What was the first CD (or record) you ever owned?

[Duke87 1,070]

And by that I mean that was yours personally, not your parents' or older sibling's.

For me, it's actually a tie between U2-War and U2-The Joshua Tree, which were christmas presents from an uncle of mine in either 1994 or 95 (not sure which).

They would remain my only CDs until1997, when the likes of Third Eye Blind-Third Eye Blind, Semisonic-Feeling Strangely Fine, and The Verve-Urban Hymns joined them.

Most of the CDs I own were purchased from about 2001-2004. After that I started throwing money more at video games.

Anyway, what about you?

[Zelgadis 638]

Ah, first CD. 1990, I believe, and it was MC Hammer's album with U Can't Touch This. I still have it though I haven't listened to it in years.

As for first record...  I believe that was my Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby story record that I used to play on my Fischer Price record player.  I think my mother saved it somewhere. 

ISF

[manman99 2]

hhhhhmmmm. No clue, the first CD i got was when I was 6, maybe 7, so I dont really remember.

[wolverine 12]

I think it was Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise."

[Carpman 0]

Frontier Psychiatrist (Single) The Avalanches. 2000.

[Meg 368]

It was a 45.  "I Love a Parade"  by Captain Kangaroo.  

I wonder where that thing is.  It might be worth something by now.

[_MostlyHarmless 17]

Hmm, Metallica Black Album?

[GingerBlokey 30]

Mama - The Spice Girls

Mothers Day 1997, I was in foster care and my mum was in hospital and I bought her that song on casette as a present. I must have been 5 or 6 at the time. I still can't listen to it without crying my eyes out.

[MrCinatit 30]

I am pretty sure my first album was by Sha-Na-Na. I defy anyone else to say this - let alone to know who Sha-Na-Na is!

My first CD (many, many, many years later) was The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Gotta start with the best.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Iv heard of Sha-na-na, never owned any but in know them.

Hmm

1st Album was Styx Grand Illusion

CD? i bought a whole bunch of them at once when i got my 1st CD player.

[Vandy 110]

Hi, All.

This was an easy question for me.

On Monday, February 10, 1964, I begged and pestered my Mom (I was 13 1/2) to give me enough money to go to our local "Five and Dime" store (Duckwalls) and buy the 45 RPM record of The Beatles "She Loves You" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand".  This was followed up by getting the money to buy -- **GASP** -- my very first record album, "Meet The Beatles".

OH, MY GOD!!  I cannot begin to tell you how many record player needles I wore out playing those records which, by the way, were only  THE START of a monster record collection as I went through my teenage years.

Now, as an adult, I so wish I still had those great records.  Unfortunately, they went the way of most of my other "treasures" when I joined the US Navy and left home.  In short, Mom (God bless her) cleaned house...

Regards,

Vandy

[Barbarossa 51]

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[The Terminator 0]

Richard Berry-Louie Louie in 1956 when I was 10

A homeless guy on 25th and Point Breeze in Philadelphia gave it to me when I went to the local gas station to buy him beer. this was back in the day when store clerks still thought it was cute for little children to buy alcohol for adults.

My second was Link Wray's Rumble in 1958 when I was 12, I actually saved up the 25 Cents to buy that one at a record shop on South Street.

[Duke87 1,070]

^^^enough with the previous life crap. Can you answer the question seriously, or do you not remember?

[Evil_Someone 1]

some nirvana album...nevermind??

it had a baby swimming in a blue water and a dollar on the cover....

[___idiotbox 0]

Spice Girls

hey, I thought they were cool back then

[Zwabberaar 18]

In 1980, when I was eleven years old, I bought the 45 RPM record "Runnin' with the devil" by "Van Halen" out of my pockett money and it still is a song I still like. I also still have the record itself but it is hardly playable anymore because of playing it time and again on a too cheap Gramophone.

[Insane Child of Bodom 1]

I'm embarresed to say this.,..but musically speaking...I'm a late bloomer....

sure when I was a kid it was all Ozzy,Maiden and Slayer/mixed with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley and many more....

