What were the first CDs you bought?

I honestly can't remember, I suspect something by Dire Straits.

> Presuming that for most of us CD was our second format.

Mine was Edition Cylinder, it took me a while to get used to those new fangled shellac things (kept breaking 'em) and I was never convinced they sounded as good then I had to swap them all for magnetic tapes (kept tangling 'em up) and I was never convinced they sounded as good and then it was those new plastic things (kept scratching 'em) and I was never convinced they sounded as good and then those silver things (the first few wrecked my stylus), and I was never convinced they sounded as good then came those DVD-As and SACDs (never figured out how to play 'em); now they expect me to download them all over again in standard res, then high res, then very high res - can't help feeling it's a rip off ........... 

the first CD I bought was 

I guess switching was a bit like losing my religion whilst listening on the radio and feeling low half a world away near wild heaven thinking this was the end game or perhaps I was just out of time. 

All the best, Guy 

Same as BigH,

I know they were silver in colour.

Stu

Hard to be certain but probably these two as we began to replace our vinyl copies, we now have 32 of his albums.

Edison made cylinders too!

Speedo bought A-ha Scoundrel Days and then Duran Duran Notorious.  Good times

Times have changed though.

hahahahahahahahahha!  That be true, but speedo still like the speedos in Brasil

Green by REM, but because I couldnt really play it was quite a few years until I bought another one

This was the first CD I bought because it was not issued on vinyl.

This was my first purchase and followed closely with...

Bought on release day back in 1986. I did not have a CD player but I decided it was the way to go and found a friends in Halls of Residence with a system I could play them on....

Motorhead - No Remorse

My mate Alun and I went down to Richer Sounds bought our Phillips player and having decided that cds were really for classical music as the continuous play time could be longer, we wandered over to Music Discount Centre and I bought this. I listened to it for weeks over and over again astonished at the silence behind the music.

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and then soon enough you could only buy cds! Still buy all my 'new' classical on cd unless it's in the charity shops. The more obscure ( to me at least!) english music still seems to be only on vinyl. I still prefer vinyl and I tend to treat cds like i did tapes, a cheap conveinience, ( or not so cheap soemtimes but don't tell Mrs Lutyens!).

I still listen to this at regular intervals and still enjoy it a lot.

james

Annie Lennox - Diva in 1992. I was also given three discs the same week by my dealer when I bought the CD player but I don't suppose they count.

Brothers in Arms and Graceland I had both on vinyl and despite both sounding better on that medium, it was nice to be in control of the track selection without having to go through the ritual of standing up. However, the novelty soon wore off and until the late 90's vinyl ruled. Funnily enough, despite having been streaming for a number of years Firstly from computer and latterly from Naim kit, I am currently enjoying the standing up ritual again. It must be an age thing!

Good question!

It make me realize that I have no clue how it all started (for my CDs I mean).

How sad!  I will need to dig that memory much deeper and it will take time... 

Easy, I had to wait for Naim to make an affordable CD player (CDi :-) ) which, perhaps ironically was just a little after the twenty year anniversary of DSTOM, which was obviously the very first cd I ever played in my own place. Blimey - I have another two anniversary editions of the same thing now. Second was Rubycon by TD.

Both still get played to this day. ( & the CDi )

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits and The Lexicon of Love - ABC in an early NAD CDP (don't remember the model number).

Don't remember CD's but I know it was April 1985 and they were $16.99 each.  Not much of a selection then.  The CD section was about 5 feet wide.  I bought them for my new Sony CD player car stereo.

First two CDs were Beethoven symphonies 6 & 8 with Klaus Tennstedt/LPO and Vivaldi "Four Seasons" with i Musici. I bought them together with my first CD player, a Sony CDP-M30.

I remember it well.  The school radio station had just got one of the first Hitachi CD players to complement the pair of Technics LP decks.  Trouble was, nobody yet had any discs to play on it.  So one afternoon I headed off on my bike down to Pitchfork Records to see what was available.  There were about 10 discs lined up along the wall on top of the LP racks. This was when they came in long cardboard outer boxes with a window so you could see the shiny top surface of the actual discs. I can still remember some of them; The Police - Ghost in The Machine; The Who - It's Hard; Lou Reed - Transformer; Neil Young - Decade; Billy Joel - 52nd Street.  I bought The Police, The Who, Lou Reed and Neil Young.  Played them on the station's CD player and then recorded them onto my Nak so I could listen to them elsewhere.  Eventually bought a Denon CD player a couple of years later, by which time my CD collection had grown to about 12 discs!

Yes, and my friend ended up in Emergency with a red face and a vacuum cleaner attached ...