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Posted: 11/8/2023 9:35:55 PM EDT

[#1]

First one I bought with my money

First album I ever owned (older sis gave it to me).

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:36:01 PM EDT

[#2]

Licensed to Ill
Paul's Boutique
Eagles Live
... And Justice For All

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:36:26 PM EDT

[#3]

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bad Hair Day and Green Day - Insomniac Bought both with my allowance from mowing yards

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:37:04 PM EDT

[#4]

Led Zeppelin box set. Still have it, still play it.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:37:27 PM EDT

[#5]

Me and pretty much everyone else my age from So Cal

Sublime - Sublime (Full Album) 1996

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWiJtuAaw3A

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:37:36 PM EDT

[#6]

1. Smashing pumpkins twilight and the infinite sadness was the first.

2 Alanis morissette jagged little pill

3 korn follow the leader

4 fear factory obsolete

5 rage against the machine evil empire

I miss going to Best buy every Saturday and buying a few new CDs every week. The local record store closed in 21 and never reopened. Now Amazon is my only easy option to buy them.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:38:05 PM EDT

[#7]

God Shuffled His Feet by Crash Test Dummies

Had always used records and first song on the CD starts with the sound of a record skipping

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:39:48 PM EDT

[#8]

Quote History

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Green Day Dookie

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Same. I was maybe 10

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:40:28 PM EDT

[#9]

Holst: The Planets

The von Karajan recording

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:41:44 PM EDT

[#10]

Yep.
It was a set of Juke Box Rock of 50's and 60's music that I bought back in 1989, I still have the set (although all of my CD music is now ripped for streaming).

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:42:17 PM EDT

[#11]

Paid 25 cents. Didn’t know what it was. When I heard hunger strike and all night thing I realized I knew both.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:44:25 PM EDT

[#12]

Ugly Kid Joe

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:45:10 PM EDT

[#13]

Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus, probably in 1987

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:45:13 PM EDT

[#14]

Chumbawumba - tub thumper

Lol

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:45:25 PM EDT

[#15]

Pearl Jam Ten

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:45:31 PM EDT

[#16]

First CD.

First album at an early age -- Elton John Greatest hits.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:47:52 PM EDT

[#17]

Some Puff Daddy single for a couple of dollars at Walgreens when I was 12 or 13.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:48:36 PM EDT

[#18]

Metallica black album was the first cd I bought, paied like 20$ for it. Was thinking should I really buy this I could get like 4 tapes for this price.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:48:48 PM EDT

[#19]

Still have all my CDs. First was one of these two back in 1988.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:50:53 PM EDT

[#20]

First cassette was Garth Brooks.

Not sure about first cd, but I’d guess Bush. They were the first band I really liked when I turned to Rock/Grunge.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:51:35 PM EDT

[#21]

Americana/The Offpsring, specifically "Why Don't yo.?" and Pretty Fly

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:52:23 PM EDT

[#22]

ZZ Top Afterburner

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:52:26 PM EDT

[#23]

Black Crows. I bought it when I bought a CD player so I couldn’t afford another CD until the next month.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:55:12 PM EDT

[#24]

Beethoven Symphony #9. The music that defined the CD format for all other recordings.

From Wikipedia:

The creators of the CD originally aimed at a playing time of 60 minutes with a disc diameter of 100 mm (Sony) or 115 mm (Philips). Sony vice-president Norio Ohga suggested extending the capacity to 74 minutes to accommodate the recording of Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the 1951 Bayreuth Festival. The additional 14-minute playing time subsequently required changing to a 120 mm disc.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:55:17 PM EDT

[#25]

Attached File

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:56:08 PM EDT

[#26]

no, but I remember the first 45LP I ever bought.

Cars, Gary Numan

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:56:16 PM EDT

[#27]

Radio Shack Laser Rock. Might still have it somewhere. Bought it 'cuz Bark at the Moon. Also has Eddie Grant and Nina.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:57:48 PM EDT

[#28]

Quote History

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Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

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The day I bought my first stereo with a CD player, I was looking for that. They didn't have it, so I ended up with Aerosmith - Get a Grip

Kind of embarrassed about that.

