Spin off from the other thread.

My first CD was Talk is cheap. I liked it, loved parts of it. Not a great CD but I still have it and sometimes listen to the songs on Spotify or maybe I downloaded them, cant remember. Take it so hard is so good it should be remixed. Same goes for Make no mistake, Struggle and Rockawhile and You dont move me.

Die Schöpfung, Franz Joseph Haydn 1991...

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Van Morrison - Astral Weeks. I was fairly late in crossing over to Cd's as I was a student when they came out and I couldn't afford to buy a player let alone the Cd's themselves which were ridiculously expensive in the early 90's. So I struggled on with vinyl and cassettes until about 94! I'n seriously considering investing in a Brennan which I could store all my cd's on and use it like an ipod/juke box. THe only thing stopping me is that they are MP3's. If I could find one that would conmvert cd's to WaV that would be the way forward.

The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge

Disraeli Gears Cream,I'd had the vinyl for years and it always lacked something that I couldn't put my finger on sound wise,so when CD's came out I purposefully bought this CD to see if all the hype attached to them was true,it wasn't.
I bought a more recent issue last year and that is a bit better,it's part of a 4CD swet called Those Were The Days.

Dirty Work - (before I had a CD player)
Bought the vinyl and the CD the day it came out.

Per-Arne

Love You Live in 1988

Neil Young's Arc Weld......
& Chuck Berry's greatest hits - I think on the same day

Strong Persuader -Robert Cray. It's an incredible CD. Circa 1986. It's produced in the likes of Tatto You.

Marquee Moon - Television

Let it Bleed.....i didn't get a cd player till 88...

Herbert Grönemeyer: Sprünge or Police: Greatest Hits
I can't actually remember which one I bought first - anyway it was back in 1986 and my preferences changed a lot since those days

The Stooges - Fun House. Still have it. And around $500 for the CD player about +25 years ago. God I'm old.

Scotty,
Irvine, CA

I think it was Rewind.

Johnny Thunders-Que Sera Sera

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I can't remember. But I joined one of those Record/CD clubs and I built a collection real fast, real cheap. What I do remember at the time was all the scare talk of how fast CDs would degrade. What was it, five years? And then people were doing weird things like putting magic marker around the edges to improve the sound. All of it is crap of course. I can pull out my James Taylor's Greatest Hits from 1988 and it sounds as good as it ever did.

I wasn't convinced the CDs were all that much better until I heard a Hendrix CD using Sonic NoNoise Solutions, or something like that. For the first time I heard what could be. And I was pissed that the Beatles didn't apply something similar to what were very crap CDs. (And which they didn't correct until 2009)

Like A Prayer - Madonna. 1989.

yes 90125

A cool one: Bruce Hornsby and the Range, "The way it is" in 1985 ...

Exile on Main St. before I had a player (which I promptly bought).

Wow - we have some young people on this thread LOL. I bought my first CD player in June 1985 (I remember because I also got married that month - both things were pretty good!) and there were not many Stones CD's to choose from. I do not even remember the actual first Stones CD I bought, but among the first were the German "Hot Rocks 1 & II" (with the cool wide stereo versions) and Japanese "Undercover". I think the German "Aftermath" was next. It was a while before the rest of the Stones CD's were widely available.

My actual very first CD I purchased was Sting's "Dream of the Blue Turtles". The second might have been Dire Straits' "Brother in Arms".

Sorry to go on so long, but I think I am lamenting the predicted demise of the format. I will miss having them...

Sure, vinyl can sound better, but they usually sounded like crap after repeated listens, casettes were miserable also, so when CD's came out I was pretty psyched! And then when Napster and CD burning came to be - Holy Sh*t - I was like a kid in a candy store LOL



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I bougt 3 at the same time, The Eagles Greatest Hits The Monkees first album, and Weird Al "Even Worse". It was 1988 and I had just graduated 8th grade and got a CD player for my graduation present.

First CD........I really can't remember ..........must be a Stones record or maybe the Beatles ...I do remember that LP's disappear very quickly when CD's where introduced in the stores

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"Weird Al" Yankovic's Running With Scissors. I bought it a week after it first came out in 1999. Still remains my favorite Weird Al album to this day.

my 1st CD was the the British(?) Hot Rocks, that had the true stereophonic versions of Satisfaction, Get Off My Cloud and a couple others. Had the CD for months before finally getting the player LOLOL
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"Doctor please, some more men please,
To Cotchford Farm, out by the pool...

What a drag it is they couldn't revive him"

Brian Jones 2/28/42 - 7/2/69

....what about the first CD ya pinched from a store or ya local Library ....



ROCKMAN

Tattoo You. I had it on album already, but I wanted it on CD!

First Stones-CD I bought was 'Out of our Heads', and first Beatles 'Rubber Soul'....both from 1965...what a year....

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First CD I bought was possibly Ten Summoner's Tales by Sting in 1993.
I was quite late at buying CD's as I already had many albums on cassettes and wasn't convinced it would be better anyway! Quickly changed my mind once I started to get CD's.
First Stones on CD was Voodoo Lounge and then the beautifully packaged Virgin remasters...

Vanilla Fudge self titles album with You Kee me Hangin On and Eleanor Rigby....

yep, STILL one of my faves

Rod
Perth
Australia