The first three cd's you ever bought

Same answer...........but also bought Beatles For Sale.

 

My first three, bought in January of 1986 from Musicland along with a Magnavox/Phillps CD player bought at a Magnavox discount store:

Wings - Venus and Mars (Columbia)
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run (Columbia)
Wings - Wings Over America (Columbia)

 

Late 1986

Elvis Gold Volume 1
Sam Cooke A Man and His Music
and
UB40
Baggariddim by UB40 (1985-09-23) https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MCZ9K6Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_X6FtBbKSMZJ82

 

Mid 1986 on a Saturday afternoon in a Virgin shop in Carlisle. I think these were my first three, certainly among the early purchases. Didn't actually have my CD player until the following week.

Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Sting - Dream Of The Blue Turtles
Simple Minds - Once Upon A Time

Also bought Van Halen - 5150 LP at the same time (my last ever vinyl purchase).

 

There was an electronics store in the mall where I worked back in 1985 that had brought in a small selection of CDs to sell alongside their offering of CD players. After a while, they decided that the 2 record stores in the mall were probably better at selling CDs, so they marked down their discs to a clearance price (I think about $10 each or so). I was still a teenage and fascinated by this new technology. I assumed I would eventually get a CD player, so I bought two of their discs, and then went back and got a third, because I thought it was such a great deal at the time:

1. The Fixx - Phantoms
2. Big Country - Steeltown
3. Tears For Fears - The Hurting

I would take the discs to the department store in the mall (May Company) and test them out on the CD players they had on display. Then I would take the discs home and stare at them lovingly, trying to give my parents a hint of what I wanted for Xmas that year. It worked - a CD player ended up under the tree. The player was from Sears although I think Sony manufactured it.

 

They never added "Into The Groove" here in the U.S.. Crazy because the song was so popular. However, I had a copy of it on a CD3.

 

Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
The Cars - Candy O

Can't remember after that.

 

They added ITG to the LP and cassette too.

In fact I never saw the original CD (a yellow WG Target) until I bought one off eBay a few years ago..

 

I nearly bought No Parlez myself, but noticed that they’d extended the mixes of a few songs...

In fact I don’t the the original LP version of No Parlez has ever been issued on CD..

 

What I remember:

• 1st CD: LEVEL 42 - Running in the Family - on March 26, 1987
• 2nd CD: BOSTON - Third Stage - on May, 1987
• 3rd CD: KANSAS - Power - again on May, 1987

 

The original CD over here was silk-screened in baby blue and was pressed in Japan. I have it.

 

Jimmy Smith - a nice way to start a musical life. Especially on nice warm speakers.
Nothing sounds better than a Hammond B3

 

Oh, I think I did too. Those 4 were the first 4 released and all released the same day, right? If so, I did that too.

I was home during spring break in my first year of college.

 

Good point. I didn't mind most of mixes, but would readily agree they're not for everyone. I prefer the 7" single edit of 'Common People' to the one they used on the album.

 

Feeling some deja-vu with this topic, but I'll play:

Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3

Kenn Kweder – Flesh, Blood & Blue

A Little on the CD Side – Musician magazine sampler featuring the Hindu Love Gods version of "Raspberry Beret," plus Edie Brickell, Eno & Cale, Maceo Parker, Turtle Island String Quartet, The Posies, The Rembrandts, Strunz & Farah, and Wendy & Lisa. I think I eventually got 10 or 15 volumes in this series.

 

I bought Donald Fagen's The Nightfly before I owned my first CD player. I had no way to play it, but reviews made it sound like the CD that would show you why CD's were better than albums. It was fully digital. It took a while longer to save up for my CD player, a Technics, that only worked for about 6 months. About 36 years and 5 CD players later, I still like it (The Nightfly) very much. I am sorry I can't tell you, my other two earliest purchases. They have faded from my memory.

 

Yes great Kingsley Fats,next was Wes Montgomery then my first 7inch single I'm Free by Roger Daltrey and LSO then my sister wanted to play Crazy Horses,she was going through a Osmond faze at that time drove me mad,but dad took charge and put on some Frank Sinatra live at the Sands Double vinyl on,i have a very good memory of my childhood.

 

My first three were a HUGE disappointment:

1. Lou Reed Transformer - What a sonic mess
2. Dire Straights S/T - The CD version cut off the guitar solo that ends Sultans!!!
3. Billy Joel 52nd Street - What a let down musically. I mean after The Stranger...pop crap!

Such an early negative influence. Maybe that's why I still prefer vinyl?

 

Prince - Around the World in a Daze (gift for younger sister who lived with parents still and they got a CD player before I got one at college)
Bob Marley - Legend
Peter Gabriel - Security - liked that it was DDD and lots of it sounds generated with a Fairlight so pure D.

Lucky you asked for only 3 as I could not tell you #4

 

The CD player is a Sony CDP-302 from 1985.

 

First 3 I bought were on the same day, I believe in the fall of 1984:
Journey - Escape
Scorpions - Love at First Sting
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith.
(and Van Halen - 1984, I think)
I didn't own a cd player at the time, but I immediately sold a Peavey 4 channel mixer I wasn't using, and purchased a $220 cd deck.

 

Does it still work?

 

I sold it in 1987.