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:57:51 PM EDT

[#29]

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:58:54 PM EDT

[#30]

Alan Jackson; Here in the Real world

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:59:16 PM EDT

[#31]

Quote History

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Fear factory - soul of a new machine.

I didn't have a cd player either , but my buddy did and I recorded it to a cassette tape.

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Oh hell yeah! Got all the Fear Factory

Posted: 11/8/2023 9:59:19 PM EDT

[#32]

Quote History

Quoted:
Beethoven Symphony #9. The music that defined the CD format for all other recordings.

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I bought Tchaikovsky : 1812 Overture as my second or third disc.

I had to check out my new speaker setup.

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:04:10 PM EDT

[#33]

A compilation of movie themes by various orchestras. It was designed to show what digital sound could do. It really gave a system a workout and my Heathkit AR15 amp and Wharfdale speakers were up to the task.
Then I started bulding a library of Telarc discs.

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:05:20 PM EDT

[#34]

Bullet boys Freakshow 1991 Special Edition. Got it in the bargain bin in 92, didn't even have a CD player yet. It was the only thing mildly interesting in there.

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:06:38 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
I might be aging some of you but after buying my first CD player and my first CD it was quite incredible.
That CD was "Nothing like the sun" by Sting. What a masterpiece. Still have it in my collection.

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I think it was Orchestral Music from the Ring, by Wagner/Szell.

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:06:59 PM EDT

[#36]

I remember because it sounded so good compared to cassette. CDs had just came out, I had a badass Sansui rack with Bose 301 speakers.

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:07:41 PM EDT

[#37]

Aerosmith Big Ones

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:08:52 PM EDT

[#38]

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:09:51 PM EDT

[#39]

CCR Chronicle Vol1

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:11:23 PM EDT

[#40]

Didn't buy it but got my boom box with cd player and MC Hammer hammer time cd

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:11:29 PM EDT

[#41]

soundtrack to cocktail with Tom Cruise

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:13:54 PM EDT

[#42]

Pantera-Vulgar Display of Power

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:21:52 PM EDT

[#43]

High Notes, Hank Jr.

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:22:14 PM EDT

[#44]

INXS KICK

summer 1992

Austin the drag

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:23:00 PM EDT

[#45]

My dad was a big Audiophile. Had a stereo system that all my friends creamed themselves over. I was never allowed to touch it.

For Christmas one year, probably 84 or 85, he got me a Toshiba portable CD player. I believe it was the second portable to hit the market after Sony. It had a detachable battery pack that used C batteries and a carry case.

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It also had a wedge shaped AC adapter base it could connect to for home use.

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First CD I bought for it was Metallica's Ride the Lightning.

I used the "line out" jack to plug it into the "AUX" RCA jacks on the back of my Boom Box or to one of those cassette tape adapters in my car.

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:23:45 PM EDT

[#46]

Primus-Pork Soda

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:26:05 PM EDT

[#47]

Green Day Dookie

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:26:29 PM EDT

[#48]

After buying an early CD Player (at Ollie Fretter's Electronic Thing in Detroit) I also came home with 2 CD's.

Bryan Adam's CUTS LIKE A KNIFE

Bruce Springsteen's BORN TO RUN

The fidelity of the Bryan Adams CD was amazing, but the much older Springsteen was so hiss-filled that it was almost worse than the vinyl album.

That was when I learned to read CD's to look for DDD (digital recording equipment, digital mastering, digital media), to
get the best sound quality.

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:29:39 PM EDT

[#49]

Living Colour - Vivid. Didn’t have a cd
player but my college room mate did.

Posted: 11/8/2023 10:29:57 PM EDT

[#50]

No but I do remember the first 8track tape I bought Saturday Night Fever

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