What’s the very first CD you bought / got?

[Giller]

Soo anyhoo, was having a bit of a cupboard clear out and came accross a few “special” CDs, including the first one I ever got, Steve Earles Copperhead Road. Kids bought it for me as a surprise Christmas present in 1998, was quite a surprise as although I had my separates I didn’t have a bloody cd player, also this was before Amazon and such things and the shops didn’t open on Boxing Day. Had to wait to go shopping, but I got a player, was worth the wait, still one of my favourite “albums”, yes it’s on my Spotify list but still got the memories.

So come on, fess up if you’re old enough to remember.

 

[Rolfe]

A performance of Elgar's The Music Makers by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, recorded in a church in north London. I didn't have a CD player then, but since I was singing in the choir I had to have a copy, obviously. So it was "my first CD" in more ways than one.

 

[Bam Bam]

Soo anyhoo, was having a bit of a cupboard clear out and came accross a few “special” CDs, including the first one I ever got, Steve Earles Copperhead Road. Kids bought it for me as a surprise Christmas present in 1998, was quite a surprise as although I had my separates I didn’t have a bloody cd player, also this was before Amazon and such things and the shops didn’t open on Boxing Day. Had to wait to go shopping, but I got a player, was worth the wait, still one of my favourite “albums”, yes it’s on my Spotify list but still got the memories.

So come on, fess up if you’re old enough to remember.

Good question.

I think my parents got a CD player in about 1990, not sure when I got my own player but probably a few years after that. I certainly borrowed some off my parents but that doesn't count.

Possibly "Now 27" for me, or REM's Out of Time or Automatic for the People.

 

[Giller]

Good question.

I think my parents got a CD player in about 1990, not sure when I got my own player but probably a few years after that. I certainly borrowed some off my parents but that doesn't count.

Possibly "Now 27" for me, or REM's Out of Time or Automatic for the People.

Oh dear Cod, Automatic for the People, think it yielded 6 singles or such, mega.

 

[Bam Bam]

Oh dear Cod, Automatic for the People, think it yielded 6 singles or such, mega.

Great album from a great band. I placed it second on my personal list to Life's Rich Pageant but the top three was a toss up, really.

Reading an essay about sustainability using the example of fish and so your "Cod" gave me quite a double take.

 

[Giller]

Great album from a great band. I placed it second on my personal list to Life's Rich Pageant but the top three was a toss up, really.

Reading an essay about sustainability using the example of fish and so your "Cod" gave me quite a double take.

Well thanks for reminding me of it, that’s now downloaded on my Spotify list.

Oh yeah. It’s the piece of Cod that passes all understanding

 

[OriginalBigAl]

The mists of time are not clear but.... AC/DCs The Razors Edge must be one of the first , certainly not their best work. And weren't CDs a lot thicker in the early days .

 

[Giller]

The mists of time are not clear but.... AC/DCs The Razors Edge must be one of the first , certainly not their best work. And weren't CDs a lot thicker in the early days .

Oh now that’s interesting, thicker, now you mention it they possibly were…..

 

[dsimpkins]

Soo anyhoo, was having a bit of a cupboard clear out and came accross a few “special” CDs, including the first one I ever got, Steve Earles Copperhead Road. Kids bought it for me as a surprise Christmas present in 1998, was quite a surprise as although I had my separates I didn’t have a bloody cd player, also this was before Amazon and such things and the shops didn’t open on Boxing Day. Had to wait to go shopping, but I got a player, was worth the wait, still one of my favourite “albums”, yes it’s on my Spotify list but still got the memories.

So come on, fess up if you’re old enough to remember.

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Can't remmember my first CD, grew up with records and cassettes. Remember Copperhead Road though, good stuff

 

[Giller]

Can't remmember my first CD, grew up with records and cassettes. Remember Copperhead Road though, good stuff

It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[decrep]

Dylan "Oh Mercy", I built a new HiFi to play it, time is so vague now, I have no idea when I bought it..
Wikipedia says it was released in September 89, so it was probably early 90s

We had a record club going at work, took it in turns to by an LP, then everybody had a turn copying it to tape for their own use. I think it was the boss that started the switch to CDs.
Oh Mercy still has a post it note on it with my name and address, so people copying it didn't forget who to return it to.

