In the mid-Eighties, what was the first CD you purchased?

[FunBobbyMucha]

Making the leap from vinyl or casettes, you finally plunked down the cash for a CD player (Mine was a stereo cabinet thing from Sears). Bearing in mind that pickin's were slim back then, what was the first CD you got? And did you choose it based on a desire to have a particular title on CD, or were you purchasing something new and thinking "Ah, I might as well get it on CD..."?

In mine own case, Terrence Trent Darby's debut, because it was the only palatable choice at Sears, and I figured it would ease the wife's anger over the purchase. Don't judge me.

[Philostopher]

1. Dire Straits

'Love Over Gold.' We listened to it endlessly because ... well, it was the only one we had.

[FunBobbyMucha]

6. Gold star if you list a cd I also purchased in that time frame.

Good work!

[Philostopher]

21. The second one was Dixie Dregs.

'Dregs Of The Earth.'

I think the third was probably something by Todd Rundgren, but don't hold me to that.

[Goldmund]

2. "Wish you were here"

Pink Floyd.

[MissMillie]

3. Cosmic Thing

by the B-52s

[FunBobbyMucha]

9. Roam if you want to

but carry this gold star with you. Saw them in concert 3 times in support of this cd! We would shout "Fred, Show us the way!"

[XNASA]

82. Me too.

I remember it well.

[Wat_Tyler]

4. I believe it was Metallica.

I have a shady metal past.

[name not needed]

45. Which one?

[Wat_Tyler]

77. 'And Justice For All', probably.

[Wickerman]

5. I was extremely fortunate to have as one of my first CD's

Let It Be, by the Replacements. Couldn't believe it was on CD. It replaced my vinyl copy. Honestly don't recall the first, but guess it was REM - maybe Reckoning.

[FunBobbyMucha]

13. Gold-plated gold star for all-time favorite band selection!

[ZenLefty]

7. I bought three at once.

These were my first three:

Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Kate Bush - The Sensual World
The Creatures - Boomerang

[FunBobbyMucha]

14. Gold Katy Bush STAR!

[clonebot]

8. a-HA

and actually i've purchased every album since as well! the new stuff is alot better and more mature than the 'take on me' teen pop of the 80's

[Richardo]

10. Roxy Music - "Avalon"

Man does that make a CD player sound good!

[FunBobbyMucha]

17. Golden Bobby and Mrs. Bobby Luv-makin' soundtrack Star!

[clonebot]

36. i was always partial to country life

myself

[JuniperLea]

47. actually

i got a cd copy of that recently... i had it on vinyl originally... so i'm listening to it again;)

[tuvor]

67. I'm straight but I'd do Bryan Ferry. Maybe.

More Than This is so fine.

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue"

along with some Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker. I started getting into jazz around age 13 or so. (I was a weird kid.)

[Jokerman]

12. Don Henley - End of the Innocence

I didn't even have a CD player yet. I took it to a friends house and used her stereo to make a copy on cassette.

[FunBobbyMucha]

18. ??? Star.

When did EotI come out? For some reason I'm placing in later in time. Am I high?

[Jokerman]

23. I may have been high when I bought it, but that's my recollection. n/t

[Howardx]

15. B.O.C.

"on your feet or on your knees"

[JuniperLea]

40. still kills me

that this remains your favorite!

*silent scream*

[redqueen]

16. Dire Straits

Dire Straits

oh God... I almost forgot Berlin - Pleasure Victim. That one didn't last so long in my collection.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

19. My my.... you're all much older than I had imagined.... mid 80's.... n/t

[FunBobbyMucha]

24. Yes, whippersnapper, it's true

back then, Tone Loc was Eminem and cellular phones weighed eighty-seven pounds with a three minute battery. Hair was as high as an elephant's eye and the skies were not cloudy all day.

[terrya]

20. Tears for Fears.

The CD with "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" on it. I thought it was a great CD.

[JuniperLea]

46. songs from the big chair

yeah, i liked that one too.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

50. I still have that one on vinyl.................................

Great album. Caught alot of abuse for it since TFF was so "mainstream".

