The first three cd's you ever bought

And as I look at this list, SO is the only one of the three that I've had in the CD player in the past 25 years.

JcS

 

First two:

Best Of Starship - Starship
Chicago Greatest Hits 1982-1989 - Chicago

Strange choices for a then 14 year old.

 

I can't guarantee which 3 were first but I know these were very early:
1) Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
2) CCR - Chronicle
3) Beach Boys - Endless Summer

That last one was so great. I played "In My Room" on repeat for a long time. Just pure voices, and no snap, crackle, pop. Incredible. Sadly I lost everything I had in a home break-in in 1987 including my CD player, and had to start over.

 

Bryan Ferry - Another Time, Another Place
Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls
Roxy Music - Stranded

 

Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced
Pink Floyd-The Wall
Metallica-The Black Album

 

Just playing my third CD.
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Japanese first issue cd still sounds amazing.

 

If I'm not mistaken. Late '80s, before I even bought my first CD player a week or so later. Already had the LP of each one. Wanted something good to play on the new CD player. Still have the Johnny Winter and the Willie Nelson. Have gone to a compilation CD for Huey Lewis.

 

My first 3: December 1985:

1) Phil Collins - Face Value (Target)
2) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon(not sure but it was real hissy...LOL)
3) Metallica - Ride the Lightning (Music for Nations edition)

 

When I was a teenager, my Dad used to let me pick out 2 albums from his Columbia House catalogue, before Christmas. One year, I think it was 1987, I was surprised with a new CD player for Christmas--and the 2 albums I'd picked out were on CD! They were Music from Big Pink and The Band.

After I'd hooked up the player and got to listen a little bit, Dad came down to ask how it sounded. To my eternal regret, and I felt it as soon as I saw his face, without really thinking, I said that it was about the same as my tapes and records. But I really didn't hear a great improvement!

 

A Rod Stewart solo album was one of the first three: 'Blonds Have More Fun'.

 

In 1992 I bought my first CD player, a Sony with remote.
Went to the local supermarket which (back then) had a large selection of over-priced CD's.
Found Rainbow's "Difficult to Cure" for 1/2 the price of "new releases".
Bought it, heck "I had to start somewhere" (even though I had the bloody thing on Vinyl back home already).
But oh boy, you could tell things were getting better, the CD version of the same LP I had already since 1983 was much LOUDER.
It had to be better (no IGD problems though)-

 

I'm not positive but I think

Beck-Blow By Blow
Tommy Bolin-Private Eyes
Pink Floyd-Dark Side

For years before that I would get CD's from the library and record them on metal tape. Lot's of fusion and jazz.

 

1) U2 Live Under a Blood Red Sky
2) GnR Appetite For Destruction
3) Probably a Rush or Zeppelin album, or maybe U2's "Rattle and Hum"
Those first two are still in my collection, as is "Rattle and Hum." They are like family to me, though one of them sure has quite the dirty mouth. It's like that inappropriate uncle that comes to the holiday table and always has a way to keep things "interesting."
Anyway, boy did I play the heck out of these two albums. I'm going Christmas shopping right now with my family, so maybe they'll have to come with me. I suppose I can skip songs as needed when it's Dirty Uncle Axl's turn for a spin.

 

The first three CDs I ever bought were all part of one package, the Little Richard Specialty Records box set... I bought it before I even owned a CD player...

 

So was the first CD I ever bought too, in 1986 aged 16. I can't remember the next two after that but I now own 1000s

 

The first two came free with my first player Philips cd160. Queen - Live & Kate Bush - The Whole Story. First bought "deliberately" a Deutsche Grammophon/Galleria Karajan Beethoven 9... because that was what the whole thing was for!

 

I used some (half) of my college job earnings in the mid-80s to fund a Sansui player that seemed decent.

Stones “Hot Rocks 1” Polygram. Mastered by Mofi. Seemed to sound great at the time. Of course, I dumped it for subsequent remasters.

Yes “90125” Target. Genesis self-titled is my only remaining target-type disc.

Ronstadt “GH1”. There was a shop that had players and some media for sale. “Long Long Time” was the first song I ever heard demo-ed, so I had to have it for the nostalgia.

I’ve spent the last 60 days or so recapturing many of the old CDs that I replaced with remasters over the years. My former equipment seemed to like the volume increases, my new gear exposes the mess made by brickwalling.

Probably 50 replacements done, and still going.
AC/DC, Aerosmith, Journey,Police, some Stones, and so on.

The kicker is I already owned almost every replacement; the good part is it costs virtually nothing with trades of more recent reissues...

 

A Bad Company compilation, A Three Dog Night compilation, and an REO Speedwagon compilation. I was 7, this was 1997, and my dad helped me pick them out. A very fond memory but I'm LOLing thinking back on it. I don't even know why he helped me pick those as he doesn't listen to any of those three bands that much anyway?

First CD I picked out on my own was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road about a month later. I used to "play" along with the album on my keyboard and quickly memorized the lyrics to every track.

 

Tiffany (her self-titled debut) was my first CD but, as that was a gift from my mother, it technically doesn't count. My first three CD purchases were Debbie Gibson - Out of the Blue, Belinda Carlisle - Heaven on Earth, and Billy Ocean - Tear Down These Walls. I was 14 years old. It wasn't long after that I purchased Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Vols. 1 & 2 and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Live 1975-85.

Sadly, as I entered my early 20s and found myself regularly broke, I used to prune my CD collection for pocket change and I wound up selling back quite a few CDs that, at the time, I was ashamed for owning. In retrospect, I regret selling any of my CDs back.

One of the few great things about getting old is that I no longer have any shame about that sort of thing. I like what I like and there's no point in denying it to myself or to anyone else.

By the way, after catching Belinda Carlisle in concert this summer as part of the Retro Futura tour, I decided I had made a mistake in selling Heaven on Earth back so I recently repurchased a used copy of that disc CD for $1 from the used CD bins at Wax 'n' Facts in Atlanta.

 

I dont know the first 3.
The first 2 were:
Pink Floyd - works
Marillion - misplaced childhood

 

1991 for me. 16 years old.

Mötley Crüe - decade of decadence
Four horsemen - nobody said it was easy
Nirvana - nevermind

 

Pretty sure the first 3 were:

The Band - The Band
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch.

Bought these before my first CD player so I would have something to demo in the hi-fi shop.

 

It would've been around 1988-9. I remember I broke down and finally bought a CD player specifically to get the bonus tracks on the original CD issues of:

I Often Dream Of Trains by Robyn Hitchcock
Element Of Light by Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians

Of course both would later be re-released in the mid-1990's with even more (and/or different) bonus tracks just to make things interesting (and then again in box set form just a few years ago, again of course...).

Other early purchases would boringly have been whatever else was available of the rest of Hitchcock's catalogue, plus: Who's Next probably, some Kinks, some Small Faces, Stan Ridgway's 'Mosquitos' and Ridgway-era Wall Of Voodoo (I remember Dark Continent was particularly hard to get hold of in the UK even on CD), the XTC reissues with all the bonus tracks, Love And Rockets... basically anything I thought I wanted to 'upgrade' as LP or tape copies wore out, or new releases with CD-only bonus cuts. The bonus cuts were always the initial draw for me (friends, I was that soldier).

 

Prefab sprout-Jordan the Comeback
World Party- Goodbye Jumbo
Deacon Blue- Fellow hoodlums

Must play them again to see if they still sound as good as I thought at the time!

 

Probably the Doors, Beatles, and Rolling Stones

Funny, now I can buy these artists on a used CD for a dollar.