 

[T1 Terry]

Sky 2 especially to listen to their version of Toccata through my monster stereo system I had piece together and finally had our own house so I could turn it up That was the first one I played, them Pink Floyd Meddle for Echoes

I guess it was an attempt to take me back to the times we rented a house that overlooked the cannon park at Nth Beach Wollongong ..... two mates who met as apprentices at Telecom, myself and the young girl who was to become my second wife who I was with when we bought the house .........
We had an absolute mega stereo, records that days, the lounge room was in the centre of the house, bedrooms branched off from it and a closed in verandah all around the outside ...... You'd think it was well enough sound insulated, but we'd get visitors appear from the beach to see just who we were and what we were listening to, apparently it was so loud even down there, it drowned out the surf and the radio playing through those bullhorn speakers from the Life Saving Club The neighbours were a retired couple and incredibly understanding, they actually enjoyed most of out music selection ......

The mate I knew was also a member of the first touring bike group I joined, died in a horrific bike accident when a taxi cut the corner to Helensburgh at the peak of a hill on the old Princes Hwy ...... seems you can never go back ......

T1 Terry

 

[T1 Terry]

Sky 2 especially to listen to their version of Toccata through my monster stereo system I had piece together and finally had our own house so I could turn it up That was the first one I played, them Pink Floyd Meddle for Echoes

I guess it was an attempt to take me back to the times we rented a house that overlooked the cannon park at Nth Beach Wollongong ..... two mates who met as apprentices at Telecom, myself and the young girl who was to become my second wife who I was with when we bought the house .........
We had an absolute mega stereo, records that days, the lounge room was in the centre of the house, bedrooms branched off from it and a closed in verandah all around the outside ...... You'd think it was well enough sound insulated, but we'd get visitors appear from the beach to see just who we were and what we were listening to, apparently it was so loud even down there, it drowned out the surf and the radio playing through those bullhorn speakers from the Life Saving Club The neighbours were a retired couple and incredibly understanding, they actually enjoyed most of out music selection ......

The mate I knew was also a member of the first touring bike group I joined, died in a horrific bike accident when a taxi cut the corner to Helensburgh at the peak of a hill on the old Princes Hwy ...... seems you can never go back ......

T1 Terry

This was the place, they built that monster block and the one in it's shadows on the spot where the house was .... the red brick house next door is still there it seems
Google Maps

T1 Terry

 

[decrep]

Yep, you can never go back, especially where I've come from

 

[Ian Key]

In 1990 I gave up smoking and put the money on one side that I would've spent on cigarettes. My then wife, who didn't smoke, matched the amount saved and in six months we had enough to buy our first CD player incorporated in Marantz stack system with Mission 761 speakers.

The first CD we bought was Fleetwood Mac's Tango in the Night.

My first grown-up 45 single was Dance with the Devil by Cozy Powell and my first grown-up LP was Phaedra by Tangerine Dream.

 

[GaryMG4]

We had a record club going at work, took it in turns to by an LP, then everybody had a turn copying it to tape for their own use.

I'd forgotten about those, my first job after school had one. My contribution was A night at the Opera by Queen, and I still have the vinyl disk to this day. No idea of first CD, possibly something by Fleetwood Mac. First vinyl album was Dark Side of the Moon but prior to that my cousin and I would copy albums to a reel to reel recorder so they were bands such as Family, ELP, Uriah Heap, Sabbath etc.

 

[MG Clive]

My first CD was Bananarama, but I'd have to think much harder to remember my first vinyl.

 

[decrep]

I'd have to think much harder to remember my first vinyl.

Same here, it would have been a mono 45, soooo long ago now.

 

[Gomev]

In 1990 I gave up smoking and put the money on one side that I would've spent on cigarettes. My then wife, who didn't smoke, matched the amount saved and in six months we had enough to buy our first CD player incorporated in Marantz stack system with Mission 761 speakers.

The first CD we bought was Fleetwood Mac's Tango in the Night.

My first grown-up 45 single was Dance with the Devil by Cozy Powell and my first grown-up LP was Phaedra by Tangerine Dream.

I saw Cozy Powell play this with his band at the time Bedlam, at Ipswich Baths. I couldn't count the number of sticks that went flying through the air and not a beat was lost.

 

[Coulomb]

I think I might have bought this first as a cassette (see ancient history), but re-bought it as a CD. It's called "I Robot", their second studio album. It started a lifelong love of The Alan Parsons Project and then Alan Parsons on his own.

I think his band is unique in being guided by an audio engineer. He rarely writes music or lyrics, or even performs on instruments. In live tours (he's in his 70s now), they lead him to his position and help him put on an acoustic guitar. He sings along and is lead singer to a few songs, but leaves most of the audience interaction to a hired singer. But you know the sound will be spot on!