What was your first CD? What was your first record?

[Archiver]

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What was your first CD?

In the mid 80s, CD's were gaining in popularity but seen as luxuries compared with records and cassettes. Everyone I knew bought records and tapes, and when someone said they had a CD, there was an ooh of admiration and envy. We had a CD player, an inexpensive secondhand player from a family friend, but we mostly rented CD's from the local library, like Pictures In An Exhibition by Mussorgsky and The Planets by Holst. The first CD I remember getting was in 1986 or 87, Echoes of Gold (1979), a compilation of flute pieces by Adrian Brett.



I am unsure which record was the first that I bought for myself, but it may have been the Motorhead compilation No Remorse (1984). I was really taken by Motorhead playing Ace of Spades in an episode of The Young Ones and I had to get it!



@AndyCapp @CMur12

 

[chuckroast]

My first record was probably CCR's "Cosmo's Factory".

My first CD was probably the Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture", either a Deutsche Grammophon or Telarc recording, I don't recall specifically. But almost everyone bought that ... for the cannons ...

My first good tape recorder was an MCI 24 track that I maintained for a recording studio while working my way through college. THAT was a "hifi" system ...

 

[wlewisiii]

Record:
Asked for? ELO "Out of the Blue"
Bought? Styx "Pieces of Eight"
Given and changed my world? My father was a janitor at the local university and brought home The Ramones "Rocket to Russia" from the lost and found.

CD:
Heard: The Pretenders "The Pretenders" At that point, I stopped caring about vinyl.
Bought: my something-th copy of The Who "Who's Next"
After that I have never bought vinyl since and usually only mp3 now.

 

[CMur12]

My first CD was the "Traveling Wilburys."

My first record, other than early kiddie records (78s, then 45s), was Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack" (a 45 single).
I also won James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" on the radio.

- Murray

 

[MISH]

My first album was Freak Out by the Mothers of Invention

 

[d.keljikian]

Talk Is Cheap, Keith Richards and The Expensive Winos

 

[laurentb]

First cd was Suzanne Vega's Solitude Standing.

First "adult" record, LP Nun Sex Monk Rock from Nina Hagen

 

[bulevardi]

First CD I bought, I think it must have been From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah, by Nirvana.

 

[wlewisiii]

Heh. Almost started replying to this again. Word for word, the same thing I said in April of 2024... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

 

[JeffS7444]

Japanese import of Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees $ there being no CD manufacturing outside of Japan and Netherlands at the time. It wasn't until some time later that I actually had access to a CD player 😆. Even when CDs took off, I remember them being $16+ USD vs $8 for LP vs $1-3 for secondhand LP, so I bought lots of secondhand vinyl.

 

[wlewisiii]

Japanese import of Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees $ there being no CD manufacturing outside of Japan and Netherlands at the time. It wasn't until some time later that I actually had access to a CD player 😆. Even when CDs took off, I remember them being $16+ USD vs $8 for LP vs $1-3 for secondhand LP, so I bought lots of secondhand vinyl.

I scrimped for the cd's anyway. The sound was just so fucking much better than the hiss of vinyl. I still hate the sound of LPs. Once I had a CD player I never bought an LP again and I have never missed those things.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

I bought my first CD such a long time ago. It was probably Humble Pie "Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore" or Edgar Winter's White Trash "Roadwork".

I still listen to both of them, although my taste for music has changed over the years. I'm currently more likly to listen to Bossa Nova or '60s pop instrumentals like Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Cal Tjader, and The Baja Marimba Band. The Beatles are also a standard listen for me.

All the best,
Mike

 

[Archiver]

One of the first records I recall being bought for me was Keep Smiling with Daryl and Ossie (1976).



For those around the world, not growing up in Melbourne in the 70s and 80s, Daryl Somers was the host of a Saturday morning children's variety show called Hey Hey, It's Saturday. @Freakscene would know what I'm talking about! Ossie Ostrich was his puppet co-host who sat on the desk beside him. Hey Hey had a tremendous run that spanned decades, and formed an integral part of Melbourne kids' childhoods, a bit like Sesame Street in the States. Here's a look at what Hey Hey was like in 1981:

 

[john_s]

My first record was a 7 inch single, Elvis Presley Heart Break Hotel. It was a new release at the time. I still have it, but now unplayable due to heat damage in storage.

 

[laurentb]

Heh. Almost started replying to this again. Word for word, the same thing I said in April of 2024... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

I was ready to do the same Then found _somebody's_ answer about Suzanne Vega's Solitude Standing (still a favourite)