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The Dark Elf 
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It's funny, I can recall quite clearly the first record albums I had, but not the first CDs.
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Finnforest
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Woon Deadn
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Posted: January 11 2017 at 18:52 |
My first CDs (presented to me by relatives along with compact CD player) were: The dark side of the moon, Queen Greatest Hits I&II Box Set, Rush's 2112, Enigma's The Screen Behind The Mirror. More interesting were my first audio cassettes. The first one was "Iron Maiden. Collection 90-93". It was a release from Polish audio pirates Eurostar. Till this day I wonder where these guys took those versions of IM's songs. In short, all songs had melodicism in the vein of Fear of the dark. Was it another master tape? I liked No Prayer For The Dying and Alexander The Great - but when I listened to real studio versions 15 years later, I was heavily disappointed. The second one was "Aerosmith. Big Ones". The third was "Roxette. Greatest Hits".
Edited by Woon Deadn - January 11 2017 at 19:19
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Flight123
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Posted: January 03 2017 at 11:41 |
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It's funny, when CDs came out I tended to buy compilations such as 'Classic Yes' to get a sweep of what stuff sounded like 'on CD'. I can remember the last vinyl I bought at the time: Peter Blegvad's King Strut...
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doompaul
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Posted: December 29 2016 at 12:41 |
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Judas Priest - Stained Class, I think. I remember it was in one of those weird long, boxes that they made so they could fit into the record bins.
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Lewian
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Posted: December 29 2016 at 11:42 |
It annoys me big time that I can't for the life of me remember what my first CD(s) was/were. I mean, in terms of the music the first CD after loads of LPs isn't a big thing really but still, I remember that at the time starting with CDs felt like starting with something really new that could be with me for a long time in the future... but I don't have the slightest clue with which music I started it. 
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Sailor21Prog12
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Posted: December 29 2016 at 11:07 |
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I believe it was either Tool's Aenima or Led Zeppelin's In Through the Outdoor back in 2002 as I was being dragged kicking and screaming into transforming my cassette collection into this format.
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Quinino
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 11:26 |
In '84 I bought this novelty player, second hand and slightly battered (belonged to an airline pilot) , and along came Quadrophenia in 2 separate jewel boxes, which became my first CDs ever - Gggggreat Music, but later bought the much better remastered edition  I still have the player and it spins like a hurricane
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zravkapt
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 09:56 |
I got my first CD player around 1990/91. I remember my cousin telling me "a CD can hold a hundred songs." My first CDs came from Columbia House as a part their get-12-CDs-for-free deal. I think it was 12 and i don't remember what they all were but I know these were amongst them...
Megadeth - Rust In Peace Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Faith No More - Introduce Yourself Living Colour - Time's Up
I still have the FNM.
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Magma America Great Make Again
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Terrapin Station
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 08:21 |
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I got my first CD player for Christmas 1985. I wasn't exclusively buying CDs right away, though, because they were still relatively expensive. The first three CDs I got--also for that Christmas, were Philip Glass - Glassworks, Laurie Anderson - Big Science, and Peter Gabriel - "Security".
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zwordser
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 07:48 |
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Stuck with cassettes well into the 90s, Don't remember the first CD: Classic Yes or Days of Future Past maybe.
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Posted: December 11 2016 at 12:48 |
 Guldbamsen wrote:
First cds? Must have been Queen's greatest hits part two as well as a comedy album done by a famous Danish "group" called Monrad & Rislund. Then came Michael Jackson's Bad  Kinda funny reading this thread as most started out with LPs and then moved onto cds. I am the other way around - collected thousands of cds and then suddenly decided to go the vinyl route  Nowadays I buy both but prefer vinyl. There's a reverence about the medium that escapes the aforementioned plastic disc, I find.
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That's awesome! I can't imagine going back to vinyl (though I have about 5000 in storage in my brother's basement). It's the space and playing equipment that prevent me. When I was single I had my whole living room set up for the best sound possible. Now I'm just happy to stream it on my headphones.
Agree whole-heartedly with the superior intimacy of the vinyl form--there is NOTHING like sitting down in the lazyboy in the sweet-spot of your surround sound speaker system and poring over the album cover and lliner notes . . . .
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Meltdowner
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 09:02 |
^ I have that one as well, the quality is terrible 
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miamiscot
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 08:43 |
The Clash debut album, US version back in 1987 or so. I hated how clean it sounded. That perfect, snarling guitar sound reduced to digital meh. Vinyl forever.
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 08:20 |
Somewhere in time around 83 or 84-
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here Weather Report- Night Passage Simon and Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water.
In 1984 or 85', I remember purchasing my first new release - The Alarm- Declaration... I remember it cost me $16.99. I'd never heard of The Alarm. I bought the CD because of the wild crazy hair the band sported. 68' Guns is still one of my favorite songs of all time. 
In 87' I spotted a cute 3" CD single in an independent Record shop. Frank Zappa 3" CD of Peaches En Regalia...I'm not Satisfied...and Lucille has Mess up my Mind Up. 3" single comes in a picture sleeve attached to a 8" x 3.5" cardboard plinth with a picture of the sleeve on pale pink background. I believe Peaches might have been the first 3" CD single released in the United States.
I still remember the conversation I had with the rock and roll record store owner because he had a Lawrence Welk Polka CD on the front counter. I said, " Wow, that Polka CD seems a bit out of place." He replied,
" My friend, that CD is a misprint. It's actually a Sex Pistols CD." 
Edited by omphaloskepsis - December 07 2016 at 08:51
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King Manuel
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 05:02 |
I wasn´t even at least on a conscious level a prog fan at that time (end of the 80s), but my first CD I bought gives me credit I think ;-) 1) Yes - Close to the edge 2) Dire Straits - Love over Gold 3) The Moody Blues - In search of the lost chord (I had absolutely no idea who they are and what they sound like, it just bought it because the cover struck me)
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Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus
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akaBona
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Posted: November 29 2016 at 14:19 |
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Peter Gabriel - So
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Rednight
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Posted: November 29 2016 at 13:35 |
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No, this is embarrassing: With the advent of CDs, I felt that buying new records was for the birds as I really didn't see how they could sound better than this new and amazing technology. I was attracted to used LPs though to fill out my collection of music that wasn't yet out on CD. Because of this ill-conceived assumption (CDs sound better, right?), I've had to replace poor sounding original CD editions with better remastered versions that came later. With my financial status in mind, this has had to be done through used CDs and time lost hunting them down. And so on and so on ...
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Roj
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Posted: November 29 2016 at 07:16 |
Wow, this could be embarrassing . I got three for the price of two via a record club, remember them? I know one was Give Me The Reason by Luther Vandross (come on, it was the 80s ). Not sure of the second one, I think it may have been P-Machinery by Propaganda, but at least I have the consolation of knowing one of the three was Talk Talk's The Colour of Spring. So my street cred isn't completely shot!!
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BaldJean
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Posted: November 29 2016 at 04:44 |
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I don't exactly remember, but Peter Hammill's "Skin" and Hawkwind's "The Chronicle of the Black Sword" were among my first CD acquisitions
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