Speaking of CDs: Do you remember your first?

[mattB2]

Dire Straits: Love Over Gold (after I'd had to return about 5 vinyl versions because of scratches or other surface noise).

 

[dr. simple]

Very few choices for sale where I bought my first CD player, a Kyocera. Definitely the first kid on the block with one. People blown away with music from a laser, and of course the high quality sound without crackle and pops. Went with Kenny Loggins High Adventure.

"Don't Fight It" alone is worth the price of the disc.

 

[JanBakker]

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time and if I remember correctly my second was Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms.

 

[dr. simple]

I remember my first two, but I can't remember which was first. They were Robben Ford, "Talk To Your Daughter," and Joe Jackson, "Live 1980/1986". I still have them both, play them both (ripped as flac through my NAS), and love them both.

 

[EMB]

My first? Will never forget: Green target label Atlantic, Jean-Luc Ponty's INDIVIDUAL CHOICE, my favorite Ponty album (he has many fine ones).

ED

 

[LuvMyQuad]

I believe my first two CDs were purchased together, both new releases that year (1985).

John Cougar Mellencamp: Scarecrow
Sting: Dream of the Blue Turtles

 

[Marplot]

Metallica Master Of Puppets upon release.

 

[Frantic]

On my brand new Technics SL-P3.............

Vulture Culture - Alan Parsons Project

 

[CPR]

Led Zeppelin/lV; heard it on a Sony Discman & Sony MDR7 headphones; Rock & Roll/WOW!
Thought I died & went to heaven
Went out the next day, & bought the Discman at 6th avenue electronics in NYC
My buddy brought me the headphones from Tokyo
The rest is history

 

[jimfisheye]

Pretty sure it was Hendrix at Winterland. I remember a big write up about the digital headroom making it all possible. Vinyl would never work for this and whathaveyou.
(It was released on vinyl some months later which sounded better BTW... At least that's what I think I remember. Might have to pull those out again and have a listen.)

2nd one might have been Genesis Foxtrot. (Would have been early generation late '80s. So not the best ADC work but free of the volume war and ear bleeding treble boosts to come.) The original vinyl for these was challenged with long playing times and a required narrower groove cutting. That CD might have actually revealed things! Until the Classic Records remasters (vinyl) came out a decade or so later anyway.

And I remember a roommate picking up Pink Floyd Meddle on CD. Sounded tinny, anemic, and just bad next to the vinyl!

Those were confusing times! My vinyl rig was decently above average but not top of the line. Early ADC's in CD players were what they were. Some CD's sounded better and some vinyl sounded better. So many variables at play...

 

[Spock]

I think it was the 2 disc "Supertramp - Paris" album, I remember buying in 1986 - but discogs says it came out in 1987? I could be wrong.

Anyways, it sounded great, I loved to be able to play very loud, without the "rumble" problem from the turntable. I had a pair of Jamo speakers, each with a 15" woofer.

 

[John Svensson]

I think my brother may have given me a MFSL disc earlier, but pretty sure my first purchase was Jefferson Airplane's 2400 Fulton Street anthology 2 disc set in 1987....also the Beatles White Album at that same period.

 

[MIDIQ]

Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon. Bought it 2 months before i got my cd player. It was definitely what i wanted to hear first.

 

[MrSmithers]

Nirvana - Nevermind. I can’t remember that well though!
edit - (phew, went back to check release dates and thankfully it was Nevermind... After thinking it might have been something utterly crap!) ✌

I know I was a kid roaming Our Price not knowing where I was...

 

[beerking]

I was very late to the CD market as I still enjoyed my vinyl's.
The first CD I bought was Genesis 'We Cant Dance' in 1998 along with a Technics CD player.
I still have both.

 

[wheeler98]

My brother traded his ‘77 Granada for a pioneer CD player. He later sold me the player in ‘86...it came with David Lee Roth’s “Eat ‘Em and smile”

 

[DuncanS]

I always looked after my LPs really carefully, and I put one on one Saturday and it was full of crackles and pops, and then jumped (can't remember what it was!), so somewhat irritated I went down the road, literally, and bought a Pioneer CD player (only 12-bits accurate I think) so that was 1984. Then I discovered I couldn't get any CDs in the town, but discovered that they had some in another about 15 miles away. So I vividly remember that my first 2 CDs were Sade's "Diamond Life" and Camel's "Stationary Traveller". There is a bit on the Sade album where everything stops and there is a beat or two of silence before it restarts, I played that bit over and over I couldn't believe there was no groove break-through

 

[marpow]

I think it was ZZ Top, Afterburner.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

 

[Snood]

Snood think first one's were hmmmmm Fleetwood Mac - Mirage, Boston and Me thinks Crowded House