Your first CDs Purchased -

When the transaction hit - from LP's to CDs -
My first 2 CDs were Sinatra -
" Only the Lonely' - 'September of my Years'

Anyone recall their first tow or three picks.....
or did you jump right back into metal !

I was too young for vinyl. It was getting to the mid-90's already. My first CDs, and thus first albums, were:

Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Metallica - s/t

I got my first through the Columbia House deal:

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
U2 - Rattle and Hum

Those are the only two that I remember......

My first CD was AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock," to replace my burnt-to-a-crisp cassette.

I wish I remember...

Anthrax's Sound of White Noise was my first CD. Got it for a birthday present.

I got a CD player for Christmas, 1987. I also got 5 CDs with it. The punchline is my Mother picked 5 albums she liked as well.

Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits
Led Zeppelin - II
Deep Purple - In Rock
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
The Beatles - Abbey Road

The day after Christmas I went shopping and bought 3 more discs:

Rush - Hold Your Fire
Metallica - The $9.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited
Dokken - Back For The Attack

Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona



Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule

S.D your mom has good taste in music.

My first CDs were from the Columbia house deal as well.I don't remember all of them but I do remember Aerosmiths pump being one.

My very first CD was World Party's Goodbye Jumbo. Then Richard Marx's debut. My first metal CD was Guardian's Miracle Mile, mainstream was Dokken's Beast from the East. Kind of fuzzy on that last one.

Thrasher73 wrote:

S.D your mom has good taste in music.

She had just turned 23 a couple weeks before she had me, so she was still young and rocking out when I was a little kid.

First two CDs:

White Heart - Highlands
Roger Taylor - Happiness

First two metal CDs (I can't remember which one I bought first):

Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons
Queensryche - Hear In The Now Frontier

Citanul wrote:

First two CDs:

White Heart - Highlands
Roger Taylor - Happiness

First two metal CDs (I can't remember which one I bought first):

Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons
Queensryche - Hear In The Now Frontier

LOL if Hear in the Now Frontier was your introduction to heavy metal, I'm surprised you're here at a metal message board with us today!

Lari wrote:

LOL if Hear in the Now Frontier was your introduction to heavy metal, I'm surprised you're here at a metal message board with us today!

Clearly I survived the experience.

But it wasn't my introduction to metal as I had albums on cassette prior to that. It was just that when I started buying CDs, that was the first one I bought by a metal band.

my first cd purchase was 2 of 'em: Metal Church-The Dark and F&J-Doomsday For The Deciever back in '86.

Maiden's Brave New World, followed by Priest's Painkiller a few weeks after that...Then followed by British Steel sometime around my 14th birthday and Holy Diver on my first day of high school.

Mother Love Bone- Apple

The night I purchased my first Sony cd player (which I still have), I went right to Tower Records and bought:

Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

Bang Tango - Psycho Cafe

Okay now that I think of it my first metal CD was actually Dream Theater's Awake thanks to my dad.

Judas Priest - Metalworks 73-93

I'm quite sure that it was the Led Zeppelin Remastered Box Set - the one with the crop circles on it.

I owned a few CDs before I actually found myself in a position to buy them on my own (an addiction which continues unabated to this day). Most of them were gifts given after a relative updated with a new remaster or something of the like.

If memory serves, my first three CDs owned were:

-R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
-Pink Floyd - Animals
-Pearl Jam - Ten

The first CDs I remember buying (this may have been the first transaction, but memory is an unreliable beast and all that) were Disciplined Breakdown by Collective Soul (still a favorite) and Reload by Metallica (on the strength of "The Memory Remains" being the single at the time, naturally). I also recall picking up Clumsy by Our Lady Peace around the same era, but I have no idea what order that all happened in.

First: Def Leppard - Hysteria
Second: Run DMC - King of Rock

My first cd was KISS (Music From) The Elder while I was working in Clearwater FL. I didn't even have my cd player yet, it was on layaway at the Appliance Store back home and I was picking it up when I got back. Second one was Tesla The Great Radio Controversy.