I think the first CD I ever bought with my own money was Arch Enemy's Dead Eyes See No Future EP.....it was 15 bucks and my Bro was bugging me for CDs and such...so we go and bought two CD's...one was by Arch Enemy and the other was God Forbid's End of the World....

yeh I love Apocalyptic stuff....

Anyway that had to be almost 3 years ago...but thats not what makes me a late bloomer....its the fact I didn't get into metal until I was 15...sure I love Slayer,Anthrax and other 80's metal,but yet I waited almost ten years to buy a CD...

my parents bought me alot of Reggae and such when I was a kid...so I got alot of different favorites and likes and dis likes...

Anyway I just Bought Dimmu Borgir's Godless Savage Garden which was re-released on October 3, 2006 with 2 bonus tracks and is pretty badass....so that album isn't to old...

I might buy Black Dalia Murder's Unhallowed or maybe a Slayer Cd...all I have is the CD God Hates Us All and its old and messed up...

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Dimitri Kabalevsky's Comedian's Suite on a 45 rpm extended disk.  I think I was about 16.

[Barbarossa 51]

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[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

Originally posted by: Barbarossa

Originally posted by: Duke87 ^^^enough with the previous life crap. Can you answer the question seriously, or do you not remember?quote>

Was a previous post deleted or are you being obtuse?  If deleted, then delete your own, since it makes little sense (and is rather rude).

Barbarossaquote>

 

If I remember correctly, Terminator and Duke are brothers... it's just your less-than-typical sibling quarrel.

Mine was Under the Table and Dreaming by Dave Matthews Band.

[Nekroosi 3]

 Metallica's reload  . next album i got was Animatronic by Kovenant.   One of the best industrial BM albums out there.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: The_Dalai_Llama

Originally posted by: Barbarossa

Originally posted by: Duke87 ^^^enough with the previous life crap. Can you answer the question seriously, or do you not remember?quote>

Was a previous post deleted or are you being obtuse?  If deleted, then delete your own, since it makes little sense (and is rather rude).

Barbarossaquote>

 

If I remember correctly, Terminator and Duke are brothers... it's just your less-than-typical sibling quarrel.quote>

Not quite. We're cousins. He has this tendency to spout nonsense all the time, so I'm always telling him to shut up and cut it out (as is everyone else in the family). And since his nonsense finds its way here, so does my telling him to shut up. He does all sorts of ridiculous things, too. There are times you wish you could buy him a leash.

Nevertheless, we hang out together all the time at gatherings... since I, like him, have mental issues, so we see eye to eye on a lot of things. I'm just more capable of controlling myself in public than he is....

[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Not quite. We're cousins.quote>

 

Brothers, cousins, family, close enough.

[octaves 4]

Probably the first CD that was actually MINE would have been Big Shiny Tunes 1...

First CD that I actually LIKED that was actually mine was probably The Chronicles of Life and Death by Good Charlotte...yep. 

[granto93 4]

the first CD i ever owned was Barney and Friends

the first actual good cd that i had was Savage Garden when i was about 9

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

The first was some Burl Ives record when I was little (Mom bought it), the first I bought new was Power Station, and Twisted Sister's Stay Hungry at the same time.

The first tape I ever bought was Asia, Alpha

The first cd was ELP's Love Beach long before I had a cd player. The album was out of print and I jumped on the cd when I saw it in a used record shop, even though I knew it wasn't their proudest effort. I had that cd for close to 2 years before I got the player!

[mayor of the manor 0]

First cassette tape - Mmm Bop - Hanson!!!! Hell yah I was cool

First CD(s) - I bought three at once, Muse- Origin of Symmetry, Linkin park (whatever it was...), Gorillaz-(whatever it was...)

I used to steal all my parents CDs all the time when I was younger such as Radiohead, Suede, REM, Nirvana etc. I was a Nineties child!!