The first three cd's you ever bought

In August 1986 just before heading off to my freshman year at college, I bought my first CD player and three discs: "Days Of Future Passed" - The Moody Blues, "Surrealistic Pillow" - Jefferson Airplane, and "The Yes Album". These, along with the like-minded vinyl collection I brought with me to school, was somewhat at odds with what most of my fellow dorm-mates listened to, but it was all good. I immediately started to supplement that initial CD purchase - primarily more 60's offerings - with every spare dollar I could scrape together, and have never really stopped since then.
Somewhere along the line I replaced the Airplane and Yes discs, but I still have (and play) that original W. Germany Decca/Deram Moody Blues CD.

Aaron

 

Fall 1988

Springsteen--Tunnel Of Love
Madonna--Like A Virgin
Heart--Heart

 

Gianna Nannini - I Maschi
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung - Geld oder Leben

 

Van Halen I
London Calling
Let it Bleed

 

Nitzer Ebb as is
Siouxsie And The Banshees kiss them for me
Judas Priest painkiller

 

Still waiting for mine to ship.







Fortunately, I only ordered it last week. Damn these cheap CDs.

 

I'm fairly sure my first two was Doolittle and some Sonic Youth title, probably Sister.

 

Would have been 1989 and they were Pump by Aerosmith, Dr Feelgood by Motley Crue and Skid Row by Skid Row.

 

My parents had a Ferguson VCR, which I inhereted. A very reliable VCR that just needed a belt replacement. I eventually got rid if it when digital TV arrived as you had to watch the channel whilst it was being taped (it kind of defeats the purpose of a VCR). Hopefully, someone is still enjoying it.

 

March 1991. One out of three aint bad:
REM - Out of Time
New Model Army - Impurity
Inspiral Carpets - The Beast Inside

Out of Time is the jewel in REM's shining ouevre, staggeringly good album, even today. New Model Army and Inspiral Carpets were following up career-high albums that were full of hit singles and could only manage one decent song between them.

I had wanted a CD player for years and could finally afford the £100 for a Kenwood that would last me more than ten years.

 

It was in late 89 or early 1990

Stairway to Heaven / Highway to Hell : Make a difference foundation- Various Artists

AC DC - Who Made Who

AC DC - Back in Black

Lost Back in Black 3 years later, still have the other two

 

Well, I was late to the CD game, 'cos I was basically skint during the late 80s and most of the 90s, but even if I hadn't have been I don't think I would have forked out £16 or whatever it was that they were back then.

As far I can remember the first three I ever got were:
– This 1997 Mercury Prize sampler that was about £2 in Tower Records

– Aces and Kings: the Best of Go West that I got from a record fair for about £6, and
– Lather by Frank Zappa that I treated myself to when I got some kind of a reward for something I did at work.

 

I got a few CD's as presents before I even had a CD player.
I think the first CD I bought after getting a CD player was BEATLES ANTHOLOGY II.

 

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Joy Division - Closer
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim

1986-88

I didn’t get my first CD player until 1992, however.

 

1 J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
2 ZZ Top - Eliminator
3 Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits

 

They were expensive I remember that.
First Sgt Pepper.

 

Late 80's or Early 90's. Beatles 1987 CD's. Not sure in what order they were scanned/processed at the checkout.

 

early 1989:
AC/DC - High Voltage (int. version)
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

 

Yes - "Close to the Edge"
Yes - "Relayer"
The Beatles - "Abbey Road"


.....back in 1988/89

 

Been playing my first CD
Thomas Dolby The Golden Age of Wireless
Had it 35 yrs in January and it still plays great..

 

Bought in the spring of 1990 at the age of 12:

Fleetwood Mac - Behind The Mask
Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
Paul McCartney - Flowers In The Dirt

Only the third one on that list is still in my collection, by the way.

 

I only remember my first one: CS&N boat album

 

That's probably the highest-quality trio listed!

 

When young
Classical music CDs of
Ravel
Strauss
Beginners Guide To The Orchestra (?) Kids book.

 

I know I'm right on two of them, I think I'm right on the third:

Peter Gabriel So
The Dream Academy self-titled
The Moody Blues THE OTHER SIDE OF LIFE

The first two I bought the day I bought the CD player. I know I got the Moody Blues disc shortly after getting it, and think it was the third. If it isn't, I can't recall what it was.

JcS