The first three cd's you ever bought

I bought Thomas Dolby The golden Age of Wireless with christmas money I had along with Andrew Powell and The Philharmonia
Orchestra then the Pink Floyd Japanese cd
The Final cut,then
Dire Straits Love Over Gold,still trying to remember 5th cd? They still sound great after nearly 35 yrs! Yours still good?5th cd
Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene.

 

Christmas 1985. My big present was a Sharp CD deck, Motley Crue's "Theatre Of Pain" and Dokken's "Tooth and Nail". My older brother got me ZZ Top's "Best Of" and Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon". I was 12 and had never heard of Pink Floyd before. I liked it, but it got played the least of those 4. About a week later my dad came home late from working a double at the railroad and threw a brown paper bag in my lap. It was Motley Crue's "Shout At The Devil". Came in a unique cut out longboox that exposed the actual jewel case and the CD was the rare W. German red target with black type.

 

I can't remember but one of them was Hot Rats. I'd been eyeing it as an expensive deleted vinyl that I couldn't afford for years, then suddenly there it was was for about 10 euros. No brainer.

 

1986. I know the first three rock and classical cds I bought but not in which order so it was three from the following ....

Avalon, New Gold Dream, Tin Drum , a Von Karajan Sibelius set including Finlandia and Swan of Tuonela etc, Quartetto Italiano's Ravel / Debussy pairing and the Ferrier / Bruno Walter "Song of the Earth". Can't say the first three get played much these days, nor the Sibelius for that matter.

 

Christmas of 93 my parents bought me a discman and 3 CDs. Pearl Jam VS, Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti and Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream.

 

Selection was SO limited when the format was first introduced. I went with

Roxy Music - Avalon
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Before even The Beatles were ready to release their catalog digitally.

 

1. Nirvana : Nevermimd, Nov 1991. I bought for my older bros birthday present (knowing I’d be able to make a tape of it for my Walkman). He got the first family CD player

2. Magical Mystery Tour. I was a Nirvana nut and I both remembered hearing about Cobains love of the Beatles and/or some comparisons then and at the same time a buddy bought the White album on cd... I thought it was a greatest hits with weird bits seeing it was only called the Beatles. Anyway I went to the store to buy it, didn’t have the 30-35 bucks that double cds went for, so I bought MMT for 999 plus tax because the cover was weird. I didn’t grow up with the Beatles

3. I think Inxs Kick. I was a kid in the 80s/90s and loved this tape but my tape broke (and the cd was then-cheap at 9.99 when many cds went for 13-18

 

The ones I still got sound just great, a lot better then later remasters, which I first thought I updated too but then swapped back to original CDs when becoming aware of the loudness war.

 

Spring 1987

Duran Duran - Notorious (Used)
The Beatles - Please Please Me (New)
The Beatles - With The Beatles (New)

Still have all of them and my first CD player.

 

Mitch Ryder - Rev Up
Del Shannon - Greatest hits
Dion & the Belmonts - the best of
Jimmy Barnes - Two fires
Peter Case - The man with the blue postmodern fragmented neotraditionalist guitar

and a couple more I can't remember

 

Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe. Still sounding as mysterious and alien as my 13 old self thought it was.

J

 

I think I've only bought two (2) CDs in my life so far, does that count?

Living Coloür - Stain
Skinny Puppy - Brap

 

Equinoxe the 7th cd I bought back 1984.
I was 13 back in 1978 and had this on vinyl still got it great album.

 

I would be guessing numbers 2 and 3 most likely Stones but number 1 was;
Jeff Beck
Blow By Blow
Original Epic
Purchased 1988 or 1989

 

1) Genesis - And the Word Was... (Bought in a cutout bin before I even had a CD player).
2) Bruce Springsteen - Chimes of Freedom 3". (A must have after hearing the world premiere of the acoustic version of Born to Run during a set break in Freedomfest '88).
3) Joe Ely - Live at Liberty Lunch (First used CD bought after getting a proper CD player for Christmas).

 

TUPELO HONEY was the first . . .

 

REM - Monster
Nirvana - In Utero
Pearl Jam - "Jeremy" CD single

Summer 1995

 

I was really late to the CD game. I finally broke down and spent the money on the new state of the art in late 1991. The first three? Not sure, but I bought any classic I could find on the new format. I was pretty much always disappointed and chalked it up to just poor recording from the start. The new format just brought that out I thought. Better transports, better DACs, better system. Graduated to SACD and thought that was the answer. Close.

Fast forward 15 years and I tried a turntable again. That pretty much fixed any problems I was having with sound. “Everything old is new again, something borrowed something blue, if it ain’t broken don’t fix it.” Every penny I’ve spent since has been to optimize vinyl playback, first equipment and now just a flood of vinyl.

 

I was both very lucky and very unlucky:

Knowing nothing about mastering engineers, etc., I bought:

As for the lucky:

Led Zep I -- mastered by Barry Diament

Who's Next -- mastered by Steve Hoffman


As for the unlucky:

Boz Scaggs "Moments" -- it sounded like crap, nowhere near as good as my LP, so I dumped it.

I later find out that it was recalled or something and it became a rare collectable that people paid gobs of money for.

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The Monkees - Missing Links 1
The Monkees - Missing Links 2
The Monkees - Live 1967

The bonus tracks made me want these and I didn't even have a CD player until a few months later.

 

Nillson Shmillson
Harvest
Thick As A Brick

 

Sure it was brazilian 90s rock bands, Engenheiros do hawaii, Legião urbana and Mamonas assassinas

 

Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream ('Success' label)
Sam Cooke - The Best Of (Rainbow)
Eddie Cochran - Singles Album (Legendary Masters)

 

Stray Cats - Choo Choo Hot Fish
Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge

....Probably another Stray Cats CD. Don't remember.