My First CD

[smockery]

I think my first CD was purchased back in 1991. It was Oingo Boingo's Dark at the End of the Tunnel. Then it was another year before I bought another one.

[WitchyPoo]

My first cd was purchased with my first cd player in 1990. It was U2's Under a Blood Red Sky. It took me a few years to start buying cds regularly. I stuck with cassettes because my car only had a tape deck.

[firstaid]

Cool thread.

I was studying abroad at the time, so maybe that would explain the late start, but my first cd was Pieces of You by Jewel around 1995. I would first buy the cassette and then if I really liked the music then I would buy the cd.

Now, I am practically a dumping ground for all the cds that my friends don't want anymore.

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The first CD I remember seeing/hearing was the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves soundtrack at my babysitter's house. I remember being intrigued by the shiny round object.

The first CD I ever bought for myself was the Sister Act soundtrack. I was 9 and I loved me some Motown.

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Jun 3, 2008 0:34:04 GMT -4 @firstaid said:

I would first buy the cassette and then if I really liked the music then I would buy the cd.

A musician's best friend, you are.

[Baby Fish Mouth]

I arrived embarrassingly late to the CD scene too. I think mine was Alanis Morrissette's Jagged Little Pill.

I remember my first cassette tapes much more clearly though. They were Debbie Gibson's Out of the Blue and Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl. Good times.

[satellite]

Trip down memory lane ahead:

We had an awesome used record/ CD store in my college town where I practically lived. I now remember some of my early CDs were Onyx- Bacdafucup, Kiss: Smashes, Thrashes and Hits, D Generation- this punk/glam band that came out around the same time as Rancid and Green Day but they might have been more NYC area faves, and the Kids in The Hall: Braincandy soundtrack- one of my first non-used CDs which led me to appreciate Pavement and Yo La Tengo and all that college-rock of the mid-90s. At the very end of freshman year (spring '96) I bought Type O Negative's "Bloody Kisses" and hated it and would have sold it back to the store except for having to leave the next day. My best friend was staying for a summer program so we had returned our respective room keys, but were "squatting" in some empty rooms in her dorm for a few days before we could move her stuff over to summer housing. Anyway, I kept the CD and began a long appreciation of Type O and Peter Steele in particular. I had him him sign it two years later.

Every day I realize what a great decade for music the 90s was.
goes to dig up the 90s music thread

[mariposalabrown]

GREAT Thread, although some of you are making me feel old, and I'm not even 30 yet! My first cd was Morrissey's Kill Uncle because my mom is cool like that. The first cd I bought with my own money was Dr. Dre's The Chronic. Saved up my allowance for that one!

[eclair]

My first cd was the singer for Echo and the Bunnymen, Ian McCulloch's first solo "Candleland". I was in college and loved the Bunnymen and the Cocteau Twins. Liz Fraser from the Cocteaus sang a duet on the title song. I don't think I have that cd anymore and while I still like the Bunnymen and the Cocteaus I don't listen to them very often anymore. My horrible roommate's boyfriend who moved in with us without permission doodled on the Candleland cd cover. I was pissed.

[ownlife]

I switched to CDs after my turntable (RIP) was stolen and albums began disappearing from the stores. I miss being able to replay a section of a song instead of replaying the entire song but that's progress I suppose. I also miss reading album liner notes. I love my ipod and am on my second after the first died. I still buy CDs for listening at home and only download music from iTunes if I'm getting a specific song instead of an entire album.