Speaking of CDs: Do you remember your first?

[Jim the Oldbie]

Mine was Peter Gabriel's Security, his 4th solo album after leaving Genesis. I didn't even have a player yet! But I worked at a music store where we sold some nice stuff (McIntosh, Sony ES, etc.), and by 1986 I'd been enjoying these newfangled discs in our showrooms for several years, and I just couldn't wait any longer. (I did get a player soon after, a used Sony, can't remember the model, shame on me!)

I loved this Gabriel release on LP, and was curious to see how the CD compared. I was impressed with the CD sound - very dynamic and powerful, with no distracting background noise.

Howzabout you guys & gals? What was your first little shiny disc?

 

[GOS]

The Outfield - Play Deep


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[zmacman]

Billy Joel 52nd Street then Tears for Fears- Songs from the Big Chair. I remember buying a Philips/Magnavox CD Player with a metal tray. Had it for years

 

[privateuniverse]

The store where I bought my first player in late 1984 had a selection of CDs from the Sony labels. I bought the following:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain

 

[humprof]

Wow. Strangely enough--even though I'd been hungrily following the development of digital recording and the advent of the CD for years in all the hi-fi magazines...I don't!

But I still remember my first 45 rpm single: "Precious and Few," by Climax, on Bell Records. (My second: "TSOP," by MFSB.)

As for LPs: I wanted to get Steely Dan's Can't Buy A Thrill, but my mother was scandalized by the cover. So I bought Chicago Transit Authority instead--not a bad second choice, as it turned out. (And I eventually sneaked the Steely Dan into my collection anyway.)

 

[Fourplay]

I had a number of CDs before owning a player, so that when the day came I would be ready. I am pretty sure my first was Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds.

I may have purchased Wish You Were Here in the same visit. I was definitely Floyding up!

 

[edisonbaggins]

Metallica - Ride the Lightning.

Had to sneak it in to the house and listen secretly on headphones...

 

[Lute]

Mozart - Piano concerto nos. 12 & 13
Philharmonic Orchestra / Ashkenazy

Beethoven - Symphony no. 3 & Egmont overture
Vienna Philharmonic / Bernstein

 

[vinylguy4]

My first 2 were Cars first album and Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti. Still got em but doubt I'll play them.
For Cars now I play the SACD, I'd play the reissue vinyl of PG.

 

[Bender]

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.

 

[winopener]

This, christmas 1982

 

[Mesozoic Mike]

Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It.
It still plays just fine.

 

[IMachine]

The Complete Mike Oldfield, 2 CD 1985.
I received a Pioneer CD Player as a gift in 1985 when I had my confirmation.

 

[boxhead]

4 of the first batch to be released in Oz: Dire Straits self titled, Making Movies & Love Over Gold, along with In The Court Of The Crimson King. Played them on a Sony CDP-101

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[willothewisp]

Tangerine Dream - Exit with Philips CD150 player

 

[antoine555]

Metallica - Ride the Lightning.

Had to sneak it in to the house and listen secretly on headphones...

Close, it was my second CD
The first one my parents bought me (in 88 I think) was the eponymous Iron Maiden album

 

[capsid]

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits (1986?). I didn't even have a CD player and buying a CD was only through niche shops such as the one I went to on Cambridge Circus, London.

 

[Scott65]

The Kink Kontroversy and Face to Face by the Kinks and A Day at the Races by Queen in 1987. The first 2 cds convinced me to get a cd player because I could not get these albums in any other format. My first cd player was a Mitsubishit which had problems.

 

[halbroome]

A box set of five Sandy Denny cds. I didn't own a player, but my roomie did, so. . . .

Should have stopped there, but NOOOO

 

[Soundfield]

My first one was free in 1983! It was this demo disc taped to the front of one of the mags (HiFi News & Record Review I think) who were doing a special edition on the new technology:

And yes, despite the threat of laser rot, it still plays (I’ve just tried it for the first time in decades!)