[JuniperLea]

54. it did for me too

i was writing for a heavy metal fanzine at the time:)

[Zero Division]

60. My first favorite album - I was 6 years old

Listened to the cassette version that either my older brother or dad bought many, many times when I was just six. Perhaps it's part of the reason my music tastes seem more in line with many people who are 5 to 15 years older than me.

[liontamer]

22. I didn't have any cds in the mid 80s

:(

[asthmaticeog]

25. "The Blurred Crusade" by the Church

also on the same shopping trip, the "Balloon Man" CD single by Robyn Hitchcock. This was '89, and thus not mid-'80s, bt, hey. it's what I've got.

[Redleg]

26. Bach Violin Concertos performed by the Academy of Ancient Music.

Also bought Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks by the same orchestra. I didn't get my first CD player until 1990 so that is when I bought these discs.

[bloodyjack]

27. I was either a twinkle in my daddy's eye in the mid-eighties

or a horrible little monster commanding everyone's attention without so much as commanding a bowel movement (not unlike most babies)

the first CD I purchased was Bad Religion's "Against the Grain"

I was in the fourth grade, and sooooooo much cooler than you

[Wat_Tyler]

30. God. You're all so young!

:evilgrin:

[tigereye]

81. well that's a pretty good first CD

I was out of college, before I bought that record, on vinyl, I think when it came out.

Fourth grade?!!??

There was no punk when i was in 4th grade. There was very little punk when I was in high school, either. Sheesh. You guys are the kids raised on punk. So. How did y'all turn out? :)

[gollygee]

28. The Cure - Disintigration

not sure if I spelled that right.

[SiouxJ]

29. Oh geez, I bought that one too

but it wasn't my first CD. I'm trying to remember what that was. I worked in a record store at the time so I got them a bit cheaper (though not much) than the general public.

[Squeech]

31. Threepenny Opera

The Broadway version of the Brandeis production with Marc Blitzstein's translation.

It was an investment in the future-- I didn't actually get a CD player for another year or so.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

32. Blues For Allah and Wake of the Flood - bought em both together

[Rainbowreflect]

33. My first 2 were Bear's Choice & Blues for Allah.

[Toby109]

34. Revolver

The only Beatles album I didn't have on vinyl. So, I guess I would fall in the first category.

[mac56]

35. All bought on the same day:

"Revolver" - The Beatles
"Excitable Boy" - Warren Zevon
"Shoot Out The Lights" - Richard and Linda Thompson
and for my lovely wife:

"An Innocent Man" - Billy Joel

Each was bought to supplant an earlier vinyl version.

[ZeroOne]

37. 0

Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles II soundtrack

[sundog]

38. 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe

[redqueen]

41. I saw Natalie on Letterman on a repeat the other night

I've never been a huge fan of hers but that song really stuck with me... I may have to get this latest CD.

[sundog]

44. Thanks for the tip...

sweeeetie :hi:

[redqueen]

48. My pleasure, Sugar!

:hi:

It's called The House Carpenter's Daughter, and the song that she did was Sally Ann... I really liked it.

Hey... why haven't I seen you on that other site lately... hrrmmm?

[politicat]

51. Mine too!!

Along with a Peter Murphy.

My parents were slow buying the CD player, so I didn't buy a CD until I was 16, in 92....

Pcat

[sundog]

53. Was that PM album the one with "Cuts you Up" on it?

[politicat]

69. yep. That's the one. My black as night mood album.

EOM

[tuvor]

70. Deep.

Good album.

[Lady Effingbroke]

39. "Band On The Run" and "Wings Greatest" - Paul McCartney

:shrug:

[Duncan Grant]

42. Elvis Costello - "Armed Forces"

A masterpiece. :thumbsup:
"Oh I just don't know where to begin..."

[yardwork]

43. Van Morrison and the Chieftains "Irish Heartbeat"

[CrownPrinceBandar]

49. Led Zeppelin - "The Song Remains the Same"...........................

followed closely by REM-"Reckoning" and Squeeze-"Singles, 45's and Under."

[tigereye]

83. hey Foamdad!

[VOX]

52. Steve Winwood's "Back in the High Life"

Good songs then, still sound good now.

[Mrs_Beastman]

55. The Police...syncronicity

[Lady Effingbroke]

57. Good album!

I have been listening to The Police a lot lately. For some strange reason many of their songs seem particularly resonant with events of today - especially some of the songs on "Zenyatta" and "Ghost".

