The first three cd's you ever bought

The first cds I bought back in January 1984. Thomas Dolby The golden Age of Wireless. Andrew Powell and the Philharmonia orchestra does The best of The Alan Parsons Project. Pink Floyd The Final Cut Japanese white jewel case, all in smooth jewel cases, first two cost £10 each and the Japenese Floyd £15 lot back then still have all of them and on playing tonight all still good,thoughts please?

 

I am guessing 1985
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs
Peter Gabriel - So

 

Blue Oyster Cult ~ Agents of Fortune - in honor of the first (non-Beatles) album I'd ever bought

Santana ~ Abraxas - thought this would sound "great on cd," believing the original sales pitch of better sound quality (my vinyl was long lost anyway, lent out after one listen & never retrieved)

The Beatles ~ Rubber Soul - as soon as the first Beatles cds came out

 

December 1985 .... I remember the player came with a coupon for any five CDs for 'just' $10 each, so i got:

Bryan Adams ... Reckless
Bruce ............... Born in the USA
Pink Floyd ....... Dark Side
Dire Straights .. Brothers in Arms
Steely Dan ....... Greatest Hits

 

It's been awhile but I believe they were Sgt. Pepper's, Legend, and an A&M Cat Stevens greatest hits.

 

I started buying CDs in the Fall of 1986. The first 3?
1. Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume 1 and Volume 2
2. Dan Fogelberg - Phoenix
3, Cream - Disraeli Gears

 

At the dawn of the CD age, all from Japan:
Abbey Road
Tug of War
Dark Side of the Moon

 

Early 1986, first two:
Led Zeppelin IV
Dire Straits Love Over Gold
(Don’t remember the third, but probably a Bob Dylan CD)

 

dire straits - love over gold
alan parsons - eye in the sky

not sure what the third was ... they were rare as hen's teeth back in 1983 in Perth Western Australia

 

1986 Spring
1. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd(black face EMI)
2. Cupid & Psyche'85 - Scritti Politti
3. I Stand For Love - Howard Hewitt

 

. Just playing my Japanese TFC pink Floyd cd still a great sounding cd after 34 yrs.

 

Summer of 1989

Steve Earle Exit-0
Melissa Etheridge s/t
Led Zeppelin IV

All used

 

Prince & The Revolution- Around The World In A Day
Zappa- "We're Only In It For The Money/Lumpy Gravy"
Howard Jones- Dream Into Action

This was whenever "Around The World..." was released.... so....
'85?..maybe?...

 

APP cds In my first dozen cds I bought also Love over gold I think,used spend all my wage packet some weeks back then.

 

1) Hendrix BBC sessions
2) Pepper
3) Bryan Ferry Bete Noire

 

oh boy
So I received Aerosmith - The Other Side single with my player for Christmas of 1990 because it had them performing the Wayne's World theme on SNL

With my own money I then purchased on the same day at Wall to Wall Sound

Anthrax - I'm the man ep
RHCP - Taste The Pain single
Dead Milkmen - Smokin Banana Peels single
Megadeth - Hangar 18 single

remember it like it was yesterday

I then joined Columbia House and all hell broke loose

 

La Biblia, by Vox Dei. That was the first one I bought with my money in 1992 approximately.
I can't exactly remember the following two purchases, but I think one of them might have been my cherished copy of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality (Castle).

 

Duran Duran - Rio (West Germany)
Hall & Oates "Big Bam Boom" (CSR Japan)
The Beatles "First" (West Germany)

 

I didn't start buying CDs until around 1989.

The first three that I purchased when I bought my first CD player were:

1. Sing It Again Rod
2. Appetite for Destruction
3. Purple Rain

I didn't buy CDs on a regular basis until the late 90s because in the early days they were rather expensive. I mainly owned vinyl and cassettes. I also didn't care about sound quality back then like I do now.

 

I'd veture to say;
It's a close tie between "So" and U2's "The Joshua Tree" that really sent the CD 'on it's way' to being THE format of it's time!

 

Started buying cd's in 1990:

1) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2) In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
3) Rare Flight - Iron Butterfly

Still have all 3 of them.

 

Boston - 'Third Stage'
Yngwie Malmsteen - 'Trilogy'
Journey - 'Raised on Radio'

 

So great cd released in 1986 in uk PG CD 5,one of my fav cds.

 

March 1984

Queen News of the World
Carpenters 69-73
can't recall third one

The CD section at Tower Records Sunset was a wooden orange crate