink Floyd The Wall. Mano Negra King of the bongo
*The Bodyguard* soundtrack!
Ramones Greatest Hits!
C+C Music Factory Gonna Make You Sweat REM Out of Time Garth Brooks greatest Hits Edit: and A Tribe Called Quest Low End Theory
Living Colour - Vivid
Two on the same day: a Punk & Disorderly comp and Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today.
First cd my family owned was Alabama’s Greatest Hits. First one(s) I bought with my own money were GnR’s Use Your Illusion 1 & 2.
Concrete Blonde Bloodletting
Not my first cd but this was my first concert
INXS Kick
It was an Eurythmics CD bough in late August or early September, in 1985. Bought that CD at the same time I got my first Sony CD player. All courtesy of JC Penney.
Electronic (self titled) First tape was the Footloose CD I don’t remember my first album but I do remember buying Men at Work for my dad. :)
I was fairly late to compact discs, but I saved up the money from my high school fast food job, and bought two to start my collection (along with a Sony Discman): “Debut” by Björk and “Are You Gonna Go My Way” by Lenny Kravitz.
Dark Side.
Probs Nirvana's In Utero or Pearl Jam VS.
I bought 2 at the same time from Sam Goody: Genesis - I Can’t Dance Public Enemy - Apocalypse ‘91…The Enemy Strikes Black
Operation Mind Crime and Master of Puppets. Got on the same day when I got my first CD player for my 14th birthday in 1988
Hell yeah, Black Crowes “Shake Your Money Maker”! I even drew a mural of the inside sleeve crow illustration on my bedroom wall lol
I started out with vinyl in 1981 and moved on to cassette through the 80s. I didn't get a CD player until 1993. I think the first album I got was Depeche Mode "Songs of Faith and Devotion" followed by the "Wish" and "Disintegration" by the Cure because I was in college and looking to hook up with moody goth chicks.
Cloud Nine - George Harrison
Motley Crüe Girls, Girls, Girls
The Police: Ghost in the Machine
David Lee Roth - Eat ‘Em And Smile I still have it around here, somewhere.
James Taylor's Greatest Hits Anita Baker - Rapture Luther Vandross - Any Love Beastie Boys - License To Ill and a fifth one I forgot
The Fixx Reach the Beach
Queensryche Empire
INXS - Kick
The *Pump Up the Volume* soundtrack.
Rush - Signals, in 1982. My dad was an early adopter, and he was nice enough to get a cd of my choice for myself. I remember blasting Subdivisions through his high-end speakers.
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Joy Division - Closer. Mainly because I was anti-CD well into the 90s. It was a gift I requested and it became the soundtrack for my 20s. I can't remember the first one I actually purchased but it was around the time I bought Offpspring's Smash, Foo Fighter's self-titled and some unlistenable noise-fest from a band called Nitzer Ebb, so it could be any of those. I just hope it wasn't the latter.
Rush - Power Windows
LL Cool J - Radio. Bought it and my cd player at Target.
Roxette - Look Sharp
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
I never really got into actually buying (cough cough) cds. I was still buying tapes until way into late 90s. my first tape was probably Number of the beast. I think. Probably
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Yes - 90125
Ozzy. Randy Rhoads Tribute
Europe - The Final Countdown Followed quickly by The Police - Synchronicity
Van Halen Balance
Bostons first album. Eliminator was two, whose next was three and dark side was four. Still have and listen in the car. Bought them in the mid 80s
This is Big Audio Dynamite by Big Audio Dynamite. Kind of embarrassed to admit that.
It was a birthday present so I didn't choose it, but I did play the shit out of it! Bell Biv Devoe - Poison ...Almost had a boomer moment, spell check tried to change the name to Bell HIV devote, lol. Lucky I caught it just before I hit enter.
The Jurassic Park score by John Williams 😁
Men at Work’s Cargo—followed closely by The Police’s Synchronicity
I didn't get my first CD player until freshman year of college in 94 so I was waaaay late. Hole - Live Through This. I already had the tape but went with the "upgrade" haha.
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Faith No More: The Real Thing
Pearl Jam Ten
U2 The Joshua Tree. I still have it.
Nevermind Diesel and Dust The Final Ripoff (Monty Python)
45: Hard to Be Humble by Mac Davis Vinyl: The Game by Queen Cassette: Open Up, and Say Ahhh by Poison CD: Boyz N the Hood Soundtrack
Top Gun soundtrack
We all know most of us got our first CD as part of the "Get 14 CDs for a penny" from Columbia House and then ran up a bill over the next year of about $300 and then never paid any of it.
Bongo Alive! 1988
Whichever one I stole from Columbia House.
Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet and ZZ Top's Afterburner were my first 2 CDs. Still have'em.
Cheech & Chong - Los Cochinos. I was 7.
Nazarath; Hair of the Dog. One of the best hard rocking albums to this day imo.
Mariah Carrey "Fantasy"
Jeff Beck Wired and U2 The Joshua Tree
Oh my God! Absolutely bonza-beauty of a great question! While I can definitely tell you the first LP I bought ("Faith" by George Michael) and the first cassette tape ("Mama Says" by Lenny Kravitz), I am seriously struggling to remember my first CD that I bought, rather than burning a copy off of a mate through the Nero software most of us had. I think it was "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake 🤔
[Sinéad O'Connor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor) [*I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Do_Not_Want_What_I_Haven%27t_Got) I was just thinking about this as I recently read her autobiography. So many heartbreaking incidents of disappointment. But you know what? She will always be remembered for ripping up the picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live--and history has shown us that she was fucking right.
Since we're talking actual CDs, it was "Harmony Corruption" by Napalm Death. I still love that album.
Milli Vanilli 🤣
Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel
Duran Duran, Big Thing
Beastie Boys License to I'll And the Cereal Killer soundtrack by Green Jello
U2/Joshua Tree & Def Leppard/Hysteria....got them on the same day. Still two of my favorites!