[miss_kitty]

56. Terrence Trent Darby! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

me too. in fact I bought a CD player, so I could buy that CD. And I still have that CD player too. It was fuckin expensive-about $300, I think.

[Mizmoon]

58. Jimi Hendrix

Are you experienced?

[Swamp Rat]

59. Richard Strauss - "Also Sprach Zarathustra"

The second was Bach's "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor" and other organ works. I think Beethoven's "9th Symphony" with Karl Böhm conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker was the third.

[dolo amber]

61. Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Welcome to the Pleasuredome"

:D :bounce:

[Rabrrrrrr]

62. Tangerine Dream Live, Wish You Were Here, and Desert Music

By Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, and Steve Reich

Bought all three at once. They'll be 19 years old next month.

[hyphenate]

63. I dunno

which was the first one I bought. I remember getting a few right at the beginning.

Among the originals were Michael Jackson's Thriller, Air Supply's Greatest Hits, and a whole bunch of soundtracks.

[enigmatic]

64. "Cuba" by The Silos

Classic album..

[Zomby Woof]

65. Dire Straits - "Brothers In Arms"

Still a good album, holds up well... although Sting gives me hives to this day, and is the only flaw on the album.

The title track, "The Man's Too Strong", "Ride Across The River"... almost redeems the Awful 80's.

[tuvor]

66. Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)

Still one of my absolute favourites. If you got into them around the time of "Don't You Forget About Me" you caught them on the downside. Do yourself a favour and BUY THIS ALBUM.

After about 20 spins you'll thank me :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

68. Shockingly, I did not own a CD player until 1993...

I cannot remember the first CD I bought, because I so far behind the times...:hi:

[Barad Simith]

71. Roger Waters "The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking"

just in time, cuz my cassette was getting worn out

[Zomby Woof]

79. I still have my original vinyl copy

BEFORE they put that black rectangle over the hitchhiker's ass. :D Bought it the day of release, and within a few months, it was censored.

[vajraroshana]

72. REM: Murmur

The tape was starting to sound very fuzzy.

[Piltdown13]

73. It wasn't the mid-'80s, but...

I didn't get a CD player til about 1989 or so, but I bought my first CD about 6 months before -- it was The Monkees, Missing Links vol. 1 (alternate versions, unreleased songs, etc.). At that point I already had just about everything else of theirs on cassette or vinyl...what can I say, I was 13 years old and Nick at Nite had the show in endless re-runs! :-)

[Still_Notafraid]

74. Metallica

Metallica-ride the lightning was first cd i ever bought was also the first tape i ever bought.Not sure why but i still think it Jams

[lazarus]

75. Dark Side of the Moon

Had to get that on CD.

Then I got The Final Cut.

Then I got Synchronicity.

Three extraordinary albums.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

76. soundtrack to The Lost Boys...

still listen to it today...

theProdigal

[MrSandman]

78. Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads by Jimmy Buffett

[Englander]

80. Won the 20th Anniversary edition of Sgt Peppers'

n/t

[tigereye]

84. think it was Modern Jazz Quartet

forget which one. And some Vivaldi, and Bach. It was for our wedding and we had just gotten a CD player. Couldn't quite bring myself to buy rock and roll on CD at that time. Still was kind of opposed to it.

[ze_dscherman]

85. Classical stuff

Mozart's Coronation Mass, and the Te Deum by Bruckner. Still love to hear it today. I could only afford a lousy tape player before, so it really blew me away to hear that stuff loud and clear for the first time - my friends were not into classical stuff.

[Katha]

86. I was born in 1984...

but my first CD was Boyz 2 Men's debut album, in the early '90s.

[flvegan]

87. Beastie Boys, "License To Ill"

My CD player was a high school grad/going to college gift. Didn't work with the stereo I had, so I got one of those, too.

[bikebloke]

88. Visiting mates in Basel, Switzerland...

...before I even had a player. In one fell swoop, I bought three of them:

Patricia Kaas' first two disques - "Mademmoiselle chant...." and "Scene de vie"
Spliff "85555"

[Screaming Lord Bob]

89. I think it was the 90s before I got a CD...

go figure....

[Commendatori]

90. Rush: Permanent Waves (n/t)