What was your very first CD?

Pawnless Endgame said:
Just that really - your first CD and what year if you can remember.

It was 1992 for me, Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" album. Dad said that if I got good grades in school that year (2nd year of secondary school / year 8), he'd buy me my first CD. So I got the grades and asked for MJ's Dangerous.

I carried on buying cassette tapes though for a few more years, then it was 1995 when I went full time in buying CDs at age 16, in my GCSE year.

IIRC CDs were £11.99 with the cassette version usually being £8.99, and singles were £3.99 and £2.29 respectively.
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Wow an interesting question. Had to think hard on this. Was student working in Germany. Bought a Discman from memory one of the early metal ones. Sounded fantastic.

Skorpions - Savage Amusement
Loudness - The Birthday Eve (Japanese Import).
Dunno if I had something else..

Shortly after Discman got broken (not by me) and got a plastic replacement which didn't sound as good. Early CDs didn't all sound great.

I switched back to cassette then to mini disc when it started going cheap 2nd hand. Only went back to CDs many years later just as MP3 appeared.
 
sx_turbo said:
The best of Dance mania 95,

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I was more of a Now album person, but I liked my dance and wow - there's some nostalgia right on there! My favourite track would be Livin' Joy (Dreamer) and would become my all-time favourite track too, unbeaten to this day.

I've seen some of those dance perform as well:

Coolio - at Staffordshire University
K-Klass - at Kasbah, Coventry
Livin' Joy and N-Trance - at King's Hall, Stoke
Livin' Joy - also at Beacon Park, Lichfield
Soul II Soul - at the Manchester O2, and also seeing them next month at Wolverhampton Civic!
Candy Girls - Subway City (now a.k.a. The Tunnel Club), Birmingham
 
A compilation from Virgin:

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YT playlist of the tracks


Disc 1
1. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
2. Mr Writer - Stereophonics
3. Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
4. Burn Baby Burn - Ash
5. Plug In Baby - Muse
6. Buck Rogers - Feeder
7. Let Love Be Your Energy - Williams, Robbie
8. Dancing In The Moonlight - Toploader
9. With Arms Wide Open - Creed
10. You Stole The Sun From My Heart - Manic Street Preachers
11. Oxygen - JJ72
12. Too Many DJ's - Soulwax
13. Always Your Way - My Vitriol
14. All The Small Things - Blink 182
15. I'm Not Trading (radio edit) - Sunna
16. Taste In Men (radio edit) - Placebo
17. I Can Only Disappoint U - Mansun
18. Closing Time - Semisonic
19. Optimistic - Radiohead
20. Star 69 - Fatboy Slim
21. Dirty Beats - Roni Size



Disc 2
1. Trouble - Coldplay
2. Fever - Starsailor
3. Door - Turin Brakes
4. Song For The Lovers (edit) - Ashcroft, Richard
5. Moving - Supergrass
6. Once Around The Block - Badly Drawn Boy
7. Coffee And TV - Blur
8. Love What You Do - Divine Comedy
9. Catch The Sun - Doves
10. Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One mix) - Alabama 3
11. Tijuana Lady - Gomez
12. All I Need (edit) - Air
13. Toxic Girl - Kings Of Convenience
14. Crystal Lake - Grandaddy
15. Late Night Radio - Gray, David
16. Wherever You Are - Finn , Neil
17. Bookends - Alfie
18. Red - Elbow

It's only now I realise I only listened to disc 1. It is way better mind.
 
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It was "Three Doors Down" first album called "The Better Life". Bought it from an Indie store in 2001 that was on the highstreet down the road from my college, they ordered it in for me. I don't even know if Three Doors Down had a UK/Euro presence during those early years. I only know of them because of friends I made on MPLAYER, remember MPLAYER? my mate Travis from USA would hold his mic to his speakers and play Kryptonite.
 
Only got a CD player when I started uni.. and that was '92. Before that it was tape and a couple of records are the very end of the record era.

I think my first CD was Megadeth Symphony for Destruction, etc..
 
If I'm not including hand me downs or ones I borrowed from other family members

It was either Mase: Harlem World or Will Smith's Big Willie Style. I know I had both together but I'm not sure which I had actually got first. Both were the tail end of 1997. Mase was October 97, Wil Smith was November.

I know for certain my first cassette was Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's Crossroads.
 
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Calpol said:
I think it might have been Pearl Jam - Ten
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What a start!

I was given a Bush CD/cassette player when I was 11 and was given Now That's What I Call Music! 44 and Abba Gold with it. Now! 44 is still the best Now! CD ever released.

Didn't take long to get a copy of Slipknot self-titled though and had a bit of a change in direction!
 
Although I can't recall precisely, I 'think' it may have been something outstandingly crap like Louise's debut album. I would have been 13 at the time and have memories of perusing the pop-music displays in HMV. I probably only asked for it because of her one hit. Or maybe I fancied her at the time.

I now have exactly 3333 albums in my collection, and that ain't one of them!
 
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1987 as a kid I got MJs Bad album on cassette but it was missing the final song that was only available on the CD so I saved up to get the CD a short while later. Was this the first ever instance of completed content cutting to sell as DLC?
 
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